EPISODE 304 - Clark is joined again by Will and Roy to get an update on the Pokemon and wrestling card markets off the top. Then for Hobby Headlines, they go through an article titled "Gen Z men are obsessed with Pokémon cards—they’re using ‘boy math’ to argue that they’ll beat Nvidia stock and the S&P 500" published in Fortune Magazine to see how the Pokemon market compares to the sports card market during the peak COVID era. Next, they play a round of Quiz Show where they try to guess some...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 304
EPISODE 303 - Clark welcomes back Darrell Chan (aka DC) to the podcast with his two friends Martin and Steph (TripleCz) who have all been travelling together to different shows across North America. They all share their experiences setting up at card shows including at the recent Fanatics Fest event this past June. And they also offer their tips and best advice for attending the upcoming show at The National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago, which first-time goers will definitely want to ...
Jul 15, 2025•58 min•Season 5Ep. 303
EPISODE 302 - Clark and Hyung open the Friday show talking abou the hilarious dual inscription autograph cards that Bobby Witt Jr. signed along with his Royals' teammate Jac Caglianone. Then they get into the discussion of the day, which is the recent news that eBay has begun testing extended bidding on some auctions. Is this a good thing for buyers or sellers? Will the pilot program be made permanent? Will this raise comps of certain cards? -------------------------- CONNECT WITH US! Instagram:...
Jul 11, 2025•20 min•Season 5Ep. 302
EPISODE 301 - Clark and Hyung start by discussing whether or not the new Fanatics Fest All Access one-hour special will help get more people interested in the hobby. The trailer can be seen here: https://youtu.be/rZA7LZaSLzw?si=-P_Ywf-rCnqsJe-S Next for Hobby Headlines, they chime in on how the dutch auction format went for Panini America's Rookie Royalty set featuring two hit cards (one being a high-end autograph rookie card or Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese.) They also talked about the implicati...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 5Ep. 301
EPISODE 300 - Clark and Hyung mark the 300th episode remembering some top moments in the podcast after the Hobby Headlines segment. But off the top, they discuss the new Veefriends collaboration with Stephen Curry for the new Super Stickers: Manga Series collection coming out in July. Then for Hobby Headlines, they talk about whether wealthy buyers coming into the hobby is a good thing overall or price out the regular collectors with more modest incomes (ie. Celebrities and rich NFL owners comin...
Jul 01, 2025•56 min•Season 5Ep. 300
EPISODE 299 - Clark does a solo intro giving his thoughts on Fanatics Fest this year: What he liked, really liked, and what can be improved upon for next year. He also mentioned some highlights from the show including seeing and meeting A-listers as well as the change in card show layout this year. Then Clark plays two in-person interviews he had at Fanatics Fest. First, he connected with Brent Weyer ( @deepvalueinvestor on IG ) to discuss the amazing cards in the Museum Of Greatness, how to tar...
Jun 27, 2025•47 min•Season 5Ep. 299
EPISODE 298 - Clark, Will, and Roy are back together again where they debate whether Topps Now cards are officially cool especially after the half-a-million sale of the Stephen Curry 1/1 "Night Night" basketball card. For Hobby Headlines, the guys talk about GameStop doubling down on the hobby and moving away from video games. Will the company succeed and become a staple in the hobby moving forward? Then Clark hosts a Quiz Show with Will and Roy centered around the theme of grading before ending...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 298
EPISODE 297 - Clark, Hyung, and John are all back together again and off the top they talk about the incredible catch by Denzel Clarke who has a Topps Now card of the catch itself. Plus Hyung has a personal connection with Clarke having coached him as a teen. Then for Hobby Headlines, the guys review the recently released 2025 Topps Series 2 Baseball, going over what's returning for this year's set and what's new, are the inserts too gimmicky or cool, and who are the top flagship rookie cards to...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 297
EPISODE 296 - Clark welcomes back Darrell Chan (aka DC) back to the show where they discuss their Fanatics Fest plans taking place again in New York City on June 20-22, 2025. While Clark will be there as media, DC will be again setting up as a vendor. They talk about what their expectations are going into the event for the second year, what they hope to see that's changed, and the highlights of the inaugural season. -------------------------- CONNECT WITH US! Instagram: ...
Jun 13, 2025•43 min•Season 5Ep. 296
EPISODE 295 - Clark and Hyung start the show discussing the hard cutoff date of May 31 by Topps for any rookie called up to be put in the baseball card set in the same year. Will this mess up Topps Update or Topps Chrome Update? Or is standardization a good thing here? For Hobby Headlines, Clark and Hyung weigh in on Walmart getting into the breaking game as it partners with We The Hobby to launch its Walmart Live platform. Is this welcome in the hobby? Will we see more of these partnerships bet...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 295
EPISODE 294 - Clark and Hyung open the show talking about Fanatics Games, which will be taking place at Fanatics Fest on June 20-22, 2025. They weigh in on whether $2 million worth of prizes is a good investment for Fanatics. Next, for Hobby Headlines, they continue to talk Fanatics but this time its partnership with Complex to produce a new series called "Card Shopping." Will it succeed? Will it impede on other hobby content creators that have less to no budget at all. Then Clark hosts a round ...
