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Sports Cards Nonsense

Topps Conference Review + Massive Card Release Week

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gioseffi and Jesse Gibson are back from the Topps Industry Conference and joined by Jason Shepherd of Shep’s Cards to break down all the news out of Arizona, as well as one of the biggest release weeks in the hobby. They dive into the top takeaways from the conference, including what Topps revealed about the future of football products, the conversation around wax pricing, and what all of it means for collectors and shops. The episode also covers a packed product calendar, from Topps Chrome Football to Marvel Finest and Disney Neon, along with a bigger-picture discussion about hobby growth, market demand, and whether the release schedule is starting to feel too crowded. Later, they’re joined by Steve from Filthbomb Breaks to talk about Filthbomb’s expansion to eBay Live, why the platform is a major opportunity for singles, and the launch of Filthbomb’s first official sports break on eBay Live, Monday night at 6 pm ET. Our listeners get the Harry’s Plus Trial Set for only $10 at Harrys.com/NONSENSE #Harryspod #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Topps, listen to me. Do not do this, where we have Finest and Neon in the same week as NFL Chrome,

0:09.1

the very first release. Why would you do this? It's hurting me.

0:15.0

Well, we are back in studio. We've already talked about suicide and cancer, so we're good.

0:20.1

Like we can talk about cards now. Did you want to recap what we were just talking about just the last seven minutes? You want to kind of give a synopsis or are you want to move on? I'm following your lead today, bud. You tell me if you would like to continue with that conversation or not, because I feel like we're going to get it edited out either way. Rebecca will not allow it. Rebecca works for us, so I wouldn't worry about that. And only for another couple days, so. Mary pregnancy, she's about to give birth. That's an exciting thing. We come back from the Tots Conference. We've brought with us our good panel, Jason Shepard, from Shep's Cards and Collectibles.

0:54.6

How are you, sir?

1:10.1

Good. Thanks for letting me jump in today. Well, you're welcome. Yeah, absolutely. Got back and rested up and ready to go. It's going to be a big week. After no content last week, I don't know what happened to those interviews. I think those got botched. Oh, really? Rebecca, you haven't heard anything about that, right?

1:11.4

We sat down with Michael Mayhan.

1:11.4

Yeah, no, they said that sat down with Michael Mayhan.

1:16.4

Yeah, no. They said that it was exclusive to the conference and not allowed for public distribution. Oh, did they really? Yeah.

1:20.9

Even though the entire conversation. Even though you had that whole meeting about it and, yeah,

1:25.7

we had all the plans and then they pulled that. So why did they let you sit down then? Well, it's just a talk. A lot of good questions. The sit down was for the thing, right? Like that's, are they talking about the thing at the end or they're saying the thing in the middle? The thing at the end. The whole point of that. We have a whole, whole email chain going back and forth. That's fun.

1:44.8

Anyways, we're back. Tops Conference, big news. I mean, there's a lot of big news around the Tops Conference. Where do you guys want to start? I didn't think there was any big news around the conference. I mean, there's news to talk about. I don't know. It depends on your definition of big because a lot of things you give me your definition of big. because you said it.

2:01.5

This big about the between my finger.

2:04.2

No, I don't know you said it how am i a clown

2:07.5

no no no i don't know you said it you tell me what have you been watching with joe pish oh that's a great

2:14.6

yeah him and ray leota in this scenario you're ray leota though so that's a compliment it's when he calls him a clown. He's like, you're a funny guy. Like, no, I don't know what it means. You said, what do you, what is so funny about me? I don't know if it's the Celsius pumping through the veins or what, but I, uh, the's the raging depression. So let's go. Here we,

2:35.3

cardboard talk. I don't know how to respond to that part of it. Um, all right. So football comes out this week. Obviously, we can start there. If you guys want to start with anything. Tops Chrome, tops conference, what we want to start with. I mean, that's what I mean. Boy, we talked about that at the conference. That was the big holdout. They did all the other products first,

2:50.8

and then they held football to the very end. I thought the biggest news, if you want to talk about news news, news. From the weekend. From the week. Okay. It was around football because I thought we were all under the impression. We were only going to get Chrome as a 25 skew. And to find out we're going to get six total 25 skews. I thought that was big news.

3:09.5

Yep. Especially being in Tennessee where Cam Ward is part of that hype. I thought that was,

3:15.0

I thought that was nice that, okay, we're not, if you miss out on Chrome or Chrome's not your thing,

3:19.9

or we'll talk about this in a minute, if the price points too high, you've got some other things coming that can kind of suffice that 25. So 6. You get Chrome, Finest, Signature, which I do not like. But it'll be a little cheaper price point, probably. It's a paper card. Five autos, though. It was expensive last year. Oh, it would be cheaper than Chrome. Yeah. Chrome pricing, by the way, is ridiculous. Okay, so Chrome finest, cosmic, which I love, signature. Resurgence. Resurgence, and there's one more. Chrome Black. Chrome Black, that's right. Okay. I'm all right with that. So no super high-end patch autos, but Chrome boxes right now are $1,000 for hobby. By the way, this is a week of cutting throats in price.

4:14.9

So I've dubbed it using Harry's to cut those throats, proverbially speaking. We're going to, I don't. In a good way. Let's do a different segue into Harry's. When I slice prices, I use Harry's. The NFL draft, 2026 NFL draft, do we have a date on that? Do you guys have any idea? I think I'm pulling it up at April.

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