April 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Card collecting is evolving beyond the stereotype of older, middle-aged men, with collectors of all ages and backgrounds entering the hobby for different reasons and with different approaches to building their collections.
• Card value varies based on rarity factors like special prints, patches, and autographs
• The pandemic caused an overnight explosion in collecting when people at home rekindled their interest
• Setting a separate account for card purchases helps maintain financial boundaries
• Collect what you like rather than chasing prospects or market hype
• Cards with personal meaning often bring more joy than those with high monetary value
• The social aspect of collecting connects people at shows and through trading communities
• Modern collecting spans multiple sports, creating diverse collector identities
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For some reason, there's this narrative that the
card collector is just like anolder, middle-aged man, and
that's it, and that could not befurther from the case.
I mean it's.
You know people of all ages.
There are a lot of, you know,older men.
(00:23):
There are not a lot of women,but I mean it's growing.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What's up, dad hacker ?
And welcome to part two of myconversation with ashley on card
collecting.
That's right val and I we talkcard collecting with our good
friend and uh, yeah, we're gonnafinish this conversation and
then, of course, you guysalready know, we're gonna do our
famous that's the famousquestions and then we are trying
to figure out whether or notVal is going to pick up another
(01:04):
hobby.
Don't blame me, it wasn't myfault this time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Guys, without further ado, I'll give you the episode
Earlier when you said when yougo to these card shows you'll go
through like the box of cardsthat go for, or at least are
marked for, a dollar, do youfeel like or a lot of?
Do you feel like, hopefully youget lucky that maybe, like a
card collector or somebody whohas this box doesn't know the
(01:36):
real value of these cards andone of those could be worth way
more than a dollar?
Or are those usually likedollar type cards and you just
buy them because it's fun to buythem?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
really it just depends um me personally.
Like I just I buy them becauseit's fun, like I don't go into a
show looking to come out makingmore money or anything like
when I like my husband will lookthrough my cards and he'll be
like, why did you buy a HowardJohnson card?
(02:06):
I'm like, well, because look atit, it's cool.
He's like, yeah, but it'sHoward Johnson.
I was like I only paid a dollarfor it.
He's like I wouldn't have paid10 cent for it.
It's just, you know, like it'sjust about what I like.
I know that there are peoplelike that though that go in.
You know, even if it's just a,they bought it for a dollar and
(02:27):
they can sell it for two dollarsor they can sell it for three
dollars.
I mean, it's just sometimes yourun across that, but a lot of
times you run across someone whohas a dollar card.
They want to sell it for fivedollars dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's funny because and it's in the same household
that the two of you have totallydifferent views on what it's
like to be a card collector.
Right, you're doing it for thelove of the collecting of the
card, like you like.
It's like.
You know what I like this card.
I don't care how much it'sworth, you know.
If it's worth a dollar or tencents, you like it.
Your husband, on the other hand, is like no, I this, you know
(03:05):
I'm getting it because it'sworth this much.
And I'm sure he has in his vastcollection of cards, some very
nice, expensive cards.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, he was actually given a Michael Jordan
autographed.
It was like a set of um, whatis it called?
It's like a relic.
So when you it was put alltogether in a frame, it it made
the the tar heel yeah logo andit has his autograph on it.
(03:39):
Um, I don't.
I wouldn't say he collects forthe value, but he's definitely
not one that's going to buy justany old card.
It has to be somebody hecollects or he's not going to do
it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
See, I'm afraid to get into card collecting.
I'm terrified because I knowwhat that will lead to.
You know what I mean.
You start small and all of asudden my wife is having me
sleep in my car because I gotway too much junk, you know.
So we're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it depends, Like who is your favorite player
, would you say.
Clemente, yeah well yeah, you'dbe in the car real fast.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So let me ask you this From the moment that you
started collecting to now, 2025,right how has, in your opinion,
the card collecting market, thewhole thing, how has it changed
for you?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's interesting to really sit back and think about
it, um, because, like, when Istarted, it felt like something
that was just very, very small,and even even back then it
wasn't small, but it for somereason like it just felt like it
was.
And then, you know, wheneverybody was at home kind of
(05:06):
did the same thing that I did,you know whether they were
collectors when they were kids,and then they kind of got back
into it because they werelooking for something to do.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It just exploded and it just grew from there
interesting, yeah, I think a lotmore on the internet now, so
I'm wondering if it was justalmost overnight.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It felt that way Seriously, I mean one day we
were buying whatever we wantedto out of Walmart or Target,
where they have all the cardsand stuff.
And then the next day youcouldn't find anything.
The shelves were completelyempty, and they stayed empty for
months.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's such a weird thing, right like you know, just
collecting overall, not justcard collecting, but like
anything, I'm like I'm, we havea mutual friend, patrick, you
know, larson.
You know, shout out to patricklarson, right like I mean my man
, you know, he has well, I guess, like probably well over 2 000
hats and we're talking aboutlike the fitted hats, and you're
(06:05):
like my man, you know, that'ssomething that good for him, you
know that is.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is so fair to say, because I I I sometimes
I'll re-watch his aviators videobecause it's just because you
know I'm from vegas.
So like, why don't I have 10Las Vegas Aviator hats?
Why does he have 10 Las VegasAviator?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
hats Because it's Patrick Larson.
I love that guy, love him MLBhat history.
You guys got to follow him.
He does a video every day Well,yeah, every week about a minor
league team that he has agazillion hats of.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Teams I've never heard of.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And I've heard of a lot of teams.
That's what I'm saying, likeI've been doing this for a while
now, right, and I know a lot ofminor league teams and I'm like
I had no idea that team hadthat.
Have you ever?
Have you ever?
You, you kind of said no, but Iwant to know.
It's like have you ever flippeda card for profit?
Or it's just just that you're,you're, you don't have that much
(07:03):
of that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You don't have that much of that.
Yeah, there were two reallythat come to mind that were a
profit Zion Williamson's rookiecard.
