EP 7: Set Critic: Fossil

In this episode Theo and Judah review the set of fossil!

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Welcome back to the Channelist Podcast. In this episode, we're reviewing Fossil. Scratch that. Finally reviewing Fossil. This is our third attempt at doing it. First time, we put my computer on the bed and the bedsheets muffled the audio quality and made it really bad. Now the second time, I have no idea why, but the but our microphone somehow like didn't connect to our Chromebook and we got no audio for the entire thing. So this is the third time, and hopefully the last time, of reviewing Fossil. However, stick around to the end because we're gonna include a blooper reel of all of our fabulous fails over the probably week or two we tried to record. Okay, let's get started with Fossil. Per usual, I'm here with Judah. Hello, I'm so excited to finally be doing Fossil for the third time, so not really finally, and I'm so sick of this set, but let's do it! Okay, so let's start with the first question in every episode. Judah, what's your favorite card in Fossil? Probably the Rainbow Dragon Knight. But before we get on with that, I think you missed a few things. Fossil is in the series base, was released on October 10th, 1999, has 62 cards, with the most expensive card currently being Gengar, although that Dragon Knight does seem to be catching up. It has a full market value of $3,477. All prices are at time of recording. Of course. Just like last time and the time before. And the time before that. There was a time before. Oh right. Yeah, remember? And we recorded it, and then we recorded two parts, and then the first part got deleted, and then we went, okay, we can still use the second part. And then we realized the second part didn't work. So we're redoing everything for the fourth time. But the audience doesn't want to hear how we suffer. They want to hear how we lose our money on Pokemon. So, Juna, what's your favorite card? My favorite card is the Rainbow Non-Hollow Dragonite. Although I do love the Hollow Dragonite because it's um expensive, um, it really doesn't appeal to me. It's just a shiny background. And that's it. The Rainbow Dragonite has it sitting in a field with rainbow flowers and sun and dragonite and nothing else. And now that I talk about it, it's starting to become less appealing to me because it's really not that interesting. Why don't you go, Theo? So, actually, a quick tip on this Dragonite. We're holding it right now because I got it at a card shop. Here is a number one Pokemon tip. You will not get this advice without like a paywall or something, literally anywhere else. So here's the deal: you go to a card shop on the edge of town that primarily maybe sells magic or other or video games or comics that doesn't really sell Pokemon, but they might have a little bit. Then you sort through it and you pull out some you know you pull out some cards you know are expensive. Um, the guy who looked at the prices for me literally just used the lowest listing on TCG player, which was usually damaged or um or in another language, which a lot which allowed me to snag $40 worth of cards, including the Dragonite I'm holding right now, for literally 20 bucks. Big tip do that in a world full of scalpers that is your one little slice of heaven. So let's get on with my favorite card from Fossil. My favorite card is the Psyduck. The Psyduck currently costs $1.56, but $9 in a first edition. Um, so most of the cards don't really have a background, and if they do, it's boring, just like a gradient or some random colors. And the Psyduck is sitting in a beautiful forest with sunlight and a little fish jumping out of the water, and Psyduck with its iconic headache. And I really think that it's a cute car. So yeah, that that's my favorite. I really wish I picked it up, but I'd much rather work on my 151 master. Yep, which has a Psyduck with a headache. The Stairs duck. Don't know it, look it up. It's really cute. Although it's a lot of people say that the Stairs Duck, the Psyduck is super tiny. I think it fits the frame perfectly. It works. So let's talk about the five most expensive cards in Fossil. Actually, last time we were recording, the Raichu was above the Haunter, but the Haunter pulled ahead in the last like two days. So now it's in the top five, which is kind of weird because the last time we recorded this, it was different. So the um the fifth most expensive card is the Haunter. It's it's $47 in a holofoil in a hundred dollars. In first edition. The Articuno, which is a first for