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TCG Thursday’s Ep.12 Glory of Team Rocket… boom or bust🧽
Recorded: April 25, 2025 Duration: 1:01:18Space Recording
Short Summary
In a lively discussion among crypto enthusiasts, key trends in the Pokémon trading card market were explored, including significant price corrections, strategic purchasing advice, and the excitement surrounding upcoming product launches. Collectors are advised to be cautious with early purchases as market dynamics shift, reflecting broader trends in collectible investments.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you Alright enough of the Minecraft music.
I'm here to get started here.
But first, before I do anything, God's to bless the show with a new piece of glass.
See I'm saying?
So we just got this piece in.
I won it at my local Shmoak shop.
So it is a nice piece I've got some dope name so far if
you have been suggesting I've gotten blastoise which I'm fucking with
Lucario's another one new gear Articuno and saying some solid names so for those
who don't know what that spag boy looks like i'm gonna go ahead and post this up top
if i can't find it
but yeah man uh a lot of stuff going on in the pokemon world tcg world
collectibles just all
together so you know we're gonna be kicking it here but first without
further ado I like it nice little beaker but shoot man it's been some you got all this stuff the big boom the big boomer bust
right with gloria team rocket there's some people who like it some people who don't there's people
who talking about oh it's only jedi pokemon um but i mean you got to be fair the first rocket said did
the first two rocket sets had gen 1 Pokemon so I mean it's fair that gen 2
get they shine but me personally I'm fucking with it and I'm really really
digging the artwork that I've seen so far out of some of the cards but we'll
get more into that I'm actually I'm gonna talk about let's talk about
journey together real quick which is caused a massive market correction which
I'm happy to see you know I'm saying that sucks to be a
scalper right now thinking that it was gonna be like prismatic and want to buy
up all the goddamn ETBs and now you haven't a seven shits for five dollars
above retail or at retail just so you can you understand break even trying to
hit people over the head for shipping costs stuff like that so you know i'm saying sucks to suck but for those who have been out there
collecting and getting their chase cards i'm happy you know i'm saying and like i told y'all
on the show before do not buy shit early because when before the set came out that Lily car was over $300 and
now look at it it's under 200 so like I said don't buy early right this team
rocket shit man like don't buy nothing early like just wait for it to hit the
market it's a brand new set which means they will be printing it for the next Man, like don't buy nothing early. Like just wait for it to hit the market.
It's a brand new set, which means they will be printing it for the next three to five.
I mean, next two to three years.
So with it being printed, just like Prismatic, don't overpay for Prismatic.
I'm telling you, right?
Because if you're overpaying for Prismaticismatic you're going to be kicking yourself in the butt and just you know what i'm saying uh pokemon released the whole statement saying
they are going to essentially flood the market with prismatic so they can match the demand that
they have for the product because they know that it's a high demand product
So they've already come out with the email the official
saying
little announcement
stating that they were gonna do that so
You know what I'm saying?
Make sure don't overpay. Don't pay these scalper prices
Just sit on it. just wait trust and believe
um but i will say this would be a set if you haven't started a sealed collection this wouldn't
be prismatic wouldn't be a bad set um but if you can get your hands on older stuff that's going to
be out of print for you know saying msr MSRP or just slightly above MSRP that's
where I would be looking I wouldn't really truly be focusing on any of the
more modern sets if you're gonna start a sealed collection because what's gonna
happen is all of the stuff that's out of print are going out of print like they
said crowns in it's a bunch of sword and shield so silver tempest lost origin silver tempest lost origin astral
radiance all those sets right there definitely definitely definitely
those are some sets that you should be putting on your radar to start a seal collection if you want with those because those
This is not financial advice, but if you look at things over time
They will go up regardless of how much it got printed
Once they stopped printing it it now has a finite amount
So whatever is out in the atmosphere is all that is out in the atmosphere
therefore you need to you know what i'm saying if you pick up the stuff that you want you know
i'm about to start looking for you know i'm saying whatever crown zena stuff i get my hands on
just because i really enjoy crown zena if i enjoy ripping it so I do want to start there get some nice sealed
stuff if I come across some you know saying some sort of shield stuff or any
of the other stuff that I can get for you know saying a reasonable price
definitely gonna be putting that away in a instant in the storage and just
setting it and forgetting it and saying go in there look at it for a little bit
and then leave because temptation is real.
And I'm a big, big believer in ripping shit.
So, to fight the urge of ripping shit, you got to put it in storage.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Those people who have their sealed collections at home are very strong-willed individuals
I am not one no but no I do enjoy ripping stuff so but but for real like if you're gonna if you
decide you want to start focusing on ripping I mean a sealed collection you know throw that
throw that skit and uh start looking at the older sets.
