Steve Aoki Hunts For The World's Rarest Trading Cards — Transcript

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1. 0:00We're talking 20 to $40,000 of value.
2. 0:03>> I think it's a
3. 0:10[groaning]
4. 0:12>> Welcome to Unpacked. Today's guest is
5. 0:15Steve Aoki. So, you guys may know him as
6. 0:17a worldrenowned DJ, but he is actually a
7. 0:20legendary card collector. First up,
8. 0:22Steve's going to shop for five different
9. 0:24items to unpack. Then we'll rip through
10. 0:27every card and try to pull a few hits.
11. 0:29And finally, we'll head into the vault
12. 0:31to try our luck at pulling a $1 million
13. 0:33card from some of the most expensive
14. 0:35packs in the entire store. See, before
15. 0:37we start shopping, what are you hunting
16. 0:38for?
17. 0:39>> The holy grail to me, the greatest
18. 0:40athlete that's is playing right now is
19. 0:42Shi Otani to go rookie hunting for Shoi
20. 0:46Otani.
21. 0:46>> Okay,
22. 0:47>> if I can do that, it's game over.
23. 0:48>> I'm I'm getting excited thinking about
24. 0:50showani hunting.
25. 0:51>> What would you do if you pull in Otani?
26. 0:52>> I want to cake you. I want to k me.
27. 0:54DON'T CAKE YOU. LET'S DO IT.
28. 0:56>> Let's go.
29. 0:58>> We are in the TCG section. I know you
30. 1:00love Pokemon.
31. 1:02>> I feel electric right now. Like I'm like
32. 1:04buzzing. It's a different energy. It's
33. 1:06like this enthusiasm. It's a child in
34. 1:08you. We're here surrounded by all these
35. 1:11beautiful Pokemon boxes.
36. 1:12>> What's your number one favorite Pokémon
37. 1:14card you own?
38. 1:14>> I think many people that know about my
39. 1:16collection already know that the holy
40. 1:18grail of my collection is the to me the
41. 1:20holy grail of all Pokémon is the
42. 1:21illustrator.
43. 1:21>> So, is there anything you're feeling
44. 1:22today? There's a lot of new modern I'm
45. 1:25not too familiar with. One thing I'm
46. 1:27really familiar with is 151.
47. 1:28>> Okay.
48. 1:29>> So, I like 151 because it has a lot of
49. 1:32the vintage Pokémon and that's I what I
50. 1:35really collect is vintage Pokemon.
51. 1:36>> Love it.
52. 1:37>> So, I say we go for the Scarlet V51
53. 1:39Blooming Waters Premium Collection
54. 1:41display.
55. 1:42>> Wow.
56. 1:42>> It's a pretty set right here, man.
57. 1:46See, the thing is is that like I got
58. 1:48introduced to Pokemon obviously through
59. 1:50the video games. I wasn't too obsessed
60. 1:52with the video games as much as as
61. 1:53Pokémon Go. It was perfect for me
62. 1:55because I'm literally traveling the
63. 1:58world. [music]
64. 1:59You know, I do over 200 shows a year
65. 2:00around the world. So, I was very excited
66. 2:02to get the ones that you can only get in
67. 2:06certain countries. Mr. Mime, I remember
68. 2:09how like you could only get them in
69. 2:11Spain.
70. 2:12>> That's crazy.
71. 2:12>> And so, right when I landed in Spain, I
72. 2:14was just like telling the drivers to
73. 2:15pull over when we were going to a show.
74. 2:17>> Oh, Shelder. Pikachu.
75. 2:20>> Pika pika. Let's go. Pika pika. We got
76. 2:23it.
77. 2:25>> Yo, that's that's amazing.
78. 2:28>> To me, that's equally as cool as getting
79. 2:29a Charizard.
80. 2:33[music]
81. 2:36>> So, I've heard you're a huge UFC fan.
82. 2:38>> It all stems from my obsession with
83. 2:41Bruce [music] Lee as a kid. Bruce is one
84. 2:43of the only Asians in pop culture
85. 2:46growing up that was loved by the world.
86. 2:48>> True.
87. 2:49>> Not just by Asians. And that [music]
88. 2:51that was always an inspiration point for
89. 2:52me growing up. What he's known for is
90. 2:54fighting.
