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0:00We're talking 20 to $40,000 of value.
0:03>> I think it's a
0:10[groaning]
0:12>> Welcome to Unpacked. Today's guest is
0:15Steve Aoki. So, you guys may know him as
0:17a worldrenowned DJ, but he is actually a
0:20legendary card collector. First up,
0:22Steve's going to shop for five different
0:24items to unpack. Then we'll rip through
0:27every card and try to pull a few hits.
0:29And finally, we'll head into the vault
0:31to try our luck at pulling a $1 million
0:33card from some of the most expensive
0:35packs in the entire store. See, before
0:37we start shopping, what are you hunting
0:38for?
0:39>> The holy grail to me, the greatest
0:40athlete that's is playing right now is
0:42Shi Otani to go rookie hunting for Shoi
0:46Otani.
0:46>> Okay,
0:47>> if I can do that, it's game over.
0:48>> I'm I'm getting excited thinking about
0:50showani hunting.
0:51>> What would you do if you pull in Otani?
0:52>> I want to cake you. I want to k me.
0:54DON'T CAKE YOU. LET'S DO IT.
0:56>> Let's go.
0:58>> We are in the TCG section. I know you
1:00love Pokemon.
1:02>> I feel electric right now. Like I'm like
1:04buzzing. It's a different energy. It's
1:06like this enthusiasm. It's a child in
1:08you. We're here surrounded by all these
1:11beautiful Pokemon boxes.
1:12>> What's your number one favorite Pokémon
1:14card you own?
1:14>> I think many people that know about my
1:16collection already know that the holy
1:18grail of my collection is the to me the
1:20holy grail of all Pokémon is the
1:21illustrator.
1:21>> So, is there anything you're feeling
1:22today? There's a lot of new modern I'm
1:25not too familiar with. One thing I'm
1:27really familiar with is 151.
1:28>> Okay.
1:29>> So, I like 151 because it has a lot of
1:32the vintage Pokémon and that's I what I
1:35really collect is vintage Pokemon.
1:36>> Love it.
1:37>> So, I say we go for the Scarlet V51
1:39Blooming Waters Premium Collection
1:41display.
1:42>> Wow.
1:42>> It's a pretty set right here, man.
1:46See, the thing is is that like I got
1:48introduced to Pokemon obviously through
1:50the video games. I wasn't too obsessed
1:52with the video games as much as as
1:53Pokémon Go. It was perfect for me
1:55because I'm literally traveling the
1:58world. [music]
1:59You know, I do over 200 shows a year
2:00around the world. So, I was very excited
2:02to get the ones that you can only get in
2:06certain countries. Mr. Mime, I remember
2:09how like you could only get them in
2:11Spain.
2:12>> That's crazy.
2:12>> And so, right when I landed in Spain, I
2:14was just like telling the drivers to
2:15pull over when we were going to a show.
2:17>> Oh, Shelder. Pikachu.
2:20>> Pika pika. Let's go. Pika pika. We got
2:23it.
2:25>> Yo, that's that's amazing.
2:28>> To me, that's equally as cool as getting
2:29a Charizard.
2:33[music]
2:36>> So, I've heard you're a huge UFC fan.
2:38>> It all stems from my obsession with
2:41Bruce [music] Lee as a kid. Bruce is one
2:43of the only Asians in pop culture
2:46growing up that was loved by the world.
2:48>> True.
2:49>> Not just by Asians. And that [music]
2:51that was always an inspiration point for
2:52me growing up. What he's known for is
2:54fighting.
2:55>> Yeah.
2:55>> And so I just grew up like wanting to be
2:58like him. And when [music] UFC started
3:00getting more and more popular in like
3:01the early 2010s, I was obsessed. So I
3:04went in heavy [music] on UFC cards. So
3:072020 I I got introduced into UFC cards,
3:09right? 2021
3:11first year of Prism. That to me is the
3:14best set of UFC of all time.
3:17>> Okay.
3:18>> So, I bought cases and cases and I
3:20became obsessed with this one fighter
3:21[music] and he's still my favorite right
3:23now. Hamzach Hamzach is my guy.
3:26>> Beast.
3:27>> Yeah. Like I follow him. Like I'm a
3:29massive fan of of him. So I had to get
3:32his rookie. I like I go for the 101s,
3:34you know, and that 101 is still missing.