I bought it out of a $40 boxand I think I sold it for $1,200
(07:26):
maybe.
And then Trey Lance.
Same thing kind of with TreyLance, except for while it was
off getting graded he got hurt.
So it went from a like $1,500card to a $200 card.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It went from a $1,500 card to a $200 card.
Yikes yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But I mean it was still a profit because it was
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
This has always been something on my mind, especially
now that I've been seeing theworld of card collecting growing
.
When someone says, like theirrookie card is is worth like
this much, how many copies ofthe those rookie cards like?
Is it really just?
There's really only one rookiecard made, because there's
(08:16):
millions of packs sold.
So is it just millions of packswith oh, that's it, one rookie
card?
Good luck.
Whoever finds it finds it andthey make the money if they want
to sell it um no, so I meanthere's there's a good amount of
rookie cards out there.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Um, where the the money comes in and the rarity
comes in is when you have likethe prisms or their silvers or
you know it has like a shortprint where it's just slightly
different than the others.
That's where all the moneycomes in and like the rarity for
(08:57):
the rookie cards.
But people have strong feelingsabout the players and their
rookie cards strong feelingsabout the players and their
rookie cards.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So I don't know, it's just wild because it's like, oh
, you know, here's a, here's arookie card with a patch uh, you
know, from his jersey, and allthat and it's going for stupid
amount of money.
You know what I mean.
That like like how can you andagain, I just don't know right,
I'm not really involved in thatworld as much as you know other
ones are like like how do youwhat?
How do you determine the price,right?
(09:30):
Like I mean, because it's sucha arbitrary number really, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's what, what the collector is willing to pay for
it.
So with the schemes, it'swhoever the schemes collector is
out there that is willing topay the money for it.
That's how much it's.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
They kind of set the market and there was for the
schemes frenzy that just justoccurred.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
There was only one paul skein's rookie card out
there, printed right so thatthere was one of his um, I think
it was his debut patch orsomething but that card was a
one of one, so it had like oneof one written on it, I think.
I don't even think I looked atit up close outside of it you
(10:18):
know like oh okay, it's paulskeens, but schemes, but um so
it just it really depends.
So with that one there was onlythat one.
But I mean he's got a ton ofrookie cards out there, just the
in, like the different productsyeah, what are some tips for
(10:39):
like someone like me who's not?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'm not a card collector at all.
My brother is.
I said you know, um, but what,what's, what's your?
You know, your your tips forsomeone like me to get once, to
get started in in this hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So the main one and I think it's kind of um, the
advice that everybody givesacross the board is collect what
you like, find the thing thatyou like and stick with that.
Don't get caught up in the hypeof you know the new prospect or
because that can end so badly.
(11:20):
I mean, look at what happenedwith Wander Franco.
I mean it's yeah, yeah.
So you know people, people whocollected nothing but his cards
ended up with nothing yeah, um.
So collect what you like, that'sthe main one.
And um, don't dig yourself in ahole, you know, just have fun
(11:44):
with it.
Don't dig yourself in a hole,you know, just have fun with it.
Don't look at it as aninvestment.
It's a hobby.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And if you're not having fun, then it's no longer
a hobby.
I do, I do.
I got to say you know somethingthat you do.
That's super smart and I youknow.
I wish other people would dothe same, especially me as well.
When I'm buying hands, it'ssetting up a different account
Once it runs out.
It runs out, that's it.
I'm not buying anything until Ireplace these funds.
That's such a simple thing, andyet most of us don't follow
(12:19):
that rule.
Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I make jokes all the time and like people, people
joke and give my husband a hardtime about it because he's, um,
you know they're like, oh, shespends all the money.
She spends all you guys moneyon cards, and you know we make a
joke out of it.
But when I first started, Imean we were, we were spending a
(12:46):
lot on cards and it was likeyou don't, you don't even think
about it, because it's not likeyou're spending it all in one
lump sum.
It's not like a trip to thegrocery store, it's like
gradually over a month, and thenyou look back and you're like,
wait, where did all, where didall the money go?
So you go to one store.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You pick up a box here or a pack and then you go
to another store.
It's like let me pick them, letme just put one on that's how
it goes.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, I had to because I was like okay, this is
, you know, once it gets out ofcontrol, like I said, it's no
longer fun, it's no longer ahobby.
So I had to bring it back.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Do you remember that moment that you're like, oh, we
got to stop?
Because I know I remember themoment that I was like I got six
boxes here.
I probably should stop for awhile.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It wasn't like a specific moment, it was just
like we were, I think.
We were in a shop somewhere and, like the box that we were
looking at on the shelf the samebox that we had bought like six
months prior it had alreadylike almost tripled in value and
(14:04):
I was still like, well, I don'tsee what the problem is.
Like.
We bought this six months ago.
Why can't we buy it now?
My husband's looking at me like, uh, because we only paid $70
for it then and now it's, youknow, over $300 and I'm like,
yeah, well, I don't get it.
Yeah, and then it was kind oflike oh well, you know, maybe I
(14:24):
need to dial it back a littlebit Just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, I get that so dang well now.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I wish I was close to you, because now I'm curious to
know like you got her going.
You got her going you know what, like I forgot I had this box.
Okay, question question.
What does okay this charlesbarkley card right?
What does this 175 on the backmean?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's just.
Is it like a big number?
I can't.
Yeah, I think that's just anumber Like the number in the
set.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, that one is more like a.
That one looks like a base card, I think.
So there's a checklist andthat's just what number it is on
the checklist.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's interesting.
I've got a bunch of my favoritefootball team.
I'm a huge Denver.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Broncos fan.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
So I've got some.
I mean these are like I've gottwo Steve Atwater cards.
I know I'm I'm never going toget going to get rid of my
Denver Broncos cards, but likesome of this'm going to go
through.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'm right there.
I thought I had some on my desk, but I'm a Shannon Sharp
collector so I have tons ofBronco cards.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh my gosh, I love Shannon Sharp.
