Rudy Responds: One Piece and Sword and Shield is Dead

Folks, welcome back. My name's Rudy. You're watching Alpha Investments. Today's conversation is, sorry, no Magic: The Gathering talk today. Today, video number 4,669, Florida Man Journey Chronicles. Today, per the request of you guys, we're doing another Q&A from a bunch of patron questions today. Sorry, no Magic: The Gathering again conversation.

The first half of this video is going to be all One Piece. The second half, we're going to be talking about Pokémon questions that you guys have been asking me. Um, One Piece questions are going to be about the pricing, what's going on, some of the previous One Piece sets, potential reprints coming up, and then, uh, Pokémon, the second half of this video, we're going to go into. Uh, a lot of people, uh, chattering about Crown Zenith, uh, the Sword and Shield block that nobody cares about. It's dead now. And of course, the infamous Prismatic SPCs that really took a big position and now they're reprinting it and it's all about the collapse. And, uh, yeah, um, let's start off. So, first, this video, One Piece. So, let's, let's discuss what's happening here.

So, obviously, we have OP15 was the last set to be released. Did really well. Came after the Ladies of One Piece, the Heroine set. And we just had the final little wave of OP15 come out. First things first, yes, I got my little second wave. I don't, I sold all the first wave to patrons. Everybody bought it up. There's a huge waitlist and blah, blah, blah. I don't have a ton of it, but the question is, what do you all recommend? If you already have some, do you add to your position on the dip right now, since the wave is hitting the market? If you haven't bought OP15, you're a One Piece fan, is that an item that you should be buying into?

So, okay, assuming you're a large One Piece fan. Assuming you believe in One Piece and you like the cards, the brand, you like the healthiness of Boa, you like, you know, the old Monkey, like you like the characters, you like the lore. Let's assume all that. Okay. I still believe One Piece. We had the crazy explosion of growth, player base, mainstream, you know, Netflix, YouTube documentaries, all this stuff happened. One Piece had a huge boom. Since that one initial impact of everything being repriced, the One Piece market, honestly, has been incredibly flat. Let's be honest. And that's leading a lot of people to think, did we experience a one-time boom in One Piece? And are we not going to have any more further pops on the One Piece stuff? Everybody keeps asking that. I think another leg up is coming in One Piece. Just my honest opinion. Do I have a lot of One Piece sales in the works? Everything I don't. Most of my One Piece has been sold to patrons over the last couple years. A lot of patrons have made absolutely perverted, insane amounts of profit buying One Piece from me at whatever the price was of the last few years there. It's just absolutely insane. I believe OP15. Did I write it down? Uh, OP15 has the reprint right now. So, we just had the dip. Um, it looks like we did have a small dip. Golly, really? Some of you guys were able to buy the dip on OP15 all the way down to the 180s per box. Um, by the time you watch this video, OP15 boxes are probably like 200, 210. But yes, anything under 200 a box for OP15, in my opinion, if you believe the future of One Piece is going to be continuing, which I think it is, that should have been a huge buying opportunity. OP15, I missed it. Apparently, it was only like a day or two because all the stores got their wave. They instructed the idiotic employees and the Timmies to dump it all in the market at once. There was a price collapse straight down over a two-day period and it went from 250 a box to like 180s and there was a huge volume spike of smart people who pretty much wiped out those cheap boxes. As of the filming this, OP15's back to 210, 220. Honestly, that's still a pretty good price. These are going to be 250 to 300 plus dollar boxes probably by next year. I would be surprised if 2027 rolls around and these boxes are under 300. There's, there's no more coming. Like Bandai, One Piece, understand, folks. One Piece adapts the Pokémon philosophy on supply, demand, and print runs. This is not Hasbro. This is not Wizards of the Coast that says, you know what, let's take every card from our old sets. Let's, let's just print them directly, put in a Secret Lair and and just absorb all the value and destroy this, destroy these things long term because the game piece people will be happy. And then we're just selling direct. We're literally just selling the secondary market. See, Bandai and One Piece, see, there's been a, there's been a rumor, you know, this is a side conversation, like a little side quest, right? So, there's been a rumor going around with stores and distribution, and people have asked me about it in the last six months about One Piece, and I won't answer it publicly. And people said, "Rudy, do you think there's separate, different management running One Piece, like from Bandai versus the old management of all these other Bandai brands that they always eventually destroy, they