May 26, 2026
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There have been a bunch of them. In fact, there was one very historic one for football that we will talk about the first million dollar football card sale in oh, what, three years? Is it three or four years? I don't know. It's been a long time. What was the, what was the last? It was a Brady contenders rookie that I think sold in either 24 or 23. And you're trying to tell me a card that came out of a modern product within the last like didn't outsell it. Didn't outsell it, but joined that club of million dollar football cards. And we will talk about that. There might be another one that might be joining it that just got pulled over the weekend that we'll talk about as well. Plus we got new basketball products. Both are called signature, but they are very different. We will tell you what the differences are, but before we do that, join our Discord. The link is going to be in our description. This is been awesome to see the rebrand and the reintroduction of our Discord for Mojo Break. 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We're hanging out. We're having a good time there. There's going to be exclusive discounts, exclusive breaks, lots of, you know, again, exclusives. Join the exclusive club and then you'll have a chance to get in on that free box. Everybody loves the word exclusive. We do. It feels good. Does it? It feels good to be in an exclusive club. You know, you feel special. Okay? So if you want to feel special, come join the Discord again. I love all things Discord. We are rock and roll. That's right. We are. We, we are. We are rocking and rolling on Discord. We're having a good time there. So join it. Episode description. You can find the link to join again. Happy Memorial Day, everybody. Hope you had a good one. It's the official unofficial kickoff of summer. We do love summer. And you know what? I know it's summer because the tarps are off. Are you following the tarps off? Oh, I'm following the tarps off. Okay. I thought about going tarps off on this podcast. Yes, I thought about it. I thought about it, too. But I don't think anyone. I mean, over the weekend, watching all the sporting events. It looks fun. It looks fun. I also have a theory. We'll see if our theory. See if they. They mesh. But I'm. Did this start in St. Louis? So this starts in St. Louis. So it starts in St. Louis, where I want to say there was a group of fans. Yeah. In right field in St. Louis that look, if you know what's happening with the Cardinals, very, very surprising team. They basically finally threw in the towel last year and said, okay, fine, we're just going to sell off all of our big veterans and let the kids play. And you know what? It's going to be a bad year. But whatever, we're going to figure out what we got. Surprise, surprise. They are one of the best teams in the National League. They're looking great. And in this moment of when I think it was raining and the tarps came off and so did a bunch of shirts of a bunch of fans in right field. In right field as a rallying cry. And so it's like, okay, cool. This is their thing. They're this fun upstart team and their fans are into it. Great. Love it. Then it happened on Friday night in San Francisco. Yeah. When the giants were down 9 to nothing. They, I think it had a to do with the fact that it was a pretty bad product on the field in San Francisco right now. So anything to keep you engaged, I guess. They did win two out of three against. They did. They did. So they had a couple grand slams. I, I, I, I saw it helps when you went to hit two grand slams in two straight days. It does help you win ball games. But my point being, one of these teams is a fun, young upstart team with a great record. The Giants are not that team right now. And they lost the game 9 to 4. It's not your thing. I mean, you didn't earn that. I will, I will say tarps off 1,000 times better than the Wave. I'll agree with that. I will agree with that. And maybe if I got to go to the game and it's tarps off and I've, I'm into it. Yeah. I guess I'm just like, find your own lane. Find your own. I guess it's catching on though, in other places. Too late now. It's going to be tough. Like, I mean, those late nights in San Francisco come September. Yeah. You're not going to want to go tarps off. No, definitely not. Hell, a night game, you're going to want to make sure you're extra layered up. 9:30 and it's July 5th, you're not going to want to go tarps off at a night, you know, I don't want to do that. Get that breeze coming off the bay. It's cold. I'm kind of. But yeah, I don't know. Again, this is me being a grumpy old man, but I'm like, find your own thing. Don't steal like. But