 Welcome everyone to the Pokeballs podcast. This is episode seven week seven. We're into my name is Lee, one of your hosts and I'm joined by my lovely co-host, Scott. How are you doing, mate? Hello. I am very good, Lee. Great to be here. Great to see you. I really like your jumper, mate. It's nice. Thank you very much. Sweater. I have matching socks and trousers as well. I am a bit disappointed. It's not a full suit for those of you that are listening just on Spotify. It's like a pink tie dye, white kind of thing going on. Looks cool. It's nice, mate. It's nice. Doing alright, though? Thank you very much. Yeah, good. Just been brought up and saying we've had another bank holiday over in the UK. It's been a combination this weekend. The King. Did you watch any of it? I didn't, mate. No. Not against the Royals, but I'm just not of that generation, you know? I think it's like, I said this to Tasha. It's something that my gran would sit and watch. We'd have a weekend with my parents and my gran would be over and she'd be sitting watching it and my mum and dad would probably be dipping in a little bit of it. No disrespect from my end, but I would be paying very little attention to it because I've just got no interest in it. It's not that I dislike the Royals or anything. I think it's cool that our country has them, but I'm not invested at all in that sort of thing. I don't know how you make it to you. I don't really understand how people can be that invested in the Royals, but as long as they're happy, that's the main thing. I think it is just like, I've got a funny story, though. It was really annoying, but I think it's more of that older generation, like, you know, get behind them. Great. All hail the King. My friend was saying, I think Stephen Fry said that, and if you look up, it is also true, but the happiest countries around the world are the ones that have monarchies. It's just really interesting to see that. It does match up. So we went yesterday to yesterday morning. There's a local car boot. It's a huge car boot that they have. We haven't been for ages, so we thought we'd go down there yesterday morning. It was a nice morning, so we thought, yeah, we'll go down and on the way because we live in the middle of the countryside. So there's lots of, like, awkward little country lane rods that we have to drive through to get to where we were going. And we were going through this little village. It was so annoying, mate. We got stopped by a bunch of old boys who were all dressed up in, like, up to the nines. So I had all these, like, kind of replica royal outfits on, and they stopped the car, right, and the rod. And we had to wait literally about 20 minutes for this replica king and queen, like, cart with these, like, wooden cut-out horses and people riding them with a kind of copy king and queen in this, like, carriage. Twenty minutes. So we went on to the road and then walked down through the village, and they wouldn't let us pass them. So we had to wait for this big procession to go through at, like, 9am in the morning before we were able to get through. It was like, come on. Yeah, they were, there was some dedication there. You can imagine the thoughts that were going through my head. So very angry for the scruffy head. I was not, I was not, I was not happy. But anyway, yeah, nice to see that the traditions are being kept, though, I guess. I've got something to show you live in the episode. Don't forget. Okay. But yeah, that was that. So the bank holiday and everything. Hope everyone else has had a nice weekend. Of course, since last week, a big shout out to everyone for all the interactions on last week's video. Great to get those feedback and we'll be adding a little section a bit later on to the podcast. So stay around for that one. But Pokemon News, Scott, there hasn't been a great deal again this week. It's been probably, I think last week, in my opinion, was probably the quietest week we've had in Pokemon. Generally for a very long time, there hasn't been much going on. Scarlet and Violet has been very quiet. Of course, it was Golden Week in Japan, so it's going to make sense. But there was very little going on. There was tidbits from Pokemon Go, obviously the new Cleaver raid has just went live. So that's something EX Masters as well has had a bunch of stuff going on. But outside of that, the main series games like Scarlet and Violet have had very little. The only thing to really talk about is the brand new raids. And it kind of follows on with a little theory that we kind of touched on last week. It does indeed, baby. It does indeed. So we had, last night, the IntelliOn raid finished, and we had the announcement of the brand new 7-star raid that will be happening this week. And of course, it is that Chest Naught. We picked out last week, we said, based on our theory, there will be three Pokemon left before Pokemon Home arrives on the Switch compatibility with Scarlet and Violet. And it will be either Chest Naught, Delphox, or Rillaboom as the next raid. And it is that Chest Naught, mate. So it feels like that theory is churning up. No. Well, yeah. I mean, we have to assume that it's correct. That's lost for words. Because we got something right. You summed it up. You summed it up amazingly. Yeah. No, we just have to assume that we're correct for now and hope that the next one follows the pattern. Yeah. I tell you what, just to add to this as well, just to go a little bit more in depth, light over on Twitter also has a YouTube channel. He's a theory analyst and does an amazing job as well with this. But he posted this tweet back in April, like the 16th of April. He posted this with his prediction about how the raids, the next raid, seven star raids were going. And he predicted the Rillaboom, the Chest Naught, and the Delphox. He has got a question mark here because he does, I think, based on this, I think there'll be another one following that as well, which is quite interesting. But he has the typings here. This is from the 16th of April, so quite a while ago. And he has that rock type on Chest Naught. He has the normal type on Rillaboom. He's convinced that it will be normal type. And it will, because it'll take advantage of the boom burst move on that, which will be quite