WEBVTT - Gotta Catch Em All: Pokémon Theft 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:05.920 Zaren Hey, Yes, over here. 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:06.480 I wasn't napping. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:07.960 It's cool, it's fine. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:09.119 I was to my eyes were awake. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.639 It's my eyes are too small for this. You know 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:13.360 it's ridiculous. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.200 Yeah, I do. Thank god you asked me. Those over 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.400 here just nap, not napping, waiting for you to ask 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.560 me that you know the actor Oscar Isaac, Yeah, you 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.920 like him podammer and in the Star Wars movies. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.560 Yeah? 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.279 Also, uh was it but the cat and the in 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.880 one of my there you go, Davis? Okay, so he's 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.839 an actual, real musician. Yeah, not just. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.279 Llewell and Davis be saying on the on the soundtrack. Yeah, 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:38.640 he's good, He's really good. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.640 Did you know he used to be in bands? 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:41.560 Really? 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:41.880 Yeah? 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.320 You should see that. He was in SKA bands, waits sco. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:50.479 Bands with great names like Petrified Frogs and Closet Heterosexuals. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.400 Oh god, the worms. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.960 But also they're like fifteen people on stage? 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.520 Is a sad Elizabeth answer. That question answers itself. So also, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.440 though he was successful as a ska band artist, he 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.440 was the lead singer. In case you wanted wondering where 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.120 he was not in like the horn section. Yeah, he's 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.640 up front, knees up. Yeah. So uh. He actually opened 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.800 for Green Day and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones when he 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.360 was a member of the group The Blinking Underdogs. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.240 The Blinking Underdogs. The nineties were a wild time. I 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.760 think everyone was in a SKA band, whether they knew 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:24.839 it or not. That was in tune. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.440 I didn't even know. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:26.319 I found out. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.679 Yeah, I saw pictures. I was like, what am I 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.160 doing on stage? Later? 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.600 Yeah, that is ridiculous. I love that he was in 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.440 a SKO band. But you know what else is ridiculous? 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.360 What else is religious? What else is ridiculous? 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.600 Pokemon? Pokemon is ridiculous. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.680 Oh yeah, that yellow guy. Yeah totally. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:12.000 This is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.120 and cons It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.600 one hundred percent ridiculous. No, you heard that, that's right. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.120 The Yakuzas sarin Ah, Yes, my friends go on. It's 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.280 a criminal organization. You didn't think would come up in 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.320 our conversations about ridiculous crimes, not from you, No, well, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.840 not that they don't commit ridiculous crimes. They're just so murdery. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.200 Yeah, it's tough one because of all the kind of. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.160 Like the Italian and American mafias, or like outlaw biker gangs, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.919 which I love to talk about, but I can't love 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.680 to hang out with. I love to be in one, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.200 but I you know, the Yakuza. I am going to 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.480 talk to you about them today. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.240 I'm so curious how you're going to avoid this parts. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.880 Let's pretend that you've never heard of them. Okay, let 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:54.480 me fill you in. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:55.360 Is this a boy band? 0:02:55.400 --> 0:03:00.000 I'm going a woman'splaining the Yakuza. Yes. So basically it's 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.160 Japanese organized crime serena. Yeah. So the cops call them 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.280 organized crime or violent groups is the term they use. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:14.480 They call themselves chivalrous organizations, gentlemen's club and like. For 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.880 a while there they operated out of really well marked offices, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.760 and sometimes there were signs outside with the symbols of 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:21.400 their trade. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.120 Japanese opera lovers. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.200 Like samurai swords or like a lantern, and like films 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.200 cartoons made them out to be noble outlaws with his 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:30.960 code of honor. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.800 The Yuza were talking about about them. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.240 Say it with me again. Yakuza yakuzza. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.840 They do jacuzzi, but it's a little more. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.400 Menacence adjacent jacuzzi adjacent Yakuza. They do have a very 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.320 strict code, both for like hierarchy and for their conducts. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:49.440 Okay, yes, I've heard this. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.640 And many of them, many of them have sick ass 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.200 tattoos all over their bodies. I've also heard this just now, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.960 just learning this. But you can't see them because they 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:57.960 wear sick ass suits. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:03:58.840 That's a good. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.160 Yeah. They pull fraud, they run drugs and guns. They 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.320 engage in human trafficking and murder for hire. It sounds 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.320 like they have a large talk about it parties, a 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.480 big one. Yeah, but you know, they also provide disaster 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.160 relief after major earthquakes. