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Our Strange Addiction

The episode blends personal storytelling, humor, and deep dives into niche interests like ghost hunting and Pokémon card collecting. The hosts explore the unspoken rules of language and conversation, sharing how word order shapes natural speech, even if not strictly logical. Bob reflects on his experiences in classrooms, where his height and position led to being overlooked, a pattern that influenced his adult perception of visibility and participation. A key moment involves a ghost-hunting adventure that initially seems paranormal but is revealed as a coincidence, leading to a broader discussion about belief, entertainment, and manipulation. The hosts argue that while ghost hunting can be fun and imaginative, it becomes problematic when it crosses into exploiting personal trauma or manipulating emotions. The bulk of the episode focuses on Pokémon card collecting, where the group opens booster packs, shares their excitement over rare cards like Reverse Hollows and EX versions, and discusses the joy of nostalgia, community, and shared excitement. The episode ultimately celebrates the value of make-believe, improvisation, and personal connection, showing how simple games and odd rituals can bring people together and provide lasting entertainment—without needing to take anything seriously. It strikes a balance between humor, reflection, and genuine human connection, making it both entertaining and insightful.

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Good evening, gentle listeners, or watchers, and welcome to "Destactable" this episode. Bibliographic barbed-build solo, but gangbangs, then gets the guys to indulge their pokey-love, war-dogging wade ex-affro-man, has a very sickly bow-wow that explains masterfulness, piss, and god-packs. Microbial mark, the ghost-busting actor, gets swatted, punches a minor, scissors, and opens, from alphabetized order, to nice dust covers, it's time for our stranger diction. Now sit back, and prepare to be distracted, and enjoy the show. Hello, welcome back to another episode of "Destractable", the podcast that Ralph from The Simpsons once described as "That's right, I'm your host, Bob, because I won the last episode, it was a one-man show, so I guess nobody else could have won, joined as always, except when I'm not, by my two co-host/competitors for today's episode. That's wade and mark." As I said, your name's in the wrong order. Uh, wait, was there a right order? Love the implications. It's very narcissistic of me, but if I don't, if I'm like describing us, if I don't say Bob, Mark, and Wade, it sounds wrong to my brain. It's not a mark first thing, it's not a wade last thing. It might be a me first thing, but whatever I describe you guys, or write you down, I always write Mark, Wade, or say, like, this is Mark and Wade, whatever, and I don't know why. Alphabetical, maybe. I do feel like I say Mark and Bob a lot myself, actually, I haven't even mentioned it. I've tried putting Wade in the left column when I'm keeping score. I know nobody gives a shit about this. It confuses the shit out of me. There's a podcast episode idea here that's percolating right now because English is a certain unspoken word order. You know, you get like the big red bus, but the red big bus doesn't sound quite as right, you know? But it's still right. It's still technically right. But in most speaking, you would say the big red bus instead of the red big bus. There's certain things in rules, maybe it's something to do with that. There used to be a thing called classrooms that you would learn this stuff, but we could do a podcast episode to teach you. Oh, man, dude, you wear those ungrateful jackasses at the front of the room, keep asking for more money. I don't want to deal with that again. It took a while for me to figure out if you met the smart kids or the teacher. All of them, all of those idiots. Yeah. Be in the back where I could actually get some decent quiet for once. I have my nap. This is a very main character syndrome of me, but when I was in law school, I think I confused all my professors because I sit in the absolute back, back. But I'm a huge, and especially in law school, I like legal reasoning. I was always that kid who was like, "Oh, but what if he killed him?" As he was falling across the state, like I always had some stupid question where it was like, "Let's game this out." But I sit in the back because I'm tall, because I've always been tall. If I sit in the front row, the poor five-foot-six person behind me can't fucking see the boards and is blocked from participating in the class. But I think my professors were always caught off guard until they learned what the deal was that I'm way in the back. But also, I'm the kid who's immediately like, "I'm not asking. I'm not soliciting any questions right now. Shut up." We had multiple classes in high school where they would sit us alphabetically in my last name, as early in the alphabet. So I often got put in the first or second seat, and especially in like eighth and ninth grade when I had the afro, I was like six, four huge afro in like notoriously. There was always like four-foot-nine person in this chair behind me. There was no chance they ever saw the board to pick notes. Damn. It's a curse. And it wasn't me, everyone at home, everyone being like, "No, Mark is a perfectly normal height." Why do you think he didn't finish college? I described someone substantially shorter than Mark in my example. Every time there's a picture of me that appears on the internet and I'm slightly taller than the person I'm next to, it's like, "How short must they be?" Oh my god. Some of the distractible merch has like, Bob and I has little figures and you've got like the long face figure and you sit like a foot or two taller than Bob and I'm like, "This is so wrong." Something about this gives me the dick. There's a few times when the size of my head has given me that little bit of height advantage I need just a bit all in the dome. There's a time when the twenty-teens remark was taller than Bob and I, but thankfully he's come back down. He had that mid-face shortening surgery and he went back down to his perfectly normal height. They called it smile. We thought it was for something else, but it was really for the mid-face. It's all true. Everything he's saying. That all happened. That's our lives, everybody. Anyway, welcome to distractible. There's rules and points. Nobody cares. How are you all doing? How is it hanging? Being a small talk? It's been a while. Yeah. Yeah. I went ghost-tunting and that was interesting. I heard some stuff about that. I heard some stuff happened. I went to ghost-tunting and he had made some gadgets, Jordan, day-toon, day-toon as I call him for some fucking reason. Day-toon? I love day-toon. God, I was so soon so I couldn't forget it right. It's stuck in my head. You mean Jardon? Yeah, Jardon. Yeah. You know, oh, you know Jardon? I know Jardon. Yeah. Good. Yeah. We went ghost-tunting. He made some gadgets and things to respond to the electromagnetic frequency and everyone afterwards was like, "Oh my God, he's a believer now." I'm like, so sorry. It's acting. It's called leaning into the bit. It's like it's called embracing the moment. Far scarier was the breaking and entering next door. Yeah, that was the part I heard about. That's out of me. I heard about that part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we were in the middle of the and stream and suddenly the radio, all the devices start going a little crazier and then we see some lights come through a window down the street a little bit and we hear distant jucker. Why was the sweetest chef with the SWAT team? Oh my God. To be clear, it wasn't the SWAT team. There was just a few cops and so they were parked up on the corner and there's like a gas station and there's like a restaurant and or there's gas station convenience store in a restaurant. I can't remember what is next building and apparently I'm not harborson sure but there was someone that that broke in there and then went behind the buildings and this being right next to it. They didn't know if he went in this building or not. So they go to the next building and they're like, "Everyone get out." And so it's like clown car a little bit in this house because the owner comes out and we're not sure what's going on at first because he goes out and then the owner's partner goes out and then the two friends that were there go out and then we go out and we're like, "How many people are robbing this place?" And so we weren't the rest of anything. I wasn't handcuffed or nothing is just like, but they searched us and I lost my pocket knife unfortunately. But it was totally fine because they pat me down and pull it out and set it on some desk somewhere and then when we came back it was gone. So like the ghosts took my knife. The ghost has a knife, shit. The thieves came over and they're like, "Oh more stuff for us to take. This is so nice." But then we got that all sorted and went back in. It was really like, it's fucking weird. So the ghosts call the cops on us. Anyway, the ghosts were trying to get you guys swatted. I don't fucking consent to being on a live stream. Get out of here. No, it's complete. These guys won't stop asking us to do things. We're just trying to sleep. Gave it to my bedroom and we're like, "Oh drive this car into my head. Oh, a milkiplier." I don't know what this guy is. They're treating us like idiots. They're like, "Can you turn a light on?" It's like, "Yeah, no shit. I can turn a light on it." They'll watch you. I'm tired. The middle of the night. Yeah. So the original thought was that like, "Oh God, we are being swatted, which happens a lot." But no, it was pure coincidence. There was a beingy next door for some reason. That's crazy. Yeah. Just happen to be this strange coincidence. There's a much better version of what could have happened because who knows how it would have played out if someone was trying to do the whole swatting nonsense. Someone could have got hurt, what would have been terrible. Which is funny because I haven't heard of swattings happening in a long time. But since they've been cracking down pretty hard on thankfully, I think a lot of people have been deterred by like the severe punishments that hit it out for some of them. Yeah. I mean, that does happen. I've heard it was a long string, a few years back of a lot of people being swatted. Then people really started to get actual punishment in jail time for doing that because of course it is a crime. But yeah, so I haven't heard of it in ages. That was the initial thought. But just like, no, apparently just happened. Did you find any ghosts? No. Now that you believe in them, did you find any ghosts? It'd be really funny if you said yes, but I still don't believe in them. So there's just one device and not to describe anything. I think it's like very cool what he's doing it and all the gadgets he built. One of the common ones is one that does a radio frequency sweep, right? And all it's doing is it's cycling through the radio stations around the area. So you'll get clips of little things that people are saying and you're supposed to say that out loud. It's very clear that this is just random radio station and just like anyone, you know, in doing crowd work, they can kind of suggest people to get certain answers that they're looking for and work with what it is. Big improv exercise. And I'm not saying that, you know, it's all bunk, but I'm kind of saying it's all just a little, but it's, it's just a radio station. And there's random words that'll jump out and you can make sense of anything you can find meaning in it. But it was very entertaining. What, what, what, what he was able to do with what was being said was very fun. Yeah. I think that's the big thing is it's, I'm not going to say that I know definitively ghosts are not real or there's no supernatural. But I think I fall more in your camp where I'm definitely not like a believer out. I don't read into stuff the way that people who want a certain answer will read it. But done correctly, it's incredibly entertaining because it's, it's mixing together are sort of wonder slash fear about the supernatural. And it's like you said, it's like improv work, right? But I always am suspicious of guys who host like the ones that are on TV, those ghost hunters that are more, they're clearly trying to get the episode. They're trying to get the shot and the clip and anything will happen. And they'll be like, oh, I did like what like, not that we don't do that as online content creators, but it's very entertaining. I've always loved like ghost hunting shows. I have watched Jordan streams. I don't know him personally, but I think we've met a couple times in like the very entertaining, not discrediting at all. And here's the thing, there's nothing wrong with this because there's this kind of shame to take these things from childhood where we would make believe and really be into it because it's fun to do that. And now that we're as adults, we're expected to like, oh, we need to be serious. We got our jobs. We can't make believe and play pretend and actually really get into it. It's like, no, we've always loved to do this. There's nothing wrong with going into these situations. And for a moment letting yourself get into it, letting yourself believe for better or worse and like play the part because there's nothing worse than a party pooper going in there and sitting in the middle. It's like, it's not real. It's fucking bullshit. This is all dope and it's fun to go in there. But like, what if it's a ghost? You know, and there was one weird thing where it's like his necklace fell off. And he was like, it's just he just the ghost just ripped the necklace right off. And I'm like, that's really cool. That's really fun. I like it could be ghosts. You know, it's fun to believe. It's fun to do that. It's nothing wrong with playing into it. So I'm not taking a hard line. Like, it's not real. But anyone that comes out of being like, well, he's a believer now. It's just like, well, okay. All right. There's a certain magic in the make believe. There's a magic in that. And it's fun to do. But also, let's not take it too seriously now because that's how other things get started. So you like playing make believe and ghosts aren't real. That's Mark stance everybody. That's pretty hard line. There we go. What a heart. What a takeaway. Yeah. That's the thing, I guess, for me too, that always that pushes it too far is people who turn it into manipulating people who like, you know, the reader who's like doing crowd work basically, but is like, how I'm communicating with your dead husband. And he wants you to buy my book at the table in the back. That sort of shit is like, that takes it from this is a fun show. And you're doing, you know, you're being very entertaining. And I'm, I'm going with you because I want to be entertained to, okay, like that, that's just gross. Like, that's just manipulative. You're now you're reaching into someone's personal life. I mean, like, yeah, what do you want to say to your dead grandmother? How can you do that? That's not entertaining. That's gross. Don't do that. