The Commercial Break - Pokeman-NO!

Episode Date: April 23, 2021

Bryan and Krissy Grimes new tattoo, tattoos you won't soon forget and Bryan's friends' tattoo debacle. Then they review the curious case of Pokeman "experts" and the ridiculous amount of money being spent on collectors edition cards. Plus, Phillipe the art dealer stops by to appraise Krissy.  Do not miss Bill Burr (5.2.21 @9pm) and Steven Wright (5.9.21 @9pm) on stage with Host Eddie Brill and moderated Bryan and Jen Fassino, inside The Comedy Podcasts Club on Clubhouse. DM @thecommercialbreak for more info. LINKS: Watch this episode on Youtube Sponsor: BetterHelp.com  Subscribe to The Commercial Break Podcast Youtube Channel Join The Comedy Podcasts Club on ClubHouse New Episodes on Tuesdays and now Fridays everywhere! Text or leave us a message: +1 [phone] FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak @bryangcomedy @tcbkrissy ClubHouse: @bryangreen @tcbkrissy ClubHouse: The Commercial Break Club on Clubhouse! (home of live recordings) Twitter: tcbbryan Facebook: The Commercial Break Podcast YouTube: Youtube.com/TheCommercialBreak Email: [e-mail] A Chartable Top 100 Comedy Podcast #1 Trending Comedy Podcast Worldwide! (Chartable) #1 Trending Comedy Podcast U.S.(Chartable) An Apple Top 100 Comedy Podcast  Top 1% Downloaded Podcasts, Worldwide (ListenNotes) A Hot 50 Podcast (Podcast Magazine)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We'll be back after this. Commercial break. On this episode of the Commercial Break... Do you know what Pokemon is? Yes of course. Everyone knows what Pokemon is? Yes, of course. Everyone knows what Pokemon is. They had the cards and they had the games. The go.

The go. People were walking around. You know, falling off buildings. Yes. Yeah. Running into traffic. Yes. In parks at three o'clock in the morning

when they shouldn't be small children, jumping off legends to try and catch a Pokemon. It was a whole fucking thing. And it still was a fucking thing. A lot of people are still playing this game. Pokemon Go, this app that they have, has not gone away in a way shape or form. I still see.

It went away from my view. Yeah, it was, of course, because this press stop talking about it. But I still see these people walking around, like in the corners of grocery stores, like, you know, pointing their phone, like, I got you Pikachu. And I'm like, grow up.

Grow up. Throw up. What is that game? Is it interesting? Can I play a lot of you down the net? It might be trying to check the intraconal label. Yeah, oh, this is true. This is true. But they were in the corner looking in electrical outlet.

OK, hold on. So I thought, you know, they're inspectors. But I don't think so with that Pokemon t-shirt on. Those rainbow colored Doc Martin. I just don't think so. What did he do? He died. He wrote scripture on it.

It was already written somewhere. I can doodle for $4,000. This is crazy, but it's the business that I'm in. And I don't know what else to tell you. You're a very beautiful woman. You just sit down one day and let me paint you. Okay. They can.

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Welcome back to the show. It's been in. Of all shows. The show of all shows. The Dean's show. Big show. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I love all of you.

Did you see... You know this artist Grimes? Have you ever heard of Grimes? Yes. So pretty young blonde girl who does music. Is she going to Elon Musk? Ah, but yeah. I guess.

I had a baby. Yeah, that sounds familiar now. Yeah. I think that's right. I think they had a baby together. Good for you. Look at you paying attention. Wow.

Chrissy did some show prep, and I didn't even know about it. Look at that. It'll be very interesting. Not that I know about it. You know, not that I'm not ever clueless. So I guess that just falls in line with the norm of the show. But I think you're right. I think Grimes is married to Elon Musk.

I don't think they actually got married, but they definitely have the babies together and they named it the like baby boo boo boo boo. They named it the one. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

What they named it to Bitcoin NFT. Yes, correct. His name is NFT and it just keeps, you know, he's going to sell it at some point. He's spursuitific. It's on that flying space car. I have been watching and let me tell you about Grimes first and then I'll tell you about what I'm watching. Okay.

I Grimes, I just saw a picture of her newest tattoo. Have you seen this? It looks like she has been whipped like a, like the, you know, you see the picture of the slaves with the back on the back. On the back. Yeah, it literally looks like Matthias took a crann and just scribbled all over her back. Wow.

It's an insane tattoo. And I don't know what she was trying to say. Something about the chains of life or the, I don't know the string theory or something. I don't know what exactly she was saying, but it about the chains of life or the, I don't know, the string theory or something. I don't know what exactly she was saying, but it was the most, in my opinion, ridiculous tattoo I've ever seen in my entire life. It just doesn't look like anything that makes any sense.

