Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 129 - Playing Card Guys With Clare O'Kane

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

We Had Clare O'Kane from Quorators on the show this week to talk about card collectors, just cards, do not talk about games. What is the most expensive set? What does it mean to have dupes? Would you sell your cards to buy a sniper rifle? Also some reviews!! There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashow and I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Shuffle up and deal. Welcome to guys. The podcast about guys on Brian and you might think we're talking about poker because I said shuffle up and deal Which is a poker thing and the late early 2000s when everybody's playing poker anyway I'm gambit. I'm Brian this playing card guys. Hi Chris. Hey, how's it going? Yeah, I got really into poker for a while I used to watch Daniel and the gran you and all of the different guys on TV and I was just about poker I know but you brought it up initially. So it's hard for me. Like you were talking about

shuffle up and deal. Do you remember that? It was like a thousand poker shows. Celebrity poker showdown. I want to be poker showdown. Yeah, that was huge when the celebrities got involved. Ben Affleck was a really good player if I remember correctly. Yeah, right. Whatever. Anyway, we have our guests We're not talking about poker if you bring up poker again, I'm docking your pay because this is about playing cards They don't play the games. These aren't about this isn't about playing fucking game. Okay, but having cards But don't they play games with the cards? Are you fucking crazy? play games with the cards?

Are you fucking crazy? Yeah, but I- These cards can cost upwards of a lot of money. We're gonna talk about that later. Okay. But our guest this week is Claire O'Kane. Hi, Claire. Hi, thanks for having me. So just cards.

Playing cards. Don't talk about any games. Playing cards. We're not talking about games. This is confusing me because because of course and I think probably like most of the listeners when you you would use your playing cards Traditionally used for playing card games, right? No Yeah, right, but you leave them sealed and you display them in your house Oh, they don't even open the playing cards. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't Okay, and there's a very strange card. There is this one kind of I learned about this card

so this episode was really hard to prep because I Started it at one point and then I was like I'm never gonna be able to find enough stuff for this and then I found a forum and I was like I found enough stuff for this, right and What I found a forum and I was like, I found enough stuff for this. Right. And what I found is that like, no, yes, just like we talked about another thing recently where they said, Oh, you don't open it. That's fucked up. That's bullshit. Like you're supposed to open this thing, but there are guys who have so many decks of cars. Like,

why would you open them? and then there's this insanely? Expensive deck of cards this will blow your mind. There's this one not that something's insanely expensive There's this really expensive deck of cards where it's requested that if you buy them You don't take a picture of them so nobody can see them on the internet If you buy them, you don't take a picture of them so nobody can see them on the internet. Because that kind of like that's part of the whole allure of them is that nobody knows what each of the cards looks like. So you're kind of like opening them to find that out. Now, how's that worked out? Everybody's listening, I'm guessing.

I didn't see them. Oh, wow. Because I don't know that to me. I feel like that's a classic thing that people would be aggressively trying to put anytime someone says don't do this on the internet Everybody pretty much does it right? Yeah, I really sell a picture of it Yes, and now yeah exactly try exactly Claire try to make a little bit of money off it like hey I know you can't afford the real deck, but I'll sell you a photo of one of the cards for five dollars monetize the mystery.

Yeah. Right. These freaks. Here's the thing about it, guys. You might think that if you say you're going to post those pictures of those fucking cards in r slash playing cards, you're fucking done. Well, yeah, you've got to go to the dark web. You got to go to the dark web for that, obviously, to the tour.

You got to open your tour browser and Yeah, there can't be any admin when you're selling that shit that's got to be black market for sure They were like come on man. I saw a few of them get really angry There was another one so cards are printed on these huge pieces of paper And I'm not really a hundred percent sure how they get so thick like because I I watch this guy, right? This guy makes all these big pieces of paper He makes these limited edition cards and he puts them on the window of his playing card studio Can you explain to me now? I'm not sure I'm totally on it. You're saying that like initially

It's a big sheet that then gets cut into all the cards. Is that what you're saying? Yes, but it doesn't and it and it feels so I watched the guy just rip a bunch of them up and they were so mad at the guy because it's a guy that's famous for designing these really good playing card decks and he stuck them on the window of his building that you could look in from outside and watch him rip them off the wall. And people are like, come on, man, man That's too far like got real mad at the guy. How do you how do you get a hold of? The just the sheet you have to know somebody like at that like they don't they don't sell those okay? He makes them himself, so there's no way like if I was an avid collector of playing cards I couldn't get like a pre-cut sheet of my favorite card. Oh you could Chris's wheels are spinning now

