Are “Junk Wax” Cards About to EXPLODE?!

We got to almost stop calling it junk wax because like these cards are starting to hold some pretty pretty significant value

It started with basketball inserts and now it's blood into baseball and football is always the last one that it flows down to

I think we were realizing like these big guys cards that have been underappreciated like they're printing more than they printed that we're under

Vowering this stuff. Jack's rookies should be more than three dollars.

Don't get so think Tim Duncan.

We have the iconic BoJackson card right here.

Iconic card, iconic player.

Ironically added, the two cards I picked last week's card and the seats card.

Both of them are from the junk wax era.

Arguably not junk wax. I mean they are but like they're not and they aren't treated as such anymore.

They've kind of stated their claim in the hobby.

But I could see a bunch more of these popping up as more people are realizing that these were generational players

and they deserve more of that hype than what they maybe were getting at the time.

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Ryan, Brian and Bella.

Hello, hello, hello.

How's everybody on this week?

We're good.

You know, just living that vintage life.

That's a shirt you have on.

I know.

And I've been digging through like the 50,000 card collection.

It's not, I don't think it's a lot.

It's a lot.

It's a lot of the $10,000, right?

20,000, 30,000 collection and going through it.

The most well organized collection.

Yeah, all binders, what era?

70s, like 74 to 90, 2005.

Yeah.

And the most all football and like maybe 5% basketball.

And so, and some of it, like some of the worth absolutely nothing as you know, a lot of it.

And then a handful of things that have grading potential.

And mainly just like cool stuff.

I mean, it's like there's no.

I was hoping for, you know, nice, I don't know, Brady rookie, perfect 10 or something.

No, not that.

Some Brady cool Brady cards that have some upside graded, but not nothing like that.

But a lot of inserts.

Some, some.

I'm still going through it.

I did just enough to like go, okay, I think I know Rufflewood's here made him an offer that, you know, maybe I'd have been favorable to us.

Well, I mean, it's a lot of work.

It's like, it's not about taking advantage of them.

It's just more like, yeah, if you sold every one of these cards, you know how it is, man.

I mean, you sold like all this shit.

Oh, yeah, there's a million dollars with the cards here.

Yeah, if someone had a million hours to put into it, but time is money.

Time is money.

So, but you could bring all of them to the national next year and just let the $2 bin go through.

Yeah, that's mainly why I bought it.

Like, honestly, we'll sell more in the dollar bins.

And I wanted to get some variety and old cards and the kids who come in and not be just like modern stuff.

So, honestly, then I did find a few things.

Archie, Griffin, rookie, large Taylor rookies, Mike Singletary rookies, and sweetness Walter Peyton, rookie.

Probably seven or eight maybe, maybe.

And that's a big card.

Yeah, it's like 600 bucks.

It's a it's a cool card.

And then didn't know it was even in there.

Don't really know the value yet.

Well, I do.

Is it not a lot less than you think?

Yes, yes, that's the new thing.

I'll let y'all guess, actually.

That's fun.

Yeah. And what it's worth is what someone will pay for this with me marketing it.

Ryan's gonna pay.

Ryan's gonna pay a lot for it.

So, we've found a printing press plate from 2005.

Just staring at me in the binder, I had to go on by this page, like a hundred times, but it was just like so drab.

Because I didn't know what it was.

And it's paid manning.

And it's a 101 magenta printing plate from 2005 from top total.

So a little bit about that season.

It's like a sheet of aluminum.

Yeah, the cults was 14 and two.

That was the first season that Peyton Manning beat Tom Brady.

However, they did not make it to.

They didn't make it to the Super Bowl or anything, but the year prior Peyton Manning had gotten MVP.

Oh, oh, that's the going up in value.

No, where is spoken?

Knowing all of that information, how much do you think that is worth?

I didn't think it was actually, I thought it was a few hundred dollars.

I mean, like I just, I had low expectations.

Even though it's a 101, I know like I, that was just a guess a few hundred bucks.

Okay.

I would say 700.

Okay, so it's about to 25.

Okay.

Is what it goes for.

It's a weird product.

There's not a whole lot of to comp against.

Brian, all that means is just worth every bit of 700 like you said.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, I could put like 100 or over the juice on this thing.