91. 2:55>> Yeah.
92. 2:55>> And so I just grew up like wanting to be
93. 2:58like him. And when [music] UFC started
94. 3:00getting more and more popular in like
95. 3:01the early 2010s, I was obsessed. So I
96. 3:04went in heavy [music] on UFC cards. So
97. 3:072020 I I got introduced into UFC cards,
98. 3:09right? 2021
99. 3:11first year of Prism. That to me is the
100. 3:14best set of UFC of all time.
101. 3:17>> Okay.
102. 3:18>> So, I bought cases and cases and I
103. 3:20became obsessed with this one fighter
104. 3:21[music] and he's still my favorite right
105. 3:23now. Hamzach Hamzach is my guy.
106. 3:26>> Beast.
107. 3:27>> Yeah. Like I follow him. Like I'm a
108. 3:29massive fan of of him. So I had to get
109. 3:32his rookie. I like I go for the 101s,
110. 3:34you know, and that 101 is still missing.
111. 3:36So, I'm still buying the UFC hobby
112. 3:39prison boxes, searching and hoping one
113. 3:42day I will pull a 101 of the black
114. 3:46Hamsachima rookie card.
115. 3:47>> They might be that day. Keith, what do
116. 3:49we have?
117. 3:49>> We might have it in this box.
118. 3:53>> We got Oh my god,
119. 3:55>> look at this.
120. 3:55>> 2021 Prism.
121. 3:56>> I bought cases and cases of this looking
122. 3:59for that that black 101, but I do own a
123. 4:01few black 101's from the set. I don't
124. 4:03want to be braggadocious, but I have to
125. 4:05say I got to be top five UFC card
126. 4:09collections in the world.
127. 4:10>> I believe it.
128. 4:13>> First year of Prism 2021.
129. 4:15This got me into to really searching for
130. 4:19to me the holy grail of Hamza Shimay
131. 4:22cars is the 101 black prism of his
132. 4:25rookie year. And and I've I've ripped
133. 4:28six like six cases of this over the
134. 4:30years. over the years
135. 4:31>> and still it's not out there. It's not
136. 4:33out there.
137. 4:34>> No one has gotten it.
138. 4:35>> It's never surfaced.
139. 4:36>> Let's go. Let's go. Let's rip this [ __ ]
140. 4:39>> Here we go.
141. 4:42[snorts]
142. 4:43>> Come on.
143. 4:44>> All right. Come on. Come on. Even a gold
144. 4:48comes out any gold. Connor. Connor.
145. 4:52That's funny. Last pack back to back was
146. 4:54Max. This time it's Connor.
147. 5:00So big con Morab rookie.
148. 5:03>> Nice.
149. 5:04>> Morab rookie [music] here. Oh, wait.
150. 5:06Hold on. Is this is this Allar over?
151. 5:10Oh, gold to 10.
152. 5:11>> Oh, wow.
153. 5:12>> It's not the gold I wanted, but still.
154. 5:14We got a gold.
155. 5:15>> It's a hit.
156. 5:17I'm curious. If you didn't do music,
157. 5:18what do you think you would have done?
158. 5:19>> I wouldn't be a fighter, that's for
159. 5:20sure. I'm a horrible fighter, so
160. 5:22wouldn't definitely would not be that.
161. 5:25>> I think we have another autograph here.
162. 5:27>> Really?
163. 5:28>> Oh, we have we have a patch. patch. I
164. 5:30think autograph.
165. 5:34>> Yeah, Zang way autograph.
166. 5:36>> I like that. It's like a different
167. 5:37autograph. It's got like the or the
168. 5:39Chinese characters.
169. 5:40>> Yeah.
170. 5:41>> So, a base Z autograph.
171. 5:44>> We have to do [ __ ] some World Cup
172. 5:47material. [ __ ]
173. 5:48>> Don't get me started.
174. 5:49>> We have to
175. 5:49>> We got right here 2026 World Cup Prism.
176. 5:53It's an amazing product. Number one
177. 5:56popular product in our store bar none.
178. 6:00>> Mangas. Mangas. So, One Piece got
179. 6:03mangas. Prism got mangas. I actually
180. 6:06pulled the Neymar manga.
181. 6:07>> No, you did not.