He's like I can rip up cards in front of no no I Listen, I'm a collector. You know I'm into collecting things. I do I like collecting sports cards and stuff, so I'm into that I don't know that playing playing cards would be something I would get into but I was just thinking you know like if they're collecting things That's what they start thinking. What's the next step we can get to? I want to get to them before they get torn up, before they get cut. I'm a I'm a former collector. Claire, do you collect anything? I collect T-shirts. I collect like to wear or sometimes to wear, but sometimes just to have.

So it's the collecting the collecting mindset of mindset of I am the only one who has this in North America or whatever. Even though no one else gives a shit. Except for maybe one guy who's got a big sheet of cards he can't grab. I understand that feeling as a collector definitely that there's that feeling of... Brian has it, by the way. No,'s that like just that feeling of I'm Brian has it by the way Oh, no, I don't I recovered I'm done. Oh, but you just the idea of you wanting to have something that nobody else has Oh, no, no, that's not collecting though. That's just wanting to have stuff that other people don't have but yeah I'm just saying you have not even don't it's more can't

Okay. Yeah, like I like when I get a luxury box seat. Oh, you just like sports game I'm just like well, but other people can't sit here and say you make me feel good So it's really the worst thing you can think of it's really like the worst Thing is that like you are feeling above like working-class people is what you're saying necessarily because I consider my sort of sort of more of a lunch pail kind of guy and of course very working class Guy myself, of course don't make nearly the money that you do Brian, but but yeah that I mean just the idea I mean, there's probably a lot of listeners are working class, but I'm saying it's because of that I'm saying that if I go to an event, yeah, right

Like I said about the the games, where I get to sit in the office chair, it's wonderful. It's so good. It's funny, I just wanna clarify too, it's like, the shit that he does is like, he doesn't know how to be an actual rich guy, even if he got millions of dollars, he would never understand what to actually spend

his money on, so he's like getting the dumbest shit, he's like, I'm gonna get the best fucking seats at the minor league baseball game, you know? And it's like, it's never like an actual, like it's never an actual impressive thing. He was like, I'm gonna buy all this Lego and stuff like that. So I don't have Legos anymore.

Don't start that. That's, I stopped collecting. I stopped collecting. Claire, he had a, before, if you had to come on the podcast before, his whole back behind him was all just like a big Lego town he was like genuinely obsessed with it, but Brian you just got a new Lego so For free yes

But as we discussed the reason free is because you accumulated so many Lego points from buying other Lego that you were able to buy A very expensive piece of Lego for free. So yeah, not really free, but yeah. There's a table right next to me, Claire. It's on wheels. I'm gonna be able to just roll it out behind me and watch wrestling and build Legos every Wednesday. So that's exciting for me. That's really fun.

That's what he likes to do more than anything, is build Legos and watch wrestling. At the same time, too. So I went to r slash playing cards. Claire, are you impressed by that? That it's at the same time? I just I went to our slash playing card to say Claire. Are you impressed by that? I just can't believe you have the time. Oh It's only two hours. Are you by the way? Are you kidding all he has is time? Well, I don't have any time he doesn't have anything to do. He's he lives but he lives his wife goes to work

So she's like gone all day. He's got literally his daughter is a university. So she's not around. So he just has nothing to do all day. Like he walks around constantly. I'm I'm out there doing my flights and stuff like that. So anyway, I brought a flight to stairs, by the way, Claire, he's not flying around. You're doing your flights. Yeah, he calls him doing his flights. He used to be doing his...

You're getting your flights in. He used to do steps. He used to do steps, but that wasn't good enough for him because he would do... I'm sorry. I'm really begging him up here. He would do like 35,000 steps a day. I'm not joking. Or 55, but yeah, 35.