But I mean, God bless her. She wants to do whatever she wants to do with her back. But literally think of a child scribbling on the back of a piece of paper, like a two-year-old. And that's what it looks like on her back. And it was all like bloody and raised. And it looks pretty bad. I thought to myself, why would you do that to yourself?

That's why I'm afraid that you get it, too. It's because I'm afraid, not I'm afraid anybody else is gonna think it's stupid. I'm afraid I'm gonna think it's stupid after two and a half seconds. I'm gonna be like, I gotta get this fucking dolphin on my foot. That's so funny. That's so funny.

That's so funny. That's so funny. Why did I get this dolphin on my penis? I love watching his tattoo shows though. Oh yeah. About the artistry of it. I know. I know. Oh good friends of mine. Oh yeah. Had another good friend. When I was a kid I had a good friend. He turned out to be a world famous tattoo artist. World fans right. Easy. all around the world, known people pay him tens of thousands of dollars for tattoos. Huge, complex tattoos, all, you know, up and down their bodies, and he does it all freehand, right? And so some people will come in and they'll say, you do it, right? You

figure out what you're going to do. You're the artist on the canvas, you do it. That kind of guy, right? He goes to shows and wins awards. So friends of mine went and they said, he walked in and they said, okay, dude, and I don't want to give away names because I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. But okay, dude, you do me, right? Just make it up. Do your thing. And they left and they took the thing, you know, and they were, I can imagine that he probably showed them first time in the mirror and they were like, oh man, that looks fantastic. Oh, oh, oh upset, not upset, but they're disappointed that they let someone kind of run Ripshot on the tattoo

because they're like, I don't like that. It's a take. Yeah, that's the chance you take. I just, that's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid that even if I pick the tattoo, even if I hand draw out my fucking self, that it's gonna be bad. And then you see the dipshits who get the tattoo

or something is spelled wrong. Oh yeah. Like, you know, life is beautiful. That's the, that's the, spelled out of the U, life is beautiful. You know, it, what? Who doesn't think to check this? Well, I wonder if some of those artists do it on purpose too,

the people because they're not doing it. They're an asshole. Yeah, you gotta think so. Because if you're the kind of guy who would walk around with a misspelling on you, you're probably a douche. Now I can understand that maybe accidents happen sometimes. Shit, sometimes in a hospital they take out the wrong foot, right? That happens, shit happens.

But if I'm going to get a tattoo with words in it, with any word except and and the and of OF, I am going to Google it to make sure that I've got it 100% correct and I'm going to show that to the artist. I'm going to be like, here's how it's supposed to be spelled. Please don't mix it up. Because you wonder if the person brought it in like that misspelled and they're like, can you put this on me and the artist is like,

okay. Sure can. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And you're gonna pay me for it. Oh, you wanna pay me for it too? This is the best thing of my life.

And then afterwards, when the guy realizes, and he's a misspelled, man, you misspelled beautiful. No, no, you misspelled beautiful. I just did what you asked me to do. And those kind of mistakes, I just don't think I can live with because then you gotta go get it lasered off. And apparently that's an extremely painful procedure that I have done.

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Your mouth starts to not work. That's the only part that sucks is that when I'm in clubhouse, 90% of the time, I'm talking. You're talking. Yeah, I'm not like, I'm not a passive participant in clubhouse most of the time. That's not to say that I'm better than anyone else. That just happens to be the way that it would be. I don't think you're a passive participant in clubhouse, most of the time. That's not to say that I'm better than anyone else. It just happens to be the way that it would be.

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that jump on. Yeah, that's great. So I am watching to get serious for a minute. Okay. We don't get serious often, but I'll get serious for a minute. I am watching the most painful documentary that I have ever watched in my entire life. It's painful.

It's painful for me to watch it. It's painful for me to understand that my ancestors may have had a hand in this. I am watching exterminate all the broods. Have you seen this? It's on HBO. I think it might be just on the app. I'm not sure they're running it actually on the TV.

But it's guy that by this director, his name is something PEC. I wish I can remember the last name, but the last, I wish I can remember the first name, but the last name is PEC. And he's done a number. I think he did the documentary, I am not your N word. I won't say it here, but I am not your N word, which one I think a bunch of awards

and was very powerful. This is a four-hour documentary on the extermination of inferior races by the superior race also known as Caucasians, right? Europeans. And how this all came about and why it was, how it became acceptable and the story of people, you know, Christopher Columbus and all these other people that came over and then just, you know, waged, laid waste to an entire

species of human being almost, right, to an entire class of human beings known as the Indians. It's just an incredible documentary that is visceral at every moment. It's, at first it seems like it's very scattered. Like he's going from here to there to everywhere and then there's like reenactments in there and he takes other pieces from other movies and puts it together and then new documentary footage.