182. 6:08>> I did. I did. I was at Carbo 47 and we
183. 6:10pulled it on stream out of my first box
184. 6:13I ripped. So, this this one we have to
185. 6:15do. Uh, pulling a manga. Oh, ripping
186. 6:17this product already. I know what's in
187. 6:19here. I know the feel. I know I know
188. 6:20like I know I know Prism. I love music.
189. 6:23Got to do this one.
190. 6:26There's a couple different hits right
191. 6:27here. So, we have two different inserts.
192. 6:29Prismanian ultra ego and then the color
193. 6:32blast, which I love. I I love color
194. 6:33blast. I was a big kaboom kaboom color
195. 6:36blast collector. And the mangoes is like
196. 6:38the new insert everyone for
197. 6:40>> kind of run through these. This is my
198. 6:42good friend Tibo Corttois.
199. 6:43>> Beast.
200. 6:44>> Yeah. He we've thrown cakes together. We
201. 6:46did a jersey swap. He gave me a jersey
202. 6:48that he like an actual
203. 6:50>> gameworn jersey. That's crazy. Oh, we
204. 6:54got our first auto. Okay.
205. 6:55>> Oh, let's go.
206. 6:56>> Landon Donovan,
207. 6:58>> legend
208. 6:58>> team USA, baby.
209. 7:02>> Okay. Oh, this is a nice parallel.
210. 7:04Hannibel Measbury
211. 7:06number to 94. Nice.
212. 7:11[music]
213. 7:11>> So, we're still in the sports section.
214. 7:13Let me know kind of what else you want
215. 7:14to get or you're looking at.
216. 7:15>> I love all the football. Well, you know,
217. 7:18the OG football soccer, but
218. 7:23>> I love F1. I think this is the first
219. 7:26thing that speaks to [music] me at that
220. 7:27$300 range.
221. 7:28>> So, early tops chrome hobby box.
222. 7:31>> What year?
223. 7:33>> 2021.
224. 7:34>> It's a good year. 2020. I bought like a
225. 7:36100 Sapphire boxes. I opened one box out
226. 7:39of the 100 that I have. one pulled the
227. 7:40George Russell 101
228. 7:43>> and that was one of the biggest missing
229. 7:45chases left in that set of the 101 ones
230. 7:48because the the Max Versstappen got
231. 7:50pulled. The [music] Lewis Hamilton got
232. 7:51pulled. There's a few other you know key
233. 7:54drivers that got pulled but the George
234. 7:56Russell never got pulled and that was
235. 7:58[music] big. So I got it. I pulled it
236. 8:01out of one box.
237. 8:02>> That's insane.
238. 8:02>> One box. There's like five packs in a
239. 8:04box. Pulled it. I'm like holy [ __ ] Like
240. 8:07and I I called my friend Shine who knows
241. 8:08everything about cards. [music] He's
242. 8:10like, "This is this is like the last
243. 8:11biggest chase out of out of Sapphire."
244. 8:14>> I wanted to ask you, what's one
245. 8:16collectible you haven't been able
246. 8:17[music] to get your hands on?
247. 8:19>> There's a lot. There's a lot. [laughter]
248. 8:22Uh I'm I'm on the hunt on a couple of
249. 8:24them with F1 since we're opening F1. Um
250. 8:31F1 2021. I mean, I don't know if the
251. 8:33Cenotto 101 got pulled, but that would
252. 8:36be a nice pull. It's his rookie year.
253. 8:38Um, he's become a recent friend. Nice
254. 8:42ventil. And then we have a number
255. 8:44Charles.
256. 8:45>> What about [music] your favorite card
257. 8:46that you've ever pulled from a pack?
258. 8:48>> Just recently, me and my wife opened
259. 8:50Pokemon Evolutions box. That is one of
260. 8:54my favorite. I would say modern because
261. 8:55it's 2016, [music] right? So, she pulled
262. 8:58the the reprint of the the base
263. 8:59Charizard. That was crazy. Charles the
264. 9:02clerk. Okay, we have a
265. 9:05>> Yuki Cenod. Let's go.
266. 9:07>> Nice.
267. 9:08>> Number to 399. My man Yuki.
