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Is Cooper Flagg the Next Wemby? Potential Monopoly Investigation Coming

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The hobby news cycle is moving fast. Just days after the Collectors/Beckett announcement, a U.S. Congressman has sent a letter to the FTC asking for an investigation into monopolistic practices in the trading card industry. Is this a legitimate legal threat, or just political grandstanding? Plus, the hobby hype for Cooper Flagg has officially reached dangerous levels. With his first licensed Topps Chrome cards hitting the market, collectors are already paying NBA superstar prices for an unproven rookie. Is the hobby losing its mind? In this episode, Mike and Jesse dive deep into the numbers surrounding the Cooper Flagg Topps Chrome release. Mike crushes the math, comparing Flagg's current pre-sale pricing, where base cards are hitting $250-$400, directly against established talent Victor Wembanyama. They discuss why the "new toy syndrome" combined with the return of licensed Topps Chrome basketball has created a market bubble that makes zero statistical sense. If you are thinking about investing in Cooper Flagg right now, you need to watch this market reality check first. Later, they discuss the polarizing tweets of Geoff Wilson (Sports Card Investor). Is he "out of touch," or is he actually the smartest marketer in the room playing the engagement algorithm perfectly? Finally, the guys open up the mailbag to discuss sunk cost fallacies in flipping, why retail pricing is never coming down, and who ranks as the most collectible "bust" in sports history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I hate to look for the hobby. I mean, the fact that it's in mainstream media, like, hey, there's potential antitrust and monopolistic practices. And I think there was a market. There's a whole layout on this thing, market manipulation. So that I hate. That's the feel of the day. The uh? Yep. Just that's a, it's an, uh, week maybe. Tired? Only have one podcast this week, though. Think, that's a, it's a week maybe. Tired.

0:38.8

Only have one podcast this week, though. Think about that. Take Thursday's energy, pile it into this one. I'm gonna do a Thursday night live on YouTube again. I like those little lives. Oh, okay. Hang it out. Day live, all right. Oh, Thursday's a holiday, isn't it? Thursday's Christmas. Christmas day, yeah? I said it two minutes ago. I already freaking forgot.

0:40.1

I think it's Wednesday.

0:40.9

It's Thursday. The episode today is going to be, I'm sure, great. We have a lot of things to talk about. I would like to go ahead and just say the comments of Jess... What did I do? Oh, not me. It is funny how you are, but I want to talk to you privately about the self-obsession that's been going on a lot lately. I do love you, but we got to talk about it where I'm not always going to be talking about you. Thank you. In this case, I'm going to talk about some of the comments I've gotten for my take on the Beckett

1:12.6

versus PSA collector thing.

1:14.9

Yep.

1:15.7

I will say one last time.

1:19.8

I'm not changing my stance as far as like...

1:21.1

Did you listen back to the show?

1:23.0

No.

1:23.6

Okay.

1:24.1

Why?

1:25.8

Do you think I sounded worse? Do I think you said, I, I, you know what? I need to do something and I've, I need to stay out of the way for a bit. I apologize. No, no, no, no, no. You will only do that if I'm going to hang myself. If it's something that's going to promote me, then you'll be feel free to talk over me. That's okay, though. What we're

1:45.1

going to talk about is I just need to say, the whole take on where I view PSA or collectors

1:53.9

and Beckett, I maintain that I do still think and hope that that's the case. There's been

1:59.6

nothing to show that they're going to do the same thing they did with SCC to Beckett as of yet. They have said that they're going to use the whole capacity thing. This is all my take not based on the fact that they are a sponsor of the show. Obviously, if they were a sponsor of the show, I don't think Mike would be taking the take, or they are a sponsor of the show. But if that was an influence, I don't think Mike would take the same take that he took. So at this point in time, I'm not changing anything. I just don't care for the whole like, oh, he's being paid to, I don't do it because I get a sponsorship payment. I do it because I try and think more positively about what's going on.

2:37.2

That's all. Okay. Yeah. And that being said, I did reach out to somebody within the

2:44.5

universe of PSA to see, I told him, listen, made some comments on the last podcast. I'm not going to lie. I'm going

2:52.5

to need you guys to make sure you fulfill what you're saying because they're going to save Beckin.

2:57.2

Sportsboy said so. I will not be, I will not go down for having a positive take about this.

3:03.7

And the comment back with some other things was, I don't think you've got to worry. So. Okay. I think, I mean, even like that point, I think the, not everyone, obviously, I think the overwhelming sentiment was you were very naive with your take on Instagram. And that spilled onto the show, which is kind of how I felt. Like you on Instagram, you were like, I just talked to Ryan, everything's fine.

3:24.6

And it was like, man, but, and you, even saying like, hey, we, you haven't seen anything to suggest they would do with Beckett. The only thing we've seen, though, is the same statement with a company and then they did that to that company. Yeah, it just seems a little naive. The difference being is, I guess, the one-on-one conversation that I

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