0:00 Pokemon scalping has gotten so crazy for the cards that Target has started to slash the packaging. So basically like you know you get a box of Pokemon cards for example at Target. They will open the packaging with a like a a razor. So that now you the resellers can't do what they used to. >> I think it's supposed to be like there's so many adults going there just grabbing that whole thing that the kids can't even get. >> There's nothing for the kids, yeah. >> Yeah, that's crazy. >> And then if you see those you know now they have Pokemon what do they call them Pokemon centers? >> Like vending machines? >> Vending machines? Yeah, and those are constantly getting scalped by adult. >> Always out of stock. >> Yep. >> Damn. >> Every time I see them it's almost always adults at them. >> Yeah. I've never seen kids at them. >> Never seen a kid at one. So it's gotten so crazy that that's that's they've resorted to that now and it's kind of affected the entire market cuz like you know kids as a kid you kind
0:52 of get you kind of like to get to open it yourself and stuff too. >> Nah, kids got their own ████ That's our ████ >> No, no, no. >> Pokemon was our ████ >> Open it up. >> ████ was our ████ all right? They got ████ Roblox and Minecrafts and Fortnites and yeah, they're not watching Pokemon like you know what I mean? Like yeah. Pokemon's our that's our IP. I was ████ in sixth grade when I was I fell in love with that ████ That's our ████ >> watching that ████ >> Nah, but I'm cool with that. That's why. >> Also, I don't ever want to agree with Anthony but I do agree with Anthony. >> So it's our ████ >> Well, these these kids aren't even going to take care of those cards anyways. You ever see a kid hold a Pokemon card? It's all ████ up and all scratching and ████ >> SA10 >> Yeah, they put it in their pocket they're going to ████ it up anyway. >> don't even watch Pokemon. >> No. >> It's our ████ >> But those Pokemon are different Pokemon. >> They play the games though. They're not they're not from the ones that you guys >> Games are their ████
1:42 >> Look, is Taika into Pokemon? >> I think he's into the idea of it. >> Does he watch the show? >> Nope. He has a whole binder of them but he doesn't he's not into like >> has cards but he's not into the show. >> Cuz it's not his ████ >> That's what I'm saying. >> So you're saying the kids right the kids today don't even know what Pokémon is, they just collect the cards? >> Yeah, they're not even into it. >> So that's the game they're playing. I think we're missing information. >> They're calling uh what is it called? I think they're calling it a Gen Z phenomenon or whatever, where it's uh and I might have even applied to Taika's generation, but they're calling a phenomenon where uh there's a special special name for it where they're part of cultures they never existed. >> So puka shell necklaces they're into, they're into 90s R&B for they've never been in that era. Like they're super into >> Yeah, they wear a lot of band shirts, they don't even know what the band is. >> They're like super like culture vulture. Yeah, culture vulture and whatever, and
2:32 it's like a weird thing where they're super into stuff that they've never been a part of. >> Okay, so are we pro scalper then? Cuz the scalpers are getting little pings in their childhood. >> I do feel sad for the little kids, but ████ them. >> But they don't even that's what I'm saying though, is they don't even want it. >> Like that's that's that's what I'm thinking about is because like everyone thinks Pokémon is like children ████ right? But if it's Gen Z and young millennials that like they're the ones buying it cuz it was their childhood. It's not even the childhood of like Taika and his generation. >> So in the 90s it is there a mom in a minivan who's like waiting for Beanie Babies and she's like, "No, that's our ████ That's our s███." Cuz the kids don't play with the Beanie Babies, I collect these Beanie Babies. >> There's definitely more adults than there were kids doing that. >> So is that what you're saying? It's like that? >> Yeah. >> It's the same ████ >> You know what the same ████ would be? It'd be someone getting that magazine, can you give me that magazine? Playboy.
