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Episode 249 – Pokémon Cards Nostalgia · My Third Place Pod

• 0:04
  Cheers, ladies and gentlemen. Trainers of all ages, grab your
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  binders, dust off those holographics, and step with me
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  into the square circle of nostalgia.
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  OK, so for the past six months, one thing has been stacking up
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  in my world. Literally Pokémon cards bigger
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  than this, a bit bigger than that.
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  Pokémon card binders, bulk pulls, the whole ritual.
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  Some of you in the chat have seen me cracking packs live, but
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  tonight we're going deeper. Now, this podcast, It's always
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  been about nostalgia, wrestling, video games.
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  But it's also about the smell of a fresh booster ripped open
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  under cafeteria lights, the sting of trading away Charizard
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  for two Blastoise and instant regret, and that one kid who
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  swore his missing No glitch made his Machamp unstoppable.
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  We're talking Saturday mornings with a bowl of Cinnamon Toast
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  Crunch energy cards scattered across the living room floor in
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  a heated battle. You know the energy cards,
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  sneaking a Game Boy Color under the desk during math class,
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  crossing the street to raid a gym in Pokémon Go and spin that
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  pokey stop like it meant everything.
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  It still does. And just like the Attitude Era,
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  it wasn't polished, It wasn't perfect.
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  It was chaos, hype, and pure magic.
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  So whether you're a ride or die base set purist, A Neogenesis
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  dreamer, or you just fell back in love during Scarlet and
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  Violet era, tonight we're stacking the deck, flipping the
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  coin, and asking the question to define every playground robbery
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  since 1999. Do you have the heart of the
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  card or just a binder full of rotatas?
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  I'm Evo podcaster, Lord dropper, sometimes streamer, and yeah,
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  the guy who still gets hyped for Commons on Commons and rares.
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  And this is episode 2.9 and I'm flying solo again.
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  Just me and you. Here's the mission.
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  Every few months we're diving into the addiction that is
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  buying Pokémon cards. From the day one fans to the
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  people who jump back into nostalgia to the new trainer
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  just starting out. We're talking Marcus swings in
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  Saint Paul's community connections, and yes, even the
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  scalpers who try to ruin the fun.
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  All this as we look ahead to the brand new Mega Evolution set
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  dropping in just days. What it means for fans?
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  The good, the bad, the outrageous, and the expensive.
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  Plus, we'll rewind through the game that raced us from Red,
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  Blue, and Yellow on Game Boy to Pokémon Go on mobile, all the
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  way to the upcoming Pokémon ZA on Switch.
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  Or, as people like to say, ZA ZA Pokémon Zah.
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  This is the Pokémon card nostalgia special name, subject
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  to change. And just like a foiled Charizard
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  pulled fresh from the pack, we're keeping it fire.
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  Here's what's ripping from the booster pack tonight.
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  The roots of my collection journey.
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  TV shows that fueled the craze. Video games and apps that kept
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  us hooked. The cars and sets that shaped
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  our binders. Ripping trading and glory pools.
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  And the special illustration, rare that still make us smile.
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  So come with me. Because just like Ash, Misty,
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  Brock and Pikachu, we're going on a journey rediscovering the
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  love I had back then and what these last six months of
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  collecting have meant to me. And just like Marvel Rivals
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  episode, the MPP universe has questions and I've got answers.
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  So let's start ripping a fresh set and see what rares and ultra
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  rares we can pull together. All right, so here we go.
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  Here's a here's a set of questions.
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  First question of the night. When did you start liking
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  Pokémon freaking 1999 around there?
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  Back when it first started, my little brother was into it.
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  The anime aired on kids WBS Saturday morning cartoon
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  starting in February 1999. He was already into it.
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  He was like, he introduced me to them, He introduced me to the
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  anime show, he introduced me to the Gameboy.
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  He introduced me to the to everything I had to do with it.
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  He was like that one kid in your friend group who always knew
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  what things were coming out, what obscure things were about
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  to come out and stuff. Like he was like like knowing
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  everything, knowing video games, knowing movies, my TV shows.
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  Like he, he, he was there for Power Rangers.
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  He was there for there was 1 show called Ghost Rider.
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  He was there for the sorry morning cartoons.
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  He's all like, hey, that's his show you to watch.
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  I was like, OK, of course I wasn't paying attention.
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  And back then I was at school speaking, worried about my
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  stuff. High school, you know, what do
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  you worry about in high school? Yeah, pretty much.
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  Girls and friends and all that shit.
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  So he's all like, yo, check this out.
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  So I did. I checked it out and like, I've
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  been hooked ever since. And like, I went to school the
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  next day after the first episode aired, and, like, all my friends
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  were talking about it as well. And all the anime friends were
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  talking about it as well. And they're like, did you see
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  that? I was like, yeah, like, in the
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  anime friends are like, very different from the regular
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  animation friends. The anime friends are like, now,
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  you know, did you watch Attack on Titan?
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  Did you watch One Piece? Did you watch this show?
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  It was like, I don't know what you're talking about, but if I
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  were to say if you watch X-Men and all these other shows like
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  regular cartoons, no, these guys were like legit extra about the
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  animes. So I had to watch them and it
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  was fun. It was fun getting to know like
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  a lot of friends of mine, doing that and watching them and
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  watching these shows, watching these episodes, watching those
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  shows transform. But same times, like, alright,
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  this is getting to the point where I don't want to watch
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  anymore. I'll take a break, come back.
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  And it was like a few weeks later, I come back and like, oh,
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  shit, what happened? He's been catching stuff like
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  there's no, there's no room for for repeats.
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  I was like, Oh my God. And now there's repeats there
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  because Netflix and stuff, it's on Netflix.
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  So I get to watch it over and over again, like, and I watched
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  it like a few weeks ago, the first episode again.
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  I'm like, yeah. And I remember like, OK.
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  It's so nostalgic. Take us back six months ago, you
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  dope. Head first into Pokémon
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  collecting again. What was the spark nostalgia for
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  the Game Boy days? The artwork was just a thrill of
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  flipping through a binder again. So I grew up with the Game Boy
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  games and the first Gen. Pokémon, so it was a bit
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  nostalgia for me. What's it called?
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  My brother had the games, of course, and then we watched the
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  cartoons. So my brother had the games and
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  like every time he would get tired of the game or like he'd
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  be at school and I'd be at home. I'd just be like, I'd start
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  playing it. He'd need like a safe card for
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  it. And like at one point he would
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  go through the entire thing and yeah, he would needed to save
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  it. And battery life on these
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  things, man is crazy. We'd have to like buy at least
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  free again, a lot of batteries because it would go off so
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  quick. But like he'd be like, you want
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  to play it like, yeah, I'll play your game.
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  Like, all right, cool. So I start telling him all the
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  fucking Pokémon that I caught or I like I play a new game.
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  So it'd be like Tuesday spots, Tuesday points above him and
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  mine and like as soon as he finished his and I would end up
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  not playing with mine like a few weeks, he'd be like, can I play
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  your so yeah, go ahead. All right, so he'd do like
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  another another wrap around on that game and I'm just like, all
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  right, cool. I had the Pokémon Go app on my
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  phone since I got released in 2016 when that thing came out,
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  because we saw the trailer of it, we saw the things of it, the
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  beta and all that stuff back in 2014, 2015.
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  And I was at my job and we were talking about it and we would be
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  like Joe and what if we start, we used the app on at work and
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  we start looking and we see that there's stuff here.
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  Like we were going to be like bad each other were to be
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  catching stuff. Hell yeah, That'd be great.
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  Fast forward to 2016. I wasn't working out there
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  anymore, but still, like, it was fun.
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  And I freaking downloaded the app and like, I could go into
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  the app, but like another time because that is a lot of the
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  stuff that was in there. I bought gifts.
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  I bought a lot of stuff back when I have a job and like I
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  spent my entire money on that thing.
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  Like every time I would just like buy stuff from there just
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  to like get the the red balls, the yellow pokey balls and the
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  blue pokey balls. So yeah.
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  And what else? There was a lot of stuff.
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  You were just introduced to it like 3 years ago.
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  You love it that Leanna. Thanks, Leanna.
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  I love that. And then like when you go on
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  road trips, I would go on road trips like the the months in the
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  summer just because like I need to get the hell out of there.
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  As soon as I got PTO, I would get going on road trips to back
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  and forth and stuff. And I'd just be like, catching
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  all these new Pokémon and then going back home and hey, Jessie,
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  girl, how you doing? And going back home and, like,
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  all the friends be like, where'd you catch this one?
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  Where'd you catch this one? I was like, I was in Minnesota.
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  Oh, I was in Saint Louis. I was in Texas.
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  I was in Illinois. I was in Missouri.
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  And I caught that there. And I caught that here.
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  And I caught that there. I was like, hell, yeah.
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  So it was fun. Another thing about the Pokémon
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  Go app, it's like I would be at work using this thing and I used
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  to work as a Subway, Subway, Subway catering, Subway
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  sandwiches. And I would have like the phone
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  right there and I'd be like, you know, helping the customers and
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  cashier, registering all that shit.
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  And I would have the phone right here.
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  And I was like a look over and it's like, oh shit, there's a
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  Snorlax. So I'm like, you know, swiping
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  up to catch the Snorlax at same time here a customer telling me
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  about their order, like, oh, shit.
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  OK, yeah, OK OK. And I'm looking back and forth
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  and like, did I catch it? I caught it.
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  OK, cool. Yeah, that's great.