again, every other team, I guess, is starting to steal from it and they're all doing the tarps off. I was saying over the weekend in San Jose, I saw a couple of young, young men who were doing the same thing. When I say young man, they were probably, I don't know, about 10 or 12. So, you know, I'm going to give them a break. Their kids. I mean it did, I think was it Friday night. It did spread like wildfire. Giants game and it did go from nine nothing to nine four. So you know. Well, I don't think. Yeah, I guess there's that. I don't think the players are sitting in the dugout going, you know what guys? Yeah, let's get a rally together. It led to a walk off win for the Cardinals. This is why I say it's their thing, let it be their thing. But now Tampa's doing it and I guess the Cardinals are now signing off on like Tampa's doing it. Tampa's doing it. Do it. If you're in a dumb Kansas City's dude. Yeah, that's exactly climate controlled. Come on, you can't, you can't. No dome, no tarps off of the dome. There's no tarp. No Giants, Rays, Mariners, Tigers. I believe I also saw the Royals did it. So it's, it's a thing. So fine. But I think there's a. The minimum record. You should have to do the tarps off. If you are a certain amount of. A certain amount of games below 500, you do not get tarps off privileges. Oh, I think it's going to be the opposite. I think the worse you are, the more tarps off you're going to get. People need to be entertained. That's true. And if the product is not going to entertain you on the field like you gotta, you gotta, you gotta take the entertainment in your own hands. Tarps off. Tarps off. Yeah, I guess the, the Cardinals are now selling the. The upper right field bleachers at Bush Stadium are now the dedicated tarps off section. Now can you just show up to the game with tarp off? That's the. Yeah, that's a good point. Now do you. Yeah. Do you have to bring the shirt to enter the game? I don't know. Well, they allow you. I've never tried. Will they allow you into a game shirtless? I don't think so. I mean, I know you can't. No. No shoes, no shirt, no dyes. Sure. And the thing is great fast times at Ridgemont High like this. That's true. Good poll. This is also not like a new thing. Like you know, if you go to enough baseball games in the summer, you're going to see that one guy. Usually it's an older on. On the bleachers. Yeah, yeah. Tends to usually be. And I'll just throw this out, this is. Everybody who's been in enough baseball games knows this guy. I'm about to talk about an older gentleman. Usually maybe the hair is a little longer, you know, probably seen some things. Yeah. And he's got his shirt off. Yeah. And he's just like, I'm. You know what? I'm. Might be enjoying an adult beverage. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You could see he's wearing a hat that's been sun bleached. There's a hell might be some pins on that hat. Yeah. Some giveaway pins from back in, you know, late 80s, early 90s. Yep. This guy is. Yeah. That. This guy has seen something. This guy will tell you the entire lineup for the 1991 Giants. Like this. That is the guy. I also do, I do feel that this is primarily a bleacher. A bleacher seat. This is a definitely your activity. Yes. 100%. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. And you could tell he's got a good tan going. So he's done it before. This is like a regular occurrence for this guy. This is the original tarps off movement. Yeah. This is a like those Wednesday early afternoon. 100%. 100% where he's there every game and you're like, how is he? How is he always here? What did he do? You know, this is, it's impressive. He's always out there and yet he doesn't look, you know, again, he's got a hat that looks about 45 years old. Yeah. So. Yeah, that. Anyway, I digress. Tarps off. Let us know what you think. Dan's in. I'm into it. I'm mixed. Why not? I. Let's have fun. I can be swayed, I guess. Yeah, you're right. I'll take tarps off over the abs. We can just get rid of that and. Well, now, now we're, now we're talking crazy. Oh gosh. Don't clip that. I. I don't clip down part. I don't need to defend that anymore. Let's talk cards. There were some big, big sales over the weekend. A few million dollar cards that are now part of a very exclusive club. I think the biggest one, the most surprising, not surprising, but I think certainly in terms of news, the fact that the Josh Allen Gold Shield Auto 1 of 1 now joins a list of just five NFL players who have a million dollar card sale that one just sold over the weekend for $1.35 million on Fanatics collect. That's insane. Yeah. I mean the crazy thing is, is that you can go out and get multiple of Josh Allen's greatest cards from