The Ebb and Flow of the Hobby: Why the NFL Market Has Slowed Down, With Zach Polen

Sports Cards Nonsense

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4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Mike and Jesse talk about why the hobby has slowed down, especially for NFL cards (3:01). Then, they are joined by Zach Polen from PC Sports Cards to talk about the state of the market (26:55). Later, they discuss new releases and answer your mailbag questions (44:26). Hosts: Mike Gioseffi and Jesse Gibson Guest: Zach Polen Associate Producer: Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	There's not a...
1:01.0	Is this weird? There's not a single story that interests me.
1:04.0	There is nothing of note going on in the hobby that I know of.
1:08.0	I don't care much about releases.
1:10.0	We're about to hit the slowest release period anyways for
1:13.8	baseball yeah I just don't care I have nothing interest me at all please don't
1:19.3	turn away from the podcast that no that is that is the absolute truth of it right now this is the
1:23.8	ebbs and flows of the hobby there are times like this for the last month or two it's
1:26.8	like well can't really speculate because the market's crap so let me PC
1:30.6	even then I'm like I'm good The PC stuff I like is not readily
1:34.3	available. I grabbed a couple pieces. This week I was like you know what there's not a
1:38.7	single card I want to buy today. You said the card that you were even looking at
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