From Plastic Slabs to Fine Art: How M1nt is Revolutionizing Trading Cards | Brian Pirrip

What this episode is about

The discussion centers around the evolving landscape of trading cards as a hobby, emphasizing the need to rediscover the enjoyment of collecting rather than focusing solely on monetary value. Brian Pirrip of M1nt introduces innovative approaches that aim to enhance the appeal and presentation of trading cards, challenging the conventional norms within the collector community.

Key takeaways

• Collecting is a hobby, not a judging competition—fun should trump fanaticism in the pursuit of cards.
• Innovative displays can elevate card collecting from mere transactions to appreciating art—it's jewelry for dudes!
• Why should a $40 million card live in the same plastic as a $1 card? Elevate the dignity of collections.
• Collectors now experience 'a sight to behold'—sometimes it's the case, not just the card, that captivates.
• With innovation comes disruption; it's time to rethink what card collecting can be—a vibrant, artistic experience.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Ryan Alfred (Host) · 10 min speaking
• Brian Pirrip (Guest) · 15 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Collector Nation, Collector Nation Podcast, Brian Pup, Mint G1
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Mint G1, NFC tag
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Amazon, Mint Hobby Cases, Golden Ticket
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Trade Oak, Beckett
5. 20:00 – 24:25: Collector Nation, Grand Slam Sports Cards

Notable quotes from "From Plastic Slabs to Fine Art: How M1nt is Revolutionizing Trading Cards | Brian Pirrip"

• Welcome to the Collector Nation podcast on the Radcast Network. From Chasing Grails to calling Bluffs, we're going inside the hobby.

  about Collector Nation · at 0:16

• His name is Brian Pup. Yeah, he rips.

  about Brian Pup · at 1:30

• And so this is a this is a piece of art. It's giving cards the dignity they deserve because why is a $40 million Mickey Manel PSA10 in the same 99 cent of plastic piece that a $1 card is?

  about Mint G1 · at 2:49

• This AI blockchain company and we started working together on putting the chip on the inside. And so every single one of our Mint G1 cases has a the most sophisticated NFC tag…

  about NFC tag · at 8:05

• We'd already launched the company 6 months before very quietly and we realized that it would be unfair to create all this content and just have a very high-end expensive product as the only option. And we realized, you know,.

  about Mint Hobby Cases · at 11:48

• Sudden, we had Walmart reaching out and saying, We want to partner with you on this. And we ended up doing it with Amazon. We ended up shipping these all across the world this…

  about Amazon · at 12:36

• About this. We do quests with these where every number certain number of hobby cases that we ship, we put a golden ticket inside the case and it's redeemable. Some guy that we…

  about Golden Ticket · at 13:36

• And, a card shop called Trade Oak and, the guy that owns the spot, he's just he made it fun. He's got like a bunch of games, like a air hockey table kind of plays with, basketball hoop shooting. And he's.

  about Trade Oak · at 18:52

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Brian Pup — Person · Main guest · 1 mention · first at 1:30
  Founder of Mint and the primary interview subject, explaining his premium card cases/displays, anti-counterfeit tech, and retail distribution strategy.

Companies & orgs

• Mint — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions
  The company founded by Brian Pup, specializing in high-end display cases for collectible cards.
  Shakes up your life and you have a chance to do something different and I'm like I'm going to be the guy. I'm going to go out and hire material engineers, industrial designers…
• Collector Nation — Company · Podcast network · 3 mentions · first at 0:16
  The podcast network hosting the show where the discussion about Mint and its products takes place.
• Amazon — Company · Retail partner · 2 mentions · first at 12:39
  Retail partner for Mint's hobby cases, mentioned as a top seller on their platform.
• Trade Oak — Company · Card shop · 1 mention · first at 18:52
  A card shop mentioned as an example of a fun and community-focused hobby shop.
• Grand Slam Sports Cards — Company · Card shop · 1 mention · first at 22:18
  A card shop mentioned as a location for an upcoming event with Brian Pup.
  We hope to have people meet up with us at card shops. In fact, I'm going to be in Nashville Tennessee at Grand Slam Sports Cards which is one of the great card shops in the…
• Beckett — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