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  Uh huh. And even at the casino, like
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  there was a special, there was a community special that was going
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  on for Blastoise at the time. And oh, there's cameras
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  everywhere at the casino. So I have to be careful.
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  Like you can't be on your phone. I'm like, shut up.
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  Just like I fought like I caught like a fun a bunch of right,
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  what the way you do multitask. I caught a bunch of Blastoise.
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  I caught a bunch of squirrels in them And like I'd go around and
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  like, I take my time to just catch them.
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  OK, cool. And then like later on,
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  everybody that plays it, we like, I added them on the
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  freaking app too. But everybody that played it was
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  like, what'd you catch? I was like, I caught this and
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  this and this and this. I caught the plasto.
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  It's like, when did you catch that?
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  You were at work the entire time.
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  Exactly. So I was like, it was fun.
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  You know, like I said, like Pokémon Go app would be like a
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  whole completely different episode and I'd have to go
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  through it. And because I renamed, yeah, I
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  renamed some of my Pokemons and there was a lot of stuff I have
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  like a more than what? There's 1024 Pokémon.
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  There's more than 1024 on that app that I bought, that I got
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  and that that I caught. And there's like double s and
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  triples. And it's like, you know, what if
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  if that represented what I have here, then yeah, I have a bunch
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  of bulk on Pokémon Go out looking at cars and how I was
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  influenced around here. It was a YouTube who was opening
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  packs on her video and showing them off like a couple months
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  ago, six months ago, before that, like around February or
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  March. And I was just watching it and
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  she was doing ASMR. I don't know if she was doing
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  ASMR, but she was like opening packs on your screen.
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  And I'm like, oh, this is cool, you know, Like I didn't think
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  anything of it, but I just thought this is cool.
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  And like around March I suddenly got the urge to buy a pack from
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  Walgreens just to see what they were about.
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  And then the snowball from there and the rest is history.
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  Like I didn't see her doing ASMR.
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  She was just opening packs and like telling people like, Oh my
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  God, look what we have, look what we got, look what we got.
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  So I wanted to do something different from my live stream.
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  So I started doing ASMR and whispering the Pokémon, the
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  number their, their lore. And that's where the Lord drop
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  her title in my intros come because I was doing that for
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  Pokémon and Marvel rivals and Lord Canna, Disney Lord Canna.
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  That was another thing too. I have a bunch of Disney, Orcana
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  and Pokémon stuff so it's the reason.
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  And after I whispered a card, I would put them in a binder and
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  the binder would be called the whisper text binder because it
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  just came about as like I'm whispering.
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  I have a binder and it's like a Pokedex from one to no, not even
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  from one to 1000. It's just like whatever I caught
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  or whatever I got on the card, it's like I just put them in.
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  I didn't have anything like any like, you know, it wasn't from
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  one to whatever it is now like it is now, but it was just like
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  random stuff. And they're just like, oh wait,
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  they're different play. OK, maybe I should do something
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  different. And so the the Pokedex binders
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  and that's where it came from. And then there's there's other
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  stuff which I'll get to in a few.
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  Speaking of binders, of course, the old school rule was 1 Ultra
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  Pro and you shove Charizard in next to five wheedles.
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  But now collectors get reorganized.
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  Question is how many binders do you have and what's your system?
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  OK, so I've seen lots of people with lots of binders and stuff
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  and I never counted them. I was just like, I just knew
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  like, you know, that's a lot. But like over the over the
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  months I've bought binders and it's like I didn't like realize
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  until now. 18 binders all together.
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  There's three regular green ring binders that I already had for
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  my Locana, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Yu-gi-oh, and one piece
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  cards. And then there's the one the
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  marble trading cards I have always that I've always had
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  since when I was a kid in the 90s and they showed a picture, a
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  puzzle. So there was that.
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  So I put those on there. The three ring binder with it
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  was getting like to the point where I need to change it.
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  So I took it off the binders and put in another binder the
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  dreaming. And then I started learning
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  about over the over the months you Start learning about, hey,
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  don't put those on those binders because you know, when you take
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  it with you, they fall like, you know, I figured they're never
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  going to fall, but still. So what do they recommend the
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  new binders that are out right now, the ones that everybody
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  collector has where they just like sliding right in instead of
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  sliding like from top to bottom and they slide to the side.
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  So I bought those I bought the first one I bought was for the
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  pokedex, the whisper decks. It's like all right, cool.
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  I I have it now and then I bought another one.
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  That one was for I don't know what it was.
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  Was it for the artist? Probably for every art that I
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  would find, I would put it in there and then another one,
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  another binder. It's like now I have pre
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  binders. All right, let me take the
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  whisper decks out and put in Pokedex.
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  Now we're going from one to 1024 or however many there are, but
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  I'm missing some like all right, I'll just keep on going, skip
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  those, but keep on going. So then it became another
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  binder. Then it became another binder
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  once I realized that I had like a bunch of packs and I had a
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  bunch of bulk and I read on the bottom who does ball Pokémon
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  belongs to and what pack like Scarlet and Violet Bass,
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  Obsidian Flames, Paul, They evolved.
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  I was like, OK, let me put them in binders as well.
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  I bought 345. So basically at the end of the
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  day, I have 14 regular binders that you find from Walgreens.
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  And then I went ahead and bought one huge binder because I saw it
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  on someone's stream video and it was from Vault X that has 460
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  cars. And I'm like, who am I?
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  Who, who, who am I going to put this with?
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  So the teal binder, it's a teal binder.
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  Hey, panda, how you doing? It's a teal binder and that
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  holds 460 cars. And I put that with the Paradox
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  ref 1 and it's freaking beautiful and I love it.
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  My system now is three of those binders are for the Pokedex.
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  So 360 on one, 360 another one, 360 another one.
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  It goes from Gen. 1 to Gen. 10, whatever that they're up there.
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  So I got the 1st 151 all collected, they're done and I
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  figured OK, I'm done right? I didn't realize that they were
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  like 100,024 now, 24 yeah, 1024 now.
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  So like I kept on going. I kept on grabbing them, I kept
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  on collecting. The Gen. 2 to 10 are all in
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  these three separate binders, but I still need to collect them
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  all. So I try to get the TCG player
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  website to look for five cent cars that I'm still missing.
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  So basically everything. Others are space set like lost
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  origins of city and flame journey together, Twilight
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  masquerade, Destin rides, Bestin rivals.
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  Destin Rivals was the first binder I was organizing because
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  that was my entry point when I came back to collecting, When I
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  came back to liking the stuff, I was watching all these people
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  talk about, hey, Destin Ride was coming out, Destin Ride was
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  coming out. I was like, what the Hell's
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  that? Team Rocket?
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  And I was like, OK, whatever. So I bought a freaking pack of
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  them and I was just like, oh, this is so cool.
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  But I didn't know that later on, like buying packs would be like
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  addicting. So that was fun.
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  And yeah, the big box X binder is steel and that's Paradox Rift
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  and I'm almost done mastering that one.
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  So I, I'm, I'm so excited for that one.
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  Do you organize by set by Pokémon type or just by whatever
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  looks good together? I have other binders as well,
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  which have my favorite artist. OK, so the other binder I was
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  watching, I was like, just because I've watched other
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  people do it, but also because I I love the art of all these new,
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  these Pokémon that I'm like seeing here, you know, the
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  rares, the ultra rares, all that stuff.
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  Then the car that's and I'm just like, this is so awesome, you
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  know, like, hey, I didn't know that it was like 500 Pikachus.
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  So there was a binder that I called the Iron Binder, which
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  had people like so so Yuka Mori, Pani Kobayashi, Asako Ito, which
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  are all crochet Pokémon, and then a page dedicated for
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  Hayaganusuke, Iyako, Osaki, and T0, which if you have specific
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  cards form a picture. Yes, those are new lights.
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  I need more, I need to put up more.
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  They're going to go around the entire area.
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  I just didn't know that it would fit when I did that.
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  I went on a rabbit hole this past summer because I was
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  looking for Pokémon cards that connect and found Pokémon pals
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  in the park near a bench. So I had to collect at least 30
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  plus cars to put them on a binder and like at one point I
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  had them like off separately on until I have them all I will put
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  them on binder. Another page is a different
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  regions a low and gallerian, Hissuan and Peldan which are all
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  different variant forms of Pokémon.
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  I love those because they're they're freaking beautiful.
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  OK, if you had to pick 1 crown jewel card right now, the one
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  you always show people first. What's your favorite in your
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  collection and why? So that's going to be because I
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  was reminded by this the entire time.
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  That's going to be the Foy Coco at the supermarket from Paleo
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  Evolved. This one show it off to the chat
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  as well. It's an art rare and it's the
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  first one I pulled that was a hit and I didn't know anything
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  about hits at the time. So for me that was pretty
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  satisfying. Like if I hope you guys can see
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  it. There you go, almost like menace
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  is Liana saying that those are favorite.
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  They love that one. From there, I now have a lot of
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  favorite hits as well as comments on comments and rares
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  that I love showing off because it made me happy at the time
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  when I opened them. So is this.
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  Obviously there's a lot of favorites.
• 24:54
  Hold on. So let me show you what they
• 24:55
  are. Little beautiful garbage rubbish
• 25:00
  right there. I told you, it's just like a
• 25:07
  bunch of favorites stuff 9 tails.
• 25:24
  Like when I pulled this one, I was like, wait, there's gold
• 25:27
  card in Pokémon? What?
• 25:28
  What are you? What are you talking about?