3:22 Someone getting this and not going home and jacking off to it. >> Yep, that's what those kids are doing. They're they go home with these Pokémon. They're not even using it what it's for. Not using it for what it's for and then you just have a Sung Haily ████ in in your bedroom for no reason with no ████ jizz stains. >> It's performative, you're saying. Okay. >> That's our ████ My ████ >> The kids were playing the games though, sure isn't aren't >> Yeah, Pokémon Go or whatever. Like that's yeah, sure, that's if it's your ████ it's your ████ You know what I'm saying? But opening collecting these cards what made them valuable, that's technically our ████ They get to participate. You think You think Yeah, there's no kid waiting in that line with all those adults, but one of a hundred of those adults is getting something for their kid. >> Still their ████ Here's a good example of like what boomers can understand. Um,
4:13 sports cards were meant for children, right? But because of the nostalgia factor, all the biggest collectors are old people, like in their 70s and ████ that have the money to buy these ████ million >> Which maintains the market, right? Is that what you're saying? >> Yeah, but this is the this is our generation of it. The Pokémon cards is like It looks like it's for children, but it's nostalgic for us. >> Yeah, we grew up on it. >> Yeah, but if you see all the ████ festivals and ████ or like the the the trading events, it's all adults. You see like a handful of kids, but it's mainly of adults. Like it's like ████ like the shoe crowd, you know? Like you're coming in, you're trading. It's like a money game, dude. >> were opening packs in here, I have to say I felt nostalgia, but I didn't know who the hell the Pokémons were. >> That's because we were basically doing a ████ ton of altcoins. All them ████ The Bitcoins all been mined. Them Blastoises hologram ████ Charizards, they're all out there.
5:03 >> Oh. >> They only resurfaced because they're being publicly traded in a sense. >> We're doing low end cap s████████. >> Yeah, or people have been sitting on dormant Charizard keys, forgot they had them, need to go get them graded, and suddenly the one out of 6,000 or whatever that were actually made resurfaces, and that's why it's a big deal. Cuz it's our ████ The new kid had no idea that that was being locked in a basement for 30 years. You know, it's like >> I get it. An 8-year-old kid doesn't care about a Venusaur first edition. >> ████ that. You know what they care about? They got Bluey. Disney just bought Bluey for how many ████ billions or whatever the ████ They replaced one of their shows, so now there's a Bluey show, and I go there to Disneyland when I used to think Disneyland was my ████ Now I have a kid, I'm like, "S███, it's her s███." I realized. our >> I get it. >> Didn't watch Lion King and all that ████ They don't know ████ >> That's why they're replacing them. They got Bluey. >> We built that ████ >> But now it's like Bluey and Avengers and
5:54 it's becoming their ████ >> Avengers is our ████ >> But you know what's weird about our gen though is that our parents had their own content and they didn't know what the ████ we were watching. Now we can share our content with them and enjoy it together. >> So, Tyga is caught up on all the classics. So, he enjoys Disneyland the way we do. >> That's because you're not even caught up on the modern. >> Yeah, you're not. >> Cuz you're watching IT FOR THE FIRST TIME, TOO. >> HE'S CAUGHT up on his classics. >> This kid's watched Rumble in the Bronx, dude. Dude, I wish Disney would buy Rumble in the Bronx. >> I think Tyga's caught up to your age. >> Rumbleland, that'd be sick. And Bloodsport? >> Well, you know what what what's the thing though? You know like in the in the card game, like the more expensive cards, that feels right that adults are the ones that can afford that. But then don't you at least want to have the very cheapest like modern packs still be
6:44 accessible to kids? >> I do. >> Cuz that's the only thing they can afford. >> But Anthony doesn't. >> No, it's still there they can participate. >> I'm just saying when you're talking about too, this is really problematic Target's going to start slashing boxes, that's ruining the the industry of it. >> They want to ruin the industry of it because Target doesn't benefit from the resale, they benefit from the initial sale. >> Yeah. >> But they could still sell the packs though. >> What do you mean Target doesn't benefit from the resale? They're being sold out, that's their problem. They're instantly flipping them for way more. That's in the the market's clogged. Do you get it? >> So, raise the price. >> But then the kids can't afford it. >> The kids never could. They ain't working. Whose ████ money is it? >> An allowance. You know like if you get five bucks. >> Where do they get the money? >> You know you know these stupid ass kids >> Let's make it make sense, guys. >> These these stupid ass kids, if you gave them some Chinese counterfeits, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And the other thing, these ████ stupid ass kids, their feelings are so