55 and stuff, like insane numbers. He walked around all day long, the entire city, but then that became boring to him So he's now he's going up now. Yeah, you know you used to collect steps Now you're collecting flights. Yeah, you're collecting and how many nice Brian? How many did you are you doing? Are you managing to do more now? Like are you finding finally got? 300 Wow and two that was my record that was on Friday Finally got three hundred Wow and two that was my record that was on Friday Wow anyway, so I posted this picture. This is day ten of card collecting for this guy And this is one two three four. That's eight nine ten eleven twelve So yes, he has thirteen sets these orbit sets are not cheap now not as expensive as you think they are

Okay, I don't even I have no idea so I don't like sixteen bucks some of the orbit ones are thirty Orbit sets are not cheap. Now, not as expensive as you think they are. Okay. Well, I have no idea. So I don't think- They're like 16 bucks. Some of the orbit ones are 30. Why are they rare? Why are they good? Who gives a shit?

Yeah, who gives a shit? Why would somebody pay? Well, I think we're going to find out through this whole episode why people would pay money for it. It's nothing to do with the quality of the cards. It's the collecting side of it. And in collecting, it's just about creating buzz for stuff. I guess there's some concept of exclusivity maybe like we talked about.

By the way, he had bicycle cards though. Your Orbit, well, bicycle are the best cards you can buy. Those are for class. But those are just like, those are- Right. Those are for cardists and we'll get to that later. So I got the orbit page up. You can you can get orbit cards for 10 to 12 to 125.

They got a you know, an autograph six pack box for 125. His autograph is it. Not really a boy on the box squints. It's a squints or Papa orbit it says So that we might be able to get an autograph from Papa orbit Yeah, there's some child on the front with some glad the sunglasses on and then an autograph, but I'm not oh Is it the guy from Sandlot? Squints is the one who?

He he did mouth-to-mouth with the lifeguard. Oh He did mouth to mouth with the lifeguard. Oh, it is, it is. That's what it is. So it's the character Squints. Did they make them sign Squints or do they let them sign his real name? Well, it started playing music. Yeah, I mean, this is, okay,

so they have the character from Sandlot signed, he's an adult now, right? I'm guessing. No, he's still a kid. Well, he died as a child, and they had him built before he died. That's not a funny thing to joke about. No, I'm serious.

Don't joke about that. Squints is still alive, right? Don't even joke about that. Yeah. Okay, so anyway, this guy's like, Orbit V2s are a big pool for day 10. Well done. Hope your wife is a nice person Okay, so this is a big issue A lot of people have a lot of guys have is that they're just out there

They're out there trying to have a good time trying to collect their cards or whatever and then their wife will come in there and say Hey, why are you spending all of the family's money on this stupid thing? And then it's like oh my god. Are you ever gonna quit so we hear a lot of that Claire like all the time Yeah, I'm sure Hmm this guy goes yeah, she's she just might get a little mad finding out how much these cards cost so then I looked at the clock cards 285 out how much these cards cost. So then I looked at the clock cards to 85, 285 dollars.

You're a fire. So I mean, it depends again. It depends on your financial situation. Maybe that could be a thing where you're, hey, you're able to easily afford that. And then whatever. But I don't know, man, if you're like, if that's like a cost that you could be spending on something else, I think you could get mad as a partner if they've spent two hundred and eighty five dollars on playing cards. Well What about if you did this this guy get some advice get your wife a Louis Vuitton bag. It worked for me She loves that shit. If I know your wife I know her cuz she's a wife and a woman and so she loves Louis Vuitton

So it just get honestly That sounds like so you're are you a rich guy cuz that's it really expensive, right? I don't know. I don't think everyone could just do that I don't think they know I'll say this when the guys say get your wife a Louis Vuitton bag They don't know how much I don't think it could be it could be two hundred eighty five dollars It could be ten million dollars. They have no fucking idea They're just saying like hey wives love these bags. Yeah, how much is a Louis Vuitton bag? I like I don't know but I remember back when I was doing grand