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I heard about the, you know, and it seemed like it was pretty fun. You guys had a fun time. It's very fun be any who's great. All of it, but including the be any, seemed pretty fun. So Wade, how many ghost did you see since last time? No, and I get to be the Debbie Downer again. So we all recorded last Tuesday, right? Yup. And, uh, yes. Well, and then Wednesday morning, Molly and I woke up to Presley are one of our two doxins, Yelping in horrible pain. Yay. So we had to take him to the vet. Um, that was also the day she had her two week follow it from her surgery. I had a physical schedule that day. And then we have to make two trips to the vet that day. Um, to find out, he's got two spots of was IVDD, the bad back, doxin problem that you don't want to see. So he's on eight to 12 weeks of bed rest. Uh, he's on Fred in the zone. What was it? Gabba, Pintin, met the carbon mall or something. He's on like three different medications. Surprise. He's conscious. God damn. Uh, he's been out a lot, but he's not a lot to do. Virtually anything. So we've had to gingerly carry him around everywhere up until about yesterday, he couldn't really use his back legs at all. Like he was just kind of collapsing and dragging himself around because he just couldn't, especially his back right leg. He couldn't use it. So it's been pretty sad and miserable for him. Tough for us because he can't do anything. We've got to make sure he's not moving and Molly has been on a weight limit for what she's allowed to carry because of her surgery. So there's been a lot of like, okay, I got to carry Presley everywhere. And thankfully, she's allowed to carry, but I'm still trying to not let her overdo it. But he sees a neurologist tomorrow. Uh, we're going to consult and see if we need to schedule a surgery or try the eight to 12 weeks and see what happens. But um, yeah, ginger had our other doctor ginger had a back surgery when she was like two. It was not fun. And I really don't want to go through it again. But obviously, whatever's best for Presley, we're going to do. But you know, he's, he's our kid and seeing him in pain and seeing him like look at us and like not understand and be sad is heartbreaking. So it's been a really, really, really long six days. And uh, only 11 or weeks maybe, you know, yeah, right side, but he was able to walk a little bit yesterday and he wants to move. He wants to play. He just doesn't understand why his body won't let him at the moment. But there's been a little bit, I'd say pretty minor, but a little bit of improvement to the point where he can at least stand to use the bathroom now, which was not the case the first day or two. No fun ghost stories are being he's just a lot of, uh, my wife's still recovering from surgery and now my dog is miserable. So yay, 2026, the year of health issues in this family. We played some war dogs. That was pretty fun. So we did. And someone got really mad at us doing a little RPing on the thing the other day. I don't if you remember that guy was, he was really, we had a pilot man who was driving a helicopter. He was the craziest pilot I've ever seen. He flew like between the trees, did like a full barrel roll. And then someone on there was did let said something about like, oh, I got to get back to my wife and kids or something. And some other guys like, this is a war game. Stop pretending like you're anything else other than just a dude playing a war game. It's like, all right. Cool. That's fun. You guys are fun. Yeah. And then there's always like the people that just like die and just lay there yelling slurs and stuff out loud because they've got nothing better to do. So there's some really fun people and there's like the worst of humanity and all encompass within five feet of each other, usually on the same team. I feel like our squad was out there having a lot of fun. Typically. So is that game fun? I was looking at it a little bit. I was like, oh, it seems kind of like I love battlefield. And it seemed like, ooh, three teams is interesting. It is very battlefield. I like it more than battlefield myself, to be honest. It's kind of like battlefield with some elements of like squad. If you know that game and or like Tarkov in a different way, blend it in where it's like every life you have to spend money to have anything. You have to buy your kit at the start of your life. But then you earn money for doing basically anything. So it has a fun dynamic of like, sometimes you lose half a million dollars because all you do is buy $20,000 with a crap and go die in two seconds and some nights like what we were doing last night because it's the end of the season is we basically were taking the free stuff like we were buying almost $0 kits and just wandering out like dudes with hunting rifles in the wilderness and then stealing gear as we found it. And it was hilariously fun because we were just doing stupid nonsense and not expecting to succeed at anything. And then, you know, sometimes you get lucky. It's really funny. That was cool. And you can do a lot of different things in the game. You can just go fight. You can build a base and people still come and wreck you and blow your stuff up making stuff, but you can build a base. You can just deliver supplies. You can just buy a truck or helicopter, start an HQ, buy fuel and ammo, drive it for 10 minutes, drop it off and then just keep doing that the whole time and make money that way. You make pretty good money doing it. I like those kind of things just because it's I've always liked the logistics side of it and I've I've wanted to do that where it's like, I just make an engineering core, you know, it's just like get some people just to do that. You can do that. Bob was doing a taxi delivery service where he was flying a helicopter and just picking people up, dropping them off, flying back, picking people up that died. It's really funny if you drop someone off and they die immediately. You fly back and they're like, "Hey, it's me again. It's not funny." Oh, come back. Did you have fun? But you can you can do so many things in that game, which is really cool. Oh, that's super fun. Yeah. Oh, I'll have to give it a try. Is it easy to play like solo or do you have to have people? I play solo a fair amount. What I play solo, I do more like logistics stuff. I build the bases or just run supply delivery stuff because it's the fighting is much more fond with a group because if you don't have anyone communicating to you kind of are just in the middle of the huge area where the enemies could be in any direction at all times. But if you're fighting with a group and you're sort of like have an objective and you're, it's very exciting. But there's lots of stuff you do still know that's perfectly fun. You can buy medic out loadouts and you just run around like reviving people or healing people. People do that to like level up. They'll just come and inject you with something and run away. You can nonconcentrally inject people with stimulants. There are people who level up. Their medic skill just running around. Just be like, and everyone's like, what the? You'll be like laying in a bush, stealthing out as a sniper. All of a sudden this blue guy just comes like, I was hiding. They just stabbed you and runs away to stab someone else. There's also like reconning so you can just buy a pair of binoculars and go outside the map on a hill and just highlight where enemies are, the entire map. So everyone sees them and all thought like the game is your oyster. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Does your binoculars still do the glint if someone's looking at you or is that only for sniper scopes? Is this sniper glint? I don't know. There's not glints. There's the, when you fire, it's visible. So if you are shooting a long range rifle, people might see your muzzle flash, but I don't think there's glint on any of the optics or anything. Yeah, I don't think so either. Interesting. Okay. They're adding weather in the next up. So they're doing a wipe. Everyone starts from scratch on the 15th of October, which is in the past now. But all right, let's forget this podcast. Let's go play word dogs. This sounds fun. I'm down with this episode. Just being us jumping in and laying word dogs. We don't show the game. It's just our face cams. We're like, let's go in the left. I'm down. I'm down. Help. Help. Watch that hill over there. North East. Everyone's like cool episode guys. Because I was recently playing a body cam because I, I've owned it for a while and then they did this big update and I saw they had zombies mode. I was like, Oh, that sounds fun. Because like, I don't really care about just shooting and shooting other people and that being the only thing there. But the zombie modes is like under maintenance as soon as I got it. So I'm just like, Oh, man, play a little with bots. You know, try a few games, but there's some, there's like, I am out of practice in the first person shooter world. I am not of the skill necessary anymore to the point to play with other people. They are, they're, they're fast. And I'm like, and because body cam is like, it's a little sluggish on moving around. And I'm just like, man, these guys, I don't, I'm getting feeling old, feeling old playing with these guys. That game looks cool though. I didn't know they were putting zombies in. That game looks cool. I'm not seeing that. I'll have to look into that one. There's certain players and war dogs you come across. And it's like, I don't know if this is a cheater or just a guy that has been playing this since launch and has not slept and lives on energy drinks. And is the most talented. Like, it feels like seal team six. Sometimes you come across a team that is just so good. And the way they swarm you is like, we didn't have a chance. And then you come across people like, I've had moments where I've been really good. I've also had moments where I'm like, has that an enemy in front of me? Uh, it looks right. Yeah, it is right. And I die without doing anything because it's like, I think it's a bad guy. I could look at the map. All right. I'm getting it. No, it's fun though. We have a group like a discord group where there's a bunch of us and every night at some point, someone is like, I'm getting on war dogs and like half the group of like, oh, I fucking, I just gotta like fold my laundry, but too fucking cares. Let's play war dogs. That's what I need. I actually the group get up like in it. Uh, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. This episode of Distractable is brought to you by chime. Spending adds up so fast. Big trip for convention dinner with friends and an insane amount of Pokemon cards. Like, we all have spending that we have to do. It's just easy to lose track of, you know? And it keeps me wondering if I'm really using my money effectively. That's where chime comes in. Chime is changing the way that people bank. They're not like a traditional bank who charge fees, gatekeep perks and rewards for like higher levels of whatever chime offers the most rewarding free banking. All with no overdraft fees, no monthly fees, no minimum balance fees, it's simple. 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Well, that was happy with accounts, all right about Presley. He still wags his tail. He's still happy boys just his back's bad. So you got to figure out the steroids are enough or if he needs a surgery still, but it's okay. I know how to cheer you up, buddy. Oh yeah. Today's topic is something that you could argue is hardly a topic at all. Wait a minute, you're going to try and get Mark hooked on our addiction. We're going to talk about war dogs. Other addiction. Look at the odds we all had a pack of these just sitting on our desk this whole time. Did you do you guys also pick up a booster pack or what are these six called a booster box for big evolution five pitch black. That's so crazy that we all just have these just sitting here. Wow. This nine year old kid was really crying a whole bunch because I punched him in the face of you times. He backed off of my pack. So you know, turns out the kids they can't fight these days. So I got it right out of his hands ripped it right out of his hands. They're also busy staring at their tick tocks and they're, you know, and they're their jewels. They can't fight for nothing. Back in my day, kids can hold off a 37 year old man who works out in his next bird fighter. These kids these days are soft. They're soft. That's what I'm saying. How do I want to do? I've been this into the back of this. Is this supposed to be like a store display or something? Yeah. So these booster boxes are actually store displays. So you kind of just have to jam it if you want to do the thing. But I think most people who open these who are addicted to Pokemon just immediately take all the packs out, stack them up, get their razor blade and start ripping. Maybe start ripping. I got gloves. Am I supposed to have gloves? If it makes you feel cooler, you can absolutely run gloves on gloves. For anyone who's listening and not watching, Mark, Wade and I, I purchased these and sent them to the well, Wade honestly had one. I was going to send one to Wade. He was like, I already have. And I think actually you gave me this one because I told Joe is going to do this and you were like, I have extras. Do you want? Do you want some? I'm master set pitch black. So like this is this is honestly just going to be the most relaxing fun time for me, which is nice. But anyway, we're going to open some Pokemon cards. Oh, explain to Mark, what's what's master setting? So each set has so many cards. And if you have at least one copy of every card, you've master set it. I'm the master hands from Super Smash. There are weird exceptions to that because sometimes they don't count certain cards. Some two by two hands of blue. You know, like Super Smash brother. You know, you know, yeah, no, it's like if it had a blue skin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hope Sam cuts out the word Super Smash Brothers and then you just continue to describe something for listeners. Mark was just shaking up two cans of spray paint and then try trying to get the cap off, but having some trouble. So he was kind of fondling it. You remember this move in Super Smash Brothers? Yes. That's a great move. Oh, that Super Smash Brothers, not the game. Not the video tape. Your brother recorded over the Lion King the game. No, that was just those what? I'm so glad you reclarified that. What was it? Loud or for the listeners in the back? Oh, nice. That's the stuff. No, that's funny. Wade and I have talked about, I think, our Pokemon diction. Wade is way deeper into it than I am. I'm deep. But if we get any of you into it, if you haven't heard of it, like what's not beyond line, which is confusing, because then how did you find our podcast? But basically, these boxes that we have that we all showed on camera are boxes of 36 booster packs. And each booster pack, where's my camera? It's just a little sleeve that's not going to be in focus that each of these has 10 cards in it. And it has, I think it has each one has one energy card, which is part of the actual like play the card game part of the game. Who does that? I honestly nerds and an online card that no one ever cares about. Oh, yeah, there's an online card that you throw away. And then there are nine other cards that will be actual Pokemon's. When when people do this, I always I've seen people do it before. where they automatically put some from the backup front or something like that. - Yeah, so it used to be four from the back and older packs. The newer ones, it's usually just, there's the online card you take and get rid of. The very last card's energy, so people usually put the energy card in the front because there's a chance of getting what's called a God pack where all the cards and this are like a hit minus the energy in the online pack. So if you put the energy in the front and you don't know if the first card is a God pack hit or not, but it's usually just you get rid of the online one and the very last one you put in the front and then you've got it set up. - And if you have like a pocket knife or scissors or something, - I just lost it, mine. - I know, look, I'm not trying to rub it in. I'm not trying, but if you had a pocket knife, it's the easiest way to open these is to cut the top somehow as opposed to try to like pull it apart. - What about scissors? - Scissors works, just gotta aim-oom carefully. - Okay, I'm gonna get some scissors. - And before you cuts the dark, dry hit and half, man, I kind of hope he does just feel all those sweet, sweet Pokemon collector tiers. I don't know whose team I'm on here, but one of the odds we get, I mean, if theoretically we opened all three of all the cards and all these boxes, we'd have to get like at least one pretty good hit. Probably, I know it's not still not that high of a chance, but that's a lot of packs to open. We'd probably get something. - This simply, each box should have like, I think the odds in black aren't too bad, so you'd think each box would probably have at least one SIR on average. I'm not saying it's guaranteed, but like on average, you'd expect at least one I would think. - Yeah. I don't know if we're gonna open all of them. - Honestly, I've not looked at this segment. I've gotta remember what all the SIRs are. I know there's the darkry, the Shandallure, couple trainer cards, like a more peko. - Uh, didn't pitch black have a, you then a lot of people were chasing? I don't think there's a mute and pitch black. - I don't remember. - That's the only thing is I also haven't opened these in a long time 'cause I was opening chaos rising, and then I have had a few 30th anniversary things that I've been opening. I don't remember. - There's a very easy way for me to solve this conundrum. - Are