• Mint G1 — Product · Primary product · 3 mentions · first at 2:23
  High-end display case for collectible cards, featuring steel and glass construction with UV protection and blockchain integration.
• Mint Hobby Cases — Product · Secondary product · 1 mention · first at 12:12
  More affordable display cases for raw cards, designed to be accessible to a wider audience.
• NFC tag — Product · Tech component · 1 mention · first at 8:17
  Technology integrated into Mint G1 cases for blockchain-based ownership tracking and additional features.

Concepts & topics

• Beckett — Concept · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 18:33
  Mentioned as a reference for tracking the value of collectible cards.
  I always have. when I was a kid, I was tracking on the Becket the ups and downs of my Kevin Moss card, you know. see if I, I could retire after my Kevin Ma cards.

Media & podcasts

• Collector Nation Podcast — Media · Broadcast · 2 mentions · first at 0:16
  The podcast where the discussion about Mint and its products takes place.
  Hello and welcome to Collector Nation here on the Collector Nation podcast network. I hope everyone is doing well wherever, whenever, however you're listening. We really appreciate it. You.

Sponsors

• Golden Ticket — Product · Promotional item · 1 mention · first at 13:41
  Promotional item included in Mint Hobby Cases, redeemable for high-value collectible cards.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 It's amazing how many people have forgotten that this actually is a hobby or that it's fun. And uh people that just become so obsessed over judging other people on how they collect or you're doing it wrong, we're doing it right or the value of the the card is the entire purpose of being in.

0:16 Welcome to the Collector Nation podcast on the Radcast Network. From Chasing Grails to calling Bluffs, we're going inside the hobby. Are you ready to collect? Let's get at it. Here's your host, Ryan Alfred.

0:33 Hello and welcome to Collector Nation here on the Collector Nation podcast network. I hope everyone is doing well wherever, whenever, however you're listening. We really appreciate it. You know, you got options. But I saw that we were number seven in all of sports on Apple podcast rankings. We're right up there with the Kelsey brothers. We're coming for you, Trav. You know, I don't care if you're retiring or not, but ultimately we're here to talk some cards today. How we make them sexy and cool displaying them. That's what I'm talking about. I was at the national and met this guy and I'm like, "Call my Mike Baker who does NBA grading was, you know, had him over. They were they were talking and I'm I remember meeting him and I was like with my boys and I go and things like that that grab you know I'm an innovator and like I think I'm coming into the space at the right time and I was like what is that?

1:29 Well, he's going to tell us what it is. His name is Brian Pup. Yeah, he rips. Brian Rips. He's the founder of Mint. I I walk around, you know, the nationals like, you know, a fire hose, you know, of like wonderfulness and also just like overwhelming as you know, like everything going on

1:46 always overwhelming and it's just somewhat a sea of sameness and that's kind of a little bit like the hobby is like okay, you know, like PSA still grading stuff and there's this going on like and that's why I like Mike. Mike Baker's doing something different,

2:00 you know, head grader but bring some innovation to it, bringing some transparency to it. I love it. I gravitated to Mike. and had him on the show. And then I saw what was the most beautiful case I'd ever seen for how a card should look. I was like, "Man, these things are pieces of art. We should treat it that way." And sure enough, damn, you guys are doing it, man.

2:19 I remember the moment we met you because we had just given Mike Baker a Babe Ruth card it put into one of our Mint G1 cases and it was fun to see his reaction cuz the reaction is always the same. like it's these uh insane cases made out of steel and glass and you think, "Oh, it's just, you know, it's another slab. It's like rare edition." It's nothing like rare edition. It's actually everyone's reaction is always the same. It's like, "Oh, that's really heavy. It's cold. It has a a real heft. It feels like jewelry for dudes, you know?

