Pokémon Singer Drama, LEGO Theft Allegations & the First MrBeast Auto

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We're talking a lot about different controversial subjects, one being the Jason Page drama that has been occurring over the weekend. We're also going to be touching a little bit on the bricks and minifigs drama that was going around. A religious mafia may be involved. I don't know. Allegedly. Allegedly. This is all alleged there. What do we have other one. Is that just it? I think that's okay. I mean, we'll talk about the. I don't know. You got any other dramas going on? I don't have any other dramas, but, you know, that's good because other stuff is like, just more interesting. Actually, you could consider it Drama. When we're gonna talk about the Marvel Chrome card count increase in this year's. It's pretty dramatic. Okay, we're talking about that. Yeah. But here's the thing. They have offset it with some positives. So we're gonna talk about Marvel Chrome. We're gonna talk about the controversial controversies. We're gonna talk about. I have on here My Little Pony, but I don't really have much. I didn't even. Training cards. Yeah, it came up on the last week's SCN episode where I was just like, oh, my Little Pony cards. Let me look into that. And then I wrote it down. Hold on. And I didn't do any research. I can tell you they're at Target thanks to bj. He sent a picture. Well, yeah. Starbright, what is the main. The chase? There's one particular chase pony. All I know is if you're a guy who collects them, you're called Bronies. No, there's a documentary. Well, guys that dress up like ponies are called Bronies. Then what? Okay. And. Yeah, I don't want to. I don't. I don't want to dive deeper into that. What do you call a guy that dresses up like a. Like a Space ranger? Jesse, I saw what you were doing there, and I didn't care for it. But then I did care for it. I like it. Would you ever cosplay as a pony? Cosplaying as a Space Ranger? Yes. Oh, no. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe that's a fun idea to think about. I don't know if I want to be an animal, period. I feel like once you start dressing as an animal, you're too close to Furryville. And I'm not. I'm not going that direction. You're there. You're not. I'm saying you're in Furryville if you're dressing like any kind of. Oh, you're. You're there. You're not. You're not close. You're. You're there, baby. Center of town. Yeah. You got a mortgage. You're paying your taxes. You're in Furryville as a. Now can we both confirm here if you're a Disney character that just so happens to be an animal? That's not the same though. Right? Right. I don't know. Right. If you're a licensed character. I'm a Pooh Bear. I like. I dress up as Pooh Bear sometimes. Or you could make the argument that Powerline is technically a dog. Right. Goofy's a dog. Goofy is a dog. So they're in a dog world. So Goofy goof. So I would say that. But that's not the same. They can also walks Pluto around. That's just why that's a whole thing. There are terms I want to use, but I feel like I would like a missing dog link somewhere. So we're going to talk about those things. Yeah. I think there was also. Oh, V. Friends. Yeah. Big news. Actually, this speaking of is dramatic. Does dramatic just have to be like, shocking? Does it have to be like drama? We're all drama filled today. I guess. Yeah. The drama is drama. Yeah. So anyways, let's go ahead. Somebody to cut this whole episode into different, like. Like reality TV show drama. If only we had something. I'm looking at Jesse angry, and then I'm looking back, just staring and. Yeah. I think you look at the camera and you do the. I don't know what's gone into Ray today. He's really like cutaways. Yeah. Yeah. We do like talking heads. Yeah, baby Jinx. Drama is a mode of storytelling performed through action and dialogue. By the way, it does not. It encompasses both the written script. Dang it. This is not the word. This is just drama for television. I'm realizing I don't think this is the actual definition of drama. So let's go ahead and jump in. Can we start with Vee Friends, actually? Of course. So on your favorite character, the Grizzly Addams. Right? Gracious Grizzly. Oh, my bad. He has a name. And it is not that the Vee friends thing was interesting because today Gary Vee comes on scn. You're probably not going to hear all of that interview. And it's probably because it got pretty much destroyed in the process of recording and Riverside being a whole thing. So I'm going to hit some of the highlights. I'm going to hit the highlights of what we ended up talking about and what you would probably care the most about. First off, biggest news. And apparently this came out at the moment that he was like live on the pod. Apparently Tops PA Top's POP account made a post showing that we will have our first official mrbeast autograph in Veefriends Gay question mark. Here's the thing. I am also saying first official autograph, not autographs. There is one autograph. There's a dual auto somewhere. No, no, no. It's a. It's a super fracture. It's. There's a content condor, which, you know, I went out there and jacked up the price on that spot, which everybody. I thought it was already way too cheap. Most people were selling it for like 75 bucks before this. And I'm like, that was already like 150 spot, in my opinion. That was one of my questions that I was going to ask you about V Friends. And if you want, you can finish your thought, but I'll reframe. Livy Dunn, Jake Paul, also sign in there, as well as a few others under the content Condor Spawn. Exactly. Yeah. Because that should be like 200 bucks. See, that's kind of. That should be the most expensive because those are all the celebrity autos. And for you to be able to get the celebrity autos, you have to. If you are a person that is buying into brakes, that's the spot that most likely you want to purchase. So you're on the same page as me. That's what I was thinking. But I mean, I know it's also not guaranteed you're going to get an auto in a box, but you're not guaranteed to get an auto out of the notorious Ninja Period. Fair enough. But so that's. Unless it's a Gary Vee auto. Well, and so there are Gary Vee autos. That's the only other thing. But that's, that's a whole separate thing. If you want other, check out the checklist. If you want other than Gary Vee autos, you got to go with the content Condor spot. But that's my thing is I think people will chase that. I think that is a big car. Because if nothing else, the fact that Mr. Beast can promote it, hype it if he chooses to, that is huge. And if somebody comes out with hey, the mrbeast auto, there's enough people out there that love social media people that even if it's just a fellow influencer buying it, it would be. Well, dude, just look at huge. Like currently in movie theaters you have I think two different horror movies that are directed by content creators. Backrooms. I saw that backrooms. And I think that other one. I can't remember the other name of the other. Oh, is that markiplier or was back. It's another horror movie. And this horror movie has, until this weekend has increasingly beat the previous weeks in sales and there has not. That's not back rooms. No, it's not back rooms. It's another one. And that has not happened since E.T. what? Yeah, well, it had. This is a, I can tell you, monumental. This will cause a monumental shift in Hollywood in my opinion. When I first saw the news about like YouTube directors, you know, creating these films for next to nothing and then putting them out and having hundred plus million dollar weekends globally, I think it is. That is, that's huge. We're going to see more. If you see more movies, you're definitely going to see cards and things like that about it. You can guarantee that. So. But going back to be friends though, the fact that you got the Mr. Beast autograph chase in there and you'll have like numbered Mr. Beast in there, then you've got the live Morgan now. I think I said that earlier, didn't I? Libby Dunn autos in there. You've got. Who is the motivational speaker? I am totally blanking and I thought I had this checklist pulled up in front of me. Robbins. Oh, Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins. He's also in there. That's cool. Yeah, and a few others. The guy from SNL as well. Which one? Kill Tony. Don't. If I said the guy then it means I don't remember his name. So I can't tell. Dude, I heard today, you know Chris Kattan like, apparently he had broken his neck on a sketch on snl. Oh, yeah. And, like, that's why we haven't seen him as much. And he can't really do a lot. And he got addicted to the pain pills that are in. I'm like, oh, man, that's so sad. He was in the middle. Chris Kattan was on the show the middle. Because my daughter watches that all the time and. But, yeah, I always loved him just because I was a fan of Night at the Roxbury, but also SNL at the time. Let's go. Let's stop sidetracking just for a second. I want to stay focused on Be Friends. I got it. The Mr. Beast auto is one part of it. The other part is, of course, you've got the Erupt insert in this product. Erupt is going to include a bounty on one of the cards. Specific. Specifically the very, very, very, very black cat. Yeah, I don't know how many varies. I never know who's putting out the bounty. Do you know one of the collectors? I don't remember. One of the big. Yeah, one of the big V. Friends collectors. It is. If you're not familiar, the Erupt card was done by the same artist who created the Kaboom insert. So inherently there's this idea like, oh, it's going to be a big insert. And it was pretty popular last year. I think some of the top sales are in the Erupt inserts from last year. So with the bounty at $100,000 for that spot, there's a lot of people who've been trying to sell that spot for over twelve hundred dollars. No way. I. I did a. Every spot that I saw when I listened my break late last night, on Sunday night, it was twelve hundred and fifty dollars. I listed mine for like nine hundred fifty and I woke up and it was sold. Yeah, immediately. So, yeah, I don't know. I'm sure I. Maybe they'll sell it at 12:50. I don't know. But the fact that that bounty is out there is definitely helping to excel the product sales, I think, to some degree. There's also some pretty interesting things. This is what I've noticed. So there's 200 spots in this. 200 different characters. Some of them are overlapping from, like previous years, but I believe the majority of them are new. In this year's Chrome. The characters that Gary has talked about in the past or more recently, he's talked about promoting on whether it was the vfriends channels or other people's content Windows Those are the cards that I'm seeing or selling first. I say this because it's effective. Like, what he does is effective. There are times where I'm like, man, Gary's going out and he's doing another show and he's doing another video. The fact that he would, like, be so willing to do so much content around it is, like, at times I'm like, don't you want to