Oh, yeah, so like thousands of yeah so so then that's like That should get you a lot of decks of playing cards and if you're getting our Louis Vuitton bag cost you 2800 you should be able to get a number of orbits packs for that Right well this guy also because of the picture he goes. I see a glimpse of your DVD collection, too I just pack in lots of mines and paper boxes recently kind of sucks when you think about the idea of collecting at one point I was all into collecting DVDs now. I look at them and question myself about that so collecting DVDs now I look at them and question myself about that so yeah the cards might become a problem the unfortunate aspect of collecting that at some point it does potentially just become hoarding and then you when you

don't care about the stuff anymore you don't see value in it then you still have it yeah that is that's an issue for sure. Yeah, this also brings up sort of the antiquated idea I think it created of having shared bank accounts with your partner where it's like We're all getting crazier and it's too easy to spend money It's like so easy to even just like accidentally spend money that we should all just be having our own separate Bank accounts. That's why I have my own bank account and savings account from my broke ass husband because I like to spend money on dumb shit and I don't want him getting mad at me because

he still gets mad at me anyway even though it's not his money. He goes, do you need that $200 Willie Nelson t-shirt? And I go, yes! I mean, Willie Nelson is a living legend, obviously. And to question a Willie Nelson shirt seems a bit ridiculous. I agree, yeah, it's good to have that separation so then they can't see.

I mean, I guess Ariel and I share a bank, essentially. But she doesn't really, you know, I mean, I guess Ariel and I share a bank, essentially, but she doesn't really, you know, I'll make a dumb purchase every now and then, but I'm not like Brian, we're saving and doing a decent job of saving. So I think she won't really- Have you got a kid? Yeah, we have.

I have one. Yeah, so, your kid again is an adult, but I know, but yeah, I think sometimes she will say like which is a normal thing She'll say like, you know, I'm not sure that you need That because it costs a lot of money and it's like, you know, but she'll never say don't get it She'll never be like don't get that She'll like ask like do you think or whatever we'll have a conversation about it? But generally I don't want him. I don't want to brag but generally if I want to get it I get it. So I have an upset my upset

My obsessive personality means that I check the bank account all the time took like a hundred fucking times a day But my wife was like, I don't need to look at it He's fucking looking at it a hundred times a day So she never looked at so you're like looking at it regularly like honestly more than once in a day Not as much anymore, but I did for a long time Yes, well understand like when you were like really like I I was like that too And I when I wasn't sure if I had enough money to do anything ever I would regularly check in just to make sure I was not gonna get an insufficient funds purchased somewhere

This guy goes yep My argument has consistently been that I spend about the same amount of money on my hobbies no matter what they are. So if I didn't buy playing cards, it'd be something else. Yeah, well, and it could be, well, maybe it would be alcohol then.

And would that be better, honey? Would it be better if I was an alcoholic? Like, cocaine. What if it was cocaine that I was spending my money on? What if it was knives that I was spending on and I was throwing The knives at people honey would that not be worse Yeah, that's a good point. He's making A lot of these guys say that so we do like to figure this out. We I remember the episode we did action figure guy

Yes, and I think that was what Jeremy Caplewitt, right? Yes We did action figure guys, and a lot of guys were arguing, that was actually extra weird, because a lot of adults were like, do you open yours? And it's like, well, I like to open them to play with them. And I was like, well, you're 40 years old. So I don't know what- Well, they didn't really,

some of them wouldn't play with them, but what was the big thing that they did? They would pose them. Yeah. Right? They would pose them in different poses or whatever, like action poses, and then have them. Yeah, they would pose them in different like poses or whatever like action poses and then have them set up Which I guess it's like it kind of makes sense because it's just like hey I'm collecting them and I'm gonna display them in this pose versus in a box, which is like looks uglier to me

I just want to have it displayed as the actual figure So it's not that it's not that ridiculous to pose action figures as an adult Brian. It's why I got rid of the Legos is Because like yeah, I was building them And then I was like, I don't give a shit about these anymore Like I never I never touched a Lego after I build it not one time. You're a builder You're a classic builder exactly and then I'm like what we're moving. I'm getting rid of all of them now The plan is buy them build them give them away, you know,'re moving. I'm getting rid of all of them. Now the plan is buy them, build them, give them away. You know, that's my new plan.

So anyway, United Cardists.com. They said, do you open your decks? Okay. It goes, do you open your decks? Hi, all very new to collecting and just wondered if you open your decks. Understand there's value loss, but it also seems anything I ever see for sale is new and unopened. I really would like to appreciate the art of these, but have struggled so far to open

any I have purchased. I suppose the other option is to double my investment and always keep one sealed. Just curious what others do. So there is that. Yeah, you could obviously just buy your sealed pack and then you're unopened. So instead of $285, you you could if you wanted to drop like 600 bucks or whatever, then yeah, you could just get an extra pack. That's smart.

