Hello, good afternoon, good evening, good morning. It's me, Reese.
I got Steph with me. Hello. We're here.
Let's get it out the way first.
This is going to be a somewhat shorter episode because we're a little bit more busy than anticipated.
But don't worry, don't worry. You'll still get some half-decent topics that we're going to talk shit about.
And if you're paying the big bucks, we will still be doing the exclusive episode on our Patreon for the Jedi Club members.
But yeah, just for this little one-off, we'll have to do it a little bit shorter because we're just so fucking busy.
And yeah, so deal with it.
And of course, this is your first podcast of 26.
It will be in 26. Yeah, it was my birthday yesterday and it was a nice, like, gaming-orientated birthday.
We just sat around and I played Atomic Heart for quite a bit, a little bit of WoW. Steph played Hogwarts Legacy.
We just mashed up the games. It was decent. Yeah, yeah. And then we went and shouted, nerdbase.
Went to nerdbase and bought some more Pokemon cards and I got some decent shit.
So all in all, it was a cracking day. And I got a hamper that consisted of sausage rolls and steak and ale pie.
A very weird hamper, but possibly one of the best things I've received that you could eat. It was great.
It was great. So I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling 26. I'm feeling old.
And speaking, we can make that into a topic actually about how now I...
So it's an official thing in Magic the Gathering, Godpacks, where you get...
Every single card is like a holo rare or, you know, meaty card.
And there was rumours that it was coming to Pokemon and I can't verify...
I can't remember if it actually did, but basically I now doubt the existence of Pokemon Godpacks.
Because about three months ago, I began to hatch a plan.
Let me quickly jump in. So I'm collecting Silver Tempest, Pokemon cards and Crown Zenith.
Are the two sets that I'm collecting. And with my Silver Tempest, that was the first one that I started collecting.
And I've got a lot of cards, so much so that the binder that I've got them in isn't big enough to house all the cards and the secret...
The secret rares and the art gallery ones. So I've put them in order.
And basically I'm just missing all like the rare ones, as you would be.
There's a couple of common ones that I'm... Like that Durant. I'm still... No, the Diados.
I'm still fucking missing that or Diabos, whatever one it is.
And you don't have... So annoying. You don't have Ninetales either.
No, I've got her. Do you? No, I don't think you do. I do. I do. I got them the other day. I can show you when we go back.
Pretty sure I've got two of them now. I don't think you do, but anyway. I do.
So yeah. So there's certain ones there that I'm missing.
And it's got to a point now where you're spending four or five quid on a pack and getting nothing out of it.
And it's like, oh, come on. Even the like the cool cards that are worth something, I guess.
I'm getting duplicates of them now and things like that. So that was my interjection.
OK. So you made a nice positive interjection there. Lovely. It was.
No, I'm just saying that I'm missing a load of cards that are difficult to get hold of.
So anyway, how is that not positive? No, no, no.
What fucking negative? Spending five quid just to get everything I've already got. No, no, no. I'm not saying it. It's fine.
And then how it works is how it works.
I don't mean to say it's fine, because I don't know what you mean.
So anyway, I was trying to think of what to get.
And pretty much, actually, that's a perfect interjection, really, because that is what keeps happening.
So I thought about and I know it's kind of like a little bit of a cheat, but we were at the point where you were at the point where, like you say, every pack you've already got.
And so I thought rather than spend the money on like getting packs for the chance that they were going to open them and literally then be dead.
I decided to meticulously search for, you know, a set of, you know, to build a set of all these hollow cards that Reese didn't have.
And then, yeah, I got them all together and then it was actually a pack of when Andrew got the got obtained a pack of.
Stole. We can say here when Andrew stole a pack of Pokemon cards for me without my knowledge, by the way, or consent, he just handed me a pack and went, there you go.
And anyway, Reese opened them and they were shit. Yeah, they were shit. So Karma took over on that one. They were wank. They're still sitting in the van and did not care about them.
And when I was this first pack and you gave me the rubbish, you know, I'll put that in the bin and the little that went ding ding ding ding ding.
It was like an opportunity to experiment. So I used that Astral Radiance packet and I came at it with a scalpel sellotape glue.
And I like was what for the weeks I was watching exactly how Reese opens them and all this stuff.
And he always had to say, yeah, because you always turn it over. You rip the top half.
Is that why you'd always want me to open them in front of you? No, no, I watch because I like watching. All right.
You weren't just fucking spying, but you were spying. Oh, no, it became.