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.760 Oh, I'm just hearing about this now from you. This 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.360 is interesting. It's like Fukushima you're talking about all. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.960 That's the thing about. Yeah, the mafia and outlaw biker gangs, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.400 like they do stuff that supports their communities while also 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.280 doing things that destroy their communities. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.280 Oh, I like Capone with the free turkeys. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.279 Yeah, Thanksgiving turkey giveaways and arson, Yeah, toy drives and 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:33.880 drive bys. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:34.400 There you go. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.000 So in the nineteen sixties, there were hundreds of thousands 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.080 of members of the Yakuza. Hundreds of thousands not true today, Wow, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.280 membership is way down. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:42.640 Wow. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:47.560 Last year just over twenty thousand. Whoa, Yeah, that's just 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.280 a third of what it was twenty years ago. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:50.280 Wow. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.000 Yeah, so you didn't know that. It did not at all. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.480 And so part of it is that the cops really 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.839 cracked down. Okay, So there was legislation. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.039 I saw Black Rain with Michael Douglas. We should probably 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:01.840 do something about it. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.200 It's gone to the point where pointing. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:06.800 Hello, it's a great movie. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.280 So they passed legislation that bars members from opening bank accounts, 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.360 renting apartments, buying cell phones, creating insurance. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.640 So they did like the whole gang interdiction. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:22.159 Thing radius and then older members were dying off of course, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.600 and you know it's the old debtor in jail thing 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:25.240 and to. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.799 Replace younger ones if you've got that with your bosses. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.680 But the crime must go on. So what does an 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.480 organization do when they don't have enough members to carry 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.240 out the necessary criminal activity? 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.240 Elizabeth, This is a fascinating conunder. What does say a 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.359 yak is a boss do when he doesn't have the 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.560 necessary criminals to carry out his criminal operation enter the 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.480 gig economy. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:51.160 Yes, there's this thing to Couru. Here's how the Guardian 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.280 newspaper characterizes them. Oh god quote formed by the characters 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.240 for anonymous and fluid. The term to Couru refers and 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.760 I know I'm not saying that correctly, and I heardy 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.400 apologies to the Japanese refers to ad hoc groups formed 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.440 to commit crimes where members often don't know each other, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.120 or those planning and directing their activities. They are distinct 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.800 from the Yukuza and less hierarchical, usually with loose organizational 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.080 structures above those carrying out crimes ranging from robberies and 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:25.000 frauds to assaults and murders. So they're basically like temp workers'ps. Yes, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.880 they float around, they commit the crimes and they move along. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.919 And this is the group that's doing the major crimes 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:36.400 in Japan now, and the Yakuza they're pulling smaller and 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.360 smaller jobs like pettier crimes. One of those crimes that 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.560 the Yukuza is doing stealing Pokemon cards, which is what 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.920 I am all about today, Pokemon crime. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:47.920 We were just talking about that. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.200 Yeah, so you got me thinking about it when you 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.280 told the story of the dude who robbed the armored card. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.239 He tried to get away in the raft and the creek, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.680 and he later went on to counterfeit. So think of 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.880 this episode as the spiritual sibling of our Batman episode, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.839 because it kind of came to me in much the 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.120 same way. I've mentioned that I watched my nephew every Saturday, Yes, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.240 highlight of my week. As a result of this arrangement, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.640 I have a lot of toys in my house. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:14.760 Shout out to your nephew. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.960 Shout out to him, and for a while, they're the 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.360 majority where Batman toys, and that remains true. Okay, but 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.480 there's an up and comer, a little yellow fella real Pikachu. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.440 Oh you entered that phase? 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.000 Did you? Did you know that, according to comic book 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:32.120 dot com, pokem on is the highest grossing IP and 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.600 intellectual property in the entertainment world. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.640 Yeah, actually I did know that because it's it is 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.200 so enormous. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.960 It's huge. There are video games, cartoons and then the 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.600 cars trading car backbone. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.160 Of hats with a little like press the button and 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:47.760 it flaps. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.800 I mean the target audience is five to twelve. Okay, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.400 but you and I both know that people a lot 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:55.320 older stick with it. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.600 Yeah, you can be like a quadruple member of the 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.960 target audience four times over. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.960 Well, it's like and like Harry Potter, they do it 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:03.920 when they should know better. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:04.280 M h. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.440 I am a known Harry Potter hater. Yes, I have 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:09.600 not read a book or seen. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:11.920 She hates Harry Potter. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.960 But see, I've seen enough of this whole thing to 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.360 pity adults who are into it. So I figure I 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.760 got the furries after me, why not add the Harry Potter. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.440 And you were ahead of the curve in the Harry Potter. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.080 I mean a lot of people are coming around regretting 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.200 tattoos and so forth, and there you are just looking 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.760 smart and you're not being smug about it. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.120 I'd i am, but I just the lesson is to yeh, 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.440 go on. So the corporate ownership structure of Pokemon is weird. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.240 What is it? 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.480 Well, most ips are owned by one company usually, and 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:43.760 Pokemon is actually jointly owned by three Nintendo, game Freak 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.680 and then Creatures, and so game Freak does all the 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.760 like main role playing games, which are then published by 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.120 Nintendo exclusively for their consoles, and then Creatures does all 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.719 the trading card games that they this TCGs is theyre 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.360 called and then the related merch and they develop spinoff titles. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:04.959 Oh, they do merchan cards. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.120 So do you know where the name Pokemon comes from? 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.640 Hey on, I'm guessing from some kind of like we 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.600 were really into Jamaica at the time, and we were like, oh, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.240 but we also really love eating poke. Why don't we 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.240 put our two loves together poke and like, hame on 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:22.320 a Pokemon from. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.599 A poke a Hawaiian poke shop in Jamaica. Hey on, No, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:32.760 it's the original full name of the franchise's Pocket Monsters, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.240 Poke and Mond. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:34.760 Totally. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.439 There you go. And so if you use Pokemon as 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.640 a noun, which I think you probably should, I don't 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:40.000 know how. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.480 To use it as I want to go Pokemon that 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.400 meal over there? See those noodles about to be Pokemon up. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.040 Singular and plural forms are the same, okay, And that 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.320 goes and that goes for all the individual species names 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.080 as well. So if you say one Pokemon or twelve 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.480 Pokemon or one Pikachu and nine million p ka chew, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.280 I got you. Yeah, And the official pronunciation is Pokemon 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.760 and then or you can also officially say pokemonkemon, or 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.360 if you're a jerk like me, you like to irritate people, 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.360 you can say Pokemon. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.840 What if I just want to call it pokemon. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.480 You can call it pokemon, poke, Pokemon. That's the new Okay, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.960 So that's the alternative that I needed more information, So 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.680 I went to pokemon dot com and I read the 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.840 Pokemon basics page for parents. Lord, here's what they say 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.240 under what are Pokemon? 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.800 These are answers for parents. Yeah, they're trying to like 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.680 get schooled on what their kids are too. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.040 So they're like, hey, Siri, what are pokemon? Quote. In 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.600 the world of Pokemon, Pokemon are creatures of all shapes 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.239 and sizes who live alongside humans. People known as Pokemon trainers, 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:53.200 form lasting friendships with their Pokemon partners, and as a team, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.400 they go on adventures trained to improve their skills and 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:01.000 battle in friendly competitions. During their journeys, Pookemon grow and 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.240 become more experienced, and even on occasion, evolve in just 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.360 stronger Pokemon. Ask a child what their favorite Pokemon is 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.560 and you're bound to get an enthusiastic response. There are 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.280 over a thousand Pokemon for you and your child to 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:24.400 discover together Shizon's my favorite amazing story. Well, so like 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.640 this is one hundred percent of kid thing like that 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.040 that from the source. They're like, this is for kids. Well, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.560 so okay, like I said, my nephew has discovered Pokemon. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.760 He has a kid, and he's a kid. He's five. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.720 He has some cards, but mostly he's into Pikachu. Course, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.680 just the image, just the image of it. And right now, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.679 his his Pokemon world is like stuffies and those decorations 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.400 on crocs and like a couple of cards from a 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.840 McDonald's happy Mail. That's like, there's probably more, but I 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.120 wasn't paying attention. Zaren. You actually saw him the other 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.240 day and you were asking him how he would rob 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.400 a bank and what he did with the money. And 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.920 that got me thinking, okay, conversation well, and I wasn't 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.600 thinking about how appropriate your conversations may or may not 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.880 be with kids. It got me thinking about Pokemon crime. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.520 So I looked it up and apparently there's a crime 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.920 that takes place in the world of Pokemon. But when 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.240 I started reading about it, my eyes glazed over in 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.839 my mind wandered, kind of like when you start talking 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.320 about your ridiculous takeswak I know that. Look, but then 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.199 I saw a word that grabbed my attention. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:30.760 What was it? 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.960 Yeahkuza, Oh hey, I'm just learning about that. Not very 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.440 kid friendly, but just as most intellectual property aimed at 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.720 kids these days, Pokemon has been co opted or never 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.680 grown out of, by plenty of adults. And adults like 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.800 to collect things, which is the goal of Pokemon, and 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.600 they have jobs, so they have money, right, And you 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.640 made that really a stude observation recently about collectors and 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.880 people collecting things in order to hang on to the 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.040 past and memory. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:54.800 Oh I said that. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.000 You did say that, and that holds true for Pokemon cars. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.360 Okay, yeah, definitely I could see that. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.280 Yeah. So when people collect things that gives them monetary value, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.800 sometimes rare things obviously have more worth. Pokemon cards no different. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.720 And childhood things that you can buy like Arson Wells 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:11.640 and Citizen Kane. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:16.560 Yes, exactly, exactly. So. The most expensive Pokemon card ever 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.600 sold was the nineteen ninety eight illustrator Pikachu card with 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.960 a ten rating, and you covered that when we talked 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.360 about the Bad Guy Collector. It was sold in twenty 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.880 twenty two for five million, two hundred and seventy eight 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:35.000 thousand dollars to Logan Paul guy the boxer Dinge no, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.960 the brother of the oh guy that's going to fight 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.320 Mike Tyson. They both have such punchable face. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:42.360 They're just one thing to me. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.720 I hope that Mike Tyson hits Jake Paul so hard 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.520 that it gives Logan Paul brain. That's what I'm hoping for. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:50.640 Is that mean? 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:55.679 Is that too violent? What's amazing? I am in the 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.760 summer of dark Elizabeth. I'm noticing I've turned really I 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.360 may no friends anymore. And when the world eases up, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.199 I'm going to go back to being super nice. So 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:11.640 that I'm certified boogeyman, certified psychopath right now? Oh yeah, anyway, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.040 Logan Paul. So, he bought a Pokemon card for more 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.480 than five million dollars, and that's an anomaly in terms 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.160 of pricing. That's not like, Yeah, the next highest value 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.160 card was the nineteen ninety seven Cherizard. That's when you 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:33.800 like top Sun Blue Back also also had the grade 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.200 of PSA ten that's sold in January of twenty twenty 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.720 one for just under five hundred thousand dollars. Okay, so 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.760 I got ripped off, I ripped off. But that's not 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.520 ages five to twelve money. No, it is not. That's 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.720 grown folks who should know better. Yeah, that is not 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.520 like some of the prices aren't really holding Toothairy. That's 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.920 the one who gives your money Toothair. The third most 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.840 expensive card sale was the nineteen ninety nine first edition 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.960 Shadowless Holographic shars Are number four. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.680 Oh of course, Yeah, that Shadowless Sharzar. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.960 Yeah, that whole thing. So that's March twenty twenty two 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.040 for four hundred and twenty thousand dollars for twenty bro. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.320 But another card like Smoking, also rated ten, sold in 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.440 February of this year for just one hundred and sixty 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:18.920 eight thousands. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.080 The price is going down. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.200 That one, it was, but not really. But it's still 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.320 not ages five to twelve mon, No, not at all. 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.120 It's just a bad investment. So back to the Yakuza, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.280 the boat of cards. I don't think they particularly cared 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.680 about the Pokemon what cards. No, they cared about stealing 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.800 something valuable there, and they weren't super fan. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.320 They weren't like cultural protectors. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.800 No, they didn't have Pikachu tattoos in the sleeve. Yeah, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.600 so they cause they didn't concern themselves with petty crime, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.040 but the to Koryu they were pulling bigger jobs now, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.160 and that left people like Keita Saito doing things like 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.240 stealing Pokemon cards and not half a mill cards, sixteen 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.840 hundred dollars worth of cards? 