And it's not, there's not much.

You can't go and really get them graded because they don't grade very well because they're.

It says one of one on it, magenta one of one.

So it has his name and his face on that aluminum.

If you're a patent-manning fan, you should be embarrassed if you haven't already damned me and get in your hands.

So I actually posted about it yesterday and it are like within an hour already had somebody.

Is this still available?

It's not even on the website yet.

Hold it.

See?

That would hold that, man.

Just fold it for a little bit.

I think it's a cool piece.

I think it was $10,000.

I knew it was.

Like I just, I had low expectations.

Can you see the one of one and kind of like a little shell shock?

It's cool.

I think I will hold on to it until I get a drive the offer up with my pretend to hold on to it.

You know what else is happening?

Like interestingly in the hobby is like, there's like a waterfall effect.

And it's happening to like inserts from the, you know, yes.

We got to almost stop calling it junk wax because like these cars are starting to hold some pretty, pretty significant value.

But it started with basketball inserts and now it's blood into baseball.

And football is always the last one that like that it flows down to.

So I've seen like, obviously like the graffiti or the Jordans and all that.

But they're, I got you know this realm better than me, Brian.

I got to send you some pictures of the stuff.

And like I've looked up like the, like no, no, it's crazy, but it's mainly football.

And to your point, it's like those weird inserts that I swear if they're basketball, they're like hundreds of dollars, you know, or maybe more.

It's going to trickle down though.

Football is going to trickle down.

I mean, why wouldn't it?

It's the most five-boost sport, like almost in the world.

I'll bring some of those next week on this.

So like there's some, you know, the ones that like have acetate on one side and like not on the other.

Like you can see through it, but it's the player.

Yeah.

Like, stuff like that.

I also saw like Marvel cards.

I have a bunch of those like Spider-Man 10, like pop six, like those are starting to go.

So like it's, that's really healthy for the industry.

100%.

That's actually a really interesting point.

And I kind of thank you, Bella.

I appreciate that.

But kind of on that, Ryan wrote an editorial this week on the Shaquille O'Neal market,

as well as the Duncan market.

If you want to kind of elaborate on that, it's not like...

Yeah, no.

I mean, the big man, it's kind of what Brian's saying a little bit.

Like everybody's trickling down.

Like, and I think people are realizing like these big guys' cards that have been underappreciated for how they're hollow-flamed players and their impact on the game.

And, you know, somebody's, you know, Shaq's been in the news and different.

He's always in the news because he's on TV with NBA coverage and all that stuff.

But it's fascinating to me even going through this collection and looking up the cards and somewhat related.

It's like, this stuff is way undervalued.

Like way underpriced.

Like they're printing more than they printed.

They're printing, it's all the other tops.

They're printing like 700 million.

Some of them like, the upper deck didn't sniff that number, I don't think.

So, they printed a lot. They printed millions, but it wasn't that much.

So, we're undervaluing this stuff.

If a new card, nobody's worth a dollar.

Shaq's rookies should be more than $3, which they are down.

But like...

Literally never means it's me.

Don't get so...

Don't get so...

Don't get so...

Tim Duncan.

Grace, pick me up all the time.

One of...

You know, top of 10?

Top 15?

Like, legitimately.

You know what else I saw too.

This may be Bella, this could be your...

All the...

Pop...

Like cards from the wrappers and the singer...

All the different people from the 90s are starting to go crazy.

But, Bella, you're probably too young for that.

But they're starting to do the Nickelodeon cards.

Whatever it's all about.

I'm a Montana.

Yeah.

Because I'm a block, Hannah Montana.

Like, they're starting to go up our friend, you know, who we know well.

Evan Parker at Mantle, he wrote an article about it.

It's really pretty cool to see like, it's starting to spread out.

And it becomes individualized, as opposed to be like, we're putting you in this pocket.

And especially for card shops, I would think.

Like, now you have more options for people.

So, I think it's pretty cool.

Now, I want to get my hands on some topscrum, Disney.

I've been itching.

I've been itching.

And somebody didn't order some.

Uh-huh.

Hey, it's because we may or may not have a, you know, little sprozcon.

Yeah, but now, I agree with you.

