On The Cards - A Podcast about collecting sports cards.
A Podcast about collecting sports cards from a couple of degenerate collectors in Melbourne, Australia.
Episodes
28 episodes
EP 28 - Three Cards We Own: And why they are important in the hobby?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick do a deep dive into three cards they each own, and discuss why they think these cards are important in the hobby. Each card has a story behind it, a reason why it deserves a place in our collections.
EP 27 - Hobby Heat: Card shows keep getting bigger and better!
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss the boom we have seen in card shows. There has been an explosion in the number and size of card shows in Australia over the last few years... and we love it. We chat about our recent experience at the Ho...
EP 26 - Finding Your Niche as a Collector: What are the cards that matter to you?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss the concept of finding your niche as a collector. The trading card market is a huge sea of cardboard - from sports cards to TCG, vintage cards to modern... and within each of these are more sets, i...
EP 25 – The Price Is Right: The fine art of pricing cards.
In this Episode, Hank and Mick discuss everything there is to discuss (within half an hour) about pricing cards. From overpriced cards at card shows, to stores not even putting a price sticker on anything in their display cabinets, we chat abou...
EP 24 – Pulling the Trigger: Stop researching cards and start buying!
In this Episode, Hank & Mick chat about pulling the trigger on a new purchase. It could be another card for our main PC, or a new player or set. We spend so much time doing research on cards, players and sets we are interested in - but do w...
EP 23 - The Whales Of The Hobby: those at the top of the cardboard mountain. Love them or hate them?
In this Episode, Hank and Mick discuss the Whales of The Hobby. The pinnacle of collectors and their monumental collections. How do we mere minnows feel about it? If often blows us away at how ridiculous these collections are. They feel so unat...
EP 22 - Trading And Grading - NBA Trades and PSA prike hikes. Does it affect our collecting plans for 2026?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss a couple of hot topics and look at how they possibly affect our collecting approach for the year. We start by discussing the second PSA price hike in the last few months. With grading prices going up and...
EP 21 - The $1000 Question: What sports cards would we buy if we had $1k to spend?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick put each other on the spot, and discuss what cards they would purchase if they had $1000 to spend this week. The rules are pretty simple... we can buy one card or multiple cards, on any sales platform... but the...
EP 20 - New Year Collecting Resolutions: Whats on the cards for 2026?
In our 20th Episode, Hank and Mick discuss their hobby plans for 2026. We chat about whether we will continue to hunt for big cards to add to our collections this year. Is the Sports Card market going to have another huge year like 2025... or i...
EP 19 - Cardboard Chaos: As Scandals stack up, is the Hobby Healthy?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss the various scandals and headaches that have hit the Hobby in recent months. We chat about the PSA debacle, where a selection of PSA 9s magically were re-labelled PSA 10s. We talk about SNYPE and the mon...
EP 18 - Are We There Yet? Is the Top of the Sport Card Market In... we think so!
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss their belief that we are at the Top of the current cycle of the Sports Card Market. We discuss how the last couple of months of each year are usually buying months, with prices and sales volumes slightly...
EP 17 - Out with the Old, In with the New: Is chasing fresh cards or players a smart play?
In this Episode, Hank and Mick chat about the pressure to chase new players and new cards in the hobby. Is it really a smart move? Is it important to keep adding new, fresh things to your collection?... or can your improve your collection by fo...
EP 16 - Topps Returns and the Panini Era ends: What it means for Collectors?
In this Episode, Hank and Mick do a deep dive on the handover of the NBA Trading card licence from Panini (who have had the NBA licence for the last 13 years) to Topps (via Fanatics) who will be exclusively be printing NBA trading cards for the...
EP 15 Kaboom! The Market keeps on pumping and sets more record prices.
In this Episode, Hank & Mick have a ramble about Kabooms!... and the crazy price moves and sales these cards have had recently. With record prices constantly being set for these inserts, is it a good sign that the market is over heated?...
EP 14 - Big Moves - Are huge picks ups, pivots and consolidation the best play?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss Big Moves in the hobby. With high profile podcasters such as Chris HOJ & Cajun Cardboard recently making moves into 1/1 Jordans and major consolidation... we chat about our thoughts about making simi...
EP 13 - Hot Card Markets - how to avoid being burnt
In this episode, Hank & Mick discuss the current state of the market - which is scorching hot! We discuss our tactics and thoughts of collecting through a bull market, from consolidation to fewer but more significant cards, pivoting to chea...
EP 12 - Ten Commandments of The Hobby - Our Top 10 collecting rules.
In our biggest and best episode yet, Hank & Mick get out a pair of stone tablets, and chisel our 10 Commandments for The Hobby. From tips such as avoiding the hype, embracing selling cards, and adding cornerstone cards, we dig deep on the m...
BONUS EP 02 - The Grading Game: PSA vs BGS
In this second part of our ongoing Grading discussion, Hank & Mick chat who we grade with - for us, its a choice between PSA and BGS. BGS has sub grades, half grades and a sturdier slab, where PSA is the industry leader and PSA 10s are gett...
BONUS EP 01 - Grading: An ongoing discussion. It begins in the '90s.
In this Bonus Episode, Hank and Mick begin a multi-part discussion about all things Grading. This episode is all about the beginnings of grading in the 1990s. We reminisce about how when we ran our cards store in 1993, grading was purely subjec...
EP 09 - Vintage vs Modern: What has better long term value?
In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss collecting Vintage vs Modern cards, and which has the better long term value. Vintage cards are all about condition: centering, corners, registration, surface etc... In 1986 Fleer, there were approximate...
EP 08 - Inserts and Parallel cards: all you need to know
In this episode, Hank and Mick discuss everything to do with inserts and parallel cards. We kick-off sorting out what actually is an SSP, and then deep-dive about how inserts shaped the 90s era and how parallels have dominated the modern era. H...
EP 07 - The Big Show: Card Shows in Australia and Overseas
In this episode, Hank and Mick are excited to discuss Card Shows in Australia and Overseas. We chat about the upcoming Hobby Hangout XL show in Melbourne, Collect Fest in July and The Oz National in September. We talk about buzz of attending th...
EP 06 - The Big Sell: How, where and why we sell our cards
In this episode Hank & Mick discuss selling cards and the variety of platforms we use in Australia and overseas. From everything from Ebay, Fanatics Collect, Alt, Consignment services, FaceBook Marketplace and selling at Card Shows - we cov...
EP 05 - Our biggest hobby mistakes in the last 5 years
In this episode, Hank and Mick take a good, hard look at their biggest mistakes collecting sports cards and TCG the last 5 years. They discuss buying Pokemon cards at the top of the market (in the covid boom), buying the wrong NBA player at the...
EP 04 - Sports Card Market vs Pokemon TCG Market
In this episode, Hank and Mick dive into a discussion about the Sports Card Market versus the Pokemon/TCG Market. We discuss the current state of the Pokemon market, and our strategy for buying and selling in a hot market. We compare the size o...