I'm about to leave theconversation.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Y'all can just keep going here now.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I did find his jersey from someone who I felt like
was under I.
I mean I bought it for $20.
I feel like it's worth way morethan that but you bought it for
$20.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's a good thing for you.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I mean, no, it's great for me, but I'm like this
thing should have been like$10,000 get out of here so yeah.
I wouldn't comment.
No, I'm definitely not a cardcollector.
I don't even remember havingthis box.
But I mean, yeah, I'm going tohave to go through it later now.
This conversation probably willcontinue offline.
(16:21):
My sixth thing that I'm goingto start collecting Right.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Listen, you tell your fans that it was not my fault.
This has nothing to do with me,so he cannot blame me for this
one.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
He might.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Or you Great.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Anytime I can add to the ranks of female card
collectors, I'm like, but it'sfun, we have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Bad influence.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
She's going to start Watch.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
She's going to be like maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I should think about this.
I'm not even kidding.
I remember I had this from whenI lived in Texas and then I
moved out here and then mypriorities changed.
I switched from cards to pins,I guess because I didn't start
collecting pins until I movedout here.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Just wait.
This is what's going to happen.
I can tell already she's goingto go to a sporting event this
conversation needed to happen.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We needed to find my girl.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Right, so that's what I'm saying.
Now you're going to be like I'mgoing to the ballpark.
Maybe I should pick up a cardset.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I've got an unopened pack here from 2008 to 2009.
So I'm going to.
I'm going to.
I don't know, I feel like youknow what you should do?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
a video on it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Would you open something like this, like you
don't open cards, old cards, youknow what?
Let me hold on Um settings.
Hold on Um.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I would, why not?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Is this better?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Would you?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
open something like this yeah, I'd have to look and
see.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Wait, that one says is that Derrick Rose right there
in the middle, top, middle,that is Derrick Rose.
Yeah, I mean, I'd open it, dude, you could probably have an
autographed card in there andyou don't even know it.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, you just have to look up the checklist for it,
cause I, off the top of my head, I can't think of anything
that's in it.
But it was.
It would still be fun eitherway.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, that influence right there.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
This is what we do I know, I know.
I know I get it, I understand.
So, um, okay, got a couple morequestions for you and then
we're going to go into myfavorites, not so famous
questions here.
So have you ever made a?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
trade that you regretted?
No, mostly just because, like,if I'm trading something with
somebody, it's normally becauseit's a card that they want and
that I know that they're goingto enjoy, because, I mean,
there's no point in having itsit in my collection if I'm not
(18:57):
enjoying it.
You know, I got you.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, I get it.
I can understand that.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
What is the one thing , or a couple of things, that
you wish people understood moreabout card collecting?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
For some reason, there's this narrative that the,
the card collector is just likeum, an older, middle-aged man,
and that's it, and that couldnot be further from the case.
I mean it's.
You know people of all ages.
Now there are a lot of, youknow, older men.
(19:32):
There are not a lot of women,but I mean it's, it's growing.
That's really the one.
The one big thing is just thisyou know, this idea of what a
card collector looks like so bigmisconception.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, now you're going to have another one,
another woman that's going tostart collecting, you know so
recollecting here we go.
Oh great, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Literally when we were having this conversation I
was like where is that box ofcards?
I know like I have it fromtexas.
So I was like for a minute Iwas like did I leave it in texas
?
But I was like no, I know, Ibrought it and I'm not even
kidding.
I moved out here and like justpriorities for me changed and
now I'm like god knew I neededto did your fiance find out for
(20:17):
you and then handed it to you Iwas like, hey, like, and we have
like a in, like anentertainment, you know like a
thing for the tv in the livingroom.
And I was like, can you checkone of the little doors and see
if my box of cards is in there?
And I don't know if you guysheard him open the door, but he
brought it and I know I've got abaseball, a few baseball boxes
and then a box from 94 duringthe baseball strike that's like
(20:41):
still not open and I don't knowif I want to open it.
So, it's probably worth somegood money down there.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I know, but I wouldn't call myself a collector
because I forgot I had all this.
You, just you, you.
You rekindled your love forcollecting.
Now, thanks to ashley yeah,this is a fun conversation
awesome, ashley.
Is there anything that wehaven't asked?
Uh, anything that you want tomention or anything like that.
As far as, like you know, know,because I, you know, I'll be
honest, you know there's onequestion.
(21:12):
Actually, when you go to likeyou say you go to the these
events, like, what's yourmindset, like, what's your
process of like, when you go tothese events to go look for card
?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I wish I could say that there was one.
It's just I walk in the doorand just make a beeline for like
the first box and then justwork my way around so there is a
process you just like yep,there it is.
Here I'm pointing at it, that'swhere I'm going yep, um, now
for, like, like my husband, he'smore the.
(21:46):
He said he's more of the socialbutterfly, so he wants to, you
know, stop and talk to peopleand that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, and I'm just sitting here beside him like
look, leave me alone I'm lookingyeah, I'm the other way around,
like I will talk to someonewould you say that this is like
your quickest way, like thestuff that's back here, this is
your quickest way to learn abouta player that you didn't really
know a lot about of.
When you find their card, orlike, like you take a look at
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their stats in the back, you doadditional research, or is it
like, if it's a player that youdon't really care for, you just
do you read the back or do youjust, oh, it looks like a cool
card from the front and then youjust keep it?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
uh, it just depends.
Mostly, it's just looking atthe card from the front, cause,
like you know, a lot of theplayers are like the players
that we already know about.
So like all of the players thatI collect a lot of their
careers are.
They're done, you know, yeah,so you kind of kind of have an
idea of that sort of thing.
(22:50):
But I mean, there are peoplewho do read every single thing
on the back.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
My attention span just isn't there for it.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I feel it.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Like.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I don't know if I could just sit there and just be
like you know.
Just yeah, I'm more of a likeyou know, teach you and then
I'll I'll retain that, you know,we'll go from there.