It's really a very interesting documentary visually. But as you start to understand the narrative, it is incredibly painful to watch. And it's like, this is a reckoning, right? And now I would like to think that I am a little bit enlightened, more enlightened than some people on the surface about this particular subject, but I know I don't know everything there is to know. And I know that I probably haven't reconciled with every bit of the information, but history has been written the most. He's right when he says this, or someone says this

in the documentary. History is written by those who win, right? And so the nice stories that we heard when we were children about the pilgrims and the Indians and Christopher Columbus and all this stuff, is just a bunch of horse shit. A bunch of horse shit. And the truth is that we came over, and I say we, my ancestors came over

and exterminated in entire continent full of human beings. And we did it willfully. It wasn't like we didn't know it wasn't better. There were plenty of people that said, this is not the right thing to do, but they just went and did it. It's all about land and money and greed and power.

If you have a chance to watch this, and you have the HBO app, exterminate all the brews is such, it's painful but it's such a great, it's a great, it's thought-provoking and it's taken as intended. By me at least, taken as intended. So I just wanna take a minute to get serious.

Now back to the laughs and jokes. And now. Now I'll turn my brain to other things I want to tell you about a little story that I've been hearing about. I haven't heard it covered a lot except in the dark deep recesses of the internet. Dark web. The dark web. That's right.

The dark net. And I thought that I would bring it to some people's attention here on the commercial break. Do you know what Pokemon is? Yes, of course. Everyone knows of Pokemon is. They had the cards, then they had the game. The go. People were walking around.

You know, falling off buildings. Yes. Yeah. Running into traffic. You know, in parks at three o'clock in the morning when they shouldn't be small children, you know, jumping off ledges to try and catch a Pokemon. It was a whole fucking thing. And it still is a fucking thing.

A lot of people are still playing this game. Pokemon go this app that they have has not gone away in a way shape or form. They're I still see it. They went away from my view. Yeah. It was, of course, because this press stop talking about it. But I still see these people walking around, you know, like in the corners of grocery stores, like, you know, pointing their phone like, I got you, be could you.

I'm like, grow up. Grow up. What is that game? Is it interesting? Can I play? How do you download that? It might be trying to check the intraconal label. Yeah. Oh, this is true.

This is true. But they were in the corner looking in electrical outlet. Okay. Hold them up. So I thought, you know, they're inspectors. But I don't think so with that Pokemon t-shirt on. It was rainbow colored Doc Martin. I I don't think so with that Pokemon T shirt on. It was rainbow colored Doc Martin.

I just don't think so. But I actually saw the game one time. One of the young kids, you know, when young cousins and our family had it and he was showing me how it worked. And I was like, oh, I can see how you can probably get addicted to that. If you're that age and if you're into that, how, you know, I know there are plenty of grown people that are doing this too. So no offense, it's just not my thing. I just wouldn't be running around with my phone like that.

Pokemon, it originally started, I think, as a cartoon, correct? Okay. And then they started making trading cards out of it, much like baseball cards, only with the character. Oh, no, maybe Pokemon was a game. And then it became a cartoon, and then it became trading cards.

I'm not sure. Or maybe it was trading cards, and then it became a game, and then it became trading cards. Or maybe it was trading cards, and then it became a game. Someone enlightened me. And I think maybe it was a show, then there were the cards, then there was the game, I think. Okay. I think the game has come last.

Disclaimer, we have no fucking clue what we're talking about. So please write in and tell us how this exactly goes down. Yeah, survey says you're wrong. So at some point, they're our trading cards. And these trading cards come out in the 90s when Pokemon is a thing. When everyone's, you know, kids, my, kids, teenagers,

you know, young teens that grew up with me that are now in their 40s, this is their youth. This is how they grew up. This is what they know about, right? It's a little, it's a little after my time, but I did know about Pokemon when I was growing up. As a teenager, right? But I was a teenager. And at that point, I was in the pussy, like, something in the Pokemon. I was in the pussy. So the trading cards, some people bought these trading cards back then. And now there are many, many adults with way too much time

and way too much fucking money on their hands and they decided they're gonna trade these Pokemon cards and the more rare they are, the more they are coveted, just like any other speculative venture. Yes. So now some of these unopened boxes of first edition, whatever the fuck whoever the fuck cares, boxes are going for $350, whatever the fuck whoever the fuck cares boxes are going

for $350,000 broken up into the separate packages. That is incredible. It's a whole thing, holy, here's how it works. You buy a box which apparently is very rare of this first edition, whatever, right? There are maybe, I don't know, 10, let's call it 10,000. I have no idea, but let's say there's 10,000. How many of those are left to unopened? Maybe a thousand. So you can buy it and you can buy's say there's 10,000. How many of those are left to unopen? Maybe a thousand.

