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Have You Been Probstein'ed? Massive Hobby Scandal + Interview with The National

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up for a jam-packed, scandal-filled episode of Sports Cards Nonsense as Mike Gioseffi and Jesse Gibson dive into the latest controversies and updates in the hobby. We start with a discussion on the recent security issues and allegations surrounding Probstein. From a massing shilling scandal to a data breech, it only sounds like bad news when it comes to this story. Topps Chrome Basketball dropped this week and Mike has mixed reactions on the prices. We also talk with the management team of The National Sports Collectors Convention about upcoming changes, vendor expansions, and new features like Pokémon TCG. Thanks to Jim Ryan, Joe Drelich and Brian Coppola for joining us! Later, the guys discuss Geoff Wilson's interview with Dr. Beckett and claims that shill bidding isn't self bidding. *Insert your eye rolls here.* We finish with a Mike vs Jesse Arena Club slab battle giveaway. Tune in to see who wins, hear from The National team and get the latest on the hobby scandals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think this is actually way, way worse than we're going to say. I don't have factual evidence, but if you're asking me my opinion, if we ever got the full story, which we never will, I think this is a thousand times worse than I think it is. I have all negative today. Probstein Sites falls apart, totally, total disaster, huge shilling operation. Looks like total bull crap.

0:40.4

Jeff Wilson did a sit down with Dr. Beckett. I don't know if you saw that. Oh, I didn't see that. Pathetic interview. Oh. And then Topps Crom and basketball, I am not thrilled with the price of. Oh, I actually wanted to talk about that some. Yeah, that's good. I have the same thing as well. Good. I did have some comments about the new tops chrome basketball product.

1:27.6

Okay. And then we've got our interview. We've got the guys from the national. The national crew. Yep. If you guys are interested in knowing about this year's national, asking questions. Next year's national. We got both. We're covering both topics. So that'll be interesting. This year and next year and next year's and the year after, Detroit City is it? Three years. Is that three years? Yeah, we got two more in Chicago. Oh, it was three in Chicago. I think it's 2028. I think we'll confirm with them. Yeah, but that's, that's why we're having them on. We'll confirm all these things. We want to make sure you have your plans ready. 37, no, not 36 months. What is it? 40, 44 months from now, we want to make sure you're prepared. If you aren't prepared, you can't blame us. There you go. Go to a check-in. Every 20 calendar months, we're going to check in on Detroit.

1:28.7

So here's a question.

1:34.1

Do we start with the probes scene thing and then do we also do the arena club giveaway?

1:34.7

Yes.

1:37.4

So I'm trying to make you happy today. So I would like to do whatever you want to do first.

1:41.1

Last time we spoke didn't go well.

1:43.1

And so I am.

1:44.3

So here we go. Let's do this.

1:47.6

I think we start with the snipe thing, because I think that is one of the...

1:51.0

Let's do it.

1:51.7

And I would like to put a big caveat out there at the beginning of this,

1:55.5

that the information that we are going to talk about here is based on other posts.

2:01.3

Rattle Pokemon's video. Rattle, there's another website that posted a lot about this. I think it's

2:06.8

E4. I think it's mainly Pokemon, but they posted about it. That's what he got his, by the way. He was

2:12.4

He's basing it off of that article. And then SportsCard Radio, who is actually, like on Twitter is,

2:17.4

or on X, is SportsCard News, I believe. Yes. They posted some of the links from his as well.

2:23.0

Oh, so this is all from the elite forum thing. So I believe everything has come,

2:25.5

everything, at least that I've seen is starting with that, yes. So this elite forum article

2:29.4

goes into some pretty technical information. I did double check from, so Happy John is a big tech dude.

2:38.8

He confirmed that what he was seeing all looks to be legitimate information. He just can't

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