his rookie season. Multiple? Yeah. You can probably you can probably go find his NT Shield or Flawless Shield or 101 Prism Rookie Auto. Probably get all of them. Yeah, for all of them. For probably the same exact price that you're getting that card for. Crazy. Yeah. And it's, it's just part of this new, really a recurring theme we see where a card that we're like, well, that, well, I would rather have the NT rpa. But then this card sells it by however much. Now the NTRPA I don't think has sold the biggest version of it, which the last time it sold was 2022. So. So someone's clearly waiting it out and maybe they see this card sell and go, okay, now's my time to strike. I don't know. Or they wait for others. How does that card at $1.3 million appreciate? Like what, what does Josh Allen have to do? He's got to win all the. A Super bowl, all this, all the remaining Super Bowls in his career, basically. He basically needs to do what Patrick Mahomes did the first five years. He needs to do that now. Josh Allen could not lose another football game in his NFL career for that card to appre. Yeah, that's exactly what needs to happen. Yeah. It is four times higher than any previous sale of a Josh Allen card, is the highest public sale for a football card in the last five years. And I would actually say the Josh Allen market in general is probably kind of soft, I would imagine. Right. I would, I would say. I would say. I would lump him in with, with Herbert. Herbert probably has his mark. His market's probably definitely softened in the last like couple years. Yeah. Which is funny because the, the five guys who have a million dollar football card. Mahomes still the Highest sale at 4.3 million. Brady at 3.8. And then you've got Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow and Josh Allen. Okay. It's quite a three. At the bottom there you get Mahomes and Brady Herbert, though still one Herbert. Herbert, Burrow and Allen are surprising on that list. Yeah. At least with Alan there's an MVP in there. There is. There's more playoff. I mean, you could say, oh, but I feel like, I feel like some of his prices, it's. It's almost like the super bowl victory is already baked in. Yes. You could also probably say that about Burrow and Herbert. Like their super bowl victories are already baked into the cost. If they were to win a Super Bowl, I don't think you would see a substantial increase in their prices. No, I don't Think so either. Unless it's this unbelievable mvp. Super Bowl. Super bowl mvp. It has a drive in the super bowl that leads to a game winning drive. Have another incomplete pass ever. Right. It has to be this, this undeniable year that would increase it. But otherwise. Yeah, you're right. I mean maybe, maybe like a crazy season, like you know, undefeated season and then go into the playoffs and ends up winning the Super Bowl. Yeah like, and even maybe like maybe something, maybe something like that. Even that if you win the super bowl after an undefeated season. I feel like going into the super bowl we talk about it like the cost is already baked in but you're like it's look it went undefeated. What more do we need to see? Obviously a win but so very interesting that that one is, is, is now the highest selling Josh Allen card which I think also leads to the thought of like where are we at with the, where's the floor with these types of cards? The Shay Gilous Alexander gold logo man, odd MVP auto has just surfaced. The Saquan Barkley Gold Shield auto was pulled over the weekend. I don't know what the, is the floor seven figures for these cards. Is that where we're at? Oh I, the Saquon isn't going to get close to the Josh Allen. No, I don't think so. I think, I think the Saquon is. So if we, I think, I think it's, I think it's a, I think it is going to be a little bit, it'll hit the six figure mark but I think it'll be, I don't think it'll be more than 150,000. I think maybe, maybe 110,000. Yeah, it's a pretty wide gap but again it's on an mvp so I guess that's why that explains and he's a running back, not a qb. Yeah. So I guess maybe the better question is for the MVP logo. Gold shields or gold logo mans or because we've seen it in MLB we've seen the, the duel sell for 2 million. I think we're gonna, we've seen I mean solo cell. Yeah but you look at like Shay, you can say that he is, people would probably say he's probably the best basketball player alive right now. At least especially at his position. I, I, you like Saquon? I, I wouldn't necessarily say that. I mean he had, he had a real like you know that year he, that year that, that, that gold shield came out like it had a really good year historical year. But there's other running backs in the league that I think people would say are better at this point. Yeah, absolutely. And I think with Allen, he's in the conversation where I think that there's an argument he's a top minimum, a top three qb. He's probably, it's probably top two. Yeah. I think he's. I think he's a top three. Yeah. I don't really think there's a question. I would, I, I would kind of lump him in with Herbert and Burrow, but I would say that he is the leader of the pact when it came to those guys. Those guys are probably right below him, but I think they're probably all top five. