David Leiner Talks Topps Series 1, Growth of the Hobby, and Recent Quality-Control Issues

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4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Mike and Jesse are joined by the president of the trading card division of Fanatics Collectables, David Leiner. They talk about Topps Series 1, growth of the hobby, digital collectables, and recent quality-control issues (15:25). Later, they open some Panini NFT packs (58:57) and answer your mailbag questions (69:51). Hosts: Mike Gioseffi and Jesse Gibson Guest: David Leiner Associate Producer: Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Danny Kelly, host of the Ringer Fantasy Football Show, and from now until the draft, we are turning our feed into the Ringer NFL draft show to talk all things draft with me,
0:09.2	Danny Hyphits, Ben Solak, and Craig Horrrbeck, check us out on Tuesdays and
0:14.0	search the Ringer NFL draft show. What a weird day? A weird day. I love and hate having guests.
0:33.0	That's my thought of the day for you right there.
0:36.0	That's...
0:37.0	What do you not like about having a guest?
0:39.0	And what do you love?
0:40.0	There are certain guests I would like to just open with.
0:42.0	Yes. Right off the bat, bang.
0:44.0	David liner, president of, is it fanatics trading cards?
0:48.0	Is that the issue?
0:49.0	Is that the title?
0:50.0	I think it's technically, yeah, fanatics collectibles is what his LinkedIn says but I always heard it as
0:53.3	fanatics card so whatever it is I mean that's gonna be the that's gonna be the
0:56.7	majority of the show we're gonna have them in here interview them we're gonna talk some
0:59.4	series one but then I also want to dig into like you know marketing there's been a
1:02.1	lot of talk.
1:02.7	Rubin said it before, how fanatics is going to grow the hobby.
1:05.6	Yep.
1:06.6	I'm curious about distribution.
1:07.8	Are they going to catch up on production at all?
1:10.2	What's the plan with future releases?
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