Topps Conference Reaction, NBA Rookie Class Expectations, Rising Popularity of Non-Sports Cards, and GaryVee Interview Reaction

Sports Cards Nonsense

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4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Jesse and Mike begin the show by talking about their biggest learnings from the Topps Conference in Atlanta. After that, they talk about the incoming NBA rookie draft class, the popularity of UFC and WWE cards, marketing strategies to grow the hobby, and the growth of cards outside of sports (16:00). Plus, they talk about some of the comments they received about their GaryVee interview before closing out the episode with some mailbag questions (01:07:20). Hosts: Jesse Gibson and Mike GioseffiProducer: Troy Farkas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're a fan of the inner workings of Hollywood, then check out my podcast, The Town, on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:05.7	My name's Matt Bellany. I'm founding partner at Puck and the writer of the What I'm Hearing newsletter.
0:10.3	And with my show, The Town, I bring you the inside conversation about money and power in Hollywood.
0:15.1	Every week, we've got three short episodes featuring real Hollywood insiders to tell you what people in town are actually talking about.
0:21.6	We'll cover everything from why your favorite show was canceled overnight, which streamer is on the brink of collapse, and which executive is on the hot seat.
0:29.1	Disney, Netflix, who's up, down, and who'll never eat lunch in this town again?
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0:43.3	Thank you. Follow the town on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. Oh. That's what you call jumping right in.
0:49.6	Did you or did you not say let's do this?
0:52.0	You said, let's do this. I said, how high?
0:56.0	He didn't say anything of the such.
0:57.0	All right, we are back from Atlanta.
0:59.0	I realized the other day, I just finished the episode this morning, we did that on Monday.
1:03.0	All the big announcements really came on Tuesday about like dates and product and all that.
1:07.0	So there's some pretty made, I mean, MLB stuff is fine. There's nothing like
1:11.3	major there, but there's some MLB news. Do you notice there really wasn't any MLB stuff on Tuesday?
1:16.2	Like it was mainly all like the highlight was everything else really because I feel like MLB licensing
1:22.5	since they already had it. There wasn't really a lot of me. It was the rookie thing. There was the
1:26.7	change of being a little more vet heavy, which I think is big. The red rookie thing. Yeah. The alternating
1:31.0	year for certain products. I think there was some, but obviously the license deals with the NFL
1:34.9	and the NBA are the two big deals. I got to write these things down. Yeah, the red rookie thing,
1:38.4	I don't... I kind of have it broken up. I still don't understand the red rookie thing quite frankly. I don't know. Oh, really? There's a red rookie logo in Bowman.
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