2:49 Uh and so this is a this is a piece of art. It's giving cards the dignity they deserve because why is a $40 million Mickey Manel PSA10 in the same 99 cent of plastic uh piece that a $1 card is? And so that's that's really why I started Mint and why, you know, I got a chance to meet you at the National and walking around all these uh you know people that you're right, there's a lot of sameness. It was one of those things that every year for the next like 15 or 10 years I would just Google is somebody making a better display or a better case and it never happened and you know co comes along and boom all of a sudden it shakes up your life and you have a chance to do something different and I'm like I'm going to be the guy. I'm going to go out and hire material engineers, industrial designers, mechanical engineers and do whatever it takes to make cases and displays that I would actually buy myself and that I would

3:42 display in my home. You really can't get a a feel for what this thing is until you hold it. Like you said, cold brick. It is a It is a a sight to behold. It's something. It's a sight. It's a

3:55 It's really a [clears throat] to hold to behold and hold, literally. Yeah, it it really is. I mean, every single person that's held this uh it always is shocking to them. And and that was it. I built this for myself at the end of the day. I I I thought if nobody ever uses these, I'm still going to have them in my own home. And also I I did things like, you know, I added like the most hardcore UV protection in the world. Like we hired special material engineers just to do the UV protection of these. And so now I can spill them.

4:28 I've had them in the sunlight the whole year just to be able to test and prove that autographs don't fade, you know. And so I've uh I've kind of fallen on my own sword to make sure that we're, you know, developing products that are actually legit. But uh but it's the kind of thing that like every time I've I I like I actually uh it's kind of funny. I went to Derek Jeter's Golf International a while ago and I brought a couple cases and I I met up with Ken Griffy Jr. and I was showing him a couple two different Brian. That's my favorite. That's it.

4:59 Oh man, this is Isn't this beautiful? That's stunning. Right. And it's got the Mike Mike Baker logo and grade on the side. So, uh, but, uh, so these are all, you know, they're graded cards and they can also be, uh, raw, uh, cards as well. So, we do both, but, uh, I ended up taking a couple cases and I had made one that had mariners colors on it with kind of a gold outline, uh, using kind of a gold bezel like this one.

5:22 Oh. And, uh, and I took it to Ken Griffy and I and I was showing it to him and he he took one of them, put it in his pocket. He's like, "This is mine. I'm taking this now." And uh and what was funny about that is uh no I also showed him our wall display like uh we've been doing a bit with Ken over the last few years but uh he ended up um saying you know Brian I've had my own card. I have like 10,000 of these like sitting in a box in my house and you know and he goes but I've never liked the card as much because I don't like the display and I don't like the pieces of plastic. He goes, "You finally made a case that actually makes my card look like fine art." And I told him, and this was one of my points of pride in life, is I said, "You know, Ken, the card that you actually selected uh out of the two that I had brought, I actually pulled that card when I was a kid." And uh and so we encapsulated the card I pulled as

6:15 a kid, and now Ken Griffy Jr. has uh his favorite version of this card is the one I pulled when I was a kid that's in one of the Mint G1 cases.

6:23 So, look, you know, I don't get I'm not a jealous guy, Brian. Like I mean I'm just not I'm more of I'm more of a kind of like uh there's so much to go around. There's like I never really get jealous of things or people or whatever. There's plenty of money to be made. There's plenty of you know if you're single girls to be had. There's like I'm just not a jealous guy. But I'm jealous of that.

6:43 That is cool cuz that's my card. That was the chaser man. That was me growing up. One of the things that also that we haven't really revealed about this, we've only talked about it briefly on on any of our content, like we've been teasing these for a long time. Yeah. And part of the reason why we've teased them for a long time is once we built them, uh like we had a working prototype 2 years ago,

7:04 but when I held it in my hand, I was like, this this isn't it. It's not even though it had all the mechanical engineering correct and it was secure and fully counterfeit proof, like these completely kill counterfeiting. You cannot counterfeit these cases. In fact, we're probably going to do some contests where we say if you can counterfeit one, we'll give you like $5 million or something like that just to kind of prove the point.