you saying that on the internet, they may have some info about this? - Yeah, there's just literally a card list I can look at. So look at the card list, see what the big hits are. There's a mega zero aura, there's a Shandallure, there's a mega darkry, the more peko. Gladiant's final battle, Gwendo, the gold darkry. Those are the SIRs. - Okay, I'm back. And I've probably gotten food and grease all over this. - What is this SIR? - Secret rare. - Secret rare. - I don't know why it's called SIR, or why they call it secret rare. I'm not sure. I only got into this literally this year. So the history of why things are called that they are is beyond me. - I got into this way after you did. So I'm just a wee little, maybe. - Yeah, I mean back whenever we collected the '90s, there were no such things, like you knew what the cards were. And all the hits were up front. Now the hits are like the numbers in the back. - The very first set, like Charizard was number four. Now if you get a Charizard, it's like, "Oh, I got the 168 out of 120 Charizard." - Yeah, the numbers and shit is all a mystery to me. - Oh, I got the SHO29 out of SHO30 darkry. It's like, what does that mean? Those aren't how numbers. All right, well, should we rip our first packs, fellas? - Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Yeah, how do we, how do we do this? Do we announce it? Do we take turns? - I mean, we can all cut them and like prep them and then like take turns showing them. - Okay. - And yeah, the Pokemon, live, whatever nonsense. That's the thing you could just throw away. I honestly don't even know what those are for still, but I've never talked to a human being. It was like, "Oh, you want to have them." You don't want to miss out on those. You can like collect cards online or something. - I don't know which order things went in, so they kind of fell out of the pack weirdly. - Well, Marx is going to be a surpriseer. - Basic energy, okay, I got to put that into-- - Move that to the front so that it's like your top, yeah, a top situation and then draw 'em, baby. - But this is a weird angle. I gotta go over my microphone arm, so. - All right, so energy and we also, oh, gold dean. - That's pretty good, right, guys? - Hold on, what's your name? - Pulture, guy, Pulture, guys. - Pulture, guys? - Shield on. He has a shield on him. His name is shield on. - Rhyme, Mabo, something. - Masschiff. - Of course I get the ones I don't know the names of. - And I'm not gonna be able to hold my arms up like this for all 36 of these things. This is gonna be awful. - Hey, Wade, you and I got the same one. - Oh, David, I'll hell you. - Oh, pick a pick. - Oh, and now Wade and Mark are matched. Look at these guys. - That's gotta be at least where the point. Oh, look, it's Pulture, guys. Just like we got the same stuff. - Wow, interesting, interesting. - Oh, good, a bomb. Oh, man, man, man, man. - It's Menec Trick. Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie. - It's Menec Trick. Ooh, I got a reverse hollow seeking. - Reverse hollow, what does that mean? - So hollow is when the picture of the Pokemon is hollow. Reverse hollow is when the rest of the card around it is all hollow, foil. So this one is hollow, regular, 'cause the picture is all shiny, and then this one is reverse. I don't know why that's reverse, 'cause honestly, I tend to like the reverse hollows better in general, 'cause I feel like they have a cooler vibe. - This is just a two-can. - Two-can, two-canon, two-canon. - Oh, you got two-canon. - He's got two-canons. - All of them, the primate, and oh, I got the X. - Oh, is this a reverse hollow? Is that what that is? - Yeah, so the last three cards at every pack will be a reverse hollow, a reverse hollow, and then a hollow of some sort. - This is gonna be tricky. I forgot, I don't have literally any sleeves around me, so I guess I'm gonna have to set these precariously in a safe spot. - What does this one, voila, the Vica Volt? - Wait, it's winning this pack currently. I don't wanna put a pressure on you, Mark. - Ooh, you got the root. - It's a brew, it's a brew, it's a brew. - What was your EX that you pulled, Wade? - Rampartos, Rampartos. - So EX is like, it's still like not a full art, but the artwork kind of breaks out of the square a little bit. - I see, so should we set aside the hollows and that's like our Yippies? - You can, Tibet, so the hollows are not, if you're master setting, they mean a lot more or if you like the Pokemon. The ones that are considered hits are EX's and full arts, typically, again, there's always exceptions, but those are the ones that they consider hits or when you see an EX or a full art. - All right, so Bob, how do you wanna run this? Are we, for every pack, we're holding it up and opening it at the same time or are we ripping and holding up what we think is rare? - It was pretty loose, honestly. The whole concept was this was how can we get an excuse to try and get Mark Hooked on Pokemon slash open a bunch of packs for fun? - I basically wanna give points for good pools and I am open to being convinced. - Whoever has the highest dollar value at the end of it, right? - Well, look, if you wanna get Rare Candy set up and I'll 3D preach a Skid set up, we'll set it that we could skid. But yeah, I mean, Wade's Rampardo's hit was pretty sweet, but if you, there are some cards that I like, even though they're not special. Like, in this set, there's a Whale Lord. I mean, it is special, it's a Whale Lord full art that I think is just like a goofy looking art that's really cool. - I was kind of a hard one to get. I think that was one of my last ones to get. - I was like, one of the first things I got with my pitch black pools. I think that's my best pitch black cards still, which is not great. But also, I'm open to being convinced. I also like a lot of the classic ones. Like, there's a jinx and a slow poke in the set that have just like varying nostalgic arts that look like my childhood in the form of a Pokemon card. - So I think it's more fun whenever you do just like the cards rather than caring about just the monetary value. Like, it's cool to know you pulled an expensive card, but also like, I'm collecting not selling. - Fools. Oh, I'm, Rihon. - Well, my favorite starters, I like Papalew. - Hooranibos. - I cannot read these names inverted. - Electric. - We should read each other's names. (laughs) - Slow poke. - Papalew. - Volati. Volati. - Pippa-pippa-picka-pippa-picka-picka-picka-picka-picka-picka. - Something fossil. What is this? A skull fossil. - Another man trick dick. - Is that a tropious? I don't know, look at that. - Drill, drill, drill, drill. - Halifin. - My fingers cast such a shadow 'cause they angle my leg. - Did they add more Pokemon since I did my Smash or Pass? - There's like a thousand, 25, and there's another generation coming out of the next year. It's gonna add even more. So yes. Oh my God. Oh my God. - Evil. - Oh, I like the The Evil card. I just like The Evil. I feel like The Evil looks really cool. - It's a B&E Pokemon. (laughs) - Oh, I got Litwick. I don't think I have this actually. Reverse Holo Litwick. And it looks like I might have an EX. Ooh, what do we got? - Oh, an EX Darker. Nice. - Mega Darker. - Alright. - Alright. - Benet. - Dark Bell. Premendous bomb. Reverse tropious. - A silvally. - You know, tropious is one. I think it looks clever of dinosaurs, and it's like a flying Brontosaurus Gen 3 dinosaur. Its stats are so bad like in the game. It's virtually unusable. They've never given it any love, which makes me sad, 'cause it could be so much better. - Oh, so the trainer cards are the Reverse Holo. - Yeah, trainer cards. Anything can be Reverse Holo. There are Reverse Holo energy cards as well. - I just got a normal Holo Karidon in the back. Karidon. once you're curried on it. be for ride ons. I was talking to you before we jumped into this and you had made a good point. I will also give points each pack open for an accurate description encapsulating one of your one of your pulls. Yeah, we should do that better. Bigad Darkrai looks like kind of, wow, I was going to try not to go too dirty off the rip, but Mega Darkrai kind of looks like a sperm is trying to escape from a neon green and pink lightning storm. And the sperm is almost making its way out, but it's not quite free of the danger yet. Grandpartos is that like bald headed dinosaur little spikes that stick out that bumps its head against things. I can't remember the name of the dinosaur type, but uh, well, I haven't gotten an ex yet, so I can't explain anything. You're do mark. I'm do you're right. That's how statistics work, right? Skull fossil. Skull fossil. Hey, wait, we got the same pack, Wade. Oh my god, we do scarmory. Oh my god, we get the same back. Oh, wait, whoa, wait a minute. No way. I chain. No, man. That would have been funny. I like try. You got a bit of alter, whatever. Yeah, misty. A nihil ape, which I think made primate a lot cooler. Ah, I didn't know there was another revolution. I'm gonna do a pack opening the way they do it on TikTok. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing. All right, next pack. Bomber deer reverse hollow. Oh, I got an ex mega mega mega slow bro. Shop it reverse. Mega slow bro looks like slow bro wearing an alligator skin and oh full art. Oh, I'm the dinosaur guy today. I got a full art of the rampartus mark on his ex mark on an ex, but Wade got a card to compete with him. Damn, I'm losing now. Those are those are good pools. Those are good pools. Rampartus is still the dinosaur with the horns sticking out of its bald head and it's nice little blue bald pop at rams things with. Wow. All right. So I put this mega slow bro aside. Oh, you know what? I should have set you a pack of the sleeves and top loaders, Mark. That would have been the promove. Ah, who needs it? Who needs it? You put them where you keep your valuables and one of your dry cabinets. Well, I'm going to put I'm going to put them in my open packs, all the shinies, and I'm going to keep the EX separately, I guess. So Wade, what is your favorite set? As soon as yours has a lot of really cool cards, but it's probably, I mean, 30th is really cool. I like a lot of the 30th cards, but black bolt and white flare standout. They're two separate sets, but they're kind of the same. One of them features restaurant, which is the legendary from Pokemon White and then Pokemon Blackhead Zekrom. And I'm just a huge fan of those particular games, Jin Fives, one of my favorite Jens. So I like black bolt and white flare a lot and there's a lot of cool full arts in those I'm still missing. I don't think I have any of those. Are those? I mean, none of these are that old or those older though. It's a bit of an older set now. It's a couple of years old, at least. Sorry, I'm jumping ahead. Probably a good idea since they take a lot of open. Ooh, I got the Rampardo CX. It's Dinosaur Day, baby. Oh damn. Nice. It is Dino Day. A bro, what? A bronze or. Oh, yeah, he's bronze. He's a little psychic steel guy. Oh, shiny, reverse shiny goldine. Oh my God. I am still a sucker for Gen 1. So like 150 one and some of the Gen 1 Pokemon always. Her name backwards. I thought was Jizz. I still a jet. Yeah. Yeah, it's a jet. Oh my God, you got a you got a Jizz. Is that a hollow Jizz or just a normal? No, just normal Jizz. That's normal. Jizz could have been crazy. Oh, damn it. I've normal Jizz all the time. Reverse hollow jinks. I love I love the classics. I'm glad they changed. Jinks is look a little bit. It's still not great, but it's better than it was when it first came out. It's true. Reverse hollow whale Lord. So this one's fun. So some of the sets they do things like this were like the actual art for the whale Lord is like a bean bag looking things like knitted or stitched. They also have like claymation cards and like I think every set has one or two claymation looking Pokemon. I have one of those guys. I really like that whelmer like crocheted whelmer and my big hit is an energy. Oh, an energy hollow. All right. I've got a basic energy. Me too. We have the same pack. Oh my god. Same pack is the electric same pack. No. Damn deviates from the start. That's not good. It's a 3D manky. Oh, that's the clay. That's the clay one. Yeah, that's the claymation one. That's with special art. Oh, those unique. Okay. I'll set it aside. So one of the cool things they do is like they bring back artists. So there's a whole bunch. So the artists are all listed down here for the different artworks and artists still do so many cards per like each set. But if you have multiple sets, you'd be like, Oh, look, here's the artists version of this card like throughout the last 10 sets and you can kind of do like binders via just artists if you wanted to. Look, I got a better version of the one you just got Mark. It's a reverse hollow whelmer. Oh, man. I don't think I got the whale guy. I got the whelmer. He beat me. I beat you, Wade. Even better. You beat me. Yeah. Why is that better? Hold on. Guys, I think it recognizes that I'm a false believer. It's it's not given me anything nice. Now, this is just how it goes. Sinist. So these are like based on teas, the ultra, ultra-geist family. Sinist cheese and teas. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that they're like teas and coffees or whatever. I'm trying to open this riggy style without the scissors. Oh, the Hentai one. Oh, what? Malamar. Nice little pithicles. Just because something that's tentacles doesn't mean it's automatically obscene. I've been lied to up by the internet. What? How? In what way? I thought everything was tentacles with Hentai. What? Rolla can't. Isn't that like a not area 51 rule 34? That's it. Isn't that an area 51 with Hentai? Yeah, area 34, very famous. Shadow energy and Silvalli Hollow. Look, I'm going to save up all these online cards and I'm going to actually plug them in and it's going to be nuts. I really do hope that Mark gets something ridiculous though. How angry would people be if Mark pulls like the Mededarkry or something, the like gold, super special nonsense card? I'm going to pull the one ring, guys. I believe in you, buddy. There is a set for that. That's the magic set now. Yeah, that's true. Those cards actually look pretty sick. It's the Hentai one. Oh, this is another what I like. It's - It's Nicket, just a little emo Fox guy. - Pre-evolution to The Evil. - Oh, that's part of the Theaving Foxes. A Trum. Trum. Trum. Trum. Trum. Trum. Trum. Trum. Trum-Beak. - There you go, Bob. I pulled it too. I pulled it too. Your favorite. - I love that. That's a good card. He's adorable. - It's a Minecraft monster. - Oh my God. (laughs) - Charger Park does look silly. - A little squared off. - Whoa! - Whoa! - Whoa! You joined the Rampardo's crew! - You're Dino Bros! - Dino Bros! - That's very shiny. Look how shiny that is. - Yeah, here's his very shiny looking. - Full art, Manectric. - Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah. - Okay, you guys can't let me have one cool thing. You always get up as soon as I get like a nice one. - Oh, full art, whatever. - Oh, look, Mark, here's this great. Here's this really good, buddy. - Mine's double shiny or something. I don't know. Is the other one was the other one? - Yeah, this one's shinier than the other EX I got. - It's even shinier. - And after the slow, bro. - More of a opaque energy. - I think that's special. - It's got a little extra shin in it. - Yeah, that means I'm special. - No, you know what, though, you do get a Rampardo's point. - So that's good for you. - Thank you, thank you. - I would ask you to describe it, but I think everyone has heard and seen about it. - It's basically that dinosaur from Jurassic Park with the dome, the kind of monk looking one with the bald head. - Bald and horny and rams a lot. - That's it, that's it, that's it. - Leaf. - Why is grass type represented by a leaf instead of piece of grass? - What would a piece of grass look like on as it like a little medallion? - No, just like a little, little, little fuzz patch of grass. I don't know, I feel like you could probably pull it off. - Yeah, you know, I say that, but that absolutely could be accomplished. - That leaf type is grass type is represented by a leaf. - I feel like they called them grass types, but then almost all of the, like the early grass types were very leafy. Like it's not like any of them, we're just like a patch of grass. - Little grubbens? - It's supposed to be nature, but you know, nature doesn't really play out. - Mars Shadow is a Pokemon, I did not have much respect for. Then I played a version