There's a lot of different verticals that they're taking.

And I'm excited to see where they go next.

And tops has had a killer top slash fanatics.

Has had a killer week in the hobby.

Got some big news with.

Oh, yeah.

The tops instant packs.

Yeah, a fanax collect and then instant packs, which is really interesting.

Yeah.

What are y'all's thoughts on the instant packs?

I know you got a lot of thoughts.

Yeah, I mean, I bought some and I thought it was awesome.

They did a great job with it.

I think it's fascinating.

They've carved out 10% of the chrome black basketball.

They didn't get into distribution.

And, you know, I can't blame them.

Like, hey, you don't have to print it.

I don't have to print the packaging.

You don't have to print the, you know, the shipping.

And you know, that's the channel that's already moving.

It's a little bit of slippery slope as far as how far that goes.

But it's a happy shop.

I think they know.

And our place here is serving the customers on the ground floor

and the experience of that brings.

But I can't blame them as a distribution point of getting into it more.

And, you know, you're giving people the option.

It's, I mean, for a business point, smart as hell, you know.

So, and the experience was slick.

I did, I bought three packs and.

You got it.

I'm going to charge you.

What do they charge you pack?

All day.

That's it.

Yeah, that was it.

And, you know, you paid all these old with Hollywood boxes

of that part, the black anyway.

There's a 350 for the Hollywood box.

If you could get that price.

And you got the two packs plus an auto.

So with this, you got one for card pack.

Five cards.

Four cards.

And you had like a one and three chance of an auto.

I think I got two autos out of three packs.

And they weren't, one was Brandon Miller for the Hornets or.

Charles's team who's actually a good player.

And, but the UI UX, like all that, I was, you know, being in that space

and having been designing our own.

You know, it's what you'd expect.

I mean, they're, you know, top brain in the business.

So it made me feel good about my experience though, because I feel like it was different

for us, but on par with kind of like the surprise and the delight and all that.

But I don't know.

It was.

What do you think about that Brian?

I mean, you've been in this.

I mean, I think that like the ROI is much higher.

I mean, yeah, a $350 hobby box.

Like what?

Like what is the true ROI?

If like, it's not much, right?

It's not $300.

You're $100 pack.

Like, $100 pack, you might have no pack 50 and no freight.

Yeah, he gets 50, just, you know, 70% back and you feel great.

And then he have a chance to win it.

So I think they put a floor on it, which is great.

But, you know, I don't know if they have any big chase cards in there that motivate people to buy more than a couple of packs.

But, yeah, I mean, I think two, two numbered cars that were exclusive to that grouping.

And then you had a chance to get any, like I guess they randomized it.

You know, the way they do the packs now, I guess, and they put that over here that came out of the same randomization.

So in theory, you have just as much chance to get the biggest hits in the digital packs.

What I thought was interesting was I saw like content creators in the hobby doing YouTube videos where, you know, typically they're sitting there opening packs, whatever, but they're opening the digital packs.

And it almost kind of like I was sitting there kind of like, I don't know if I love that.

Like I, it kind of takes away like a little bit of that human interaction of them just like sitting on their phone, opening the packs.

And like you have the light, like the, you know, screen record of them doing it.

But I don't know, I personally, it wasn't the kind of content that I would like to consume.

Yeah, I mean, if I'm going to do that, I'll just do it. You know, for myself, like I don't need like a big, big audience.

And I think that'd be really boring.

But I, yeah, I wrote a second piece about this.

Yeah, I'm writing a lot. I'm a writer first. So my thought is, Stephen King.

Yeah, he's like Mark Twain.

But I had this, and I've been thinking about this a lot before, even though they came out, which is basically

breakers are in the honey hole, not because they make money on the breaks.

They're holding in physical possession. Everything that comes out of them without taking the risk, because they've pre-sold it off.

Topps now gets first dibs at the best cards that get pulled because they're in their possession.

Does it mean they're going to keep them from you? No. But they get the first right to offer, the first right to store, the first right to reseal.

They make money twice on every digital pack, because as soon as you vault it, you got to pay them to sell it.

And it's a good, it's a reasonable fee. But tops just doubled their, you know, like they reduced cost and doubled their profit centers.

