Speaker 1: Right across Melbourne. This is number one hundred. Good morning.
Speaker 1: You are on the air with Jason Lauren Clint here
Speaker 1: as well. We're doing to thanks to our mates's Shelready Express.
Speaker 1: I mate your dramas on the Spirit of Tazzy Overnight.
Speaker 1: What about that very scary, terrifying A guy got out
Speaker 1: of control it with a knickknife. He was he got
Speaker 1: out of control on the boat with a knife, escalated
Speaker 1: quite quickly and then to turn the boat.
Speaker 2: Around Spirit of Tasmania.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, Clinton, We'll have more details coming up in
Speaker 1: the eight thirty yeles. At the moment, though, I want
Speaker 1: to talk.
Speaker 2: Gards, Pikachu. People still into Pokemon not.
Speaker 3: I've never done anything related to Pokemon. So not the movie,
Speaker 3: not the cards, not the app, nothing, not one thing.
Speaker 1: You weren't in a park during lockdown walking around with
Speaker 1: Pokemon go trying to find those finny a.
Speaker 2: Funny little no shame to anyone who was.
Speaker 3: But I was not.
Speaker 4: See i've recently and you don't scream Pokemon. To be fair,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: Really get it.
Speaker 5: I don't need I remember it being a cartoon when
Speaker 5: I was a kid. Yeah, because it was the game
Speaker 5: on the phone, Well.
Speaker 1: Made of mine our name and shame him Sam Lonigan.
Speaker 2: Didn't Sam Lonigan a football player?
Speaker 1: Yes, yep, it was a coach down at Richmond. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: he loved me sharing this, but huge Pokemon.
Speaker 3: Guy, Like, what variety of Pokemon we're talking?
Speaker 2: That's something you want to keep close to you, So
Speaker 2: thanks for that, mate.
Speaker 1: Sam will drive a few hours to pick up a card.
Speaker 2: No he won't.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha, I don't know? You know he would?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Samuel. Sam will make the track to pick
Speaker 1: up a card or something.
Speaker 5: He was he was, But I had friends that were
Speaker 5: like driving around town to get those little things from
Speaker 5: Cole's when they were trying to do the mini shopping
Speaker 5: center things.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, normal grown adult woman. What are you doing
Speaker 2: driving an hour to get a Miniomo?
Speaker 1: Okay, forget about the mini Oma. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: money in Pokemon cards, right, were very rarely had to find.
Speaker 1: Sam got in a bidding war or an argument with
Speaker 1: someone on Facebook. One day they were fighting over a
Speaker 1: card and value.
Speaker 5: Do Sam know that you're telling this story? They have
Speaker 5: it a private collection.
Speaker 1: And then he sent me a screenshotgun on bartering, Like
Speaker 1: I'm arguing with the wrong person. It was ROBERTA. Williams.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you hang on. Wait, that's a
Speaker 2: plot twist.
Speaker 4: I didn't see coming romon.
Speaker 5: What Sam Loningan and ROBERTA Williams having what is their business?
Speaker 2: Fighting over Pokemon?
Speaker 3: No, you can't be fighting over ROBERTA Williams.
Speaker 5: Listening to twenty four ten you like to I can't
Speaker 5: imagine her being being fighting over Pokemon.
Speaker 3: People are doing it.
Speaker 1: And you know what Logan Paul, famous influencer fighter.
Speaker 2: Is he fighting with Roberta william No?
Speaker 1: No? Is he fighting?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, he has just sold a rare Pokemon card for
Speaker 1: twenty three point three million dollars.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's just stupid. I've got stupid talk.
Speaker 1: I made him on Gabe who runs Lunar Cards on
Speaker 1: Center Road in Bentley Best card Shop.
Speaker 2: Do you have an array of random friends?
Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm picturing. I'm picturing the Blake
Speaker 3: from the Simpsons, who's a whatmic book guy?
Speaker 2: Comic book guy Simpsons?
Speaker 1: You're the comic book guy from the Simpsons.
Speaker 6: Take massive offense to that game.
Speaker 2: Come on, people aren't paying millions of dollars for Pokemon.
Speaker 6: Cards, aren't they actually are they actually are?
Speaker 3: Are you're a fan? You're you're a Pokemon guy.
Speaker 6: I've been a Pokemon guy all my life.
Speaker 1: Wow, So tell Lauren. Because Hoddy, my ten year old,
Speaker 1: got into cards and he would trade them with Gabe.
Speaker 1: Tell the guys about the value pre and post COVID
Speaker 1: and what some sets were worth.
Speaker 6: So basically, for example, a card that was one hundred
Speaker 6: dollars pre COVID is one hundred dollars at the thousand
Speaker 6: dollars now one thousand dollars then is ten thousand?