scary, actually, with the terror boost on top of it. And then a fairy type Delphox, which makes quite a lot of sense for the moveset that it's got. So it'll be interesting to see if they are the next two. I know that's what we've been talking about. But if the terror type things are tied to the same as well. But I just wanted to kind of bring that up today because I think Light will be a good person to get on, maybe in a couple of weeks as a guest to talk about some of the theories going into the new DLCs and what we potentially might see going forward with those. But things looking hopeful for Pokemon Home, of course, mate. It's all ramping up now, of course. We are still without any official update for when it will be coming to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. But we have had our resident leaker to Scarlet and Violet. I don't know if you've heard of Ridleyku before, but he is a very reliable source. And I've got some interesting things. I could say in future episodes about who in conversations I've had with officials at Pokemon as well. So maybe we'll get into that at some point. But he kind of came out earlier in the week saying with this hinting time to go back to home, guys, with the starter Pokemon there. He had some Zs and then a little kiss, obviously. Followed it up with 19. So whether or not he means the 19th of May, I think it possibly could mean the 19th of June because then it would fall perfectly for the week after that final seven star terror event based on our theory would be in that week of the 19th of June. So that would make a lot of sense. And then followed it up with this picture, which in my mind is like a pokeball transporter for when you trade in Pokemon, right? Instantly thought of that. And then this came out yesterday. It kind of evolved after Depositon, which is he started Pokemon, wants to register them in home. I think that's all it means. And then you'll be able to evolve them after to get a living dex in Pokemon home and, you know, scholar and violet. So they are interesting kind of tweets that have come out on the back of it as well. So it feels like we're getting ever closer to some sort of official announcement from Pokemon. Hopefully soon, maybe even this week, about when to expect it in scholar and violet does feel like it's getting ever closer now. Yeah. We'll just have to wait and see. I think our theory is pretty sound, but it makes sense. I was just thinking, based on our theory, what Pokemon left? It was Delphox, Rillaboom, Chessnaught, and what was the last one? That was it, mate. There was only three an hour. From what we talked about last week, there was Delphox, there was Chessnaught. That'll finish Gen 6 as that kind of light little section. And then the only one from Gen 9. Yeah, sorry, Gen 8 is the Rillaboom because we've had the Intelion, which finished last night as a record in this video and we've already had the cinderace. So that would complete all of the starters. The only thing I would say is that it would be a bit weird for them to do the same Gen back to back because they're not going to do grass, are they? They're not going to go Rillaboom next. No, that's why I think we'll have Delphox next. But yeah, but then it's the same Gen as Chessnaught. Yeah, but they haven't done that before, have they? Have they? No, they haven't. Although, if they kind of have, if you're taking the legends, because then they did Decidueye anti-flosion back to back. So they could do it like that because they did the grass starter and then the fire starter, right? So that was Decidueye anti-flosion back to back. That makes sense. So they could do the same here with the Chessnaught grass starter and then the Delphox fire starter and then finish everything off with the Rillaboom. To kind of end this first cycle of seven-star Terorids, which in my opinion is what they're doing before they move into the second cycle. Who knows? Who knows? You just have to be patient as of a lot of things. You just have to wait until the 19th. I'm with you. I don't think it's going to be this week. You'll be next, this was the day today. It will be a week on Friday. Yeah, I don't think so. It could potentially be eight, you know. I don't know, though. I can't see it. I can't see them doing it on the 19th of May. I feel like the 19th of June makes a bit more sense because that is a Monday. And that's when the Terorid would end for Rillaboom, I think. And that would be normally the announcement of the next seven-star Terorid, that Monday the 19th. So that feels a bit more in line with how it would go. But we'll have to wait and see, like you say. Patience is a virtue. But yeah, that's that, mate. And then the other thing to mention in anything that's been going on, Scholar and Violet, is you can now, if you took part in the Global Challenge 3 over this past weekend, took part in three battles, of course you can get yourself a cord in Pokemon Home for the new Ultra Ball Bag, which is exclusive for taking part in that event. And you can get yourself that nice backpack to add to your character. But other than that, mate, there is not really much going on. There's been no Mystery Gifts announced, so I would expect we'll get some Mystery Gifts this week. So annoying. What is? Just this, like, this lowl period. Like, I thought it was just teasing us. Yeah. Like, because we know it's just, like, as we mentioned before, it's just going to be everything at once, right? We're going to get home, and then they'll probably just randomly drop some trailers for the DLC or something like that, like, after that as well. I felt like they just want to get home out of the way. And that's probably why they haven't done any trailers or anything called teased the DLC, really. And so I think once home is out of the way, they can just focus on everything else. They're probably just making sure that our home works, testing it and testing it and testing it. Because, you know, they won't really want to release it and it doesn't work. So many people will be angry. I mean, people will already agree. Yeah. They can't have a repeat of that last, like that 1.2 update. Definitely not. I think as well, one of the things we might not get anything this week as well is because Teased of the