The Shallow End ep 51 - Collecting With a Black Hat
How boring would this hobby be if we all collected the same thing? In this episode, we speak with Chad aka @blackhat_cards on IG. He collects players from his beloved Minnesota, but he also collects t...
5 Juli 202444min
Total Content 7.1.2024
The latest edition of The Shallow End: Total Content. Featuring … Cardboard Chronicles; Cards to the Moon; Stacking Slabs; The Collector's Gene; Sports Card Madness; Sports Cards Nonsense; Lemme Get T...
1 Juli 202417min
The Shallow End ep 50 - What If
Collector Kevin M. Cormier once called it the "paralysis of indecision." It's those moments when you have too many cards that you want, the funds to get some, and the decision and contemplation become...
28 Juni 202415min
The Shallow End ep 49 - I've Been Influenced, and It's All My Fault
Sports-card influencers have power not because of some cosmic or mystic force. They have power because we give them power. Who are the most powerful influencers in the sports-card hobby? That's an eas...
21 Juni 202424min
The Shallow End ep 48 - Why Clark Picked Fanatics Fest Over The National
Clark, curator of @fivecardguys and host of the Cards to the Moon podcast, recently committed to attending his first National. Then he changed his mind and will instead go to the first Fanatics Fest a...
14 Juni 202438min
Total Content 6.10.2024
Welcome to an experiment. A new monthly series, "The Shallow End: Total Content," works to shine a light on some of the best, most interesting, and notable recent episodes in sports-card podcasting. I...
10 Juni 202419min
The Shallow End ep 47 - Stranded On an O'Hare Runway
When you spend a good chunk of your week sitting inside unmoving airplanes at one of the world's largest airports, the mind wanders. Mine wandered to sports cards. Please enjoy this abbreviated, hopef...
7 Juni 202411min
The Shallow End ep 46 - Surviving the Hobby When You're Not an Apex Predator
The sports-card hobby is an ecosystem. It has apex predators, parasites and everything in between. If you're among the 99 percent of collectors who fall somewhere between the two ends of the hobby spe...
31 Maj 202414min