Jun 03, 2025•58 min•Season 5Ep. 294
EPISODE 293 - Clark goes solo for the Friday podcast as he recaps his time at the Paris Card Show in France. Catch the IG reel for Part 1 and Part 2 of the video recap of the Paris show. Or watch the whole clip on YouTube. Then at the end, he reveals a recent poll results from his IG story where he asked if people prefer a superfractor 1/1 card in a PSA Auth slab or a PSA 8 slab. The results were surprising! -------------------------- CONNECT WITH US! Instagram: ...
May 30, 2025•13 min•Season 5Ep. 293
EPISODE 292 - Clark and Hyung open the show discussing the marketing for the 2025 Bowman Baseball as well as David Ortiz's picks for the top prospects to chase in this year's set. Then for Hobby Headlines, they talk about the recent earnings call by eBay, beating Wall Street expectations for Q1 with double digit growth year-on-year. They discuss the factors that contributed to the growth and whether it's sustainable for eBay to remain the number one marketplace for trading cards. Then Clark host...
May 27, 2025•50 min•Season 5Ep. 292
EPISODE 291 - Clark welcomes back Will and Roy who start the show by sharing their experience setting up as a vendor at the Sports Card Expo in Toronto, which is the largest card show in Canada. Roy, in particular, shares what he's learned from setting up at smaller shows vs bigger shows and gives advice to any new vendors when trying to sell their cards. Then for Hobby Headlines, they go over The Athletic article titled "How sports card shows are benefitting from the explosion in demand for Pok...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 291
EPISODE 290 - In this Friday episode Clark welcomes Liz McGuire whose story went absolutely viral when she got hit in the head with a Bo Bichette foul ball. It ended up being a good news story after getting a call from Topps offering to make her into a baseball card. But the story doesn't end there. McGuire tells her whole story and all the details in between from being hit to being featured in the New York Times and then finally raising thousands for a local kids rehab hospital in Toronto. Want...
May 16, 2025•54 min•Season 5Ep. 290
EPISODE 289 - Clark welcomes Lance Fensterman, CEO of Fanatics Events, to the pod where they discuss everything you need to know about the second Fanatics Fest event taking place again in New York City from June 20 to 22. That includes what people can expect at this year's show as well as what's new and different than the first year, and how what's been improved over the inaugural Fanatics Fest last summer. Autograph seekers should be happy as well as sports card collectors with changes to the f...
May 13, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 289
EPISODE 288 - Clark and Hyung open the show giving their takes on the new Bowman Red Rookie Redemption program that Topps announced recently. Is it a gimmick or a great idea? Then for Hobby Headlines, they discuss several of the major announcements from the Topps Industry Conference including: Topps regaining NBA trading card license from Panini in October with plans to institute a buyback program similar to the MVP program currently in place for baseball First licensed Wemby cards coming. Panin...
May 06, 2025•55 min•Season 5Ep. 288
EPISODE 287 - Clark starts the show solo to give listeners a heads up about Episode 288 where they will do a deeper dive into several of the announcements from the Topps Industry Conference. But in the meantime, he gives his top-level thoughts on where he feels the hobby is at currently. Next, he plays the joint podcast episode with Paul Hickey of the Sports Card Strategy Show where they answer questions from collectors ranging from eBay buying strategies to pros and cons of transacting at live ...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 287
EPISODE 286 - Clark opens the show with a brief update on the recent Sports Card Expo in Toronto with more coverage coming up in the new couple of episodes. Because Clark was recovering from the flu this past week, this week's episode is from Hyung's other podcast, Conversations With Hyung Cho, where in his Season 2 premier launched this month, he talks with Kevin Chan, aka @chanterprise . As a prolific content creator and editor, he provides valuable insight into what it takes to make content o...
Apr 29, 2025•53 min•Season 5Ep. 286
EPISODE 285 - Clark and Hyung open the show discussing whether the Wrestlemania 1/1 patch cards coming out are a gimmick or a genius way to onboard WWE fans to the card community. Then for Hobby Headlines, they talk about the newest announcement by PSA, which is that you can get your raw cards (valued at $250 or more) graded by PSA directly from the eBay checkout. Is this a good idea or will we have more PSA 6 and 7 cards in the population report? Then Clark plays a quick round of Quiz Show with...