3:36So, I'm still buying the UFC hobby
3:39prison boxes, searching and hoping one
3:42day I will pull a 101 of the black
3:46Hamsachima rookie card.
3:47>> They might be that day. Keith, what do
3:49we have?
3:49>> We might have it in this box.
3:53>> We got Oh my god,
3:55>> look at this.
3:55>> 2021 Prism.
3:56>> I bought cases and cases of this looking
3:59for that that black 101, but I do own a
4:01few black 101's from the set. I don't
4:03want to be braggadocious, but I have to
4:05say I got to be top five UFC card
4:09collections in the world.
4:10>> I believe it.
4:13>> First year of Prism 2021.
4:15This got me into to really searching for
4:19to me the holy grail of Hamza Shimay
4:22cars is the 101 black prism of his
4:25rookie year. And and I've I've ripped
4:28six like six cases of this over the
4:30years. over the years
4:31>> and still it's not out there. It's not
4:33out there.
4:34>> No one has gotten it.
4:35>> It's never surfaced.
4:36>> Let's go. Let's go. Let's rip this [ __ ]
4:39>> Here we go.
4:42[snorts]
4:43>> Come on.
4:44>> All right. Come on. Come on. Even a gold
4:48comes out any gold. Connor. Connor.
4:52That's funny. Last pack back to back was
4:54Max. This time it's Connor.
5:00So big con Morab rookie.
5:03>> Nice.
5:04>> Morab rookie [music] here. Oh, wait.
5:06Hold on. Is this is this Allar over?
5:10Oh, gold to 10.
5:11>> Oh, wow.
5:12>> It's not the gold I wanted, but still.
5:14We got a gold.
5:15>> It's a hit.
5:17I'm curious. If you didn't do music,
5:18what do you think you would have done?
5:19>> I wouldn't be a fighter, that's for
5:20sure. I'm a horrible fighter, so
5:22wouldn't definitely would not be that.
5:25>> I think we have another autograph here.
5:27>> Really?
5:28>> Oh, we have we have a patch. patch. I
5:30think autograph.
5:34>> Yeah, Zang way autograph.
5:36>> I like that. It's like a different
5:37autograph. It's got like the or the
5:39Chinese characters.
5:40>> Yeah.
5:41>> So, a base Z autograph.
5:44>> We have to do [ __ ] some World Cup
5:47material. [ __ ]
5:48>> Don't get me started.
5:49>> We have to
5:49>> We got right here 2026 World Cup Prism.
5:53It's an amazing product. Number one
5:56popular product in our store bar none.
6:00>> Mangas. Mangas. So, One Piece got
6:03mangas. Prism got mangas. I actually
6:06pulled the Neymar manga.
6:07>> No, you did not.
6:08>> I did. I did. I was at Carbo 47 and we
6:10pulled it on stream out of my first box
6:13I ripped. So, this this one we have to
6:15do. Uh, pulling a manga. Oh, ripping
6:17this product already. I know what's in
6:19here. I know the feel. I know I know
6:20like I know I know Prism. I love music.
6:23Got to do this one.
6:26There's a couple different hits right
6:27here. So, we have two different inserts.
6:29Prismanian ultra ego and then the color
6:32blast, which I love. I I love color
6:33blast. I was a big kaboom kaboom color
6:36blast collector. And the mangoes is like
6:38the new insert everyone for
6:40>> kind of run through these. This is my
6:42good friend Tibo Corttois.
6:43>> Beast.
6:44>> Yeah. He we've thrown cakes together. We
6:46did a jersey swap. He gave me a jersey
6:48that he like an actual
6:50>> gameworn jersey. That's crazy. Oh, we
6:54got our first auto. Okay.
6:55>> Oh, let's go.
6:56>> Landon Donovan,
6:58>> legend
6:58>> team USA, baby.
7:02>> Okay. Oh, this is a nice parallel.
7:04Hannibel Measbury
7:06number to 94. Nice.
7:11[music]
7:11>> So, we're still in the sports section.
7:13Let me know kind of what else you want
7:14to get or you're looking at.
7:15>> I love all the football. Well, you know,
7:18the OG football soccer, but
7:23>> I love F1. I think this is the first
7:26thing that speaks to [music] me at that
7:27$300 range.