Because, like I said, they've already announced that they're going to be drying up.
So get it while you can, while it's out there.
And then just sets that are going to be, you know what I'm saying, kind of like transcendent.
Kind of like transcendent, obviously your Surgeon Sparks is going to be one.
Obviously, your Surgeon Sparks is going to be one.
Prismatic Evolution is basically your Evolving Skies 2.0.
So that's just going to be another banger set, I mean, as far as modern sets are concerned.
And then Destin Rivals, right, that's coming out in May.
That's going to be another banger of a set.
Because, I mean, obviously it's just nostalgic,
but it's going to be another one of those banger sets.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
Yo, what's good, game?
What's good, what's good?
Sorry, I'm a little late, man.
I was listening to the motherfucking Nick game real quick, bro.
And I was like, it caught me off guard.
I'm like, oh, shit, hold on.
It's already nine?
I'm like, damn.
I'm over here on the road right now.
I am free, though.
I am on the road.
I was just listening to the game on the radio.
Totally got caught off guard and shit.
But what's good, fam? How we doing, man?
All right, shit good, man, bro. You know, just chilling, cooling.
I've been talking a little bit about it a little bit, you know what I'm saying?
A little bit of everything, so.
Hell yeah.
You know what I'm saying? Journey Together, Destin Riders, which, like I said,
I told people, don't buy shit from journey together early
the price is going to come down
you did say that
you said that with the rival shit too
yeah
the price of the Pokemon
what's going to happen is they're going to keep
doing these small little batch releases
like even for the rocket case bro people were paying stupid money
yeah oh god chill out bro i know you want to be part of the convo but this is not your time
dog is out there letting you know bro he's here right she's here. But, uh, like the Destin Rivals, right?
I mean, uh, the Gloria Team Rocket, the Rocket case,
people were paying thousands of dollars for those.
Now you can get one for like two, three hundred bucks.
Right? Like, people were paying two,
two fifty for a booster box,
a Gloria Team Rocket. You can get it Team Rocky You can get it someplace
You can get it out
Alright I'm going to tell y'all
Yeah put us on
Alright there's this app
It's called Sneaker Dunk
Okay this app is called
Sneaker Dunk you can get shit directly
From Japan this is a
Straight from Japan
Plug right not only can you get booster
boxes and Pokemon cards but you can get like I just called sneaker dunk so it's
a it's a perfect place for collectible people right like you look at the
collectibles it's a perfect spot right so it's called the app is called sneaker
dunk you can go in there and get a un-saran wrapped one
for like 80 something bucks and you can get
the saran wrapped one for 115
now mind you people were paying
to 280
for the booster box
of Gloria Team Rocket
that's what I'm saying don't buy this
shit early don't be trying
to be like oh i got it early i
got a week early yeah it's stupid you got it a week early but the price is gonna plummet the
minute you that shit gets mass pushed to the market so like there's no sense in you paying
early just wait for it man like and if it's a brand new set you know it's gonna be in print
for the next two to three years so you you're going to have time to get whatever you want,
collect whatever master sets you want.
And then, like, I mean, I understand those people try to get in quick,
flip it while the price is high, but, like, it's a very, very volatile game because prices crash really quick.
Like, look how fast that Lily card that was almost $400 is now under $200.
Right? And that's the top400 is now under $200. Right?
And that's the top chase.
Facts, bro.
The more people pulled, you know.
Exactly.
Because it wasn't, the pull rates on the set was way better than Prismatic.
They printed way more of it than they did Prismatic.
And it's a smaller, it was a small set.
So it was easier to get the cards that you wanted so people
was getting their chase cards left and right so like everybody you go to tiktok and everybody's
pulling the lily card now it's like oh well this card is not as hard to get right like if you was
one of the people who got it early you know i'm saying i can understand you hurry up and getting
it and then you immediately sending it to psa or sending it to TAG or BGS or whoever to try to hurry up and get one of the first ones greatest so you can get it off quick.
That's it. And also like for people who just want to shoot the content with it too, just to be like, yo, I got it. You know, get the likes quick.
Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? But overpaying though, you know what I'm saying but overpaying though you know what i'm saying that's
just stupid bro like i i will never overpay for a set bro because it's just not it don't make no
sense like if the set's gonna be printed for the next two to three years and i'm i'm a collector
right and i just want certain cards out of it why Why am I going to overpay? Hell, I could just go buy the card
because the overall price of individual cards
ain't that high right now, right?
So if there's a specific card I want out to set,
I could probably get it for less than I would pay
me trying to pull it.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I love to pull cards.
But in a situation like this,
I'll just buy the card that i
want and enjoy ripping some shit that is completely brand new like i'm on some wise schwartz right now
they got the reincarnated as a slime and you know if you ain't seen that anime it's a dope ass anime
but wise schwartz has you know i'm saying some uh cards. That's been a dope set to rip.