this, bringing in the legendary birds craze, um, is around $50 holofoil. It does an almost $150 jump for the $100 for the first edition holofoil at $200. Okay, the next card is the Moltres, which sells for $61 in a holofoil, and just regular, and first edition sells for $169. Not as big as a jump of the Articuno, with being only around $100. But the next card, I was gonna say will surprise you, but it probably won't. Um, the Dragonite, of course, um, is $170 holofoil and $303 first edition. Okay, and the most expensive card? Wait. Drum roll, please! Is No, no, no, no. Maybe if you make the house fall down. Is Gengar. Of course. Gengar sells for $200 normally and $301 in a first edition holofoil, which is actually less than the Dragonite in a first edition holofoil. Which is pretty crazy, but I doubt that'll last for long because it's only two bucks, and Gengar is more popular than Dragonite. A $300 Gengar? That's actually rare. That's actually pretty cheap. For a rare Gengar. For a rare game. For a Gengar, lots of people want. $300? It's still. I'm not saying that's not expensive. You could probably get a good booster box, but you can get quite a lot for that. So anyway, it's time to move on to the legendary birds. Woo! However, there's an obvious outlier. The Moltres and the Articuno are number three and four for the most expensive cards, respectively, but you need to scroll down 12 slots to see the Zapdos sitting at $29 regularly and $121 in a first edition holofoil. Which means it's still pretty much up there with the with saying as the holofoil's around all around 200, but that one's only around 120, which is still a lot. But rather surprising when you think about how popular Zapdos is, having a super popular card or card in the super famous set, 151, Theo's favorite. I love 151. But you might be asking why. And there's a really good answer. This is Moltres's and Articuno's first set, but Zapdos already had a cool card and base set. So the hype for the new Pokemon overtook overtook Zaptos. This actually happened another time with Gengar and Haunter. Gengar's number one, and Haunter is number five in the top five. However, Ghastly is way too far down to count. The Ghastly currently sells for $1.19 normally and $8.95 in a first edition. But the reason for the Gasly being so low is actually the exact same as the legendary birds. There was already a Ghastly in Base Set. Although I do feel it is a little bit more surprising, saying as when you scroll down to around where the Zapdos is, it's the least expensive of all the holofoils, with an exception of the Lapras. Which I actually have that Lapras. That's really cool. And the Magneton. Well, actually, there's there's a few. Yeah, but it's It's cheap for a holofoil. Yeah, and you would not have expected Zapdos of all cards to be a cheap holofoil. That one's a little bit more surprising than the Ghastly, saying it's a Ghastly is a non-holo. So I would have expected it to be a little bit less expensive. So we have We have another huge thing. So because like you see all these brand new Pokemon in there, but just popular ones like game like the game like Gengar Haunter and Moltres Narticuno aren't the only ones. There are so many. Like the new legendary, obviously like the new legendary birds, the Aerodactyl, Kabuto and Kabo and Kabutops, Omaster and Omanti. Omastar and Omanti. Oh jeez. He's mispronounced it every single time. Oh yeah, because Theo cannot pronounce I cannot pronounce things for the life of me. Of course. You better learn, because we're on an educational quotation marks. Um podcast. We're teaching people about how to waste their life savings. That's literally what Pokemon is, though. Yeah, it is. There's also the Detrine the Jini Dragonair? Drottini, Dragonair, Dragon Eight Line, and Gengar, Haunter, and Ghastly, Hypno, Drowsy, and um, and Slowpoke. But that's not all of them. Judah! What other ones have they added? Sure. The other Pokemon are Lapras, Tennis Girl, Tannacool, Psyduck, Golduck, Kingler, Krabby, Shelder, Kolystar, Cloyster, Ditto, Ryachu, Muck, Grimer, Hitmon Lee, Hitmonchan, Magmar, Geodude, great name. I wish When I have a kid, I'm gonna name them Geodude. Geodude. You're just gonna be like, go to your room, Geodude. Geodude. Geodude. Um, Graveler, Gollum, my precious. Magnemite, Magneton, Wheezing, Coughing, Ekens, Arbak, Arbok, Arbok, Sand Slash, and Sandstrew. Wow. So many new Pokemon added. But what's interesting is not all the full evolution lines were added, which was an interesting choice, but I think Pokemon was still trying to figure things