7:28>> So, early tops chrome hobby box.
7:31>> What year?
7:33>> 2021.
7:34>> It's a good year. 2020. I bought like a
7:36100 Sapphire boxes. I opened one box out
7:39of the 100 that I have. one pulled the
7:40George Russell 101
7:43>> and that was one of the biggest missing
7:45chases left in that set of the 101 ones
7:48because the the Max Versstappen got
7:50pulled. The [music] Lewis Hamilton got
7:51pulled. There's a few other you know key
7:54drivers that got pulled but the George
7:56Russell never got pulled and that was
7:58[music] big. So I got it. I pulled it
8:01out of one box.
8:02>> That's insane.
8:02>> One box. There's like five packs in a
8:04box. Pulled it. I'm like holy [ __ ] Like
8:07and I I called my friend Shine who knows
8:08everything about cards. [music] He's
8:10like, "This is this is like the last
8:11biggest chase out of out of Sapphire."
8:14>> I wanted to ask you, what's one
8:16collectible you haven't been able
8:17[music] to get your hands on?
8:19>> There's a lot. There's a lot. [laughter]
8:22Uh I'm I'm on the hunt on a couple of
8:24them with F1 since we're opening F1. Um
8:31F1 2021. I mean, I don't know if the
8:33Cenotto 101 got pulled, but that would
8:36be a nice pull. It's his rookie year.
8:38Um, he's become a recent friend. Nice
8:42ventil. And then we have a number
8:44Charles.
8:45>> What about [music] your favorite card
8:46that you've ever pulled from a pack?
8:48>> Just recently, me and my wife opened
8:50Pokemon Evolutions box. That is one of
8:54my favorite. I would say modern because
8:55it's 2016, [music] right? So, she pulled
8:58the the reprint of the the base
8:59Charizard. That was crazy. Charles the
9:02clerk. Okay, we have a
9:05>> Yuki Cenod. Let's go.
9:07>> Nice.
9:08>> Number to 399. My man Yuki.
9:11>> Before Steve pulls a $40,000 card from
9:13our vault, there's one last pack he
9:15needs to buy. We got one more stop. I
9:17heard you are a huge Marvel fan.
9:19>> Massive.
9:19>> And you're also in one of these boxes.
9:21Could you please tell me about that
9:23collaboration?
9:24>> So, the 2026 Topscrow Marvel. I [music]
9:26am I have a card maybe possibly in that
9:30in this box up here or one of those
9:31boxes. They invited me to be in the set.
9:33It's called the Hellfire Gala [music]
9:35set and Wolverine's my guy.
9:37>> Is that your favorite hero?
9:38>> Yeah. So, I'm a big Wolverine 101. Uh
9:42yeah, Wolverine just a general [music]
9:43collector. So, I I' I've like a pretty
9:45insane Wolverine card collection. I've
9:47never pulled one of my own cards. That'd
9:49be kind of cool.
9:49>> That would be awesome.
9:53>> Oh, these are nice.
9:57Fans fair. Really beautiful.
10:00>> Oh, Captain America to 99. That's a
10:03baby. That
10:03>> one's fire.
10:05>> Wow.
10:06>> So, second pack in. We already got a
10:08pretty nice hit. Eternity. We got
10:11Wolverine, baby.
10:13>> It's a base, but we show the Wolverines.
10:14>> Yeah,
10:15>> we show the Wolverines.
10:15>> We love Wolverine.
10:16>> We love We love That's It's my number
10:18one.
10:19>> You're more
10:22>> same. I agree.
10:23>> Number Oh, we got Oh, [ __ ] Okay.
10:26>> Enyak Lee.
10:28>> Wow.
10:28>> Enyak Lee.
10:31Which character is this? Is that
10:33Wolverine?
10:34>> The version of Wolverine.
10:35>> Yeah, it looks like Wol. Dude, is this a
10:36Wolverine with Inyak Lee playing
10:39Wolverine? Now that's cool.
10:42>> Ultimate Universe one year.
10:43>> We're hitting on these, man.
10:44>> Dude, if this is a Wolverine, I just got
10:47[laughter] I I think I'm like too quiet
10:49about this. It's a auto Wolverine car we
10:52just pulled. Wow,
10:54>> dude.