Kingdom is out on Friday. And do they want to have any sort of conflict with that release? You know, let that... I mean, you know, the Chestnut events go on live, but that's already... they do it every Friday, so it's not really... I think that's part of it, you know, because there's been this build-up of Teased of the Kingdom. Maybe they certainly said to poem one, you know, we're not going to... Teased of the Kingdom is out. I would make a lot of sense. And then the following week, at the back end of the following week, drop something about Pokemon. Maybe. Yeah. And then I guess if it is the 19th of June, it leaves a lot of time for people to get Teased of the Kingdom, play that, and then, you know, they kind of... I guess... The hype should have died down a bit? Yeah. You're a month into playing through the game, then, yeah, the hype's died down a bit, but, yeah, will you be playing Teased of the Kingdom, Matt? No? No, not really much of a... I'm not really a gamer, to be honest. I am a gamer, but I just... I like playing games on the social gamer. That's the best word to describe it. I very rarely... I do play games by myself. I only really play Apex, but even then, I do it to complete challenges, like I won't sit there religiously and play it constantly, because most of the time, my friends don't want to play it, so it's just me on my own. So probably not. I say I tried to play it, and I started to play Breath of the Wild last year, but it's not really for me. I find role-play games, apart from Pokemon, I just don't really enjoy them. I mean, some Pokemon games, I don't normally enjoy the story, to be honest with you. I just complete it so that we can play competitive Pokemon really. Yeah. That's fair enough. Yeah. I get a lot of people like it. It does look really good. It does really look... From what I've seen, it looks amazing, but, you know, you have to wait and see. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I hope it's... I think it will be... The story will be good. I don't... I'm weird, because I got... When I bought my Switch, I bought the very first edition of the Switch when it first came out, and my bundle was with Breath of the Wild, but I think it took me about two years for me to actually play Breath of the Wild, to actually put it in the console and load it up, because I was like, I know when I'm going to do this, it's like that I want some time to be able to kind of really concentrate on it, and obviously do and competitive Pokemon, other things with the channel. I just never really had the time to kind of set aside to do it. I'm pleased I did, though, and I got around to it, and I finished it, which was really good, but I don't know whether it'll be the same case with Teal of the Kingdom. I'm not in any mad rush to feel like I want to play it, so it'll probably be one of those things I might... I don't know. See how much I've got going on with Friday. Yeah. Yeah. But it will be good, I'm sure. But yeah. Have you got anything from Reddit this week, then, mate? Your daily content from Reddit that you want to share with us? Be interested to hear anything. I've only got two things. Two things this week. One of them is really sad. Not really sad. Goody-bag. We're just calling it that now. I think so. I like that. I like the name. Everyone, let us know if we should keep the name Scott's Goody-bag. I feel like it's a good name. I mean, I think it's a good name. Scott's Magic Hat. I'm sending you a link now. I mean, this article is kind of... you would expect it at the moment. I'll just send you it on Twitter if you want to open up. I won't spoil it. I won't spoil the title for the... There was some further news on the Pokemon TCG as well this week about the buying of cards and stuff like that for adults. Can talk in that in a minute as well. So what is this? Pokemon Gold Monthly Earnings reportedly plummeted to their last in five years. I wonder why? Oh, no. Yeah, I thought it was interesting to see that... not that they got their come-up hints, but it's obviously... the stuff that's been going on is affecting the revenue now, which is pretty crazy. Maybe that's what they need to happen for them to kind of sit up and be like, oh, we've made a big deal. Money talks, baby. Money talks. 100%. It's like the one thing these companies will always take action about. I think, I guess, the community would feel like they've actually achieved something then because it's very easy to be like, don't buy this, don't buy that. When a lot of the time, people are going to buy stuff anyway, but they clearly haven't, which is awesome. That's amazing. Actually, hats off to the community for actually going through with it because like you say a lot of the time, when you feel strongly about something and you're personally sitting there saying, I'm not going to invest in this because I don't agree with it. I want something to change, but then the casual fans or fans that aren't really in the know about what's going on, I just want to play whatever it is, kind of just go ahead and buy it anyway, then these companies are like, well, it's fine. We're still making coin, so we don't need to do really too much about it. So yeah, it is nice. The article goes on. That's according to data from App Store Analytics firm, App Magic, reported by mobile. I have made some monthly revenue of like in the tens of millions. Oh my God. That's insane, isn't it? That's insane money. Suggest that Niantic's game sold monthly revenue of 34.7 million dollars in April, making its 12th highest growth grossing mobile game worldwide. While this appears positive, however, the side note that this share drop compared to March is 42.8 million revenue, which itself was a notable dip compared to the 57.9 million made in February. That's insane. So it's hard. That is crazy. Last year, the game grossed 703 million in total, averaging a 58 million per month. So April's figures are well below average. Indeed, according to the report, 34.7 million figure is the game's last monthly revenue since February 2018. That's insane. That is absolutely, that's discussed in amounts of money. Monthly, 58 million, normally a month. You can't live off that. No, I mean, what can you do with that? Let it away on a few... Buy like 100 houses, you