of like Cobblemon, which is like the Minecraft pixelmon now, but it's Cobblemon's the new one. And the fighting ghost type, it's actually so good. It's such a good Pokemon to actually use. - I feel like it's got to be really hard to be a fighting ghost though. You can't touch anything. We fight with. It manages somehow. - Slow, slow, slow, shiny, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, pede. - Ooh, reverse hollow skull fossil. - Two cannon, eh, oh, there I'm, I'm a slow bro. - I have that, I have that. Yeah, well get ready to be outdone by this. - Hey, we both got faster dogs. - But faster dogs. - That's a fun one, right? - It's pretty cool. I got one, I like it, I'm a fan. - No, no, no, I hate it, it's not, no monetary value. - Are you feeling hooked Mark? Are you feeling the it? That big head will get him. It's gonna get me guys. It's true You do you do you do need to make your first melee even Pokemon cards before you really start to feel it. Oh Man, I got a crochet one. I do like those those the art on the like Knitted crochet looking ones are dope. Who mankeys in one pack? What is this? Yeah, cuz I got the Wilmer crocheted Yeah, that's nice. I'll keep that one. Gladeon Man debuts man debuts. Yes. Flaw Faw Faw Mantis. Faw Mantis. What the hell is that? I don't know. You know fun. Oh, there's the lightweaker verse another manky and Win. Yeah, yeah, it's way Lord. Yeah, all right. So basically whale Lord is like a whale, but long and with a pretty big mouth and little eyes Whales are long look at this fit is in. I love the art on this guy too. He's a girl. You got a very shiny energy pretty cool I don't know. I was described slow bro. You know what slow bro is exactly what you'd imagine. That's the description for slow bro I can't imagine you have to describe it imagine a bro who's very slow Okay, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm without you. I'm without you And with his time doesn't know where to go The only word I can think that rhymes now is ho. Oh, there you go. Hello, bro. All right. I'm Almost a quarter of the way through. Oh, I got the full hollow electric Voltaic energy. I think I know you guys send me the bad packs. What I think you you intentionally did you saved it the good for yourself? I did not buy a booster box open them all and then carefully Receal them to send them to you. That's what happens to Wade. So it's not very It's it's a full art, so it's not common, but like it's not the rarest of all one of my favorites in this set is actually the primarina I have so many of those It was the one I wanted the most ever. I saw this set do these packs like have Classic cards or do they change the cards every single time they release a new pack? So they actually recycle arts sometime So I swear there's like four sets that'll have like the same artwork for some this will not have any cards from a set other than pitch black Annihilate. Oh, that's fun. Oh, there's bronze or it jizz Well, there's like I asked for primarina and I got one. Just not the full art. Oh Wait full art shiny goldine. Oh full art goldine That's pretty sweet and then shiny energy Oh that Goldine is actually um, I think that's my friend into when this chase card in the set He wants that goldine really bad like this one like this right here. This one. Yeah, you can't have it. Oh, let him know Oracle that goldine you wanted he doesn't want it at all, but you can't have it He's gonna throw in the trash. I guess if you could find it at the dump you can have it my heart skipped a beat He was like this one. You mean this one. I was like, please don't rip it right now No, no, no, I wouldn't do that. No, we're sizzling. We're sizzling. I guess I'm curious I don't know if you count as being in the in the community of like Pokemon heads or whatever do people just like hang out and rip cards Because I have some friends. Oh, we have some friends. You know them who like when we hang out They'll just show up and be like, hey, I got these packs who wants to rip packs and they literally will just hand out like Here's here's a here's an ascended heroes. Here's a whatever you want to rip it here. Yeah, you open this you do Do people just do that? So we're literally in the same circle. So my oh full art two cannon. Oh, he has two cannons So like my inclination is to say yes, but also these are so expensive and hard to get sometimes now that uh When I was a kid, I remember like I'll just go grab a pack of magic cards like I saved my allowance for a couple weeks I got like seven bucks or whatever like just ain't like that anymore. We're shiny good. Oh, you got shiny wellmer. Whoa Oh, you got to fill our trainer cards. Oh, wow, that's nice. I'll describe it. Mark's card looks like a bomb. My card looks like a two can We've done it. What's that? I got an EX to the something or other. I don't know why I've done this where I've like Rotated this stack of cards as I was putting out the omega x a drill EX. Oh, the extra drill nice. That sounds fun Drill burst evolution, but then the mega version. We're all getting stuff guys. Yeah, all of us. Didn't you just pull the golden No, no, man. I'll take credit for the golden if you want. No, it doesn't exist. What was yours? Wait, you got the full art two cannon two cannon Blow poke which looks like a poke that's slow does it though? I looked up while you were saying that and it was the the next card And I was like, that's wrong, buddy. Bombard. Yeah, I've tried to I look at the time. I'm like, man, we've been going I'm not even got through half of this box yet go pretty slow. Yeah, I'm not halfway through either the misty full art's also cool But then again, I'm a gen 1 fanatics though all the original trainers and stuff Plus misty was like childhood childhood crush misty and Kim possible baby. Let's do this. Oh, hey another rampartose But this one's just the normal reverse hollow is this stark store carrying a baby or is there bombs in there? It says bomb burger Was that what called bomber deer bomber deer because it's a bomb bird. Yeah, bomber deer like that electric art And then this thing on my bob. Oh, I think I think I think I was smashed on this or maybe I was not. I'm not sure. Oh, I would That seems like a smash Maybe maybe oh, I got the reverse hollow electric. Yay. I was just saying how much I like that. Oh, there you go I also got a pre-marina. She's one of the very few starters. I like that is like later generation I don't like all of the later generation starters, but the pop leo family is one I like and their water fairy type, which is great Water fairy It's a good combo sounds like that thing from that Futurama episode that they eat that end up being the the babies of the People from Omicron Percy. I ate. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm not gonna get a Futurama point because I still a show I've not watched Who would see Futurama? I've seen like two episodes. Oh It's worth it. It's worth it. Yeah, it's a great And then I've had the dog episode spoiled those the only things I know about Futurama. Okay, don't watch that one Because fuck that episode and how much it makes me sad every time I see it or think about it reverse not full art bomb and oh The shadowy energy another bomb bird deer if listeners are out there are concerned that we're not describing a lot of the cards That's because we're getting a lot of the same stuff Rust syndicate grant. What is the what is the rust syndicate? They're blasting off again, I think. Oh, I don't know This guy's got a wheel in his chest. I'm not a herb sent your Korob Koraybon Koraydon Karaydon, I think he's got a wheel in his chest. It's like a yeah, so in the games There's Karaydon and Maraydon and they are your bicycles in the games like you literally ride on them. Oh, ride on. I see. I see. Oh I get it dude. It makes me like like grimace like it makes me kind of be like, I hate that shit But it's so funny the Pokemon names where you're like, what is this ring that doorbell ring Ring that ring that door, but it's like ring the doorbell. It's a doorbell like oh This one looks like a set of key. Let's name clef key. His name is K from pocket. I didn't see it till now Hey, what's this one called? It looks like a ghostly lamp. Its name is lamp it Well, is the Japanese naming convention different? You know, I'm I'm so curious. I that. I don't know I still still that the Trubbish family is one of my favorites to there's Maraydon I got to see the counterpart is there three evolutions or is it just Trubbish and then Garbador? Just Trubbish and then Garbador and then I think Trubbish is a small trash can and Garbador is a big pile of garbage That's funny. It's not called mega. What's the thing called? There's like the gigantic version of Garbador He's an even bigger pile of trash. It's not an evolution. It's like a temporary boost form or something Yeah, isn't that from like the starlet violet era. Yeah, yeah, yeah super gigantic plus Silverly Silverly I think so voli so voli I think it's a um legendary or pseudo. It's I think it's a legendary Doesn't say anything No, it doesn't on the cards like the Maraydon cried on are also legendaries But sometimes you can find a legendary Pokemon on like a common or uncommon card nowadays in the sets, which is weird That does seem silly. Oh the backtrack badge the one you get from forgetting something having the backtrack to go get it Uh-huh. Is that really what the the word is? No, I don't know what the hell it is I feel like people want to hear the sound of it actually ripping you might be on to something work I did like that first bastion on and oh, I think I got the exca drilling ex the exca drill Why are we laughing? Why are we laughing? Oh, I got the full art Silvelli. Oh nice. That's a pretty card, too Oh, that's pretty. I'll pay you 30,000 pennies for it. There's a secret rare Gladiens final battle I think and if you put those two cards side by side like the The light and the rays come from his card into the Silvelli cards. They kind of like pay your side by side, which is kind of cool Interesting. Why is it Misty's vitality? What why do I care about Misty's vitality and not Misty? She's a vital young woman. That seems kind of creepy. I don't know about that one. Oh Oh, yeah, the energy. All right - Oh, I do have to say too. I think it's a funny sign. I have seen some parts of some friends collections and they'll just have a thing where it's like, oh yeah, I have all this energy and they'll have like a foot tall stack of just energies and I'm like, holy shit. - It's easier to get than you'd think. - I know that you get a big pack of energies if you get like an ETB I think. - Yeah, they come with them, stack of them. But like still, you have to open so many fucking packs to get mostly one energy at a time to build a thing that's just like, like I'm not on that level yet. - Oh, you'll get there, you'll get there. - Oh man, I'm feeling pretty addicted, oh man. - Yeah, you ruined yet, Mark, you spoiled. - Oh man, you start spending all your money. - We rang his bell. - Listen to this. - Oh, the ASMR. - That is pretty good. - That's what it's all about, everybody. This was all about. - She, who is like a little legendary goldfish thing, which is also kind of interesting to me. It's like a fire type goldfish. - Oh yeah, so that one. Is it a goldfish? I thought it was a spider, but I guess I was looking at it stupid. - Well, the angle on that particular card's kind of funky, but I think on other arts, it looks like just a goldfish but a fiery legendary one. - Mom, I had to do like two episodes of this to get through this box. - I'm only about halfway through. - This reminds me of when I used to play World of Warcraft, what I would do is I would get, you know, or, and I was a, I was a jewel person, whatever a jewel crafter in this, oh, full art of evil. - Feeval, oh, I like that one. - Wow, it's the sneaky fox, but he's got a mustache in addition to the mask. So he's, he's jumping from a high place down. - That's what makes him evil. He's not just a, he's not just a TV fox. - He's an evil TV fox. - I don't think evil is part of it, but I also got a shiny energy. - He's the evil, what do you mean? - He's the, he's the, he's the evil. It's, that's like, it's, it's like therapist versus the other thing. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, I was like, what do you, oh! - He's both, you're right, just like that. - No, no, no, no, it's not both. There's one proper interpretation. - I hope this is the first one. - Oh, God, I mean, whatever, I don't know which one's which anymore. - I don't either. I know you were hoping for me to get a good one and man, for the Pokemon company, it would have been really good for them to get me hooked, but it doesn't seem like it's going to be that way, guys. - I got the chandelier X. - Do you want to describe what it looks like? - It looks kind of like if an onion became a sentient jackalan turn lamp that had purple flamey arms coming out of it. - What's the deal with Titanol? Why is that, that seems like strange name. - I don't know why it's named that. It evolves, I think it evolves into Sylvoli, the other one that we've seen a couple of times. It's like one of the few legendaries that has an evolution, a few of them do, but not, not a lot. - I'm going to watch this one mark because I know that you have a real winner in this pack. - Oh, yeah, well, I can feel it. - Yep, oh, starting off, that's a nice one. - A ride on, sure, Chi, Chi, you? - Yeah, Chi, you, and then boom. - And then another pre-marina, all right. I told you that one was, I told you that one had a winner. - Yeah, that is a winner for me, right? - Oh, slow, oh, hey, I got one. Mark, let me top you again. - Oh, shit. - Ah! - You got the fuller, full mantis. - The full mantis, look at that pretty flowers. - That's a cool one. I don't think I have that one. - Man, my luck's really going ass up, guys. - Great, oh, and I got shadowy energy too. - All right, I'm officially at one half of this thing done. - You're one pack ahead of me. This is my last pack of the first half. - Mark, did you have any good pulls after the big bomb card? Do you have any other ones that you've set aside? - Nope. - It's been just the bomb was the last one. - Thevil, you got the Thevil. - Oh, right, no, yeah, he did get the Thevil. You got the full art Thevil. - Did I get a full art Thevil? - We had a whole discussion about it. - Oh, I think I put it away in the wrong place. Oh, you're right, I put in the wrong place, hang on. - I thought, I thought, it's because he's evil, because it's hard to tell, but that does count. - Yeah, you're right, yeah, you're right. I got it, yeah, he's there. - See, you're getting stuff, Mark? - Yeah, yeah, I'm getting, I'm getting, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, to be fair, you and Wayne have the same number of pulls, which is pretty balanced. - We had one pack that was like five of the same cards in a row. I got so many of these online cards, it's crazy. I'm going to be rich. - Those are really valuable, probably. - All right, we got the reverse hollows, the root, the evil, and armor rogue, armor rouge. - It's not rogue, 'cause it's not ROG, it's like armor rouge. - I got the baby bomber, I got the Minecraft character. - Got the hen tie, I've got the bent tie, and I've got the, ooh, it's an axe, it's a mega chandelor. - Oh, hell yeah. - Wow, it looks like a chandelier, but evil. - Yeah, that's why it's chandelier. - It's a chandelier, yes. - Ooh, wait a minute, oh, make it dark fry, yes. - Oh, that's the one on the box, that's the one on the box. - I don't have that yet, that's pretty sweet. Well, actually, for my little election, yeah. - Which one did you have, Mark? - Sorry, I totally overshadowed it again. - Chandelor, but I guess that's old hat, you always gotta outdo me every time I get something nice. - Chandelor is a really good mark. Don't worry, you're doing great, honey. - Yeah, yeah, you just pulled the one on the box. I'm sure that that's a little. - I think the mega chandelor, other than the dark fry, the mega chandelor in the perimeter, were two of the cards I wanted the most in the set. - The chandelor's, look, the chandelor's on the box. Packs, look, you got this one. - I guess it's true, I guess it's true. - I do wish I had some top letters over here. I didn't realize I was gonna get an actual pull I didn't have for this set yet. - Oh, full art of the rust syndicate. - Oh my God. - All right. - So, two people in suits with sunglasses sitting down the bridge of their nose looking cool and official. Maybe