out, so I don't blame them. I do. You do? Yes. The better Pokemon in 1999. Nintendo, you didn't hear this from me, but Judah's address is By the way, Pokemon was created by GameStop up until um GameStop? Game Freak! Game Freak. Game No, Pokemon was created by Game Game Freak, which was a self-made thing up until I think E Card was the last set. And Nintendo took over after that. And that's when you can really see it going downhill. Those cards before that, like Neo and Jim and E Card, are some of the most expensive cards, and it really took Nintendo a little while before they really got into the okay, we know how to make people pay. For example, Diamond and Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, Soul Silver are some of the most forgettable sets. Although they did come up with the EX sets, and some of the most some of the stuff inside those EX sets are really expensive. But they really only learned how to start pulling at people's um bank accounts. Wallet strings was at uh Wiz on Sun and Moon, coming out with multiple sets with thousand dollar cards, such as Tag Team. And by the time they made it to Scarlet and Violet and Mega Evolutions, they could literally just say, put a Charizard in the set, and the set immediately explodes. With the exception of um Obsidian Flames. I know a lot of people love that set. It's so expensive, it's really dumb. The most expensive cards, $100. The Elite Trainer box is more expensive than the most expensive card. Probably because of the Charmander, but What? Yeah, because the Charmander promo. Um, I have two of them. They're $68 each. Oh wow. I always thought that the Obsidian Flames Charizard was like $200, but now I see it. No, it's a hundred bucks. It's only got five hundred dollars. Wow. That's the full market price. Well, to be honest, Nintendo sold rice, they sold toys, they sold playing cards. Nintendo sold rice? Yeah, Nintendo sold like rice in bags. Nintendo was founded in 1889. What do you think? They sold video games the whole time. But they sold video game consoles and video games, but they'd never sold trading cards. I wonder how expensive Nintendo original rice from 18 for the from the 1800s. They started with playing cards. But anyway. I know, but how expensive would like original rice created by I have to know now. Okay, look it up, Theo. Nintendo Rice. Oh, it's so dumb. You know? Nintendo Rice Price. Oh my god, it rhymes. Nintendo Rice Price. Nintendo Rice Price. It could be a song. I swear, if this audio gets messed up, I'm gonna like. $20 to $45. But that's for the video game and Rice and Ruin. Anyway. Rice and Ruin. That is the worst named video game I've ever heard of. Well, anyway, we don't we don't need to keep rambling on about rice. Anyway, Nintendo! Nintendo, I love rice. Rice is pretty good. Tell us if you want us to start a podcast about rice. We won't do it because we don't know enough about rice, but you can tell us. No, I'm a big rice eater, ask my parents. I know, but but do we know enough about rice to make it? There's brown rice, there's white rice. Could we make an entire episode on brown rice? You know, how about this? If this episode gets like it way more popular than we could have ever imagined, we'll make an entire episode just talking about rice. That would be like 100,000 views. Fun fact, wait. I was about to say fun fact, I just forgot. Fun fact, did you know that in Japan, sushi, the word sushi, only refers to the rice outside or inside of the sushi? No, in the the actual vegetables inside of it are not sushi. I forget the name, but the the the sushi is the actual is the rice. Judith, this is about Pokemon. I know, but but but it's it makes sense because it's Nintendo, Nintendo's Japanese. No, Nintendo sells rice, and rice is sushi and sushi. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So um But the word, but the Japanese word for rice is not sushi. So basically sushi is rice. Okay, back to Pokemon. Nintendo sold a lot of things, but trading cards weren't one of them. So it makes sense that it took them a few years to get the hang of things. But when they got the hang of things, they really got the hang of things. Oh, we're talking about Wizard of the Coast right now, so we should probably stop talking about Nintendo and hope that they don't sue us. Although if they did, I'd be honored. Yeah. Nintendo, please sue us for something minor that we can easily fix so we can sue you. Yeah, so that we can so that we can see you in court. Yes, and then we'll ask for your autograph at the end. That'll be still on. Yeah, say say that we