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Speaker 2: Zaren Hey, Yes, over here.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't napping.

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Speaker 3: I was to my eyes were awake.

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Speaker 2: It's my eyes are too small for this. You know

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Speaker 2: it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. Thank god you asked me. Those over

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Speaker 3: me that you know the actor Oscar Isaac, Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: Also, uh was it but the cat and the in

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Speaker 3: one of my there you go, Davis? Okay, so he's

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Speaker 2: Llewell and Davis be saying on the on the soundtrack. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's good, He's really good.

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Speaker 3: Did you know he used to be in bands?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 2: You should see that. He was in SKA bands, waits sco.

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Speaker 3: Bands with great names like Petrified Frogs and Closet Heterosexuals.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, the worms.

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Speaker 2: But also they're like fifteen people on stage?

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Speaker 3: Is a sad Elizabeth answer. That question answers itself. So also,

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Speaker 3: though he was successful as a ska band artist, he

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Speaker 3: for Green Day and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones when he

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Speaker 3: was a member of the group The Blinking Underdogs.

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Speaker 2: The Blinking Underdogs. The nineties were a wild time. I

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Speaker 2: think everyone was in a SKA band, whether they knew

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know.

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Speaker 2: I found out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw pictures. I was like, what am I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is ridiculous. I love that he was in

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Speaker 2: a SKO band. But you know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: What else is religious? What else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: Pokemon? Pokemon is ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that yellow guy. Yeah totally.

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Speaker 2: This is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists,

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Speaker 2: and cons It's always ninety nine percent murder free and

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent ridiculous. No, you heard that, that's right.

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Speaker 2: The Yakuzas sarin Ah, Yes, my friends go on. It's

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Speaker 2: a criminal organization. You didn't think would come up in

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Speaker 2: our conversations about ridiculous crimes, not from you, No, well,

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Speaker 2: not that they don't commit ridiculous crimes. They're just so murdery.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough one because of all the kind of.

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Speaker 2: Like the Italian and American mafias, or like outlaw biker gangs,

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Speaker 2: but I you know, the Yakuza. I am going to

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Speaker 3: I'm so curious how you're going to avoid this parts.

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Speaker 2: Let's pretend that you've never heard of them. Okay, let

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Speaker 3: Is this a boy band?

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Speaker 2: I'm going a woman'splaining the Yakuza. Yes. So basically it's

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Speaker 2: Japanese organized crime serena. Yeah. So the cops call them

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Speaker 2: They call themselves chivalrous organizations, gentlemen's club and like. For

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Speaker 2: Like samurai swords or like a lantern, and like films

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Speaker 3: The Yuza were talking about about them.

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Speaker 2: Say it with me again. Yakuza yakuzza.

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Speaker 3: They do jacuzzi, but it's a little more.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm just hearing about this now from you. This

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Speaker 2: So they passed legislation that bars members from opening bank accounts,

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Speaker 2: I am all about today, Pokemon crime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got me thinking about it when you

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Speaker 2: told the story of the dude who robbed the armored card.

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Speaker 2: and he later went on to counterfeit. So think of

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Speaker 2: this episode as the spiritual sibling of our Batman episode,

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Speaker 2: Shout out to him, and for a while, they're the

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Speaker 2: there's an up and comer, a little yellow fella real Pikachu.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's like and like Harry Potter, they do it

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Speaker 3: And you were ahead of the curve in the Harry Potter.

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Speaker 2: go on. So the corporate ownership structure of Pokemon is weird.

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Speaker 2: Well, most ips are owned by one company usually, and

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Speaker 2: Pokemon is actually jointly owned by three Nintendo, game Freak

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Speaker 3: Oh, they do merchan cards.

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Speaker 2: So do you know where the name Pokemon comes from?

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Speaker 3: Hey on, I'm guessing from some kind of like we

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Speaker 2: A poke a Hawaiian poke shop in Jamaica. Hey on, No,

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Speaker 2: it's the original full name of the franchise's Pocket Monsters,

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Speaker 2: Poke and Mond.

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Speaker 3: Totally.

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Speaker 2: There you go. And so if you use Pokemon as

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Speaker 3: To use it as I want to go Pokemon that

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Speaker 3: meal over there? See those noodles about to be Pokemon up.

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Speaker 2: Singular and plural forms are the same, okay, And that

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Speaker 2: Pokemon or one Pikachu and nine million p ka chew,

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Speaker 2: I got you. Yeah, And the official pronunciation is Pokemon

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Speaker 3: What if I just want to call it pokemon.

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Speaker 2: You can call it pokemon, poke, Pokemon. That's the new Okay,

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Speaker 2: So that's the alternative that I needed more information, So

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Speaker 2: I went to pokemon dot com and I read the

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Speaker 2: Pokemon basics page for parents. Lord, here's what they say

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Speaker 3: These are answers for parents. Yeah, they're trying to like

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Speaker 2: So they're like, hey, Siri, what are pokemon? Quote. In

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Speaker 2: the world of Pokemon, Pokemon are creatures of all shapes

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Speaker 2: they go on adventures trained to improve their skills and

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Speaker 2: and you're bound to get an enthusiastic response. There are

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Speaker 2: over a thousand Pokemon for you and your child to

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Speaker 2: discover together Shizon's my favorite amazing story. Well, so like

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Speaker 2: He has some cards, but mostly he's into Pikachu. Course,

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Speaker 2: McDonald's happy Mail. That's like, there's probably more, but I

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Speaker 2: So I looked it up and apparently there's a crime

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Speaker 2: Yeahkuza, Oh hey, I'm just learning about that. Not very

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Speaker 2: kids these days, Pokemon has been co opted or never

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Speaker 3: Oh I said that.

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Speaker 2: You did say that, and that holds true for Pokemon cars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So when people collect things that gives them monetary value,

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Speaker 2: sometimes rare things obviously have more worth. Pokemon cards no different.

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Speaker 3: And childhood things that you can buy like Arson Wells

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, exactly. So. The most expensive Pokemon card ever

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Speaker 2: sold was the nineteen ninety eight illustrator Pikachu card with

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Speaker 3: They're just one thing to me.

