Category: Got ‘Em! Need ‘Em!

In Episode 3 of Got ‘Em! Need ‘Em! we discussed all things traded.

Season 3, Episode 3

Broadcast Date: March 16, 2012

Time: 18 minutes 52 seconds

Topics: 

• Why I like Upper Deck Series 1 and 2
• How we “updated” cards as kids when players were traded
• Traded sets
• OPC, Victory and MVP update cards inserted in UD Series 2
• Some of the worst photo retouching done by Topps, O-Pee-Chee and Upper Deck

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for the audio clip.

Hopefully, I should be appearing on The War Room every other week now. Here is the audio from last week’s “Got Em! Need ‘Em!” segment.

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Season 3, Episode 2

Broadcast Date: February 23, 2012

Time: 15 minutes 30 seconds

Topics:

• My lack of enthusiasm for this year’s Panini sets
• Purchasing whole sets vs. buying packs
• Georges Laraque’s protest of the Enforcers set
• National Hockey Card Day 2012
• 1960-61 Topps Hockey cards
• Geeking out on team-issued postcards and regional sets
• Card shows in Canada vs. card shows in the U.S.
  

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for the audio clip.

Up until this week, I haven’t been on XM Radio’s The War Room since December. Now things are back on track, and I hope to make semi-regular appearances on the talk show in 2012. Below is the audio for Season 3, Episode 1 of “Got ‘Em! Need ‘Em!”.

Got ‘Em! Need ‘Em!

Season 3, Episode 1

Broadcast Date: December 7, 2011

Time: 20 minutes and 4 seconds.

Topics:

• Writing for The Hockey News
• 2011-12 O-Pee-Chee hockey set
• Upper Deck’s new policy regarding online retailers
• 2011-12 Parkhurst Champions set
• The single biggest card purchase I ever made
  

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for the audio clip.

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Season 2, Episode 19

Broadcast Date: June 22, 2011

Time: 20 minutes–the longest-ever segment of “Got ‘Em! Need ‘Em!”

Topics: 

• Boston Bruins Stanley Cup boxed set (0:01 to 3:30 )
• Trophy / season highlight cards (3:31 to 5:29 )
• Graded cards (5:30 to16:29)
• The Gretzky RC photo (16:30 to 17:35)
• The National Sports Collectors’ Convention
  (17:36 to 20:00)

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for the audio clip.

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Season 2, Episode 18

Broadcast Date: May 17, 2011

Time: 16 minutes 42 seconds

Topics: 

• ITG’s Decades: 1980s (0:01 to 2:38)
• Score’s All Goalies boxed set (2:39 to 3:52)
• 2010-11 Panini Dominion (3:53 to 6:24)
• 2010-11 Pinnacle, insert cards and back to Pinnacle (6:25 to 16:42)

We also discuss Shiny Crap, the original name of Canada and the Norris House League.

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for the audio clip.

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Season 2, Episode 17

Broadcast Date: May 3, 2011

Time: 17 minutes 27 seconds

Topics: 

• The Blackhawks’ playoff elimination (0:01 to 0:32)
• Score Rookie and Traded set (0:33 to 4:02)
• The 1988-89 Topps and O-Pee-Chee sets (4:03 to12:49)
• The $94,000 Gretzky Rookie (12:50 to 17:27)

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for the audio clip.

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any of these, but I finally got my hands on my last 4 appearances on XM Radio’s “The War Room.” So, for your listening pleasure…

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Season 2, Episode 16

Broadcast Date: April 9, 2011

Time: 16 minutes 22 seconds

Topic: Mick Kern and I discuss the long-term effects of the 1990-91 boom in hockey cards. (Our first conversation about this topic happened way back in October 2010.)

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Thanks to Mick Kern and XM Radio for providing me with the audio clip.