And I'm not saying like as a number, I was saying double the opportunity, because they get to sell it twice.

Because breaking is always old product that's already been, it's already been taken out of something.

Usually, you know, a lot of times like repacking is breaks of the new boxes, you know, happening that.

But the breakers don't take advantage of this, most of them don't.

But we will, we start doing big breaks, which is immediate buyback offers.

Because we can't, if I go to a show, I've got to pay 90 to 95% for the biggest hits there.

That's how the market is.

If I can buy the biggest hits that come out of breaks for 60 to 70%, because I've got time, place, value, immediate money for the seller.

So everybody's winning.

At the card show, we're all even 95% because there's so many people there and no one's going to give it up for less than that.

Nobody's going to sell a kaboom for 80%.

But if a kaboom hits a little of a break, and then the person that hit it that paid $80 again and it has a $8,000 card staring at them.

Why wouldn't they take 70% to night the dealershiping, time, speculation, all that?

So they win, immediate cash, and the breakers and the people.

So breakers are actually in a better spot than they realize sitting between the, as the holder of the card and the opportunity that brings.

Yeah.

I mean, I would say like the only thing that I would lie I wouldn't do it if I were you.

Like if you hit a card like that, like I want to see if I can, it grades out, right?

And so that's why I would take in possession because I'm like, I don't know if I want to sell it to you because if it's a frickin' 10, like I'm not.

Then you just have a second option.

We get it graded and we share the profits.

That would be funny.

He wants to see how complicated he can make you why.

I think he can be automated.

You know, I mean, chances.

Everybody wants a chance, a chance.

This is what I did with the kid in the store.

He had a LeBron James Rookie card that looks like it's probably a perfect 10 but it's got a couple things.

And I want it, if it's a 10, I want it personally in my collection.

And he didn't really want to sell it.

So I bought it for him for the exact PSA 9 and told him I would give him an extra 2 grand if it 10th.

So they took the risk away from him.

I took the risk and I have some upside 2 but I left him in the game.

And maybe he'll forget about it because he'll get it back in 8 months.

Now it did be expressed.

Yeah, he's worth it enough.

Seven months.

Yeah, exactly.

Three days, four hours and seven minutes.

The word expresses all relative.

If I'm in the drive-through at McDonald's, that's a different express than PSA.

But the one thing about the buyback, Ryan, which is interesting is you're already...

If they're going to sell it on eBay, you already have a 15% cushion.

Exactly.

So it's like, okay, if you're going to sell on eBay, go ahead and sell it.

Of course, I'll choose her.

There's always the big guys that want to get it graded, like you said.

They don't do it worth thinking that and a lot of other people.

But there's another 50 or 60% that just would like that cash right then.

Funnipers, yep.

And not enough breakers are taking advantage of that.

Well, I think it's interesting.

You brought up top-suing the buybacks.

So at the national, they announced the zero fees if you do fanatics cash instead of actual cash.

Yeah.

So then it's like three ways that they're making money because they're now just giving you...

Never leaves the eco.

They're making money, yes.

Exactly.

I'm sure they're charging, like ComC, which no one really talks about them anymore.

But they could just...

They could do like a charge on getting fanatics cash too.

If you use the modern box to get 95 bucks of fanatics cash.

But I don't know about that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

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But speaking of topsy to more, the debut patches are making their entrance into the football realm shocking.

I can't believe they did that.

I'm curious as to how much Mendoza's will go for when it comes.

We'll see.

You're throwing pick sixes to my Clemson boys.

Well, well, well, yeah.

It's like fifth pass of the game in the preseason was to Clemson Linebacker that was like a fourth round draft pick.

Six.

It's probably the best moment of his career.

Yeah.

Wood as.

Greatest name as a linebacker.

Right?

Wade Wood as.

Yeah.

That's good.

So are you guys excited for this weekend?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I'll be more excited if we win.

That's all unknown.

Tiger be tiger.

Death Valley be death Valley.

It's going to be fun.

Yeah, I'm excited for football period.

And I think I think Clemson's a better team than they were last year, but I'm not sure a record will be better.

It's hard.

It's hard.

It's hard.

It's like, I think we're better.

Well, I don't know.