like accidentally like butchered your name and and like pronounced like a vowel wrong. Or even better, come to Ohio. Do a big card party. Actually, come to Columbus, Ohio, because they already know where we live from the SoundCloud listing. Wait, is it on there? Yeah, it is on there from Columbus, Ohio. We're screwed. CFBI will be coming after us because Nintendo hired Hitman. Yeah, that's they probably have the money. That's a very Nintendo thing to do. God, we've been talking about for rice. For like wait, we've been talking about rice for a long time. Yeah, probably three or four minutes. But anyway. It's not enough. We must talk about rice some more. If we can somehow even like come up with a script about rice, I will be and like post that episode. Y'all better listen to it. How would we like, what would we say? We talk about like the history of rice and we talk about the like old rice farms and we talk about how popular, yeah, and we could make bowls of rice and be eating the rice, and it would be like ASMR. Because for some reason That is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Well, if this video gets a hundred thousand views, I will do everything. I will do that. No, but for some reason there's like a whole following on YouTube and TikTok of just people eating. Yeah. And then people just listening to. It's like there's videos with millions of views, and I'm like, what the heck? What twisted world do you live in in which your only entertainment is listening to people eat? I hope you don't offend any person. I hope no one here is uh especially in Nintendo eater because we are talking about Pokemon and promoting Pokemon, and yet Nintendo is like our worst enemy. They sold like this one Mexican grocery store because his name was Mario, even though like in Spanish, Mario just I think it's like a normal word. I'm not sure. I'm not Spanish. I'm not? The most experienced I've ever been speaking Spanish is like maybe going to Costa Rica, I don't know. So anyway. I feel like going to a mainly Spanish-speaking country. You know, more than most of us, but Yeah. Okay. He's very uncultured. He's only been to like how many countries? Like 80? Uh well, does Puerto Rico count? No, it's part of it's a territory. Wow, how we have geography. Well, then three. Okay. Hmm. Puerto Rico's really weird. Okay. Because like it's it's part of the US, but it's not a state. Rambling on podcast? That should be a podcast ramble on where people just start a conversation and just record the whole thing. So let's talk about it. The things that we talk about when we think no one's watching, even though people are watching. Hello! Hi! Also, if there's that random person who listened in from the UK, we know where you live. No, we don't. We just know they live in the UK. I guess. But like there but no, it's so weird because we have this weird map thing where we can see everything, and then there's just one view from the UK. Please keep watching. They haven't watched any more, but like it's so cool to have like a following from like anywhere else. That if if you were that one listener from the UK, thank you. Thank you. Okay, so I'd like to comment on this video and we will like your comment. Yeah. Wow, what a pain. I mean, we can't really do much out there. Yeah, we we we we would do a giveaway if we were popular. We'd give you like a pack. But we need to know your address. And would you give address to random kids on the internet? So, anyway, let's get back onto Pokemon. So, Judah, let's look at how Pokemon's proportions are a little bit different back then than they are now. So, as I was saying, some Pokemon's proportions are different. The biggest offender is the Aerodactyl. The Aerodactyl just kind of looks like it was all squished into one little frame. And it does not look like the Aerodactyl we know and love today. It's probably because it was squished into one little frame. Yeah, it definitely was. Nowadays they definitely had more room to work with stuff. Back then they had one frame and they had no idea that full arts and all that cool stuff would be a thing. And also, their idea was just to put the Pokemon in a frame for all to see. Newer cards like the Team Rocket's Moltres, great portions of the Moltres are cut out, but everyone knows it's Moltres. No one really cares. It's still a hundred dollars. Yeah, and sometimes the cards like keeping on Destined Rivals, the Psyduck, you can see the entire Psyduck. But it maybe takes, but it doesn't take up a whole lot of the frame. Because, you know, Misty's in there and there's some rocks. If