• 25:30
  What's going on? And I just didn't know.
• 25:33
  So like, I love knowing this stuff.
• 25:36
  This one is pretty awesome. Is Growlitz looking up at a
• 25:41
  camera, which I'll tell you all about it late, a little bit
• 25:45
  later, because like, there's story behind it.
• 25:48
  And then one of my favorites is this one, Danny.
• 25:54
  It's like showing off showing, showing you right there.
• 25:59
  Yeah. It's so cute.
• 26:00
  I love it. This is one of my favorites.
• 26:08
  If you could own one card, past or present, no limits, what
• 26:11
  would it be? So trainer.
• 26:18
  There's a trainer card Trainer Perrin Full Art from Twilight
• 26:25
  Masquerade. She's the old, she's the one
• 26:28
  taking a photograph and on the reflection of her camera is disc
• 26:32
  grouted right here. So these are parents, feet,
• 26:38
  legs. And on that card, she's taking
• 26:44
  the picture and on her lens, the reflection of her lens is this
• 26:48
  girl is staring back at them. So I want that card.
• 26:53
  I need to find that card. But you know what?
• 26:56
  I found that card, but it's expensive.
• 26:57
  So I can wait. I can wait until like I pull the
• 27:01
  the Twilight Masquerade and like, I can find it there.
• 27:05
  Even if it's Japanese, I'm still going to like, yeah, this is
• 27:09
  great. And that's I'm going to put them
• 27:15
  in the in the connection binder as well.
• 27:19
  Which card do you regret not buying when you've had the
• 27:22
  chance? It's called Gotham City.
• 27:26
  Me too. At least that's what I heard of
• 27:30
  being called. Big ass Mewtwo is hovering over
• 27:34
  a city late at night, kind of like how Batman does in Gotham.
• 27:39
  So Gotham City Mewtwo, just Mewtwo standing over Gotham,
• 27:43
  just staring down. So a few weeks ago when I first
• 27:46
  heard about it, I was like, oh, I like it.
• 27:48
  Let me go look for how much it cost.
• 27:51
  I went to the CG website like it was $5.
• 27:54
  OK, I'll buy it this weekend. That's what I said, you know,
• 27:59
  and then once I went and I forgot all about it, so I went
• 28:01
  back again the next week and it went up to $10 and then I'm just
• 28:08
  like, oh, that sucks. It's like alright, well at least
• 28:11
  I tried this week. It's growing, it's getting up
• 28:17
  there. It went up to $20.00.
• 28:19
  So I'm like, never mind. I don't like it's going to be
• 28:22
  one of my chase cards. Was like, if I find out where
• 28:24
  who has it or what, what base expansion pack has it, I'll buy
• 28:32
  it and be like, all right, fine, let's talk sets.
• 28:37
  You got base set Neo X diamond and Pearl, sword and shield,
• 28:42
  scarlet and Violet. What's been your favorite so far
• 28:45
  so to collect and what's the new set coming out that has you
• 28:49
  hyped? Scarlet and Violet set mostly
• 28:54
  because that I Destin rivals, but same time, like if you go to
• 29:00
  Walgreens, they have these packs of 20 there and you get those
• 29:07
  and you open them up and they had like a bunch of old stuff.
• 29:10
  They're a retro freaking vintage card from 2016.
• 29:17
  Ninety the 90s ninety 996 and and there's some of them are
• 29:22
  Japanese. This is where I found the the
• 29:26
  Pokémon from the Pokémon, the Pikachu from 2016, the Pat, the
• 29:29
  fat Pikachu, the one that's just like daring at you, like with
• 29:33
  the mouth open. So I have that somewhere in a
• 29:37
  binder now. So I love getting those because
• 29:43
  like, OK, I love the expansion sets and everything, but same
• 29:49
  time, you know, they're just expansion set.
• 29:51
  They belong on this, they belong here, they belong here, they
• 29:54
  belong here. They belong with Twilight
• 29:56
  Masquerade, Paradox Rift during Together 151, you know, But I
• 30:03
  love the other ones better. The ones that you find out
• 30:05
  Walgreens, Walmart also has them and there's 5 packs and then
• 30:10
  there's 4 packs, 5 packs, 10 packs and then 20 packs and
• 30:17
  those because they're just random stuff here and there from
• 30:23
  sword and shield and I never knew anything about those.
• 30:26
  So I'm I like grabbing those and putting them in a way and a
• 30:30
  little small box. This way I can come back later
• 30:33
  and be like hope these are awesome.
• 30:34
  I love these, but my favorite so far that has been out his
• 30:41
  journey together and paradox rift.
• 30:44
  Paradox rift. It's in the teal binder.
• 30:46
  So that's I need to like have at least all of those because I
• 30:51
  that's that binder is what I bought it for journey together.
• 30:57
  There's a reason for journey together because that's where
• 30:59
  I'm seeing all over the place. Walgreens had like a stack of
• 31:03
  freaking journey together and over the past few months, like I
• 31:06
  you can't find anything anywhere because of scalpers and buying
• 31:11
  everything. And then I went to Walgreens a
• 31:16
  few a month ago and I saw them there and I'm like, huh,
• 31:20
  nobody's bought them. So I bought like the entire
• 31:23
  thing, not the entire thing. At least I want to say 10 of
• 31:28
  them and then start ripping them and ripping them and ripping
• 31:31
  them and found at least I don't know, a bunch of rares and you
• 31:37
  know, I put those in binder and I'm almost done with that one.
• 31:41
  I just need to get the the rarest and the ultra rarest and
• 31:45
  I love it. So those 2 are my favorite so
• 31:47
  far. What are you hunting right now?
• 31:51
  Are you just pack ripping or for the fun of it?
• 31:54
  I am. I am pack ripping for the fun of
• 31:56
  it. I have the podcast, obviously.
• 32:02
  So I like to talk about the podcast that I bought this stuff
• 32:06
  and I am during my streams, you know, like, hey, what are we
• 32:12
  doing today? Let's let's RIP a pack open one
• 32:14
  pack a night. You know it like even if you
• 32:18
  miss out on something and but you still want to know stuff and
• 32:21
  you still like, all right, there's all this freaking bulk
• 32:25
  here, so let me get rid of this stuff.
• 32:28
  At the same time, I was like, all right, let's you know what,
• 32:30
  let's do a pack. And that's because from when I
• 32:33
  was doing the first time around with the, with the ASMR stuff, I
• 32:37
  got used to it. So now it's the same where I
• 32:40
  look forward to doing, I love doing it.
• 32:42
  Even if it's like a like a 20 pack, which is the cheapest one
• 32:46
  out there at Walgreens, I'll still open the box.
• 32:50
  It's like, hey, look everybody and just start showing it to
• 32:52
  everybody. Same with the packs.
• 32:55
  Just like RIP it open, show it to everybody.
• 32:57
  Even if it is like I have a bunch of double S or triple
• 33:01
  quadruposed, I'm still going to read the everything from Let's
• 33:07
  see, let's see barboque #339 Whiskers, Pokémon height 1/4
• 33:14
  weight 4.2 lbs illustrated by Ryama or as Luka AS2.
• 33:21
  Whiskers provide sensitive radar.
• 33:23
  Even in Muddy Waters it can detect its prey location.
• 33:27
  All right, so there's that. Then I look up the lore and
• 33:30
  everything and I start whispering the lore and I was
• 33:35
  like, all right, cool, let's put it away.
• 33:37
  So that's fun. That's really fun.
• 33:43
  Other than that, what I'm hunting are Illustrator, the
• 33:48
  illustrators. There's some rare cards out
• 33:50
  there. There's some rare cards from
• 33:51
  vintage cars as well and I love going to 2nd and Charles.
• 33:56
  That is a great place to go to because they have nothing but
• 34:00
  bulk and other people found out there's bulk there.
• 34:03
  So I'm like, yes, that's great. Go buy the bulk to buy some of
• 34:07
  the bulk and just get rid of these cars so I can like go in
• 34:09
  their cars as well. The first time I saw it, they
• 34:15
  had a bunch of exes there which were illustration rares as well,
• 34:21
  and I bought them and like the next week I came back and they
• 34:25
  were all gone. But there was just nothing but
• 34:29
  bulk stuff. And then I saw the Dustin Rivals
• 34:31
  stuff. So I started getting those and
• 34:33
  putting them in the binder and then whatever came out after
• 34:36
  that. Dustin Rivals in August, White
• 34:40
  Flare and black vault. Like I didn't buy the packs at
• 34:44
  first. I went to second Charles 1st and
• 34:47
  I saw them there so I started getting them from there and it
• 34:52
  was like you like go in there and grab as much as you can and
• 34:56
  put in your collection. They were like 45050 for 450,
• 35:00
  around $5.50 for $5.00. So I would usually go in there
• 35:05
  and get like at least 150 cards. And I mean, it's fun, but same
• 35:10
  time not fun for the cashier who has to count them all
• 35:13
  individually. So there's all like, yeah, I got
• 35:16
  a condom, sorry. So I guess like, I know.
• 35:20
  So I stopped telling them how much I got him, but it's just
• 35:24
  for the fun of it. Like I'm not looking for
• 35:26
  anything. Even if they're just like, I
• 35:28
  don't get any hits. I don't get bummed out about it
• 35:31
  like some people do. I still look at it like, oh, I
• 35:36
  don't have this one yet and oh, I'm going to use this one for
• 35:41
  something else later on. All right, next question.