That's so it's called market research.
Tickle us. Anyway. Yeah. So this Astral Radiance packet between became my little, you know, experiment.
And I worked out that I could do because originally I was thinking scalpel slide out, slide back in.
But you cannot make it not look tampered with. And I kind of knew that I think even if I had, you probably wouldn't have noticed because you wouldn't have expected you wouldn't have been looking for it.
Yeah. But nevertheless, I was like, no, it's too shoddy. I got to go serious about this.
So anyway, so yeah. And I got all got all my components and gently opened this pack underneath of Silver Tempest, slid them out.
And I even did was there any decent ones in there? It was just that whatever the little hollow one was that first that one that the only one that wasn't full art.
Oh, yeah. She was. Yeah. That was in that pack. All right.
But no, the rest of them you had your mate. I checked you had them all.
So I pulled it out and obviously I made sure I even did the so obviously if you I mean people who open them will might know. But basically when you crack open a pack of Pokemon cards, certainly for Silver Tempest, you take the top one off.
You count one, two, three, four, you put them to the bottom, which means that when you turn them over, you start with the energy.
And I was like, right, I'm going to keep this until the you won't know until the very last second.
And I did that and I put energy in there and then I practiced like seven times.
Like that it would open the right way. And then, yeah, they went down the glue when you could not you could not tell for even even after I'd opened them because I see.
I play the audio. Oh, yeah, because she recorded it. But basically, and this is a say now that I pulled it off, I don't think that Pokemon God packs that you see on tick tock and stuff. I don't think they're real.
You don't think so. Well, no, because think about it. We could have been a bit loud. No, I'm telling you up. Oh, yeah.
I see one and this is what made me panic because I see I then see one on tick tock and I was like, shit, are they a real thing? I had no idea that they were even a real like that they were.
It was a thing. Well, God pack. Yeah, like, you know, I'm sorry. I didn't even I didn't even know about that. No. And this is the thing. So I am I literally see it and it was this part.
No, you're fine. I'm just turn my headphones on. Oh, a bit loud. No, you're good thing. We did a sound check. Yeah. And this person, they're like, oh, my God. And then, yeah, sure enough, they're turning over this pack and they're all these like full art gallery hollow all this shit.
I'm like, oh, no, because I just imagine you being like, oh, I've got God back and then we have to like, I had absolutely no idea what God pack is. I'm obviously I'm new to the Pokemon card collecting.
I don't know that they exist in my never even never heard of. Hang on. Listen to his reaction. Oh, can you tell? I'm quite proud. Why don't play? It's not playing. My phone is literally frozen. That's great. The anticipation tight.
It's like technical difficulties. I didn't even know.
I was so confused.
Even and I'm so nervous as well because there was a little bit of me that was like, will you not like, obviously, because you then won't have like collected them. Technically, they were like, bought, if you know what I mean.
Yeah, same time. Like, I kind of just took that risk because I wanted you to put it this way. Ladies and gents, we then when we did go to know base and recent been going there's a lot of tick tock lives where they will open that you buy them from them.
All these various like sets, boosters, booster packs and trainer boxes and stuff, and they will open them for you. And obviously, it's that thrill of of watching watching what you're going to get. And Reese's had some really decent pulls on those like some really, really cool.
And actually some quite expensive cards. I pulled the golden from Crowns and if I'm going to get graded and if it comes back, they said it's worth like 250, 300 quid. You know, so there's some really cool things.
And and what they've been saying, obviously, those people, they notice the trends, don't they? And like they've been saying that basically the Charizard boxes have been shit for hits. Yeah. Bear in mind, you're paying like 120 pounds for that.
I think Lost Origins are really hard set to to actually complete. There was one where you only get they call them hits in that you're a decent card is a hit. Yeah. And almost every pack comes with a hollow like shiny. Yeah.
And I can't remember what set it was, but one where there was like you only get like one hit out of every eight packs is the average, which is shocking.
And they were saying like, I think the Crown Zenith tins are supposed to be quite good, which you experienced. Well, that's where I got a lot of decent stuff from. But naturally the Pikachu VMAX set, Crown Zenith, is again, these people that are opening, they might open like 15 of those a day.
You know, have like a sort of a valid outlook on how how hitty these boxes are.
And yet the one we got. This box is so hitty. It's such a hitty box. When we went to Nervebase yesterday, the one you got was shit. Awful. Yeah. I bought a Pikachu VMAX box, Crown Zenith and it was wank.