overprint, they annihilate it?" Uh, my answer to that is yes. I have no evidence. There's nothing to pump or dump. I'm just saying it does feel like whoever was hired or put in charge of managing the One Piece distribution in the card game is taking a very different approach compared to management for Bandai over the last 20 years and all the different things they've done and failed on. The one that's again, this is one of the reasons I didn't even get into One Piece on OP1 and 2. I was late to the game. I didn't get into One Piece till like OP3 because I heard Bandai was making another card game and I was like, "They destroy everything. They don't care." You know, it's like my attitude towards Ravensburger with the Lorcana thing has nothing to do with Disney and Lorcana. It's Ravensburger and the absolute morons they have at the corporate management level. And Bandai was the same way. They, they have a long track record of making products, card games, board games, and just doing stupid stuff. So, yes, it does feel like however the management's been going, it does feel like it's being ran by a specific team that's very different than the rest of Bandai. Okay. So, I do want to get that out in the open. Okay.

Uh, next, people were asking me, Rudy, what about the previous set, OP14? And then we're going to get into the, the women thing real quick. Uh, OP14, same thing. Um, on, now I will be honest on OP14. I did get my second wave a little while ago for One Piece and when I saw that thing actually dip below 200, I actually went on the open market and a couple other LGS's. I actually purchased some cases of OP14 when that second wave hit and I actually paid 180, 190 a box for OP14 when that second wave hit and some stores, like, oh god, they're just, they just fire sale stuff, you know? So, I actually did even buy some of that even on the secondary market because I just, I think it's a thing. I don't think it's going anywhere, folks. Um, you guys also are asking me the women of One Piece, the Heroine set. Heroine. Heroine. Did I just say? Was that a drug or the women? Same thing. Um, it's supposed to be getting a reprint. That's what Bandai said. I still have no information, no size of the print run, no, no timing of when this reprint's supposed to happen. What was it? EB02 or EB0, some specialty, the women's set. I still don't have any data and it's been months. So, if you guys have heard anything, let me know. I, I'm hoping it's coming. That'd be fantastic. Don't have any of it. I got a billion patrons that want it. So, hopefully they reprint a ton. That would be great. Um, anyway, so that's going on.

Uh, next thing I want to comment on the other One Piece sets, the older sets, the different things. Um, put my paper down real quick. There's a lot of older One Piece sets from OP5, 6, 7, 8, all that older OP era. A lot of those products and sealed boxes and cases have thinned out dramatically. Absolute massive supply that was sitting on the market over the years. The reduction of the amount of these sealed things in the market. Um, what did I put here? I mean, we're talking like, good example from from nine months ago, the quantity of OP08, the worst One Piece set ever, on the open market compared to today. From from then to today, 63% less boxes on the market in less than a year. Literally six, nine months ago. That's over half the quantity of sellers and boxes from less than, I guess, what the beginning of the year at this point from the end of last year or I guess during the bare market and the not bare market, the holiday dip thing, the Q3, Q4, the, the Black Friday Cyber Monday Tuesday thing. I mean, over 50% drop in OP8. Okay. 7, same thing. 71% decline in the number of OP07 boxes listed on eBay and TCG Player compared to last Q4 of last year to now going into May of this year. These are huge declines in the amount of sealed boxes. So again, OP07, I think it was the yellow boxes, right? I mean, those things are, you know, again, they were $120, $130 a box for the entire time they were out. Now they're 250, 300 for OP07 and these things are going to go to 400 plus. Like I tell you guys all the time, there remains a ton of opportunity in this market on all kinds of product, not just Magic, not just Pokémon, all these different card games. There is tremendous pockets of opportunity if you put time into it. If you look at each set, how many's on the market? Go on TCG Player or how many sellers? How deep does the market go? What if somebody buys 50 boxes? How much does the price move? Even if half those boxes have a of a relist or new inventory comes to market, you know, you look at some of the stuff, it's like, and then back to OP08, the worst One Piece set ever. That thing's going to be $300 a box. That was on TCG Player for $99, actually $89 for the longest time. And now it's already, godly, like 220, 230 for OP8. And even then, dude, it's like 20 boxes away on TCG Player from being over 300 for another huge leg up. Same thing. You look at these other things. If you look at the other sets, OP06, OP05, you start getting pretty old. There's just not much of these things left. Even again, another bad one. Was it OP9? The