It's hard.

We'll see.

I think every such a long season.

I know.

Like, I'm just come again, a little tempered this time.

But I'm excited for football.

I'll tell you that.

I'm tired of like, I've watched every creator rip boxes of, you know, if, you know, like he's playing in the background.

I'm working.

I'm hearing the same things.

And I don't watch that much to you.

I'm just more like the radio.

Yeah.

Hearing it.

So I'm pumped for football.

Yeah.

So I was supposed to be in a, a fantasy draft with Jason, who we live break with.

He invited me to do a dynasty fantasy, a fantasy group.

And I didn't really understand what I was committing to.

And then somehow I could see the draft.

I could see everything.

But I had no team and I missed the whole draft.

And if that's not the most me story, I don't know what it is.

So I am no longer in a fantasy draft.

Oh, wow.

And I'm actually kind of sad about it.

You got it.

You went undrafted.

I went, I went undrafted.

I was so confused.

And it was on sleeper.

I'd never used sleeper before.

I'd only ever used like a BSB.

Yeah, that third.

I'm so out of the, I don't think I've seen like five years.

I just don't have time to keep up with it.

I was so excited.

But you know, it's best because I would have had to do it for multiple years.

And that's a lot of commitment.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

It takes a fun out of it sometimes too.

You're like, oh, I'm a bears fan.

But I'm going against.

I had this guy and I'm going against this guy.

And I'm like, I had to stop that.

I was like, I don't know.

Like they just kept like, like, canceling each other out.

And then I'm like, what am I rooting for here?

I don't even know.

I want them to win.

But like, I want my fancy guy to throw up for a lot of yards, but the pairs to win 44 to 43 or whatever.

Yeah.

I just got out of it too.

And it's all at work.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I was having to pay $30.

Oh, come on.

I should have had you like at least free, free beat.

Like, I think you're like, they're trying to fill the spot.

They were literally, I think I was probably so far down on the list of people to ask.

Why did you do the automatic?

The automatic track.

I put it on auto draft.

But for some reason, I didn't create a team.

No, I was witnessing the draft happening.

And I'm like, oh, where's my team?

There was no team.

I don't know.

I literally don't know.

But I think that was God's way of being like, you don't need this in your life.

Yeah.

You're going to lose.

So like, let's not let.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I do know you have to bounce Brian.

I'm bouncing like to your.

Anything on the Lutics front, we can hit Brian before you get out of here.

No, I think in the next couple of weeks we're going to have some cool stuff, some cool announcements.

But right now we're just grinding, grinding, grinding.

And waiting for football, man.

That's going to be awesome.

Yeah, the scans will start scanning.

I imagine.

I'm sorry, I've already started.

It was like the first week of like Sunday, is it like scan central?

Like how does that correlate like when it gets to the season?

I know it goes.

It's got to increase.

It hops over polka mountain.

That's really the first thing you see is it's just polka mountain will be the fourth most scanned instead of third.

And football will be.

But yeah, you see that I mean, there's no question around releases.

It's probably 20, 30% more scans.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

Makes sense.

All right.

Sitting in front of me, we have one of your favorite players, cards, and one of just the most iconic cards in the space.

You know him.

You love them.

Mr.

Bo Jackson.

So this is our second episode of card history.

And we have the iconic Bo Jackson card right here.

That, you know, redefined what it means to have cards and be just a generational player.

I know this is one of your favorites and you probably know everything about this card.

Yes, I do.

I, this was like my favorite card.

It was 1990.

I was a young lad.

He's myself.

A young lad.

I'm collecting.

And bonos.

Yes, bonos how to market.

It's a great shot black and white.

And you know, Bo Jackson is not, I mean, yes, is the card and all that, but it's the greatest athlete, one of the greatest athletes of all time to play football and baseball at an all star level, all pro level.

Like transcended, you know, so many things.

You had the Nike area had Jordan going on.

It was like, he was like the crossover for those sports.

He had Jordan and basketball and Nike air campaigns growing galore as Jordan started to transcend and winning his first few titles there in the early 90s and building up to six.

And then Bo Jackson doing his thing got derailed about like many great athletes by some injuries, but played two very difficult, very physical, you know, one very physical,

one very just technical and physical to running.

