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Sports Cards Nonsense

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

August was a record-breaking month for the sports card hobby, and the guys are here to break it all down. Mike and Jesse are joined by Kristina from Card Ladder to dive into the $416.8M spent online on sports card in August, up from $314M in July, and which athletes fueled the surge. They also cover: Topps Collector Appreciation Day, why collectors are frustrated with card prices, and Card Ladder’s August market report and top auction house results. They also play some Trivia with Kristina on the biggest public athlete card sales in August. Plus, thoughts on eBay comps, Fanatics Fest potentially adding another day and answer your mailbag questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Big Golps, eh?
0:11.5	Bunkies is back, baby.
0:13.4	What to start the humor.
0:15.0	A little humor to start the show.
0:17.8	Circular.
0:18.4	It's all good.
0:19.9	Circular's the shape, Jesse Gibson. You know what I've been doing a lot lately? I'm a little tired today. Dude, are you two? How long? When did you get up? I went to bed at midnight. About three hours before you. I went to bed at midnight, woke up at five. I've been up since five. Doing what? What are you doing the morning? Uh, honestly. What? Something's not safe for podcasting, I will say.
0:41.0	Okay. Doing what? What are you do in the morning? Honestly. What?
0:40.9	Some things are not safe for podcasting, I will say.
0:42.7	Okay. Take me a se pervert.
0:45.4	I'm a married man, okay? So that's all you need to know.
0:47.8	Rebecca cut that.
0:51.3	Rebecca, leave it in. I own 51% of this thing still. It's fine.
1:11.0	I played basketball this morning and dominated, so I'm exhausted. Today was a good day. You dominated without injuring yourself, though. Left knee is a little sore today. It's always sore. A Thursday run after a long Tuesday run always gets me. I'm not a kid anymore. You played twice this week? I play twice every week. Thursday's always a little tougher. Wow. Wow. Why do you win? Do you like win?
1:11.5	Does your team win, I mean? Today, I mean, almost always we're very 50-50 because you rotate as you go. If you have like 18 guys show up or 13 guys, whoever wins stays. Then when you lose, the next three guys get next, you shoot for a couple guys. Oh, okay. Circular. Shoot for a couple guys. What does that mean?
1:27.1	So like if three guys are sitting on the bench, they have next.
1:30.1	Yeah.
1:30.4	The losing team is five people. couple guys. Oh, okay. Circular. Shoot for a couple guys. What does that mean? So, like, if three guys are
1:27.9	sitting on the bench, they have next. Yeah. The losing team is five people. So the team that loses, those five, you shoot free throws. Two of those guys will join the three that's at. I'd like to get you in that basketball, Jim one. I have a walking track right above, actually. My biggest fear would be that I would actually make some free throws and get on a team.
1:43.5	No, your biggest fear would be like the one time you, like,
1:45.6	jump to get a rebound, you'd come down somebody's ankle.
1:47.4	That's what always happens. biggest fear would be that I would actually make some free throws and get on a team. No, your biggest fear would be like the one time you like jump to get a rebound,
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