royal one. Was that the other really bad one? Same thing. Supply of these things. Massive decline on the depth of the market. These products are going to make another move up. There will be a massive leg up for a lot of these sealed products. Now, I will be honest. I have not checked all the single cards. I know some One Piece sets have just banger chase cards that are super expensive. Certain, you know, curvy, healthy Boa, certain Monkey cards, certain versions of this, certain print variants of that. There's certain chase cards. I get it. But I'm just talking just raw sealed boxes, everybody. Okay? And this is, I'm telling you, there's no way based on the sell-through rate and what's left on the market, even the new stuff. We just had the OP15 final wave hit the market. You just, you already had OP14. Both waves have been out now for months. There's no more coming. This is the cheapest time to buy it. If you missed out on a release, your pre-order got canceled because the store canceled or relisted or whatever they have. Like, if you're sitting there saying, "Rudy, I'm going to wait for these to go back to $99. I'm an MSRP gang." Well, I guess MSRP and One Piece is what? 150? Whatever MSRP is. I mean, what are you doing with your life? Are you, are you making a, are you staging a boycott? Good for you. Nobody cares. You're voting with your wallet? That's great, princess. Put your wallet in your pants. I mean, nobody cares. The market's going to market whether you're in it or not. These are million, billion dollar market caps. There is money that makes, I mean, there are people involved in this market that when I talk to them, I feel poor and homeless. Like, there are players in this market that make me feel broke. I mean, just folks, understand these markets are going to move forward whether you and I agree with what's happening or not. And I'm sorry, but some of these OP7, 8s, 9, 10, well, some of these 10 and like, I think what, 13. Some of them are already pretty expensive. These, some of these boxes are 3, 4, 5, 600 already. But I mean, there's a lot of these sets that are still older and they're 200, 250, 300. You know, these new ones that get the, cuz again, when, just like Pokémon, folks, whenever we have a little wave hit the market, you'll know. You don't have to ask me. You don't have to go to your LGS. You can go on TCG Player and if the box has been $300 for the last two months and suddenly a $300 box drops to $199, it's $100 off. Tada. I guarantee you a, a little wave hit the market and all the undercapitalized, dumbass, pretend store owners that like to think they know what they're doing in business and they don't and they hire their employees and they walk in like the big penis. Hello employees, owner here. What are we doing today? Oh, what's that inventory? Sally, Bill, Beth, put it on TCG Player. Undercut the market. I want cash flow by the end of the day. Like, these people are idiots. They have no care for what they sell it for, how much they're losing long term. They're idiots. This is one of the reasons literally 15, 20 years ago when I started with distribution, I was like, damn, most of these cards. When I opened the first card store, even, even when I opened that other card store location in Florida and I filmed the whole build-out and opening for you guys, the card shop series, like I realized my competition, most LGS's, they don't know anything about business. They just want to hang out with their friends. They just want to, I, I really, I just want to get a case of ETBs here and I just want to be cool and, you know, I, I, you know, I just want to, you know, hang out and everything. They're not looking at it as a business. They don't see Lost Origins. They're like, "Oh, wow. Look at Lost." I don't care about Lost Origins. This is a sealed product. I'm not speculating on the cards in the box. I'm speculating on the mutual fund of all the cards within the series is are going to do well long term. I'm speculating that long term, these will convert to the loose cards and none of these will be left and everybody will just have the cards. And whoever can wait the longest wins the game. That's the long game. That's the truth of this. You don't have to be smarter than me. You have to be richer, smarter. All right. If you're taller and you have more hair than all right, [ __ ] off. You're, you win. But anyway, it doesn't make a difference. Whoever waits the longest makes the most. Genius. It doesn't take a Rudy high school dropout. Hey, look at this guy. C's get degrees. All C's and D's in high school winning, right? No, I just said, well, geez, what if I just outweigh everybody? What if I just wait for all the idiots to dump all their stuff and I just? Well, no, they're not done dumping. Okay, wait another month. Oh, six months goes by. Are they, are they dumping? Oh, fewer are left. Hang on a second. I'll be right back. All right, it's been a year. Oh, look. There's not much left. The prices are going up. Should we do something about it? We already got patrons asking. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I talked to myself in third person, by the way. Uh, no, let's wait another year.