that card was vintage, there would probably just be a very close-up of the Psyduck. Because the Pokemon was just all in the frame. I really like the backgrounds and fun stuff also. Also, I imagine that if that card was vintage, it would also probably be like eight bucks. Which is kind of crazy. Um no, but a lot of the time the Psyducks are usually don't fill up the screen. That's why in the fossil Psyduck is kind of looks a little weird because it's like the main port part. In the stairs duck, a lot smaller. Tiny. Yeah. The Destin Rival Psyduck, it's not tiny, but it doesn't fill up the full frame. Yeah. No one, I mean, no one really had the idea to fill up the Psyduck, and I actually now I'm wondering why. Why why did they never fill up the frame? Uh I don't know. Maybe it was because of politics, and they thought the people who had uh migraines or not politics people People who had migraines would be offended, so they just made him smaller because he always had a headache. Yeah, so that way people who had migraines that would be like so effective migraines. I actually have migraines. Yeah, Judah has migraines. Not bad, not bad migraines. I actually haven't had migraine in a couple months. But I used to have really, really bad migraines, and Psyduck is so offensive because it's like saying that I'm like a duck. So that's probably why they made it so tiny so that it wouldn't offend people. If someone's having a migraine, they probably can't focus very well on the Psyduck. If it was the whole frame, they'd be like, hey, that's offensive. But because it's only a little bit, they'd be like, aw, look at the cute owl, little duck. Well, you know Nintendo are worse enemies that we're also supporting and giving thousands of dollars to. Thousands? In our life, in our lifetime, you don't think you spent at least a thousand dollars on Pokemon? Uh, I haven't spent at least a thousand dollars on Pokemon, but other people have for me. Thank you, other people. Well, yeah, I personally haven't. Probably the most I ever spent was I bought a Twilight Masquerade booster box because I wanted to open my first booster box. It was like a hund it was like 150 bucks back then. God, things were cheap. There was a day when you could buy an Evolving Skies booster box for or not booster box, elite trainer box for 60 bucks. Yeah. And I opened it and I pulled something. I pulled the the Espion IR. Yeah. And then I didn't realize it was expensive. Judah, Judah has a sealed Evolving Skies ETB. Yeah. It's his most expensive sealed product and his most expensive thing that isn't damaged. Because his two most expensive cards are either scribbled on or tear into shreds. They're not tear into shreds. Okay, fine, they're teared into my best card that's not incredibly damaged, I would say lightly played is the Skyzard. Skyzard, my Skyzard's a little bit lightly played. I think yours is a little bit better conditioned than mine. Everyone has a Skyzard nowadays. No, honestly, every single Pokevendor that you've ever been to, they always have a Skyzard. Some like don't have one. It's just a popular card. It's an awesome card. Yeah, well, no, it's really hard to sell them. Because even though they're so expensive, no one has. Everyone of their moms has one. Yep. Yeah. I'm just imagining like a mom with like, aww, good night, sweetie. Good night, good night, Sunsard. Just pets the Sunsard. Yeah, just pets the Sunsard and puts it in the sleeve tight, slides it into a binder and closes it. So anyway, anyway. Um back to back to Fossil. So I'm looking at a lot of Oh yeah, I just realized we haven't talked about fossil in the last 10 minutes. Yeah, we haven't we haven't talked about fossil in quite a while. So hey Judah, I have an idea. You want to talk about fossil? No. But sure, let's do it anyway, because that's what people came here to listen to. You know? Please don't stop listening because uh we have a special surprise at the end. Oh yes, we have a very special surprise. You'll probably know from the intro. But pretend like you don't so that you keep listening. Yeah. It's called attention span. Attention span, attention span. Yeah, stop watching YouTube Shorts and listen to our podcast instead. It's way better for your health. You guys should be like doing chores while you do this. And then it'll basically be like you woke up, it'll basically be like you fell asleep, and when you woke up, everything was perfectly in order, and your mom was no longer yelling at you to clean your room. Okay, so I missed a very interesting part of some Pokemon cards. Oh wow. Yeah. So