So I think, yeah, like, but as I say, as far as I have to look into it a little bit more about this, how many of these people are sort of like claiming to have had a Pokemon God pack.
If you think, I mean, it wasn't that they were easy to obtain, but they weren't. It wasn't too bad. I think I went to about three or four different people and got these cards. I think I ended up with maybe 10, 9 or 10 of these ones that Reece didn't have.
And as I say, it was ultimately, I mean, it's one of those ones. I'm quite finicky and crafty with with things like that anyway. Yeah. Yeah. So perhaps I found it easier than maybe you would.
I mean, you do a lot of it for work. Yeah. But the at the same time, I don't think that that would have been that hard. I feel like if we had done a video of it and then open that, I feel like you could have got away with showing the pack, showing that it's not been opened and then opening it and then showing the packaging after you've opened it to go look.
That you can see this isn't like torn or anything like that, because all that was on the pack was a thin line of glue on the glue already. Yeah, I just very, very carefully. Yeah. And it was very, very well done.
We could easily go viral doing shit like that until someone finds us out 100%. And this is the thing, this is what you've got to be careful of, which in like a I kind of noticed in a way of trying to not blow the surprise. Obviously, Reece was kept buying loads of Pokemon stuff in the week leading up to his birthday.
And obviously, I know the ones I've got him, the ones that he doesn't have and stuff. This is Ash's fault, by the way, why I keep buying fucking Pokemon cards on TikTok.
Because he showed you the way. I just know that there's people listening to this, I've never done it before and I'm thinking what the fuck and I thought the same thing when Ash first sent me nostalgia.
TGC. TCG. TCG. Yeah, they're live and that you could buy Pokemon cards off of it. And at first I thought no, this is a scam. There's no way in hell you can send these people money and then such and such.
Oh, it's like fucking gambling. It's straight up is gambling because I'm buying packs to try and get the expensive cards out of them. And it is so easy. You just got to watch a live sit in a queue. Everyone's having fun. Everyone's chatting and then just watch whoever open these cards.
Don't get me started on the graded cards you can get. Fuck me. I bought all of nostalgia. I'm the reason why he hasn't got any. And now I'm looking at bananas. He's another geezer, not actual bananas. Graded bananas.
I saw yeah. Fucking bananas in epoxy. Nice. I saw one earlier and they were like this northern couple and they had some really good prices on slabs. You got they had a slab plus two vintage cards and it was only like 30 quid.
The issue is that trying to find a TikTok seller that just uses Royal Mail is quite difficult. Quite a few of them that use the slabs use every and I ain't having them deliver my shit. It's not happening. They're cottoning on. They're cottoning on. I think they will stop that.
But yeah, so what was I going to say? I can't remember. I was going to make a valid point but it's gone. Sorry I ruined it. No you didn't.
But yeah, I would find it quite difficult to be that person opening them. So I'll tell the story of the Reese's asleep the other night and that's when I found the banana guy. Oh yeah. And bless this man. Oh my god. He was just because they chat as they do. Honestly, if you if you're into you don't even have to be into Pokemon but they are very interesting to watch. They've got this weird magic. Some people spend some fucking dough. Really interesting. You know you feel for these people and they've like you say they've spent.
What was that guys are the other day 900. Yeah, that case the other day that bought the EV booster box thing. It was like 300 and something quid. Yeah. And oh my god wait stop the one I watched last night. Let me tell you about that. But first I'll finish this story because I have a habit of starting a story. So this banana guy Reese's asleep and bless him. He goes it was lost origin I think and it was as he said about how the only was like yeah the only card I've got left that I need is the Gengar which is quite expensive. Full art on it. Yeah, like G max or something.
Yeah, G. C. X. It looks fucking and bless him. He said it and then literally within five seconds he was because he was talking about it as he's like going through this booster pack and he pulled it. But obviously it was for somebody else. And he just let that little moment of silence was so heavy. Yeah. The nostalgia guy is the same thing with that Lugia. He's after he said he's opened it like five or six times. He's pulled it in for himself. He can't he just can't he can't get hold of it. And that must be so difficult.
To to have to have to have you. Yeah. If you're if you're into into Pokemon card collecting and you're after a specific card and you keep pulling it for someone else. It must be so frustrating. Even the dial go because you know how much money that's worth. Yeah. I'll just pocket this. Yeah. I got lost in the post. What a shame. Give them a refund of five pounds. Sorry. What I saw last night you would I was like oh dear. I don't think that you'd go in for it because I think that that's a drama last night was it. Yeah.