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it speaks to like there. It's also great timing where these MVP cards, these gold cards are coming out and these generational players are winning them. But like, I'm trying to think for baseball, which obviously you have Ohtani and Judge who are still funny enough, the odds on favorites for MVPs as we speak right now. But I guess I'll phrase this in. So if we're thinking okay is like, like, what if. What if Dominic Smith ends up like, if he. Well, if he won, that'd be a hell of a story. But let's put it this way. The number two guys who are right now. I have this from. I think this is the DraftKings odds right now for MVPs as of. This isn't from May 18th, so it's a little dated, but it's still pretty, pretty close. If the number two guy won, Bobby Witt Jr. For the American League, Matt Olsen for the National League, Bobby Witt. I could see potentially being sure a seven figure. Did I. Did I read something up? Is Bobby Witt on the trading block? That would be nuts. The Royals are not doing well, but that seems like going a little too far. What kind of prospect haul can you get in return? The biggest. It would be Soto level. It would be insane. Miguel Cabrera level. Yeah, it would be ins. Yeah, it would be. It would be nuts. It would be crazy. Yeah. So if Bobby Witt won. But like. Yeah, if Matt Olsen wins. So I don't think it's like a lock that these cards are these like a Matt Olson card. I don't see even sniffing. I don't even know. Like, he's a great player. I mean, I think. I think Bobby Witt would sell for a lot. I do too. I think that's a potential. Yeah. Matt Olsen, great, great player. I wouldn't say he's Going to be a like a generational player. No. Very, very, very good. Yeah. Absolutely. So we're going to see more of these cards surfacing. Well now it's, it's really been a big influx over the last week of like one selling to being pulled obviously for the NBA. That I guess the other option would be, well, what if it was Wemby? I think a Wemby would outsell an SGA card at this point, frankly. I think. Well, I think right. Right now, yes. A Wimby card would pretty much outsell Wemby. Would. It's like the only thing I can outsell Ohtani right now would be. Would be Wemby. Yeah. That is where we're at. We are fully in. I mean we kind of, we kind of touched upon it last week of like, do you start invoking Ohtani? We're. What, what is that series right now? They're tied 2, 2, 2 after a big game from Wemby. After a pretty dominant performance. Wemby's been dominant. If. And not taking anything away from, from the Knicks. I know they're up 30 and I don't think, I don't. I think they're on a 10 game winning streak. Yeah. In the playoffs after they came back in Game 1, it felt like not taking anything away from them. They, they've had a tremendous season. It is going to be a tough matchup with whoever they get out of the West. Yeah. Hey, look, the Knicks beat the spurs for the, what is it, the mid. The, the regular season, the in season tournament. Yes. So there's that. Yeah. You know, who knows? But I mean, I think, I think the spurs are going to win it and I think, I think we were talking about it last week. Wemby's prices, the Finals, him winning the finals is already baked into those prices right now. Right. Like you're, you're basically. You buy a Wemby card right now and you're basically buying it with the understanding of the market is already baked in the finals win. Right. I don't want to poo poo on the Knicks too much because I do. It's been a lot of fun and I think it's been, it's been great. It's been a great story. They, I mean not. They have a really, really, really good team. A very good team. They have a very good team and it's a great story and the fans are absolutely out of their minds. And I think I actually, I was like, oh, it doesn't even matter because like whoever Comes out of the east, it's going to be a four or five game series. I actually take that back. I think the Knicks. I think the Knicks can take it to six. Yeah. Potentially maybe seven. I just think there's too much firepower on the Thunder and the Spurs. They're just better teams. It's