268. 9:11>> Before Steve pulls a $40,000 card from
269. 9:13our vault, there's one last pack he
270. 9:15needs to buy. We got one more stop. I
271. 9:17heard you are a huge Marvel fan.
272. 9:19>> Massive.
273. 9:19>> And you're also in one of these boxes.
274. 9:21Could you please tell me about that
275. 9:23collaboration?
276. 9:24>> So, the 2026 Topscrow Marvel. I [music]
277. 9:26am I have a card maybe possibly in that
278. 9:30in this box up here or one of those
279. 9:31boxes. They invited me to be in the set.
280. 9:33It's called the Hellfire Gala [music]
281. 9:35set and Wolverine's my guy.
282. 9:37>> Is that your favorite hero?
283. 9:38>> Yeah. So, I'm a big Wolverine 101. Uh
284. 9:42yeah, Wolverine just a general [music]
285. 9:43collector. So, I I' I've like a pretty
286. 9:45insane Wolverine card collection. I've
287. 9:47never pulled one of my own cards. That'd
288. 9:49be kind of cool.
289. 9:49>> That would be awesome.
290. 9:53>> Oh, these are nice.
291. 9:57Fans fair. Really beautiful.
292. 10:00>> Oh, Captain America to 99. That's a
293. 10:03baby. That
294. 10:03>> one's fire.
295. 10:05>> Wow.
296. 10:06>> So, second pack in. We already got a
297. 10:08pretty nice hit. Eternity. We got
298. 10:11Wolverine, baby.
299. 10:13>> It's a base, but we show the Wolverines.
300. 10:14>> Yeah,
301. 10:15>> we show the Wolverines.
302. 10:15>> We love Wolverine.
303. 10:16>> We love We love That's It's my number
304. 10:18one.
305. 10:19>> You're more
306. 10:22>> same. I agree.
307. 10:23>> Number Oh, we got Oh, [ __ ] Okay.
308. 10:26>> Enyak Lee.
309. 10:28>> Wow.
310. 10:28>> Enyak Lee.
311. 10:31Which character is this? Is that
312. 10:33Wolverine?
313. 10:34>> The version of Wolverine.
314. 10:35>> Yeah, it looks like Wol. Dude, is this a
315. 10:36Wolverine with Inyak Lee playing
316. 10:39Wolverine? Now that's cool.
317. 10:42>> Ultimate Universe one year.
318. 10:43>> We're hitting on these, man.
319. 10:44>> Dude, if this is a Wolverine, I just got
320. 10:47[laughter] I I think I'm like too quiet
321. 10:49about this. It's a auto Wolverine car we
322. 10:52just pulled. Wow,
323. 10:54>> dude.
324. 10:55>> Let's go.
325. 10:56>> Amazing. Come on. This [laughter] is
326. 10:57crazy.
327. 10:59>> Imagine we pulled the Aoki card in here.
328. 11:01>> Oh my god. Come on.
329. 11:03>> Magic on her own. Silver. We got a red.
330. 11:05We got a red.
331. 11:06>> Oh my god. Three to five.
332. 11:07>> Oh my god.
333. 11:08>> It's three to five. It's red to five.
334. 11:11This is big.
335. 11:11>> Yo,
336. 11:12>> it depends on the character, but this is
337. 11:13like a monster card. Is it Spider-Man
338. 11:16to five? It's not a I don't think it's a
339. 11:19character. I know. Wait, [music]
340. 11:21wait, wait. Hold on. Is that Wolverine?
341. 11:24>> NE ends with NE. What else could it be?
342. 11:26I think it's a [ __ ] Wolverine.
343. 11:29>> Oh my god.
344. 11:30>> Your favorite?
345. 11:31>> I Dude, it's my [ __ ] favorite right
346. 11:32now, dude. But the hair is weird.
347. 11:35>> The hair is
348. 11:35>> The hair is not
349. 11:36>> It's not giving Wolverine.
350. 11:37>> Look at that [ __ ] It's got to be
351. 11:39something Wolverine. It's a different
352. 11:42like [ __ ] character. Wolverine.
353. 11:44>> Oh, a different variant.
354. 11:45>> Let's rip the band-aid off.
355. 11:48Evangel what? Oh [laughter] man.
356. 11:54That's still cool. I got to do Yo, that
357. 11:57was a good box.