So all right, all right, ashley, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right.
So the first question isactually you know what?
We never asked this question?
What your?
What are your favorite teams?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay.
So um for baseball, it's thebraves, um for basketball, it's
uh, the books, and for football,it's the 49ers okay okay, you
are.
You went all over the countryyeah, all over the place like so
(23:48):
.
Growing up like i't, I didn'tgrow up in a sports household.
My dad watched two sports, andthat was college football and
NASCAR.
He never cut anything else onwho to collect.
It was just kind of like, ohwell, I kind of really like this
(24:15):
thing I saw about this playerWith Giannis on the books.
It was like a video.
I saw him doing wrestling moveson their mascot.
I was like, okay, I'll pick himyou.
Yeah, I'm going to collect yourstuff now and then like with
you know, except for withbaseball, Cause I mean, it's
(24:36):
just you know where we live at,it's just that's who he is Right
here, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Closer to where I'm at, it's either Braves or
Nationals there is no in betweenwhich you know.
When they, when my team isCleveland, when Cleveland plays
one of those teams, I'm blackedout in this area, which is so
much fun.
Yeah, so all right.
So you're going to the ballparkwhere you and your family go
(25:02):
into the ballpark, right, youguys are hanging out what?
And then you're about to go getyour food, right, the
concessions, what is your?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
food and your drink of choice.
Uh see, that's a little tough,cause we have um four kids
between the ages of three and 15.
So, um, it's whatever is goingto be like, the easiest to hold
on to Like whatever's going tobe the easiest to carry four of.
(25:32):
Mostly it's just one of thosebig fountain Cokes and nachos.
I love nachos.
I could eat nachos forbreakfast, lunch and dinner.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Jalapenos on it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
There you go.
You've got to have jalapenos onnachos.
Come on now.
What was?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
your first job.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
There you go All the time.
You got to have jalapenos onnachos.
I mean, come on now.
So all right, what was yourfirst job?
Working at Subway oh my God, Iworked at Subway.
I managed to Subway.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yep Worked at Subway after school.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
My dad hated it because I'd come home smelling
like onions every day.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
For the longest time I could not eat Subway because I
worked there and I justcouldn't do it.
I'm easing my way.
You know my wife the other daywe're actually having this
conversation my wife's like.
I know you don't like Subway,but can we go to Subway you?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
know I was like I guess.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So I get it Cake or pie.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's a tough one.
I got to go pie.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I asked this question even though it was like what
was the last song that youlistened to?
Usually it's downloaded, but dowe download songs anymore?
So what's the last song youlistened to?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm trying to think because I just listened like a
couple of hours ago Like a StoneAudio Slave, I think is what it
was, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Strangest things you've ever eaten.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know.
See that that that question iskind of tough because like to me
it's not strange, but to likeother people it might be what's
the strangest things to you?
Oh, um, maybe alligator orraccoon.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I've had alligator.
Yeah, I've had alligator.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I've had alligator bites.
Yeah, actually not bad, notgoing to lie.
Yeah, if you were to get a boat, what would you name it?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
A boat?
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
This one stumps everybody all the time yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's tough because both me and my daughter get very
, very, very, very motion sick.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So no boat for you.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, no, but you wouldn't be able to read this
out of it because it would justbe covered.
Oh no, yeah, it would just notbe good.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It would be a horror show.
No, got it A couple more.
First celebrity crush.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Harrison Ford.
It's still Harrison FordBetween Indiana Jones and Han
Solo.
It's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You know what?
That is not a bad one.
I mean, it's Han Solo, forGod's sakes.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Alright, what was your favorite Halloween costume?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Honestly, I think it was like it was recently, a
couple of years ago me, myhusband and my son, my youngest
son we dressed up as um thecharacters from Bob's burgers.
So I was Linda, he was Bob andmy son was Louise, that's cool,
that's cool, that was good.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Two more questions.
In your opinion, what is?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
the most boring sport .
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Golf Everyone, you and me, right there.
If I want to take a nap, let'sput some golf on, although, like
I said, I've been saying this,I've been talking to this to my
couple of my friends the golfleague, that digital one with uh
, with uh, tiger woods, that'sactually not bad.
I would actually get into that.
That's not that bad, all right.
(29:27):
Last but not least, what isyour spirit animal?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Hmm, an octopus, ever since I saw the thing about
they.
Just sometimes they just go upand like punch fish, just for
the heck of it.
I was like.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I like that.
I was like you know what, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
They just go up and punch them out of spite for no
reason, just because that'sfunny.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That makes sense.
That's funny.
I like that.
Ashley, thank you so much fordoing this.
We had a blast, we learned alot.
Obviously you educated us.
And then someone is nowrekindling her love for card
collecting again.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
So you might have a friend in the collecting world
here pretty soon, so Icompletely forgot about I can't.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We're bad influences on each other.
To see how that goes, where canpeople find you on socials?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Just that, a junk wax queen on Twitter.
I kind of avoid the otherscause it's it's a lot to manage.
I don't know how anybody, Idon't know how y'all do it.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You're talking to two people that here that have
burials.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
social media yeah, no I know, I was, I, you know like
I scouted them out earlier andI was like how do they do it,
how do they all of them?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Oh, trust me, I know I literally have to like post
things like at certain times ofthe day, schedule them and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It's tons of fun.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Make sure you guys are following her.
I will put the link so that wayyou guys are able to follow her
.
Make sure you guys arefollowing City of Food Girl.
As well as the Data Chronicles.
We are on all socials.
Kind of Make sure you guyscatch us on YouTube.
Have you fixed your YouTubechannel?
Are you up to us on YouTube?
Have you fixed your YouTubechannel Like?
Are you up to date on YouTube?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So I would definitely say in order.
Instagram TikTok ThreadsYouTube there you go.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
There you go.
For me it would be YouTube,Instagram, Threads, Twitter.
So there you go.
And then again one more time.