know? Stupid, silly, mate. Absolutely brutal, but I'm glad, I'm glad that they're getting, this is shown because like you said, money will talk and hopefully they'll be like, maybe we should do something about this. We'll see. We'll see, maybe, yeah. We'll have to wait and see, I could say. They're yet to kind of say anything other than mock the community. So, yeah. Again, it's another waiting game really, what they're going to do. Hopefully, it would be amazing to see a drop next month as well, especially if the announcement of GoFest, where they're expecting, oh no, revenue is going to go up now because of GoFest, but if it dropped or stayed like around the same figure this next month, I think that's a real kind of intent from the community to be like, no, sort it out, sort it out. Oh, mate, I'd love to see it. Yeah, I'm not doing anything on it at the minute. I haven't even, I really want the cleaver, but I'm like, nah. Boycotting in my own way to support the Go community. Look at you, I'm so proud of you. Thanks, man. That's good, no, I appreciate it. I wish I could do more, but I feel super proud. You've probably haven't done it for that. I mean, that's basically what you can do. It's not play the game, that's the best thing you can do. And I do spend money on it because I have like no storage and I'm too lazy to go through and release Pokemon and I need like incubators and other things. So I do spend money and I haven't for a long time, so yeah. I literally haven't touched the game since like the week, that summer, it just went boom. 2016. I've had it on my phone, just haven't played it at all. I'm genuinely amazed. I guess it's Pokemon, they know how to keep you interested, but... Do you never get it out to play the European championships or worlds or anything? Oh man, the stuff that they have forgot those events is insane. It's really cool. The raids and stuff they have. I never really have much time to do much because of the cast and those events, so it's like... Give your phone to me now. I should be in those stops. I don't know, it's just to me, because I'm not stupid, but my brain's like is there an inherent value to me with a lot of things. It has to be worthwhile and you know... Competitive goal, baby. Yeah, but I'm not interested in specific goal and or... Although I did learn recently that again, just goes to show when you don't... Because I've never ever used home before. Either, so I don't know how... Obviously, I'll get it simple to use. I know the basics of it, but I've never actually used it myself. I didn't even know you could port Plug One from home to... Not home, sorry, go to your Switch games. Yeah, it's very cool. I don't know if you ever saw and through Player's Cup I think the team was me, Lou, Aaron and Sierra and we did cast the battles in that and I played Lou and our format for one of the matches was Mythical Pokémon and it was weird. Both of us came up with a very similar like, Metal Metal team and the Metal Metal, the only way to get it was through trading it in Goal so that's how I got mine, which was pretty awesome. When they've got like, is it like a spotlight hour and things like that where it's like concentrated like Pokémon so you get lots of spawns of the same Pokémon it's pretty easy to get like. There was one of the last ones I did there's been so many since but because, obviously, I've moved recently and I don't have access to as much of it was the Terrier so on and I think it got like three shiny Terriers in the space of like half an hour mate. It was nuts. They're so good. They are so good. Like if you put the time in to getting them, I mean I was probably lucky but I mean I did a is it Rogan Rolla the Gigalith Prevolution? Yes. I did that and I got like, oh dude I don't know how many shinies I got it was like they were just like all spawn in shinies I got like seven or eight I think in that one. It was absolutely nuts but then I managed to evolve my Terrier set into an Ursulana so I've got a shiny Ursulana in Pokémon Go so I will trade that to Scarlet and Violet when we get there I'm looking forward to that one that'd be good. It's a really cool feature I like it but of course we don't have it with Scarlet and Violet yet because that's not true What were you going to say about you're going to say something when we're brung that article up about Go? Or was that what you were going to say? Maybe that was what I was going to say Did you see the, this is a really random tangent but it's just coming to my head because you mentioned Sierra What's the other commentator? The American, no the guy not Adam What's the other guy? No for VGC Big guy, big tall guy They were on the desk I don't know if you've seen it I don't even think most people picked it up but two guys were playing on stream that were roommates and have you ever seen the Vine where the lady walks past and she goes, and they were roommates they basically just did that it was quite funny they clipped it and was like oh my god they referenced the Vine on stream that's funny because I've seen that reference Joel's really good at doing stuff like that it was so funny I think when they were in I think it was a California regional they were in and at the end his sign off was Stare Classy California something like that, it was really cool like the reference to Anchorman he was the host that weekend on the couch I love Anchorman, it's one of my favourite films Me too mate, it's good So funny I'm in a box of emotion Yeah it's very good, very cool Are you with Adam Sandler fan just by interest, me and Tash were having this conversation the other night There were a lot of people out there I didn't realise how much he's disliked I am a huge Adam Sandler fan He does some very funny movies I'm very much a comedy guy I don't really like a lot of depressing stuff like slow, sad music I don't like watching scary films or dramas or anything like that things that make me laugh and a lot of the films that I've I love the comedies he's in and a Solaris there's like a big group of them from the era of the 90's early 2000's, I mean grown ups is a great film I saw it it's a good film I think it was too amazing as well I've never seen Anger Management It's got Jack Nicholson in I don't have a quick look