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Speaker 2: I hope that Mike Tyson hits Jake Paul so hard

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Speaker 2: Is that too violent? What's amazing? I am in the

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Speaker 2: summer of dark Elizabeth. I'm noticing I've turned really I

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Speaker 2: that I'm certified boogeyman, certified psychopath right now? Oh yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 2: Logan Paul. So, he bought a Pokemon card for more

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Speaker 2: one for just under five hundred thousand dollars. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: I got ripped off, I ripped off. But that's not

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Speaker 2: ages five to twelve money. No, it is not. That's

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Speaker 2: grown folks who should know better. Yeah, that is not

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Speaker 2: like some of the prices aren't really holding Toothairy. That's

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Speaker 2: the one who gives your money Toothair. The third most

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Speaker 2: Shadowless Holographic shars Are number four.

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Speaker 3: Oh of course, Yeah, that Shadowless Sharzar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole thing. So that's March twenty twenty two

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Speaker 2: But another card like Smoking, also rated ten, sold in

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Speaker 2: February of this year for just one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: The price is going down.

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Speaker 2: That one, it was, but not really. But it's still

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Speaker 2: It's just a bad investment. So back to the Yakuza,

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Speaker 2: the boat of cards. I don't think they particularly cared

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Speaker 3: They weren't like cultural protectors.

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Speaker 2: No, they didn't have Pikachu tattoos in the sleeve. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so they cause they didn't concern themselves with petty crime,

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Speaker 2: but the to Koryu they were pulling bigger jobs now,

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Speaker 2: and that left people like Keita Saito doing things like

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Speaker 3: What? Yeah, and this is one of the gig workers.

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Speaker 2: No, this is a yakuza. Oh, actually yakuza. The guy

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about, he's not the Keita Saito, who's the

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Speaker 2: Teknagawa Gang.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the Tokenawa Gang.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's a faction of the second largest yukuza syndicate,

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Speaker 2: the Sumyoshi Kai.

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Speaker 3: Ah see, I only know the Tokenagawa from the Shogun era.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, well this is I'm kidding.

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Speaker 2: So how the mighty have fallen? Yeah, telling Spectator magazine said, quote,

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Speaker 2: it's as if Don Corleone had been reduced to running

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Speaker 2: a shell game. Watch the ball which Kep is in

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Speaker 2: under on some New York Backstreet man.

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Speaker 3: So uh, showing like fraudulent olive oil.

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Speaker 2: Get Tokyo Police announced the arrest of Saito earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty two, he broke into a home.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine items were stolen during the robbery, and that

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Speaker 2: me wonder if he was one of the gig workers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's still a candy dish.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the cops are still looking for a couple

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Speaker 2: other guys involved. But the big takeaway, thank you for.

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Speaker 3: Ask what is the big takeaway, Elizabeth?

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Speaker 2: It's the Yakuza lieutenant got busted for trying to sell

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Speaker 2: hot bulbosore cards and that tells you that they've fallen

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Speaker 2: in power. Oh god, Yeah, Pokemon have grown in value.

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Speaker 2: Waited Oh wow, balance the scale. Yeah, and in Japan,

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Speaker 2: it's not just the Yakuza stealing Pokemon cards. That's where

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Speaker 2: they're from. By the way, the Pokemon.

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Speaker 3: Pokemons from Japan. Yeah, and the Yukuza they're from Japan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hand and hand cultural production. No. A couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago, there was a Pokemon crime spree sweeping Japan.

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Speaker 2: In August of twenty twenty two, thieves lifted around five

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty cards worth about two hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: from a shop in Tokyo.

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Speaker 3: Five hundred and forty. They're going to flood the market.

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Speaker 2: Yeah for the best. Was this this Japanese guy who

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Speaker 3: Oh my, is he a gig worker?

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Speaker 2: No safety harness, just vibe. No, he was an it

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Speaker 2: he used a rope to sended a six story building

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Speaker 2: to steal about eighty trading cards worth more than nine

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Speaker 2: a scary way to try and get some quick cat.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's like a movie henchman like kind of crazy stuff.

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Speaker 2: This is what he told the cops quote. I was

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Speaker 2: afraid of heights. Okay, yeah, So the police identified him

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Speaker 2: using surveillance footage. He gets arrested. They didn't say which

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Speaker 2: Pokemon were taken or their condition upon recovery. But you

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Speaker 2: know what, thoughts and prayers, prayer, Let's take a break.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to look into more

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Speaker 2: card theft and other Pokemon misadventures.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Elizabeth Zareny, Yeah you did Pokemon.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Pokemon.

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Speaker 2: Pokemon theft isn't just a japan thing.

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Speaker 3: I bet not. I bet it goes down here too.

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Speaker 2: If there's one thing the good old us of A

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Speaker 2: knows how to export its ridiculous card.

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Speaker 3: I knew it.

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Speaker 2: And what's more American and criminal than Walmart, USA, USA.

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Speaker 2: July twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, Ohio's Bowling Green police

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Speaker 2: were called to Walmart on West Gypsy Lane Road. There

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Speaker 2: and Walmart employees they watched the pair and they who

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Speaker 2: woman they used the automotive entrance to get into the store, okay,

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Speaker 2: and they just started loading up on Pokemon cards. And

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Speaker 3: These aren't special, these are just in the normal with

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He gets out of his car. The cop does.

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Speaker 2: He looks around the corner of the building, sees the

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Speaker 3: They have cardboard.

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Speaker 2: It was a ready season. A second officer parked across

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Speaker 2: the street and a third park down the road. Boys,

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Speaker 2: we got ourselves a take down.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you. Perimeter security.

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Speaker 2: So dispatch told the cops that the store's loss prevention

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Speaker 2: the cops. They tried to pull the Chevy over a

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Speaker 2: couple of blocks away, but them duke boys weren't all

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Speaker 2: about that, so they took off. The Chevy takes off.

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Speaker 2: The cops hit the blues and twos the losses.

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Speaker 3: They were born.