Speaker 2: We called COVID. We all went loopy, their cards.
Speaker 6: Were gone in between. Uh, it was just the boredom
Speaker 6: in lockdown. I think it sort of helped. But the
Speaker 6: investment side of it, what.
Speaker 3: Sorry was it?
Speaker 4: Gayelet does one find these cards?
Speaker 3: Are they in a pack?
Speaker 6: So not the ones that Logan Pool's telling, but in general, yes,
Speaker 6: they come out of packete of cards. They released a
Speaker 6: new set every three months or so, and they usually.
Speaker 5: Be Why is Logan Pool's card that he has worth
Speaker 5: twenty three million dollars?
Speaker 6: So Logan Pools is a graded card, so it's it's
Speaker 6: been conditioned, graded and it's ten out of ten because
Speaker 6: only one in the world, so there's no imperfections on it.
Speaker 7: You look at the card, there's in one of those
Speaker 7: glass holders. Yes, I still put my basketball cart.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in a plastic case. And yeah, Grater ten out
Speaker 6: of ten and there's only one in the world.
Speaker 3: So one characters you can just print them.
Speaker 5: They're not it's not like it's not like a diamond
Speaker 5: that you actually have to go on.
Speaker 1: Fine, remember they're so rare, that's the thing. Just you
Speaker 1: know the bit that crushed me. I was in the
Speaker 1: store one day and this guy brought his whole family collection.
Speaker 3: But you were there with your son.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So your son's spending thousands of dollars
Speaker 5: on Pokemon No.
Speaker 1: No, no, like he would buy packs off Gabe and
Speaker 1: then some of the cards were worth hundreds. He ended
Speaker 1: up selling them all. He made a couple of grand
Speaker 1: But there was this did your son, Yeah, but there
Speaker 1: was this one day, this guy, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember this game. He brought in his whole collection.
Speaker 1: I was probably might happen a fair bit and it
Speaker 1: was left to him in a will and he thought
Speaker 1: he was going to make a fortune night to watch
Speaker 1: tell him they were fake carts. Yeah, two dollars.
Speaker 6: I do remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, heartbreak.
Speaker 4: I was crushed, So I'm sorry, hey.
Speaker 2: Just quickly, I mean Dad's laughing in his great art.
Speaker 1: True? Or is there some very well known Melbourne footballers
Speaker 1: trading in Pokemon cards?
Speaker 6: Definitely? It definitely is. I have a few boys from
Speaker 6: a few teams come across my store in my d
Speaker 6: MS asking for cards. That's going to help help them out?
Speaker 3: Come on, you car.
Speaker 2: Going well, they're generally winners.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to go quickly gave.
Speaker 7: So do you deal in other cards or are you
Speaker 7: just do we do?
Speaker 6: We do a variety of everything that sports cards, NBA, AFL,
Speaker 6: other games pie for gathering.
Speaker 2: Are the a f L cards worth as much.
Speaker 6: Gape not millions? No?
Speaker 2: What's the most expensive card you've gotten? The shot?
Speaker 6: Uh, it's totally about five thousand dollars five?
Speaker 5: And so are you holding on to that for your
Speaker 5: personal collection or are you willing to swap or trade
Speaker 5: or sell that?
Speaker 6: Those ones of sale the personal collection, they don't get
Speaker 6: pulled out and they're.
Speaker 7: Worth a lot more.
Speaker 2: What have you got in the personal collection?
Speaker 3: Comics?
Speaker 6: What's the thing you've got?
Speaker 7: I've got the first first edition shows first that's the.
Speaker 6: Holy grail in most collecting. What would that be worth
Speaker 6: about thirty thousand? No?
Speaker 1: Are you walking up and down Center Road with it
Speaker 1: around your neck like logan Paul?
Speaker 6: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: Is it in a sate on the wall?
Speaker 1: Oh code next month?
Speaker 2: It's in a safe Yeah.
Speaker 3: How you really do you do like Pokemon dress up
Speaker 3: nights and stuff?
Speaker 6: But we do do trade days massive. I think what's
Speaker 6: called dealer?
Speaker 1: I'm not a dealer. Lunar Cards, Center Road, alban Hi guy,
Speaker 1: good to chat, buddy, Thank.
Speaker 6: You, thanks, thank you, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Guys, say buddy, A lot of money, mate, A lot
Speaker 1: of adults down there.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's ludicrous, millions of dollars on when.
Speaker 1: How do you went to a trade day there?
Speaker 2: People aren't doing that. No, not a millionaires.
Speaker 1: Than No, you got to dress up?
Speaker 2: No, Lauren, Lauren, wake up feeling good. Following them on
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