So you can buy it and you can buy that for maybe a hundred thousand dollars. The box sealed. But inside of the box, there might be like 50 different packages of cards. And then those packages of cards there might be 20 cards in each or 10 cards in each or whatever it is.

Each of them has the possibility, each package has the possibility of having a card that may be worth $150,000 in and of itself in the right condition printed in the right circumstances, you know, whatever, magic fairy dust, I don't even know. There's a whole industry. Yes. And so this has become big business.

And whenever there's big money become big business. And whenever there's big money and big business, there's always gonna be some shithead who's trying to scam people. Jake Paul of the two Paul brothers, it's Jake Paul and Paul Paul, or whatever it was, who's the other one? Jake Paul and I don't even know the other one.

So two internet guys that have made a name for themselves, running around being screwballs, they are verifiable internet sensations. They have billions of views on their YouTube pages. They are, one guy is doing boxing matches with real boxing legends for like millions of dollars per, you know, he, he, all of a sudden he decided he was gonna be a boxer and apparently he's good at it

and so now he's like doing boxing events and he's just, they're just making shit loads of money every which way from Sunday, being on the internet, Instagram, everything everything right. Yes. One guy had a silly little show like ours and then now he's got billions of billions of views and millions of millions of followers and people go crazy over these two brothers. So Jake Paul decides I am going to get into the Pokemon trade card trading game. Game, getting the game. Get in the game. But I need an expert in order to do this. So he hires what he thinks or what everybody thinks is an expert. Which really looks to me like if you're going to type cast a scammer, you would type cast

this guy. He's got absolutely not a hair in his body. Looks like Lex Luthor, right? When he talks, he talks like just a sleazy a You want to buy a Pokemon first edition box of unopened cars. I've got one for you only $75,000 You know what I'm saying? He's like he's like a little too slick. Yes a little too slick for sunshine if you know what I mean So Jake Paul buys this box from him and then Jake Paul then they do it They do something called buying in. Here's how you buy it.

Let's say that the box is 70, the guy's going to sell it to you for $75,000. And there are 50 packets of cards. I am going to buy into that box, meaning in random, non sequential order or however it works, I am going to buy one of those packages of cards and I'm going to buy it for X amount of dollars. Let's say $10,000 for one package of cards. So now everyone buys in and there's two ways to do this. Now you either can get a package of cards, you buying a package of cards speculating

that there will be an expensive or two card in there or you can buy in, meaning everyone pulls their money in together, and then whatever the card sell for individually, we all split the card. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. So, it's like a lottery ticket. It's like a lottery ticket, correct.

If we win the lottery, we're all gonna split the... Yes. Jake Paul does this. He buys one, these boxes. He buys it for $50,000 from this snake oil medicine guy. Right? He doesn't live on his whatever YouTube. And then he's, all these people that bought in,

they start opening up the cards and they realize that they have a $350,000 box. He bought it for 50. Now he's reselling it for 50,000. What they do is they open it up and as they open it up, they literally auction the cards off right there. Yeah.

Right? Someone else on the internet, I think, dumb money guys, they call themselves dumb money, I think is what the name of the group is. They do an internet show also, they decide, and what they do is they talk about speculative investments and what we can put our money in and all this other stuff, right? But they don't know anything about it,

so they call themselves dumb money. But they do their research to group of friends. They decide they want to get into Pokemon and they talk to the same guy. The same guy comes and they set up this whole live event, which is poorly shot and shittily done, but whatever, that's not the point. They're all sitting around a table

in some house in Indiana, Indianapolis or whatever. And they are, the guy brings the box, but he brings the box in a grocery bag. There is a 300 in the collection briefcase. No, the guy's brought the cash in a gold briefcase or whatever, but this dipshit brings it in a crogue bag. You know, it looks like he just got it from his mom's house. I mean, it was the most unbelievable thing.

Literally brings a grocery bag with this box supposedly worth $350,000 potentially, right? Now, he's going to sell it to these guys for $75,000. So, he's already ratcheting up the price. When he gets there to the table, the guys start asking questions as untrained investors, but they have brought along two additional Pokemon card experts. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Okay. So now the Pokemon card experts. Oh, okay, yeah. Okay, so now the Pokemon card experts say, so the guy brings out the box and he puts it on there. And he says, I got this box. I bought it from another investor. It's been sitting in a, he tells this whole story. The grandfather bought this kid the box. The box has been sitting in a gun safe for over 20 years.