the Golem from Fossils sells for $1.23 normal, $8 first edition, has a very weird maybe typo. Its first ability is Avalanche, which definitely makes sense. It's golem, but the second one is self-destruct with no space. I do think that it's intentional that it's just one, because I think I feel like Nintendo now would want that polished look of just, you know, having um of just having one little part of the car, of having it all in one awesome little tidbit. But back then, I don't know if that would be the same. Like Nintendo like Wizards of the Coast maybe didn't want Pokemon to be this awesome polished thing. Maybe they just wanted it to be a fun promo, which I know that they did, but did they inten what would they intentionally put a self-destruct thing in there? I have no idea. And I don't know of any other typos in in um fossil. So it's it's quite weird that they that they do that. Like I'm looking at the I'm looking at other ones, like the kabuto. I know someone who's trying to collect every first edition kabuto, go then. Like they have like three or four spaces in their Pokepow. But the Golem doesn't. So that makes me think it's not a typo, but I don't know. What do you think, Judah? I don't really know. I think it was just a simple act of laziness. Something tells me that when creating fossil, Golem was not their first priority. Yeah. Even though it's my precious. Um, but another thing about Golem is that it's thing, it or you know how at the bottom Pokemon, like Charizard says like flame Pokemon? Well, Gollum says megaton Pokemon, which would mean it's around like a thousand tons, but it's weight is. No, it's not, it's six. It's six hundred and pounds. Yeah, it's 662 pounds, which isn't even one ton. So why do they call it megaton? I don't know. Answer me. Yeah, Wizards of the Coast, we caught you red-handed. With purple hands. They have purple hands. Of course. They always wear gloves. You know, I'm sure every employee of Wizards of the Coast always wears gloves 24-7. So let's look let's look at some more cheaper cards from Fossil. Yeah. Because sometimes those are the best. Like, let's take a look at the Magneton. Rarely. But sometimes. Yeah, sometimes. The Magneton sells for $5.64 regular and $12 in first edition. $5.64? Wow. That's expensive. $5.64, I believe he means. Ah, I believe I do. Um you said so many things wrong. You've not said that many things wrong. You know, let's review the blooper. You know, let's how about this? You can at the end of this episode, you review the blooper reel and see if you think that I said too many things wrong. Also comment rice in the comment section to make sure that you know you were. We will know you will listen you are listening. Yeah, you know you weren't just skipping straight to the bloopers like a madman. Well, how would they know to skip straight to the bloopers if they weren't listening? Maybe they listen to the first 15 seconds and then their attention span, attention span, attention span ran out. Yeah, that sounds likely. Okay, keep going. So the magneton is actually really cool. It has all these like wavy lines coming from it, and it makes it look like a very, very cool card. It's almost it's almost like the magneton is like radiating a cool, like mystical force field. So, what what else about it is the Articuno sells for $9 regular, $21 first edition. It has all sorts of fun little sparkles. We love sparkles. Yep. So let's um, so welcome back right after this break. Welcome back to the Shadowless Podcast. So it's time to delve even deeper into fossil and not rice and not any other unrelated thing we talk about. So, Judah, what's up with fossil? Well, the interesting thing about fossil and a lot of these base sets is that they actually follow their name. For example, sets like Neo and Gym Heroes don't talk about heroes in the gym or about Neos. They really don't talk about the matrix at all in Neo, actually. Very strange. Um but these um newer sets um or older sets like jungle sets. Jungle talks about more wild Pokemon. And fossil talks about well, fossil Pokemon. If you look at Fossil, it's the first set where if you can look at cards like Aerodactyl, the stage one isn't another Pokemon, it's a fossil card. And these fossil cards are what made the name of Fossil. Yeah. All of these different things, a bunch of these new cards are based off of dra not dragons, a little bit of dragons, dinosaurs or ancient creatures. They give them like hard shells to make it look like they're like ancient, like the Capu the Kabu tops. By no means are all of those look like