just, it's tough. It's just matchup nightmares all around. Yeah, they are. They are the two better teams. You thought this was your run club era. Turns out it was more of a thinking about run club era. The good news, someone's mouth marathon training is about to start. Sell your workout gear on depop. Just snap a few photos and we'll take care of the rest. They get their race day fit and you get a payout for trying. Someone on depop wants what you've got. Start selling now. Depop where taste recognizes taste. If we knew more about our sleep, what would we do differently? Would we go to bed at a consistent time or take steps to reduce interruptions to our sleep? Would we? With Sleepscore, Apple Watch measures your bedtime consistency, interruptions and sleep duration. Then every morning it combines these factors into an easy to understand score from 1 to 100. So you'll know how to take the quality of your sleep from okay to very high. Know your sleep score with Apple Watch iPhone 11 or later required. We'll go another big basketball card sale. The first LeBron James top Super factor since Topps took over the license just sold for $1.26 million. That to me much more than the Josh Allen which I think we all peg for. Like that's a million dollar card that's going to happen. The LeBron. The first LeBron official top scrum super going for a million. I don't know if I saw that coming. I maybe I definitely didn't. I. We're putting her putting a lot of market value on the fact that it is the first licensed. I get it. If you go back to 1213 Prism, you could see a lot of inflated prices in that set as well. The only difference is it took like almost a decade for that to happen. Where with Topps Chrome it happened instant. Yeah. Like as it came out it was like first licensed everybody. I mean and it. And it doesn't just start and stop at LeBron. Like you could Curry. Curry's prices. Yeah. Are. Are insane. I think that there is something that I, you know, I'm sure someone's already coined this phrase but like I'm seeing it across the board. The tops premium right now of like just seeing that it's the first Tops version of your football stuff, of your. Of the basketball stuff. When the day comes where it's World cup stuff, it's. There's going to be a premium on it being the first Tops version of it. That like you said, it took a while for the market to catch up with the Panini side of that. Part of that I think is just good marketing on Tops side. Part of that is maybe more people being in tune with the, with the news and the licensing agreements and understanding oh this is the very first one, therefore I gotta grab it now. But it still is a little surprising how much of a premium that it comes with. I guess even for like again, which is for LeBron. This is year however main. You're like 22. Yeah. You're 22 year record. Maybe that's a part of it too. Is that literally it's the year that he broke the record of the longest NBA career of any player. I don't know. I don't know if I take that much stock into that because I, you know, it's just LeBron. But is that true? Yes, he. He's played. No player has played as much as LeBron James or many seasons. I believe that is the case. I just have to double check. But yeah, yeah, no one has played more of the season. LeBron James 23, he passed Vince Carter who played 22. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just like you said, you're seeing it across the board. For all Top stuff. It's. It's something to follow and something to keep an eye on. And we saw it with Tops Football. With Tops Chrome Football. It was the same story of every single thing of, of the, of the Tops premium. So. And you'll again you'll see it with any of the new license that are acquired in the future. Yeah. Going forward. Which I'll also throw out like I think in the same vein of that LeBron super factor. Going for what it did with the understanding of like, oh, it's the first of its kind. You see the first kabooms are especially the one of ones are now making record breaking sales because we did just see another one over the weekend. A $1.35 million private sale of a PSA 10 Ronaldo Green Kaboom. Again, another huge record breaking car like that also has the World cup baked into it. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. That the world. There's a lot of. I mean you've seen, you've seen like a substantial increase of in prices in the market. For soccer cards. I think you're going to keep on seeing that. I think if you're looking to buy soccer cards, I don't know if like right now is going to be the best time. You might want to just wait for the World cup to cool off. Yeah. I mean you probably could like potentially take a chance and make some money on a quick flip, but I think there's a lot of risk involved in that. Yeah, 100%. One more before we, we move on. But the going back to that LeBron card and really just sort of the tops stuff and, and this kind of goes along with what you're saying with kabooms. Like, I just don't know if I see a world where like the value is maintained like this where yeah, it's sure it's going to be first tops version of the card, but I don't know if I see in 10, 15 years time that distinction being as important maybe to us, maybe a different demographic of collectors, a different generation of collectors. I don't know. What do you think, Dan? Yeah, I mean we've talked about that a lot. Like I. There's this speculation that all these like case hit short print. There's a lot of them. There's a lot of them. There's. We could name off probably 20 of them. Right now it's all speculating on like which one's going to be the next pmg. I feel like, well, there's only one pmg. Yeah. I do think that these cards are going to carry somewhat of a Premium, but in 20 years there's going to be one card out of the bunch. Not all 20 of them, but one card out of the bunch that people are going to gravitate towards and go, that is the case. It of all case. It's. That is the short print that is the closest thing to the modern day pmg. Yeah. Yeah. Let's move on to some new releases. And there's not a ton of new releases this week, but let's, let's, let's get some confusion out of these year. There are two different basketball releases this week. One is called Signature Series, one is called Signature Class. These are two different releases. One is a Panini and one is A. And one's licensed and one's non licensed. And one is Panini's first attempt at the basketball category of being non licensed. That is true. Which is of interesting timing. Not, not a coincidence at all. I look the, the secondary market may not go gangbusters on the Panini release, but I will Say, like probably going to get some pretty good value out of ripping boxes of that 100%. We, if, I mean, we've been doing the baseball stuff for the last. Ever since they lost the license maybe two, three years now. And you, you probably, you know this. I mean, you've seen a lot of that base like those, those baseball releases that Panini makes. Solid. Are solid. Yeah, are solid. The secondary market may not be there as much, but as far as ripping ROI goes, like, it's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, actually, it's funny. What 2026 Don Russ baseball also out this week, a release that I think is going to probably be very solid. It's going to be good. The market has, has still. I also, there's been, there's a market for. Also think that when you go unlicensed, I think just the nature of it is the manufacturer just makes far less of the product. So when you rip open a box, like, you're just getting really, really good content. Yeah. As far as like players and prospects and hall of Famers and autograph content and stuff like that, you're just getting. You're getting good content. And I believe this is going to be one of, if not the first product featuring unlicensed kabooms. Yes. For. For Panini. I believe so. So that'll be an interesting test to see. Does. You know, what do we. How do we react to unlicensed kabooms? Yeah, the cards look good. You're going to get some. Some nice hits. I want to say there's at least one encased card in every box of signature. On the flip side, who are we looking at for autographs like Allen Iverson's in there for legends Vijay Edgecomb, who they still have Derrick Rose. Yep. Derrick Rose. It'll probably be a fair amount of Derrick Rose going forward. Derrick Rose, who is in both Panini and Top stuff right now, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, he's. Or maybe non top stuff. I could be wrong. I thought he was an exclusive. He might be Panini exclusive. You know what? I'm Luca. I'm confusing him with emanate stuff. That's why Luca Autos. Luca Autos. Yeah. This. I think. Yes. That Panini still has the exclusive to Luca Autos. There is not currently a checklist for signature series basketball, so I could not tell you who is in there. Exactly. And it comes out two days in on Wednesday and yeah, it comes out on the 27th. I like it. A. I'll be surprised. You'll be surprised that's right. The whole card collecting community will all be surprised together. Well, we do have a Donrus baseball one, so at least there's that. So they're not, you know, it's not totally. They, they, they have it for a few of their products. But on the flip side, you do have signature class, which is the first licensed version of this product, which I think we all kind of pegged when the football