7:24 But like uh but when I held it, I was like it wasn't special enough for me. And so we spent a whole other year of industrial design to be able to create this very specialized glass that uh actually amplifies the card. Like the colors on the card are actually brighter than if you actually held the card right in front of your face. It actually shows the details of the card a lot stronger. And then we were, you know, we had finished that and we made that perfect. And then I met a a gentleman who um we we knew there needed to be a tech component to this uh cuz there's space on the inside. And I wanted to make it so that it was more than just a a case.

8:02 And so I met a gentleman who uh runs this uh uh AI blockchain company and we started working together on uh putting the chip on the inside. And so every single one of our Mint G1 cases has a uh the most sophisticated uh NFC tag currently in in the market. And so what you do when you're getting one of these cases is you're not just getting the case, you're also able to store all the details, the provenence on the blockchain and where you know like you can hover your phone over the case and know who owns it. So we're killing theft. So, somebody cannot go and steal this because if you're trying to sell one of these out in the open at a card show or wherever and somebody just hovers their phone over, they know who the owner is and it's immutable. You cannot change it unless there's an ownership transfer. And so, we're doing things like full blockchain integration.

8:56 We're doing um uh things like where you scan over the phone and you can watch highlights of the player. You can see a cameo of the of the player talking to you. How cool would it be if you like pulled a Griffy card and Griffy himself uh on the on your phone is saying, "Hey, congratulations. You pulled my whatever, you know, rookie card and uh you know, let me tell you a little bit about it." So, we're integrating a lot of tech into this. So, it's more than just a case. It's entirely secure, totally counterfeit proof, um impossible to to steal without uh having to do things on the black market. And uh and then there's a lot of fun gamification and things. So, like what you're saying about apps, it's kind of like the, you know, sky's is the limit. It's essentially it's in every way possible.

9:41 It's a true NFT of a fidget of of a physical and digital tokenization, which has never been done before. So, I'm glad we're doing some really sick stuff.

9:50 Yeah, that's that was it was like one thing to behold and to hold and to all of the beauty that it did. I mean, it's the only case that really I've ever gone was additive to the card. like it's always like subtracting from the card or at best like a necessary evil and that case is adding you know to the value because of how of its beauty its

10:16 heft and then the digital component was always what fascinated me and I'm glad you got into that. Talk to me about these other you got other things going on. You talked about collaborations with Walmart and other retailers so you've obviously got other things happening. Talk talk to me there.

10:31 Yeah. Yeah. We um uh bec you know a lot of my content that I've been making over the last 5 years has been very you know salt of the earth man of the people like I go around the country to card shop to card shop. Uh initially like I wanted to get market testing of everything I was doing. I wanted to get to know people across the country and what everyone was thinking about the hobby. So, like my chief of staff and I, we went on like a four-month road trip where we during COVID where we drove from Los Angeles to Key West up to New York all, you know, under the guise of finding a Jeter rookie card out of a box. And we documented it in high resolution like we drone shots like we went hardcore like we used cuz my background is all entertainment. And so, uh, and my chief of staff was my, you know, my original location scout on my first TV show, you know, 15 years ago. And so we're cruising across the country, drones,

11:23 high-res uh footage. We're ripping packs at like uh a Zezy Top concert at in Nashville at the Grand Old Opry. We're doing it at the bayou in New Orleans. We were uh you know, scuba diving off Key West. Always, you know, ripping packs everywhere we were going to find Jeter's rookie card and Trout's rookie card. And uh and what we discovered is, you know, we were prepping for making these G1s. We were starting the process already. We'd already launched the company 6 months before very quietly and we realized that it would be unfair to create all this content and just have a very high-end expensive product as the only option. And we realized, you know, we wanted to have something that anyone uh could afford, at least one. And so we ended up uh taking the same form factor and built these uh cases that we call mint hobby cases, which are meant uh for raw cards. and they're a much nicer way to display cards than any other option

