Josh Luber

They had a really good day on Saturday.

And actually the comment that was made to me, Josh from Boom Kaboom, he was saying that Sundays is traditionally a very quiet day.

Like you don't get a lot of traffic through, but actually they had a really strong Sunday.

So I think it's true that there's less people There's less bums on seats in NBA now than there is versus Pokemon.

Let's talk about the state of the hobby, and let's also talk about the Pinini to Tops transition.

Oh boy.

Didn't we get our hearts broken really badly? I mean, they were pretty broken to begin with, but like, didn't Josh literally say, first and foremost, in this hobby, as a hobbyist, that he loved this hobby, and that everything Fanatics were going to do, they were going to, like, correct some mistakes, and they were, like, bringing the hobby to the people.

I think

They exist at the intersection of the separateness of ideas, of separateness of relationships, separateness of skills, knowledge, desires, and experience that to others seem unrelated.

I was with Josh Luber yesterday.

Josh is the founder of StockX, exited for over a billion dollars.

He then, with Dan Snyder, then he founded with Mike Rubin, Fanatics Collectibles, and exited for over a billion dollars.

We can create the incredible Blaine Bartlett.

Hanging out with me last night with Sharon Hector, Josh Luber, Griffin...

Scoggins.

Oh, my goodness.

So we have a unique guest today.

My guest today is Josh Luber.

In 2012, while working as a strategy consultant at IBM, he started pulling millions of eBay sneaker sales into a spreadsheet.

That became Campless, essentially a Kelley Blue Book for sneakers.

Mm-hmm.

And that is, it is such a fine line that Topps has talked about, and I remember Josh Luber talking about when he was first helping Fanatics bring back the, the art of collecting cards.

But-

Mm-hmm