And one of the only players of all time to play both of those at that level, like beyond Sanders was the closest, probably second to do both of those sports at that level.

And I think Bo was, I think better overall.

Beyond a football was ridiculous.

They're probably the most comparable of between football.

Yeah.

And I think Bo was a better baseball player in his prime.

But just an incredible card, iconic with the shoulder pads in the bat around it and the all time chase card.

And then I got this press proof just the national this year.

Yeah.

I left. I mean, this is how they just got proof and rare.

So I left that sticker on there.

The stickers, stickers don't lie.

You know, the yellow proofs in the play.

You know, the residue from it, whatever it is, but it was an FCC authentic card that was a press proofs.

Cool. I'd never seen one of these.

I don't know.

Maybe there's millions of them in print, but I've never seen one.

And I've been the fair amount of places where I think I would have.

Yeah.

I saw this like the last day we were there in the afternoon on the floor.

You skimble the way.

And I was like, walk, walk by.

And I did like a, you know, like, like, break, hard break.

So I, what is that?

And proceeded to pick that up.

Yeah.

Iconic card, iconic player, greatest.

In my book, top three athletes of all time, when he was in his prom.

And ironically, out of the two cards I picked last week's card and this week's card,

both of them are from the junk wax era.

Yeah.

Both of them are arguably not junk wax.

I mean, they are.

Absolutely not.

They're not.

And they aren't treated as such anymore.

They've kind of stated their claim in the hobby.

But I think it's kind of tied into what we were talking about earlier.

Like, I, I could see a bunch more of these popping up as, you know, more people are realizing

that these were generational players and they deserve kind of more of that hype than what they

maybe were getting at the time.

And I was crushing it with a ballerina.

Yeah.

So we saw that first hand.

Oh my gosh.

Well, we've talked about it on the show like that products, you know, it's killer to open.

I've got some of it.

It was now ripped some here and now and then.

It's just so hard to get hands on.

Got them new mohomes version of that product.

And I am talking with some of the team over there.

Oh.

And they'll probably be coming on the show has not confirmed yet.

So, but I do have calls being scheduled literally.

As we speak, I had a little bit of I'm here.

I know I had a LinkedIn DM exchange.

Oh.

One of the lead guys.

Man, LinkedIn coming in strong.

Coming in strong, but I love what they're doing.

So I want to support it and talk about it more about what they've got planned and with mohomes

coming out.

So it'd be pretty cool with his cards.

I think you'd be like star struck if Bo Jackson came on the show.

Oh, no, no, it's not star struck.

I was we just boys, you know.

Yeah, but I feel like you like in little child.

You would be like, oh, yeah.

For sure.

I'd be like, Mr. Jackson, can I get you anything?

Can you drive my car or run it like, you know, like, and I buy you something.

Yeah.

I don't know.

What can I do?

Yeah, what can I do for you?

Yeah, I don't know.

Why didn't I knew a bit?

Yeah.

It would be he would be one of the few him and Jordan.

And they're both like, I mean huge stars, but I'm around a lot of big stars.

I don't think that they're probably those two.

But anyway, it's a great card.

And I'm glad you picked it.

I know.

I'm trying to, you know, pick ones that have sentimental value to you.

Yeah.

And are just, you know, also iconic.

I also thought for final moments, we could open up some top's chrome.

I was wondering how we were going to split a hanger.

I guess.

No, each got one.

We each got one.

The wheel is format in all of sports, the hanger product.

Yeah.

And it's like, it's the strangest thing.

These cards are worth more than they ever have then.

Let's wrap it in a box with cellophane and then put it in a cellophane wrapper

that may or may not be protecting those cards.

In a very thick format that you swear you're digging every card as it comes out of the

cellophane.

And you're like, how, why does this, who's idea was this?

So I can like, I don't know, throw them down some stairs or something.

I actually like even get the cellophane.

Yeah, go exactly.

Welcome to a hanger pack.

You're all in collection.

I have a lot of experience with this futility here.

I have to say, I'd like to exchange this would be your opportunity.

If you want to.

No, I'm fine keeping this one.

I just need you to raise it.

That was your chance.

I don't have like the grip strength.