358. 11:58>> You pulled some bangers out of this one.
359. 12:00>> So, later we're going to go into the
360. 12:01vault for the real expensive stuff. All
361. 12:03right. First one.
362. 12:04>> Oh my gosh.
363. 12:05>> Before we start, I need you to pull from
364. 12:08the unpacked deck.
365. 12:09>> Okay. All right.
366. 12:10>> You got to pull one card. Okay.
367. 12:11>> I'll just do the top one then.
368. 12:14>> Ooh.
369. 12:15>> Rip till you hit the guest picks a pack
370. 12:16to open and starts ripping. Keep opening
371. 12:18packs until you pull a hit and stop
372. 12:20immediately.
373. 12:21>> Rip till you hit.
374. 12:22>> Okay. So, just we just rip. We get
375. 12:23started. Just rip.
376. 12:24>> Okay. All right. Let's do it.
377. 12:25>> Let's go. Actually, this is this is
378. 12:28probably 151 and heroes are the two best
379. 12:30modern sets in my opinion. Okay.
380. 12:34Nice stretcher. Dust. Trevven. Nothing.
381. 12:38>> Okay.
382. 12:38>> We'll put them aside. It's This is like
383. 12:40a not a hit. Counter gain. Not a hit.
384. 12:45[music]
385. 12:47>> Nothing.
386. 12:49We need to reup. Rip till you hit, guys.
387. 12:52That a hit's coming. I feel it, too.
388. 12:54Especially with this this double stack.
389. 12:55>> Nope. Nothing.
390. 12:57>> Rip till you hit, guys.
391. 12:59>> All right, last pack.
392. 13:01>> Just [ __ ]
393. 13:03>> Yeah.
394. 13:04>> Belly Bolt.
395. 13:05>> I think that's a good one.
396. 13:06>> Oh,
397. 13:07>> that's number 12.
398. 13:08>> That's good.
399. 13:08>> He has the 12TH BEST CARD.
400. 13:11>> Oh [screaming] god. Let's go.
401. 13:14>> You got a hit.
402. 13:15>> Rip till you hit.
403. 13:16>> All right. Here's the damage, Steve. We
404. 13:18just opened $900 worth.
405. 13:21>> Are you [laughter] kidding? That was
406. 13:23[ __ ] crazy. Oh my god.
407. 13:26>> But you know what? It's about the
408. 13:29experience.
409. 13:32>> We've made it in the vault.
410. 13:33>> Yeah,
411. 13:34>> this is the holy grail.
412. 13:36>> I mean, just being surrounded by all the
413. 13:39sealed like kind of grail. These are
414. 13:41really expensive sealed Pokémon boxes,
415. 13:44>> which is what you like. We got two
416. 13:45things in front of us. Okay. I love
417. 13:47this.
418. 13:48>> You don't know what's behind this.
419. 13:49>> No, I don't.
420. 13:51>> But you can only choose one. Okay. You
421. 13:52ready?
422. 13:52>> Yeah.
423. 13:53>> All right. First one.
424. 13:55>> Oh, the Opio1 Romance Dawn.
425. 13:59>> Oh, that's the OG. This is when I got
426. 14:01into One [music] Piece is this set right
427. 14:03here. Opio One with the Shanks manga. A
428. 14:07blue back.
429. 14:10>> Oh my god. Show
430. 14:13hunting. Rookie year 2018. Oh my god.
431. 14:17>> It's big, but I already know what I
432. 14:19want. It's going to be
433. 14:22>> Oh god. We got to rip this one.
434. 14:24>> So, we could get some some insane things
435. 14:26out of this.
436. 14:27>> It's like kind of like a highly unlikely
437. 14:29situation, but if you do get lucky,
438. 14:32we're [ __ ] throwing a party. I'm
439. 14:33skipping my flight. I'm doing all kinds
440. 14:35of crazy [ __ ] bro. [ __ ] running the
441. 14:36streets naked. I don't know what the
442. 14:37hell I'm going to do. Wow. We're ripping
443. 14:40Bowman Chrome 2018. Looking for Otani's
444. 14:43rookie card. Any of them. A base is
445. 14:47crazy. Any of them is crazy.
446. 14:56[sighs] Okay, let's go.
447. 14:59Matt, can you
448. 15:00>> I'm like I'm like nervous.