7:35 fleeting. Today they like Pokémon, today it'll be some other ████ And they won't even care. But for us, if we had damaged Pokémon cards, I'm not even into Pokémon, but I understand the sentiment, >> it would hurt us for like a decade. Like >> Joe is bending his Pokémon card like it was He was just ████ bending it like it was real. >> Like he was going to He was going to crack it in half and >> You don't know how to test it. You don't know how to do a real the real test. >> That is crazy that >> into gold. >> It is already crazy that most cards aren't PSA 10 out of the pack. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. That's crazy. >> Cuz of the centering, dude. >> So how much more if a kid's handling it? It's probably like instant six. >> So it's good for the for the game, basically, is what you're saying, that the kids aren't are getting cut. >> But the sentiment, I understand, it's kind of sad. Like, "Oh, these kids can't get their hands on it." But they have filthy hands anyways. >> I'm just imagining I'm just imagining the Okay, like when I was a kid and I was trying to buy Marvel 1992 cards at
8:26 Alpha Beta Fleer brand. I was like, "Dude, they're gone. They're always gone." And I was like, "Man, this sucks." And it's it's one of those things where Yeah, it's a fleeting thing, but the value of a kid's happiness, I think, is higher than an adult's happiness. >> I see higher than >> Yeah, when you when you measure them right next to each other, always. Thank you, mayor. Okay. >> Can we get back to some ████ How about this? The reason why those even have enough value that this is a ████ conversation is because when we were kids, they had no value. We gave it to them because we cared so much and it brought us happiness, and we saved our allowance. Those same gay ass kids that grew up are now still scoping out and scalping ████ target ████ finally making a buck off their nerdy ass passion. I'm just saying that's what our ████ means. We roll with the weak stuff when it's not cool. And then we also get
9:18 to win off the stuff when it is cool. That's what you What's That's what you do when you back up your own culture. >> But you don't think there's a lot of just straight-up street hustlers just like, "This is ████ sick." >> Yeah, like >> And they're just waiting >> Like you want the fat smelly guy to win over the like innocent little cute kid? >> So you feel like, "Hey, if a guy is uh cutting a kid in line to get a new Nintendo Switch, too. Well, that's his ████ cuz he grew up with Nintendo. That's our ████ ████ that kid. The kid doesn't make money. ████ that kid. >> Let's say Bart's in that same line that guy cut Tyga. Let's say Bart is now blue belt in jujitsu and wants to ████ this guy cuz he's been having a bad day cuz Geo's been yelling at him cuz Zoe's a ████ behind it. That's just And he just had a bad day. So now he whoops his ass. Now that was his ████ And it's just like everybody's got their ████ You know what I'm saying? >> I I know what you're saying, but what if this guy there's only 25 in the story he buys them all cuz he's going to list them all on ████ eBay and you're
10:08 like, "That's his s███." >> I think the community gets to do whatever the community deems they want to do. I'm just saying you got to admit the Pokémon thing is our ████ >> But I think I think adults have multiple our s████. Kids when something is a kid's his ████ they ████ act like that's their entire world. >> They got a bunch of those already. >> Well, they it's like they have their whole world at a time, but then at that moment when the kid wants Pokémon cards and it's not there, that's like his let's say he'll kill himself. >> What about in the baseball games where the baseball's flying over here, right? And then the kid's about to catch it and then the adult grabs IT IN FRONT. >> AND then he goes like that. >> Who who who do you who do you feel bad for? >> Obviously, there's a societal sentiment. >> Yeah. >> Right? What's the societal sentiment? >> I'm ████ >> Baseball's our ████ >> THE SOCIETAL SENTIMENT
11:00 WE IT WAS built off our backs and sweat. >> Whoever went to the most games, it's their ████ Societal sentiment >> is that you have to give the ball to the kid. That's like a rule. If you don't do it, you're going to get your job fires you cuz you get outed. >> Scumbag. All time scumbag. >> That's the sentiment. That's what you understand. I don't think it is cultural sent societal sentiment that kids toy should go to kids. That like we shouldn't slash the boxes and devalue the entire experience to it because people are scalping these things. I think this is a >> Oh, so you're saying because you're saying that the devaluation is going to make the kid not be able to have the same value. >> for the entire industry of it. >> Or if how about this? We keep it intact. >> not going to want them anymore either cuz nobody wants them. >> Yeah, and if this kid really wants this ████ box, go to Target at ████
11:50 8:00 a.m. and go get your ████ box. >> Cuz kids would do that, too. >> But if not, then the grown-up's going to be sad. >> really your ████ you would make your mom go wait at the >> So you're saying it's not fair because now the kid can't participate in the same financial growth that we did when they weren't slashing boxes. That is messed up. >> Okay, I see what you're saying. >> ruining the industry. I'm never saying case by case the fact I should have the toy over the kid, even though that's a way funnier argument with you hive-minded easy asses. It's just that it's that's bad for the entire thing. What what Target on their bottom line is trying They're They're caring that they're not making the money that other people are scalping. That's why they're slashing the boxes. That's the wrong way to do it. >> I actually think you made the most sense in this video and it upsets me. >> Yeah, I think we should I think we should cut before you started talking. >> I can't even delete any video. This is the one. >> Yeah, this is the one that just just
12:40 just drag it to the trash can. >> So we got to do one extra today? >> Yeah.
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