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Speaker 2: It happened to make their way anyway. They know how

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Speaker 2: I can just start singing the whole thing. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: the Chevy Chevy gets onto the freeway starts going speeds

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Speaker 3: For pokemon cars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they must have had a couple of them rated

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Speaker 2: tens in there, right. So the chase goes on a

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Speaker 2: off the freeway, they spin out and then continue down

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Speaker 2: another road. Sure they would like slow for a stop sign,

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Speaker 2: but not fully right, No, just a Chevy's say it's

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Speaker 2: the shovvyest like entification. They didn't fully stop. Add that

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00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 2: to the charges. And then they took off it over

441
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour again I love Yeah, And

442
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 2: at that point the officer lost sight of the vehicle

443
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 2: and they had to terminate the pursuit.

444
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

445
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 2: The cops were wiped out, Like, oh, how that took

446
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 2: it out of me. They go back to the station

447
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: to regroup and like think this out, kind of just

448
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: catch a breath, and and they're given photos of the

449
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 2: store surveillance and they look and they're like, that's Nicholas

450
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 2: Starkey and Kayla Cannaba. They're frequent flyers. They know they're like,

451
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 2: I know them. So those who must have grabbed some

452
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 2: serious loot from the Walmart, like forget great value and

453
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 2: faded glory stuff. They went for Pokemon of course. Yeah,

454
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 2: how much of the good stuff did they grab?

455
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 3: Oh?

456
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 2: Lord, dollars. According to the police report, two hundred and

457
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 2: eighty four dollars in merchandise was taken from the No,

458
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 2: that's the saddest trombone right there, and then they got busted.

459
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:33,959
Speaker 3: Saddest misdemeanor.

460
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two. That was a rough year for Pokemon cards.

461
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 2: I keep bringing it up. Why let's do a little

462
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 2: side quest. Oh, I've been talking about the value of

463
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,120
Speaker 2: the cards and how they for the most part.

464
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 3: Keep going talk about the aesthetic.

465
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, well not yet and some of them, some of

466
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 2: the cards are super rare, which makes them even more valuable. Obviously.

467
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 2: What does the Pokemon company think about all this?

468
00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,119
Speaker 3: Elizabeth? I was curious with all of this. You know, Oh,

469
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 3: we make cards, some of them, we make a lot

470
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 3: of some we make a few of What do they

471
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 3: think about that? The value creation.

472
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 2: They are aware, they are not happy. Oddly enough, remember

473
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 2: they want this to be for kids, and they're actively

474
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 2: trying to curb the speculation.

475
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 3: That's cool.

476
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, See, it's been tough to get Pokemon cards for

477
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 2: the past few years. I bet because right around their

478
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 2: twenty fifth anniversary the cards got really popular again. And so,

479
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: like you take this combination of pandemic boredom, oh right, nostalgia,

480
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 2: and then the notion that like, I've got all these

481
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 2: cards in my mom's garage that might make me rich,

482
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 2: I'm sitting on wealth. Old and new Pokemon cards start

483
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 2: selling out as soon as they hit store shelves. Wow, Like,

484
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 2: it's just crazy. They told you my nephew had some

485
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 2: from a McDonald's Happy Meal. People were buying stole them,

486
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 2: he stole them from another kid people at your request.

487
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 2: People were buying those burgers just for the special cards.

488
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 2: They're like, I'll take six Happy Meals and just for

489
00:23:59,200 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 2: the car cards.

490
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,360
Speaker 3: I bet they threw the food away with that, thinking.

491
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 2: To say, probably a hate waste of food, theft and

492
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 2: crazy customer behavior. When the new cards dropped got so

493
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 2: bad that Target took the cards off their shelves and

494
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 2: only sold them online.

495
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

496
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you right now.

497
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 3: You people can't have these. Get away from us. Don't

498
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 3: even come into our store. We don't have them.

499
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a grown ass people acting crazy. Card grading

500
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: services like the one here. I was thinking they had

501
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 2: so many requests for grading from collectors that they had

502
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 2: to pause new submissions in order to get through their backlog.

503
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

504
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 2: No, So the Pokemon company sees this, Yeah, this is

505
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 2: how they responded. Quote, We're aware that some fans are

506
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 2: experiencing difficulties purchasing certain Pokemon Trading card game products due

507
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: to the very high demand. They said this in a tweet.

508
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 2: In response, we are reprinting impacted products at maximum capacity.

509
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: More fans can enjoy the Pokemon TCG.

510
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 3: I was just about to say, they control the production.

511
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 3: How do they flood the zone?

512
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 2: What's maximum capacity? We're wondering, we're sitting out here. In

513
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, the company produced more than nine billion

514
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: with a B cards, whole ninety billion as many as

515
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 2: the year before, when they made three point seven billion cards.

516
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: They usually print between one and two billion cards a year,

517
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: and that means that more than forty five billion cards

518
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 2: have been produced since the game launched, nine billion in

519
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two.

520
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 3: It's a lot of ink.

521
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: More than a quarter of all Pokemon cards printed were

522
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,959
Speaker 2: produced from twenty twenty to twenty twenty two. Yeah, more

523
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 2: than a quarter. So that's why we see this twenty

524
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 2: twenty two uptick one place that ticked on up.

525
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 3: I'm sure the fans would just come up with a

526
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 3: whole This is a pre twenty twenty.

527
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 2: Two That's exactly what happened. Yeah, and so punch Out Gaming,

528
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 2: Forest Lake, Minnesota, little shop. In February of twenty twenty two,

529
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 2: a thief broke into a vacant store next door to

530
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: punch Out Gaming and punched out. Broke through the sheared

531
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 2: wall like some sort of crazy coolid. They punched in.

532
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 2: Over the course of about two hours, the dude emptied

533
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 2: out two entire storage rooms full of Pokemon products. Wow,

534
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: and the store's alarm never went off because it was

535
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 2: only the door. Robber man never went in or out

536
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 2: of a door. And how much Pokemon? Wait, did this

537
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 2: guy move one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of merchandise?

538
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 3: Damn?

539
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: The owner of the store said quote, he must have

540
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 2: had help because there were a lot of boxes, and

541
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 2: according to Fox nine, who interviewed him, quote, the gaming

542
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 2: store has been opened for eight years and the theft

543
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 2: has been a big hit to the small, family owned business. Quote.