evil. - Are to tell, are syndicate's evil? I feel like a lot of them are. - I think if they're rusty, you know, that doesn't have to be evil. - They were evil, but they're out of practice. - Another Primo Promo, a half shiny fossil quarry. - It's a lorantica, lorantus, lorantus e-axis. It's like a big fish with a, it's Luria. You can't see it. Why would you want, there it is. It's like it's got trailing pieces of goldfish behind it. It's like it's got various other fish dangling off of it to show off how deadly it is. And it's double shiny. It's like got the extra shimmery. - Though it's supposed to be an alluring praying mantis. - Yeah, what's that? That's a full art. - No, not full art, just double shiny. Just really shiny e-axis. - My desk was not prepared for this today. I'm filling it up very quickly with the empty packs and cards while I'm being very methodical, but also same. We haven't seen any SIRs yet. - SIR, what's that? - The secret rare cards. - Oh my God. - Not the Karidon. - The Karidon me. (laughing) - That's the thing, that's why he's called that. - Gladion's final battle. What is he gonna die? - Whoa, whoa. - Wait, do you have the, oh, okay. - No, it's just a regular. - Yeah, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. - I don't know what happens to him. I don't know the lore. I don't know if he dies or if he just retires or what happens. Apparently this is final battle. - He definitely dies. - Whoa, whoa. Oh, hey, there's a full art chandelor, yeah. - But this is different than the one I just got. This is. - That's a mega chandelor EX, which is different than the mega chandelor EX. Oh, actually, is that an SIR? That's a cool one. - That's not the SIR. That is a full art. The SIR is like a bit more zoomed in on the chandelor. - Yeah, what did I get last time? Yeah, I got a not full art mega chandelor. This is a full art chandelor, which looks like a chandelier, but there's also a second chandelier in the misdiness behind it. - It was three different chandelor hits. The EX, the one marked off in the SIR. - That's pretty cool, aren't it? Okay, all right. Okay, that gives me some points, probably, I don't know. - Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. - That's definitely gotta be worth something. - One of my favorite cards in the set. - You're kicking Wade's ass right now. - Oh, man. I got a half shiny Misty Vitality, though. - Oh, but the Darkrai EX bringing me right back. - Oh, man. - Wade will never let it go unanswered. - Technically, he beat me that round, the full art. He finally won around. - Yeah, yeah, finally. - Ah, it happened. - Yeah, be. - I feel the addiction. I feel the neural pathways reinforcing themselves to cause me to build this habit stronger and stronger with every one of these. - The dopamine. - Yeah. - The dopamine by most. It's like when you guys ruined that one kid's life in college with, wow, we're gonna ruin your life with Pokemon. - Hey, he chose that, mostly. - You know, on eBay, someone's selling all the sets of cards up through pitch black master work, or master set for only $750,000. - Oh, you could just get it all done with all at once that you don't have to do any of this nonsense. - Yeah, you don't know where about the collecting. - Well, and also, I have to point out, I played, wow, just as much as Aaron did, and I turned out okay, so I think he's fine. Maybe not just as much. He actually played more than me. - He cut over to Aaron, who's just got like wires hooked into him to keep playing through his neural pathways. - I actually don't know if you did play just as much, but you did play a lot, and you were still able to go to your classes and shit and do what you needed to do. I have no concept of how much he played because he literally gave himself double-carpooled. I think that probably was more to do with like the environment with which he was playing in maybe he was I think he was playing on a laptop almost all of his Time playing and laptops are terrible for your body man And my wrist is still not right from using a college laptop. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure that I had to do with it Whereas I had always had a desktop set, but I always had wrist rests even to this day Dude, I didn't appreciate how sick your computer setup was what we lived together freshman year You had a free like pretty high-quality desktop gaming set. Oh, I got the full art to cannon Hey to cameras and you let me use it, which was a bold move Yep, it sure was a lot of TF2 going on. I mean, I don't recall breaking it or anything, but oh, he's right I don't see many heat trends today It's fine, man, but you let me use it. Oh, hollow juice. Oh my god. Is it half hollow or full hollow? What is this a sucking it? What is it Sinistia? I read that wrong Sinistia suck it it dude. It's a suck in it. What could it mean suck in it? Oh, man I just can't decipher this one. It's just a fleshlight Wait, wait, wait, that's an SIR this is an SIR that I do believe so Mark if you look at the bottom left Are there two gold stars on it? Yes, two gold stars. That's an SIR. That's the rarest pool of the day. Oh Shit more Pico that is one of the four five six rare cards you could get from this set is it six? Yeah, that's one of the rarest pools Oh shit more pico x-ful It's set it's seven one of the seven rarest. It's one of the six SIRs then there's the super gold card But yeah, that is that is the pool of the day. It's a little Jerbal looking things printing like jumping leaping towards the viewer. There's trash all around it It's got red eyes. Definitely looks like it belongs with the evil. It's got like this texture to it too That's fun. Should I be shaking and trying to sleeve this and then inevitably bend it as I sleeve it? Yeah That's I think that's what you're supposed to do. Yeah, okay And then you look and you find out it had perfect alignment So it was a PSA 10, so it's probably worth a couple hundred bucks, but you then you bent it so it's worth nothing nice That's definitely the winning pool so far. I think how he pulled it and Bob and I're like I just don't want to have spit flying and get on it so that you know it gets damaged that's fair if I could have rigged that to happen I would have here all yeah now I'm gonna be I'm hopeless basically all right I'm not putting on top just in case I fly some spit and I get it on it Goldine bro. I joined Mark and the Goldine family. Holy shit smash smash dude I always thought there was something about Goldine like it's still fish, but like there's something the name It's the name, you know that horn. Maybe it's the way that little belly hangs out. Oh, I got the fuller dark bell. Oh Dark bell, but we all pulled good cards there, but Mark one with the more peko. You're on the song golden Goldine Goldine Goldine My man. I don't remember. Pepperidge from Remembes. I couldn't think of a dolly part in Goldine pun. I tried I just want you to know I tried. I wonder if she ever won a Goldine globe Probably though, right? Parting the pun. I'm sure any Volaphy Brabos did on bastard on Another Premerina. Whoever ends up with the most Premerinas wins. I actually don't think it's me. I think it's Mark right now. I think it's Mark Yeah, I feel like Premerina has to be shiny, but you know. Yeah. No, not regular ones But if you have any kind of hollow or whatever special kind of Premerina that counts Probably oh Hey, there's a Premerina. I'm catching up. Oh hell yeah. I make a rule and wait immediately strikes back Oh, that's right. I don't have a chance. No Premerina for Bob still though I think that's better than any pitch black card. I've actually pulled really the Premerina though Yeah, yeah, just the regular hollow Premerina. Yeah, you know, I could see this. This is I could see the fun in this You know as a group activity, you know, just being like hey look what I got look what I got whoa look what I got I know like loot boxes are real bad and this kind of stuff you know trying to get rare stuff is these angels But there's also some fun to it. There's a reason people get addicted to gambling, you know If it weren't for scalpers, this would be a really fun and great hobby. Yeah, whoa. I got a hey the dark cry bro. I got a mega Dark dark dark cry Oof nice nice. How would you describe what he looks like Mark? Uh, okay, it's like It's kind of like a ghost eight way too much like a Thanksgiving dinner and it's like You know kind of like that and he's tipping over at the dinner table about to plow head first into the ground because also you drank too much And then there's swirls of dark energy that are pulling him because his sins have caught up to him and now he's being pulled down to hell Beautiful. Mark that burp echo that you pulled is worth $22 It's worth $67 if it gets a PSA 10 which it certainly will probably they just hand those things out for nothing What qualifies a PSA 10? There's a bunch of stuff. Yeah, make each other's no scratches, dents or bends or anything But also like do you see the lines around the car like the silver border if they're like perfectly even on all four sides and then also the back You can actually see on that one right there you can see the right edge is like a little thicker than the left edge So that's yeah, the print is not centered or the cut is not centered whatever it is They also do there's one of them. So there's different services that rate them And there's one of them that takes like a 3D scan of the surface and surface imperfections is part of the thing that they grade on Which I think is really interesting because it shows like some of the cards just have like kind of naturally bumpy surfaces from the print or something It's weird. It's um A arbitrary and kind of a scam but I bet yeah, hey look if I get a card that's worth $20,000 and it gets rated and I sell it for $20,000 I'm not going to complain. Yeah, true. I'm also not ever going to have that happen But I wouldn't complain, you know, so Molly pulled the full art umberion from prismatic evolution and by default just If you pull it, it's like a $1200 card and then I think it's like seven grand if it grades at a PSA 10 and hers It's not been graded, but it's the lines on it are pretty good. So I've debated on getting it graded. Yeah, full art, well, Lord Oh Well, it's an eX. Oh, whatever it's an eX. I hate to break your your heart but that it's an eX It's not as good guy. Is that not good? Is that not good? No, it's good. Just eX is like a little bit lower to your than the full arts typically Oh my god Some eXs are worth more like you some eX charzards are worth more than some other full arts and stuff See he doesn't just do it to you mark. He does it to everybody. It's okay, man. It's okay. I like your accomplishments Yeah, it's kind of represent the truth now. This guy cares about the truth. Oh, what's that? Adele clock. Oh, Adele clock. It's a starter Pokemon that finished Anakin thinks final evolution. Well So imagine what's the word an anthropomorphic fox uh-huh with a big hair and lots of fire and it's looking you in a way that says Yes, mommy, but also that it might kill you It's saying yes, mommy. You make you say yes, mommy. It's looking at it at a way in a way that makes you say yes, mommy How do you know if a Pokemon is male or female? Uh most of them don't have them, but some of them it'll boo full art Manetrick. Oh nice. It's a dog with a pointy It's it's a dog cosplaying as the coneheads when there's electricity To put it in a show shot the energy shield on I you know what always pops into my head when I read shield on Do you guys remember those old head-on commercials that's like head-on applied directly to the head applied directly to the forehead What was that stuff? Was it just like topical like pain killer? I don't know Because it was marketed as like this will fix your headaches and stuff But how would you possibly fix a headache with a topical cream? Loustic thing I have no idea they make like menthol and cam 4 like tiger bomb like topical anesthetics like that But I don't know what that had all I know is you apply it directly to the head or head Isn't it? Yeah forehead some kind of head wait you considering your bold you got to try it and put it all over your head And see what it does my forehead does go all the way to the base of my neck in the back That's a lot of head-on wait sitting there with a stick of head-on like I'll take your entire stock these guys know their product. I got a use as directed This is where we just develops a life-destroying like addiction to head-on Turns out if you don't have a headache it just gives you the worst headache you could imagine Oh, there we go. Oh Zerora Oh my god what's your mahuama whole art zero or not the S.I.R. But it is a full art zero or a that's it's an eX That's awful aren't that's an eX whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa this is a full art the leggings go down all the way down to oh okay It's just like the it's like that chandelier. It's the normal full art not the S.I.R one Oh, so zero or a man it's like a cat Wolf that looks like it should be very electrical with some different blue and yellow crackling energy on its dark grey fur. running away from a spilling picture of Kool-Aid. Fair enough, fair enough. That is scary. That is very scary. Ooh, what's this one? Oh, it's a Laurentus EX. The praying mantis. It kind of looks like toothless's head from how to train your dragon, but it's pink, and it has like teal accents. But it's not on the head of a dragon, it's on the head of like a weird, like, fishy, crabby bit. So it's kind of like a weird crab dragon situation. Ooh, an iron defender. Iron defender. Shiny, full iron defender. That's a good one, Mark. Yeah, isn't it? I like that one. That's when I have not seen a lot, and I think it's pretty cool art. All right, I'm down for that. It's a bottle of pills. That's what it is, everyone at home. It's a big bottle of pills. EX Laurentus. Just like Bob. Ooh, nice. A nice pink praying mantis with a lot of fluff behind it. Why's it got to be nice and pink? Looks like a nice color pink. Not like those bad color pinks, you know? All right, how many packs do we have left, boys? Three after this one, so four total. Oh, man, he's going faster. I get seven after this, and I'm going to catch up. Okay, hold on. Wait, wait, wait. We're going. I'm blasting through. Still have yet to see a god pack. I hear they exist. I had never seen one. Molly and I have had a couple of demigod packs where you have like three hits, but never god pack. I've heard that term mentioned. I've never seen proof that it does exist. Oh, there's a full art. Full art, energy switch. What does that even mean? I don't know how this game works. It takes it from here. So, okay, imagine like a telephone, dumbbell, shaped portal device, and then a little ball on electric energy sitting on one side. Looks like it's about to get sucked up into one side and spat out on the other. I still don't know how that works in the game. I don't know what it means. I don't know that this is a thing in the actual game. These things have to be a thing in the game. This is the cards are the game. Modern card games do a lot of bullshit, or they'll be like, "All right, we're dropping this special pack. It's not allowed in competitive play. It's against the rules in all game modes, but you can absolutely collect these cards if you're interested." Yay. Mark, I have a bad feeling about this one. About this one I'm holding right now. Yeah, I think it's going to be a lot and nothing. Yay, energy. Shiny energy. That's pretty cool. My SIR is coming anytime. The Golden Dark Rise in here somewhere. Wait, I have a bad feeling about the rest of your packs. I don't want to be that guy. He's being that guy. He really wants to be that guy. I don't want to be that guy, but I really, really do. But look at this. Oh, the shadow of the energy. Oh, just wait. I got a bad feeling about this one. Bob, I feel like you're going to get something very nice and be happy about it. Reverse Hollow Minecraft. And another Slow Bro EX. Or Mega Slow Bro EX. I also like how at the start of this, we're going to open Pokemon cards. I set one to Mark. I cut mine from Wade. Wade got his from Wade. Yeah, well, I did fully intend to send you one, but that you were like, "I already have four of those boxes. Would you like some?" I did have too many of them. It's the Yes Mommy one. You make a Del Fox. Hey, Del Fox. She's a Fox. So is that a smash? I don't know. I kind of really got a CM full body to make a judgment. It's a not just hit. Oh, hey. Oh, like Slow Bro. It's our