HEY, welcome to my Alpha Investments video number 4,69. Florida man, blah, blah, blah. Balls, tripod, three things, legs. Yeah, and that's all that happens. Anyways, telling you all conclusion of the One Piece. We're going to Pokémon. I don't know if it's going to happen by the end of the summer or as we go through Q3. I don't know what's going to be the next spark. I don't know what's going to be the next move or what's going to be that catalyst, but I assure you all, if I was going to take a bell curve, I think we're at a 75% chance that we are within, we are within 12 months of another monstrous leg up in One Piece. Now, I think there's another 20% chance nothing happens. It just stays where it is. Nothing goes up. Everyone gets bored. And because of that, all the leverage Timmies say, "Well, nothing's going up anymore. I guess we better unload." And that, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. So anyway, 75% chance within a year we boom again. 20% chance nothing happens, it's boring. And then that last little 5% chance, there's always that small chance black swan event. You know, CO 26 and a half, you know, Rudy actually gets long hair and becomes a 1970s rocker. You know, Rudy's a simulation. This is all green screen and the world comes to an end. World War 69 and well, Florida goes underwater. Global warming. It is true. We're in a simulation. The Earth is actually not flat or round. The Earth is actually a triangle and we're all inside of a pyramid. You know, [ __ ] who knows, right? So, that is what I see happening. If you love One Piece, conclusion of this video, which means we're halfway through from now to probably the next 30, 60, 90 days, you should be making your moves. Plan your positions. Plan your inventory. Be prepared because I mean, think about what I just said. I believe we have a three out of four chance of booming in the next year, which is great for people who hold sealed product. I believe there's a 20% chance that nothing happens and a 5% chance it crashes, you lose your ass. Those, in my opinion, those are very attractive odds. Those are the kind of odds I like to play with. Okay.