10:55>> Let's go.
10:56>> Amazing. Come on. This [laughter] is
10:57crazy.
10:59>> Imagine we pulled the Aoki card in here.
11:01>> Oh my god. Come on.
11:03>> Magic on her own. Silver. We got a red.
11:05We got a red.
11:06>> Oh my god. Three to five.
11:07>> Oh my god.
11:08>> It's three to five. It's red to five.
11:11This is big.
11:11>> Yo,
11:12>> it depends on the character, but this is
11:13like a monster card. Is it Spider-Man
11:16to five? It's not a I don't think it's a
11:19character. I know. Wait, [music]
11:21wait, wait. Hold on. Is that Wolverine?
11:24>> NE ends with NE. What else could it be?
11:26I think it's a [ __ ] Wolverine.
11:29>> Oh my god.
11:30>> Your favorite?
11:31>> I Dude, it's my [ __ ] favorite right
11:32now, dude. But the hair is weird.
11:35>> The hair is
11:35>> The hair is not
11:36>> It's not giving Wolverine.
11:37>> Look at that [ __ ] It's got to be
11:39something Wolverine. It's a different
11:42like [ __ ] character. Wolverine.
11:44>> Oh, a different variant.
11:45>> Let's rip the band-aid off.
11:48Evangel what? Oh [laughter] man.
11:54That's still cool. I got to do Yo, that
11:57was a good box.
11:58>> You pulled some bangers out of this one.
12:00>> So, later we're going to go into the
12:01vault for the real expensive stuff. All
12:03right. First one.
12:04>> Oh my gosh.
12:05>> Before we start, I need you to pull from
12:08the unpacked deck.
12:09>> Okay. All right.
12:10>> You got to pull one card. Okay.
12:11>> I'll just do the top one then.
12:14>> Ooh.
12:15>> Rip till you hit the guest picks a pack
12:16to open and starts ripping. Keep opening
12:18packs until you pull a hit and stop
12:20immediately.
12:21>> Rip till you hit.
12:22>> Okay. So, just we just rip. We get
12:23started. Just rip.
12:24>> Okay. All right. Let's do it.
12:25>> Let's go. Actually, this is this is
12:28probably 151 and heroes are the two best
12:30modern sets in my opinion. Okay.
12:34Nice stretcher. Dust. Trevven. Nothing.
12:38>> Okay.
12:38>> We'll put them aside. It's This is like
12:40a not a hit. Counter gain. Not a hit.
12:45[music]
12:47>> Nothing.
12:49We need to reup. Rip till you hit, guys.
12:52That a hit's coming. I feel it, too.
12:54Especially with this this double stack.
12:55>> Nope. Nothing.
12:57>> Rip till you hit, guys.
12:59>> All right, last pack.
13:01>> Just [ __ ]
13:03>> Yeah.
13:04>> Belly Bolt.
13:05>> I think that's a good one.
13:06>> Oh,
13:07>> that's number 12.
13:08>> That's good.
13:08>> He has the 12TH BEST CARD.
13:11>> Oh [screaming] god. Let's go.
13:14>> You got a hit.
13:15>> Rip till you hit.
13:16>> All right. Here's the damage, Steve. We
13:18just opened $900 worth.
13:21>> Are you [laughter] kidding? That was
13:23[ __ ] crazy. Oh my god.
13:26>> But you know what? It's about the
13:29experience.
13:32>> We've made it in the vault.
13:33>> Yeah,
13:34>> this is the holy grail.
13:36>> I mean, just being surrounded by all the
13:39sealed like kind of grail. These are
13:41really expensive sealed Pokémon boxes,
13:44>> which is what you like. We got two
13:45things in front of us. Okay. I love
13:47this.
13:48>> You don't know what's behind this.
13:49>> No, I don't.
13:51>> But you can only choose one. Okay. You
13:52ready?
13:52>> Yeah.
13:53>> All right. First one.
13:55>> Oh, the Opio1 Romance Dawn.
13:59>> Oh, that's the OG. This is when I got
14:01into One [music] Piece is this set right
14:03here. Opio One with the Shanks manga. A
14:07blue back.
14:10>> Oh my god. Show
14:13hunting. Rookie year 2018. Oh my god.
14:17>> It's big, but I already know what I
14:19want. It's going to be
14:22>> Oh god. We got to rip this one.