it's like one of my all time favourite Sandler films and I love anything with Kevin Hart in as well Kevin Hart is just hilarious I don't think I have such a tangent for the podcast so let's know your favourite genre of film and if you like Adam Sandler I would love to know I want to know more about this widespread hate for Sandler, I don't know why I think it's just, I don't know people hate people that he's probably had that boom whereas in every movie I think people think he's not a great actor because he only has comedies but he's made an insanely good living so good luck to him who cares he hasn't done anything bad as far as I'm aware so he's not a funny guy more power to you Adam come on the podcast you might have kids that like I found out the other day so many things have been like you know a lot of worlds collide I sent you the thing the other day where these two female Kpop idols that I love were watching the palace game and I was like freaking out it's on their Instagram story and then another thing I found out is one of the girls from the same group also really liked Pokemon and all she's been posting on Instagram was like Pokemon stuff and I was like I can't speak Korean but come on anyway we will try I will try my best I can say hello my name is Scott that will do and yes and no so we'll just ask yes and no questions and then we'll be good that would be good mate another thing before I be there I want to show you quickly I'll be back okay let's wait patiently for those of you on Spotify obviously so I am trying to keep in mind when we got through these podcasts to give you an update a description as best I can Scott just disappeared he went to get something and he's about to show us so so remember Miriam Card that I got a couple of episodes back at EUIC I mentioned to you that there's this really cool guy called Kanto Forge on Etsy been on the subreddit loads that's how he's kind of I found out about him all like designs for cards like custom cards like all like the chase cards basically and I bought one of their frames and I just wanted to show you that I'll put it in the frame and it looks it looks so glaring so glaring hang on we'll be we'll be it looks so nice it just trying to like online that you can send me so I can pull it up digitally it's basically for everyone that isn't watching the visual it's an extension of the card so the frame has more of the card going into it it's a really nice kind of display piece it looks really cool I'll see if Scott's got a digital image because we can't show you because of the lighting of his room it's too shiny that's why it's too powerful it's too powerful I mean it looks really nice from what I saw I've seen the digital copy of it which is which is really cool I'll send it to you now on Twitter it's cool that we have people in the community that like do stuff like this isn't it honestly it's wicked I just need to get like a stand to stand it up because I'm like I've got my shelf but all my PSA cards they have PSA stands I can't stand this up with but I'll just send it on Twitter oh wow look at this look at this this is beautiful look at that it's so nice isn't it I love that so much and it's such a nice alternative to actually just getting it graded that's what I like right because I have a lot of cards that I want to keep but like okay so the option really to display them like I don't want them to be in a binder the best option is you have to put them in one of those over a top loader until I display it or you can get those like fancy top loaders that kind of look a lot nicer or you get it graded right and I'm like I can't be bothered so this is like a really nice alternative to getting it graded 22 quid free posted that's great and they just send you it so you don't even need to send your card away or anything like that I'll just send it to you but no it's quality I might do that with some of mine you know because I've got a pile that I'm ready to go off to PSA and I'm just like I don't really want to send them away after the last time I submitted them and it was like over two and a half years to get them back that is brutal put me off and I've used ASGrading and they're alright but I'm just like I kind of like to keep everything the same you know what I mean if I get them graded I want them graded with PSA but I'm kind of like just past the point where I might give them a try mate if I get anything done I'll share them on the pod you said you had a couple of things from Reddit so do you have another Scots goodie bag for us or not come on don't the only other one was it's a bit brutal to be honest but almost just been a lot spicy some guy had an argument with his misses I thought you were going to talk about the argument we had the game on the pod I got a bit aggro about the Newcastle game Scots brother is an Arsenal fan so there is bias there although he said there's no bias although we brushed it no reason to hate Newcastle public apology for my aggression I wasn't that aggressive screaming I was scared honestly okay let's have a look at this what is it mate I'm going to let you take take the lead on this it's just pretty brutal I had an argument and she ripped I was like fuck could you imagine I can't say maybe there are some really expensive ones in there but to go through the effort as well because they've been ripped they haven't been cut as well so she had to individually cut rip all the cars there are loads of cars there right they must have she must have been pretty peed I don't want to do that it doesn't explain they had an argument about money apparently and then this is what she did why is the sunglasses just randomly like maybe it was a sunny day this must be the box where the cards were I can't see any hollers in there I guess the me promos you don't know what I think that one underneath looks like another me promo but imagine if it was like brutal if there were really expensive cars or like she ripped over a PSA a PSA case or something you were going to cry wouldn't you smashed it with a hammer or something congrats they're not fake they didn't look fake by the rips in them because you can tell when they're ripped they do look genuine I mean it doesn't look like it's not really about the cost of them no of course