first one of these tonight. Ooh. That's great. How is he so small? No, he's slow, Mark. All right. So he's a little, what is Slow Bro's animal supposed to be like? It's not a sloth, but it's kind of like a bear, but kind of like a bear mixed with not bear stuff. With what looks like a drill bit with eyes for a tail, and standing on a time legs looking up, hopefully. Well, it's that's shelter. Isn't it like a conscious shell? Yeah, it's shelter. It's literally shelter, but shelter turns into a rounded version of the shell. Or to become the tail, rather than the normal looking like clam. Slowpoke. A lot of slowpoke these days. All right. My last pack, everyone. Wow, God, you're so fast. I do this a lot. Wait, it has opened so many of these. Molly's even faster than I am. Ooh. Look at this guy. Full art, armor Rouge. That's a beautiful card, too. Ooh, armor Rouge. Wow. Looks like Mega Man, but in Fire Mode. It kind of does. My dark cries in this pack. Last pack magic, everyone. Last pack magic is coming up. Backtrack badge. It's Benectric. Now that's gonna pop into my head every fucking time. Thank you for that. Yeah, you're welcome for first relic camp. I have a stiff. And, oh, Bob is right. That's what you knew. Oh, the last one. Yep. Damn. How many you got left, Mark? Like four or five? I got three more after this. We've come this far. All right. Got fire energy. Got a Pokemon. Got a dolphin. Literally a dolphin. Type No. Got this. Got this grubbing. Got a dremendum arm. Got the rusty dudes. Got the hot boy. Electric dog. A little fish. Oh, a more pico. Oh, that's the one I got the other one of, yeah. Warpeco EX. Yeah, it's your SRB. That's the EX version, yeah. Nice. Okay. So I had 15 hits in 36 packs. A little less than one out of two. Ooh, I got the enormous bomb. Tremendous bomb. Just like Mark. It looks like a tremendously large bomb. Yes, but there's really nothing to put the perspective on it. So we don't know how big it actually is. But there's actually a person next to it for scale. But they're so small, you can't see it. Damn, that's a tremendously big bomb. It's tremendous. I'm going to go through and show off my hits again. How many hits did you say you had, Wade? 15. Eight full arts. 70Xs. Excellent. More full arts than the Xs. Well, you guys are finishing up your packs. I'll just go through and Bardos. Cannon. I hate playing my fingers on these since they're not in sleeves. But it's okay. My master said it's done. This is just for fun. I don't need the panting. Oh, Mantis. Goldine. Zero aura. Slow bro. Energy is sweet. And we get to the EXs. Mantis. Delpha. Darkrai. Xs. Good drill. I don't think I had any dupes. Way lower. Slow bro. And the EX rampartist. I didn't think I had any dupes in here. That's pretty interesting. I feel like that doesn't happen when I open a lot. I always end up getting the same. Like a couple of the same EXs or something. I've got one more. This is going to be crazy. Last pack magic. I'm going to literally shit myself. And this is called bulk everybody. The cards that we collected that weren't hits. Here's a nice stack of our bulk from what a booster box is. I have 14 hits, but I have five packs unopened still. Based on my luck, then you should have at least one or two more hits in there. I don't know how many I have. I'm trying to just get through this. This is the last one, by the way. Last pack magic. Mark's about to pull an absolute legend. The Baby Bomber. The Pablo. It's under here. Oh, we energy. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's one more. Sorry. It was hidden behind the tuck. It was tucked behind the sleeve. Oh, the secret actual last pack. Oh, that's why that one didn't hit. This is the real last pack. Is there such a thing as like there's a pack that's hidden actually in the box? And you know, it's not revealed at first. I have so I've thrown a lot away. You've to split the cardboard in half to find it. What game was like the cards against humanity had that where there was a card like under the inside the box of the main game? Wasn't it always like the dick card? It was like the biggest blackest dick card or something. All right. Here we go. This is actually my last. This one's going to slap. This one's going to wreck your faces. That guy. That guy that I've seen a thousand times. There's too many of these. I mean, tremendous bomb. This guy. It's a type null. Inky. And it's a cheat just like Wade's last one. And that's all she wrote. All right. Count them up, sir. How many how many to end up in your hits pile? Did you make a hits pile? Yeah, I have a hits pile. I'm rich, right? I mean, honestly, you're the richest one here probably because you pulled that. You pulled that one S.I.R. It was about 108 packs with one S.I.R. Yeah, I've got one of this guy. I've got this thing, the Arm of Blama. That's two, the three for that one. The Ironpils IV. The Conehead V. The Too Much Hat Dinner 6. A Mega Slow Bro 7. This special one 8. And this Mega Shandelier 9. 10. Another Shandelier 11. The Thieve Evil 12. A tremendous bomb upside down is 13. Wait, I think I just pulled this aside because it was bonus way, Lord. Yeah, I don't think that one counts. The Shrine Eagle Dean 14. And again, I was just like, oh, I thought it was rare. And then the headbutter 15. And then she's making it. All right, 15, 15. All right, so you're both at 15. Bob, is that help you for just turning points? Sure, sure. I probably does. I think the SIR probably gives him a boost. And Bob has an SIR and one of his last five packs probably. I mean, I have to, right? Either a God pack or an SIR has to be. I got a couple more left here. I would love to see a God pack. Nothing. Two packs left, I do believe. Well, while Bob's opening the packs. Make sure if you guys haven't already we've been promoting the hell out of it so you probably know about it But the scary tapes are coming out this month and there have been Four episodes out now by the time this airs. Thank for the time this airs there will be three but more importantly and interestingly I'm gonna talk about this later, but this exists now and it's cool as shit. We're getting one of those, right? I want one. I want to talk about that in a minute though because I got to open my cards I was 10 second I was like two seconds away from having my name in that book Yeah, your name's definitely not gonna be in the book though. Yeah, you and I tied and both lost which was crazy That was pretty funny. You weren't there. You know the other day never know what we're talking about I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, there you go. There's the Del Fox del Foxy eggs So that's 16 hits now for me. Oh, damn it you rigged it. I win my own game I host next time where we'll be unboxing 30th anniversary booster boxes. Oh please if you send me some Please I have to make some more that if I could I would oh Bird was showing me that Walmart has been releasing like Raffle things. Yeah, yeah, Targets can be doing that soon too. I got a 30th anniversary ETB in the raffle and then I got the double booster pack so I've opened like 17 30th anniversary packs. I haven't got any crazy stuff, but I think Target is doing one tomorrow at like two o'clock Pacific with like five o'clock or something. I think Target's going tomorrow for the similar thing. All right. This is my actual last pack Not a god pack Go figure Silence. We're just so into it. All right. Oh, you still 16 15 15 so our odds were pretty similar. That's pretty consistent Like they've got this figured out. It's like it's math So Bob had the most hits mark had the best hit and I was here too. Yeah, there's a there's a few cards mixed in here that are not like hits That are like mark had where they're like the the cool art or whatever, but I did I don't know if I showed it I hit a full art for mantis while mark was doing his last one. I think that's a nice one. The That there goes. It's fine Fine. It's fine. I'm not getting any great anyway. Don't worry. It was just the full art Silvelli that fell out the middle of the thing That's the one of those pulled today. I've got the rest of the like random shinies in these. So I don't know why I Thought if we all did the same thing the scores would be farther apart now that we've all opened all these Pokemon cards Let's talk about who scored how many all right in no particular order weighed you earned points for Hall fro class blocker or Presley city point talking about war dogs and then all of your hits earned you a total Of 18 points a lot of points mark you earned small talk points for I do believe in ghosts now You are a Jason C to a crime that occurred and you beat up a nine-year-old To get your Pokemon cards on top of that all of your hits earned you 18 points, but mark also got a bonus point For getting the best pull of the the opening because he did pull the uh, what was it the Marpeko ex? S.I.R. Yeah, the Marpeko S.I.R. Which is pretty sweet. It's got two little stars on it. It's very special and fancy Yes, I am well based on our pulls mark. It was a one and a hundred and eight chance of being pulled damn 108, but I opened way more than a hundred and eight cards. Yeah, but per pack. I was going for a pack. Uh, I see I see I see Holy nerds measure per card. Can you get more than one S.I.R. per pack if you don't get a god Well, yeah, if you get a demigod pack, you can't I think demigod back there's god packs demigod packs and yeah or reference for everyone at home We all have basically the same piles here, but this is all of the cards that we opened that are not of particular interest And this is not include the stack of energies that we got. This is just energy cars. Yeah, I've got my energies and my My online cards in this stack. This is just a bulk stuff. It's about 7 inches tall stack of just cards and these out of 36 packs that I opened these are all of the cards that I thought were either Interesting enough because of the card that it is because it's like cool card or cards. I particularly liked Like the uh, I like the art on this reverse hollow electric so I pulled this side even though that's not a valuable card I just like it. So if you're thinking about getting into Pokemon, you can't afford it Why an MSRP don't let the scalpers win. Yeah, I will say these these boxes were purchased at MSRP and They were still kind of expensive but it was fun. Mark. Are you addicted? Oh, man, addiction takes a while to actually form I'll know once I get away from it a little bit how hard the craving is so uh, I will report back To another booster box Well, you guys don't know if I've I've been ordering on ebay this whole time as well. That's why it took me so long to get through all of them In a month mark will be like, okay, so I bought one of those Charizard's everyone's so hot about and uh All the $250,000 like psa 10 or the million dollar first edition psa 10 I thought I thought the first edition psa 10 would be a good way to give my foot in the door, you know Yeah, I bought I bought both actually just because I was like whatever So what we just opened the 36 packs There's one of these for sale for the base set the original set that came out but first edition for like $100,000 for 36 packs of the original set good lord and there's at least Three good cards in that while the rates are probably very different for such an old box of packs So you said they used to do different I'm sure it's changed but like the rate the maybe it's better Maybe got a better chance to get good stuff on that because they didn't know it was gonna be worth millions and millions of dollars Maybe maybe Anyway, that was fun. I this is another one where I had fun So I don't really care that much, but I'm curious how people are gonna like this because I don't know if that was fun to consume at all But that's the nature of the show they let me pick whatever I wanted and so we did Pokemon cards I enjoyed that quite a bit Mark is currently winning 19 to 18, but we have some stupid wheel bullshit that we've got to do that is definitely Definitely not gonna do anything terrible like force me to do one-man show or anything like that be really funny But sad if it did it was waiting for the biggest pull of it all for this moment here I I had I had had to have gotten some way better pulls if I'm gonna have to do another one-man show for because of Pokemon cards Anyway, how many spins will we do that's the first question One for the tie Shut your fucking face hole god damn you one for the tie It's one then okay good hooray. Oh, I have to add something um Is mark addicted to a Pokemon? I don't know who would get the point in that case Yeah, no, you know what plus one point if mark addicted to Pokemon oh wait, no, it has to decide who gets it though Well, do you sure us configure it out right? So we usually do plus one point To mark if mark is addicted to Pokemon All right, it's something to get my uh my finances back up, you know, yeah, Pokemon really is an investment You know at least unlike all the gotchas if you're not if you're not paying stupid prices for the boxes of stuff and you get decent hits like At least they retain some value in like all my old gotcha addictions saying you're old Was that dragon ball game dokan your old dokan account doesn't have any value saying that's just down the drain I mean, I might be able to sell that account. I don't know, but I haven't he said stalling the stupid spin to see if there's gonna Be another tie because it's stupid Come on give a point to mark. Please don't land on the what I just added please Most self sabotage. Did any of us sabotage ourselves? I feel like we were pretty chill today. I don't know small talk didn't really do anything for that Uh, I don't think there was any self says to I think that's a respite fan Good hooray another chance for good good great things to happen to me Drink the most I had my coffee. I had whole cup of coffee. He had a whole cup of coffee. I've only had a few steps of waters I think I that one goes to work All right, Frank the most congratulations mark. Give us a winner speech. Thank you It is been delightful to go through these chord packs haven't done this since I was a kid But you know, I probably won't rip any unless they uh they get put in my hand not the cards the packs and sell it's all though Maybe that would be an enticing live stream to me to rip the cards themselves This is the time we're marking out since he's got a PO box. He's like only if people send me cards also you can send me cards That's what you guys want to do If you if you did a stream on your channel that was like riffing in the sr's I pull in half People would tune in just to scream at you the whole time. Anyway, congratulations mark Wait, loser speech. I came I saw I had worse pulse. I tried Honestly, you had almost as good full still and I didn't drink a whole cup of coffee. I have some regrets That's what you get for not hydrating. That's your punishment. You should hydrate better I just had water. I know. I don't think this equates to a cup of coffee. I'm like no mark mark slam that cup of coffee He deserves the win. I didn't finish my first water bottle, but like I still think it equates to his full cup of coffee. Okay Congratulations to Mark. And now they're at the part where I'm going to wrap it up. I want to say, Wade brought this up. We are releasing the Scary Tapes episodes, but also the Scary Tap anthology exists as seen on Hit Podcast Distractable, right there on the thing. This is super cool. It looks like a real ass book inside. It's crazy. I know that that's what it's supposed to look like, but like, it's just very cool. It's just a whole book. And I will say, too, I like this, the dust cover and the cover itself are the same. I really like when books have printed on covers. Anyway, you could buy this now. Should be available. Realgoodai.org/anthology. Check that out. Also check out the merch distractable.shop. This merch, as well as the Scary Tap and a very scary, those things called beanie. Yes, and make sure you follow the podcast, and make sure you follow all of us at our own channels. I am my skirm, Wade is Minion777 or Lord Minion777. Mark is Markiplier. That's the end of this relatively long episode. Thank you for indulging me. I had a lot of fun. I haven't opened that many packs in a hot minute. And next time Mark will host, because he is the most devout and addicted Pokemon Man among the three of us. That's why they call him Poke Mark. That's his name and he earned it. That's it, that's the one. Oh, see you next time when Poke Mark will host, podcast, out. Have to be so bad. - Yes!