• 35:48
  You mentioned Game Boy and N64 earlier.
• 35:50
  Back in the day, kids were linking up Pokémon TTG on Game
• 35:54
  Boy Color or running Pokémon Stadium battles on TV.
• 35:57
  Do you feel like those games shaped how you see the cars now?
• 36:02
  Yes, because I used to play the boy, the Game Boy, you know, my
• 36:10
  brother had the Blue Wing game. I would always play with with
• 36:14
  him as well. Then we graduate, graduated to
• 36:18
  Pokémon Stadium and then from there Pokémon Snap and Pokémon
• 36:22
  Snap. I love that game.
• 36:24
  When it came out, I would always like, it was like, yeah, you
• 36:28
  know, you could, you're taking pictures of the Pokémon and
• 36:34
  you're on AI think you're on a train, you're the train, you're
• 36:36
  taking pictures Pokémon. And then like you find out later
• 36:41
  on there's another like you, you got to do this and this and this
• 36:45
  in order for it to evolve and like, oh shit.
• 36:47
  So we start like we end up doing the entire thing over and over
• 36:50
  again and it was so fun. So like learning about that and
• 36:54
  then coming back here now it's like, oh, this one evolved
• 36:58
  because of that. Yeah.
• 37:00
  We just love playing games and because they were so fun and you
• 37:05
  know, like even now, it's like if I had a Switch, I would play
• 37:09
  it. I would play the game because it
• 37:13
  is like it's so addicting playing game, playing the
• 37:18
  Pokémon games and learning about stuff and the card game are so
• 37:23
  addicting and there's fun. So yes, all right, let's get
• 37:27
  practical. New collectors always ask,
• 37:29
  should you buy sealed products like elite trainer boxes and
• 37:32
  booster packs or skip the gamble and just grab singles online?
• 37:36
  What's your strategy been? I've been grabbing singles
• 37:41
  online. I'm not buying ETV's.
• 37:44
  There's no way I can afford the ETV's.
• 37:50
  I every time I go to a freaking there's, I can't find ETV's
• 37:55
  anyways, but I did find like I did go to GameStop one time and
• 38:03
  like I'm looking around for the, you know, the, the, the little
• 38:08
  backs, the little tiny things of booster packs and it's fine.
• 38:14
  Like hey, and then they have a binder.
• 38:16
  This one that I go to has a binder full of bulk and I'm just
• 38:20
  like going through it. I was like, alright, cool.
• 38:22
  No, I have that one. No, I don't think I have that
• 38:24
  one, but let me grab it anyways. And one day I was just there and
• 38:29
  just like looking at this binder because I it was like it was
• 38:34
  like a dollar a card. You know, it's like it got to
• 38:37
  the point where it's like that's too much like, oh shit, $13 for
• 38:41
  13 cars. No way.
• 38:43
  Like like I said, second in Charles is better, but GameStop,
• 38:48
  I went there and I was like looking around and stuff.
• 38:50
  And then one of the cashiers, it's like pulls out this ETV
• 38:55
  from her to drawer, the dress drawer and stuff, and she shows
• 39:02
  it to me and she's like, hey, you want this?
• 39:04
  And it's like white flair. And I'm just like, what do you
• 39:09
  mean? It's like, yeah, somebody had
• 39:11
  ordered it and like, we kept it here and they never showed up.
• 39:15
  And I'm looking at it like, how much?
• 39:17
  Like fucking $60.00, I'm good. I don't, I, I do, I want it.
• 39:25
  Do I do I do, I want it. And I'm just like looking at it
• 39:29
  and it's like so bummed that I couldn't get it.
• 39:32
  But at the same time, you know what, No, like, no, it's fine.
• 39:38
  I'm not looking for blackballed and white flair.
• 39:41
  I wasn't interested in that. I was still going for Dustin
• 39:43
  Rivals. I was still going for the past
• 39:45
  ones, the old ones, because I like those.
• 39:50
  Was it all draining together? Paradox Rift and all of them.
• 39:56
  And then I see this one. I'm just like, no, I'm good.
• 40:00
  Thank you though. Appreciate it.
• 40:02
  And then I bought the little cars that were there.
• 40:05
  It's like, all right, cool. And the entire time I'm just
• 40:08
  like, did I do the right thing? Yes, I did the right thing.
• 40:11
  I don't want it. I was, I'm not interested in it.
• 40:13
  I was like, I'm so proud of myself, so proud of myself.
• 40:15
  I said no, I put it away. I didn't want it.
• 40:19
  And that was that was freaking. That's that is just like I wow,
• 40:26
  it was, it's just like I saying no to something like that.
• 40:29
  And it's like maybe the next kid would be like, you know what?
• 40:33
  I'll take it. Like, all right, yeah, maybe she
• 40:36
  sent it. She she gave it to a kid.
• 40:39
  I don't know. So proud.
• 40:42
  I am proud. What's the most you've ever
• 40:45
  spent on a single card? Probably a few dollars.
• 40:51
  The Denny, the den, the Denny, the Denny, the Denny.
• 40:56
  Because of that right there, because of that right there,
• 40:59
  right right there, that face right there, because of that
• 41:04
  face right there. It was on the TCG website.
• 41:12
  I was looking for access. I was looking for illustration
• 41:15
  rears 3 dollars $2.00 I don't know somewhere around there
• 41:19
  around that ballpark and of course like it's 131 shipping,
• 41:25
  but if you get more than this much, it's free shipping.
• 41:32
  So I saw this, I got it and I was like oh free shipping
• 41:36
  fucking hell as well as other cars of course, which ended.
• 41:42
  But this one, I ended up looking at it and it was the cutest
• 41:45
  thing ever because why not? Did any?
• 41:49
  And that's how I heard people say his name.
• 41:51
  Her name. It's name.
• 41:53
  So Denny, just like staring at you.
• 41:56
  And I'm just like, I need it. I don't.
• 41:58
  I don't know where's it from? It's from Sport and Shield.
• 42:03
  Yeah, 218. And it's AB Union.
• 42:09
  And I, I was like, I don't care where they're from.
• 42:11
  I want it. And you're collecting.
• 42:14
  I love it. I think this one also was just
• 42:21
  like $0.50 the Trevish and at A at my comic book store.
• 42:33
  So at the comic book store, there's like a freaking bunch of
• 42:37
  stuff there that are like vintage.
• 42:42
  And of course they have the, they have 2-3 bulk boxes of, of
• 42:50
  black bulk and white flair, Destin rivals and just the
• 42:54
  black, the, the entire bulk of everything.
• 42:58
  And then the new stuff that they just brought in or they just got
• 43:02
  from the old stuff. So I went and got a bunch of
• 43:05
  those and like, they have to go through it.
• 43:08
  They have to go to the TCG market, find out how much it
• 43:11
  cost and then how much they're going to sell it to me.
• 43:15
  So I usually had get like around 15 cards for like at least
• 43:18
  $2.00, which is fine. I love it.
• 43:22
  It's so fun just getting it from there.
• 43:25
  And then I go from there to 2nd and Charles for that.
• 43:29
  All right, we now have to talk about the elephant in the room.
• 43:32
  The bulk 6 months in the piles add up.
• 43:34
  October the right around the corner.
• 43:36
  So what's the spooky plan for all that bulk?
• 43:38
  Do you trade in giveaways? Maybe a mystery MDP bulk drop.
• 43:45
  And when I say bulk, I don't just mean this.
• 43:49
  This is just one 10th of stuff that I have and I'm like, Oh my
• 44:01
  goodness. Like I have a lot of bulk and
• 44:04
  it's I don't know what to do with it.
• 44:06
  So I started Googling. Jane, Hi.
• 44:11
  I started Googling for what to do with the bulk.
• 44:15
  It came out with a bunch of stuff as well.
• 44:19
  There's like I said, there's the puzzle in there and people start
• 44:23
  saying cut them, cut your bulk like cut down with scissors and
• 44:29
  make a picture out of it. Put other Pokémon, the ones that
• 44:34
  you like, put them away in little in another binder there
• 44:40
  was give them out the kids, give them out to your local
• 44:44
  hospitals, give them out to, you know, just put them out at the
• 44:48
  park. Just you leave them there, sell
• 44:50
  it back to TCG, sell them TCG, sell them to your local comic
• 44:56
  book shops or a local car store. What I did, here's what I did.
• 45:02
  I did a binder of Pokémon in my region or state and I looked it
• 45:08
  up like what kind of Pokémon would live here?
• 45:12
  And like Google search came back and I'm just like looking for
• 45:16
  those Pokémon cards and I'm just like all right, so this, this,
• 45:20
  this and this and this and this. All right, let me put them in a
• 45:22
  binder. OK, awesome.
• 45:25
  What next? There's only like a few of them,
• 45:27
  like at least 20 or 30. What next?
• 45:32
  Let me start looking for Pokémon in my friend state.
• 45:35
  Everybody in the chat, where where do you live?
• 45:37
  Like got Missouri, got Michigan, got Oregon, got California, got
• 45:46
  Norway, got all these other places.
• 45:48
  And I'm just like, all right, Nebraska.
• 45:51
  So like, all right, I started looking at them and a bunch
• 45:58
  came. I was like, oh shit, you know, I
• 46:00
  I finally know what to do with my bulk, so I'm going to do that
• 46:04
  and then I'm going to do the other states as well because I
• 46:07
  know as soon as I who lives in Oregon, I don't know.
• 46:09
  Washington. I'm sorry.
• 46:15
  Yeah, I wasn't going to say it, but whatever.