do other things? That's his, but it works. And. Yeah, and that's the thing. I mean, wouldn't you want to push something? That's your thing? I do. But at the same time, he's also been one who's like, guys, don't be too excited about this. This one's not going to, like, come out and be higher price than last year's one. And he's, like, very realistic. And that's what I appreciate about it is, like, to some point, when you hype something or talk about something enough, it gets to a point where you start seeing negative returns because people are tired of hearing about it. They don't want. In fact, you'll get people who are like, I'm so sick of hearing about it. I no longer care. I don't want to get into it. I don't want to be involved in a break or that product. I think so I don't think he's at that point, but I could see. And so I say all this to just point out. I felt like his going out, talking up, like, the. The fact that the last glass standing. It's a wine glass. It has the base card is like a glass of red wine, but then there's a variation that's a white wine. And then there's a rarer variation that's a. Oh. And it's just, like. It's kind of fun. It's interesting. I kind of like that. Right. Like. And he comes from a wine background. That's, like, what he was doing before all this. That's his family's job. Then there's the gritty ghost character, which I think there's a variation. Is he wearing the gritty. No, it's literally, there's nothing on the card. It's just. There's. It just says gritty ghost. But there's John Cena picture. Yeah, but I like that they actually pulled the trigger on that because, like, I don't. They could have done that with some, like, John Cena cards, but I don't think they've actually done that. Just made a card where there's nothing on there at all. They made an action figure. They did. Except there is something technically there. It's just kind of clear plastic, but no. So those spots though are the ones I think sold almost immediately when the break went up. So anyways, I say all that to say if you hear Gary talking about characters like, these are the ones that are going to be big in this product coming out, those are the ones you probably want to go out and buy because those are going to be the ones that get snapped up and those are going to be the ones that people resell for higher values and they don't accept low ball offers because they know those are the more popular spots. So keep that in mind if you're getting into breaks over the next few days, because here's the thing, you're gonna see this for a while. I think you're gonna see this product out for at least a few weeks. Like as far as like active breaks, active people like buying and selling, it's not gonna be a flash in the pan because when tops allocated, I'm going around and I'm looking at all the like, fanatics, live people. I know I got two cases of it and I go around and see all the people who have breaks up and there's very, very few, if any, have more than one or two case breaks listed. Which tells me, oh, so this is very much a. We're going to send out a little bit at first, we're going to test the market, see how the product does, and then we're going to give you a second wave offering and see, you know, how much you want to go in on it from there. So that means next cases won't get here. Like if they send that out on Wednesday, it means unless they overnight it, you're probably not going to see it till early the following week. So. And that's the week of Disney. So I don't. Yeah, it's going to be very interesting to see how all this goes. So this is where like, let's transition from Vee Friends to just the fact that you've got Masterwork that came out last week. We're doing breaks of it this Tuesday, Tomorrow. Tomorrow or it doesn't matter because by the time you're listening to it, it'll be yesterday unless I move it to Wednesday. I'm thinking, I'm kind of thinking about doing both Vee Friends, because I only have two cases of each. I might just do them both on Wednesday. But you had Masterwork last week. High end product, more expensive. Vee Friends it's, it is what it is. It's. It's expensive. Disney Chrome and then a couple weeks after that, Marvel Chrome. And talk about Marvel Chrome. What? Why? Who, like where? Who are the people who says let's make sure that the people who are going to buy these products are the same people and we spend all of their money so that by the end there's very little money for them to buy. Like I don't get why we are doing this where we put out all of the biggest products of the year within a month of each other. It's, it is, some would say asinine. I didn't say that. I would never say that. Tops. I love you so much. These never take away. But no, it feels foolish on their part because I feel like they're leaving dollars on the table because what'll end up happening is there'll probably be some people who were like, oh, I would have bought extra, I would have bought more, but I just don't have the market for it because the crowd isn't out there buying it. And this is even a comment on what the price of the products are, even though y I, it does involve the fact that they are higher end so they are more expensive in general. But I'm not saying like, oh, go lower the price on all that stuff and then you'll have all these things. I think if no matter what, just having all these back to back huge releases just doesn't seem as advantageous as it would be to space it out a little, let people recharge, get another paycheck in or whatever they need to do in order to be able to afford time. People are taking vacations, they're taking the kids to Disney. And so that's kind of what you're saying right now is honestly my thinking of they must have a reason because they wouldn't do this if it was on accident. They must be doing this on purpose. I don't get it and therefore it upsets me. But if there's a real solid reason, I'd love to know even if I can't. Even if you tell me you can't talk about it. Jesse, I'll stop making comments like this because I'll know. Like, oh, there's a, there's a reason to the madness. But at this point it doesn't make sense. But it doesn't mean I'm not. I'm sure it's like print some sort of like printing part of issues and stuff like that. Maybe, maybe. But part of my irritation, honestly Comes from the fact that I like all these products and I want to be able to get into all of these products, but being not forced to buy into them, but feeling like, oh well, you got to get into them. Well, you're going to have to have a lot of money going out at the same time. And as someone who's already spending a lot of money just to buy the product to be able to re release it out into the wild by breaks or selling personals or whatever, it's like, oh man, my breaking wallet is going to be going down quite a bit. And then like just paying for the product up front goes out quite a bit. So I, I say all this to say I'm still excited about most of these products coming out. Like there are things, well, we talked about last week. Disney Chrome has like the facsimile autos for the real people. I don't care about that, but you know, I do care about, I care about a number of those autographs like from Johnny Depp and from a few other like live people that are going to be in that product. There's so Disney Channel. There's. Yeah, there's some Disney Channel talent that will be in there as well. There's going to be a number of parallels that I know will be very popular and that's just touching Disney Chrome. If we go over to like Marvel, which I want to dive in just a little bit deeper on that one, there's a lot of things going on in that one. And then with V Friends, I actually am kind of excited to see some of these inserts. Specifically I like the content Condor autographs from the more famous content creators and things like that. When are you going to get in there? There's next year. They said they promise there's aspects of all of those things. And of course Masterworks is just insanely cool. It's. That is one where I'm like, at least that one is very low printed compared to all these other ones. So it's like, okay, there's only so much of that to go around to begin with. But yeah, all these other things. I just wish there was more time. More time. We need more time. Do we have a island on the V Friends? Do we know which characters are getting sketches or is it just. Yeah, I don't know if it's set on the checklist or not. There is a, there's an insert for a. There's like a sketch insert spot. But I believe that's just going to be like a pre printed one, not like Actual sketches, you know what I mean? So. But there are sketches. There's a decent amount of sketches in there, I believe. Do we know. I know that Gary talked about and maybe on your Lost Files episode that you just had, when the, like the release of retail will come out, is it the same day? I know that he's talked about a lot of, you know, like some hangers with like a promo card. Target. Do we have any information on that? So I believe it's the same day. In fact, I just got a message from a buddy Volpe. He was saying how there are going to be releases at Walmart, but he doesn't know. Interesting. If it's going to be at Target and maybe a few other places, I'm sure. Target for sure. Well, let me actually, let me see what he says. I'll pull it up. Right, Walmart. Yeah. That's why I thought was strange. He said that's huge. Yeah, well, he sent me links too, to where you can find it at Walmart right now for the Mega Boxes and for the Blasters. Blasters or the Value Boxes. The Value boxes, yeah. He said didn't think they were going to be on Walmart, just that Dick's targeting games. Okay, so it will be Dick's target, GameStop, but also Walmart as well. Dick's targeting GameStop and Walmart. And this is set to release on Wednesday? That's my understanding, yes. Yeah, let me actually, I'll go to a link and just see if it shows like when it's available. According to this, it is the 10th. So that's Wednesday. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So there you go. All right, so let's dive into Marvel real quick. The Marvel Chrome project. Marvel Chrome doesn't come out for a few more weeks. July 1st. July 1st. Oh. Just FYI, I'll be out of town on July 4th through that week. The entire week. Correct. Okay. All right, we'll play in closer. Yeah, I can record in Florida. Ooh, a Florida vacay. What part of Florida I'll be in 38. Oh, you told me that. That's nice. All right, before we get too nostalgic of this trip that we don't all get to go on because we weren't invited. Come if you want. Oh, I am not taking your sloppy last minute. Just bring some ice cream. Oh, well, yeah, of course. I'm a person with a little manners. I would bring ice cream. The Marvel Chrome product. This is Marvel Comics, not Marvel Studios. So this is the animated character. Gotcha. I'm going to start out comics Chrome. I will start off by saying the artwork is a step up from last year. I honestly just like the style, if you. And I'll actually. I was going to say I just show it to you, but I don't think that's. Can you airdrop it to me? I could, but I won't. Some of the concept or not concept art, but just some of the proofs that they've already put out, they look amazing. I honestly am very happy with the artwork. And there's an insert in there called Topps Originals where we've got original artwork included, which is more than exciting because I thought the only original artwork was. We were going to get was from the Marvel product that's coming out, I think later this year by one of the Marvel artists themselves. But now we have some new original art inserts in this product. That. That's really exciting. The sketches in this product have increased dramatically. That's sick. I love that. So I'm gonna give you the good news before I give you the bad news. The sketches in 2025, apparently, according to the odds and the. The numbers that Slab Squatch put together. Is that what his name is? Is it Slab Squatch? Yeah, it is Slab Squatch. He's a. Like, he has a. I follow him on his substack, but he also has like a X whatever Twitter account too, where he posts a lot of this stuff. But I think he posts more on the sub stack if you guys ever want to check him out. It's very, very good information. But as far as those sketches go, in 2025, there's 442 apparently and crazy in this year's product. Any guesses? Double 839, actually. Let me tell you this before you even guess. Let me tell you how many cards total are in this product. Before you guess. Last year's products, there were a total of 273,000 cards and some change. All right, in this year's product, 2026 is Marvel Chrome. How many cards are there? You tell me. 495,000. So it's not 100% increase? 495, 81% increase. There are. There were a million inserts in 2025. There's 2.5 million in this one. So that's how many printed. That's not the amount of different ones. It's just the total amount. Yeah, let's make that clear. Parallels in Last year's was 1.2 million, this year's 2.9 million. So that's 141% increase. So there's definitely a lot more cards in this. And there's going to be people who are like, oh, great, they printed it to the moon. They destroyed it. Let me throw this out there. As far as autographs go for this product, in 2025, there was 4,993. This year's product, 21,220. Dang crazy. It's a 325% increase. What's the percentage of facsimile autos in there? I don't know. But I do know there's facsimile autos, and they're going to be comic artist autos. So you do have both of those included. Any other? The facsimile autos were not hated on as much as, I think, the Disney ones from Marvel. So I actually. I'm actually kind of okay with that because we're talking about a Marvel comic product. So it's like, oh, a facsimile auto where it's got like a design. Like some of them. Look, the Venom one is. It's. I actually didn't hate the Venom one. It's. It's. But there's definitely gonna be some that are more popular than others. So you've got. That included the sketch cards. So. So we just said the Autos went up 325%. As far as print runs go. Total print run, it only went up 81%. So that's good. I mean, like, that means you're going to hit an auto more often than you would have in last year's product. Now, sketch cards, going back to that one, in 2025, there was 442. How many sketch cards are in this year's product? Thousand. There's a thousand. All right, so you're saying it went up 100%? Correct. All right. It went from 442 to 4949. A grand total of 10, 19%. Better. We better be hitting these sketch cards. Oh, baby, you better. If I get a. If I get a box without a sketch card, I'm freaking out. No, at 4949, 1000% increase in sketch cards. 1. It does worry me that you're. We're flooding the market with sketches and they're going to drop in value. I will say Marvel sketches already are a harder sale in a lot of cases. Depending. It depends on quality. Right? Like, if it's just an amazing quality or character, different story, and that's going to be the same Here you're going to have. But the benefit is at least you'll probably have a better shot of getting a sketch card because there's still probably people out there who are like, oh, man, I've been trying to hit a sketch card forever. I've never gotten one. Yeah, you have a much better chance in this year's Marvel product than you probably have in any other product you've ripped. So there are. It's kind of fun, though, right? So it's like there are some negatives, but there are some positives as well. The fact that they do have the. The clawed chrome coming back. Yeah, I don't like that. It's just straight up and down. How else would you want it? Well, you know, like maybe like. Like diagonal or something. Diagonal or maybe like. Yeah, it just seems too symmetrical. Yeah, I don't like it too clean. Did you. Have you seen one in person? I haven't seen one in person. Let me tell you, when you see one in person, I think you'll have a different story, because I kind of thought the same. The picture does not do it justice. I said this last year. The picture is cool. Doesn't do it justice whatsoever. Once you pull one, it's like, oh, dang. That actually is much cooler. It's like, it's one of these cards where it's like, you hate to put it in a sleeve and a top loader because you want to be able to, like, see it clearly and, like, kind of feel the grooves and all that stuff. So that is really cool. Yeah. I don't like the amount of parallels that are in this product. I don't like that they've increased the print run as much. But as far as, like, what does that look like? Because you have hobbies, Value boxes and Mega boxes, I do think that overall, you're. You're in a little better position as far as hobby goes, because Hobby last year only increased 10%. So last year you had 50,000 boxes. This year you have 55,000. So going to be a lot more retail. It's a 10% increase there. Value boxes increase pretty substantially. 20, 25, 161,000. This year, 416. So it's 158% increase. And then Megas, we didn't even have Megas last year, and this year there's going to be 107,000 of them. So, yeah, it's. There's going to be a lot of cards. There's going to be a lot of parallels. Like we're talking about out of 299 out of 250 out of 225 out of 2 or 199 out of 175. There's a lot of higher number parallels. And 299. Like, what are we doing? It is. I'm just. I'm reporting the news at this point. But yeah, those are not going to be everyone's favorites. Right. But as soon as you hit something lower numbered, we'll be much happier. New characters are. There's. There are a number of new characters in here. It's not like, I think at this point they brought out, like, some of the biggest ones that we're going to see. Yeah. Like, I'll name off a few of these and maybe some of you will know. Glitch. Hellgate, which I think I've heard of. Hellgate. Lady Henrietta. Oh, yeah. Rapid Sister Sorrow, My favorite. There's Ultimate Daredevil. Venomizer. Oh, yeah. Venomouse. Yep. Little Mouse Venom. Yeah, there's. So I don't think, like, the debuts are going to be necessarily everybody. There's definitely Infernal Hulk. I don't know exactly. Dark Gwenpool. Dragonfire. Dragonfire. I don't think the debuts are necessarily everybody's big chase. Are they going to have a debut patch or a debut. Excuse me, a debut emblem or a rookie emblem or something like that? Is there like a relic somewhere or. No. Just like on the card. It'll let us know that it's a debut. Yes. Okay. Now, one of the big things that this will have, and we kind of talked about this at the TOPS Conference that I am very excited about, is they did include one and only cards, which they did in Disney. That's like the Walt Disney card that I pulled. It was the one and only Walt Disney. Okay. Except. Except in 2024, the one and only Walt Disney had not only the one and only card, but it also had a cut auto of Walt Disney. In 2025, we did not have the cut auto. It was just the. The card. Gotcha. And this one, it does look like we will have the one and only Stanley. Stanley and Steve Ditko, which is another. Like the other. The other guy. Yeah. So. So that's pretty exciting that we'll have cut autos included in this one. There's. Yeah. And there's a. There's another number of other factors. Those are your highlights for the Marvel Chrome release. I am excited for it overall, like, weighing everything out. I still think it's going to be a popular product. And here's what I do also think I Think it's going to be lower in cost than what you're going to see Disney Chrome be. I mean, I know for a fact it will be, but that doesn't mean, like, you're getting much less value. You know, we talked about all the fact of the sketches and all the other cool parallels that you'll see. So does on the cloud card, does every character have a clawed card or is it just whatever that insert the Claude Chrome, I believe, was every one of them. I'll just double check real quick because that's pretty cool. Yes, Every one of them has a Cloud Chrome. Yep. That's cool. Yeah, it is. I do. I do like that. And they're numbered this year. I don't think they were numbered last year. That's cool. Yeah. Just to be able to collect like your favorite Marvel Marvel characters and the Claude. Agreed. Yeah. I think that's cool. The Claude Chrome is the base. Ooh. Actually. Oh, I like this a lot. The base are numbered to 20. Then there's this black Wolverine adamantium number to 10, a red Wolverine adamantium number to 5, and then a super fracture. One of one, one of one. So, yeah, maybe last year's was actually. I can't remember if it was or not. It's weird. I feel like I. I'm now like inceptioning myself to think that there was. That is your new release schedule, at least from your tops point of view. Hit us with the Jason Page information. Oh, man. I don't know if you guys have been hearing. There's some Jason Page drama, so I'm going to try to summarize this as best as I can. So there is a vendor, he goes by the name of Boosters and Bangers. So he posted a video on his social media of two kids coming up to his vendor table just looking to trade some cards. You know, they're small kids, probably less than 10 years old. There was two. It was two brothers. And so they go up to the table and one of the one, the younger brother, had two cards that they valued. The vendor valued them as $77 total. Okay. Right. So the vendor had a Japanese Gengar fossil Gengar the kids wanted, and he valued it at $150. And so he said, you know what? You guys are kids, let's do the trade. So the kids got the fossil Japanese Gengar, and then they proceeded to go over to Jason Page's table. And for the people that don't know, Jason Page is someone that you're going to see in probably every Collecticon every Large Pokemon event. He is the. Can I. Can I give the audience a clue as to who he is? If they don't know, Pokemon gotta catch and you know, it's our destiny. Pokemon. There you go. He is this the singer of the Pokemon the Animated Series? Dude, you didn't have to say that. They know now. They know now. After what I just said. I think he also did some background vocals for some, like, Michael Jackson stuff back in the day. Oh, did