Just for the record.

If you damage my cards though.

I'm just going to have man hands.

Yeah, I don't.

I don't want to break a nail.

So.

All right, yeah.

I have to say.

Look at that.

Look at this.

You got to watch the YouTube.

If you're listening and even watching, go to YouTube and see the ridiculousness of all this.

I mean, you talk about like, I'm not like a tree hugger.

But you know, it's like trees getting knocked down, left and right for this.

Like terrible hacking.

And this is not a top thing.

This is every hanger that's ever come before it.

Yep.

No, I believe that.

So here we get this nice.

Hope I got a thousand dollar card here in this Sullivan wrapper.

Maybe there's some cigarettes in there with it too.

I mean, you know, like.

Well, I mean, it is kindling if we want to make a fire.

I mean, it's so cold.

How do you not ding a corner trying to open the damn thing?

I have no idea.

Make it make sense.

A little ASMR opening for you.

Oh, I've dated that open this one.

I need to put this over here.

Oh, throw that away for me.

All right.

Well, start off strong Travis ETN.

Okay.

Johnson Taylor.

So running back to the start, I think I won.

And I'm an ATM fan.

And Johnson Taylor is better.

These are okay.

Okay.

Clips in.

Okay.

That's my second one.

Who's your second?

Jeremy Ruckert.

Okay.

Sexy Dexy wins.

Dex your Lawrence from Climpsons.

All right.

Keon Coleman, wide receiver.

Oh, how about Derek Henry, the best running back in the game.

Winner.

Three of you.

Three of you.

Oh, for three.

Okay.

You got Nick.

Jonathan Taylor from the Coles.

Okay.

Also for the Coles, Alec Pierce, who's actually a silent assassin on the outside.

Just got a really big contract.

Very good wide receiver.

Okay.

John Taylor.

What is just an Indianapolis Colts like battle here?

Yeah, I don't know.

Michael Pittman Jr.

Well, I got the Raiders now.

So Ricky Moser.

Moser.

Yes.

He just came from Miami.

Good running back.

All right.

Mike Evans.

All right.

Everybody's like, why are you going this slow through base cards?

Wait, we got it.

George Kulactus.

Cooper Dejeans.

Not my safety.

Sanders.

Oh, okay.

Cam Ward.

Chase Brown.

First one.

Round of bangles.

Hey, another cam ward on the silver.

All right.

That's two big ones for this guy.

All right.

Oh, yeah.

Hampton in the chart.

You had the chance to take this pack and you didn't do it.

Okay.

Well, just.

Luther Bird in the third.

So.

That number.

The silver.

He's a good player.

That's a decent card.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

I think that's a good card.

Yeah.

That's a decent card.

Yeah.

That's I thought.

Xavier Worthy.

Good player.

He's a bounce back.

George Kittle.

And then Kittle, silver.

And yeah.

A lot of nothing.

All right.

You know, the best running back probably in the game with him or Henry.

Mr. Christian.

Half free.

You got to his Johnson on the rookie.

I think that's it.

X Fractor.

We've got a Derek Henry on the silver.

And rookie of the year quarterback.

Tyler show on the show.

Chuck.

However you say his name.

The weirdest spelling in name.

Silver.

That's probably the winner winner chicken dinner.

Restor.

Well, I think we both kind of got smoked.

Well, that's the rookie of the year that the second or third best quarterback in the game.

It's a silver.

What's what's how our shut go for in silver?

Call up there.

What's Tyler's shut silver from football go for 30 bucks?

20 30 bucks.

Hey, I see a major money back.

Yeah.

Not one.

That was a little bit.

This was a game wasn't it?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, okay.

Okay.

I'm sure we got the rules of engagement.

I was just hoping to have better cards than your stack.

Yeah.

And they weren't great.

And they were not great.

I didn't hear anything good.

No, literally nothing.

Luther.

Bird.

Was it?

Luther burden.

Yeah, you hit him.

Yeah, I'm excited.

But nothing numbered.

Yeah.

But I still have yet to hit anything good ever.

So, you know, I just feel like a failure.

And that's okay.

But you can watch us on eBay live.

Hit some awesome things for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I'm just the comedic relief, the DJ and the admin.

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