The New Pope’s Trading Card Breaks Records

In this Episode:

• Pope Leo XIV gets his own Topps trading card

• The card is outselling sports icons like Messi and LeBron

• It’s now the best-selling non-sports card in Topps history

• Listings are popping up on eBay for nearly $60

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Pope Leo XIV’s Trading Card Is a Collector's Craze
In a surprising crossover between religion and pop culture, Topps—best known for baseball and sports trading cards—has released a special edition card for Pope Leo XIV ahead of his May 18th inauguration. The limited-release card has taken off in the collectibles world, outselling cards featuring major names like Lionel Messi, LeBron James, and even WWE star John Cena. It’s officially become Topps’ best-selling non-sports card ever, and it’s generating serious buzz online. Multiple listings on eBay are asking up to $59.99—plus shipping, of course—making this papal card a hot commodity.

Sources:

• Topps Trading Card Sales Report

• eBay Listings and Marketplace Trends

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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for Machino who you could.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Have a little bit of the Pope in your home
and it would be worth a lot of money. So
the Pope now has his own trading card and it's
breaking collectible race.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I'm sorry, trading cards.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I don't know if they all do.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
But Tops came out with the Well maybe because it's
the first North American. Oh okay, so Tops trading cards MRCA.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Right, right, yeah, that makes sense. So maybe that's American
pope pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, it is crazy, But he does have his own
trading card that's beating out loun A Messy Lebron James
John Cena.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
His card is.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
More valuable than all of theirs. I mean, I feel
like that feels obvious to me too.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's his rookie card. Of course, yes, Jesus like with them,
So that's like in the card.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, I mean, oh, like he was behind him or
something else.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
With you to Victoria.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I mean, hey, and get that blessed Oh well, it
is listed on eBay because they only made a select
amount of them, so once they're gone, they're gone. But
right now prices are just at fifty nine to ninety
nine plus shipping and handling of course, which doesn't feel
like it's too that much, but I think it will
be a lot more.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is that where they normally sell those on eBay? There's
a lot of cars and training type stuff on eBay.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, well it's not like the actual company selling it
on eBay. They've sold them all. Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, thanks for explaining that.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Hey, the Pope is raising the roof in the car.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah. Yeah, he's got his hands in the air.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
It looks you call it raising the roof. He calls
it talking to his boss. That's true.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, So you.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Could get that framed and have it like really nice
in your house if you have.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I see a couple for twenty three bucks here. Probably
is the pope middle management? No, uh, executive assistant? Yeah,
I think yeah, I'd say executive. Yeah, can we.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Call the pope that the home The Pope is like
the boss, Yeah, the boss is the boss.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
It would be God in that situation. Little guy named
Jesus matter, he'll be the second in charge, and then
the Pope is just like the guy that tot talks
to him and then they.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Really yeah, ambassador, like an enforcer.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeahcer, I really want to ask my grandma like this question,
be Clay. I'm very curious, but I wonder if.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
You'll go mad to me a pastorals question.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
But like it's an actual question, like yikes, well yeah, like.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Is it middle management?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Upper management?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like how would you describe it in an office setting?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, here's the thing. I know that here at this company,
we have a boss, the top boss, and all the
people between that person and me just ford me his emails, right,
and that that's middle management.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
So you yourself to the pope.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, no, I'm comparing our boss to the pope with
all his whole job isn't forward emails. And I feel
like the Pope's job is that's what got emails.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Basically. Yeah, he comes out and then he's like, hey,
I just got this email. It says that like now
the church is cool with with this thing. You know,
it's more important you guys hop on teams later. Uh
so because I got an email from God and we
don't talk about it.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's what he does got some things you need to
circle back cure. Yeah, it feels weird.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
He so many more synergy than everything, So just like maybe,
but like a recruiting numbers Cardinal Steve, I'm gonna need
you or lunch for our meeting.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's what's trending.