that, but a lot of them are. Yeah, there obviously are some cards that aren't though don't really fit the match. But cards like um Amistar, they're that show like um it's ancient. Yeah, it looks they're ancient Pokemon. They're showing ancient, older Pokemon. There are obviously some cards that don't fit this, but um, and there's a card, Mysterious Fossil, in which they evolve from. This is the first time a Pokemon has ever evolved from a card. Uh-huh. Wow, that's that's actually um that's actually quite cool. So Quite cool. That is very quite cool, Judah. You are not giving me a grammar lesson today. So basically Oh, okay. So this is interesting. Pokemon has a very or Nintendo even has quite the reputation of being family friendly. But one of the cards sells for 42 cents regular, five cents $5 first edition, is called Gambler. Yes, you heard me right, Gambler. It's the Gambler is like a white felt background that's like a pool table or anything in a casino, and with and with dice spinning off of it. Which I get that this isn't Nintendo, but they would never do that today, no matter what. Well, actually, fun fact, do you know why Japanese cards are usually the least expensive? Because they print more of them? No, it's because in Japan, um, they're they have are very strict in Japan. So a lot of uh cards in Japan, there's a rule in Japan that says you're not allowed to gamble. And technically, opening Pokemon is gambling because you might be spending $10 on a pack and pull nothing. So that's why in every single pack you are guaranteed to pull at least an EX. And that's why a lot of the time po um Japanese Pokemon are not as expensive because they're easier to pull. The poll rates are a lot easier on Japanese cards than American cards, and that's why they're um that's why they're le that's why they're less expensive. Well, actually, Pokemon isn't classified as gambling. Because if I went to a slot machine in like what? Eight nights. Sin City. No, if I if I was if I went to a slot machine in however many years, like what eight? In eight years, I would um but no nine years. No, seven years. If I get to a slot machine. Don't do that math. Okay, yeah. No, Theo is banned from math in all future episodes. Call me out in the comments in any future episodes where I use math, and I'll figure out what to do with myself on morning my sorrows. So if I go to a slot machine in however many years, and I and I put and I lose, I get nothing. There is no payout that's gonna um there's no payout. But if I do a Pokemon pack and I get nothing, well, and I don't pull anything, there's still a 10 cent card that I pulled, and that is technically something and worth something, so it's not gambling because he's still getting something. Yes, but also the laws in America are a little bit nicer than the laws in Japan. When they made those laws, I think they didn't really care. So they were just like, you know, it's kind of unfair that kids are opening these packs and pulling nothing, and then they're really sad. So it's technically gambling, but it's technically not because gambling would suggest that you're losing money to either make money or lose money. Yeah. You are making money in Pokemon. It's a matter of that you're paying $10 to get 20 cents worth of cards. That's, I think, is what they're getting at. And so it's basically just a scam. I mean, it still is, because if you pull an EX, the EX, the Japanese EX are still are super expensive are super cheap because uh obviously, because that you can pull them in every pack. So you still get 50 cents worth of cards out of a $10 pack. But not $10, actually. You still pulled something worth putting inside of a binder. Yeah. So next time you see a Japanese card and someone's binding, they're like, oh my god, it's so cool. You just don't tell them off, but be like, actually, I could probably pull that out of one pack. Well, it's also Or it'd just be nice to your friends. Just be like, oh my god, I'm so proud of you. Japanese cards are nice because I'm trying to do a Pokedex as like a secondary challenge, and I want to have cool art in my binder, but you don't want to pay thousands. But I'd rather, but I'd rather spend all my money on my 151 stuff. So it's nice that Japanese cards have the same art as English for half the price, so I can still have great art in somewhere where I don't really care about the prices. Yeah, I get that. I went to this card store in New York City. Um, and big apple. My mom and sister were waiting in line and we for to have pizza, and me and my dad just like saw this card shop and we