And then I bought it from him. and it's only gone from the grandfather to the safe to the grocery bag. He's telling way too much information. You know what I'm saying? No one asked him. He just started volunteering this information. Okay. And then he says,

so if there's anything wrong with this box, then it must have happened when the grandfather bought it. He's already like making excuses as to what could be wrong with the box. Well, what could be wrong with the box? Why didn't you accuse you of anything, dude? Now we know that there is scamming that goes on, but why would we do this?

So then the Pokemon experts say, we're looking for a few things. We're looking for the box to be, you know, if we press down on the box and move a certain way, do we see a certain seal? Yeah, crease, that's right. Exactly. Do we see a certain crease this way?

Because if the crease is not there, then it tells us the box is new, and you know, a new box is not a good box. It means it means something in it. But apparently the scam is, people will open up the box, they'll take the cards out, they'll throw a bunch of other cards in there, then they'll seal it back up, and then they'll sell the box with brand new cards in there, right? Card from 2021. So now you've just got taken.

The experts start opening up this box. And as they do, their eyes just light up, but not in a good way. They're like, you know, dude, this is click. So then they start opening up the packages and they're literally cards that were printed yesterday. Right? And so these guys just gave $75,000 to this guy

who is now still sitting at the table. And he is like, this is unacceptable. This is unacceptable. The grand dead grandfather. The dead grandfather. So all of a sudden, he gets the guy on the phone like to see. Now everybody at the table is scrambling to figure out what is going on here, right? And the guy in the background, the ex-Luther, is pretending he's making the pretend phone call that I said I made one time to the girlfriend, the ex-Luther is like pretending, he's making the pretend phone call that I said, I made one time to the girlfriend, right?

He's making a pretend phone call and he's like, he's like, hey, we're sitting here and the card's not real. It's not real, the cards aren't real. Well, okay, you know I'm gonna call you back about this. Well, okay, well, we'll talk later, okay, bye. He doesn't say anything, he just says, okay, we'll talk later, bye. Like, as if they were in kahoot's and the thing was was is the guy then comes back to the table and he says,

listen guys, I had no idea we were gonna open this live. And so I think what happened, they he got caught because they opened it live. He expected they were gonna take this box away. And then at some other point open it up and divide the cards up. This is unbelievable. That's really. To me, that people would be paying $75,000 for an unopened box of fucking Pokemon cards. Yeah.

What is double unbelievable to me is that this guy would knowingly show up with a box of fake cards for a $75,000 transaction. Who does that? This guy. That's both, isn't it? That's very bossy. I mean, at some point he's gonna get caught.

That's how the scammers work. Maybe he felt like I can sell the box and they won't open it for another year until they, you know, they'll sit on it for another year or two or 12. And then by that time, I'll be long gone with the $75,000. But no, they got them.

They said, no, we're gonna open it right here with these other Pokemon experts and see what happens. There is a whole subset of shit going on with the Pokemon cards. I had no idea. I really had no idea. We should make, to commercial break trading cards. We should.

Maybe in twa, should we? Yeah. This is who makes trading cards. Because maybe in 20 years our unopened boxes of trading cards will be worth. It's just like this bit cloud shit that I'm saying. You know what bit cloud is? It's a social media app based around bitcoin, right? And the thing is, you bet on people getting famous.

That's what you do. You buy into their bit cloud. You buy into them becoming famous on this social media app called BitCloud. And the higher their ranking goes, then the higher their coin goes. And then, I'm like, what's this? Is everything about betting?

Do we have to make everything about money? Yes. And if so, how do I get involved? That's right. And if so, where's mine? Why can't I be a Pokemon? Why did I save my Pokemon cards in 2020? Oh, I know.

20. The only thing I can think of is, when I was a kid, I had a real boner for Dick Tracy the movie that horrible movie with Madonna. Yeah, I love that Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty. I love that. Even before it came out I was I bought it into all the merchandise and the comic books and everything right. I just thought the colorful nature of it was fantastic. And I told my mom this is gonna be worth money someday mom. You got gotta buy me all this shit.

So I went around to the movie theaters and I collected the posters after they got rid of them. And I bought the books and I bought the characters and I bought the trading cards and I bought everything. Knowing that this was my, I, I, I, because I knew baseball cards, they grew in value and I figured, hell, if baseball cards can grow in value, so can Dick Tracy.