he? Okay, so I'm not 100% sure on that. But anyways, I digress. So Jason Page sets up and one of the. Yeah, anyways. But so the kids go over. Over to his table, and they ended up trading the fossil Gengar for a AGS graded 10 card. Now, the car that is in these AGS slab, AGS is another grading company. Jason Pages says that is the third largest. I saw that grading company, which is a cgc. And then ags, which is. Anyways, this card is a promo card that AGS used to give out back in 2025. Like, if you grade it with them, it's just like a random, like, not. It's a card that they made. Oh. With Pokemon on there. And they. The name of the card is Robo Grading. It's got a grading machine on the card. And. But it's not a real Pokemon. But it's not a real Pokemon card. Okay. Okay. It's not a real Pokemon card. And so they trade. The kids trade this Gengar for this card. It does have Jason Page's autograph on it, and it does have an inscription on there as well. So. And I'm saying that. And Jason Page claims that this is a one of one. Okay. This is the only card of its kind. And so the kids basically were like, this sounds like a great deal. Let's make it happen. So. And I want to preface by saying, why am I talking about Jason Page's autograph on this card? So Jason Page, whenever you go to his table, he charges $50 for an autograph. Well, for one version of his regular autograph. And then $100 for his full name autograph. The cleaner Sig. Yes. You got to up them prices. Yeah. Just to be aware of that. Like, I think. Yeah. Which is insane to even charge $100 for an autograph thing. You're Jason Page. Anyways. And if you want an exception, it's an additional $25. Worth it. Every penny. Just saying. So Not. So they did the trade. The kids come go back to the vendor table and say, hey, we did this trade with Jason Page basically said he just scammed the crap out of you because this card is not worth 150 bucks. So then later, Jason Page puts out a response video of this video that the vendor made because it's gone completely viral. And he claims that the trade was a fair trade and it was in favor of the kids, which is absolutely insane. Well, and he's saying, too, that the Gengar card was heavy, heavily played, if not damaged. Correct, and I'll get to that. So he claimed that the graded card was $150 in value, period, $148. The one that he signed. The one he signed. He said that the card itself was $5. The auto and the inscription is $125. And the grading fee would have been $18. So all in is around 150 bucks. So Jason Page says this is actually a better deal for the kids. But the thing is that he showed. To your point, he showed off in the video what the card looked like, and the card is an HP version, which is heavy played. And he claims that it's more of a $75 cost on the card, which I do agree with him on that. Yeah, right. But regardless, Jason Page just holds. I don't know. He's delusional. What do you think, sports boy? I just went to ebay and I looked up Jason Page auto Pokemon cards. Let me check the sold listings just to be sure here. They're definitely not gonna be any sold anytime soon. Oh, no, they're sold. There's lots of them. There's lots of sold ones. The most Recent one was May 20th. It is a Pokemon Smeargle. Smeagol. I thought it was Smeagol, too, but they put an R in here. No, it is. It is smear. Oh, it is Lord of the Rings. Oh, that. Okay, so it's a smeargle silver Tempest signed Jason Page auto with the inscription gotta catch them all. This. Is it the clean version, or is it sold for $38? There are 1, 2. I can't count how many I'm seeing right now that are either CGC or Beckett authenticated. All listed for $50 and less. And they all have the gotta catch them all inscription on there. I'm trying to see one where it's, like, the longer signature. The cleaner version. Yeah, the. Okay, here's. Okay, there's somebody who's got one listed a 2001 Neo discovery Umbreon Hollow PSA 10. Damn. That's actually a nice card with the inscription and the long form. Jason Page and they've got a buy it now or best offer at $2,500. So that is a good card, though. I mean, but yeah, that's card talking more than probably the autograph. I'd be curious if the auto would hurt or diminish the value. I don't want that card with Jason Page's autograph on it. I think where I land on all of this is I think Jason Page in his world thinks that he provided a value to these kids. I don't think he was necessarily thinking, oh, I'm going to scam these kids or take advantage of them. I think the person who was at the show, who filmed it, knew how to make good content and blew it up to make it a little bit bigger deal than it probably was. And I think that I just. Both of them are at fault. Well, I think the vendor, you know who the vendor. The vendor claim is 150 bucks on the card. It's not worth 150 bucks. He should. Which I think it is still an even trade for the $77 value that the kids initially traded for the Gengar card. Right. Uh huh. The whole thing is that he's Jason Page. I get a bad vibe. Here's the thing, you know, I want to, I want to like not be so, like, mean to Jason Page and all this, but for him to be charging different prices for different variations of an autograph but people just sounds like a cash grab. That is what people do. Like who do signings. No, they don't. Not like different variations of an autograph. Yeah, there are, there are people who. LeBron James has been in headlines recently for like his new autograph versus his older one. Because there's like, I don't know if he. Again, he doesn't do public signings, but there are people who do. They charge more depending on what you want on the card. If they have to put in more effort, they charge more money. So it's not. That's not unheard of to me by any means. What is funny and. Or sad is Jason Page feeling that his auto adds relevancy to. To the value of that card. Yes. To the point where it's like worth as maybe what you're gonna. Maybe at one point it did, but now it does not. No. Yeah. What you're gonna pay is not gonna get returned to you in value. So I side on the side of no bun. I think everyone side of what? I side on the side of no one. No one. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not Siding with Jason Page or. We're not talking about sides. You know, kicking sides. Actually, you know who the real problem is, the real fault here? The kids. The parents. The kids. Why are they collecting Pokemon? This is for adults. Tell them to get lost. If you were a kid in 1990. Yeah. But if you're a kid today, not for you. That's why we have scalpers to take the cards away from you because you don't deserve them. Do you? Are you just. What? Nothing. Okay, good. Nothing. That's what I thought. I thought. I was talking to Jason Page for a little bit there. Me and Jason Paige go way back. Okay. Me and him are texting right now. I told him I was doing his makeup for him. Do you hear? Like his manager is talking all kind of slander to the person that made the video. Being very unprofessional. Oh, really? Yeah. That doesn't surprise me. Help. Another things that don't help is that Jason Page turned off his comments on the Instagram video of his response, but he forgot to turn off the comments on his Facebook video that he posted. Oh, no, that is assessable. Is. And to do positive. And they're just being mean to the breaker or the guy at the show. Yeah. So let me know what you guys think. Is Jason Page taking advantage of people? I mean, he's known to go around vendors tables. I've heard this. And then offer to trade his autograph or a card. Yeah, it's sad. It's. We. It's just like, bro, what are we doing at this point? There's more autos than there could ever be demand. I don't think that we need more Jason Page autos out there, but for him, you know, I'm just trying to think from his point of view. This is his biggest legacy at this point. This is all he has. Unless he comes back and does something much, much. No, he's not. I can't imagine he will. But you know what? To Jason Page's credit, we're talking about him. You know, maybe this is exactly what he wanted. He just wanted a little fame. He wanted another 15 minutes and he was going to get it any way he could. And it's those dumb kids fault. All right? Sarcasm is our friend on the show. Please, if you're a first time listener, please recognize that. All right? We go from Solaray's views or Jesse Gibson's views or his views only have no association with Solar Ray at all. That's a good distinction. That's smart that you did that. Speaking of Controversy. Bricks and minifigs. You want to get in on this one? All right, so I had a. Break it down for me. Oh, that's great. All right, so here's, here's the story for bricks and minifigs. If you're not familiar, it's a LEGO company. There are. It's not a LEGO company, first of all. It is a third party LEGO company. It's a store. It's a. It's a franchise. Yes. It's a brick and mortar franchise store. Yes. That people can buy into where they have rights to franchise the brand. And then they buy and sell Legos. You can go in there, sell your LEGO sets. They have one in Hendersonville. Yeah, they just opened one here. You can have a birthday party there. You can do all that. It's no associated with lego. No association with LEGO whatsoever. Yes. Yep. Okay, so here's the breakdown. Core of the scandal. There is a consignment dispute that starts this. So a family consigned a massive Star Wars LEGO collection, originally reported to be worth up to $200,000, to a franchise in Salem, Oregon. Missing inventory. Can I stop you right there? Okay. There's a very important thing that AI didn't mention, did not mention in this. There was a gentleman, an older gentleman and his son that accumulated all these Legos, old Star Wars LEGO sets that are valued over $200,000. They did hear me say older. Yes. But the older gentleman got sick. Okay. The dad, the dad got sick. And then the son, him and his dad decided that they were going to sell off their LEGO collection to help pay with some of the treatments for him. So the easiest thing that they did, the easiest thing that they could do is to go to their nearest bricks and minifigs and consign their one of a kind Star wars collection of LEGO sets that is worth $200,000. So I just wanted to mention that because that is a very important. It does help. It does help with their case, especially in the court of public opinion, if nothing else. So goes on to say ownership of the franchise changed and the original consigner, I believe his name, Brian Mansell, was unable to get his unsold sets or the money for the sold sets back. So all the stuff that he sent in, not only was he not getting the stuff that went unsold, but he's not getting the money either. This is where you enter Reckless Ben YouTuber. Can I add a term? Because there's more into that. So the initial franchisees, one of them was like an author and some of the books that he writes are kind of controversial, which they wouldn't be able to be published them in the United States. So they were going to move out of the country. So they wanted to topics is he writing about? Trust me. Really? Yeah. So anyways, marry like a pet. Not like that. Not like that. You're still on your furry talk. But anyways, yeah, so they were looking to sell the franchise, right. And so they, they got this 200, $200,000 consignment. And then all of a sudden the corporate comes in and says, we're taking over your franchise. All right, well, hang on, let me go. So going into. Is that later Into. Okay, yeah. So Reckless Ben is a YouTuber who does investigation of some kind. He says the situation went viral after YouTuber Reckless Ben, aka Ben Schneider, released a documentary style investigative series accusing bricks and minifigs, corporate and the franchise owners of theft. Now, after this accusation, following that devastating social media campaign and the national backlash, Bricks and minifigures Corporate announced the permanent closure of the Salem, Oregon location. Several ties have been severed. Corporate has parted ways with the franchise owners. Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson were their names. Citing evidence of negligence and unauthorized consignment deals by the prior franchise owner. Corporate has now said they are doing their best to make amends. They said they have reached out to the affected family to resolve the dispute and ensure that they are fully compensated for their missing collection. Now this is escalated because the dispute has led to serious legal entanglements. The YouTuber Reckless Ben has been arrested twice in Utah and after confronting corporate leadership at their homes and accusing them with local police. I'm sorry, Cor. He has. Reckless Ben has been arrested twice in Utah after confronting corporate leadership at their homes and has accused local police of misconduct. So he's saying everybody's in on it. Apparently. Now that is where it goes into, I think the mafia of. I don't. I feel bad like even saying they're saying there's a Mormon mafia. Yeah, there's a. There's a religion. I already said Mormon mafia. That's what they said. That's the name that they're saying. I have no idea. I'm not alleged. I am not about to start accusing religions of things on a hobby podcast. No, thank you. But that is just more craziness that's coming out of this. And it ends with bricks and minifigures. Corporate has filed federal litigation lawsuits against both the YouTuber for stalking and harassment and the original Lego collection owner for defamation. So they're Suing the guys who originally were selling those for defamation. So it's kind of. It is, it's a, it's a dramatic. It is a big deal. Yeah. Because this is a franchise and this does hurt all Bricks and Minifigs franchisees or I know that our Bricks and Minifigs. The owner actually put out a video also. I did not get a chance to watch it. I looked back to see if it was still up. It's not up. Oh, they took it down. They took it down. I bet you corporate said no. Yeah. So there's a lot. And there's a lot more details in there. Like bricks and minifigs allegedly, like on a, on a call said that you could fight this, but to the original franchisees said that we. You could fight this, but just so you know, we have more money than you and we're just going to draw it out and you're going to run out of money. Where did you hear the Mafia part? Where did that enter? I saw it on like a YouTube video or some. Something like that. Okay. So, yeah. No real evidence. No, not that I know of. But like there is some digging because I'm assuming this goes back to the reckless Ben guy who's accusing both company leadership and local police of misconduct. Right. And they're saying there's some kind of involvement because he went to serve the new owner of the franchise papers to sue them. And the police was. The police was already there looking to arrest reckless Ben because. Yeah, there's a lot of really. And then that's why they closed the store. Because if they close the store, then there's no obligations to play payout on the consignment. And like all this stuff. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot of really legalese and it's just messed up because they should do the right thing and either honor the consistent, the, the consignment or just give the Legos back. Oh, yeah, 100%. But obviously apparently the $200,000 is. Here's the thing. I can't imagine there's a ton of margin in Lego. I mean, maybe there is like these Lego pieces. Honestly, I shouldn't even say that because I have no, I really have no clue if there's a ton of margin. But I just don't, I don't view like our bricks and minifig store as being like this huge money making opportunity. But I mean, if there's a franchise of them, they must be selling something to make it worth the while. I mean, it's like it's like a GameStop for Mini. It's like a GameStop for Lego sets. Yeah. I go in there and you, hey, I have a LEGO set here that I want to get rid of it. It's maybe it's a current LEGO set. Let's just think of, I don't know, the Game Boy handheld LEGO set that you see everywhere, right. Like you have a brand new one and you bought it for like 30 bucks and you just need some quick cash. And they're like, all right, I'll give you $15 for it. But I mean, that's not a lot of money, though. Yeah, but if you do that over and over and over and over and over again, if you. That would be basing it on the fact that there would be that many people going through. There's a lot of turnover coming in. I just don't think there's that many people in our local area or in many local areas, unless you're in just a big metropolitan city where there's going to be that much demand on LEGO products that you can sustain a company, a brick and mortar company for that matter. Staying open with, dude, it's just like grading. Have you been to the Mini. The bricks and minifigs? No, not inside. So you go in there, their whole showcase is nothing but minifigures. What are they? What's the values on some of these? Some of them are like over 300, 200 bucks. So like one minifigure is like, you know, let's say the average is like 50 bucks a minifigure, depending on what you get. Right. So it's just like trading cards. I do feel like I have grossly underestimated because I know there's a high end. Right. We're talking about $200,000 worth of Star Wars Lego. So there's obviously people who are willing to pay, but that is also like where my knowledge kind of lands. When I think of high end. I think of, oh, Star wars legos. I don't think of much other legos that are like demanding. I mean, Bion. Look at Bionicles and Ninjago and like all these other sets that I remember. What it. What was the guy who we had on the podcast to talk legos who had like the. He was on the rares. Yeah, Pawn Stars trying to. Yeah, that Bionicles. Yeah, some. But that's. I just view that as more, more rare because that, the way he talked about it didn't seem like it came up all the time. So, yeah, I, I am fully willing to admit that I am not the expert on the issue. And this is just more of the news story. These stores also have, like, auxiliary products there that could help with your legos. Like, I went in there and about, like, a display case for all my Speed Champion sets or, like, stands or new pieces or things like that. You know, there's other things that they have birthday parties there. Okay. So there's, there's definitely reason to go in there and buy other than just like, hey, I'm looking for a LEGO piece. I'm looking for maybe accessories to show off my Legos. And that's sounds like a card shop in its own way. Right? It's exact. It's a very card shop feel. Okay, well, all of the, the fanfare out of the way for that story. I do think it's interesting like, that there's a dramatic story like that in lego. I just don't. And this is, again, ignorance. Right. I just don't see that being as dramatic of a hobby as, like, the card hobby has been. But again, I'm much more involved in this side of things, so. All right. You need to build some LEGO sets, bro. Well, I, I, I got into it, and then it's like, just as fast as I got into it. I got, like, a few other LEGO sets. I still have, like, my Darth Vader mask that I've yet to build. And I've got, like, one other one, too. Oh, my Mario one. My Mario Kart one that, you know, they came out with a Luigi one. Oh, did they really? Yeah, man. Yeah. I still haven't. Those are both still in the box. I haven't built either of those yet. One of these days. Well, I need to be, like, snowed in or something. Internet's out. And just that's what I'll do. I'll just sit there and build Legos. Dude, I love. Dude, building Legos is just for me. I can just sit there and, like, not think of anything else. And I'm just building one Lego, one bag at a time. I do like that. That's divided up into bags. I love, I love that, man. And, you know, some of fast, new Fast and furious cars are coming out. So just pop in a Fast and furious and put in, watch your own sky, the skyline. And I think we were watching Back to the Future when I built my DeLorean. See you. Which you got the little mini DeLorean. Yeah. Like, it's, it's not the smallest one, but it's like, I don't know. Oh, you Got the regular. The regular size one, I think so I don't know what regular is. Right. So I don't. Do you. I can tell you it's not the size of an actual DeLorean. The Speed Champions one is like little. Not that small. No, no. Yeah. But anyways, yeah, there's a lot of fun in the LEGO world. This was a less fun story, but figured we'd share it. WWE Cosmic Lunar Box. Yeah. So you didn't know this was a thing and I didn't know it was a thing for the longest time until recently. But in any, any Cosmic product, if it's NFL, if it's NBA, in this, in this case we're talking wwe. We've been breaking WWE Cosmic for the past week. We're going to be breaking it again this coming Thursday. So if you guys want any spots, we've been pulling nothing but heat. One of the high. At this rate, I don't know, there are going to be spots left, I think. So. One of the big cards that we hit, shout out to Bodega cards. She had an added 10 milk Milky Way. Milky Way marks inserts of the Undertaker Auto, which is amazing. But you were talking about the lunar boxes. So I don't know how rare these boxes are, but apparently. And apparently, apparently you can open up a box and usually the packs are silver or whatever. You open up the box and the box, the packs, all of them are red and in each pack you're going to get an add of 10 lunar card, which in you know, an out of 10 is black usually. But this one would be red with a different refractor pattern. Okay. And I think that's pretty cool because you're like continuing to chase. Yeah, for sure. Something that's like super rare. And I've only seen like one breaker actually have one. So at this point, do you know the odds of what a lunar. I don't know what the odds are because I don't know if they necessarily publish that. Like they may, but I would think like a lunar box is typically when they do like a God box or something like that because it happens in cards, you know, non trading or sports. Sports cards. Non sport cards as