You know, that's been fun.
One Piece is dropping all kinds of new shit right now.
And they just, I'm trying to get my hands on the new 10s that they dropped to have OPO 10 in them.
So, you know, it's some shit out here, man.
It's some shit out here.
And like I said, man, like, don't be afraid to go bounce around.
See what else is out there.
You know, find what tickles your own
fancy, as they say.
Yeah, bro.
I'm waiting for the, you already know,
bro, I'm waiting for those MLB chromes
to come out.
Oh, yeah.
I need me a new Aaron Judge.
They just dropped the celebration boxes two or three weeks ago.
If you can find those, get your hands on those.
They're Topps Chrome celebration boxes.
Oh, yeah.
Topps Chrome MLB?
They dropped for MLB too?
Yeah, it's an MLB celebration box.
Yeah, I need me a new judge, bro.
That guy is doing some fantastic fucking numbers this year.
So I need a judge from this year.
Hey, that'll be your best bet.
Those have been pretty hot, but we got Icy up on stage.
What's happening?
Smothers, my boys!
First of all, I need to say congratulations in the voice.
That don't make sense.
You know what I'm saying.
And then I hopped up here to actually talk about some shit some some some treating shit
like what do i know about all that but nah i was at the dentist this morning
and there's a game stop next door and i pull up and i'm like all right these guys camping out and
everything i'm in that bitch for two hours i come out they're still camped out the line longer
the ladies and the dentist are like
i wonder what's going on there and then this guy passed by me he goes they giving out free food
over there what's going on i'm like y'all don't know shit because these guys keep me in the loop
and i actually no i actually have no idea what like what went down it was just another fucking
like what happened pre-orders for the switch two oh that didn't even damn i thought
i was on uh pre-order for switch two went live today uh that's why you've seen those lines people
were probably camped out since the night before on the real because uh it was limited quantities
at game stops and because each GameStop only had a finite amount
that they were allowed to pre-order.
And that was going to be truly your best way to get one
than trying to fight the bots online,
either at Target or Walmart or at GameStop.
You know what I'm saying?
So my fuckers camped out for it.
And you know what I'm saying?
At GameStop, the best thing with the pre-order is
you only had to put 50 down right for and you have until the day that the console comes out
to pay it off so it's like layaway and they were giving you a trade bump if you had um
if you traded in your old switch towards the new switch, you got a 20% trade bump.
And then if you were a pro member, because it's pro week,
you got an additional 20% trade bump.
So basically free.
You would have got at least half of it off.
You know what I'm saying?
So you'd only been paying $200 instead of $450.
Why did I not even know there was a Switch 2? Like, where am I just not interested in that's why?
Like, I don't see ads in it.
It's a cash grab, honestly, I see. It's a cash grab.
Yeah, I personally am sleeping on it right now because, one, right, the first wave of the console always has bugs.
That's just what it is.
There's always issues, right?
Two, yes, there's some games coming out.
However, I'm getting the console really for Pokemon.
Now, with Pokemon coming out later this year, I anticipate closer to the Christmas time frame, right?
When that usually happens, Nintendo does bundles, you know what I'm saying?
And they usually, and they like to do, you know, specialized versions of the console.
So because Pokemon is going to be so big, I can see them coming out with a pokemon version console so if i'm going
to spend the money i might as well just wait for that possibility and if it doesn't happen they
just do a pokemon bundle with the console and i get the game cheaper than me paying for it out
right then i'll do that and so i'm not really pressed i can wait right like and all the bugs and the kinks get worked out and then i'll just do
that don't they have the freaking um the gamecube games becoming available as well but is that is
that for the nintendo store so you can get it on the old switch too or is that correct okay so it's not like it'd be able to accept the cartridges it can only be
yeah no i figured it'd be something similar to that i was just wondering if it was going to be
applicable to switch the like the oled switch one or it's just exclusive to switch two but if it's
not exclusive to switch two then there's no point in me
caring about the switch to right cuz so all right the switch one right the
Latin current gen switch its graphics and capability were on the side of the
same capabilities of ps3 okay this new switch is the same capabilities of ps3. Okay This new switch is the same capabilities of ps4 pro
Now that is a large jump from a ps3 to a ps4
However in two years, I guarantee you're gonna drop an OLED version because this one is still an LCD screen
It's an LCD screen. Yes. It's 1080p all of this yes it has the 4k capability if
you hook it up to a TV and whatnot however we know that they're gonna come
out with an OLED version 100% so I mean it's just how you want to do it I got I
got the OLED switch one and I've touched the thing like three times.
So, I don't
see the point in me even buying a Switch 2.