version came out. Like, oh, this is, this is their answer to contenders. At least that's what I thought initially. Now they have added. Have you seen these designs? I gotta, you know what, I gotta find them. But they're these great looking new designs that are these sort of. I don't know exactly how they're going to look, but they do look like they're clear acetate autos. Sps that I think are some of the best looking clear acetate cards I've seen. And I'm not usually a fan of those types of cards, so. Wow. Yeah. I'll throw it out to. I think I saw it with cherry collectibles. Put it out there of like, hey, have you guys seen the cards? They look, look pretty damn good and they do look really, really nice. I will say upper deck does a great acetate design anytime they do, anytime they incorporate acetate, upper deck seems to really knock it out the park. But let's, let's. I'm excited to see the stops one. Yeah. Let me, let me see if I can find a quick. Here. I'm just going to go on right on the, the Beckett checklist and I'll show you exactly what I mean. Yeah, you can see right here already. That's, that's, that's going to be like a clear design. There's sort of the sga, like the floral design. That looks really cool. This one right here, the LeBron looks very, very cool. It's. I don't think there's anything that looks quite like this. I think it looks really, really nice. Like a sort of a stained glass sort of clear acetate design. I. Yeah. I can't tell but the photos of their acetate or not. But. Right. I don't know either. But it kind of reminds me a little bit of a, an older panini product that was called Crusade. Oh, okay. But I think I know which one you're talking. Yeah, yeah. Now I'm gonna look. Now we're gonna look up Panini Crusade. Now we're really gonna take a trip down memory, down memory lane. Oh, I know this product. Of course I know this Product. Yeah, with sort of like the. They almost look like emblems. Like, like. What am I talking about? Like they have like flag emblems and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah. Kind of inspired by. By that sort of design as well. But these look really nice. I think that the auto checklist is pretty robust when it comes to your rookies and all that. Yeah. Very big Rookie Auto Checklist. 46 rookie autos in there, but also a very good vet checklist. So maybe not exactly, because I think with signature class football, one pack product, I think it is. Or definitely not a heavy base set, right? No, definitely not a heavy base set. Two autographs per hobby, four in every jumbo. And I want to say hobbies, we're going. Oh, so it might. It might have a fair amount of packs and in base cards. Yeah, they're making a jumbo version of it. Jumbo is four packs per box, 10 cards per pack. So you're getting one. Okay. In every pack. Okay. So then basically half it for. For hobby. Okay. It's a two pack product for hobby. Interesting. Okay. Yeah, cool. So that isn't. That doesn't sound like contenders, how they did it for football. Yeah, not. This is different. Yeah. Not that pack configuration. No, definitely not. And with the amount of veterans too on the checklist, which it's basically as many vets as there are rookies on the checklist. Yeah, it's definitely not going to be what I was anticipating. It looks like it's going to be something very different. There's not much new and exciting. It's new exciting. It actually is something that feels different and new and I think the designs are unique. So it was a product that I got to be honest, I kind of went into and I'm kind of like, well, we'll see. I wasn't super overwhelmed with signature class for football, but this looks like a very, very different take on it. So we'll see. Put those logos on it, everything changes. That's right. That's really what it is. You put the logos on and suddenly we're happy. But that said, Don Russ Baseball also out this weekend. Yep, that'll be a good release. I'm excited for it. So whether you want to go tarps on or tarps off for those releases, they're going to be available@mojobreak.com again. You guys can join our Discord. That's where you can get into a free break of Donruss Optic Football Box Break 2025 and join us there for exclusive deals. All that good stuff and come on down to Mujabraak shop. We had an awesome weekend with a great Pokemon release over the weekend. We had our resident. One of our social media stars, Gurpy was dressed as Greninja over the weekend. And yet I heard all this, oh, is this Pokemon set gonna be as big? Is it not? And then I saw what the turnout was on Saturday and it was insane. Massive, Insane, massive turnout. So thank you guys for coming out and making another awesome party and of