it's a good statement but like you say must have done something pretty bad I mean do you deserve that? I mean no one deserves that but what was the context of this end result what led to this decision being made from this this hard broken girl she might not have been she might just been really pissed you know I don't know tell you what you know the car boot I was talking about earlier that took me like an hour to get there because of some elderly people doing the enactment of the car boot to try and get public cars but they're so hard to find cheap cars because people know now there was a guy there and they weren't cheap but they were reasonably priced he had a great stall because the thing that I was looking out for when I was there was a GBA I want another GBA so I was looking out for one and this guy had a great stall he had like lots of like retro console stuff he had like SNES he had lots of DS games he had Dreamcast a bunch of N64 games he had like Banjo Kazooie he had like Banjo 2 he had lots of really cool stuff and he also had some Pokemon cards at the end so I was like I went down and I was having a look because it was a base set folder there was a few hollows in there like you kind of more common ones like Hitmonchan Clefairy but like pristine condition mate pristine and I was just looking through it and I was like this is really cool and I said can I take because I need a Raticate for my base set my collection because I'm missing a Raticate and I'm missing a Doug Trio now the two that I kind of need to get to kind of finish off the set and I've been putting off getting them on eBay I don't really want to pay like 20 quid for a Raticate and it is pretty banged up so like if I'm going to pay like a premium for it I want it to be in good nick so I was like can I take the Raticate out just to have a look at the back of it have a look at the condition and he was like he collected it and I was like yeah yeah yeah he was like wait there he was like just help yourself take it out yeah have a look at it and I've got another folder if you'd like to have a look at it and he bust out this folder from his van dude there was nothing in there that was like first edition Charizard or anything like that but the one of the coolest collections I've seen in person probably ever really for like the longest time and it was like he had all of the hollow set from Team Rocket Returns so all the EX the Delta Species cards and stuff like that and what else did he have there was another set in there Fossil as well he had all the hollows from there and not the Dark Charizard but everything else and mate they only had lots of level X hollows as well which was so cool mate and they were so clean and they weren't badly priced at all they were like ranging between like like mid like 15 quid up to like I think the most expensive one I saw was like 40 quid for these hollows and I mean they were immaculate and he was saying to me he was like yeah collect them all like replicas from the sets that I've got complete and binders but he said yeah these are all just straight out of the pack into the into a penny sleeve and then into the binder I was like you just don't see them in that condition anymore but he didn't take cards so I was like I can't I've got like I don't really I should have carried cash because it was a but I wasn't really going there to buy much so I didn't have any and I was like I'm really sorry can I just take the rally kit which I got for two quid so I was like pretty chuffed about that so that was nice that what you mentioned there about Ebay is that I really really like I've so many horror stories from like people who just like where they've posted them it really puts me off buying cards from Ebay like I've just I've seen things on I think it's a seller though you're in a better position if you're sorry as a buyer you'll always get sided with if you're the seller you're pretty screwed mate I've had some horrendous situations It's what I don't understand that really annoys me is that they they always take your they even when like you're in the right they almost always take the seller's sign it really piss me off it's like they will find every angle available to try and make sure that the seller is white and you not so tell her the buyer is white sorry the seller is wrong even if you are technically right that's what really annoys me and when I sold I had the cryon on card right I pulled this and I sold that at the same time as I want to try to list this touch word I haven't had any complaints about that but I sent it properly in the top loader I put two bits of cardboard either side I taped all around the edge and put it in an envelope sealed it all up properly and I did the last sign for as well so I was like there ain't no way mate you're safe mate I think I think the general consensus is the majority of people that are buying of eBay are genuine people and I think like it's just the odd one that spoils it I had a horrible situation a few years ago where I had a Lugia GX the full art that had a tiny bit of whitening kind of natural from like lost under sets where the quality of the cards isn't that great and I was like I don't really want to send this one off to get graded so I'll sell this one and I'll put that money towards getting a better copy of it and I was fully transparent with the photos I took extra close-ups of the whitening around the edge of the top corner so people knew and it was in the description knew what they were buying it wasn't the best condition but a cool card nonetheless like if you just look at the front of it it looked amazing and I sold it for like 30 pound so it was a little bit under market value at the time but it didn't mind I was like that's the equid that I can put towards getting a better one and I sent it off but I stupidly made the mistake of not sending it recorded and I had this horrible feeling after I realized like I normally send everything recorded delivery so it's always tracked and I didn't send this one and lo and behold like a week later of course they might have been genuine but I feel like it was definitely not genuine at all because of the way they were very they were so aggro as well with me about it like so defensive and I was just like