12:20 that's out there. And it's very secure. You can't like shake your card around and, you know, have the the inside falling out. There's like eight different magnets that hold it in there. But these are beautiful. And we ended up uh launching these this year early in the year and uh to great claim. All of a sudden, we had Walmart reaching out and saying, "We want to partner with you on this." And we ended up doing it with Amazon. We ended up uh um you know, shipping these all across the world this year. And now we have like an a 4.95 rating on Amazon and Walmart. We were told by both companies that we're the number one seller of of any product on the collectibles uh section like the number one top seller on both platforms.

13:00 In fact on Amazon we were one of their top uh sellers just in the whole of Amazon. And so these are like very unique products that uh you know we decided instead of just you know making another one-touch or making something a little bit thicker have we wanted to re-engineer the entire experience and so we added a bunch of magnets. We recessed uh the insert acrylic past the bezel so that you're not scratching your acrylic on tables anymore and having a bunch of scratches so it keeps your card scratch free. We made it so that you could ship these and you're not going to have your card with all sorts of dents and dings when it arrives. You know what's kind of fun is that uh a lot of people know about this. We we do quests with these where um every number certain number of hobby cases that we ship, we put a golden ticket inside the case and it's redeemable. Some guy uh that we in Cleveland found one of our golden

13:50 tickets. It got redeemed for a $15,000 Griffy uh Mantel dual autograph. You know, that card from 1994 that everybody wants because he found a golden ticket in one of our cases. And we're doing that with all the hobby shops, too. And so we inserted these these golden tickets like Willy Wonka and cuz you know love the movie when I was a kid and I thought it would be more fun. Like who wants to just buy a supply? It's boring. And so I thought it'd be a lot more fun if we put cards in there. And I threw actually most the autographs of my whole collection you know all the Bowman Chrome ones that you just you know have sitting in the you know in a box somewhere. And I put all those ones in.

14:26 We put in you know a lot of special cards. A few like $1,000 cards. We spread them out shipped them out. But these guys that are finding these these, you know, 5,000 $10,000 uh dollar cards as golden tickets, it's made the whole experience a lot more fun for everyone.

14:41 Hey, as a lifelong marketer, surprise and delight. It works every time. Surprise and delight.

14:48 That's what that is. I love it, man. It's only perfect when it's only mint. I'm thinking of taglines for you already, man. That's the way my brain works, dude. It's I love it, man. It's like there's a play on words there somewhere. Uh because of like the additive nature to this of the cards and the experience. It's it's it's sorely needed. That's why I was so pumped to have you on the show and seeing what you're doing. Like this is the stuff that's kind of like Yes. Like all right, how do we take these things a little further? So you're going to get a kick out of this. Yeah.

15:23 My store um let's just say I was painting gold yesterday and I'll tell you why. Uh, I'm going to have the first drivethru in trading card hobby shop history.

15:37 What? I have a drive-thru that I painted old yesterday. Like literally, I have this

15:42 I bought this old building that had it was a dry cleaners at one time and it has like it actually has a mid-century modern kind of look and I've remodeled it and it has an a little like offshoot aluminum and it's actually done well. It's got glass and aluminum and it offshoots because it was the pickup window and I'm turning it into the collector station express lane and it's gold. I painted gold inside and out the little booth. It is solid gold. Needs

16:10 to be in gold and it had to be gold. It needs to be solid gold. And so from the street now you see the gold side of our building. Just that one spot and it's the express lane. It's the only drive-thru that I could find is going to exist in the hobby. So, uh,

16:23 please tell me you're going to also sell like, you know, you can get a McFlurry or some, uh, you know, some coffee at the same time. You know,

16:30 you know, coffee and cards or energy drinks. You know, I'm an energy drink guy. But, uh,

16:34 yeah. I was so sad when I walked into a shop called Cards and Coffee and I walked in and I said, "Where's the uh where's the coffee?" And uh, and they're like, "No, we only do cards. It's part of the name." And I was like, "That doesn't make sense.