544
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 2: I realized how much money, product and time we put

545
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 2: into it, and I just started crying. I can't recover

546
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: this product because our distributors don't have any so even

547
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 2: with the insurance money, that doesn't do us any good,

548
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: said Johnson. Though, yeah, but all was not lost, Oh good.

549
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 2: Apparently the whole online Pokemon community rallied around the store

550
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 2: and kept an eye open for online listings that might

551
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: be selling the stolen goods. And then the cops were

552
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,479
Speaker 2: able to identify the purpse. Well not not the cops,

553
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 2: per se. Online sleuths identified the men because they had

554
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: surveillance footage right, and the guy was wearing a mask,

555
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 2: and then all these people online did this reconstruction of

556
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 2: what his face would look like and it's hilarious looking.

557
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 2: I'll put it in there. Oh yeah, so they and

558
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 2: then once they idem, then the cops got the nail

559
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: in the coffin DNA.

560
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

561
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 2: I'm serious of it? Turns out. I guess they from

562
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 2: the shop and they figured, okay, we had the people

563
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 2: are like, we've identified a Matthew Cooper's and then this guy,

564
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 2: Dustin Witturn. They worked together to break into the store.

565
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: They used a knife to cut through the drywall. They

566
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 2: creeped in through the hole, stole the cards and the merchandise.

567
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 2: Somewhere along the line they left DNA. I'm impressed that

568
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: police there used that technology for a burglary. That's above

569
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: and beyond, and I love it.

570
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 3: I know you're always about touch DNA.

571
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: I am. They got charged with third degree burglary and

572
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 2: then the store they you know, upgraded their security alarms

573
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 2: that monitored more than the door. They also leased the

574
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 2: space next door where they broke in, and they made

575
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: it into a new gaming area. Well look at that

576
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 2: happy ending all the way around. One another happy ending.

577
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 3: I love Pokemon happy endings.

578
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 2: This one has spoiler alert happy ending. So it was

579
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 2: a quiet day recently at pro Play Games in Miami.

580
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 2: It's a little shop that's located in one of those

581
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: two story strip malls on a busy multi lane avenue.

582
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 3: I can picture it.

583
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the strip mall is in it's in a

584
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 2: huge complex that makes sort of an L shape coming

585
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: off a big public.

586
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 3: Smart imagine coral colored paint.

587
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,479
Speaker 2: I like publics. I wish we had them out here.

588
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're good.

589
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: The recently defunct Florida Career College looks to have taken

590
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: up most of the top floor of one half of

591
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 2: the complex. There's a dentist's office, a nail salon, a

592
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: smoke shop, a Chinese restaurant, a place does concealed gun permits.

593
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: This is so Florida.

594
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: Oh, it is freestyle fighting academy.

595
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 3: Like I'm visiting family. This is amazing freestyle fighting academy.

596
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: Oh I heard you and pro play games.

597
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 3: Yeah all together.

598
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: Sure, a lot more, but you get the picture. Speaking

599
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 2: of picture, yes, zarens Oh, yeah, I want you to

600
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: picture it. It's a warm May day in Miami. You're

601
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 2: an eight year old girl. Your mom was in the

602
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 2: phlebotomy program at Florida Career College, but the whole place

603
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 2: closed down a few months ago after the FEDS busted

604
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,959
Speaker 2: them for cooking the enrollment in federal financial aid books.

605
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 2: You're standing outside the college on the outdoor second floor

606
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: walkway of the shopping center where the college is located.

607
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: Traffic whizzes by while you both wait for someone to

608
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 2: come and open the door. Your mom and a handful

609
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: of other students have been told they can come by

610
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 2: today to empty out lockers they had in the medical

611
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: training area, and they're also hoping to get their hands

612
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 2: on hard copies of their transcript. The whole thing has

613
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: been a nightmare. You're a patient, helpful girl. As the

614
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: door opens and a former administrator ushers the students in,

615
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: your mom turns to you and hands you a ten

616
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: dollars bill that's way more than she normally would give you,

617
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 2: and you aren't sure she can afford it. You hesitate,

618
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 2: and she gently caresses the top of your head and

619
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 2: tells you to go down to the gaming shop in

620
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: the corner. They have Pokemon cards, and she says you

621
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 2: can get some. Wait there and she'll come and get

622
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: you in she's done, You smile and skip down the

623
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: outdoor walkway toward pro play games. You went in there

624
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: once before when you had to go with your mom

625
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 2: for her to go to school. The people in there

626
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: are super nice. The door chimes as you walk in,

627
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: and the lady behind the counter smiles and greets you.

628
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: You say hello, and put your hands in your pockets,

629
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 2: just like your mom told you. Look, don't touch, not

630
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: until you're ready to take something up to the counter.

631
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: A pop song plays faintly in the sound system as

632
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 2: you peruse a rack of Pokemon card packs. You can't

633
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: see what's inside them anyway, so it's no problem to

634
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 2: just look at the outside. You check the prices and

635
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 2: move on cataloging the ones you may come back for.

636
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: You walk over by the counter and look at some

637
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: one of the comic book titles they have. Glancing over

638
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: at the case full of multi sided dice, you think

639
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: that maybe when you're older, you'll be able to play

640
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: games that use those, but for now, it's a little

641
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 2: too complicated. A man walks up to the counter and

642
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: asks to look at a binder full of Pokemon cards

643
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: kept behind the clerk. She smiles and lays the binder

644
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: down on the counter. You inch closer to get a

645
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: look at some of the special cards. There. That's a

646
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: big binder, you whisper to yourself. The clerk hears you

647
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 2: holds three thousand cards, she says, you whistle. Impressed with that,

648
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: You peer into the binder and see bright colors and

649
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 2: hologram edges, and you think about where you'd put those

650
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: special cards if you had them. You keep them in

651
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 2: that cool cigar box your grandpa gave you, the one

652
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 2: that smells faintly of floral tobacco. The customer looks at

653
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: the binder and then quickly closes it. He scoops it

654
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: up and heads for the door. Hey you yell, drop

655
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 2: the stuff, yells the woman behind the counter. The man

656
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: just laughs and walks away the door chiming is he exits.