Apr 22, 2025•54 min•Season 5Ep. 285
EPISODE 284 - Clark welcomes Gary Vaynerchuk to the podcast to talk about his upcoming release of Topps Chrome Veefriends, which he's trying to build to become the next Pokemon and Marvel (admitting it's an audacious goal but one that's he's committed his life to accomplishing.) Gary also shares his personal story about how sports cards changed his life, what he collects now, and the current state of the hobby. Plus he answers some rapid fire questions at the end including sharing his Mount Rush...
Apr 18, 2025•40 min•Season 5Ep. 284
EPISODE 283 - Clark and Hyung start the show talking about the 2007 Upper Deck Exquisite Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant Dual Auto 50th Anniversary Gold Logoman 1/1, which is hitting the auction block at Heritage. With Shyne150 previously offering $8M for the card, they try to guess what it'll ultimately sell for. Then for Hobby Headlines, they discuss the impact of card values for players who reach a big milestone in their career, starting with Alexander Ovechkin's 895th record-setting goal. T...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 283
EPISODE 282 - Clark introduces the joint podcast episode with Paul Hickey of the Sports Card Strategy Show where they talk about a variety of hobby topics. That includes a listener question about bidding on your own auctions in hopes of getting the algorithm to show your listing more. They also discuss the advantage and disadvantages of listing your cards as an auction vs. Buy-It-Now (BIN). Plus, they get into some of the top prospects and rookies for the 2025 MLB season. -----------------------...
Apr 08, 2025•58 min•Season 5Ep. 282
EPISODE 281 - Clark opens the show discussing the sale of Shohei Ohtani's first million-dollar baseball card. And he has a poll that he wants listeners to answer on his Instagram story : Ohtani 1/1 vs Paul Skenes 1/1 for $1.1 million. Then Clark is joined by Darrell Chan, aka DC, again who just returned from the Dallas Card Show. As the Cards To The Moon "correspondent," DC gives the lowdown on his first trip to Texas to check out the popular card show. He also shares some card show trends he's ...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 281
EPISODE 280 - Clark is joined by Will and Roy again as co-hosts of this podcast episode. They first discuss the 2025 WWE Topps Chrome buyback/trade-in program and how it's similar and different than the Topps Chrome Baseball buyback program. Then Will gives his choices of who's going to win the upcoming Wrestlemania. Next, the guys talk about how more corporations and rich individuals seem to be the one buying ultra high-end cards (ie. Dick's Sporting Goods owns the Paul Skenes 1/1 MLB Debut Pat...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 280
EPISODE 279 - Clark and John open the show discussing the new Gold MLB Logoman Patch program where the six 2024 award winners (ie. Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Paul Skenes, Tarik Skubal, Chris Sale, Luis Gil) will be wearing Gold MLB Logoman Patches all season in 2025. These game-worn patches will be part of an autographed Logoman baseball cards in a future set. Is this cool or will more Logoman cards just dilute the market? Then for Hobby Headlines, Clark and John dive deeper into The Athletic a...
Mar 25, 2025•57 min•Season 5Ep. 279
EPISODE 278 - Clark opens the show with a little Quiz Show segment off the top. Then Clark welcomes back Brent Weyer (aka deepvalueinvestor on IG) where they discuss everything from why choosing a Mookie Betts 1st Bowman Chrome gold refractor (Black Label) for $60K may not be the wisest choice, to whether buying Shohei Ohtani cards is a trap. They also touch on the idea of investing in the player's most significant cards (and answering the question of what makes a card of said player significant...
Mar 21, 2025•42 min•Season 5Ep. 278
EPISODE 277 - Clark and Hyung open the episode talking about three big sports cards on auction with Fanatics Collects and which one could deliver the best ROI in 10 years. Will it be the Paul Skenes or Jackson Holliday MLB Debut Patch 1/1 autograph rookie card? Or the Juan Soto Red Refractor 1st Bowman Chrome rookie auto? For links to these auctions, check out the fivecardguys' Daily Auctions page here. Then for Hobby Headlines, the guys weigh in on whether repackers are generally good or bad fo...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 277
EPISODE 276 - Clark, Hyung and John talk about the MLB Tokyo Series to kick off Opening Day of the regular season. More specifically, they discuss the Topps X Murakami collaboration with a couple of baseball card sets released and whether it'll be a hit or if it's all hype and bound to die down like the Topps Project2020 set (where it also included artists' work incorporated into the design of the baseball cards.) Then for Hobby Headlines, the guys take a deeper look into the gemrate.com grading...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 276
EPISODE 275 - Clark introduces this Friday episode with a reminder that the Paul Skenes 1/1 MLB Debut Patch rookie autograph card is officially live on the Fanatics Collect auction site. But if you're looking for more affordable (but still high-end auctions) that end each day, check out our page at https://fivecardguys.com/dailyauctions Then Clark plays the joint pod he had with Paul Hickey of The Sports Card Strategy Show where they discuss the impact of Victor Wembanyama's health issue on his ...
Mar 07, 2025•58 min•Season 5Ep. 275