Make sure you guys, 9 o'clockEastern time, Tuesdays and
Thursdays, the dad had chroniclesports show.
We'll talk all sports.
You know, maybe some trivia, uh, maybe some conspiracy theories
, but I don't know.
Bring your tinfoil hat and thenwe'll see what happens.
(31:42):
We will see you guys on thenext episode.
Thank you.
For some reason, there's this narrative that the
card collector is just like anolder, middle-aged man, and
that's it, and that could not befurther from the case.
I mean it's.
You know people of all ages.
There are a lot of, you know,older men.
(00:23):
There are not a lot of women,but I mean it's growing.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What's up, dad hacker ?
And welcome to part two of myconversation with ashley on card
collecting.
That's right val and I we talkcard collecting with our good
friend and uh, yeah, we're gonnafinish this conversation and
then, of course, you guysalready know, we're gonna do our
famous that's the famousquestions and then we are trying
to figure out whether or notVal is going to pick up another
(01:04):
hobby.
Don't blame me, it wasn't myfault this time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Guys, without further ado, I'll give you the episode
Earlier when you said when yougo to these card shows you'll go
through like the box of cardsthat go for, or at least are
marked for, a dollar, do youfeel like or a lot of?
Do you feel like, hopefully youget lucky that maybe, like a
card collector or somebody whohas this box doesn't know the
(01:36):
real value of these cards andone of those could be worth way
more than a dollar?
Or are those usually likedollar type cards and you just
buy them because it's fun to buythem?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
really it just depends um me personally.
Like I just I buy them becauseit's fun, like I don't go into a
show looking to come out makingmore money or anything like
when I like my husband will lookthrough my cards and he'll be
like, why did you buy a HowardJohnson card?
(02:06):
I'm like, well, because look atit, it's cool.
He's like, yeah, but it'sHoward Johnson.
I was like I only paid a dollarfor it.
He's like I wouldn't have paid10 cent for it.
It's just, you know, like it'sjust about what I like.
I know that there are peoplelike that though that go in.
You know, even if it's just a,they bought it for a dollar and
(02:27):
they can sell it for two dollarsor they can sell it for three
dollars.
I mean, it's just sometimes yourun across that, but a lot of
times you run across someone whohas a dollar card.
They want to sell it for fivedollars dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's funny because and it's in the same household
that the two of you have totallydifferent views on what it's
like to be a card collector.
Right, you're doing it for thelove of the collecting of the
card, like you like.
It's like.
You know what I like this card.
I don't care how much it'sworth, you know.
If it's worth a dollar or tencents, you like it.
Your husband, on the other hand, is like no, I this, you know
(03:05):
I'm getting it because it'sworth this much.
And I'm sure he has in his vastcollection of cards, some very
nice, expensive cards.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, he was actually given a Michael Jordan
autographed.
It was like a set of um, whatis it called?
It's like a relic.
So when you it was put alltogether in a frame, it it made
the the tar heel yeah logo andit has his autograph on it.
(03:39):
Um, I don't.
I wouldn't say he collects forthe value, but he's definitely
not one that's going to buy justany old card.
It has to be somebody hecollects or he's not going to do
it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
See, I'm afraid to get into card collecting.
I'm terrified because I knowwhat that will lead to.
You know what I mean.
You start small and all of asudden my wife is having me
sleep in my car because I gotway too much junk, you know.
So we're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it depends, Like who is your favorite player
, would you say.
Clemente, yeah well yeah, you'dbe in the car real fast.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So let me ask you this From the moment that you
started collecting to now, 2025,right how has, in your opinion,
the card collecting market, thewhole thing, how has it changed
for you?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's interesting to really sit back and think about
it, um, because, like, when Istarted, it felt like something
that was just very, very small,and even even back then it
wasn't small, but it for somereason like it just felt like it
was.
And then, you know, wheneverybody was at home kind of
(05:06):
did the same thing that I did,you know whether they were
collectors when they were kids,and then they kind of got back
into it because they werelooking for something to do.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It just exploded and it just grew from there
interesting, yeah, I think a lotmore on the internet now, so
I'm wondering if it was justalmost overnight.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It felt that way Seriously, I mean one day we
were buying whatever we wantedto out of Walmart or Target,
where they have all the cardsand stuff.
And then the next day youcouldn't find anything.
The shelves were completelyempty, and they stayed empty for
months.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's such a weird thing, right like you know, just
collecting overall, not justcard collecting, but like
anything, I'm like I'm, we havea mutual friend, patrick, you
know, larson.
You know, shout out to patricklarson, right like I mean my man
, you know, he has well, I guess, like probably well over 2 000
hats and we're talking aboutlike the fitted hats, and you're
(06:05):
like my man, you know, that'ssomething that good for him, you
know that is.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is so fair to say, because I I I sometimes
I'll re-watch his aviators videobecause it's just because you
know I'm from vegas.
So like, why don't I have 10Las Vegas Aviator hats?
Why does he have 10 Las VegasAviator?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
hats Because it's Patrick Larson.
I love that guy, love him MLBhat history.
You guys got to follow him.
He does a video every day Well,yeah, every week about a minor
league team that he has agazillion hats of.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Teams I've never heard of.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And I've heard of a lot of teams.
That's what I'm saying, likeI've been doing this for a while
now, right, and I know a lot ofminor league teams and I'm like
I had no idea that team hadthat.
Have you ever?
Have you ever?
You, you kind of said no, but Iwant to know.
It's like have you ever flippeda card for profit?
Or it's just just that you're,you're, you don't have that much
(07:03):
of that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You don't have that much of that.
Yeah, there were two reallythat come to mind that were a
profit Zion Williamson's rookiecard.
I bought it out of a $40 boxand I think I sold it for $1,200
(07:26):
maybe.
And then Trey Lance.
Same thing kind of with TreyLance, except for while it was
off getting graded he got hurt.
So it went from a like $1,500card to a $200 card.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It went from a $1,500 card to a $200 card.