Yeah, so, yeah, you know,
it just doesn't make a whole
huge amount
of sense. Jesus, dog,
it's going crazy. Did you name your bong yet?
And they're dropping, like,
Tears of the
Kingdom too bro like
that's a game that we already played
we want some new shit.
Right like now don't get me wrong
that Donkey Kong looked lit and then this is
this is a new
this is a new
Mario Kart title that we're getting
you know and then it's going to
have the the new features that the the switch is capable of so like the video chatting and all of
that stuff and so you'll have those features but i mean i'm not i'm not pressed on getting it right now.
Yeah, I agree, man.
I can wait.
The news of the GameCube stuff was pretty nice,
but it's just a cash grab, so.
Yeah, I mean, it's like, oh, it's backwards compatible.
Cool.
That kind of sucks sucks too, bro.
Like Nintendo,
they usually drop something fire.
The fact that they just dropped
the Switch 2 this way was
very lazy. It's not like
Nintendo. It reminds me of the Wii U.
It just felt like a super
cash grab.
The Wii U is definitely a console i skipped
i mean you like the the wii u was only for like folks who never like who didn't cop the wii
like why would you buy a wii u you already have a wii right and the wii was a very special console
the wii the wii was a was a great i still play play my Wii yeah bro that shit was innovative bro
I feel like Nintendo blocks their own success like in multiple ways because if you think about it
even from like a fighting game perspective they always like block people from like hosting
tournaments which could help elevate the player base they always do this shit where it's like
like for example,
Project M was probably one of the best iterations to the Smash Bros.
franchise,
but it was a mod.
So they DMCA'd the shit out of them and forced them to shut down.
Because it was outshining,
at least in the competitive scene,
their brawl when brawl came out.
So it's like,
I feel like they blocked their own success time and
time again and they just do these little things that like they have their niche fan base and it
just caters to them strictly um but i don't know like if they would ever change it's very uh
old-fashioned mindset
yeah yeah you know i can see that like they're definitely that old tried and true but they do they do stuff
and you're just like bro do you do you really rock with you people like are you just here for
a little more extraction you know i'm saying from the market because like shit is just crazy, bro. Like, some of it is just, like, we already stated, the Wii U, that was a piece of shit.
It was just, but then they turned around and they gave us the Switch, which I was happy with the Switch.
You know, new Game Boy-esque, you know what I'm saying, situation.
Taking the Game Boy to the next level.
It was definitely something dope.
Gave me a new experience with playing a lot of
different games.
Like playing
Pokemon on the TV was lit.
Last time I did some shit like that
was Pokemon Stadium.
That was pretty dope. That was a dope experience. was what, Pokemon Stadium? Like, you know.
Yeah, no, that was pretty dope.
That was a dope experience,
especially like the Pikachu game,
because that was like super nostalgic.
And then, well, then it was a Pokken Tournament.
That was lit to the Pokemon Fight game.
They had a Pokemon puzzle for the 64,
which I thought was a pretty unique game at the time yeah I found a
sealed version the other day of that. Stadium too. What? Yeah I go to this um I go to this like
vintage toy store thing uh that's like in like this big barn uh like 40 minutes from my house
they just sell vintage
toys and vintage games and shit and they had a sealed pokemon puzzle and 64 like still with
the plastic in like the case and i was like bro what the fuck like this hole in the wall barn
in the middle of fucking nowhere mary, has a pretty dope selection. That's fucking rounded.
I'm actually going there this Saturday because they're hosting, like, a vintage toy show,
so I'm going to go there and try and, like, find some old, like, Batman the Animated Series
figures and shit.
Oh, that's what...
So...
I just found out that Collecticon is coming to San Antonio...
In December.
It's fucking up.
Do you know the ticket price?
Not yet, they haven't dropped it yet.