14:24>> So, we could get some some insane things
14:26out of this.
14:27>> It's like kind of like a highly unlikely
14:29situation, but if you do get lucky,
14:32we're [ __ ] throwing a party. I'm
14:33skipping my flight. I'm doing all kinds
14:35of crazy [ __ ] bro. [ __ ] running the
14:36streets naked. I don't know what the
14:37hell I'm going to do. Wow. We're ripping
14:40Bowman Chrome 2018. Looking for Otani's
14:43rookie card. Any of them. A base is
14:47crazy. Any of them is crazy.
14:56[sighs] Okay, let's go.
14:59Matt, can you
15:00>> I'm like I'm like nervous.
15:02>> I know.
15:03>> Bow and chrome. This is like, you know,
15:04this is like better than Topps [music]
15:06chrome because this is like the prospect
15:09set, you know. So, six 12 packs total.
15:12We have 12 chances. 12 chances.
15:15>> 12 chances I believe to one.
15:18>> Okay. All right. Shane Baz Leotti Tver.
15:23Okay, we got an autograph. What the This
15:26autograph is hilarious. It's like way to
15:29the right, man. He's like, nah, I don't
15:30want to sign here. I'm going to sign all
15:32the way over here. Just just just yell
15:34it
15:36Jared Solless. U Darvish. Nice Japanese.
15:40We got a Justin Verlander.
15:44Aaron Judge. Not bad. Aaron Judge.
15:49>> Come on, bro. Okay.
15:50>> Pack one is dusted.
15:54Last four packs.
15:55>> Come on, baby.
15:56>> Johnny Quetto. Okay. Here's a purple.
16:00>> Come on.
16:02>> Show.
16:03Are you here with us? Showi.
16:07No.
16:08>> That's a cool number though.
16:09>> Lamonte Wade.
16:12It's a nice autograph. 250. [music]
16:14That was our chance to get the autograph
16:16out of this box, I think. Okay. I like
16:19hands. Here we go. We got this. We got
16:20two more chances.
16:2210 more cards. NINE MORE CARDS.
16:24[screaming]
16:24>> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.
16:27>> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.
16:31[laughter] Oh my god.
16:32>> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH, THE GREAT
16:36SHOW.
16:37We [ __ ]
16:39>> I'm so glad I [ __ ] flew out here,
16:41dude. I'm so [ __ ] glad I came out
16:43here for this show.
16:44>> This is like probably one of the
16:45greatest polls of my life. Like, I'll
16:48never forget this experience.
16:51>> What's the damage looking like?
16:52>> The damage is looking like 11,906.
16:56>> Not bad. We came up, gang. We came up.
17:00>> We hit first of all the greatest pull of
17:02my life. Show Otani to499 refractor
17:06[music] foaming chrome. I mean this
17:08thing looks super crispy, super minty.
17:11I'd say like I I want to say it's a PSA
17:1410. PSA 10 is a $40,000 value. We have
17:17an auto Wolverine. I'm not sure the
17:19value of this thing, but let's say a
17:21couple hundred bucks here. Pikachu. I
17:23don't know. Couple hundred bucks. I
17:25think the rest this this this Captain
17:28America to 99 could be a couple hundred
17:30to $1,000. Who knows? case [music] hit
17:32from Prism uh World Cup with my boy Tibo
17:36Corttois. I think this is gonna be a
17:38couple hundred bucks.
17:38>> Nice.
17:39>> I think the rest are some nice hits in
17:41the hundreds $100ish
17:44range,
17:45>> but we're talking 20 to $40,000 of value
17:48right here.
17:49>> Let's go. [screaming]
17:52>> We actually had a gift for you.
17:54>> Yeah.
17:54>> You're actually our first ever episode
17:56of Unpack. So, thank you so much. We
17:58made a custom Steveoke Unpack. Oh, damn.
18:02>> Read everything.
18:03>> Hastry Fantasm. [laughter]
18:06>> Whoa. Never I I never knew that was a
18:08good power name right there. Got to add
18:10a little inscription, too.
18:13>> Unpack, baby. We did it. We did it.
18:16>> Let's go, bro. That was so fun.
18:17>> Yes, sir.
18:18>> Let's go.
18:23>> Believe this is yours.