I mean buying to even that. Listen, as far as things we've covered, these playing cards are 90% of the time. They're maybe 30 bucks at the most. Yeah, they're not. There's not a lot of super expensive ones, right? Because I think they are just pieces of paper or whatever, right?

That are like mass produced pieces of paper that are printed on. So it's kind of hard to justify unless there are there any head. There are no handmade ones. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff out there. There's a lot of stuff out there that you can get into like really ornate gold like designs and stuff. Not a ton of those, but like it. You know what I would collect? I would collect cards, playing cards, like individual ones that were found at like

were found at like Historical events Like if someone found this ace at Gettysburg Man like actual Yeah, meaningful cards and things like yeah, this is something the old west from like a famous card game or whatever All the biggest card collectors of I've already probably snagged all of those, though. You know, there's a guy. There's a guy and I love him with all my heart.

I don't know why I like this guy so much, but he comes into the subreddit every once in a while. I was like, yeah, I got this 1901 deck for three thousand dollars. Fuck. And like he just collects like old decks. Yeah. Buffalo Bill played with this deck. Yeah Classic thing though. It's like probably a lie too, but it's like whatever If it isn't even a lie if you believe it enough and it doesn't hurt anybody is it even a lie at that point? So but yeah, there's all those classic like it's like the genealogy guy, you know

There's always when you get that far back. You can just start lying about shit. I'm related to a warrior I'm related to great warriors. It's yeah, nobody can really figure it out No one's gonna really look into it So you can just make make up lies about that this guy goes when I started collecting I opened one of each once I got over a hundred open. I've kept most but not all sealed so he has a hundred open packs now He's just leaving them I mean I now that I'm thinking of it like like when you were talking about it, it kind of does you if you're a full on collector, it makes sense to keep them. You know, you have

your playing pack or maybe a couple of playing packs that you use if you need to have a card game and then the rest of them. Why open them? Why? You're just gonna have extra packs. You already have a no, but they're not playing with anybody that oh, there are no other people around in this Solitaire before Claire you think I'm thinking these card collectors are playing a lot of solitaire I think there's like that's got my ass handed to me Solitaire I yeah that Brian so on some of these decks though They have each card is gonna have like a special design on it or something Is that the idea?

What what I have found and I don't know if I'm right and we're gonna read some reviews of some theory 11 cards Which is like the big fancy card house now Okay, and like from what I can figure it's all basically just the same thing except for the face cards and the Joker and then something on the back of the car. But still that I'm going to make an eight of Iron Man. No, no, I understand that. But is it going to have a different sort of design on it, like a cool like something on the eight of clubs where it

like something you need? I usually. Because the goal is for the eight of clubs to look like an aid of club OK, so then then, yeah, I would just leave it closed. If that's the case, I mean, if you see the the the top of it, that's that's visible to you because it's it's probably on the top of on like the package, right, like what the design is. So then I guess maybe to see the face cards like what would be the purpose of opening them to look at them if you're not face cards in the jokers

Yes, I don't in the face card This guy goes unopened decks make me sad and a guy replies it goes love that statement Ha ha I intend to open all my deck but like Gandalf is a guy in a forum and after a hundred plus open decks I don't open everything nowadays mostly due to not being in the mood when the decks arrive Or life being in the way some I got these fucking cards and I'm just not in a mood to look at cards today. That's sad That's sad man to be cuz you're really sad. You're a card guy So it must mean you're really down in the dumps if you're not in the mood to look at cards You always talk about when you do I you when you do comedy Claire when when we do when you podcast and you're like

You know, I really enjoy doing this. I like doing it. But sometimes I just I'm not in the mood. Okay, do it Yeah, yeah, that is totally different than being like if you collect something and you like if I whenever I got new Legos especially a retired set I'd be like so excited I'd be like let's get this thing going now and get to building it and stuff like if I collected cards I think I would always like that would be the one thing I'd always be in the mood for because it's not like you once once you're a podcast or whatever, and you start making money doing it, it becomes a job. But once you like...