Yikes yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But I mean it was still a profit because it was
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
This has always been something on my mind, especially
now that I've been seeing theworld of card collecting growing
.
When someone says, like theirrookie card is is worth like
this much, how many copies ofthe those rookie cards like?
Is it really just?
There's really only one rookiecard made, because there's
(08:16):
millions of packs sold.
So is it just millions of packswith oh, that's it, one rookie
card?
Good luck.
Whoever finds it finds it andthey make the money if they want
to sell it um no, so I meanthere's there's a good amount of
rookie cards out there.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Um, where the the money comes in and the rarity
comes in is when you have likethe prisms or their silvers or
you know it has like a shortprint where it's just slightly
different than the others.
That's where all the moneycomes in and like the rarity for
(08:57):
the rookie cards.
But people have strong feelingsabout the players and their
rookie cards strong feelingsabout the players and their
rookie cards.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So I don't know, it's just wild because it's like, oh
, you know, here's a, here's arookie card with a patch uh, you
know, from his jersey, and allthat and it's going for stupid
amount of money.
You know what I mean.
That like like how can you andagain, I just don't know right,
I'm not really involved in thatworld as much as you know other
ones are like like how do youwhat?
How do you determine the price,right?
(09:30):
Like I mean, because it's sucha arbitrary number really, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's what, what the collector is willing to pay for
it.
So with the schemes, it'swhoever the schemes collector is
out there that is willing topay the money for it.
That's how much it's.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
They kind of set the market and there was for the
schemes frenzy that just justoccurred.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
There was only one paul skein's rookie card out
there, printed right so thatthere was one of his um, I think
it was his debut patch orsomething but that card was a
one of one, so it had like oneof one written on it, I think.
I don't even think I looked atit up close outside of it you
(10:18):
know like oh okay, it's paulskeens, but schemes, but um so
it just it really depends.
So with that one there was onlythat one.
But I mean he's got a ton ofrookie cards out there, just the
in, like the different productsyeah, what are some tips for
(10:39):
like someone like me who's not?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'm not a card collector at all.
My brother is.
I said you know, um, but what,what's, what's your?
You know, your your tips forsomeone like me to get once, to
get started in in this hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So the main one and I think it's kind of um, the
advice that everybody givesacross the board is collect what
you like, find the thing thatyou like and stick with that.
Don't get caught up in the hypeof you know the new prospect or
because that can end so badly.
(11:20):
I mean, look at what happenedwith Wander Franco.
I mean it's yeah, yeah.
So you know people, people whocollected nothing but his cards
ended up with nothing yeah, um.
So collect what you like, that'sthe main one.
And um, don't dig yourself in ahole, you know, just have fun
(11:44):
with it.
Don't dig yourself in a hole,you know, just have fun with it.
Don't look at it as aninvestment.
It's a hobby.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And if you're not having fun, then it's no longer
a hobby.
I do, I do.
I got to say you know somethingthat you do.
That's super smart and I youknow.
I wish other people would dothe same, especially me as well.
When I'm buying hands, it'ssetting up a different account
Once it runs out.
It runs out, that's it.
I'm not buying anything until Ireplace these funds.
That's such a simple thing, andyet most of us don't follow
(12:19):
that rule.
Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I make jokes all the time and like people, people
joke and give my husband a hardtime about it because he's, um,
you know they're like, oh, shespends all the money.
She spends all you guys moneyon cards, and you know we make a
joke out of it.
But when I first started, Imean we were, we were spending a
(12:46):
lot on cards and it was likeyou don't, you don't even think
about it, because it's not likeyou're spending it all in one
lump sum.
It's not like a trip to thegrocery store, it's like
gradually over a month, and thenyou look back and you're like,
wait, where did all, where didall the money go?
So you go to one store.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You pick up a box here or a pack and then you go
to another store.
It's like let me pick them, letme just put one on that's how
it goes.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, I had to because I was like okay, this is
, you know, once it gets out ofcontrol, like I said, it's no
longer fun, it's no longer ahobby.
So I had to bring it back.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Do you remember that moment that you're like, oh, we
got to stop?
Because I know I remember themoment that I was like I got six
boxes here.
I probably should stop for awhile.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It wasn't like a specific moment, it was just
like we were, I think.
We were in a shop somewhere and, like the box that we were
looking at on the shelf the samebox that we had bought like six
months prior it had alreadylike almost tripled in value and
(14:04):
I was still like, well, I don'tsee what the problem is.
Like.
We bought this six months ago.
Why can't we buy it now?
My husband's looking at me like, uh, because we only paid $70
for it then and now it's, youknow, over $300 and I'm like,
yeah, well, I don't get it.
Yeah, and then it was kind oflike oh well, you know, maybe I
(14:24):
need to dial it back a littlebit Just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, I get that so dang well now.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I wish I was close to you, because now I'm curious to
know like you got her going.
You got her going you know what, like I forgot I had this box.
Okay, question question.
What does okay this charlesbarkley card right?
What does this 175 on the backmean?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's just.
Is it like a big number?
I can't.
Yeah, I think that's just anumber Like the number in the
set.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, that one is more like a.
That one looks like a base card, I think.
So there's a checklist andthat's just what number it is on
the checklist.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's interesting.
I've got a bunch of my favoritefootball team.
I'm a huge Denver.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Broncos fan.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
So I've got some.
I mean these are like I've gottwo Steve Atwater cards.
I know I'm I'm never going toget going to get rid of my
Denver Broncos cards, but likesome of this'm going to go
through.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'm right there.
I thought I had some on my desk, but I'm a Shannon Sharp
collector so I have tons ofBronco cards.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh my gosh, I love Shannon Sharp.
I'm about to leave theconversation.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Y'all can just keep going here now.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I did find his jersey from someone who I felt like
was under I.
I mean I bought it for $20.
I feel like it's worth way morethan that but you bought it for
$20.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's a good thing for you.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I mean, no, it's great for me, but I'm like this
thing should have been like$10,000 get out of here so yeah.