And I'm just, I went to McDonald's and I bought all of the, you know, all of the happy meals so you could get the fucking card in the bottom of it. Well, I'll tell you what, no one wants that Dick Tracy shit. No, I do not. No one wants my Dick Tracy shit. Why is that?

That's the made of resurgence yet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't have any more. I threw it out about four years ago. My dad was cleaning out the house and he's like, you want this Dick Tracy shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, You remember the song by Phil Collins? Against all odds. What was it? What was the song? So take a look at me now.

There's your synahemites space. And you come back to me. It's against the odds, but that's what I've got to face. So take a look at me now. Yeah, now it is. Just an empty space. I love that song. I love that song.

So it's loved it. Yeah, you can really get into it. And so I thought that that movie against all odds, which is a movie, was just, that also was going to skyrocket in value. So I begged the local movies, local VHS store for that poster. Well, which no one wants my fucking poster from against all odds either.

I'm not good at speculation. Well. I'm not good at it. I just don't do well with that. Meanwhile, I think I had like a Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card when I was trading baseball card. I think I traded it for a fucking Playboy magazine or something.

Some kid was like, you wanna play my magazine? Give me that Cal Ripken Jr. And I'm like, I'm fucking cares about fucking Playboy magazine or something. Some kid was like, you want to play my magazine? Give me that Cal Rifle gun. You're not like, I fucking cares about Cal Rifle gun. Exactly. The fuck is that? Who? Who? I had a Babe Ruth and I sold it for a pack of bubble gum in a penthouse.

Babe, who? The candy bar? Sure, take it. Whatever. I'm real, babe. I've never been good at two things. I've never been good at patience because I want to now. Right?

So for me, all these speculative games are not good because you got to wait it out. Right? And I've never been good at identifying the thing that's going to be popular in the future. Dick Tracy and against all odds did not turn out to be my Pokemon go. Just didn't. Well, maybe we need an expert, you know, kind of on the show that can lead the way. We could call our old friend. Yeah. Because I just saw this maybe on Netflix and it was called Made You Look. Made you look. And it was about this art forgery that was going on up in New York

a few years ago. And someone was coming forging the art and selling it is real. Like that's all of a sudden they just popped up and somebody's basement. Oh, here's this long lost piece of art. Well, Adios, do you know? Hello. This is me, the Philippe Venvaldod. Leap. I am an art expert.

Perfect. What's what you like to know about? Yeah, that's what we we I'd like you to examine this this uh, meant poster, this pearl jam mean posters worth two dog shits. No one cares. Who cares about any of it? In some sort, cause this is known as the worst investment in parodian history. But I just caught it shit. Now get me an Eddie Ved and NFT, then we are talking in business. No, we're talking. It's kind of the advice that we need as to where should we be put in our money, Felipe?

Well, if you ask me, a Frenchman, what I would say to you is put your money in the bank Because all the who cares about these painted penises, it's not important By some french fries they have more value than Brian's Dictatic collection You're just not good at it Brian and Dick Tracy collected. You're just not good at it Brian. Now, I have been involved in many transactions throughout my entire life. Nice. And let me tell you the most valuable one ever.

I bought a Dick Tracy car. What kind of fucking idiot wise Dick Tracy car? This is stupid. And Pearl Jam Postes. I mean, I like Pearl jam as much as the next shmack, but this is not going to make you money, right? No way. No way. It was like putting mayonnaise on an apple. Who wants it? No one. No one makes your piece smell funny. Okay, ask me a question about art. Okay, so what, you know, do you like more modern art or, you know, art from the Renaissance period? I tend to like art from any period where it makes me want to eat.

But if you ask me, I like the modern art. I like, you know, these modern art show pieces, show cases. People come in, they throw poop against the wall and they say this. This is awesome. This is the master. And then some more on Bises for $250,000. It's amazing. It's amazing what passes for art these days.

But now if you do a little bit older, you have to have a more refined taste. You have to have an angel with some teats out or a penis or something like that. You can't just sell a piece of art without a penis in it. I always say bet on the penises. Bet on the penises. If there's a penis in the artwork, it's likely to be valuable. Anything else. Well, so Brian and I are thinking of starting our own trading cards. Oh, Brian is good at investments. You should listen to him. Follow him right down the bankruptcy line at all. Trading cards, what is this nonsense?

Trading cards. Boggy man, please. Real odd dealers know that the money is in scamming people with other art, not with new or shit. The young kids are too smart. However, some rich grandma in New York City she pays a lot of money for what she does not know.

Yes. Please Van Gogh, never painted a thing. It was his brother. We all know this. Jason Van Gogh. Pablo Picasso, his mother, Margaret Picasso. They were the artists. And now we just, how do you know painting is real?