I am waiting but regardless I'm going I mean it's just going
I've never been to one I've always wanted to go to one they went to Dallas they went to Houston
Obviously they went to Miami, but they were close enough but now they're
knocking on the door so I'm definitely going that shit's gonna be a vibe I'm
really excited to go to that just see who I see network and say maybe get some
good trades in I got some binding them some stuff I'm in in search of so and then by this time you know the mega market's
gonna be booming and i got some solid megas in the in the collection so i'm looking to trade some
stuff out so that's another thing bro i love card shows just for that simple reason
bro i love card shows just for that simple reason yeah just being able to go to the show and be like
i came here with no money but all of my cards let's see what happens end up getting the that
you want usually end up leaving with more money like it's it's it's a vibe like and you can get
the most money for like most money for your trades right that's the best place to do
your trades because people are willing to give you 90 market and in some cases actual market price
for the product so for the cards so like that's just a fucking slam dunk and then they're just fun
right it's a vibe there's a bunch of you know i'm saying collectors in there and you meet cool people like my first one i met
lucy like uh the the lady who plays the voice of lucy from charlie brown so that was cool and she
we sat and we chopped it up like that was really that was a dope vibe like and it was just a
natural just kind of i was walking by looking at another card and i said i was like oh snap
and then she came over she gave me a hug we talked like it was really cool like and then uh there's some other people there but I ain't really
like they're big here I mean they're big everywhere I guess but you know it was like here there but
it was just the people that I met and then I started running into them locally like around the city and stuff and then
so now you know what I'm saying I'm I'm getting tips up like this is how like people go hey this
store on this side of town they get they restock on this day and you just like ah so now I'm getting
into the inner workings like plug me in let me know what's good because then i put my homies on i'm like hey
i can't go but look on this day they get they restock around this time
go get go get something like don't do what you gotta do so go to them car shows man network
man network but no real quick I see no I did not name this new piece yet so it is
still up for for naming I do got some dope names out there. Blastoise, Articuno,
Lugia,
Lucario. Damn, I guess you didn't like mine.
Those are some fancy shit.
Let me get there.
Jeez.
I was rattling them off.
Way or not.
What was yours?
I see.
What did you suggest?
Birdie.
Birdie.
Because it gets, you know, birdie gets real high in the sky.
You know what I'm saying?
I fuck with it.
I feel it.
But don't ask me.
I named my pet mouse Kitty
and back in the day when I had a cat
or a, nope,
had a mouse named a Kitty.
It could be worse.
I named a goldfish that I won from the fair doorknob.
Wow.
How long did you have that fish?
Like a week.
Yeah, it's a probably good name.
I mean mean I was
thinking like when I got it like it's dumb as a doorknob cuz it's a goldfish
so I was like alright fuck it
there's anything bright
although I do have a great name for my future French Bulldog.
I'm going to name it Minion.
Minion?
That's cute.
That's cute.
I can't front.
Especially for a Bulldog, that's a cute name.
Bulldogs are fucking cute as fuck.
It'll be Mini for short.
I've wanted a fucking French Bulldog forever.
They're just fucking expensive.
Dress them up in a little fucking Adidas tracksuit.
Little gold chain and shit.
Hell no.
Hell no.
My dog will be exclusively cosplaying anime characters.
I can get behind that.
I can get behind that.
Dress him up as Chowchee.
Or like all the dogs from Kakashi's Summoning Jutsu.
Oh, that'd be lit.
That'd be dope.
Or just give it a wig and then call it like, what the fuck was it?
The Nina and Alexander combination from fucking Soul Metal.
Oh, Edward.
Edward. Oh. Edward.
Oh, bro.
One of the most devastating
moments in
anime history.
That shit was
hell.
I think everybody just wanted to jump through the TV to rip his head off your shoulders.
I mean, the best part is it's still relevant this day.
Right.
It still hits the same every single time time i love seeing people cosplay that fucking dog
dude when that dad had his daughter do it yeah when she was walking around the con and the girls
just like no no i saw someone do the same thing but they had like a fake uh version of it on like a wooden like
platform that had wheels and they were just walking it around oh no it was so fucking good
dude i was like this this man is a man of culture that shit's roundy yeah no that's crazy
Bobby Blue
okay okay
you should name your
Bong Blue Waffle
Bong Blue Waffle
we're definitely the same age
or at least close to it
I'm 31
yep yep yeah we're in the same bracket
oh man or uh you could just name it blue and then every time you say it you can you blue actually that works it is hidden yeah did you talk about the fucking team Team Rocket Packs declining in price like crazy.
You're my boy, Blue.
Yeah, man.
You tested out the name, like in real time.
How did it feel?
It felt pretty good, actually.
It was pretty fire with a little quink, you know?
Right?
I kind of like that
but yeah no i told people bro i was telling people do not buy the team rocket stuff early
because everything from the the case the attache case to the booster box drop drastic the people was paying almost 300 for a booster box the glory of team rocket and now you can get it in some spots for under 100 bucks like
what was he what's even the pro like i i heard a lot of people saying they don't like this set
and i'm like what the fuck is the problem with some of these cards like I don't see the
the people heard Team Rocket automatically assumed it was gonna be all Gen 1 Pokemon
however it's all Gen 2 like the main focus outside of your Needle King, your Mewtwo, is obviously Persian, is your Gen 2 Pokemon.
So like Spider, Orbeetle, Wobbuffet, Houndoom, Blaziken.
Bro, that Wobbuffet card was fire.
fire. Facts,
Facts, bro. Like that's a slept on card.
bro. Like, that's a slept on
card.