• 46:17
  All right, cool. I don't know, maybe I was
• 46:19
  confused by that. OK.
• 46:22
  Washington, PNWPNW. So maybe I was going to do like,
• 46:27
  you know, West Coast, was it Mountain Coast, Midwest, East
• 46:42
  Coast and put those in different binders as well.
• 46:49
  And it would work out because I have a lot and those started
• 46:53
  like, you know, slowly going down as well.
• 47:00
  I'm also doing a seasonal binder of this book.
• 47:02
  What kind of Pokémon would you find in September?
• 47:05
  And for next one for next month, Halloween inspired Pokémon.
• 47:09
  What kind of Pokémon would you find on in October?
• 47:13
  I was going to say on Halloween, what kind of Pokémon would you
• 47:15
  find in October and in November and then December we're going to
• 47:18
  get through the entire seasons. We're going to get through the
• 47:21
  entire states, we're going to get through entire countries.
• 47:26
  Norway is a country, remember that, but we're going to get
• 47:31
  through all this stuff and we're going to like lower these books.
• 47:35
  So that's fun. I'm also doing a mystery book
• 47:37
  giveaway for the kids on Halloween, which is just like
• 47:44
  grabbing a bunch of these that I I'm not using anymore or that,
• 47:48
  you know, I really like put it and even the hollows, like I'm
• 47:52
  putting them all in. Good boy.
• 47:54
  Thanks a lot. Appreciate that I'm putting them
• 48:00
  all in a little at least. I don't know 20304050 of them
• 48:05
  and putting them in one bag and baggy but flipping them so that
• 48:10
  these kids won't see what they are.
• 48:12
  And then I also bought the Pokémon trigger trade sets, like
• 48:17
  2 of them, which are 999 at Walgreens and they're cheap and
• 48:22
  they come with 15 packs and each pack has three cards in them and
• 48:26
  probably like a bunch of double S in there as well.
• 48:28
  So like on Halloween, I'm just going to give it out to these
• 48:31
  kids come to the house, I'll put the the 50 Pulk and the three
• 48:38
  Halloween, the three trigger trade ones, 2 trigger trade ones
• 48:41
  and then some candy and give them to the kids and be like,
• 48:43
  hey, here you go, you can have it.
• 48:45
  Whatever. I don't use whatever happens,
• 48:47
  I'll just end up doing what these other TikTok creators that
• 48:53
  I've seen a while back do, and that is just go to the park and
• 48:56
  just leave it there and see who finds it.
• 48:59
  You know, whoever gets there first is there.
• 49:03
  So that's going to be freaking fun to do.
• 49:06
  OK, you've come a long way in six months.
• 49:09
  Multiple binders, chase cars, bulk plans.
• 49:11
  What's next for you as a collector?
• 49:12
  This is about building a dream binder.
• 49:14
  Are you thinking about dabbling competitive play tournaments or
• 49:17
  keeping it at chills and hobby? I'm not doing competitive play.
• 49:21
  I tried that. I don't understand it.
• 49:23
  I'm not doing tournaments. Nope, I tried it.
• 49:26
  I don't understand it. I get lost in the sauce.
• 49:32
  I, I, I do the TCG web pocket, the Pokémon pocket.
• 49:38
  I've tried doing that. I've tried.
• 49:40
  Well, obviously you can do it on Pokémon Go.
• 49:43
  You're like, you know, fight against each other, but doing it
• 49:47
  on like another thing where it's like this one versus Barbeau
• 49:54
  versus Colossal, like what do I do with this?
• 49:58
  I don't like, I don't know. And then have supporters and
• 50:02
  then have stadiums and then have a bunch of these cars, the
• 50:09
  energy cars. Like that's a lot of stuff to
• 50:11
  do. That's a lot of stuff to
• 50:12
  remember. Yeah, I'm not doing that.
• 50:15
  So I'm keeping it as a chosen hobby.
• 50:17
  It is. It is a chosen hobby because it
• 50:20
  makes me happy and whatever makes me happy.
• 50:22
  You know, it's like, I want to do this.
• 50:23
  I want to just like hang out with my friends and live stream
• 50:27
  and like tell you guys, hey, I got a Japanese card.
• 50:31
  Look at this. Look at this Imolka and knowing
• 50:37
  that you know these cards, who they are and in Japanese as
• 50:41
  well. Like hey, to me, it's just
• 50:46
  something I enjoyed watching, playing and reading about as a
• 50:51
  kid. And now I love the art, the
• 50:53
  number of Pokémon in the community.
• 50:55
  The community is freaking fun. I love the community.
• 50:58
  The Pokémon community is freaking amazing.
• 51:00
  Like, hey, which car do you have?
• 51:03
  I have this card. Like which car do you have?
• 51:05
  I have this card. Awesome.
• 51:07
  Watching other people pull a Mewtwo.
• 51:12
  What? What?
• 51:14
  Oh my gosh, you know, does watching other people's smiles
• 51:21
  go from like, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 51:25
  I did that too when I got me too.
• 51:28
  I did that too when I got like a bunch of other ones and like you
• 51:31
  think it's fake. No, it's a genuine smile, this
• 51:33
  genuine freaking excitement because you go back to being a
• 51:38
  kid again. And I love that.
• 51:40
  I love this community ripping, whispering about their lore or
• 51:47
  bindering. That's something new.
• 51:49
  I just found out you can say bindering and bindering them is
• 51:52
  something I look forward to doing and it's also helping me
• 51:55
  with my mental health. I started out this year with
• 52:02
  depressy depresso espresso. Obviously.
• 52:09
  I think it was around December where of last year where I was
• 52:12
  just like whatever. But I started playing Marvel
• 52:16
  Rivals and it, you know, made me happy.
• 52:20
  It made me happy doing playing the game and maybe happy
• 52:22
  playing, you know, buying these cars, watching other people
• 52:26
  buying these cars, watching other people open the packs.
• 52:29
  Even if I don't pack any more packs anymore at this point
• 52:32
  right now, I have a lot. I can just be like, all right,
• 52:36
  let's go back to whisper decks. Let's go back to doing this
• 52:39
  until I have more funds again. So, you know, let's like, let's
• 52:46
  put these cars that I have their extras and put them in the other
• 52:50
  binders as well and you know, all that stuff.
• 52:57
  So yeah, that that helped with a lot with my mental health as
• 53:01
  well as everybody in the chat telling me those are awesome.
• 53:03
  Great. Yes, you know, you know,
• 53:06
  celebrating with me because we we were just having so much fun
• 53:10
  with that. Also, I can't wait to celebrate
• 53:13
  the 30th anniversary next year. That's going to be fun.
• 53:16
  Next year is going to be fun to be a Pokémon fan as well as
• 53:21
  nostalgia. That's 30th anniversary.
• 53:24
  Even if it's like expensive, you know what, it's all good.
• 53:27
  I have second hand Charles. I have other places I can buy
• 53:30
  like single card. So that's going to be fun.
• 53:35
  Next question was do you see Lorcana having the staying power
• 53:38
  of Pokémon Yu-gi-oh or will it stay niche?
• 53:42
  Disney already has a staying power.
• 53:45
  It's been 2 years with and already has 9 booster boxes, 9
• 53:50
  boosters with two more coming soon in the next few months.
• 53:55
  I unfortunately don't have the funds for that anymore.
• 53:58
  It's like I started collecting them but it's like that's too
• 54:01
  much. I had my comic book store, they
• 54:04
  were selling him cheap and I was like Oh yeah hey you know what?
• 54:08
  But then every time I ripped open a pack I kept getting the
• 54:11
  double S triple the same thing over and over again so I
• 54:15
  stopped. It wasn't funny anymore, but I
• 54:18
  did end up getting like at least a few rares and ultra rares.
• 54:28
  I don't know what. What were they called again?
• 54:30
  Chad? I don't know, but they were
• 54:37
  enchanted. Enchanted.
• 54:39
  They were called enchanted rares, and they were shiny.
• 54:45
  I got this one right here. Legendary.
• 54:48
  There you go. They were called legendary, and
• 54:50
  that's how you know that was a legendary because it was yellow.
• 54:53
  The Queen. I got the Queen, Pinocchio,
• 54:57
  Merlin, Clarabelle, Mida Bell, Madigal, A Hydra, Tiana, and
• 55:05
  Donald Duck. And I was surprised I got those
• 55:09
  because those were hard to find. Those were rare, so yeah, they
• 55:18
  have a staying power. That's just it is Disney.
• 55:21
  People love big Disney of the princesses stuff, the Prince
• 55:26
  stuff. Yeah, it's going to stay here
• 55:28
  for a while. There's a card game for
• 55:34
  everything, for just about everything we have.
• 55:37
  There's card game for Marvel. There's card games for the EI
• 55:44
  started buying these new comic books that came out a few months
• 55:47
  back and they're doing a whole car set as well to go with the
• 55:52
  the comic books. So next year they're coming out
• 55:54
  with those with the the game and the entire game.
• 55:57
  So they started like giving out the the cars and with the with
• 56:02
  the books and that is exquisite courses.
• 56:08
  So yeah, I was like, everything has a card game now and Magic
• 56:14
  the Gathering and it has a lot of expansions.
• 56:19
  Final Fantasy, I do believe there were Star Wars now there's
• 56:24
  Spider Man and it's it's getting to the point where if you know
• 56:28
  what, OK, that's that's too much.
• 56:31
  And but people are doing content with those cards as well.
