Topps Trading Cards

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the history and current trajectory of Topps Trading Cards. They talk baseball cards and baseball cards, before looking at all the strange trajectories this bubblegum company went in - including War trading cards, Garbage Pail Kids, and Mars Attacks! cards. They look at the most expensive cards of all time, and the act of wonderment that delving into this topic brings. Rob also calls his dad to find out about their card investment, and David talks about seeing a weird dead deer and the reaction it got from Americans. Email us: [email protected] Merch and links: www.flightlessbirdpod.com Links: - Swedish Mom Fined for Cracking Egg on Daughter’s Head: https://townflex.com/mom-fined-for-cracking-egg-on-daughters-head-in-viral-tiktok-prank - Why Are the Menendez Brothers on a Basketball Trading Card? https://people.com/the-menendez-brothers-basketball-card-8718273 - American Pope Topps card: https://www.topps.com/products/pope-leo-xiv-2025-topps-now%C2%AE-card-pope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi David.
0:05.6	Hi Rosabel. How are you doing?
0:07.2	I'm doing good. How are you doing?
0:09.4	I'm good. I sent you this news earlier. The headline was Swedish mum fine for cracking egg on daughter's head in viral TikTok prank.
0:17.8	Yes, you did send it to me. You didn't send it as a link, so I couldn't investigate further.
0:23.7	How did it make you feel?
0:25.1	It made me feel like maybe I don't know my rights, and I should investigate what legal
0:33.1	action I could pursue.
0:34.7	I wish I'd never bought it up.
0:38.4	Today's episode is about Tops Trading Carts.
0:44.0	Does that elicit any kind of response from you?
0:48.6	What is the word?
0:49.6	You said Tops.
0:51.1	Tops trading cards.
0:52.9	Have you ever heard of Tops trading cards? I don't know what that is. I'm so sorry. Can you have a guess?
0:59.0	T-O-P-P-S. Is it a sports thing? Yes, it is. From what I can tell, it's like, baseball, Americans love trading baseball cards and maybe basketball cards.
1:12.4	Oh, I know, I know what baseball and basketball cards are.
1:16.0	So I think Topps is like the big brand over here.
1:19.6	Do you remember there were these really cool cards that you'd get in your little
1:23.6	packet of chips that you'd have in your lunchbox called oddbods.
1:27.9	No, what were odd pods?
1:29.2	Never had odd buds?
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