you've definitely got because I sent out a batch of others at the same time that was it I sent out a batch of them I think it was about nine I sent out at the same time all of them except that one they were recorded delivery and that was the only one that didn't arrive and yeah eBay just didn't even want to know I was like I have sent it it's on my receipt I've paid for the postage but they were like nah the person hasn't got it they got the money back I had to refund them and I was like well I'm down a card and down 30 quid and I was just like fair enough if they got it but I just didn't get that vibe that they got it and it's just funny that all these other ones were sent out at the same time and every single person didn't have a problem with it you mentioned about them being aggro because of all the things before that haven't turned up and I think most same people are like really polite about it and it didn't turn up when I was like hey just to let you know hasn't turned up for a while I'm not angry but maybe there's a problem with like delivery yeah can you check your end yeah yeah basically yeah but yeah and wouldn't that have you definitely probably try to mug it I think I definitely got mugged off mate it's the sort of thing that puts me off yeah mate I don't blame you and I did keep an eye on their ebay after that for a while just to be like see if they've posted it but I kind of lost interest so who knows on that one but they got a free Luger card out of it never mind they might have needed it but still not the cool thing to do so that was Scott's goodie bag Scott's corner whatever or coin in it if you've got any ideas for names obviously drop them in the comments and we'll cousin this little section of Scott's little segments from Reddit which are very entertaining for future episodes but mate my little segment that I wanted to add for this week I've been going through all the comments from last week's episode and we had quite a few interesting ones mate I just wanted to kind of touch on it obviously last week we kind of concentrated a lot on them re-releasing the Game Boy Advance and having all those and re-releasing the Classic Collection the Legacy Collection that someone coined it I think that was probably the best coined phrase from last week's comments the Legacy Collection and I really liked reading through them I think it was taken pretty much on the consensus everyone would be down for this except Nelson who was I think really burned by Bill it was along the lines of making a good point about letting the old games stay in the past and he used Diamond and Pearl remakes as an example of why this should be a thing and I totally get that no they wouldn't be we were asking for like complete the original games Glimmer off goes on to save data stored on batteries mix a bit difficult if they're doing it like the original ones but I think this would be something where they could just update the cartridges so they're like flash they're not on like a battery they save directly to the console now or even better just give us a Pokemon cloud save storage so we can do it that way so I think it makes a good point though but there's room there Professor Oak was mentioning as well about the side games the quests many games and the battle tower that we got in those old games that we just don't see anymore if we got those back as well then it gives us a chance to I think that's a really valid point to why the old games are still valuable at this day and age because they have aspects to the game that they just don't put into these new games anymore that are huge fan favourites and I think like if we could go back and play them and they've still got value and trade those Pokemon in from these old games into home, into your new game it's kind of cool and to have those other aspects as well yeah no, we are on the money just do it Pokemon basically I'll go through the other comments if you want we have some really good ones I love reading the comments Iced tea, rather have Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on the Switch which would be very cool full 3DS virtual console that would be amazing I would just take my money for those Bettercrest physical releases on the Switch console which I thought was really interesting so rather than get them a re-released on like a gameboy a re-released gameboy with a re-released cartridge just modern day ones they release it but you just release like in my mind this works one cartridge, right? as a legacy collection you have one cartridge legacy collection with red blue and yellow on it and that's your cartridge and it's got red blue and yellow on and you can slot it in and you can play any one of those three and then you get legacy collection 2 which has got gold silver crystal and then you get legit and the money they're going to make from that if they're Switch games as well and then they don't need to be integrated in some way to have compatibility between Pokemon Stadium 1 Pokemon Stadium 2 maybe I'm just saying be so good though so I really like that but thank you again to everyone that did comment on last week's video do leave your comments down below about anything we cover this week or anything you'd like to give us a shout out for next week and I'll make sure in this mail bag section of the podcast that I do mention every one of them out I do appreciate all of them the next thing that I did want to mention off the back of that May and sorry I'm talking a lot in today's episode I'm back with that conversation last week I did a bit of digging about potentially things that we could see and one of them is this really interesting console from Analog which is the Analog Pocket I don't know if you've heard of this before I've seen a lot of those I really want one it's not emulation as well so it's using the actual functionality of the old consoles to boot into the game so a lot of the replica handheld devices you get now emulate they rip the ROM and then they just emulate the games from the cartridge rather than actually playing the cartridge like the old consoles do this is amazing this does all of that backwards compatible with the GBA Gameboy Color and Gameboy Original you can also get adapters so you can play like Game Gear games on