657
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: There's a couple other people in the store, and they

658
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: follow the man out, yelling for him to stop. The

659
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: owner of the shop comes out of the back and

660
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: heads for the door. You go to follow, but the

661
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: clerk calls you back. You stay here, she says. Outside

662
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: the store, a group has formed around the man with

663
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: the binder. They shout for him to drop the goods,

664
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: to stop, to hand it over. You press your face

665
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: to the glass window to get a look at the action.

666
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: They're muffled shouting is both scary and exciting. The man

667
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 2: pulls a pair of pliers from his pocket and makes

668
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 2: stabbing motions at the people around him. They all gasp.

669
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 2: Then the guy takes off down the stairs toward the

670
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: parking lot. His feet hit the hot, black assphalt and

671
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: he starts to run, but not particularly fast. The owner

672
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: of the store, still at the top of the stairs,

673
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 2: yell stop, saef help. It's like something out of an

674
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 2: old movie. You walk out the door of the shop

675
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 2: and peer over the railing, watching as the guy trots away.

676
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: Remember how I told you that freestyle fighting academy was

677
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 2: located in this shopping center. Well, the good folks there here.

678
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: The owners cries for help. Two guys on their way

679
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 2: in to teach jiu jitsu at the academy see the

680
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: man with the binder. They chase after him, yelling for

681
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: him to stop. They easily catch up with him and

682
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: tag him to the ground. That's got to hurt, you think.

683
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 2: You look up above you and see that there's a

684
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: security camera aimed right at the action. That'll come in

685
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: handy later, you think. By this time, the owner and

686
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: other bystanders have reached the man with the binder. The

687
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: two martial arts coaches have me pinned down, and others

688
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 2: join in holding the thief to the ground. You hear

689
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 2: sirens approaching. You better get back over to your mom.

690
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: She'll be worried. You walk back along the outdoor covered

691
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: walkway and figure you'll wait outside the door for your mom.

692
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 2: Just as you arrive, the door opens and she walks out.

693
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: She's smiling. She tells you that one of the other

694
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: students hooked her up with a job at a doctor's

695
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: office and they'll help her finish her certification. You haven't

696
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: seen her this relieved and happy in a long time.

697
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: She asked, if you got anything good? Nope, you say

698
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: anything interesting? Nope, you say You hand her back the

699
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 2: ten dollars bill, take her hand, and walk in the

700
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 2: opposite direction of the police action to her car. She's

701
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 2: none the wiser, nothing to worry her today.

702
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. I love community actions.

703
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 2: So this guy, Jesse L. Manfer All Man for All, Yeah,

704
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: he tried to walk out of that shop with three

705
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: thousand Pokemon cards.

706
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 3: Sarah, what's your new fake name of choice? You mean me,

707
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 3: mister man for All.

708
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 2: That was thirty thousand dollars worth of cards that he

709
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: had in that ninth Yeah. And so he gets booked

710
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 2: into jail on charges of grand theft and aggravated assault,

711
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 2: and the day was saved. It's like something out of

712
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 2: a comic book or a cool game. Yes, there's footage.

713
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,959
Speaker 2: I'm going to have the interns put that on Instagram too.

714
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 2: Let's pause here for some ads, and when we come

715
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: back more Pokemon zaren. So we've established the Pokemon cards

716
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 2: easy to steal. It's a lucrative lift. You know what,

717
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 2: the most valuable Pokemon cards. It's your favorite, not just

718
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 2: for trading and collecting, what for like sex guys, strip

719
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 2: Pokemon trip Pokemon University University of Georgia, Athens police officers

720
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 2: were dispatched to Lipscomb Hall on August nineteenth, twenty twenty two.

721
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: That's our big year, University of Georgia, twenty twenty two,

722
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 2: one eight am one. They got called on a report

723
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 2: from an employee that a student was throwing up in

724
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 2: the hall and bedroom, which I don't believe that warrants

725
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: a call to the cops, but that's an interesting call.

726
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 2: Not a party school. So officers they go to the

727
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: student's dorm and they find him unconscious and laying on

728
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 2: his bed and his roommate's laying on the other bed. Okay,

729
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 2: so they just passed out. The cops try to talk

730
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: to the student, but he wouldn't wake up, and the

731
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: officer just like shakes him, shakes and still doesn't wake up.

732
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 2: They checked his pulse normal.

733
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 3: Okay, so he's a lot yeah, like Jimi Hendrix.

734
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: There's one groups. So they just keep like shaking him.

735
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: They feel he's got a pulse, so they just keep

736
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 2: shaking him, and finally he wakes up and he's all disoriented.

737
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: This is all in the police report. With some quick

738
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: on the spot investigation, the cops determined that the student

739
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: was under twenty one years of age. They continued their investigation.

740
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: He's like they asked how many drinks he's had, four beers.

741
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 2: Had you taken any drugs? No? So they're like, so

742
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: you're a lightweights getting super light and like one of

743
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: them writes it down in his little notebook of secrets

744
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: and riddles. So when asked if you'd taken any medication,

745
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 2: the student said he'd taken melatonin. Okay. So they're like,

746
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 2: so you're gonna have some crazy nightmares, got it scribble

747
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 2: And the cops were like, how did you get the

748
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 2: alcohol if you're under twenty one? He's like, I went

749
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 2: to a bar. Okay, how'd you get into the bar?

750
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 2: He's like, I use my ID. He gets his wallet

751
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 2: out and he hands them a Schaizard card. That's how

752
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 2: he got into the bars, a Pokemon card.

753
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 3: Obviously, Okay, I'll put it this way. A lot of

754
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 3: people are unaware of the fact that those bouncers often

755
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 3: only care if you go through the act of showing

756
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 3: them a card. I didn't realize that when I was

757
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 3: young until I tried it because one day I wanted

758
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 3: to get in. I wasn't twenty one. I was with

759
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 3: a bunch of people who were older and they were

760
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 3: so I said, hey, let me see your ID. He's like, oh,

761
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 3: I don't have I only have my idea. I'm like,

762
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 3: you were just saying you have an expired ID. He's like,

763
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'm like give it to me. So I

764
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 3: use an expired idea of my friend, who was a

765
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: very light skinned Jewish man, looked nothing like me. The

766
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 3: guy the bouncer looked at it, laughed his ass off

767
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 3: at means like, all right, going in because I made

768
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 3: him laugh, and I went through the whole respecting his job.