Pokémon. All right, questions from you guys in Pokémon. Number one, Rudy, I know you're aware Prismatic Super P-Collection SPC's had the final wave. I heard they're printing 1 to 69 million because the internet says there are so many of them, they're filling the Carnival and Royal Caribbean cruise ships with pallets of S-P-C's. Thoughts? I know you bought a lot, Rudy. Uh, yeah, the reprint and restock and distribution is a joke on these things. The prices are marked up 400% from originally. So essentially, even the amount I'm getting from distribution is, I mean, what are they? 250? How, how, I think what, two, $200, $300 an SPC? Like, there's no room for this [ __ ] to drop. Like the restock on these things, distribution's charging $2, $300. [ __ ] you going to do? And like, people think these things are going to crash. Like, distribution's literally like, "All right, well, we're going to set the floor way up here." So, the market's not even going to be able to go down. And then, of course, here you go. You get a couple cases. Oh, you get one case. Who are you? A new store. Here's a single box out of a case. Anyways, um, I've been checking the market once a day on TCG Player, hoping on eBay too, to find stores and Timmy employees that are going to list 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 SPCs of Prismatic on eBay or TCG Player. I've been hoping it's been dropping to the 200s. I check every flipping day for the last 5 to 10 days. And I've been waiting as of filming this video. Prismatic Super P-Collection $354 plus tax on TCG Player. Not even close to dropping the 200s. And I'm like, fantastic. Fantastic. So that didn't happen. I was, I was like, "Dude, all right, Rudy, you got, you got around a thousand. About most of my thousand are sealed cases and the rest are just loose from online." So, you know, kind of blended. I was like, "Okay, so now I should be able to get maybe 500 more. Maybe go 1500 balls deep, tripod, three-leg Rudy, 2,000 SPCs." Nope. No. Distribution's like, "All right, well, you know, maybe here's 100. Oh, you want 200? Here's the price." Like, bro, Jesus. 50. How much am I going to spend? 50 grand on that? I mean, it's like, whatever, man. So, I have not been able to buy any additional SPCs. The market's not dropped. These things broke 400 at the high. They're 350 something. Holy [ __ ]. We're 15% off the all-time high. Yeah. So, if you want my advice as a little Timmy out there or a young stepbro with a hot step, if you want any advice, if you've missed out because for some reason you've been living in a basement and you're not aware of even what Prismatic Evolutions is in the last 12 months because I don't know, maybe you're on a remote island without internet or something. I don't know how the [ __ ] you're even here. Um, if for some reason you don't have any, this is your last chance. I'll be completely honest with you guys. If you are looking for Prismatic, this ladies and gentlemen, especially on a specialty thing like you actually, I'm, I'm going to take a step further. I'm going to pause my patron questions here. Be very honest with you guys. Prismatic SPCs. Here comes the next one. You guys are going to make fun of me. Prismatic Pouch Collections. We call it the purses. The Prismatic purses with the Eevee purse. Prismatic purses. Stupid surprise boxes. Even the ETB, which actually I think the ETB's already spiked back up. We probably already missed that dip, the dip on that. This, these are the things you should be looking at. If you're serious and you actually are pretending that you're going to hold for 5 to 10 years, which we all know nobody does. If you're pretending that is actually going to be you, this is the time. SPC's, purse collections, and of course, whatever else you can buy, tins or whatever. Okay.

Next thing. Um, I guess I'll stay at this point. Should we go into the next question? Rudy, nobody seems to care about the short Sword and Shield era anymore. Can you please give us your, what's your perspective? What you see going on with Sword and Shield? And then other follow-up questions from another patron. Lost Origins, Silver Tempest, Chilling Reign, and what's going on with Crown Zenith. So, we had a couple questions here. First, I'm going to go into Crown Zenith. I'm gonna be very honest with you guys. We're late in the video. Most of you guys don't have the attention span to go this far because most of you guys are like Finding Nemo. You have one fin. You sit at the bottom of my fish tank. I forget to feed you sometimes, but we all, we've been there before. Crown Zenith, I'm gonna be very honest, you guys. I'm gonna say it. You guys can be mad at me. Cancel culture Rudy. You can take my sponsorships. Do we have [ __ ] sponsorships? Still have sp Okay, [ __ ]. You can't cancel Rudy. Okay. Uh, be honest with you. Um, if you look on TCG Player and eBay and different things, you will notice in the last 60 days, there's been some movement on Crown Zenith. I will be honest. I did add over a hundred additional Crown Zenith ETBs to my position to push the Grooty Crown Zenith position to around a thousand. I was at like 8, 900. It was bothering me. For some reason, the market was not adjusting Crown Zenith ETBs. These things were still like $200 an ETB. I'm like, Prismatic Evolutions is hitting $200 an ETB. [ __ ] Crown Zenith from Sword and Shield is, is really, are we still at 200? And I, I couldn't take it. I bought a little over a hundred of them. So, I also did notice some other people and some stores that I bought from also published information that, hey, um, one of my customers was Rudy of Alpha Investments. He's buying Crown Zenith ETBs. That did get shared around on the internet. I do believe that may have contributed because now I just noticed in the last week Crown Zenith ETBs are now 3 to 350 with cases pushing almost 4,000. So, it does feel like there was a leg up there. I don't know if it's because store shared that my information that I was doing it because they saw the name on there. I, I'm not really sure, but I will tell you into this conversation with Pokémon Sword and Shield. Yes. Okay.