I wouldn't comment.
No, I'm definitely not a cardcollector.
I don't even remember havingthis box.
But I mean, yeah, I'm going tohave to go through it later now.
This conversation probably willcontinue offline.
(16:21):
My sixth thing that I'm goingto start collecting Right.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Listen, you tell your fans that it was not my fault.
This has nothing to do with me,so he cannot blame me for this
one.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
He might.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Or you Great.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Anytime I can add to the ranks of female card
collectors, I'm like, but it'sfun, we have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Bad influence.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
She's going to start Watch.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
She's going to be like maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I should think about this.
I'm not even kidding.
I remember I had this from whenI lived in Texas and then I
moved out here and then mypriorities changed.
I switched from cards to pins,I guess because I didn't start
collecting pins until I movedout here.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Just wait.
This is what's going to happen.
I can tell already she's goingto go to a sporting event this
conversation needed to happen.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We needed to find my girl.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Right, so that's what I'm saying.
Now you're going to be like I'mgoing to the ballpark.
Maybe I should pick up a cardset.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I've got an unopened pack here from 2008 to 2009.
So I'm going to.
I'm going to.
I don't know, I feel like youknow what you should do?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
a video on it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Would you open something like this, like you
don't open cards, old cards, youknow what?
Let me hold on Um settings.
Hold on Um.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I would, why not?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Is this better?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Would you?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
open something like this yeah, I'd have to look and
see.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Wait, that one says is that Derrick Rose right there
in the middle, top, middle,that is Derrick Rose.
Yeah, I mean, I'd open it, dude, you could probably have an
autographed card in there andyou don't even know it.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, you just have to look up the checklist for it,
cause I, off the top of my head, I can't think of anything
that's in it.
But it was.
It would still be fun eitherway.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, that influence right there.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
This is what we do I know, I know.
I know I get it, I understand.
So, um, okay, got a couple morequestions for you and then
we're going to go into myfavorites, not so famous
questions here.
So have you ever made a?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
trade that you regretted?
No, mostly just because, like,if I'm trading something with
somebody, it's normally becauseit's a card that they want and
that I know that they're goingto enjoy, because, I mean,
there's no point in having itsit in my collection if I'm not
(18:57):
enjoying it.
You know, I got you.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, I get it.
I can understand that.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
What is the one thing , or a couple of things, that
you wish people understood moreabout card collecting?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
For some reason, there's this narrative that the,
the card collector is just likeum, an older, middle-aged man,
and that's it, and that couldnot be further from the case.
I mean it's.
You know people of all ages.
Now there are a lot of, youknow, older men.
(19:32):
There are not a lot of women,but I mean it's, it's growing.
That's really the one.
The one big thing is just thisyou know, this idea of what a
card collector looks like so bigmisconception.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, now you're going to have another one,
another woman that's going tostart collecting, you know so
recollecting here we go.
Oh great, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Literally when we were having this conversation I
was like where is that box ofcards?
I know like I have it fromtexas.
So I was like for a minute Iwas like did I leave it in texas
?
But I was like no, I know, Ibrought it and I'm not even
kidding.
I moved out here and like justpriorities for me changed and
now I'm like god knew I neededto did your fiance find out for
(20:17):
you and then handed it to you Iwas like, hey, like, and we have
like a in, like anentertainment, you know like a
thing for the tv in the livingroom.
And I was like, can you checkone of the little doors and see
if my box of cards is in there?
And I don't know if you guysheard him open the door, but he
brought it and I know I've got abaseball, a few baseball boxes
and then a box from 94 duringthe baseball strike that's like
(20:41):
still not open and I don't knowif I want to open it.
So, it's probably worth somegood money down there.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I know, but I wouldn't call myself a collector
because I forgot I had all this.
You, just you, you.
You rekindled your love forcollecting.
Now, thanks to ashley yeah,this is a fun conversation
awesome, ashley.
Is there anything that wehaven't asked?
Uh, anything that you want tomention or anything like that.
As far as, like you know, know,because I, you know, I'll be
honest, you know there's onequestion.
(21:12):
Actually, when you go to likeyou say you go to the these
events, like, what's yourmindset, like, what's your
process of like, when you go tothese events to go look for card
?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I wish I could say that there was one.
It's just I walk in the doorand just make a beeline for like
the first box and then justwork my way around so there is a
process you just like yep,there it is.
Here I'm pointing at it, that'swhere I'm going yep, um, now
for, like, like my husband, he'smore the.
(21:46):
He said he's more of the socialbutterfly, so he wants to, you
know, stop and talk to peopleand that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, and I'm just sitting here beside him like
look, leave me alone I'm lookingyeah, I'm the other way around,
like I will talk to someonewould you say that this is like
your quickest way, like thestuff that's back here, this is
your quickest way to learn abouta player that you didn't really
know a lot about of.
When you find their card, orlike, like you take a look at
(22:18):
their stats in the back, you doadditional research, or is it
like, if it's a player that youdon't really care for, you just
do you read the back or do youjust, oh, it looks like a cool
card from the front and then youjust keep it?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
uh, it just depends.
Mostly, it's just looking atthe card from the front, cause,
like you know, a lot of theplayers are like the players
that we already know about.
So like all of the players thatI collect a lot of their
careers are.
They're done, you know, yeah,so you kind of kind of have an
idea of that sort of thing.
(22:50):
But I mean, there are peoplewho do read every single thing
on the back.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
My attention span just isn't there for it.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I feel it.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Like.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I don't know if I could just sit there and just be
like you know.
Just yeah, I'm more of a likeyou know, teach you and then
I'll I'll retain that, you know,we'll go from there.
So all right, all right, ashley, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right.
So the first question isactually you know what?
We never asked this question?
What your?
What are your favorite teams?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay.
So um for baseball, it's thebraves, um for basketball, it's
uh, the books, and for football,it's the 49ers okay okay, you
are.
You went all over the countryyeah, all over the place like so
(23:48):
.