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts discuss the unspoken rules of word order in English, noting how certain sequences feel more natural despite being technically correct.
  2. Bob shares personal anecdotes about sitting in the back of classrooms due to being tall, which led to awkward sightlines and a lifelong pattern of being overlooked.
  3. A ghost-hunting episode with Wade and Mark leads to a fictional "swatting" incident, which turns out to be a coincidence rather than real supernatural activity.
  4. The hosts explore the entertainment value of ghost hunting, emphasizing that while belief is personal, the experience is fun and grounded in improvisation and imagination.
  5. They critique manipulative or exploitative ghost hunting practices that exploit personal grief or trauma, calling them unethical and not entertaining.
  6. The episode includes a deep dive into Pokémon card collecting, including the mechanics of "master setting" and the excitement of rare cards like Reverse Hollows and EX versions.
  7. The hosts open booster packs together, using humor and description to bond over card reveals, with shared excitement over rare and visually striking cards.
  8. The discussion highlights the joy of childhood nostalgia, community play, and making-believe, affirming that such activities are valid and enjoyable even in adulthood.

Summary:

The episode blends personal storytelling, humor, and deep dives into niche interests like ghost hunting and Pokémon card collecting. The hosts explore the unspoken rules of language and conversation, sharing how word order shapes natural speech, even if not strictly logical. Bob reflects on his experiences in classrooms, where his height and position led to being overlooked, a pattern that influenced his adult perception of visibility and participation.