449. 15:02>> I know.
450. 15:03>> Bow and chrome. This is like, you know,
451. 15:04this is like better than Topps [music]
452. 15:06chrome because this is like the prospect
453. 15:09set, you know. So, six 12 packs total.
454. 15:12We have 12 chances. 12 chances.
455. 15:15>> 12 chances I believe to one.
456. 15:18>> Okay. All right. Shane Baz Leotti Tver.
457. 15:23Okay, we got an autograph. What the This
458. 15:26autograph is hilarious. It's like way to
459. 15:29the right, man. He's like, nah, I don't
460. 15:30want to sign here. I'm going to sign all
461. 15:32the way over here. Just just just yell
462. 15:34it
463. 15:36Jared Solless. U Darvish. Nice Japanese.
464. 15:40We got a Justin Verlander.
465. 15:44Aaron Judge. Not bad. Aaron Judge.
466. 15:49>> Come on, bro. Okay.
467. 15:50>> Pack one is dusted.
468. 15:54Last four packs.
469. 15:55>> Come on, baby.
470. 15:56>> Johnny Quetto. Okay. Here's a purple.
471. 16:00>> Come on.
472. 16:02>> Show.
473. 16:03Are you here with us? Showi.
474. 16:07No.
475. 16:08>> That's a cool number though.
476. 16:09>> Lamonte Wade.
477. 16:12It's a nice autograph. 250. [music]
478. 16:14That was our chance to get the autograph
479. 16:16out of this box, I think. Okay. I like
480. 16:19hands. Here we go. We got this. We got
481. 16:20two more chances.
482. 16:2210 more cards. NINE MORE CARDS.
483. 16:24[screaming]
484. 16:24>> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.
485. 16:27>> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.
486. 16:31[laughter] Oh my god.
487. 16:32>> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH, THE GREAT
488. 16:36SHOW.
489. 16:37We [ __ ]
490. 16:39>> I'm so glad I [ __ ] flew out here,
491. 16:41dude. I'm so [ __ ] glad I came out
492. 16:43here for this show.
493. 16:44>> This is like probably one of the
494. 16:45greatest polls of my life. Like, I'll
495. 16:48never forget this experience.
496. 16:51>> What's the damage looking like?
497. 16:52>> The damage is looking like 11,906.
498. 16:56>> Not bad. We came up, gang. We came up.
499. 17:00>> We hit first of all the greatest pull of
500. 17:02my life. Show Otani to499 refractor
501. 17:06[music] foaming chrome. I mean this
502. 17:08thing looks super crispy, super minty.
503. 17:11I'd say like I I want to say it's a PSA
504. 17:1410. PSA 10 is a $40,000 value. We have
505. 17:17an auto Wolverine. I'm not sure the
506. 17:19value of this thing, but let's say a
507. 17:21couple hundred bucks here. Pikachu. I
508. 17:23don't know. Couple hundred bucks. I
509. 17:25think the rest this this this Captain
510. 17:28America to 99 could be a couple hundred
511. 17:30to $1,000. Who knows? case [music] hit
512. 17:32from Prism uh World Cup with my boy Tibo
513. 17:36Corttois. I think this is gonna be a
514. 17:38couple hundred bucks.
515. 17:38>> Nice.
516. 17:39>> I think the rest are some nice hits in
517. 17:41the hundreds $100ish
518. 17:44range,
519. 17:45>> but we're talking 20 to $40,000 of value
520. 17:48right here.
521. 17:49>> Let's go. [screaming]
522. 17:52>> We actually had a gift for you.
523. 17:54>> Yeah.
524. 17:54>> You're actually our first ever episode
525. 17:56of Unpack. So, thank you so much. We
526. 17:58made a custom Steveoke Unpack. Oh, damn.
527. 18:02>> Read everything.
528. 18:03>> Hastry Fantasm. [laughter]
529. 18:06>> Whoa. Never I I never knew that was a
530. 18:08good power name right there. Got to add
531. 18:10a little inscription, too.
532. 18:13>> Unpack, baby. We did it. We did it.
533. 18:16>> Let's go, bro. That was so fun.
534. 18:17>> Yes, sir.
535. 18:18>> Let's go.
536. 18:23>> Believe this is yours.