769
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you is that I'm not surprised at

770
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: a I.

771
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: Can't find this guy's name and what he really what

772
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: if he actually looked exactly like Sharazar. That would be dope,

773
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 2: and they're like, well that makes sense. Yeah, Pokemon Sorry,

774
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 2: we've always been careful. Pokemon Go is happening. You're very

775
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 2: valuable around as a total side of Pokemon Go. But yeah,

776
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 2: there were so many crimes associated with Pokemon Go of

777
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 2: like trespassing, and then they're all like.

778
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 3: People getting robbed.

779
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then there's like super violent crimes that

780
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: we won't but yeah, that that could be its whole.

781
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 3: And then the one person like walked off the cliff.

782
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 2: It's crazy anyway, So he used that card to get

783
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: into the bars. An ambulance showed up, checked the kid out.

784
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: He declined transport to a hospital, which is smart because

785
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 2: ambulance rides are expensive, and then he was given medical

786
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 2: amnesty from any charges because they were just more concerned

787
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 2: about his well being. So could you imagine trying to

788
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: live that down? Like your two things, you're either like

789
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 2: I would tell everybody legend or you're like the biggest nerds.

790
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: How am I not a legend? I gave the comps

791
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 3: a Shahrazard card and they're like, sorry, where do you

792
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 3: what is this? I'm like this is my ID, And

793
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 3: they're like, are you kidding me? I went through my.

794
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: Whole night with this. Yeah, I guess he is a legend.

795
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 2: Good good on him. Back to the robbing and stealing,

796
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: the burning and looting.

797
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 3: You think he's a nerd?

798
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 2: I do one thing. It's one thing to steal Pokemon

799
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 2: stuff from a card shop, sure, whether you bust through

800
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: a wall or just walk right out. But it's another

801
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 2: to go after the collectors. Do they make good targets individually?

802
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you better believe it. Oh yeah. And yet

803
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,439
Speaker 2: another twenty twenty two crime. Wow, a grown man had

804
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 2: his card stolen from right out from under him.

805
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 3: The rest of us had no idea so much Pokemon

806
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 3: was going on. Two.

807
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 2: Christopher Polydoro a sixty two year old insurance broker in

808
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 2: South Carolina. He lives in a seven bedroom, sixty eight

809
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 2: hundred square foot home right on the water.

810
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 3: He's doing well selling insurance.

811
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, he kept his collection of valuable Pokemon first edition

812
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 2: cards and a temperature controlled collectible room in his house.

813
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 3: Room.

814
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, not like a gun safe, now, like a room.

815
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: And like if you're at his house for a party

816
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 2: and he tries to like flex on you and brag

817
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: and show you this room and then I just like

818
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,479
Speaker 2: impede my pants laughing and then escort it out.

819
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 3: You said, this is a seven bedroom home, so yeah,

820
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 3: only six of them are bedrooms. One is a temperature

821
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 3: controlled Pokemon bedrooms.

822
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 2: And then on top of that, there's an extra room.

823
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: It's it's a candy spelling gift wrap room. It's its

824
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 2: own thing. It's its own thing.

825
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 5: Wow.

826
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 2: And it wasn't just all Pokemon cards. There were baseball, football,

827
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 2: basketball cards in there too. Had like a Jackson three

828
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: unopened boxes of Pokemon cards went missing. Polydor told investigators

829
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 2: that the only other individuals to ever enter the collectible's

830
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: room in the past nine months were workers with an

831
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 2: h VAC company. So he's not even showing this stuff

832
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: off anyone.

833
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, no friends, no family, doesn't even have like a

834
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 3: Pokemon buddy to.

835
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 2: Come over and look at his lightest two adult sons,

836
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: and he lives with his fiance. Okay, those are my suspects.

837
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: The best part is that the police report states that

838
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 2: the Pokemon cards were valued at half a billion dollars.

839
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 2: A yeah, and is there like a parenthesis ha ha

840
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 2: ha ha. That's obviously not true. And then Polydor told

841
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 2: the press that the cop me to typeout they're actually

842
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 2: worth half a million dollars five hundred thousand dollars worth

843
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: of Pokemon cards. That's insane, that's nuts. He said they

844
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: actually believe that too. He said he bought the cards

845
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 2: more than twenty years ago, and that the unopened boxes

846
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: each had twenty four packs of cards in them.

847
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 3: Okay.

848
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: One of the boxes, he said, contained a valuable Japanese

849
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 2: edition of the cards, and his valuation was based on

850
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 2: recent auction sales that brought in six figures for similar

851
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 2: first edition boxes issued in nineteen ninety nine. So that's

852
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 2: what you're saying, like, if you can get the pre

853
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two massive run. The collection was not insured.

854
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 2: And again, I don't think it was the HVAC guys.

855
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 2: I think it's the two grown kids. I think they

856
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: did it. That's pure speculation on my part, don't sue me.

857
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 2: I think it was Nicholas Cage, and in concert with

858
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:46,479
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage.

859
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 3: I'm just saying. The man's a collector. He's known to

860
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 3: break in to steal things. I think so was there

861
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 3: a woman he get impressed with this card?

862
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: Because case clothes we solved it. Next we have thefts

863
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: from stores, thefts from collectors. What about thefts from the source,

864
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 2: from the fact.

865
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 3: The magazine Hip hop magazine, the source.

866
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 2: With the game on the cover. This is from the

867
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: factory itself. So apparently steps from Pokemon printing factories became

868
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 2: a trend during the pandemic. Prices are starting to go up.

869
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 2: If you're a factory worker and you see this paper

870
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: gold come sliding on by you on a production inside

871
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 2: jobs gangster's breakdown, of course you're sitting right there. Got

872
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: to catch them all.

873
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 4: The gold is going right past you.