well as Pokemon. But they don't really advertise the odds of like a God box like that happening. True. So I don't think we, we will know. But it is a cool little aspect to it. And here's what's great to see is like the Cosmic set. This, this Cosmic card set has sold actually much quicker, much easier than most of the other ones. And again, I think this goes back to the fact that we finally have one that's more reasonably priced. And not only that, but out of all the WWE products that I've broken, this has been my favorite art out of all of them. Oh, I love the design. I love the art. I love the. The pictures that they use for these cards for the wrestlers. And it's still a. Like the. Whatever they call it, the Chromatic. Like, it's a Chrome set, right? Sure. So it's better than a paper product. And the. Just the. The solar system theme with the planetary pursuits and everything that's going on about it. I really like this product. I love this. I like it. It's my favorite. It's. It's my favorite. At this point in time, this will be one of the busiest weeks we've had all year for breaking because it's masterwork, Be friends and cosmic coming. And then just in the same week, and we're not including the week that we had before because you did Masterworks. Yeah, I did Chrome. And then next week you got Disney Chrome. And then two weeks after that. Yeah, there's a ton of stuff coming out. It's just a very busy time. I encourage everybody because we've had a number of you listeners come over and just hang out in the shows. Even if you don't want to buy anything, come and hang out. We've actually had a number who come in and like, hey, this is my first break ever. And I will say not. It doesn't happen every time, but I feel like almost this is. I feel like I'm being. I'm being very dirty. It feels dirty to say this. A lot of the times when they come in and they're like, oh, this is the first time we end up hitting them something. Or at least I have hit them something now. There are times where I remember it's like, oh, it was my first break. I didn't get anything. And then I just felt bad and I ended up sending them something anyway just because I was like, thank you for coming and letting me be the first guy you broke with. But all that being, nope, I'm not going to do it. That would have been the. Yeah, you're a zero. You're in a clean slate right now. No, I'm not at zero. I've definitely said it a couple times. But I. I do say this because I appreciate people coming in and hanging out, whether they're buying or not, like, just to come in, talk, you know, just Be a part of the crowd. It makes it more fun when there's more people in the chat talking about glizzies and, you know, whatever they're doing on the weekend and maybe not nothing about the cards that we just pulled. So you're encouraged to come in and hang out with us whenever we're. We're live, whether you want to actually be involved in the buying side of it or not. Is that true for you? We talk wrestling on my. My thing. You can't talk wrestling. We talk wrestling. What's on your hat, by the way? It's a. It's a Blue Jays hat, but it's green and red, and there's no blue in it. Correct. You would just think, you know, blue Jays. There'd be some blue. It's a Blue Jays. Literally no blue in that Blue Jays hat. Well, that's your show. This is, you know, what we've done. This has been the quickest. This has been the shortest episode, and last week was the longest. Not enough nonsense there is. Yeah, Well, I felt like there was a little bit of a hodgepodge earlier on. We were. We were getting into a lot of good detail, but at the same time, it took up a lot of my. My mental power, I think. I think we covered everything that was interesting or of note at this point. Oh, you know what? That's not true. There's. There's two other things. If I actually. If we stopped and thought about it, we could fill another hour easy. Because I'm just thinking like, oh, my shoulder's feeling better. And I was going to. Did you end up going to the doctor? So I went to get a massage because my muscles have been so tight that the chiropractor hasn't been able to do much. And, like, my back has been out of alignment. And she's like, yeah, that can be affecting your shoulder somewhat too. Yeah. And what is. What did he say about it again? Well, the chiropractor said that it is not torn, but it's just, you know, there's like partial tears or something like that. But what it was. I got this massage super painful. Cause they did deep tissue, and I wasn't used to it. And I mean, there were times where I'm audibly going, like, literally that high pitch. And I go after the massage to the chiropractor, like, a day or so later, and she's doing what she can to try and sportsboard's falling apart over here. Well, it's just the shoulder. I'm just trying to get the shoulder back to normal. And she's like, yeah, you're able to do all these movements that someone with a torn rotator cuff couldn't do. So it's like, you. You don't have that, but you're still. It's weird that you're still having, like, so much pain. And someone had suggested doing dry needling or acupuncture. Did acupuncture. Did you do acupuncture? Yeah. Have you ever done it before? No, I've never done it before. How was that? Where do you go doing that? Game changer. Let me just. Everybody listening. If you've never done it. Game changer. For muscle soreness, relief. I. She. She just has it, like. Cause she does. They call it dry needling. She said in Tennessee, they have to call it dry needling unless you do, like, 800 hours of acupuncture training or something like that. So it's. Excuse me, I got choked up there. It's essentially the same thing. They just take this tiniest little needle, like, maybe an inch long or something, and she sticks it into the muscle. And what that does is causes more blood flow to that muscle. What's crazy is when she would stick it into one in my shoulder, she was like, oh, wow. Like, she would see, like, the ripples. The muscle would just kind of, like, spasm out. And then if she touched, like, just the top of the needle that's sticking out, I would, like. It would be like a shock of pain. Almost like a tens machine or something was on me, electrocuting me. And so she would say, okay, that one's not ready yet. We'll just leave it alone. But then another minute or two later, she would touch it. It's like, oh, it didn't do anything. I didn't feel that shock. And so after a few minutes, I think there was like, six total in different muscles in my shoulder. She got done. I got up, and I kid you not, it was already different. But by the next day, it was night and day different. Like, I can do whatever now. Like, there's easy there, tiger. But I'm just saying, like, it's crazy. Like, I had no idea that that was such an effective tool for muscle releasing because I had a lot of inflammation and those muscles just were not getting looser. And that's what some of the problem was. Granted, I'm still healing from whatever partial tear, whatever I did to it, but it's so, so much better. So this is your. Here's your promotion for all you hobbyists in the chiropractic and acupuncture realms. Check it out. I mean, it's not. There are things like where they're doing acupuncture, harness your chi or something like that. That's totally different than when they do it for muscles, for muscle relaxation. Muscles is a totally different thing. So. Yeah, but that was not what I was going to mention. That's good stuff, though, right? I'm glad Sports board's on the up and up. Well, and I mentioned it, too, because, like, I. Every time, for years and years of doing this show or doing scn, it's like all I've found that is consistent across all of it is people who listen are very similar to me and. Or whoever's talking in one way or another because they relate in some way or another. And for us, it's obvious. There's a lot of men that listen to this show, men and women, but a lot of men who are around our same age and furries who experience very similar things in life that we do. So it's like, well, if I've experienced it, I'll throw it out there because it helped me so much. It'd be a shame to not tell someone else. Well, there you go. What I was gonna say before I got into all that sort of your personal life on this podcast, you know that? Yeah, I do. Yeah. It's cathartic in a way. Yeah. I try not to. I'm more of a man of a mystery here. That's okay. You can do that. That's fine. I'm not. Yeah, it's a. I'll keep my do you my masseuse sessions. But if you find something helpful in your life, don't you want to share it with others? Like, if there's something good, don't you want others to be able to benefit from it as well? Oh, I suppose so. Oh, my goodness. And that reminds me of the thing I was going to talk about from last week. The. So I teased this last week as far as the. Where you're finding all Disney 100 cards. Where are you finding Disney 100? Yeah. All right. I almost got away without saying it, but I will go ahead. And I didn't know if you were going to tell us because you wouldn't let me tell my other thing. What was your other thing? About the Disney product that's releasing and someone's going to be signing in it that we can't. Well, that's not. Yeah, that's a. That's an embargoed information. We can't Talk about that. I might have. Don't. You are gonna get cut out. You list my number, you list my phone number and a break. And now you're trying to do this. I didn't do that. Yes, you did. You freaking liar. This guy is walking on the edge, I'm gonna tell you that right now. I did not do that. Yes, you did. All right, before I get into where I've been able to, I guess, take advantage of inconsistencies in markets, let me just share this. There was some news about the $100,000 TCG tournament. So that's the product rush of Icor. Upper deck is hosting essentially this big tournament where it's a three by three. So you have to have like three members, I believe, on your team to compete. It's $80 a ticket. It's going from. Oh, let me see. It opens May 17. And for registration, if you want to enter this tournament, it is going to have $100,000 prize pool altogether. That's when it opened. So, like, oh, gotcha. So you could start entering. But at this point in time, it's still open. I think it starts July 30th and goes through August 2nd is when the eventually is held. So that's the 2026 Rush of I Core Championship. $100,000 prize pool. 3v3 is the team format. And they do say beginners are welcome. So it is in Indianapolis if you guys are living around there anyway, maybe something to check out. So I want to start playing a new. You want to start playing tcg? I would love to get into. What do you want to. What do you want to get into? Loricana. I think we need to get into a little. I think Lorcana would be fun. I think it's fun. From what I've heard is it's like one of those where it's a little bit easier to get started with. Like, it's like a good beginner's tcg. So, yeah, I'd be. Dude, I forgot about this. We were talking about this on the stream. Laura kind of got mentioned and I told