16:45 That doesn't make any sense. I also have a pack bar. I have a bar that's literally a pack bar. So, uh, I got the pack bar and the drive-through window. Innovating.

16:55 So, uh, I love it. Yeah. See, no, I I very much want to see your golden drive-thru. That's, uh, that's innovation right there. That's going to be a lot of fun to pull up. Uh,

17:04 yes. I'm looking forward to pulling up the marketing of the store that gets used once a month. Any of it does, it's just market, you know. Well, you know, after going to like me and my uh my guy Sam, we've been to probably three or 400 card shops over the last four years or 5 years. I don't know how many we've been to. It's just uh and we don't always post from every card shop we go to because some of them are just terrible. Just truly terrible. And I don't want to do the porti thing of like rating them uh on the spot. I want to kind of remain in more of the positive space and talk about the the nice things about each one we film at.

17:39 Um, and and it's amazing how little innovation there is. Um, it's it's shocking. Even the ones that think they're innovating aren't innovating. Uh, there's only a few that I've ever seen where I'm like, "Okay, this you guys are doing it right."

17:52 Um, and uh, it's it's pretty rare. And so, I love the ones that have, you know, uh, other things special about the card shop rather than just, oh, we sell cards, you know, 50% 30%. It's a hobby. It's fun. It's entertainment. Like you got to lean.

18:09 People forget about that. Yeah. It's amazing how many people have forgotten that this actually is a hobby or that it's fun, you know, and uh people that just become so obsessed over, you know, uh you know, judging other people on how they collect or you're doing it wrong, we're doing it right or the value of the the card is the entire purpose of being in. And I I get it. I get the financial side of it. I I always have. I mean, when I was a kid, I was tracking on the Becket the ups and downs of my Kevin Moss card, you know. see if I, you know, I could retire after my Kevin Ma cards went through the roof, you know. But, uh, you know, I think people sometimes forget it's fun, you know. So, like I went to a card shop in Chicago a couple weeks ago or maybe a couple months ago, jeez.

18:52 And, uh, a card shop called Trade Oak and, uh, the guy that owns the spot, he's just he made it fun. He's got like uh a bunch of games, you know, like a air hockey table kind of plays with, you know, basketball hoop shooting. And he's got a little win wheel that you can spin and win prizes. He hosts a lot of kid events there. And what he's doing is he's built like a community. And so all the community, they they show up not just because there's cards there, but because they all have a lot of fun there and the owner actually cares about cards, actually loves it still. You know, I've been into some card shops where you can tell that the owner just doesn't care at all about cards anymore.

19:28 Some of them don't even never collected and don't know anything about the cards. Yeah. And so uh

19:34 uh you know there's there's guys that do it right and guys that don't. And uh one of these days we talked about making a coffee table book of all the card shops we've been to over the last 5 years and just being like here's our top you know the top uh

19:45 you got to visit collector station before you before you officially put that book together to see if we make the cut and uh you can be

19:52 absolutely it's matter of time Ryan. So, what's uh as we wrap up here, Brian, what um what's the next 6 12 months? I mean, it's the year of the case, man. It's the year of the G1, but what else we got?

20:05 Where are we going to be at? What's going to be going on? And how can everybody follow along?

20:11 Well, uh what I have going on is I'm going to be doing a lot with players this year. That's another thing. We're going to be filming a lot with players. Um, uh, one of my favorite things I've done over the last several years is ripping packs with major league players or veterans and getting them to find their own cards. And so I'm going to be doing a ton of player ripping with players and kind of cruising around the country. The goal is to like eat food, uh, incredible food across the country, rip packs with players, um, and visit card shops, go to card shows, and just kind of, um, you know, cruise around.