Girl, I rock with the Wubbuffet
card. The Houndoom
card is dope.
I like the
Spider-Op card. It's a little
different. And then the Orbeetle card
is, too, kind of like a little play on the
spy situation. Like, I like
the Orbeetle.
The Moltres is gas the Mewtwo's dope
obviously obviously your big hairs are gonna be gas but like there's some
really dope artwork in that set like I am I enjoy it and so I know when Destin
Rivals drop and you're gonna have a combination of that and some of the fire
artwork from Heatwave Arena which you can say you got
cynthia's guard chomp which i mean that's my personal chaser because it is a fire like if you
really look at that card it is a really fucking dope card um and ethan's typhosian is another
fire card as well but like there's a lot of dope artwork between those two sets and you're going to have steven's uh deck in there and
marnie's deck which come with that more uh marnie's morpeko is is a fire looking card so like
you know you're going to have that featured in the set as well so there's going to be some dope
cards in there so but people's main gripe with it when i don't like this set is because it's
gen 2 pokemon not gen 1.
yeah that's kind of dumb to me so people were expecting like dark dragonite and stuff like that but like think about like see this is the thing about me gen 2 and gen 1 were the best gen why
would you get mad that it's not gen like like come on bro. Thank you. Gen 2 was fucking heat Johto League literally was like my favorite Pokemon game ever was crystal
It was the first time you could go and complete the entire Johto League and go back to the kind of region like it was like the first fucking thing
It was sick and then like
My favorite Pokemon until although I'm really pissed about it
My favorite pokemon was the
legendary dogs but i'm super pissed yeah because of what they did to raikou and tried to give him
a long neck like as if he's not a dog and try to make him a goddamn giraffe
but the whole thing is they were actually all like based off of like big cats
and then they named them the legendary dogs which is hilarious
and then now it's a fucking giraffe yeah and then it turned into a giraffe like that
that had a really wild transition like you went from being based off of a tiger
and then being labeled the legendary dog to turn it into a giraffe hey i mean whatever they want to identify
in uh you know 2025 is i guess what they were going with that so fuck them for that but no
that's dumb i think the wobbuffet card is fucking sick um i hate a lot of pokemon cards to be
truthfully honest i'm not really much much of a Pokemon card collector anymore or anything
like that, but I think certain
cards are sick
because I like full arts. Back
in the day, we didn't get full arts, so
I would actually prefer some of those cards
in larger format,
but come on, bro.
Give some love to
Wobbuffet.
Bro.
Mate. Wobbuffet. Bro. Mike.
It's facts. Wobbuffet is gangster.
Facts.
He's a fucking troll, but...
Facts.
But it was perfect.
And you're right about the full art shit, too.
That's probably one of the reasons why I like to
rip packs now.
It's just because I do fuck with the full arc.
I didn't have that back in the days, and having that now is pretty dope.
Yeah, certain sets are ugly as fuck.
Like, no one can convince me Prismatic is good.
It's just not going to fucking happen.
But, like, Rainbow Rares were fucking dope.
I thought Rainbow Rares were a great idea.
They made a lot of cards look really sick.
But, yeah, no. Fuck
Prismatic. Those things are ugly as dog water.
I also like the
Stained Glass series that they did.
Oh, yeah.
Those were sick.
There's some dope
like I'm posting
some stuff up there oh this Genghis Khan
was cool it's just a
that's a good wholesome card
oh yeah I did see the Murkrow
the Murkrow is sick
oh yep yep
I love the color scheme
on that Murkrow
I don't Oh, yep, yep. I love the color scheme on that Murakrow.
I don't... I think the Houndoom is fucking vicious, but...
Bro.
The Blaziken can go somewhere.
I don't like the Blaziken.
I don't even know what the fuck Pokemon the green one is.
The green one is the spider op.
Yeah, that's the spider op.
That's the one.
It's a dope car.
I'm not going to lie.
The Mewtwo is kind of ugly.
They could have done that better.
I could have given a little more love but you know what I'm saying
I'm still rocking with it
you know
bro if they did
if they did like a Murkrow vibe
to the fucking
YouTube
that would have been fucking great
oh yeah
just the way it's like
it's such a good card
I don't know
I can't
I really like the Murkrow.
I just sat there and watched Dachshund Wizard
fucking rip
a hundred something packs
on his live stream for the
Rippin' Sip.
Oof.
Man, more power to him because that that is rough
i was wondering why you don't just pre-cut the packs like i mean at that point you know you can't
you know you can't pre-cut them but i would definitely have some scissors on standby. Oh, he did. To be like.
Because, yeah, there's no way I would be actually ripping.
Yeah, I was thinking, like, okay, maybe because they don't want to see the pack already opened.
Like, they want you to open the pack so they know it's not, like, some bullshit.