were like, oh, we're gonna go. It was also pouring um cats and dogs. So we were like, hey, we're just gonna go in here while you guys suffer in line. Um yeah, getting scratched by cats must be very annoying. It it was. Thankfully, it was mostly just dogs. Oh good, yeah, they would only little nip at you. Yes. They were very angry dogs, though. Yeah. Like tigers. Oh wow. Which are actually cats. Yeah. So it was raining cats. It was raining cats and dogs. But mostly dogs. Okay, anyway. No, mostly dingos. Oh. Which are a type of dog. Yeah. Wait, are they? Um we have to find out. Are dingos dogs dogs? Okay, a dingo is a canine. Okay. Okay, that's what I thought. Wow, you learn something new every day. So anyway, Judah. Except for Tuesdays. Which today is a Tuesday. Huh. Except for Thursdays. You don't learn anything on Thursdays. Yeah, because we just learned something. Uh yeah. Anyway, Judah, please finish your story. It's very interesting. Well, we were going in and we it was pretty small, nothing crazy in there. But there was one card that caught my eye. It was an EVSIR from Prismatic Evolutions. And you may be thinking, oh my god, that's like a $200 card. That's like a $170, $200 card. But actually, it was Japanese, so it was only $40. And we got that card for $40. And I don't really care about the price. I just really like the artwork. And being able to look at that and go, wow, I own that. That's a great thing about Pokemon. Just looking through your binder going, that's mine. Actually, technically, it's my parents. Because they bought it. So But if they take it from me, I'm going to punch them. You would punch your parents? If they took my thousand dollar Pokemon cards. Yeah, I don't know if any of them are a thousand in their current condition. No, no, like altogether. Oh, okay, yeah. Anyway, um, wow, punching parents aside. Um, I Now I kinda wish I had said that. Take it back, take it back. Take it back. I'm so sorry. Yeah. It's just like wait, Dad, do you listen to this? Do you listen to our podcast? Please say yes. Yeah, please, please say yes. You know what? I'm sure that dad that dad is right here listening to this right now. Right, Judas, Dad? Anyway, so he's not. We have no supervision, so we can talk about whatever we want. We're not going to, though. No. We're just just fossil, no rice. Or jungle. So anyway, yeah, there are definitely places like trade band, like trade binders, where value seriously matters. And you want the best and you want the best stuff. But when places when you just want cool artwork, buy Japanese cards. Anyway, I'm Theo. And I'm Judah and World Theo Trader. Hey, Theo here. Wow, you made it through the episode. Your attention span, attention span, attention span is not fried. Congratulations! So, anyway, over the weeks and weeks that it took us to make this episode, just because of the constant setbacks, no, this is not a motivational poster or a motivational podcast. Actually, it is, maybe, motivation to lose all your money. Anyway, we have we had countless bloopers that we just can't wait to share with you because some of them are too funny. Anyway, roll bloopers! Welcome back to the Shadowless Podcast. In this episode, I'm interviewing Judah about his favorite color. Hey Judah, what's your favorite color? Pokemon. Wow, what a totally dumb freaking dead response. We'll see you in the next one. Welcome back to the Shadowless Podcast. I'm not Theo. And I'm not Judah. And in this episode, we're reviewing how we accidentally swapped mines. Yep, it all started in a secret. I'm Judah! And I'm Theo. And we'll see you trainers later. Welcome back to the Shadowless Podcast. In this episode, I'm looking at a Judah in the wild. Wow, this Judah is very is using very primitive technology. It appears he's using a D-ring binder. What is this? Oh jeez, this Judah must have imported the mind of a three-year-old. I have pulled the chars art. No, don't put it in the binder. I beg you. Welcome back to the Shadowless Podcast. In this episode, we're reviewing Jungle. We apologize that we haven't uploaded in so long. You said jungle. Oh my god! Why just keeps happening? Okay, let's get started with jungle. Per usual, I'm here at Jungle. Oh my god! For the millionth time! Okay, computer whatever. Hallelujah. Computer is broken. Hallelujah. Okay, we should stop recording. Yeah, probably. Welcome back to the Shadowless Podcast. In this episode, we're reviewing Fossil. And finally reviewing Fossil. After three tries. Oh my god, Jody, you can't be trying to do that. Sorry, I forgot. Yeah, I'm in the intro. Come on.