This is what I'm asking everybody all the time. When I go in and they ask, they say, Jean Van Vandenberg, it plays this for me. And I say, my, I, I think the value is how much you're willing to pay. How do you, what do you want me to do? I mean, sniff it. It smells old to me. Look, it's great. But it on your own. Fantastic. Wonderful. It's such a stupid thing. I don't even know I got involved in first place, maybe because my dad, artist, famous artist. Was he the one who was actually doing all the art appreciation?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you're called a appreciation. He got very mad at things and went through the painting out the window. But he was an artist and a madman and I'm telling you what. And now, so I know a little bit about that. So someone says, listen, you should probably appraise these paintings for people before they go into pseudobies and get their million dollars. And I said, hey, listen, you know, I'm good as the next guy. This is basically how the art world works. No one's fucking knows how much it costs. What are you kidding me?

This is so stupid. Why do people go, oh, the experts are your ex, where's the police? I'm drunk. I'm drunk. I just had the three-way with a German man in some horde in Chelsea. I don't know what you're talking about.

Yes, it's a worth of $2 million. Oh, $2 million. I don million dollars. Oh, two million dollars. I don't know. I don't know what it is. I don't, this is the thing I think about art. We must all understand it. It's in the eye of the builder. All right.

If someone feels like it's worth money, it's worth money. That's true. There is another idiot born every morning. So the art world will continue to experience the ups and the downs. Now people are buying the Pokemon cards. Please Pokemon go Pokemon stop fucking around please stop wasting your money who how much can this go up what someone's going to pay two million dollars for a Pokemon go card that's not art you can't hang it in your wall you you can't masturbate to it. I mean, I always say the more you can masturbate to a painting, the more valuable it should be.

That makes sense. This is not a philosophy that is held by many people in the art world, but I am the, I am, of course, the artist expert. You are. What kind of... I'm not saying you're coming on today. Yeah, of course. Now, if you know that Brian's mother got a what is it called a maple Thorpe or what?

What is this Robert maple Thorpe? Yeah, no, this thing that's staying right there. Remember Brian's mother someone gave her a what's that guy the famous famous artist? I don't know. Yeah, if we went to his house, we don't even know his name. This is what I'm telling you. I can't even remember the artist's name. And yet I'm... I'm making a Robert Mabel Dorb. Robert Mabel Dorb is the guy who did masturbate for art. Robert Mabel Dorb was very controversial. But this guy, he just wrote, he literally wrote letters

on top of wood carvings. And now people go crazy over his shit. And I don't understand. One minute he's selling 25 fints. That's right. One minute he's selling 25 cent or pieces of wood and the next minute people are paying $10,000 for the same piece of wood. What did he do?

He died. He wrote scripture on it. It was already written somewhere. I can doodle for $4,000. This is crazy. But it's the business that I'm in. And I don't know what else to tell you. You're a very beautiful woman. You just sit down one day and let me paint you.

OK. I'll do that. Like I said, if there's not a penis in it, it's probably not worth anything. OK, bye. Until next time, you need me for artwork, I think. Bye. Goodbye. Ciao, bye.

Good bye. Ciao, ciao. Felipe, our new art expert. Yeah. Very enlightening. I agree with what he said. I like having an art expert just on hand. Yes, one that we can call up on demand.

Yes, and I agree with it in some sense, that how much is something really worth, it's really worth what someone's willing to pay for. I often say this about the real estate industry too. How much is a house worth? It's worth what someone's willing to pay for it. You can speculate all day long. I mean, we've built houses in our real estate career.

We've built houses that we were sure were X amount of dollars people were going to pay for it, and they paid 30% less because that's what someone was willing to pay for. And conversely, we've built houses where we were like, oh, we're not going to get that much money for it. And then people start, you know, many people bid on it because it's, there's an X factor. Well, it's not even so, yeah, some supply and demand, but it's an X factor that people are either into it or they're not into it. That's the way that it is. Do you have any art in your house that you would consider valuable? I do. Well, I mean more photographs. Jeff had some photographs and...

Photographs of what? Did he would consider by... I was the artist that he's put out. Okay. So the artist that he's worked with. So photographs of them or photographs taken by them? Photographs of them. Of them.

Okay. See, I have this finster from my mother that she gave us. I have no idea how much it's worth. I think some buy... I don't know, I might be guessing $3,000. We got a finster thing too when we were up there. Oh, you did? So big ant. And so how much did you pay for it?