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.480 What? Yeah, and this is one of the gig workers. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.440 No, this is a yakuza. Oh, actually yakuza. The guy 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.320 I'm talking about, he's not the Keita Saito, who's the 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.360 Japanese actor who was in Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. Okay, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.080 he's the Keita Saito who is the leader of the 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.240 Teknagawa Gang. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:18.680 Oh, the Tokenawa Gang. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.160 Yes, and that's a faction of the second largest yukuza syndicate, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:23.640 the Sumyoshi Kai. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.280 Ah see, I only know the Tokenagawa from the Shogun era. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.320 But yeah, well this is I'm kidding. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.040 So how the mighty have fallen? Yeah, telling Spectator magazine said, quote, 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.960 it's as if Don Corleone had been reduced to running 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.160 a shell game. Watch the ball which Kep is in 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.800 under on some New York Backstreet man. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.960 So uh, showing like fraudulent olive oil. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.400 Get Tokyo Police announced the arrest of Saito earlier this year. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.920 Back in twenty twenty two, he broke into a home. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.600 Twenty nine items were stolen during the robbery, and that 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:59.040 included twenty five valuable pokemonk and some lunch money. Yeah, basically, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.880 And they also arrested another guy in connection with the 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.280 break in. He wasn't tied to Yakuza, but it makes 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:05.800 me wonder if he was one of the gig workers. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.040 Yeah, he's still a candy dish. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.160 Yeah. So the cops are still looking for a couple 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.600 other guys involved. But the big takeaway, thank you for. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.959 Ask what is the big takeaway, Elizabeth? 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.639 It's the Yakuza lieutenant got busted for trying to sell 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.879 hot bulbosore cards and that tells you that they've fallen 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.440 in power. Oh god, Yeah, Pokemon have grown in value. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.760 Waited Oh wow, balance the scale. Yeah, and in Japan, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.320 it's not just the Yakuza stealing Pokemon cards. That's where 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.360 they're from. By the way, the Pokemon. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.520 Pokemons from Japan. Yeah, and the Yukuza they're from Japan. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.800 Yeah, hand and hand cultural production. No. A couple of 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.720 years ago, there was a Pokemon crime spree sweeping Japan. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.560 In August of twenty twenty two, thieves lifted around five 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.600 hundred and forty cards worth about two hundred thousand dollars 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:48.600 from a shop in Tokyo. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.639 Five hundred and forty. They're going to flood the market. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.879 Yeah for the best. Was this this Japanese guy who 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.840 got busted for repelling down a bill right in order 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.200 to steal Pokemon cards? 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:58.240 Oh my, is he a gig worker? 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.399 No safety harness, just vibe. No, he was an it 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.960 worker in Tokyo and in March of twenty twenty one, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.760 he used a rope to sended a six story building 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.080 to steal about eighty trading cards worth more than nine 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.440 thousand dollars. And then he also found two thousand dollars 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.160 in cash. And apparently he was desperate to get out 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.919 of debt that he'd created for himself. It sounds like 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.760 a scary way to try and get some quick cat. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.600 Oh, he's like a movie henchman like kind of crazy stuff. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.520 This is what he told the cops quote. I was 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.640 in my high school's rock climbing club, so I wasn't 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.240 afraid of heights. Okay, yeah, So the police identified him 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.760 using surveillance footage. He gets arrested. They didn't say which 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.520 Pokemon were taken or their condition upon recovery. But you 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.760 know what, thoughts and prayers, prayer, Let's take a break. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.800 When we come back, we're going to look into more 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.360 card theft and other Pokemon misadventures. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:19:09.960 Yeah, Elizabeth Zareny, Yeah you did Pokemon. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:11.000 Okay, Pokemon. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.200 Pokemon theft isn't just a japan thing. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.160 I bet not. I bet it goes down here too. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.840 If there's one thing the good old us of A 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.240 knows how to export its ridiculous card. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:20.959 I knew it. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.359 And what's more American and criminal than Walmart, USA, USA. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.920 July twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, Ohio's Bowling Green police 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:34.479 were called to Walmart on West Gypsy Lane Road. There 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.159 were two people inside the store stocking up on Pokemon cards, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.879 and Walmart employees they watched the pair and they who 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.040 happened to be wearing black masks, and yet the employees 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.440 recognized them as a man and a woman who's stolen 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.879 from Walmart in the past. So the man and the 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.160