You can't turn collecting cards into a job. Oh, you can't? It shouldn't get depressing. Oh, you can't? It sounds like somebody hasn't seen some of the biggest YouTube channels these days, man. This is absolutely Pokemon cards. There's people who are going there buying these boxes and so that little kids can't get them,

these adult 50-year-old men, so little kids can't get them. And then they're selling them for upwards to seven to eight dollars of profit per box, Brian. So yeah, I'm thinking there's a bit of money to be made out there, actually. So because, for example, today, two hand-gilded Usy decks arrived, but opening them in my lunch break or after a busy workday doesn't feel right.

Oh, buddy, go in and talk to a doctor. Yeah, maybe he should just masturbate. Yeah. Oh, that's actually he honestly sounds like he could use a good masturbate right now. He just needs a release. If he can't, oh, if he can't release the cards, if that's not enough, it's just all about the release. Honestly, masturbate, sir, and then go look at the cards

and see if you're feeling differently at that point. Exactly, you might even break up with the cards after that. Oh, yeah. You could whack off. I mean, I'm sure these guys have naked lady cards, right? I'm sure. Because I had them growing up. I just want to say that. I have a friend, Sean. My cards, right? I'm sure because I had them growing up I just want to say my Sean did yeah

I'm I'm I'm I Want to say that I feel like these guys who collect playing cards are pretty well versed in Masturbating I don't know they they only know cards. He goes there's still no better feeling. I love this This is this is true card guy talk. you're not gonna understand a word of it. This is true car guy talk. There's still no better feeling in the world of cards than neatly cutting the seal, opening the tuck flap, handling and shuffling the deck for the first time,

breaking it in and then being in awe for the marvel of craftsmanship, technology and art that went into these little pieces of paper. Ink, foil and glue. Okay, so I'm wrong. That's horny. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Technology and art that went into these little pieces of paper ink boiling glue Okay, that's horny. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I Masturbate I might be wrong. Maybe they don't even need to masturbate these guys might just open up Cards and buzz it is weird to say like it is weird Oh, I've had such a bad day at work and it just doesn't feel right to open up these these cards I thought it just doesn't like to me. It's like it's a waste of video game guy right yeah like oh

Man, you know I've had a tough day at work. I'm gonna go home play fucking video game But hang on just to play devil's advocate sad to play video game just to play devil's advocate And I've been doing that a lot. I'm gonna stop for the rest of the episode, but Maybe it's like he's want He knows that the cards opening this card is gonna be such a wonderful moment And he knows that right now is in such a down mood that it's gonna sully that moment And so he wants to be in the right headspace to truly appreciate fucking

Magnificent opening of the of the card I get that I get that with with art when I'm saving saving I like a good movie for a day that I actually want to watch it totally I do that with movies all the time where I'm like appreciate it yeah there's this movie that I've been wanting to watch that you know and it's like but it's way too dark and I'm like I'm really feeling kind of down right now I'm not really I don't want to see that kind of violence or whatever what? Oh This is a hypothetical. It's a hypothetical although I mean I am sorry. Hey listen, I'll be honest I am feeling quite down these I thought I've been yelling at him a lot

Everybody knows why I'm down. We just don't bring it up on the episodes because it really brings things down. Listen to this guy. I love this guy. This is a guy that collects cards. Most of my decks are unopened, but I do open a number of them. A fraction of a larger number is still quite large. So he's like, listen,

I don't think you understand how many I have total. I open so few of that percentage-wise, I don't think you understand how many I have total I Opened so few of that like percentage wise, but it's still way more than you could ever imagine I don't have time. I don't there's not enough time in a day to open all my car. Oh, what do I quit my job? No, I can't so then I can't open all the cars. I Actually have an unopened deck of cards that's sort of a special deck. Should I do unopen it? Should I open it on air?

You have it here right now where you could access it? Just right in the other room. I can come right back. Is it a naked lady deck? Well. Brian, can you chill out, man? Don't act that way in front of the guests. Claire's going to grab right now.

Claire's going to get her and get the cards We're going to get the cards. This is breaking Sorry, they call it breaking card. Oh When you when you when you open a deck, it's called breaking. No, I thought that's what they called sports cards We're breaking decks. Oh, I I don't know. Maybe maybe I've never heard that before you've never played You don't collect your cards, right? You must not know anything about cars No, I collect a little bit differently probably like I go to card shows and then I look through singles and I pick out singles But let's see Claire and now has the opening the Jeff Stryker

Striker playing cards Wow Where I'm third number two, Where did you get those from? I got them from a friend of mine and he had a bunch. He found just a box of them and then he gave them away for Christmas. Holy shit. Where is Jeff Stryker from? Honestly, he looks... He's giving me a sort of a Canadian vibe. And maybe he can... Doesn't he look a little like...