everybody. I'm like, I think people are sleeping in. Laura K. And so I've had this treasure trove on my window seal for like the longest time because I was going to open it up on the stream. What's a treasure trove? It's like an ETB for Laura Kana. They call it treasure trove. Oh. Anyways, so it's just sitting there, right? I'm like, oh, here's a treasure trove. Here. And then I mentioned that you. You had mentioned last week that there was a set that just went like. Like crazy. Right? Mm. And it was this. The fabled. It was a fabled. That's what you had. And I looked at it because I bought like, I bought like two booster boxes and I bought like maybe like six or five treasure troves to open. Right. And I never got around to opening the treasure troves. Okay, the treasure trove, guess how much it's worth now. I think it's like 350 bucks. You're close. $283 for a treasure trove? That's insane. For the lower kind of fabled treasure trove, it's $283. That has a. Let's. That's kind of outpacing any recent Pokemon. Do you know, Trainer box. Do you know what's causing that? Well, I mean, all the. I mean, I knew right off the bat when I looked at this set and we talked about this set on the podcast. It's got the Winnie the Pooh Epic. It's got the Ariel, the. The Eye to Eye Enchanted card, the Steamboat Willie Enchanted. That's. And it has the Mickey Mouse and the Minnie Mouse on there too. The two iconic cards that are on there. And dude, this. I think that this new set. Gosh, what is it called? Wilds Unknown. Yes. Also has very good cards, just like Fable. And so if you are looking to probably invest in Loricana, I know I mentioned it a little bit on the podcast last week, but definitely pick up some of the Wild Unknown booster boxes. Oh, I went looking for some this weekend. I actually bought in. So I went to that shop up in Winehouse. Yeah. And they didn't have any boxes for sale, but they did have packs. So I bought like three packs and I was like, did you open? Of course you opened. Oh, I ripped them in the shop. I bought three packs of that. I bought three packs of Bill Nye the Science Guy trading cards, which I did not know existed. So those are being kept. And. But these I went ahead and ripped. I didn't get anything, so I bought five more. I pulled a iconic Pocahontas. Oh, that. Which is cool value on that. I think it was like a few bucks. It's not crazy. It's not like the most rare or anything. Then I pulled two more Iconics. Actually, I pulled a Rex from. I don't think Iconics. Like, Iconics is the largest. Like, the hardest card to pull, so I doubt you pulled an icon. Oh, was I oh, is that the one that's. Well, because there's only like a couple. I have to check the rarity level. But yeah, it's not the most rare because they are. The Rex I pulled, I think was like 10 to 12 bucks or something. And then I whole day Sleepy or Doc, one of the seven dwarves. Gotcha. From Wild's unknown. This is all from Wild Zone. So here's the Buzz Iconics are. Those are the top of the line. There's only two Iconics in this set. The Buzz Lightyear and then the Merida. Oh, yeah. From Brave. From Brave. And then you have the Enchantments Enchanted. Okay. And then you have the lot of Enchanted. Enchanted. Yeah, you'd have to go. Those are the two I pulled. Whatever the step under Enchanted was. Gotcha. By the way, if you're wondering when we're talking about these prizes, there's apparently two listed for the Buzz Lightyear iconic. The Jungle Ranger starting at $5,400. When you look at the TCG player, do you look at market price or the listing price? You look at them, you look at whatever the solds are and you got to make sure on top left, you change it to near mint. Okay. Sometimes it defaults into like another random. I see. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, I mean, right now there's. I don't. And I look at the market price. The market price is different. Obviously the market price is around 2,400, but the listings are at like 5,400 of the lowest end. The Merida is at a little over a thousand for the market price. So. Yeah, those are crazy. It is still nothing compared compared to what that fabled Mickey Mouse does. The fabled Mickey Mouse is. I think it's like two. Oh, actually, hang on. The Brave Little Prince. So this is what I'm not sure of the listing. There's one listing at $10,000, but the market price is showing much lower. It's like at 1900 or something. I thought that card was doing like in the 2002-3. Yeah, no, that card. I'm looking at it right now. It's the Brave Little Prince iconic. Seventeen hundred dollars. It is seven. Oh, so that's what. Okay, so that's really crazy. And then the Minnie Mouse Sweetheart Princess is eleven hundred dollars. So those boxes do six or six hundred eighty dollars. Maybe it's because there's just more. There's more really nice cards. You got the Honey Wizard. Winnie the Pooh. Exactly. The Ariel, the Eye to Eye. Yeah. Okay. Steamboat Willie. You have The Circle of Life card. Dumbo Bell, Hades, Scarlet Beast Power Line. Max Goof. Yeah. Mulan. That is an awesome Pongo Genie. Jasmine, Cruella Deville Fire Set. So that makes more sense why those boxes are going for. Wait, you said it was a. What was the name? Treasure Trove. Treasure troves. Or what the their ETBs are. So a booster box goes for 600 and 600 bucks, basically. Whereas a booster box of wilds unknown. The Pixar one, the newer one, that one goes for 233. Yeah, but it still just came out. But you said. But I mean the. That has a bigger card. Overall, the fact that the Buzz Lightyear market price is 2400, that's higher than any of the other ones in there. Now, granted, there's just not as many opportunities to hit something, but. But it still has some nice cards. You have the alien in there, you have the. What is it? The incredible cards are in there. It's the first set to feature Pixar. Yeah, Pixar in it. So I think that's why I'll do well. So there's your unplanned Lorcana talk. Yeah, someone teaches how to play. That would be kind of fun. All right. Actually, something else. Oh, tell us about your Disney 100. So Disney 100, I have been buying internationally. Now, it's not. People were just like, oh, it's your Irish connection. Or the guys over in the uk. The third down guys. No, it's not. I wish, but they don't have 2023 Disney 100 or at least Congo connection. I'm buying straight from the jungles of the Congo. No. So this is something that everybody can do and I'm going to give you some ways to do it, at least in the UK for sure. In the other EU country, well, UK is not part of the EU anymore, but in the EU countries, I'll also mention you just have to have somebody in the EU that you can send to. Now, there are services. I don't have one that I can recommend like I do for the uk, but for me personally, what I've been doing is for the uk, third down, they actually have a system called the UK Locker. Actually, let me do you justice and actually give you the exact name of this thing, because I have since forgotten. It is called Card Locker. It's a monthly subscription. I think it's like 2021. It's £15, whatever that equates to in dollars. But for people in the us or people outside the US or people outside the UK who want to have cards or anything that they buy there in the UK and have it shipped to them in one package, as opposed to buying multiple packages, having them all shipped over, saving yourself on shipping costs. And when it comes time to ship, you can tell them the value of your package. And that's where they determine tariffs and things like that. That is how you are able to buy over and over. Say the uk, for example, right? So they'll give you an address. You add that to your ebay addresses, bam, you can start purchasing from eBay UK, that is. It's a pretty simple, straightforward approach. The UK Disney 100. I can tell you the boxes are now. We're now at the point where I can't get any Disney 100 boxes at prices where I was pretty happy. They have now gone up because I've bought like four of them over the last few days. And I made such a stupid mistake. I had gotten one guy who had two listed. He had him listed for, like, I don't. I think it was like 2500 pounds or 2500 euros, which equates to almost like close to 3,3000 dollars a box. And I got him down to like 2150 in best offers. And. But I was. What I was trying to do is get him down to 2,000, because the last few ones I had bought were like, for €1700. The one before that was like 1800. So I'm like, man, I want to pay 2100. Well, stupid me, because over the same time period, over the last week or two where I've been trying to buy, apparently several others have. And last night I go back to this guy and I'd already maxed out the amount of times you can send an offer to him. And I'm just like, send him a message. I'm like, hey, before I just buy these outright, you know, like, is there any, like, can you come down to 2400? It's like 10 o'. Clock. I finished listing my vee friends, breaks and all that stuff. I'm about to go to bed. I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna pull the trigger. I'm tired of waiting because I've literally been messaging trying to get this down for two weeks. And I go back and it's one box left and it's now 3,000 and there's no more best offer. He's like, not taking any offers on it. So I missed out on my chance to get it at 2150 and then again at my chance to get it €2500 and now it's €3000, which is again equating to like what, 30 cent is like 3500 bucks US so that, that doesn't mean that you can't still find something. Because you know what I did right after that, I was a little bummed out. So I went to Google and I searched EU countries that have dedicated ebay sites and I found Italy, France, Spain. But wouldn't those be in Italy or Italian and in Spanish? Google Translate, baby. That's. No, I'm talking about the cards. No, no, no, because they only printed this in the uk. This is the only place where they printed. They only printed it in English. So I'm out there buying up these boxes if I, if I can find them. I did find one in France that I'm shipping over to my. Actually, this one, I don't. This one is not being shipped to the uk. This one's getting shipped to my connection in Germany. So I've got a guy in Germany because German. Germany has a huge card market. In fact, I would say some of the best Disney 100 and other car deals you can find is Germany's ebay website. The prices are not nearly as high. The issue is when it comes to getting those cards out of the country. And then that's where you just have to make sure whatever card service you're, or whatever shipping service you're using, you can either have somebody over there that you know or use a shipping service that will allow you to dictate pricing on, you know, the value of those contents as they come over. But all of the, the minutiae aside, I bought one for like, I think it was like €1700, which came out to be a little under $2000 from, from France. It just had popped up, I just noticed it. That's what I'm saying. There's so many boxes and, or cards that I'm finding over there, I'm like, oh, this is an