• 56:36
  I was doing it as well. And in the summer do with the
• 56:39
  ASMR and the whisper decks Finder.
• 56:42
  And then it got to the point where it's like, this is too
• 56:44
  much. I don't want to do it anymore.
• 56:46
  There are others, other content creators that I would love to
• 56:49
  interview and you know, let me interview them and see what
• 56:54
  they're like. I know there's one, there's one
• 56:57
  content creator that has a fascination that loves Gaston.
• 57:01
  Every time he pulled a Gaston out of our legend art of the
• 57:04
  Pokémon, not a Pokémon out of the Lord counter card, he would
• 57:07
  get all excited. And then it got to the point
• 57:09
  where I would pull the Gaston card and be like, hey, look,
• 57:12
  look, it's your card, man. Like you want it, let's go.
• 57:16
  And like getting to know him is pretty awesome as well because
• 57:19
  he's pretty chill dude. And so like, I'm going to see if
• 57:22
  we can interview him up on the podcast, see if he wants to come
• 57:25
  on, see if he wants to talk about the the Lucana stuff as
• 57:28
  well. So we're going to be doing that
• 57:32
  pretty soon. Who in the Pokémon community do
• 57:35
  you recommend going for tips, tricks or anything related?
• 57:39
  All right, I have a long list here and these are all different
• 57:46
  people and I'm going to put them all on the show notes.
• 57:49
  I'm a list them out Pokey rado, pokey raid, pokey raid pokey rad
• 57:56
  zero. I like I call it pokey rado that
• 58:00
  one for the state of the market. If you want to know how price
• 58:02
  changes can affect the market community P does tend to do like
• 58:07
  10 minute videos and talks forever, but you it makes sense.
• 58:12
  It makes sense at the end of the night, at the end of the video I
• 58:17
  used I go for these videos, I go to CD, watch these videos and I
• 58:22
  understand it now like watching them do all this stuff and you
• 58:28
  know they're they Pokémon influences, but the same time
• 58:32
  like all right, what to do what not to do.
• 58:35
  These are the people that showed me that taught me like here how
• 58:39
  you can spot a reel from a fake card.
• 58:44
  Here's here's what do like if you, if something is not, if you
• 58:51
  can't buy something now, buy it later on, but buy something else
• 58:55
  first, like buy from like where nobody's watching it.
• 58:58
  So I went and got like the Twilight Masquerade.
• 59:01
  You know, everything is being bought.
• 59:03
  Nobody's buying unless, well, somebody goes and get them all.
• 59:07
  Nobody's buying. What's it called?
• 59:10
  Journey together, because to them is old news now.
• 59:14
  So I'm like, no, I'm getting them so great.
• 59:18
  Poker Raider for that. Grady on 37 for binder story
• 59:21
  single cards or just his vibe alone.
• 59:24
  He is such an awesome, chill dude.
• 59:27
  I love this guy. He's freaking awesome.
• 59:30
  He's the one that like I went to one of the videos and he's all
• 59:34
  like, I'm going to cut my cards and you know, because like he
• 59:38
  did, he did, he cut his cards and I'm just like, oh shit, why
• 59:42
  would you do that? So I watched it more and in his
• 59:46
  video he showed tells you that this one particular these three
• 59:51
  particular artist Hayanko, Nosloke, Osako, Ito and T0 are
• 59:59
  doing art and Pokémon art puzzle and.
• 1:00:08
  I'm like, oh, OK, so if you cut them out and put them in a like
• 1:00:12
  a little thing, little cardboard, bigger power board in
• 1:00:15
  the back and make the picture and I'm just like, oh shit.
• 1:00:19
  So that's when I started collecting those.
• 1:00:20
  I was like looking for around second of Charles every time I
• 1:00:24
  go there and be like, alright, I'm looking for this one,
• 1:00:26
  looking for the pony time, looking for the pony time,
• 1:00:28
  looking for the pony time. Nope, can't find it.
• 1:00:30
  Finally, I get it on the Destiny Rivals booster pack.
• 1:00:35
  I'm like, all right, cool, no, I didn't get that from there.
• 1:00:38
  I get it from somewhere else. I get it from second Charles.
• 1:00:41
  But I got the set, the double as well, and I'm like, oh, now I
• 1:00:44
  get it again. Great.
• 1:00:46
  But when I found it at 2nd and Charles, I was just like, found
• 1:00:50
  it and it was pretty fun, you know, doing all that the crochet
• 1:00:58
  Pokémon. I didn't know anything about it
• 1:00:59
  until like I saw one crochet Pokémon.
• 1:01:03
  I'm just like, oh, this, this artist is cool.
• 1:01:05
  I like it. So I started looking at this
• 1:01:07
  artist and like, all right, so start looking at all the other
• 1:01:11
  pokemons that they created and that they put in their crochet
• 1:01:17
  and it's a crochet. They do crochet and they place
• 1:01:21
  them in like environment and they take pictures of it and
• 1:01:26
  it's like, Oh my God, it's awesome.
• 1:01:28
  So he taught me how to get binders, vault taxes from him,
• 1:01:32
  single cars, going online and buying them, going to car shows
• 1:01:36
  and buying them. And that's the whole reason why,
• 1:01:39
  like, I love you guys, you love the crochet ones.
• 1:01:43
  I knew too, ex Danny Rheon, she's from Canada and owns the
• 1:01:47
  Pokémon store and has a lot of content on TikTok.
• 1:01:50
  Sometimes shows up at card shows and ask Krause what their
• 1:01:53
  favorite Pokémon cards are and then ask others to grade those
• 1:01:57
  cars from one to 10. Sometimes the good thing,
• 1:02:00
  sometimes not a bad, it's a bad thing because those are the bad
• 1:02:05
  thing. They're like I'm going to grade
• 1:02:08
  A7 and then I'm like that is a good car.
• 1:02:11
  That is A10 in my book. And then I'm like, what's your
• 1:02:15
  card? And then he comes out with his
• 1:02:17
  car. They come out with their card
• 1:02:18
  and they're like, oh, that's horrible.
• 1:02:21
  And then the next person grades it to like A5.
• 1:02:23
  What the hell is this? And then, you know, it just
• 1:02:26
  snowballs from there. And it's so funny to watch
• 1:02:28
  because people think their cars are better than other cars.
• 1:02:32
  But sometimes they're like the truth.
• 1:02:34
  They love to freaking put in those 10s as well, so that's fun
• 1:02:40
  as well. Danny Rian is awesome.
• 1:02:42
  Walla Moose. Love that guy.
• 1:02:44
  I started following because he had a video of Pokémon cards
• 1:02:46
  that connect with others and so I saved it.
• 1:02:49
  Ever since then he's been my source for all sings Japanese
• 1:02:51
  cards and he goes live sometimes.
• 1:02:53
  I'm going to his live to hang out with all key games.
• 1:02:55
  So he's the reason why I got the the parking lot of the park
• 1:02:59
  collection. Like he had his own video.
• 1:03:04
  I was like, I'm going to tell you these 26 cards.
• 1:03:06
  He only told me 26 cards. I had to look up the other
• 1:03:08
  cards. And it's fun, really fun trying
• 1:03:12
  to like look up these cards and like trying to look for them at
• 1:03:16
  2nd and Charles and then finding out they're in a pack.
• 1:03:19
  And when you open the pack and they're like, oh, look, the
• 1:03:23
  bench, the bench from the park. Oh, it's here.
• 1:03:25
  Like, yeah, great. And I'm so excited when I get
• 1:03:28
  those. Like I said, it's not doesn't
• 1:03:30
  only have to be a hit, it's because you're looking for a
• 1:03:33
  specific type of card and then once you get it, it's freaking
• 1:03:37
  awesome. You know?
• 1:03:39
  Another one is Pokey Zoe. Lately she's new to me.
• 1:03:43
  I started watching her videos for pack ripping tips on
• 1:03:46
  organizing bulk and other fun stuff.
• 1:03:49
  And then anything related Podcast Metapod critical hits at
• 1:03:53
  pokeybeach.com. I usually have those in the show
• 1:03:57
  notes so you can check them out as well.
• 1:03:59
  Listen to those podcasts. It's pretty fun.
• 1:04:01
  They're pretty fun to listen to. They tell you about the state of
• 1:04:04
  market. They tell you about you know,
• 1:04:08
  what they think of the new Pokémon community is coming out,
• 1:04:12
  the Pokémon cards that are coming out.
• 1:04:15
  So I there's more out there. I know there's more and like
• 1:04:20
  I'll have those in the show notes.
• 1:04:22
  So hope you get to watch read the show notes as well.
• 1:04:26
  If you're like looking for, you know, Pokémon community members
• 1:04:31
  as well. What are tips for new
• 1:04:35
  collectors? Here's what I found out for the
• 1:04:41
  past six months. OK, your tip for new collectors,
• 1:04:44
  like I'm a new collector as well, but at the same time, it's
• 1:04:48
  been 6 months. So like, let me help you out.
• 1:04:53
  Bundles can stretch your dollar, especially if you don't mind
• 1:04:56
  duplicates. Buy from what I've heard on
• 1:05:00
  critical hits. Buy as many as you want.
• 1:05:05
  Whatever makes you happy. Buy.
• 1:05:08
  Where are they? I know there's a book right here
• 1:05:11
  of all the stuff. See, there you go.