A key moment involves a ghost-hunting adventure that initially seems paranormal but is revealed as a coincidence, leading to a broader discussion about belief, entertainment, and manipulation. The hosts argue that while ghost hunting can be fun and imaginative, it becomes problematic when it crosses into exploiting personal trauma or manipulating emotions. The bulk of the episode focuses on Pokémon card collecting, where the group opens booster packs, shares their excitement over rare cards like Reverse Hollows and EX versions, and discusses the joy of nostalgia, community, and shared excitement.

The episode ultimately celebrates the value of make-believe, improvisation, and personal connection, showing how simple games and odd rituals can bring people together and provide lasting entertainment—without needing to take anything seriously. It strikes a balance between humor, reflection, and genuine human connection, making it both entertaining and insightful.

FAQs

Mark feels that saying 'Mark, Wade, Bob' sounds more natural to him, even though it's not alphabetical. He believes there's an unspoken rule in language where certain word orders feel more intuitive, like 'big red bus' over 'red big bus'.

They went ghost-tunting and used gadgets to detect electromagnetic frequencies. They heard strange sounds and saw lights, but it turned out to be a coincidence. No ghosts were actually found, and the event wasn't a real paranormal occurrence.

Secret Rare cards are considered rare and high-value in Pokémon card collecting. They are often more valuable and sought after, with specific artwork like EX or full art versions being particularly prized.

Each booster pack contains 10 cards, including one energy card and nine Pokémon cards. The energy card is used in gameplay, while the energy card is often placed in the front of the pack to help identify potential Secret Rare or rare cards.

A reverse hollow card has a hollow design around the Pokémon image, while a normal hollow card has a hollow image of the Pokémon itself. Reverse hollows are often seen as more visually striking and are sometimes preferred by collectors.

No, they did not find any ghosts. Mark remains skeptical about the existence of ghosts and views the events as coincidental or part of a fun, imaginative experience rather than evidence of the supernatural.

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