So, to the next question. Pokémon Sword and Shield, Rudy, why does anybody care what's going on? Why are people dumping everything in the newest Pokémon? Okay, because we're in an inverted thing. It's like Magic: The Gathering. I'm sorry, we're not going to talk about Magic, but let me just say this one thing. Pokémon is like Magic right now. The newer the item, the more desirable the item is. The older the Magic card, the less people care about the card. Right now, Pokémon people want Ascended Barney. Perfect penis. Don't care. It's terrible. Whatever. Guess what? Me too. Greatest Charizard to ever exist in the state of Florida. I know. I know. I'm telling you though, people want to know. Rudy, what do you think? Have you been buying it? No. So, first thing, no, I have not been buying any ME122 and a half three. Number two, no, I have not been buying any Scarlet & Violet era, even though that is the hot thing. People are calling it the greatest era ever. They're saying it's better than Sword and Shield. Whatever. I'll be honest with you guys, I have not bought into any more Scarlet & Violet. I mean, I guess Crown Zenith is technically Scarlet & Violet. I meant the regular sets, though. Um, I already hold so much Scarlet & Violet. I don't think there's anybody else in the United States, possibly the world, that holds a larger position in sealed product of Scarlet & Violet. And actually, you know what? If you're watching the video this late, do you want me to reveal my Scarlet & Violet position? Should I actually show it? Comment below. Do you want to see the most FU Scarlet & Violet sealed box collection in the [ __ ] world? I want, like, I believe I'm between, I, it's, it's, it's over 20 thou, I think it's 20, 25,000 sealed booster box of Scarlet & Violet. I, I don't think anyone comes close to what I have in it. I have it moved in a really good location now. It's off the pallets and moved also. Um, let me know below if you want me to reveal that FU kind of thing just because it's crazy eye candy to watch. But whatever. I am focused on Sword and Shield. I hold a lot of Sword and Shield, but not as much as Scarlet & Violet. So, technically, should I be pumping? I guess I should be pumping Scarlet & Violet. Whatever. I still think there's more opportunity in Sword and Shield than there is in Scarlet & Violet in ME the Mega Evolutions era. For some reason, there is no money, no price growth in Sword and Shield right now. Nothing. People are obsessed with Scarlet & Violet and Mega Evolutions. Like we still here, okay, back to my sheet. We still have Lost Origins 8, 900s, Silver Tempest around 500. We have Chilling Reign sitting around 500. These boxes, we have new Destin Rivals at 600 plus. You have, you still have even Crown Zenith, $300 for an ETB for Crown Zenith. Like I'm looking at some of these things and a lot of these prices, you know, they just, I mean, there is no attention. There's no money chasing Sword and Shield right now. And I'll be honest, I, I, I kind of find that kind of attractive.