Growing up like i't, I didn'tgrow up in a sports household.
My dad watched two sports, andthat was college football and
NASCAR.
He never cut anything else onwho to collect.
It was just kind of like, ohwell, I kind of really like this
(24:15):
thing I saw about this playerWith Giannis on the books.
It was like a video.
I saw him doing wrestling moveson their mascot.
I was like, okay, I'll pick himyou.
Yeah, I'm going to collect yourstuff now and then like with
you know, except for withbaseball, Cause I mean, it's
(24:36):
just you know where we live at,it's just that's who he is Right
here, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Closer to where I'm at, it's either Braves or
Nationals there is no in betweenwhich you know.
When they, when my team isCleveland, when Cleveland plays
one of those teams, I'm blackedout in this area, which is so
much fun.
Yeah, so all right.
So you're going to the ballparkwhere you and your family go
(25:02):
into the ballpark, right, youguys are hanging out what?
And then you're about to go getyour food, right, the
concessions, what is your?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
food and your drink of choice.
Uh see, that's a little tough,cause we have um four kids
between the ages of three and 15.
So, um, it's whatever is goingto be like, the easiest to hold
on to Like whatever's going tobe the easiest to carry four of.
(25:32):
Mostly it's just one of thosebig fountain Cokes and nachos.
I love nachos.
I could eat nachos forbreakfast, lunch and dinner.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Jalapenos on it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
There you go.
You've got to have jalapenos onnachos.
Come on now.
What was?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
your first job.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
There you go All the time.
You got to have jalapenos onnachos.
I mean, come on now.
So all right, what was yourfirst job?
Working at Subway oh my God, Iworked at Subway.
I managed to Subway.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yep Worked at Subway after school.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
My dad hated it because I'd come home smelling
like onions every day.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
For the longest time I could not eat Subway because I
worked there and I justcouldn't do it.
I'm easing my way.
You know my wife the other daywe're actually having this
conversation my wife's like.
I know you don't like Subway,but can we go to Subway you?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
know I was like I guess.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So I get it Cake or pie.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's a tough one.
I got to go pie.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I asked this question even though it was like what
was the last song that youlistened to?
Usually it's downloaded, but dowe download songs anymore?
So what's the last song youlistened to?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm trying to think because I just listened like a
couple of hours ago Like a StoneAudio Slave, I think is what it
was, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Strangest things you've ever eaten.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know.
See that that that question iskind of tough because like to me
it's not strange, but to likeother people it might be what's
the strangest things to you?
Oh, um, maybe alligator orraccoon.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I've had alligator.
Yeah, I've had alligator.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I've had alligator bites.
Yeah, actually not bad, notgoing to lie.
Yeah, if you were to get a boat, what would you name it?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
A boat?
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
This one stumps everybody all the time yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's tough because both me and my daughter get very
, very, very, very motion sick.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So no boat for you.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, no, but you wouldn't be able to read this
out of it because it would justbe covered.
Oh no, yeah, it would just notbe good.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It would be a horror show.
No, got it A couple more.
First celebrity crush.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Harrison Ford.
It's still Harrison FordBetween Indiana Jones and Han
Solo.
It's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You know what?
That is not a bad one.
I mean, it's Han Solo, forGod's sakes.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Alright, what was your favorite Halloween costume?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Honestly, I think it was like it was recently, a
couple of years ago me, myhusband and my son, my youngest
son we dressed up as um thecharacters from Bob's burgers.
So I was Linda, he was Bob andmy son was Louise, that's cool,
that's cool, that was good.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Two more questions.
In your opinion, what is?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
the most boring sport .
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Golf Everyone, you and me, right there.
If I want to take a nap, let'sput some golf on, although, like
I said, I've been saying this,I've been talking to this to my
couple of my friends the golfleague, that digital one with uh
, with uh, tiger woods, that'sactually not bad.
I would actually get into that.
That's not that bad, all right.
(29:27):
Last but not least, what isyour spirit animal?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Hmm, an octopus, ever since I saw the thing about
they.
Just sometimes they just go upand like punch fish, just for
the heck of it.
I was like.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I like that.
I was like you know what, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
They just go up and punch them out of spite for no
reason, just because that'sfunny.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That makes sense.
That's funny.
I like that.
Ashley, thank you so much fordoing this.
We had a blast, we learned alot.
Obviously you educated us.
And then someone is nowrekindling her love for card
collecting again.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
So you might have a friend in the collecting world
here pretty soon, so Icompletely forgot about I can't.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We're bad influences on each other.
To see how that goes, where canpeople find you on socials?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Just that, a junk wax queen on Twitter.
I kind of avoid the otherscause it's it's a lot to manage.
I don't know how anybody, Idon't know how y'all do it.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You're talking to two people that here that have
burials.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
social media yeah, no I know, I was, I, you know like
I scouted them out earlier andI was like how do they do it,
how do they all of them?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Oh, trust me, I know I literally have to like post
things like at certain times ofthe day, schedule them and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It's tons of fun.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Make sure you guys are following her.
I will put the link so that wayyou guys are able to follow her
.
Make sure you guys arefollowing City of Food Girl.
As well as the Data Chronicles.
We are on all socials.
Kind of Make sure you guyscatch us on YouTube.
Have you fixed your YouTubechannel?
Are you up to us on YouTube?
Have you fixed your YouTubechannel Like?
Are you up to date on YouTube?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So I would definitely say in order.
Instagram TikTok ThreadsYouTube there you go.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
There you go.
For me it would be YouTube,Instagram, Threads, Twitter.
So there you go.
And then again one more time.
Make sure you guys, 9 o'clockEastern time, Tuesdays and
Thursdays, the dad had chroniclesports show.
We'll talk all sports.
You know, maybe some trivia, uh, maybe some conspiracy theories
, but I don't know.
Bring your tinfoil hat and thenwe'll see what happens.
(31:42):
We will see you guys on thenext episode.
Thank you.
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