• 1:05:20
  Buy as many primates as you can, OK, if you want them, buy at
• 1:05:28
  least three. One for your Pokémon Pokedex,
• 1:05:31
  one for whatever it belongs to, whatever binder that you want to
• 1:05:36
  put them in. And if you like it so much, put
• 1:05:38
  them in the binder as well. If you know, put them and all
• 1:05:43
  that stuff. It's up to you if you want to
• 1:05:46
  sell it on TCG and you know, make a lot, make money off of
• 1:05:53
  that and fund your your next your next buy my next purchase.
• 1:06:00
  Pick your lane early. Decide if you're collecting for
• 1:06:03
  fun, value or completion. It'll save money and stress.
• 1:06:06
  It will definitely save money and stress.
• 1:06:10
  I didn't know this until like a month ago, two months ago where
• 1:06:15
  I'm like, am I almost done with this set?
• 1:06:18
  Like no. Oh shit.
• 1:06:19
  OK, so look up TCG website, TCG player, buy the the ones that
• 1:06:27
  are missing and that's it. But you're collecting it, it's
• 1:06:31
  done. You don't have to master the
• 1:06:32
  entire thing because the master set, it has a lot of these
• 1:06:38
  illustration rare cards that are so expensive.
• 1:06:41
  That's just not this one. But you know, it's expensive.
• 1:06:43
  Expensive. They're like 15 dollars, $20.
• 1:06:47
  I'll tell you which one's freaking huge play.
• 1:06:53
  The gold cards are like a lot of money like come on this if it
• 1:07:00
  wasn't Japanese it would be like expensive, but I pulled this
• 1:07:02
  from a Japanese pack. I pulled sorry.
• 1:07:07
  I pulled this from a Japanese pack to metro a MU2V.
• 1:07:15
  What was it from? It was from MU 2, Vtar V Star
• 1:07:18
  from Pokémon Go binder set or Pokémon set.
• 1:07:26
  Another one is this one. They're so expensive if it
• 1:07:30
  wasn't for here. So you know the Mewtwo over
• 1:07:36
  Gotham City? That one's freaking huge.
• 1:07:46
  So pick your lane early. Do you want to do it for fun?
• 1:07:48
  I'm doing it for fun. I don't care about the value.
• 1:07:51
  I don't care how much it cost. Although I do look it up and
• 1:07:55
  then you find out like because I saw this other video a few a few
• 1:08:00
  weeks ago of this dude sending in 11 card, 11 illustration.
• 1:08:10
  Rare to get it graded, PSPCAPSA, whatever it's called to get it
• 1:08:17
  graded. And then he had to like $25 a
• 1:08:21
  card. He had to pay $25 a card to
• 1:08:24
  GameStop. That's how much they charge you.
• 1:08:28
  And then like, all right, so 22 months later, three months later
• 1:08:33
  he comes back and it's like I'm back for my car.
• 1:08:35
  And then so they give him like a freaking the entire set of the
• 1:08:39
  he just put in. They were like all 10's and
• 1:08:42
  nines and then they charge them again because they're they're
• 1:08:47
  worth something now. So they overcharge him and I'm
• 1:08:51
  like, that is sucks. You know what, what, what?
• 1:08:54
  So it's better to go to what's it called to car shows and if
• 1:09:01
  the place is there like give them the card there there's free
• 1:09:05
  instead of just like giving it to somebody else where they're
• 1:09:08
  just going to like ruin it for you or like tell you, hey, I'm
• 1:09:11
  going to charge you again because you know they're worth
• 1:09:13
  something now GameStop for you anyway.
• 1:09:23
  Yeah the fun of it, the value of it.
• 1:09:25
  I, I look it up, but at the same time it's like, oh, if I send it
• 1:09:28
  now because I haven't touched it, I only put it in the thing
• 1:09:32
  and put it away by sending out. Probably gonna be a 10, but it's
• 1:09:36
  like it's not going to be worth it anything.
• 1:09:39
  I'm not going to win any money because it's like I have given
• 1:09:41
  $25 for it and then I got to go back and pay it again.
• 1:09:45
  That's weird. No, I'm not doing that
• 1:09:49
  completion, of course. And then just because the fun,
• 1:09:54
  don't chase everything. Pokémon Lurcana Marble Dragon
• 1:09:58
  Ball is tempting, but focus on one to two main TCG's to start.
• 1:10:04
  That's what I did and now I'm all like at 18 binders so yeah.
• 1:10:11
  Oh that's fun. Oh no no no 15 binders. 3 ring
• 1:10:14
  binders don't count. Buy a singles when it makes
• 1:10:18
  sense. Sometimes it's cheaper to buy
• 1:10:19
  that one chase card than RIP packs endlessly.
• 1:10:21
  Yes please, please buy it. Chase the one cheaper card. 5
• 1:10:29
  cents. Three cents.
• 1:10:29
  There is. It's worth it trust me the
• 1:10:33
  binders over boxes ultra pro vault XI have a vault X.
• 1:10:38
  I'm going to show it to you that way right here, which holds like
• 1:10:52
  360 card or 460 card. You can see I'm not done with
• 1:11:00
  the set at all. I still need to like buy the
• 1:11:02
  rear and stuff when they say don't buy boxes talking about
• 1:11:13
  these boxes right here. These are horrible.
• 1:11:18
  I mean yeah, you can just put your bulk in here, but same time
• 1:11:23
  like it's annoying to go through or I I usually keep mine in here
• 1:11:30
  like whatever set this is, This is the because Astro rate Astro
• 1:11:37
  radians. I don't I don't have Astro
• 1:11:38
  radians in there. I have all the ones that came
• 1:11:42
  out this year and yes, that's my biggest binder and it is easy to
• 1:11:50
  show off. Sleeves are your friends,
• 1:11:52
  especially penny sleeves for bulk and top loaders for rares.
• 1:11:56
  Here are the top loaders. I showed you what the top
• 1:12:01
  loaders look like. Here are the top loaders,
• 1:12:07
  obviously OK here are the penny sleeves They come in different
• 1:12:13
  colors Also if you want if you want to buy a tiny sleeve.
• 1:12:17
  I did that with this set again, I have to go back to I think
• 1:12:24
  Grady on 37 who like was saying to buy like back penny sleeves
• 1:12:34
  to match with the color. So I did that.
• 1:12:38
  I have red one also that goes with the Obsidian flames because
• 1:12:43
  it's flames. Why not?
• 1:12:52
  So those are fun to do like they're cheap.
• 1:12:54
  They're cheap. Go to your local comic book
• 1:12:55
  store. Go to your local comic book
• 1:12:57
  shop, comic car shop and they're like 299-390-9499.
• 1:13:03
  They're freaking cheap. Or if you want to go online and
• 1:13:07
  buy the that's the Dragon Shield stuff as well as it's on you.
• 1:13:13
  But you know, like if you don't have that amount of money, then
• 1:13:15
  yeah, go for it. Sort by set, not just type.
• 1:13:20
  That way you don't lose track when new expansions drop.
• 1:13:24
  Exactly. Set a set.
• 1:13:26
  I I like have different sets here so like I put them all in
• 1:13:32
  different sets and then if there's so many of them I just
• 1:13:37
  put them in their own types. That's where I have them now.
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  Don't do what I did. The bundles can be gold ATV's,
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  elite trainer, boxing, starter decks, or multi packs. 10s
• 1:13:49
  usually give you sleeves, promos and packs.
• 1:13:53
  I've done the multi pack 10s. They did give you sleeves and
• 1:13:59
  problems and packs. I'm not doing the elite trainer
• 1:14:02
  boxes, but I do know that what comes in there.
• 1:14:04
  So those that, yeah, they do give you that.
• 1:14:10
  What else? And but then again, there's like
• 1:14:12
  a bunch of double S and triples and I don't want that.
• 1:14:15
  So I usually stay away from that.
• 1:14:17
  Check your local game shops. Sometimes cheaper than bigger
• 1:14:21
  box stores. Plus you support your community.
• 1:14:24
  Check your local comic book store pounds.
• 1:14:28
  They have that as well. Support your community.
• 1:14:32
  Know when to stop. If you're choosing one card,
• 1:14:37
  compare the cost of buying Packers, buying the card itself.
• 1:14:40
  Yeah, I'm never going to stop, am I?
• 1:14:42
  I? I mean, I did stop.
• 1:14:43
  I did stop for a bit because hey, I gotta like stop.
• 1:14:49
  But I do know when to stop it got it's addicting.
• 1:14:54
  I tell you it feels like gambling, but it's addicting and
• 1:14:57
  it's a good it's a good kind of addiction.
• 1:14:58
  You know buying tips use legit marketplaces TTG player eBay
• 1:15:08
  with authentication or local card shops.
• 1:15:11
  TTG player is a great place to go to for marketplace as well.
• 1:15:18
  eBay. I've done eBay once.
• 1:15:22
  That was to buy this Paradox RIP and Obsidian Flames which I'm
• 1:15:30
  going to put on later. Watch for fakes, especially
• 1:15:36
  Pokémon Yu-gi-oh, Texas light texture or even a bent test.
• 1:15:40
  The bent test that threw away all those cars, I kind of did
• 1:15:47
  hold on. Yeah, I think I threw away all
• 1:15:53
  the cars that are fake. I put some in my Pokedex binder
• 1:15:58
  because nobody's going to see that binder except for me.
• 1:16:00
  That's my personal binder. I'm not going to give it away
• 1:16:03
  unless I collect them on the side.
• 1:16:05
  Hey, I'm going to sell this, so I'm going to replace that, but
• 1:16:12
  let me show you anyways of what those look like.