Well, that, I mean, that's more expensive. We just bought kind of a print. Oh, you bought a print. Okay, this is an original. Yeah, he signed it and everything. It's a good word carving. Yeah, wood carving. And apparently, the guy who gave it to my mom are, I mean, Irving.

Yeah, Irving. Irving. Irving Irving. I can't deal you. We heard it talked about Irving. Irving's doing good. He had some health issues, but he's back on the moon. Okay, good.

Yeah, I didn't want to bring him on the show. I mean, not that they can listen. They don't, my mom's still trying to figure out. I mean, my mother, God bless her heart. She's like, how do I get that on the radio? And I'm like, I don't even, she's like, can I download that on my phone? But, you know, I've got to the jitterbug phone that the only thing that she could possibly do

is go to the website and then listen to it there. But I feel like even her getting onto a website is a bridge too far. It's just so hard to explain to her how I'm gonna do this. Right. And so I try my best to, in plus, she doesn't need to explain to her how I'm gonna do this right and so I try my best to I in plus she didn't need to listen to the show what does she need to hear to need to hear all this shit my dad however I think he likes the show. I think he's I need you likes the show He's told me on a number of occasions. Well, it's a good pretty funny show last week, and I'm like you listen to

He's like a hard-out of trance. Well, it's unsure I don't think my stepmom thinks it's so funny, but he finds it funny. But this piece of art is the most expensive thing that the most expensive art. And also I have this Indian silk screen that some people have told me is authentic from the 16 or 1700s,

which could be worth a real deal of money. But I have to get it carbon dated and shit. Now I'm not gonna go do that, why would I do that? I have to worth a real deal of money. But I have to get it like carbon dated and shit. And I'm not gonna go do that. Why would I do that? I have to cut a piece off of it and go get it carbon dated. I am not interested in the least unless we absolutely need the money.

And that's right. Yeah. These three letters behind us, TCB is about as expensive as art gets and these pearl dance. They're for sale by the way. Seven thousand dollar mint condition. Look at TCB, biomas are set, or break them up individually.

And you can be like, I got the T from the commercial break. Oh. Oh. Oh. Or you can buy my pearl jamb photos right here. Yeah, everything in here is for sale. I spent a lot of money on these pearl jamb posters

and I don't never know. I mean, I bought them because I liked them. I didn't buy them. I thought you were Pearl Jam thing, like picture photograph. You did. I'm the fox. It's somewhere in my, somewhere in the house somewhere.

It's in her face. And like looking around. I looked in the ceiling. That was the funniest thing I've ever done. I said, it's somewhere. It's on the ceiling. It's probably open my attic. It's probably where it is because that's where all the shit

goes that we had never found a place for. And you know, I bought these, but I have no idea. I know how much I paid for them. I have no idea what's going to be worth in the future. And I'm just not that I do. It's something that I care for. You know, I like coming in the studio and I like looking. Pearl Jam concerts bring me good memories. Some of them do. So when I look at that, I go, oh, that was a concert that, you know, I didn't actually go to, but there was a concert that I'm making no sense right now. These are concerts that I didn't go to, but I like concerts. I've been to a concert.

I'm fine as well. I might as well put a BTS concert poster up there and said I'm into a concert. The Wilson sisters. What was that? Wilson. Yeah, the Wilsons. The Wilsons? Is that what it was?

Thank you. Gonna find your way. And you'll say, oh, don't. Just one more day. If you hold on. See, Brian, I think that you are great at singing and that is gonna one day We're gonna sing on the commercial break. Yeah, and do miss her lyrics. Oh, we'll do miss her lyrics coming up in the next couple of episodes Yeah, that's right. That's a good one and I'll do my best to sing those songs in the voice of the actual singer

Not only am I good at singing, but I'm good at voices. So I'm gonna try and mix those two together. I'm actually awful at both of those things, so it's gonna sound like a train wreck. It sound like a German Eddie veteran. Peace, Erwin, Erwin, Erwin, Erwin. Now, wait and don't be mad. I think thanks, Zach Efron's people,

for reaching out to us, to be on the show today, and fortunately, we did get to it. They're first guests, they are persistent for reaching out to us to be on the show today, unfortunately, they're first guests here. They are persistent. It really wants Zach to come on and I don't know what to tell you. We're just, we get so busy, we forget about it every time. I keep on telling Chrissy, I'm like, you know, we probably should bring Zach on for the show.

And then she says, but we got to talk about Pokemon. And I'm like, it's a conundrum. And unfortunately, just this time, Pokemon won out, but one of these days, Zach and his people, we're gonna get you on here. I promise www.tcbpodcast.com is where you go. You can read all the show notes, you can find out more about Chrissy and I, and you can listen and hear more about us.

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