874
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 2: Thank you. And so the Pokemon company that's the like

875
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: the found out about this and quietly tried to put

876
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: a stop to it. And then last year the biggest

877
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 2: every factory theft came to light. Well, a photo went

878
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 2: around of thousands of Fusion strikes secret rare cards that

879
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 2: were stolen from a factory in twenty twenty one.

880
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 3: Fusion strikes, Fusion strikes, Sarin Elizabeth, This fusion strike you mentioned,

881
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 3: you know.

882
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 2: What what is? It beats me. Even after reading this

883
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: explanation on the Pokemon website, the road ahead reveals limitless

884
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 2: potential with the Pokemon TCG Sword and Shield Fusion Strike expansion,

885
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 2: offering opportunities for Pokemon and trainers alike to reach new heights.

886
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 2: The most recent expansion introduces the third and final battlestyle,

887
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: Fusion Strike, joining Rapid Strike Style and Single Strike Style.

888
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 2: The Fusion Strike style prioritizes teamwork and adaptability to deliver

889
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: powerful attacks. Explore the power of teamwork in Pokemon. TCG

890
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 2: Sword and Shield Fusion Strike. So they didn't want to

891
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 2: call it tag team. It's still not clear, so let

892
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 2: me go on. Fusion Strikes style is all about adapting

893
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 2: and overcoming. Powerful Pokemon like Mew Hoopa and Jena Sect

894
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 2: embrace this striking new style, while Deoxy Please harness the

895
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 2: power of all three battle styles. Awesome new trainer cards

896
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: help complement the power and balance all of the Fusion

897
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 2: Strike style. Make strategic use of cards like the Cross

898
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: Switcher item card to keep opponents off balance and ensure

899
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 2: your active and benched Pokemon are exactly where you need them.

900
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: Use the Power Tablet item card to maximize Fusion Strike

901
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 2: attacks by doing additional damage, and the Spongy Gloves Pokemon

902
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 2: tool card maximizes damage against certain types of Pokemon. This

903
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 2: expansion features dozens of new Pokemon five and or is

904
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: it v and vmax, plus many alternate art versions to collect.

905
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: With powerful attacks and massive HP, these Pokemon can create

906
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 2: unique challenges for your opponents, from a rill a boom

907
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: vmax with an incredible three point thirty HP to a

908
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 2: single strike cinde Ice vmax with some fiery tendencies to

909
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 2: an intelli on v Max with a passion for stuff.

910
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 2: This expansions Pokemon v Max could not be underestimated. So

911
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 2: at this point they're not speaking a human language anymore.

912
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 3: Elizabeth, I have this headgear. I'd like you to put

913
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 3: this on. I'd like you to read all of that

914
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 3: again with the head gear on. Could you do that

915
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 3: for me?

916
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 2: Vmax from vax incredible three HP?

917
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 3: You like?

918
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 2: I don't it? May, I'm more.

919
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 3: Confused and sounds for you.

920
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 2: I know that I feel like I'm having a stroke.

921
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 2: The stolen Fusion Strike cards, they're passed around the criminal underworld,

922
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 2: like so many spongy gloves, being offered. Finally to a

923
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 2: hobby store in Texas called Trading Card World, very unique name.

924
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: Someone came in and was like, you want to buy

925
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 2: a set of these Fusion strikes and then they were like,

926
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,879
Speaker 2: what's that, and they had to explain the whole thing

927
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 2: you read from the Pokemon website like I just did.

928
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 2: The shop owners like, okay, that makes sense. So the

929
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 2: shop they checked them out and they saw that these

930
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 2: were thousands of the very rarest cards ever on Earth ever,

931
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 2: and they're like, this guy's not a regular collector, like.

932
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 3: No one has.

933
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 2: This had to have come from the source.

934
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 3: Like if you walked in with Wagner cards.

935
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 2: There's this there's this amazing Pokemon website called PokeBeach dot com.

936
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 3: What like beach like as in were the waves beach be.

937
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 2: This beach over beach poke Beach. So it's like, I

938
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 2: don't know.

939
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 3: Him on I'm seeing the Jamaicans coming back around, coming

940
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 3: back to its source.

941
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: They reported quote the seller explained his connection to his source,

942
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 2: and we immediately contacted TPCI, which would be the Pokemon

943
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 2: Company International through proper channels. The store stated tpc I

944
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: opened an investigation and a private investigator flew out to

945
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 2: collect the cards from the store. Pokemon expressed to this

946
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 2: or that quote it was the largest return of stolen

947
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 2: property to date. Pokemon concluded their investigation on January twenty

948
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 2: twenty two, which probably means they identified the original thief,

949
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: so they kept it hush. They put a lock, so

950
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 2: we don't know the full value too. No, none of that.

951
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 2: Poke Beach pointed out that people thought having all the

952
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: good cards taken out before they were sealed into packs

953
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 2: meant that fans couldn't get any good cards when they

954
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 2: opened the packs.

955
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 3: That's what I would think.

956
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 2: The odds wouldn't be in your favor. More on this

957
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 2: from Poke Beach, oh thank you quote. The cards seem

958
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: to have been stolen during the production phase. When they're

959
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 2: stored in boxes. The secret rares are printed separately from

960
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 2: other cards because of their texture. The secret rares are

961
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: printed on large sheets, cut into individual cards, and stored

962
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 2: in long white boxes. See this, I can understand. I

963
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 2: can follow this.

964
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 3: Gold ticket stuff for.

965
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 2: Kamon language. But these guys make sense, Okay, I'll continue on.

966
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: At least five of those white boxes are packed into

967
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 2: a cardboard box that sent off to machines that sort

968
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: the cards into booster packs. The machine loads different boxes

969
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 2: of cards into each booster pack depending on their rarity.

970
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 2: We imagine the sorting machines alert the workers when they're

971
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 2: running low on certain rarities, meaning packs shouldn't have escaped

972
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 2: the factory without the proper rate of secret raars, Otherwise

973
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 2: it would be common for packs to be missing cards.

974
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 2: The factories also weigh every single booster pack. This not

975
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: only ensures that the packs have the proper amount of

976
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 2: cards in them, but it's also so that they know

977
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 2: what code card to insert into the packs. Specret wraars

978
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 2: are heavier than a normal card, so lighter code cards

979
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 2: are put in the packs to cancel out the weight difference.

