Gordy Bonker on Going Full Time in the Hobby and Connecting With the Younger Audience. Plus, GaryVee Interview Reactions, and Troy Is Dead to Us.

Sports Cards Nonsense

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4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Jesse and Mike begin the podcast by discussing their thoughts on the GaryVee interview from Tuesday. Then, they welcome Gordy Bonker, a cards content creator, who discusses leaving a financial career behind to go full time in selling vintage baseball cards. He also talks about the current trends in the vintage card market and the role of TikTok in connecting with younger audiences before he and the guys have a candid discussion about what it takes to make it in this business. Hosts: Mike Gioseffi and Jesse GibsonGuest: Gordy BonkerProducers: Ben Cruz and Troy Farkas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hi, Mike.
0:10.0	I'm going to give a little update.
0:11.3	Your frustrations for the day.
0:13.5	We got into the office.
0:15.6	Everything was fine Tuesday.
0:17.5	Gary V.
0:17.9	interview went great.
0:19.2	Everything hooked back up just fine. Lights on everything
0:22.7	worked. Today our video is not working. Fortunately for you listening, you don't care about that
0:29.0	at all. But for those who enjoy the social media clips, there may be a little voiceover while
0:34.1	our video guy does a little improvising.
0:38.9	So there's that.
0:40.8	It was not a fun way to start the day.
0:43.7	Nice $600 purchase to start the morning off.
0:46.9	Have you already bought the next one?
0:50.2	It's an actually I'm about to check it out.
0:50.5	Yeah.
0:51.4	Do it.
0:51.7	Amazon.
0:54.4	In a scale of 1 to 10, how angry are you right now?
0:59.7	Here's the, here's what's really frustrating is like, if this was going to happen, I would expect it to have happened when we moved everything around for the Gary interview. It's like,
1:03.9	okay, that all makes sense why that would happen. Coming in and this is not, and because I tested
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