easy flip for more than I'm going to pay in both the cost of it, including the currency transfer, the tariffs, if there's going to be any tariffs on it, and the shipping costs, I would still make money getting it over here. So if you're doing it in the uk, which again, they have the biggest God on, I'd say they have the biggest card market outside of the US and then it's Germany. But I guarantee there'd be some who would argue Germany and then uk. But if you are buying uk, you need one in the uk. If you're buying in the eu, you can use any of those, like Italy or Germany or France, because they can all ship to each other pretty seamlessly without tariffs and things like that. So that's how I received any of your European boxes. That's a good question. I have not yet. But I do know that the. The guy who I've been sending to in Germany, he's been corresponding with me and he lets me know, like, hey, he's got him. And the one in the uk, I have not gotten that shipped back to me because I've only sent one item there as of right now. Is there any kind of differentiation in the boxes from a UK version than a US version? No, no, exactly the same. If you look at the pictures of them locked like Japanese video games, you know, like, they do not have any noticeable differences. They were all printed in Italy originally anyway, so, yeah, all the boxes. Yeah, that's where UK gets tops. UK prints in Italy, and that's why we're kind of hoping. But not the US ones. So that's the big deal with like 2025, Disney Chrome, they printed somewhere else because I believe the last ones were printed in Italy, but this 2025 was printed in America and the gem rate is 30%. It's terrible. Whereas I think the gem rate was like 50 or 60%, maybe higher. The Italian boxes with the Italian ones. So that's deep in the weeds, man. Oh, I mean, it is, but it's. Hey, if you want to deal, you do what you got to do. And that's, that's the thing. I not only invested in this Disney 100, I really am. Why do you think that Disney, like, in your opinion, like, you're collecting all these Disney 100 boxes, like, do you have a plan for all this collection? Are you just holding right now? I'm holding it, I'm holding it. What are we doing? Like, tell me, what was your reasoning? I have not given the in game enough attention other than I know that in the short term I want to grab them now because I know they're going nowhere but up in value right now. You can't find cases of this product. The singles continue to go up. There's a new record literally every week. Now, granted, I know that's not sustainable and it, I. It would be scary if it was like that because that's how you get a bubble. But as of right now, when we compare to Pokemon or we compare to a lot of sports cards, they are still drastically undervalued for some of the biggest characters out there. That is my main reason. There's a lot of like just hard proof and then just basic common sense that tells me that's an undervalued product. So again, 20, 23, 24 Disney and in some cases all new Disney Chrome releases have some kind of value because you'll have new characters in there that the set collectors, the Disney adults, the people that want to have that as their own, they will need that card. So I continue to look for places where I can find especially the older 20, 23 and 24. And that's. It's dried up in the US at least for any reasonable price. It is dried up. You can't find boxes for like less than 4,000 bucks in the US and cases are I think the only case I've found on ebay. Literally. I think there's one case and I think it's 50,000 plus dollars. There's 12 boxes in it, you know, so I've got, I've got offers on dealer. I'm the highest offer on dealer net for if anybody sells it because currently there's no one selling a box or a case or anything. But if anybody goes to dealing it to sell theirs, I'm the highest offer. I have an offer out there for five cases at $29,000 each. Like I will, I am willing to put in 150 grand about into buying cases if I could. Now I don't think there's actually going to be anybody who does that, but if someone just happened to be like, oh yeah, I forgot I was sitting on all this. Oh, what are the prices? Oh, I'll go out and sell it right now for this guy who's putting out an offer. I would gladly do it. So it's, it's come to the point where if you want to find it, you can. There's still opportunities. You just gotta look outside the US and that's what I found was the most helpful. So there you go. That's. Man, that is a lot of money you're investing in Disney 100, man. Well, I mean I haven't like deep, but that's. I also. Why would you buy. Hang on, I haven't bought any of that yet. Other than those four boxes and the four cars. Yeah, yeah, true. You know, like I want to buy, but I, I can't. And what, what makes you want to buy the boxes instead of like the wax? Because wax is almost inherently always holds value better than like a, like a big time. Now that's rated Mickey Mouse or I Mean, well, now that you kind of price down that, right? Yeah, it depends. Because like even just the refractor Mickey's are going for, we're getting close to $1,000 on just the refractor. Not even the numbered stuff. So yeah, it's, it's. We're getting to that point where I know there's still going to be room for growth on the single side, but I would prefer to have the wax if I can get it because I think that is where I can do the most damage as far as like bang for my buck goes. Because I. I can buy a box and flip that a little bit easier than I might be able to. A single card. In some instances, just depending on, you know, the collector out there may be wanting a Mickey Mouse, but maybe someone else wants some different character altogether. And they know for a fact that if I were selling a Mickey Mouse, they're not going to get the Elsa they're looking for by me selling a Mickey Mouse card. But if I have a box for sale, there's a chance that they could have a low numbered Elsa in there. So yeah, that's my thinking. And so I go back to the card locker with third down trading cards. That is the service I've been using in the UK for buying. And if you're outside of that, then you just gotta find another service that nails you. Do you remember the guy that came to our booth when we set up at the show? His name was Adam. That he was. He was setting up a new show in Franklin. He. Him and his wife opened up a hobby box of WWE Chrome and pulled the one of one Rhea Ripley signed auto and they just messaged me. He said it sold and it sold for 10k. That's insane. That's. Congratulations to him. $10,000 for the Raya Ripley 101. Rhea Ripley. Excuse me. Did Gulman buy it? That, That's. No, that's a different wrestler. Who's he collect? He collects. Oh no. That. Yeah. Becky Lynch. It's mama. Who does. We'll get it right eventually. Guys, I. There's a lot of. I want to say characters. I guess they are characters. If they are characters technically. Right. All right. She's not signing her name, so it's Demi. 30 minutes later. We are no longer at our shortest episode. Come on. This will never. We will never record to shorty. Shortest episode going forward. That is the end of your show. We'll be back next week. I'm trying to think there. There's other stuff. There is one little thing That I want to talk about back to the bricks and minifigs thing. This. I just thought about it because we're. We're looking to maybe opening up a Patreon, you know, some of the content that that YouTuber is on. Patreon and bricks and minifigs. I, like, sent a bunch of letters, like, telling Patreon to, like, deactivate his account, and the CEO of Patreon came on and said, we're absolutely not okay, and if you have an issue, you can sue us. Oh, dang. Okay. That's kind of cool. I mean, unless it's something I don't like and then I'll be unhappy about it. But I'm glad that they are standing up for the rights of their users. The. Oh, there was. I did find out. I said this back. When we're talking about Marvel Chrome, the Cloud Chrome cards, there were definitely numbered ones last year. I don't know why I was thinking they were. I thought there were some red. So you. Yeah, well, there's like super fractures too, so. Yeah. I don't know why I spaced because I think I pulled. I think I pulled the Spider Man. Was it the Cloud? That's cool. That was out of five. I pulled a Spider man out of five. Out of last year's product. I can't remember if it's the Cloud Chrome or not. What would be so in this WW or in this Marvel. The Marvel Chrome that's coming out, you have your S tier characters would be probably what? Spider Man. We're ending the show, Ray. Are we ending the show? Yes, we're done. No, we're done. We've passed it. What are some characters that you think that would be goodbyes in the new Marvel Chrome set to release this week or next week? It doesn't release for three more weeks. And three more weeks. Let me rephrase that. What are some good, undervalued characters that you should buy from the new Marvel Chrome set releasing? Mickey Mouse. That's your show. I was trying to work in a. A video, a clip video, and you totally, like, spaced out. There's no where I've already lost. We're at an hour and a half and you had to get back to work. I'm like, I'm trying to think of you at the same time. I'm trying to get some content. I know you're actually doing the thing that I would prefer as do is get more content, but I can't now because the listeners are watching and listening to all of this and I feel very on the spot, and I feel embarrassed. So I'll tell you what. Actually, I've never felt embarrassed in life. I will give you an opportunity. So when you go home tonight, look at the checklist and you see which characters are undervalued in your opinion. And then you make a video talking about the new release of Marvel Chrome, and you tell me some of the underrated characters. Okay. Can we do that? I'll try to. I'll try my darndest, because I don't know. We went through all the new characters, and I don't know if I need some undervalued characters, not new characters. That's hard to say without seeing all the cards, though. I need to see all the cards to know what's undervalued. That's one of those where I have to have the product out before I could tell you who's undervalued, because I can tell you who the characters like are more popular or maybe less popular than it should be. But I couldn't tell you, like, last year, it was like the Shark Boy or something. Or Shark Boy. Was it Shark Boy? Is that the name of the character? Jeffrey the Shark. Jeffrey the Shark. That's what it was. Jeffrey the Shark. That one I could have guessed Shark Boy is also a wrestler, but I didn't know for sure would be a popular character, but I would have guessed it was, and it did turn out to be. You can do that with Vee friends as well. Just saying. Well, that one I'd be more. I'm trying to get some more content out of Sports Boy here. I. Jeff the Land Shark, by the way, is in this product, the Marvel product. We have to end. We're ending the show. Goodbye, everybody. We'll see you on the next one. Say goodbye, Ray. Bye.