Not on anyone we know. But you I don't think it would be too much of a gamble for you. But basically it was a slab battle on on on a lad. Yeah. Yeah. I see. I was going to join it. No you were asleep. No no no no no no it was poking that but I was I think it might have been the same one or a different one. But I definitely yesterday was watching their life and they were doing a slab. A slab pack is a graded card for the people that are and there were
seven slabs and there was three of them were vintage but which obviously meant that they were quite low. Yeah. Yeah. Because obviously they're they're going to be an eight which is good for a vintage card but they're not great. Yeah. You're not going to find something from 1999.
So they were going off of the the graded. No. So what it was it was the grade. Yeah. Time times the power of the card. So if you had like 200 health points so if you had like two health points times nine times something like that. So these vintage ones bless them they're going to be low. Someone pulled a beautiful card. I can't remember what it was. It was nice. Never. Even he was like oh then this lady called Kathy she pulled she was in the lead.
And it was looking unbeatable because she adds it was like a nine point five card with like maybe 180 health points something like that. The masses on that. And that's the thing as he pulled it went all over the mass because it wasn't so basic. Anyway and then no literally fair on my scarf. It keeps ticking my nose. The next person the ball was the last person. And I think he must have been in the one that you saw this other guy because he was like please please never on my saying like oh my after what happened earlier you deserve this. So it must
you must watch that one. And then no sure enough this last card comes in. And yeah it was like I think if it wasn't a 10 it was a nine point five but it was like 300 odd health points that they obviously won. And they won the lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy how that happened. Yeah. Oh my god.
Yeah. That's the type of shit where I probably would do it. I know you. I probably just because they're what the slabs like 30 quid. I think 25 30 quid. So I'm five. So I bad. Yeah. And I were they letting you pick from a number. I don't know because when I came in picking up slabs for you when I came into it.
I was like okay. Two had already been pulled and there was a pile of the ones you know the hollow holographic like sleeves they're in envelopes like was a pile of them. So if they had chosen and they'd already such a gamble as such a gamble win that.
Oh I was really cool. But do you see how though like honestly I mean it's so interesting to watch. I know it's no bones for me. And that that pokey lad geezers fucking made made however much money because people are bought. It's the same as when the nostalgia geezer does the
ETB battles. Elite trainer boxes are just big fucking boxes with cards in them. Yeah. And he does that. And he'll someone will buy one and they'll say oh you can do battles. And then if someone else buys one it's whoever pulls the best card out of the lot wins the other box. Yeah. Which is 50 quid if you if you lose it. But the yeah a graded card thing that's so.
I'm watching you. I am watching you. It's so it's so juicy because it would be one of them. It would be one of them where if you pull it you know straight off the bat if you're in a decent position or not. Yeah. And I wouldn't sell them either if I won them all. I know I wouldn't keep them.
The they were sort of about maybe like four slabs into what ended up being about nine I think. And someone was there like asking questions and he went right and stopped what he was doing. He said if you want to do it if you want to jump in jump in now. And the person did end up saying never mind. But like you could have still jumped in. So like you could you could literally like there might be three people that do it. There might be 15 people that do it. You could win.
You could spend 30 quid and then walk away with hundreds. Yeah. So I was talking to Mark about this because obviously Mark's got into Funko pop flipping. So he's somewhat. He's somewhat collecting them. But but he's buying buying ones that he knows he can make some money off of and then selling them on. And I was saying to him if you wanted to get into the game of trying to buy things and sell them for a decent amount of money.
Graded cards. Graded cards. Do you think? Yeah. I think if you get a D like so nerd base them to binders with loads of decent cards in them that you can buy the individual cards. Yeah. Yesterday I went and I spent what did I spend like 10 quid maybe a little bit more. I think one was no no on those two cards. I think one was eight and one was 10. I thought one was four and one was eight. Either way. So either way below under 20 quid.
Yeah. And what what you could what I probably will do because I looked at it one of the cards the one that cost me eight quid you go and you spend 20 to 30 quid getting it graded and it comes back a decent grade. It was worth like 200 quid. Yeah. So how many cards are in there that you could go and get graded? Spend a little bit of money grading them and then just fucking sell them on the dialga. I know I keep saying it but the dialga is a 90 quid card on its own.
Without it being graded. So you don't even the seller doesn't even know the condition exactly as to like 90 quid official condition. But if I was to go and send it off to a screening and get it graded and it comes back a nine and a half for 10 or even a nine. You're looking at a minimum 150 quid for it right now because the demand for it is quite high. Yeah. And that's cost me five quid from a pack. But then I think for yourself. I'm not going to know you how I know you. I'm going to keep the motherfuckers.