course, always keep up to date with what we're doing at the shop because we got trade nights. Those have been a huge hit. We've already announced it. We're gonna have some World cup stuff coming up here. That's gonna be really, really cool. The panini truck is coming. That is official. There's gonna. We're gonna be. I mean, that's another thing that's been really, really popular in the shop and probably popular across the shot, like all the shops across the country. The Panini World cup sticker book, huge. And the sticker set, like it's been insane. I would say multiple people coming in specifically. That's what. They're not even really big card collectors. Yeah. Just looking for the. Either the sticker albums or the stickers themselves. I think we have gotten more questions. The own. The number one question I think we get on our social medias. Do you guys have the stickers? Where can I get the stickers? I got to get the stickers. We got them. I got my Coke bottles, so I've already got those ones. Now I got to get. I've drink. I've drank 4 liters of coca Cola just to get my messy stickers. Now I need to get. For the real deal. So they are available here. So you don't. You can stop. You can stop drinking Coke products for now or you keep drinking. Keep on drinking. Why not? The Coke truck is going to be here. So please. Who doesn't love a little Coca Cola? It's the best. I'm a, I, I'm more of a Coke zero diet Coke guy. But yeah, no, I definitely. I now am seldom a full sugar soda guy. But I think it's just the guilt that comes with it. It's just, it is. And that's a, it's a firm commitment in your sugar intake when you're drinking a 12 ounce can of Coke. I think. And if you can agree with me as a connoisseur of Mountain Dew, like I have basically been like, if I'm gonna kick all sugar Soda. I'm keeping one. And it's Mountain Dew is the one I keep in. I mean, obviously, the healthiest. The healthiest, exactly. Gets you energy. I mean. Yeah. Anything that's neon. Neon green. Right. Has to be perfectly good for you. Gotta be great with vitamins and nutrients. Yeah. Oh, speaking of. And you know, and this is. This is on topic because again, we're talking soda, and we're gonna have the Coke truck here. I tried, for the first time, a dirty soda. Dude. I need to figure out what. Explain. It's just with cream. That's it. That's it. That's it. You just add, like, heavy cream, basically. I don't know if it's heavy cream, but it's like a flavored cream. Okay. And I tried it. I. I could see how that can be good. I think we're taking a spin on sugar, and we're really just making it unhealthy. More sugar, you know, More sugar. Great. More sugar. Yeah. We're like. You know what's awesome? This can of soda has 40 grams of sugar. Let's add 12, like, grams of saturated fat. Yeah. It's awesome. I love it. I tried it with a Baja Blast at Taco Bell. Okay. And it was great. I don't know. I could not believe. I don't know if, like, cream and mountain. And I love mountain cream and like, Coca Cola, I think. Sounds perfect. Sounds fine. Perfect mix. I mean, that kind of reminds like a. Like a. Like a vanilla Coke. Like a Coke float. Yeah. Vanilla Coke, Yeah. Oh, yeah. But it worked. It totally worked. I was shocked. So there you go. Shout out to dirty. So where do you. Where do you get these at? You can get one. So Taco Bell now does them that way, and I think McDonald's is now doing. Oh, wow. Okay. So it's. It's caught on. It's like a huge thing now. The dirty soda movement has. Has arrived. All right, So I got to. I got to get on board. I got to check it out. Yeah. Well, we'll do a taste test maybe on one of these episodes, so. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's going to wrap it up for today's episode. I'm thirsty now. Go to mojobreak.com for breaks. We're ripping all the latest products that we talked about this week. Go to mojobreakshop.com we still have Pokemon as well. Guys, Chaos Rising has been flying off the shelf, so get it while you can. And until next time, for Dan, I'm Cody, and we'll see you guys next time. On the hype later.
Episode summary
For the first time in years, a football card sale finally passed the million dollar mark along with more huge Topps hits. But how long will the "Topps premium" last on the singles market? Cody & Dan talk about that and more on the latest edition of The Hype!
The guys discuss a weekend of historic card sales including the Josh Allen NFL Gold Shield and a 2025/26 LeBron James superfractor auto that sold for over $1.2 million.Plus the guys talk about a pair of new (and confusing) basketball releases and Cody gets grumpy about the "Tarps Off" movement taking MLB by storm.
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