Uh, one last thing before I end this video. I also have been doing more research on older Pokémon, um, Sun and Moon and Black and White era. It's just the market's so thin, it's frustrating. But I just wanted to let you guys know as we wrap this video up, I find the most attractive things in Pokémon right now to be the older items. If you've missed out on things like Prismatic Evolutions, SPC's, the purse collection, there's, there's all these things that still have little pockets and these things are a screaming opportunity. But if you don't want to touch Prismatic because of all the hype and everything, go older, go different stuff. I mean, Scarlet & Violet, there are some of these sets from SVO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 range, Twilight, Temporal, even the worst set ever, Paradox or SV Base. These things are still under 300 a box, I think. So, maybe, don't quote me, maybe they are. I think they're still under 300 a box for some of these Scarlet & Violet booster boxes. And I'm over here like, really? I can get two and a half or two boxes of SV1 or four for the price of one Destin Rivals? There's just things that catch my eye. Thanks for watching, folks. Don't really have anything to sell you guys and ramble and pump on. I just want to give you my opinion on the One Piece, give you my opinion on the Pokémon situation. Um, it just, I know everybody's obsessed with Ascended Barney. Everyone's obsessed with every reprint. Like, the world's ending. And just folks, there's, I just want to end this video with you guys to remind you all there is massive opportunity in pockets of the market all over the place. Take some time. Don't overthink it. Make sure you're not leveraged. Don't get into debt. Make sure you have a stable home life. Make sure you already have your spies and your VUV and the 401k. Make sure you have a Roth IRA. Make sure it's maxed out. Make sure you're not in debt. Don't be a [ __ ] idiot. Remember, just like you saw One Piece, after a boom, these markets can be cold and dirty. They can return zero or negative for six months, a year, two years. These things can turn and if you're leveraged and you happen to catch a tail end of a market flattening or anything happens, you're going to get [ __ ] wrecked. The interest is going to annihilate you. Then you're going to have to sell at losses and everything just implodes. And ladies and gentlemen, I don't want you to implode. Implosions are not good things. Okay? So again, I know the collectible world's exciting. I do this because it's fun. It's an extension of my life and I just get off to it. I'll be honest with you guys. This is not because it beats the S&P 500, it beats the new AI tech penis robots, I don't [ __ ] know. Do what you enjoy. If you love cards, you have a passion for, that's great. But don't overdo it. This stuff is like a rabbit hole. You're never going to catch them all. You're never going to collect them all. And you're never going to feel like you've had enough. The card world is designed to be intentionally an endless game. It's like a mobile gotcha game. The Pokémon, Magic, One Piece, all this stuff. These, these things don't end. These things are going to be around after we're gone. These brands are not going anywhere. Now, some of you may like that. Some of you may hate that. That's the reality. This is, this is a lifestyle choice. Doing this stuff is a lifetime decision and a lifetime path to be on. There's no ending. There's no congratulations. There's the checkered flag. There's no final boss fight. You turn into the Rudy and you get the final boss. No, there, there's no ending to this. It's an open-ended, open-world life choice video game that the cardboard world is. But it can be a ton of fun if you have the right perspective. And of course, be nice to people. If you're going to local stores and you're fighting people and using your scalper scanner 69,000 with Rudy's stepsister, you'll be respectful. Don't run and get in fights and attack people and shoot people and harass employees and don't get mad at a GameStop employee because you don't agree with the ETB price that you know is too high. It's an employee. Who are you attacking? Yeah, how dare you scalping? Nobody cares, bro. You're in a random location somewhere randomly. There's thousands of GameStops. What are you going to do? Attack an employee? Vote with your wallet? That's great. Go home. Pet your wallet. Tell it you care about it. Give us some mouth hugs. But guess what? It doesn't. The market in this world, it goes forward. You can hop on or not. Okay? Have a healthy relationship with this stuff. Everybody, you got to be careful. This is the card world. I'm telling you, there's not much difference than the card world from gambling for other sin things. Alcohol, drinking, sex, addictions, food, everything can be a dangerous addiction if you don't control and have a healthy mindset. Just be careful everybody. Be respectful to other people. Everyone's doing all this. There's millions of people involved in this stuff. There's millions of people excited about it. Be nice to everybody. Guess what? 99% of people in this industry, they're not trying to scam you. There's always bad people out there. Just remember that, folks. 99% of stores, LGS's, employees, even YouTubers, PokeTubers, they're not on the internet trying to trick you and pump and dump whatever. Nobody [ __ ] cares, dude. There's 50 million plus Pokémon people. What's a PokeTuber get? 5, 10, 20,000 views. 0.0001% of the market. Nobody cares. Understand with your brain and your mind the scales of society and life and money and business. Don't be a Timmy. Learn. Open-minded. It'll be getting more clear long term. Otherwise, I don't know. Go, go, go eat some waffle fries. 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