Your little smug will hold on to the golden card. I said this I said this to my I said I'm going to get it graded but I said I'm not going to sell it. I can't I can't be asked to sell it. I said it's lovely to look at. It's not like I'm in a position where I'm doing it because I need the money. I'm earning from the job that I'm working. So this is just this is just a fun little hobby that that you could make some money off of. I'm not necessarily in it to make a load of money. I just enjoy buying these Pokemon cards. Yeah. And I think.
Yeah if it comes back because Mark was like what if it comes back like a like a mint 10. Oh I think it'd be worth a lot of money. And I was saying to him well we know it won't because the center in. Yeah I was I'll still I'll still sit on it because it's not in my luck. I sell it for 250 hypothetically fucking 10 years later. It's worth a fucking fortune now which is obviously what everyone's doing with Pokemon cards now because they know how expensive they are. And that's why people buy two of everything. You buy a booster box you get another booster box.
And you fucking throw it in the loft and leave it there because it's going to be worth more than what you paid for it. Well X amount of years hopefully. Well yeah. You take. And if you if like when we looked down one of the whoever's shop and yeah you want.
So obviously a booster pack is a single pack of X amount of cards 10. No no. Yeah but then celebration ones are like for Astral Radiance was only six or five or something like that. So it's like basically up to 10 isn't it.
In your booster pack but then you also get which essentially I imagine like when you go Costco macro is a retail pack is you get like 30 of them don't you or however many are in the big pack.
Kind of how if you would get them from the shop the little cardboard things they're sat in.
You can have that and ones that came out recently you know like Silver Tempest you think OK so a pack is about four pound fifty well between three three ninety nine four pound fifty whatever.
And then you've got the big pack which we've seen for about 110 120. And then we see what was it like a single pack of.
What was it like a single pack of. 40. Yeah. Pack of all of them. Yeah. So the nostalgia guy. His name is Scott.
I know this. He.
My friend Scott. Yeah the one that keeps calling me what's on the button.
Oh no he's learnt now. And then it will go what's the button. Get it right for fuck's sake. He's got the Pokemon evolutions packs on there and I believe they are 27 or 28 quid a pack for a single pack.
And then if you want to sell and if you want to boost a box of that it was 900 and I think nine hundred and eighty nine quid or something. Nine hundred in the nine hundred it was just under a grand for a booster box of it.
But look at that guy that bought the EV box the Japanese EV box that cost three hundred something quid and he pulled a 400 quid card.
Yeah so that's right away you paid for for the box anything else is.
And this is something that I'm quite lucky I feel I like appreciate is the things like right now if I took a photograph of you now.
It's not going to like or a photograph of this room right.
It's going to be like we're just picture in it but if you think of when you see if you could see a picture now of your nursery or your bedroom when you were four you're going to go oh my god I remember that I remember this.
But at the time it was completely unremarkable and I think that's like Pokemon we all we all had these cards as kids and yes some people were switched on you know there are people that will have gone right put these in a fucking bag.
Like I remember my parents would always be like you know I'll keep the box and you know those kinds of things.
But as a kid you don't give a shit you know for the most part I feel like the majority of us just went in you know and played them.
To the point where they were banned in schools man because there were so many arguments.
I honestly remember having a deck tied with a hair band in a bag you know.
Yeah we all used to do that rubber bands and shit like that.
That was how you did it.
I used to be that motherfucker that would go in with a load of duplicates and then like trade like I'll trade you I'll trade you 10 Charmander's for your fucking Charizard or whatever.
Because to them it's a good deal because they're getting all these cards.
We're in actual fact no.
And we know we're sat here speaking as two people who don't have any you know I have two of those Pokemon cards you have none.
None absolutely none don't know what happened to them.
And it's a shame because I we could be rich right now.
No I mean it's a shame because I think.
No we could have some money right now but your mum decided to fucking throw them all away.
Right but you can't go too hard on my mum because you don't have yours either.
No mine has just gone somewhere my Nana probably fucking burnt them.
Exactly exactly no you probably fucking burnt them.
I have no idea where they are really and I had fucking loads but I have no clue where any of them went.
It's all right we'll go round your mum's on Sunday we'll raid the loft.
But no the it's a difficult one and like seeing yesterday I had a flick through in nerd base some of the really old like base set.