20:44 I'm going to be spend more time on the road even though you know uh you know nice thing is I just got engaged to my director of marketing and so I'm going to be taking her with me and uh we're going to travel the country with our you know chief of staff and our uh social media uh team and go city to city across the country while we socialize our products and go have a lot of fun ripping packs of players. That's kind of the goal for the year.

21:06 Hey man, where can everybody where the socials, the website, all that stuff for keeping up with everything?

21:12 Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Uh the the website for our company is Mintverse. That's M1 NT. See, it's Mint is that's a one, not an I. Uh it turns out there's also a nightclub in Shanghai, China. It's called Mint. So that's our uh but which is kind of funny. I'll have to take the whole team out there sometime [clears throat] and go to the nightclub there, take some photos. Uh but it's mintverse.com. M1 NAV rs.com. That's our our company's website where people can learn about, you know, the wall display or the cases. But uh all of my channels are they're all at Brian Purup. So whether you're on uh Facebook or Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok, Tik Tok's actually my main platform uh by a mile.

21:51 Um we ran Tik Tok for a couple years before we did placement on anything else. And so uh Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. It's all Brian Purup. V R I A N P I R I P. A little palrum there. And uh uh so yeah, we'd love to uh you know, meet more people as we go along. Every time I go to a city across the country, I'm going to tell people ahead of time uh this year. And we hope to have people meet up with us at card shops. In fact, I'm going to be in Nashville uh Tennessee uh at Grand Slam Sports Cards uh which is one of the great card shops in the country on uh on the 21st of January. I don't know when the show's going to air, but uh uh

22:32 probably after that. But uh but we hope to meet people as we go around the country. So like when we come to your shop, Ryan, we'll tell people in advance and get as many of our followers to come and support you and your card shop as we can.

22:43 I love it, brother. And uh I really really do respect and love what you guys are doing. I mean, it's much needed in the hobby and the way you're going about it is the right way with modern content and positivity, but innovation. And uh I'm here to support it anyway. Any way I can brother. Thank you so much. Well, send me your your the card you want. Was it a Caleb Williams? Whatever it is.

23:08 Yeah, I got a Caleb. It's already I got Michael Mike Baker has already graded it. So, that might be a good one just to, you know, be able to get it since he's already, you know, done. That might be an easy one. And I think it' be beautiful.

23:21 Send it my way. Yeah. And we'll uh I'll send that back to you ASAP. And I think you're going to love having that uh case in your hand, man.

23:28 I will. Hey guys, you know where to find us. thecollectornation.com. You'll find the full episode, highlight clips, links to all of Brian's info, and of course, Mint1. You've got it, the link there, everything. You got to follow this guy, all the content they're doing. It's fun. It's professional. This guy's a pro and you'll see it. And man, innovation is needed in the hobby. That's why we're here to bring it to you, cuz we got guys like this changing the game. We'll see you next time on Collector Nation. Thank you.

24:02 Thanks for tuning in to the show. Don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast platform and don't miss the full video version on YouTube. You can find us at collectornation.com or follow Ryan on Instagram at ryanalford. Now get out there and collect yours.

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Ryan Alfred (Host), Brian Pirrip (Guest).

What is "From Plastic Slabs to Fine Art: How M1nt is Revolutionizing Trading Cards | Brian Pirrip" about?

The discussion centers around the evolving landscape of trading cards as a hobby, emphasizing the need to rediscover the enjoyment of collecting rather than focusing solely on monetary value. Brian Pirrip of M1nt introduces innovative approaches that aim to enhance the appeal and presentation of trading cards, challenging the conventional norms within the collector community.

What is mentioned in this Collector Nation episode?

13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Mint G1, Brian Pup, Mint, Mint Hobby Cases, Collector Nation, Collector Nation Podcast. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "From Plastic Slabs to Fine Art: How M1nt is Revolutionizing Trading Cards | Brian Pirrip"?

The episode runs 24 min; the transcript is about 5,101 words in 61 timestamped sections.

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