PTFO - 23 and Me: Our Worldwide Hunt for the Missing, Million-Dollar Jordan Rookie Cards

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Forty years ago this week, the Chicago Bulls drafted Michael Jordan — giving rise to the holiest of basketball grails. Twenty-three autographed Jordan rookie cards would be scattered across the globe, in the form of Wonka-esque golden tickets. But at last check, nine of these cards had vanished. Correspondent Bradley Campbell gets to the bottom of a seven-figure mystery — spanning four decades, three continents, black-market conspiracies and an armored-car robber — that presaged the modern era of sports collectibles as an asset class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	And there's like 50 fricking Michael Jordan rookie cards all stacked up and I was like,
0:12.0	what and where the
0:13.2	ff did he get these right after this ad.
0:18.2	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Are you done
0:35.0	doing with your gray hairs?
0:37.0	Yes, I'm for calling him white.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	Great just makes me sad.
0:42.0	Why it? I'm like, okay, maybe it's stress induced.
0:43.8	Well, I wanted to convince myself that.
0:45.2	I want to remind you why we're here today.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:47.4	Which is another, I would say, almost disturbing marker of our,
0:56.3	of our senescence. The NBA drafted this week. 40 years ago, really, Michael Jordan got drafted.
1:01.2	40 years ago. That's like a completely different like we used to write letters back then. Yes. But even more
1:07.8	important to me than then paper is cardboard. Okay, so I don't know if you collected sports cards growing up, but I did and I still
1:22.0	viscerally, remember the high.
1:26.4	The high of opening up a pack of, let's say,
1:28.7	9293 Skybox or Upper Deck.
1:31.9	And feeling as I put my fingers to the foil pack like everything was possible.
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