980
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 2: This prevents packweighing an aftermarket, so it's unlikely packs with

981
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 2: improper weights would have left the factory floor, let alone

982
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 2: on a scale large enough to impact the entire print run.

983
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: There's multiple checks and balances in place. I'm so impressed

984
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: with it. It's fascinating. I have no idea, Like I'm thinking, like, yeah,

985
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 2: they just shuffle them up and throw cut them, yeah,

986
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 2: cut them, bag them.

987
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 3: Much thought put in, like lifter cards and stuff or

988
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 3: waider cards what you want to call them.

989
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: So it seems to me, what.

990
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 3: Does it seem to you?

991
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: A little? But there's nowhere safe for Pokemon cards except

992
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: for in the grubby hands of a kid.

993
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, where they immediately tarnished the value by making them

994
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 3: not being pristine value.

995
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: I put love on them, Yes, exactly, Zaren. What is

996
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 2: your ridiculous takeaway.

997
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 3: When it comes to things like, uh, collectibles, I hate boxes.

998
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 3: So like I've I was you know, I had friends

999
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 3: one time, Elizabeth, when I was a kid. When I

1000
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 3: was a kid, I had friends and they used to

1001
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 3: like some of them were like only children, and they

1002
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 3: were like, Oh, I'm going to collect stuff and then

1003
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 3: I'm going to sell back to you in a couple

1004
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 3: of years. And I was like, I'm not going to buy.

1005
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, you will, yeah, And I'm like what.

1006
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, no, because look at this value. And

1007
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 3: they'd show me the value and I'm like, I don't care.

1008
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 3: I don't I want the toy to play with. They're like,

1009
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 3: you're dumb, You're you'll buy this, and I'm like, you

1010
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 3: future collectors. And my point is this is that some

1011
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 3: people would rather have the pleasure of knowing they're going

1012
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 3: to get a deal or money in the future, and

1013
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 3: that delights them. I just want to play with my toys.

1014
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1015
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 3: I'm not a collector in that way, but I do

1016
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 3: collect stuff and then I make it all grubby. So

1017
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 3: I'm not really a collector. I'm more of like a

1018
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 3: stuff haver.

1019
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: But I think it's a true collector because it's for

1020
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 2: a personal thing I look at, like, here, let me

1021
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 2: give you my ridiculous takeaways. Thank you for as I

1022
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 2: didn't really care, but go on. I feel like we

1023
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,879
Speaker 2: primed the pump for millennials to get super heavy into

1024
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 2: this because the nineties were Pokemon and beanie babies. Oh yeah,

1025
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 2: and a couple of beanie babies were like kids weren't

1026
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 2: allowed to play with beanie babies, like they had to

1027
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 2: leave the tags on because they were going to gain value.

1028
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 3: They had a bunch of other stuff, like those pocket

1029
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 3: walk things.

1030
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 2: Like yeah, all sorts of that stuff. So but it

1031
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: was like here's a toy, but it's not a toy.

1032
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 2: I don't really play with it. This is going to

1033
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 2: be worth something later on. And so then now like

1034
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 2: they're all kind of looking back at their childhood stuff.

1035
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 3: I mean, like.

1036
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, instead of like lovingly, like you know, looking at

1037
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. And so I just anytime I

1038
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: see a beanie baby with a tag on it, I

1039
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 2: want to pull the tag off. It's supposed to be.

1040
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 2: It's the summer of dark Elizabeth. I not like I don't.

1041
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch my p's and q's.

1042
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: I have been pushed to my absolute limit and it

1043
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 2: doesn't help. But it's like nine thousand degrees right now.

1044
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: That is driving always does that about you. You get a

1045
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 3: little prickly when it gets hot with that mercury climb.

1046
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: Also, it's just even so I just these days. Oh,

1047
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 2: there's a lot to get there's a lot to get

1048
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 2: heated about. The world's kind of crazy, yeah, and so

1049
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 2: I'm getting I'm trying to be as gentle as I

1050
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: can with everybody, even though on the inside I'm just

1051
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 2: not raging constantly about everything. So yeah, be watch your

1052
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: beanie babies around me. I'm wanna rip the tags off. David.

1053
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 2: You know what make me feel better? A talk back?

1054
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 3: Can you hook this woman up?

1055
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 2: Oh God, I love get.

1056
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 5: Hello from Utah's Aaron Elizabeth, producer, Dave, all the interns.

1057
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,919
Speaker 5: I wanted to say, thank you guys so much for

1058
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 5: giving us such an amazing show. I have undergone a

1059
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 5: lot of surgeries the last few years. You guys have

1060
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 5: been there with me every step of the way to

1061
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 5: help make recovery a little bit easier and full of

1062
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 5: laughs with all of your crazy antics and ridiculous crimes.

1063
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 5: And I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you.

1064
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

1065
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 2: We love you, we got you back. First of all,

1066
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 2: you're the kindest person because you gave a shout out

1067
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 2: to the interns. Yes and big d. And also we

1068
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 2: know what it's like to live in bodies that are

1069
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 2: not cooperative. So fully, I'm there with you. I love it.

1070
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 2: I'm glad we could help totally.

1071
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 3: I'm so glad we give you there. Yeah, I've done

1072
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 3: on my back on the hospital bed. Oh my god.

1073
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's I like that. That makes me happy.

1074
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 2: Now now the summer of Dark Elizabeth is bright and

1075
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 2: half a little feel really good. This is as a

1076
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 2: reciprocation machine over here. It is. That's it for today.

1077
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 2: You can find us online at ridiculous Crime dot com.

1078
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 2: It's ad Age declared it the website of the century.

1079
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Speaker 2: Did you see that?

1080
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 3: I saw that.

1081
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 2: I got the telegram and then Entertainment Weekly named it

1082
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 2: the number three of the top five hundred websites. Wow

1083
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 2: of the year twenty twenty six.

1084
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Speaker 3: I'm still surprised by that I know so good.

1085
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Speaker 2: So anyway, ridiculous Crime dot com. We're at Ridiculous Crime

1086
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,480
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