And oh my god they came flooding back.
Oh I had just cards I hadn't seen for ages.
Yeah they're expensive man.
Well they were only like a quid a card.
I feel like I feel like it's one of them where you sit here now as a as a collector.
And you think everyone who like everyone's now switched on the Pokemon cards are worth a lot of money.
But I feel like you only think that because you're in that world.
So you think the amount of people I talked to about Funko Pops that either don't even know what they fucking are or have never bought one in their life.
You go what you've spent hundreds on Funko Pops what for because I don't understand that quite a few of them are worth quite a lot of money.
Yeah.
And I feel like that that must be the same with Pokemon cards where if I was to hand Martin a packet of fucking that silver Tempest and he got some really decent pulls out of it.
He's not going to give a fuck he's just going to throw them to his kids.
And here's the thing I think as well is there is an element of demand when that hype first came out about oh by the way Pokemon cards are worth fucking loads.
Everyone was buying them.
And that was you know how I came to know that my Pokemon cards are no longer with us is because it was like where are these cards.
And yeah I think that and I noticed the other day because obviously with everything all the hype around the sequel to Breath of the Wild in May.
And there's this amiibo that's going to be released and I believe I have all of the Breath of the Wild amiibos.
I never really went in for them prior I never really bothered they didn't necessarily grab me because I had I never had the DS that could use them.
Yeah.
All right.
And then I actually do know I think I got one third one I got in game for my mum but anyway never use them.
They didn't grab me they were a little bit too small for they were very well made.
I do like the look of them.
They're just a little bit too small.
Anyway but when Breath of the Wild came out it was like she's having them all of them every single one of them now.
And I think I've spoken about it before about how I came to get them all and stuff like that.
But what's interesting is is I think the demand in the sense like when the Queen died or like when Stranger Things 4 came out and everyone was trying to get Eddie and it was like hundreds hundreds.
You can pick one up now.
They're still an inflated price but you can grab one.
Yeah.
And and those are the same.
Around that time they were people were asking like over a hundred quid for the one of Zelda.
Now you can get for like 40.
But we have a perfect example sitting right there don't we.
Which.
Ted Lasso.
Oh yeah.
Ted Lasso is a series on Apple TV.
Apple TV.
Very very very good show about an American football coach taking over an English football team.
And obviously at first is fucking useless.
He's here.
But it's very level is it's a very it's a very very very good program.
And for the 2022 for Comic Con.
Yeah they brought out a Ted Lasso Funko pop.
There was a there was a big drop of all these exclusive Funko pops that you'll never be able to get after after Comic Con.
And Ted Lasso was on there and it was 15 quid because they're not going to inflate them because they're the fucking people that make them.
Yeah.
So I was I was there and I put two in the basket.
So I got myself one and I got Steph one.
So like I said you spend 30 quid and then you're done.
And I said to Steph what are you looking at.
All right.
And I said to I said to Steph I was like like they're they're not worth anything now.
But you watch they'll bang out another season and they'll be worth some decent money.
And sure enough season two is on the way.
Season four.
Of season four season three season season three.
One of the seasons is on the way and they're like quadruple the price that they were.
And what that is as well I think it's like a I think it's weird isn't it like the forms of rarity.
You've got like the rarity in that this is X amount that were ever made.
Right.
So that's rare in one way.
And then you have the rarity of like with Pokemon where if you go back 20 years it was a dime a dozen.
All these cards.
Whereas the rarity that's been created there is the rarity of like time if you will where mine are in
the bin yours are who knows where Alec reckons his are up the loft but he's not really sure.
It's almost the rarity of like he needs to check that.
Yeah.
Because if he's not going to have a message actually I'll have the fuckers.
But you see what I mean is I think like with any kind of the front like I mean when you when you
can't you when you got the tents and then you're like shit I should have got that other one you
know because there's that you I think you were you weren't like upset but you were like oh shit I was
expecting them to sell sell out and they haven't yet.
And it was like a false sense of like oh maybe she just got one.
But then actually then they did sell out and then they did become rare.
And now you can't get one for the price you pay for two.
Yep.
Yeah.
So it's that's always the gamble isn't it where it was kind of a bit like with the destiny
the destiny to thing I had that's probably the only thing of mine that I've got
that hasn't appreciated in value is it I think because it was a bit enough.
A bit of a laugh yeah.
The bag is practically unusable.
It hasn't it hasn't kind of held that.
Yeah.