But, like, at least pull out the packs and then cut them all and then reveal what's in each pack so that way they know at least you're it's a fresh cut but like you're not wasting all the time of just
rip rip rip rip rip it's like fuck man it was like an hour and a half yeah cause that ain't no joke bro ripping all them packs
that should take forever
that's why you gotta keep them
them scissors on standby
cause that
that shit get
you know shout out to
meazy for giving away a nata
shake case
that was lit yeah You know, shout out to Beezy for giving away a Natashe case.
That was lit.
Yeah.
I still want one.
I'll find a way to get one eventually.
One day.
I do love me some Beezy.
Facts.
But also because Prateek tolerates me and actually, like, doesn't give a shit, shit like at 3 a.m. to hop in a phone call yeah yeah shout out to the homie elmi we're gonna do his rip um i won't go into too much detail but i'll just say uh over the last two weeks i have
been away due to some family emergencies so um you've just i've been dealing with a lot uh outside of the accident that i got
into like three weeks ago so you know it's just been a very very uh rough a couple weeks for your boy so um but you know everything is looking up in time so um
i want to get my dolly that'll be taken care of um so we will make that happen i still want to do
it live with videos so um i have family in town currently so if you can bear with me, bro, if not, we can get that taken care of tomorrow when I have less people in my house.
So just hit me in the DMs and shoot, man, let me know if you're trying to get on off the grid a
little later I can use a little escape escape
anybody else want to play or whatever I'm also I gotta I gotta hit the homie
Jonathan up I needs to get on Hell Divers.
Because I know Smokey ain't going to play.
I tried to get him to play but he'd be leaving tight.
Where is my boy?
I know I had to. I know I had to. Stop the swing of that bro. Yeah. this is tragic this tragic family I've misplaced my flower but we are wrapping up the show here in the last we're in the last 10 minutes
and we do this show for an hour so if you want squirrels if you got any last
closing questions or statements feel free to throw them out there shout out
to the homie bricks I've seen you pull up Brody, if y'all go check out the homies anime space he be doing. If you're an anime head, like a for real one, you know what I'm saying? You want to learn something, be put on game. Talk about good anime. Have some good convo. They be in there doing their thing. so check out the homie when he be doing his spaces
but yeah
yeah man
shit anime's anime's got a lot
going on right now bro and we're
it's just
really
an interesting time
to be an anime fan I'll tell you that
bro did you watch kakuguri
oh yes bro i love kakuguri okay you're about to hate netflix
why because they're doing a live action and uh come on man it's worse than you think it's worse
than you think brother um they completely removed rooney, the girl with the floppy-eared hoodie,
and they replaced it with what appears to be a gay man.
How do you remove one of the most beloved characters in the entire series
who is a female and replace him with a gay man?
And then all the costumes,
like, not all of them,
but some of the characters,
like the girl with the eye patch,
her eye patch looks like a pirate's eye patch
with plastic.
Why do they stop with this
trying to turn every anime
into a live action.
It just, they don't convert well.
Like, stop it.
Like, it just, it doesn't.
I said this a long time ago, and the success of the One Piece live action has now opened the door for them to ruin a million titles.
And it's gonna happen.
And it's gonna happen.
It's gonna keep happening because people gave One Piece a pass.
It's gonna keep happening because people gave one piece a pass.
Yeah.
And we're gonna keep on this whole inclusivity track record of let's include all these different types of people into the shows.
Which I have no problem, like, with certain extents.
It just needs to make sense, right?
Did you see the announcement of who Vivi will be
in the One Piece live action
next round?
She's like, I would
say maybe Indian, Middle Eastern.
It makes sense for that character
because they're in Alabasta.
And Alabasta,
if you look at where that's based and all the character designs throughout the anime, it's perfect for that.
So I have no problem with them casting whoever the fuck they want for that.
But replacing Rooney in Kekiguri for a man is the most wild shit I've ever seen in my life.
This thing is crazy, bro.
I really need them to stop messing with my life. This thing is crazy, bro. I really need them to stop messing with my animes
because like and I stumbled upon Kakegurui like I was like and I literally I was on Netflix and
was just like scrolling and I was like what is this and so I watched the trailer for it I was
like this looks kind of interesting and I think i just got done watching darwin's game
so i was looking for like game inspired kind of
you know uh so so i first watched so i went darwin's game and then i watched high rise
invasion on netflix and then this guy this was like during the little recommendations
and so i watched the trailer and i was like i'll give it a shot and i watched this was like during the little recommendations. And so I watched the trailer, and I was like, well, I'll give it a shot.
And I watched it.
I was like, yo, this is actually kind of lit.
And I kept watching.
I was like, oh, no, this is a really, how come I've never heard of this?