• 1:16:21
  Yeah, we're not. We're not going through this
• 1:16:22
  right now. So wait, wish I had one.
• 1:16:29
  I think it's at the very end, the back one that sucks.
• 1:16:50
  All right, here we go found it. I knew it was there.
• 1:16:52
  All right, that and then what? Those fake freaking things look
• 1:16:59
  like the fake. All right, look, here's what
• 1:17:04
  happened. I forgot the name of the
• 1:17:09
  freaking website but I went to this website and they were
• 1:17:11
  selling 400 pieces of Pokémon cards for 599 too good to be
• 1:17:21
  true and I just saw it like are they fake?
• 1:17:26
  Are they fake? You know like I just kept
• 1:17:27
  thinking are they fake? You know what let's find out.
• 1:17:30
  So I bought them anyways, they came in like a month later and
• 1:17:36
  you could tell they were fake because the the pack on it, it
• 1:17:39
  had ridges instead of the original cut how it's supposed
• 1:17:46
  to look. This this one had ridges over
• 1:17:48
  it. So I kind of was like, hmm, all
• 1:17:52
  right, so they're fake as soon as you open them.
• 1:17:57
  These are the type of cars that show up like what the hell?
• 1:18:05
  So it's like, Yep, they're all fake.
• 1:18:08
  And then this is what it looks like.
• 1:18:13
  The other cars that are fake cars notice the difference and
• 1:18:20
  notice the difference in the back as well.
• 1:18:24
  This is fake. Let me give you another one.
• 1:18:26
  Hold on. And this is real.
• 1:18:34
  So in order to find out to how if it's real or fake, let me use
• 1:18:41
  an energy card if it's bent like this versus this.
• 1:18:51
  And then if you RIP this in half, sorry, sorry, there is a
• 1:18:58
  black outline there. And if you've ripped this in
• 1:19:05
  half, it's just white. And so these are the fake ones.
• 1:19:09
  That's how you know it's fake. Rest in piece, red.
• 1:19:13
  OK, Anyways, so that's fun. I bought, I got a lot of them
• 1:19:19
  and I ended up just like, you know what, let me put them all
• 1:19:25
  in and I was like trying to figure out what to do with them.
• 1:19:28
  So I threw half of them away at the other half.
• 1:19:30
  I put them in the in the Pokedex binders because you know, it's
• 1:19:33
  my personal binder. Like I'm going to have fake
• 1:19:35
  stuff in there as well. Like, why?
• 1:19:37
  Not sure if it comes down to where I'm selling my binders,
• 1:19:40
  like, all right, let me put in the real stuff there.
• 1:19:43
  Now check prices often. Car values can rise and fall
• 1:19:49
  fast, especially around new set radios.
• 1:19:50
  And yes, that is correct. Case in point, MU 2 in
• 1:19:56
  Brooklyn's been playing with your fake ones.
• 1:19:59
  MU 2IN Gotham City, how it was. It went from $5 to now $20 in
• 1:20:04
  just a few short weeks. There are others as well.
• 1:20:10
  That have gone up in prices and I'm just like, I should have
• 1:20:12
  gotten them when they were cheaper.
• 1:20:16
  Have a bulk box. Don't let comments take over
• 1:20:18
  your desk. Store them neatly.
• 1:20:20
  These are bulk boxes, but same time, you know, put them in
• 1:20:24
  binders, but you know, just in case.
• 1:20:27
  And why do I why is it empty? Because yeah, it's empty.
• 1:20:31
  I have no, I have no no excuse for that.
• 1:20:35
  It's empty. I have to put some of them in
• 1:20:37
  there as well. Trade bulk for value.
• 1:20:40
  Some shops trade bulk for steel packs or store credit.
• 1:20:42
  I love that store credit. It is this way.
• 1:20:45
  I can buy the comic book shop. I can buy more comic books or go
• 1:20:52
  to the second and Charles. They'll buy them and then you
• 1:20:55
  can buy more packs from there, more stuff.
• 1:20:58
  Holiday prep. October to December is a great
• 1:21:01
  time to gift bulk to new collectors or kids in your life.
• 1:21:05
  Obviously I'm definitely going to do that.
• 1:21:08
  Can't wait. In October I'm going to give it
• 1:21:13
  out to the kids. December I'm just going to give
• 1:21:15
  it out to a bunch of hospitals, see what happens.
• 1:21:20
  I don't know what I'm going to do in December yet.
• 1:21:22
  Community tips join trade nights.
• 1:21:25
  Local game stores often host them.
• 1:21:27
  Great for trading. Double S at a triple, whatever
• 1:21:30
  you need. Engage online.
• 1:21:33
  Reddit, Discord or even TikTok and Twitch card communities keep
• 1:21:36
  you motivated. It does.
• 1:21:38
  It really does. Like, I love doing that.
• 1:21:42
  Make it fun, not stressful. Collecting should feel like
• 1:21:45
  nostalgia and joy, not pressure. It really is at the moment.
• 1:21:49
  I love it. I love hanging out and doing all
• 1:21:51
  this stuff and sharing it with you guys.
• 1:21:57
  Yeah, you know what? Anything I might have missed,
• 1:22:01
  I'll probably talk about another episode.
• 1:22:04
  My voice is giving out and it's only been like, what, after 2
• 1:22:11
  hour episode? No, one hour and a 55 minute
• 1:22:15
  episode. It's fine.
• 1:22:16
  It's totally fine. So.
• 1:22:21
  But we're going to end it right here.
• 1:22:25
  Yeah. I, I love how this episode
• 1:22:28
  turned out. Can't wait to post it.
• 1:22:31
  We post it tomorrow morning. Next time you see me will be on
• 1:22:35
  on the nostalgia episode. Obviously, we're still asking
• 1:22:40
  the same question. What's your favorite candy and
• 1:22:42
  what's your favorite horror movie from the 90s?
• 1:22:45
  And it has to be the 90s, by the way.
• 1:22:48
  It trust me, it has to be the night.
• 1:22:52
  But yeah, give me your favorite horror movie and from the 90s
• 1:22:55
  and your favorite piece of candy from Halloween.
• 1:22:57
  Halloween candy. That'll be it.
• 1:22:59
  All right, so let's move it along.
• 1:23:01
  Let's end this episode, and yeah, I'll see you guys in next
• 1:23:07
  week. Hope you guys are having an
• 1:23:10
  amazing night. All right, let's end it up.
• 1:23:13
  And now it's time to zip up the binder, slide the holographic
• 1:23:15
  back in the sleeve and pray Mom doesn't accidentally sell them
• 1:23:18
  at the next garage sale. If you've ever traded 3 Caterpie
• 1:23:23
  just to flex for the shiny Gyarados, snuck A Gameboy Color
• 1:23:26
  Undercovers to catch Lugia at 2:00 AM, or swore your older
• 1:23:29
  cousin Japanese Charizard with basically a Zodiac card form,
• 1:23:33
  then yes, you belong here. You definitely know.
• 1:23:37
  You already know. Yeah, here.
• 1:23:39
  You know, you definitely belong here at my third place, where
• 1:23:43
  the traders who showed up to Pizza Hut tournaments with a
• 1:23:45
  deck box full of dreams kept energy card rubber banded in our
• 1:23:49
  pockets like loose changed and argued way too seriously about
• 1:23:53
  whether Misty's tears should have been banned.
• 1:23:56
  If you haven't, don't know what Misty's tears are.
• 1:23:59
  It's a card from back in the day where she's happening.
• 1:24:06
  It's silhouette, her tears running down, covering a piece
• 1:24:12
  of side of her. Yeah, look it up.
• 1:24:15
  So when life feels like a coin flip for turn one, just draw a
• 1:24:19
  fresh hand and respond with us next week for a binder pull
• 1:24:22
  straight from the pokey vault Lord Rob that, go deeper than
• 1:24:25
  Lavender Town soundtrack, and enough nostalgia to hit harder
• 1:24:28
  than a critical hit from a champ.
• 1:24:30
  We keep it 100 like arguing if Fossil or Vector was underrated.
• 1:24:33
  It was sneaking sneaking booster backs into our backpacks from KB
• 1:24:38
  Toys and still quoting I want to be the very best like I dropped
• 1:24:44
  yesterday. Smash that follow button like
• 1:24:47
  you just landed the 1st edition hollow tag.
• 1:24:49
  The friend who always yelled Pokémon gotta catch them all
• 1:24:53
  louder than the theme song itself.
• 1:24:55
  Drop your favorite carpool memory in the comments, let us
• 1:24:58
  know, then find us an IG, TikTok threads, Blue Sky, and maybe
• 1:25:02
  even the back of your old Nintendo Power magazine.
• 1:25:05
  We're still there. You can still sing that song.
• 1:25:09
  Love it. Until next time, stay reckless,
• 1:25:11
  stay nostalgic, and never trust anyone who says they actually
• 1:25:15
  pulled Mew from a Pokey Ball tin at Toys-R-Us because it's not
• 1:25:19
  true. I'm evil.
• 1:25:21
  Thanks for watching. This is my third Place podcast
• 1:25:23
  where community, creativity and just the right amount of Pokedex
• 1:25:25
  field chaos always collide. I'm gonna go look for that
• 1:25:32
  Misty's tears card. See how much it cost.
• 1:25:35
  Maybe it's maybe it's cheap. I don't know.
• 1:25:37
  But I want to show it off maybe. All right, see you guys later.
• 1:25:42
  Bye.