That value whereas a lot of other stuff has. I think it helps it helps if you're if the thing
that you're collecting is something that you actually like as well.
Massively because then you don't mind.
Yeah like the like the Lord of the Rings Funko Pops and the Ted Lasso's and the Stranger Things
stuff all the and this is what I said to Mark when he wanted to get into it I said if you want
if you want to start collecting stuff like Funko Pops buy the shit that you want.
Yeah.
That you like the look of first and get a feel for it and then start looking at the stuff that's
expensive and things like that because if you if you've bought something that you wanted to
make a bit of money on but it's something that you actually really like then if you don't make
any money on it doesn't matter.
Yeah.
Because you've bought something that you actually enjoy.
Yeah rather than like just a flip but then sometimes like you say it does make flipping harder
because like so.
Way harder.
Way way way harder.
Because then you're like but I want it.
Yeah I know that if I sold my whole Funko collection right now I'd be straight on eBay
trying to find more like it for cheaper than what I paid for it because I want them back
because I like to have I like to have things that.
We should sort them out really.
There's nowhere to put them yet.
I need a cabinet to stack them all that's another thing is collecting something like
Pokemon cards is very easy because they really don't take up that much room
but something like Funko Pops take up a substantial amount of room.
Like when we move they're gonna have to have their own fucking wall to fill them up with.
Well if we have a wall that needs decorating we won't bother decorating it would just flip
them in front of it because it would just fucking cover them.
Get them little sketches.
Because there's loads.
It's lucky that we like the same stuff isn't it.
Oh god it wouldn't work.
Like I'm so glad but I'm like no I'm not having them out.
Yeah it wouldn't it wouldn't it wouldn't fucking work it'd be crazy.
However I think the fact that we both like them is the reason why I have so much of it.
Because you definitely encourage me to do it.
Excuse me.
Yeah without even realizing.
Sorry what.
If I sit on if I sit on on TikTok live and someone's got slab but look at my look at
night before my birthday.
I'm watching the fucking live and you're like are you gonna get anything then.
All right that's permission there.
There's actually yeah I'm gonna buy something.
Oh okay I'll note to self then.
Okay but what I don't what.
Not permission like I can't fucking do it even if like.
I'm absolutely not.
But no no no no no we're gonna have to backtrack now because now everyone's gonna think you're
a dragon.
No I asked because I look over you're like.
Just watching this thing his eyes are focused they're fucking dilated his eyes are black.
Looking at this screen.
All I mean is that I look to you a hell of a lot for like.
Reassurance of things because there's so many things in my life that I would have
fucked up on I made a serious mistake if it wasn't you in the background going.
You sure.
We'd have about five dogs.
Yeah yeah yeah and I'd have no money.
So when it when it comes to stuff like that.
Get savings account.
Yeah fucking hell yeah you remember that one I had nothing.
I knew you used to you used to rage.
I don't like talking about money.
Okay but you have no savings.
I like to only do one account okay.
We're not digging anyone that doesn't have savings by the way but I was awful with it
I just had I had money all my money just sitting in one account.
Yeah well that's the thing it wasn't working for me.
Yeah it wasn't so much about the savings it was about gaining interest you were having
it all just sat there as if it were cash.
Yeah I just didn't have a plan which I which I now though.
Yeah.
I'm very grateful for but as I was saying when it comes to things like buying Pokemon
cards and graded cards I'll sit there on TikTok and I'll go oh they got Slabs on I might buy one
and if you turn around to me and you go yeah come on why not solidifies it for me.
And he's any doubt that was in my mind I'll go yeah I'm gonna buy some now sweet.
Okay.
So when when the box that was.
The pheasant.
Oh wow.
Rue's seen it look at her eyes that motherfucker's seen a pheasant.
No she hasn't.
Has she not?
No wow.
I wish everyone could see this.
It's a very pretty pheasant she got she chased them the other day they were like.
They're thick as fuck as well and she'd probably end up catching one.
Um a box turned up at the house and it was about two foot wide.
Oh is this.
About a foot high and I thought this is Rue's land and okay he's only and there's thing he
got home and do you remember I think one of them was actually covered in like jam.
Yeah yeah.
And I had absolutely no uh thing in this I had no idea what it was and it was almost all of the
Lord of the Rings uh Funko Pops and yeah I'd like to know how I had any influence in that decision.
Yeah you didn't on that one.
No I didn't no I didn't.
That motherfucker's seen that pheasant now.
Look at them.
No she hasn't.
Has she not?
No I can't see it oh it's there yeah no she can't see that.