If you ever check out the trailer, you're going to be disappointed from the choice of cast.
But I don't mind the direction that they took it.
They sort of took it in like a thriller sort of Wednesday sort of tone.
Oh, okay.
So I don't mind the tone change and like, you know, maybe downplaying some of the fan service.
The fan service?
Yeah, like downplaying that a little bit's okay for me
as long as you still keep in mind that the you know the girl literally used the guy as a chair
sort of motif there like i'm fine with the tone change i have a problem with the casting
it's terrible casting like the main character like the president the main character is not terrible
but the president for example like it's not even the right hair color it's not the right
hairstyle it's literally missing like key elements that make that character that character
it's just disappointing it's always the worst man it's always the worst when they do that like
and those characters were meant to be beautiful, if you remember, in the series.
And we got some fucking grenades in this bitch.
We're talking straight.
We're talking straight, like, beat characters, brother.
Oh, well, I mean, I hope that...
I don't know, man.
I just don't get it sometimes, bro. It's not like you don't know man i just don't get it sometimes bro like you have it's not like
you don't have source material exactly like you don't have to be a hundred percent identical but
you have solid source material with a solid fan base that you know is going to say something if you deviate too far like we'll accept a little
bit you understand it give and take right you can only do so much this is animation you can only do
so much right we understand that however you have source material yeah at the very least at least like we like i said i'm perfectly fine if you want to take
it in a like thriller direction and give me like a similar feeling to like a wednesday series like
where i'm like all right cool because i could see that series working really well for that
but then you're gonna give me a character that doesn't have, like, a Viking hairstyle with, like, what appears to be a Viking hairstyle.
What the fuck?
Like, it just didn't...
I don't even care if the character looks 100% like the character.
But at least try to make it the same, like, give him a fucking wig.
Try to make it the same.
Like, give them a fucking wig.
Please.
Please. Something.
Something.
Like, straight up.
We're going to keep running into this problem, though, because, you know, the hype of the One Piece live action.
The fact that, you know, Netflix is making money off of these series, whether we hate watch it or not.
They're just going to continue to do it.
And I think that I'm, what I'm curious about is
it's impossible for you to not see the negative feedback
that this has gotten on the internet.
So are you planning on making those changes?
And I don't think it'll happen unless you see news outlets
like MyAnimeNews, Crunchyroll
News, or any of those saying there's been extreme backlash to the announcement of this series. And
I also don't think it'll make any sort of difference until you have like the Snow White
effect where it's been like the worst performing Disney movie of all time.
Like until that happens, I think we're going to be in for some help.
Well, I mean, the good thing that came from the flopping of the Snow White is
Disney has now put a halt to trying to do any more live action.
Like, leave our childhood alone
okay please yes stop stop messing with it stop trying to bring it all to life and stop hiring
fucking i don't have anything necessarily against liberals but please stop trying to
make this an inclusivity fucking game like not every group needs to be included as, like, an actor for a series.
Like, why do we need to force these narratives?
If the character is not fucking a girl or not a dude, why is it now a dude?
I'm going to use that for the rest of my life.
How do you axe an entire character?
What the fuck?
Like,
again, you can make
the Little Mermaid whatever
ethnicity you want. I'm fine with that.
That's fine. I support that.
But stop
fucking doing this other shit
where the character
could be a man.
No, it can't.
It's a girl.
It's literally a fucking girl.
I'm just so frustrated after seeing the catgagery thing.
Yeah, no, that's crazy.
All right, Smokey, you here, bro?
Lava to you.
If not, we're going to end up wrapping it up here.
I think bro probably was just getting home.
He getting ready to hit the bone?
Probably, probably.
I'm about to do the same here shortly.
Yeah, but didn't you have to find your green?
I found it.
Okay, okay.
Where was it?
But, yeah.
I actually, so, sorry, don't judge me.
Somehow it ended up on top of my refrigerator.
I don't know how it got there.
In the house.
I'm outside, okay, on the porch, and it was inside on top of the refrigerator.
I don't know how it got there um but you know i found it so
i'm not gonna lie i would have walked past that a million times i did and then i came back outside
and then i sat down and i had left a light on the kitchen and i looked in the house and i
happened to like look up and i seen it sitting on top of the
refrigerator I was like wow how why when I don't know but I found it so um problem solved crisis
averted and uh I'm going to continue to get high this evening so hell yeah I hope the rest of y'all
have a wonderful night appreciate y'all pulling up on us for another episode. Team CQ.
There it is. It's been a vibe. We will catch y'all next week. There's another regularly
schedule. You know what I'm saying? It will be popping. A lot more going on next week.
So, yeah. But like I said, peace and blessings.
And we'll catch y'all next week.
Yeah.