it links and there's another one as well but I mean this thing looks amazing and the screen looks cool it's got a lot of different display options so you can play like classic screen you can play colored screen yeah oh yeah there's the Game Gear Neo Pocket and the Atari links as well the extensions that you get they all go into the back you can use it as a MIDI controller as well that's so sick like I would definitely do that some music generation and stuff like that but the big thing about it that I really loved is it's got this dock that you can dock it into and then it has a HDMI output to it so you can plug it into your TV and you can connect it up with like an 8-bit dock controller and then play through that on your big screen through like so you could play like Pokemon Emerald or Fire Red Leaf Green on your big screen but for a content creator like me having the accessibility for that because you can't easily get like a way to without using like an emulator to play like the Gameboy Advance games and like stream that content for this alone I was like I need to get it and then I can just bring it out for the switch then I could do content on like Pokemon Emerald playthroughs Silver just like it's super exciting dude I just think this is like a really cool version but there's like I think there's a pre-order so you have to kind of pre-order and then all the information says at the moment that it's like shipping 2023 so it's like yeah I would wait wait till it's out I've already been burned by announcements like that already this year let's just talk about it okay get too angry yeah get into it but yeah I thought that was quite a nice thing to talk about and just mention because it was I really like it and I'm obsessing over it in my brain every time now I'm like yeah just I want to get one of those do you know how much it is? it's expensive mate how expensive is it? I think with the dock it's like $300 oh I know it's expensive yeah who are they? I think it would be nothing else like it though so they've got the captive market I probably will save up for it but knowing what will happen is because the analog don't keep them available forever so once they're sold out that's kind of it you're not going to be able to get it again so you've got to kind of get it when it's available otherwise you have to pick it up on the second hand market for like triple the cost which is just nuts so it's like that I'm like let's save up for it and I know I'll save up for it right and then the switch too will come out and I'll be like I need to get that and then I'll miss out on this analog so I'm like we'll see what happens maybe I might win a scratch card or something I don't buy a scratch card so it's not going to happen but you know maybe I get given a scratch card I do buy scratch cards I get scratch cards and my birthday cards sometimes maybe there's a scratch card and maybe that'll happen September I know it's so far away yeah we'll see what happens maybe I'll buy you a scratch card yeah I'm not buying scratch cards it's a slippery slope I could say again really like be this next one will be winner and I'm already 300 quid down and like could he just bought it bad yeah but no no very exciting console so it is being done Nintendo could do it they would be able to make a bunch of money from it and make a lot of like older gamers very happy because it wouldn't just be something that has to appeal to a pokemon market if they re-release the console in a similar fashion to what analog analog have done and just make it really sleek and modern and backwards compatible and stuff like that then they could re-release a lot of older titles as well and just kind of coin in on both the switch online store as well as the re-replicated physical store as well yeah I really want this to happen but I don't see it happening mate I don't see it happening unfortunately my stomach just made a weird noise I wish I hope it's on the record and I didn't hear it so it's probably not but I think that's probably about it this week mate unless you've got anything else you want to chip in with no I think it's pretty much it I'll quite nicely we've been wanting a little bit just over the hour mark which is fine but this is fine a good amount of time hopefully it's not your fault no we're fine here we'll just have some of the others but hopefully next week we'll get some we'll just get some information about some stuff I really hope it's not super quiet until like say for example home does come out on the 19th I really hope it's not super quiet up until then I think you're right I think once Tears of the Kingdom drops on Friday I think hopefully after that we should get some news once maybe we'll have to wait a week or so but yeah the theory is holding strong for now so that's amazing it's good and I think it will oh and the walk and wake event ends this weekend so the following week we should get a new spotlight event as well so they should be returning which would be nice so walk and wake iron leaves ending this Sunday and that will make two weeks of that so if you haven't got those new Paradox Pokemon make sure to grab them while you can in-game and I'll leave it there mate I'll sign it thank you so much to everyone for tuning in again this week if you are on Spotify we'll just do a quick plug just to say if you've got a spare minute or two please just leave us a review we know you're listening we know you're listening we've seen the numbers you're there just take a minute out your day just leave a rating it would really help us if you do look at us begging begging and if you're on YouTube hop over to Spotify and there that would be really helpful because you guys are amazing for tuning in and I hope you continue to like the podcast I love reading the comments they're always really nice I think if we continue doing the mail bag every week as well it keeps that interactiveness going between it and I like you say I love reading the comments thank you so much for just taking the time to do them that is more than enough than you need to do and that will be all from me have a great rest of your week and I will see you next week on the pod and I'm going to pass it over to my good co-host Scott to sign us off again this week goodbye