Oh right um.
Look a pheasant.
Yeah that was yeah that that was my um just as I got into Funko collecting.
Yeah because I think we said before.
I cut a deal with this geezer it turned out that I was I had about 10 different Funkos on my watch
list and it was all from the same person and I didn't realize and the guy actually messaged me
because I bid on a couple of them and he was like do you want to sort of buy them all?
And I was like and I sat down there sat there over calculating everything and I was like
um because I said to him I'm not paying your individual prices thrown into one
and we sorted out like a deal and it it weren't that bad but yeah it just.
Overcame you.
I got a Funko pop coming and then a fucking box turns up filled with Funko pops.
Yeah but there's a thing and I think that is the way.
Yes I can see that um I know it well um the yeah that is definitely how you sort of how
you collect you kind of go oh this is like cool so I'm gonna have all of them.
Like you go from none to I have a fucking full collection in in uh days.
Yeah I bought I bought the Crown Zenith tins and they're just like little like little tobacco tins
basically yeah with and they come with two um two booster packs in them and I've got like five or
six of them.
Sorry.
Now.
No you've got hang on you add five.
You add five.
I've got more coming in and then you had two no you had two sorry you had two and five and one is eight.
There's about ten yeah basically I've got ten tins and now they're all full with Pokemon cards.
Yeah because I'm dying for you to get a Crown Zenith folder I just want to see them all out.
I want to look at.
Well I thought someone was getting me one for my birthday.
No we're not having this.
So I didn't bother buying one.
I asked you so many times I asked you so many times.
I did say if no one gets me one I'll just get my own one.
Sweet.
So I'll have to get my own one.
So you did this to me at Christmas as well.
What no it weren't aimed at you though.
Oh my god.
What we're gonna cut this short.
If we cut it now it'll sound like we've had a massive argument off it.
No it's fine but I did ask you so many times you never gave a straight answer.
So I fucking did.
I fucking did.
No because I said to you no we're not having this.
We're not doing it.
Lucy asked me.
And she said she was getting one.
Exactly that's what I'm saying.
I think I've seen what has come and it's not a folder.
Fuck.
We'll see.
I'll ask you.
I'll have to buy one trying to find one that holds enough fucking sleeve.
Here's the thing you can have.
I would have got you the one that's two inch with the rings but you didn't want the same design.
I didn't know.
It's the only one that's there because you said you didn't want it.
You said no I don't want that.
No I don't want that because Ash poked fun at me because it has a unicorn on it.
Well have a backbone.
You like unicorns.
I do like unicorns.
So because you know what's why it's cheaper than that one.
It feels that's what bests with me.
It fits more cards and yet it's cheaper.
I think potentially because it doesn't come with wallets but they're a piece of piss.
They're like 10 pound on Amazon for however many money you get.
She's saying it now.
He's not moving either.
You see Fizzler.
Look at her.
Well this has been an episode about Pokemon basically.
We've gone off the beaten track with Hogwarts legacy very quickly though.
We will end it in a minute.
I was only joking when I said.
No no no no no.
I was supposed to.
What time is it?
How long is it?
43.
And a half.
Yeah.
Yeah it's decent.
Ash sent me a picture and it's about Hogwarts legacy.
Hogwarts legacy has sold more than 12 million copies in only its first two weeks.
The smash hit has already generated a colossal 850 million dollars in revenue and then he
followed it up with that's without even releasing on the old gen and switch.
Of course.
And then Elden Ring only sold 20 million to date.
Shit.
And that was game of the year.
And then I said to him looks like I'll be getting that 50 quid off you.
And then he said not a chance mate.
Never winning game of the year.
Zelda will have that nailed down.
Oh really?
Yeah I don't think Zelda's got it.
But how do you know?
Because Zelda's not as broad a fan base as everyone that's been able to play Hogwarts legacy.
I don't think that's not necessarily.
No I think that's why God of War didn't win last year because it was only accessible to
people with a PlayStation.
I think if Xbox could have it and PC I think it would have had more of a chance at Elden Ring.
We will see.
And we will leave it there.
Okay.
You've been great.
We've been great.
I'm always great.
Yeah the pheasant's been great.
The pheasant's been great.
The pheasant's still there.
Oh it's gone.
Yeah mum's just opened the door.
No.
Oh it's still there.
Oh.
Fuck it.
Right we're off.
You'll catch us next week.
Enjoy your weekends everyone.
Yeah we're fucking off.
See you later.
Uro.