Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 15, 2025

Back about 10 years ago I was doing a show with Brad England we called Thread Heads. I also published some episodes that were Trade-O-Ree interviews. This was one of my favorites as I sat down with the Pin Man Doug Chambers. We talked about his passion for this corner of our hobby in the interview. I have since kept...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 13, 2025

Today I'm sharing another episode from the archive. I recorded this interview early on in the podcast at the end of 2011 with John Pannell. In the episode he shares the story of how he took OAimages from a website with a few hundred images to one that got 40,000 hits per day. Even with it's ups and downs over the...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 10, 2025

This month I have been selling off a lot of Georgia OA pieces. It all came from the a collection that I picked up about 4 months ago. At the time I filmed an video for my Patreon members sharing some of the sorting and processing. I thought since I'm in the heat of selling some of the stuff I"d...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 8, 2025

Yesterday I put in snipes on several of the Air Explorer items in the Noble Spirit auctions. I put my bids in at 100% of the historical best sold comp and in one case even higher. In all cases I was totally blown out of the water. On a Saturday afternoon! It's great to see there is such interest in the...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 6, 2025

As I am finishing packing the van to head to the camp staff reunion this weekend I want to share another episode of the podcast. In my packing I found historical paper and pictures that I have not taken off the shelf since moving into this warehouse almost 5 years ago. Which means nobody in the outside world has seen them...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 3, 2025

In a recent Hot Finds I mentioned the topic of a traveling display along with the idea of council historical societies. One of the responses to that email was hearing from Jeff Morley. Jeff put his experience working with the museums set up at NOACs to create a helpful YouTube video shared in the digital cracker barrel. I watched the video...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 1, 2025

Tonight I hope to participate in a Scouting Alumni Communities Webinar led by Bradley Taylor and Tim Brown. I am a little late to the game on these BSA webinars although when I was a camp director I did plenty. Back in the day I was in APO but I don't think I am a member of NESA. I want...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 30, 2025

In revisiting the episodes of my podcast I could not leave out this interview with Nick Loesch who many of you remember from eBay and TORs. Nick was one of those dealers at TORs that traveled for miles around and always had a ton of stuff. On eBay he was also epic and had one of the larger stores in the Boy...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 27, 2025

I have been revisiting some of my old content in the Hot Finds and today I've got one from the archives to share. This was the VERY first unboxing video I published over 11 years ago. In total I now have 90 of these videos in a playlist on YouTube. I am sure that when I filmed this one I had...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 25, 2025

I have been revisiting the episodes of my hobby podcast - Scouting Hot Finds Radio. I thought today I'd share the episode I did with Dr. Terry Grove back in 2012. He had just put together a presentation slide show to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eagle Scout rank. With my help we turned that into a PDF book that...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 23, 2025

My latest unboxing video released this week is a little different. I set up a camera and made a time lapse video of the giant sorting process I referenced in previous newsletters. In fact if you look closely, you can even see a glimpse of me filming some unboxing videos.   Thanks to one of my amazing employees we now...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 20, 2025

I spoke on the phone with Rick Stewart recently and learned that he has some health struggles. So I wanted to share my podcast interview with all of you where we talked about his long running ISCA Journal series about visiting Scout museums. I enjoyed this interview and definitely think it's worth a listen and as a way to say...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 18, 2025

Today I wanted to give you guys a video that is not publicly available on YouTube. In fact this was the first ever video I published for my Patreon Group over 5 years ago. This was during a time when I had a video editor so the production quality is very good (for me!). It share some of my feedback "after the...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 16, 2025

I finally got wise and timed the release of an unboxing video with my launch of the auctions that go with it. The video shares a really nice PA collection that I got in a while back. I finally put aside everything else this week to get these items scheduled for eBay and some went live last night.   My...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 13, 2025

This morning I published a video for the paid members of the Patreon Group sharing some stories of collections and my wins and fails. Often times within the SHF Insiders I can open up a little more about some of the craziness of trying to do this full time.   I've got a link above to the eBay Store of...Read More

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