He looks like a Canadian Hasselhoff kind of. He looks a bit like Gord Hasselhoff. He's American. He's from Carmi, Illinois. And what's his deal? He's a musician? He does gay pornography. He's a gay...

So I guess pick a card. Any card? Do you want to... Yes, I do want to see. Bob Lully gay. So I guess pick a card at any card. Do you want to? Yes, I do want to see. Yeah, believe me, we've showed nastier stuff on here. Oh, yeah. Well, this is this is only audio anyways. But yeah, we have we have a patron tier where we showed pornographic.

When we're not we don't show pornographic material. Our last upload on that tier was pornographic. And you know it this guy goes If you buy decks with the intent to sell you might be setting your up self up for disappointment These collectibles should not be seen as an investment as statistically speaking most of the decks in existence Will not rise in value Claire. You're not losing any money here, but you're not going to gain any money on your striker, unfortunately. Emotionally speaking, it's nice to have the ability to open up one deck and admire the

cards while knowing you have a duplicate and pristine condition untouched. There's comfort in knowing you can preserve one. Then of course, there's the added benefit of trading slash selling if you ever did decide to. Keep thinking of that keep thinking the Bob Odenkirk sketch the doubles and triples You know when these guys are talking about their decks of cards I love the idea of that of of buying a second deck that you can open up so that you can keep one preserved That's real collector shit, right? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me if you got the money Play with your play with right there. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me. If you got the money, play with your things. Yeah, I would be playing.

And I like the idea. I like that these guys are sort of into mystery or whatever. You know what I mean? There is like a, they're like the magic guys. Little weirder than the magic guys a little bit, but like because they're into one specific thing. Well, they're like magic guys, but they don't have like the flair or like, you know They don't have that aspect of it They're kind of like a more introverted magic guy kind of I feel like not magic the gathering by the way

We're talking about real magicians here. So here we go This guy goes talk me out of selling my decks This guy goes talk me out of selling my decks Yeah, they go to united cardist calm and they're like talk me out of selling my deck Congratulations on your new hobby Oh wait. Yeah, he goes getting into precision precision rifle shooting I've already put my baby on layaway and will have it paid off in two to four weeks. After that more expensive things come like a scope mount rings and the scope itself. Mucho dollar Reno's talk me out of selling my prize possessions to fund

this other amazing hobby. So, Hey, talk me out of getting rid of my cards to buy guns. Yeah. Talk me out of selling all of my possessions to buy a sniper rifle. I don't know, man. I'm not really sure. You seem like the kind of guy that I don't want to talk out of or talk to about anything, honestly. I don't know.

He's already thinking of getting this high range scope. I mean, it's all layaway, which is insane. Putting your gun on layaway is really, really something. I don't even know. I thought layaway was like an old thing. I don't really know what it is too. I don't know of a place where you could do layaway because they have a firm in Klarne. Yeah. I don't know what layaway, like layaway is just, isn't it just like you get it or you pay, like how does it work? The store keeps it and you come in and make payments on it and then they give it to you once it or you pay like how does it work the store keeps it and you come in and make payments on it and Then they give it to you once it's paid off

Oh, but like a little bit of they keep it they keep it there get it until you but but nobody else can buy it Well, that's how that's the idea behind it is that it's like to get a thing that no so then nobody else can get it But I mean we make a lot of guns in this country, so I don't think there's a chance they're going to run out of these guns. Yeah. Congratulations on that. Believe me, we wish there was a chance. But congratulations on all the guns you got.

I wanted to say that to you, by the way, Brian. I had been taking notice that you guys have been making a lot. We have guns. We have scopes. Oh, yeah. And we have layaway. Yeah. We have some guns here up in Canada where I live but

Not as many as the ones we have this guy goes congratulations on your new hobby I'm no stranger to firearms and I think you're gonna have a grand time with your new child It'll very likely multiply to children because you gotta feed the blasted things so much I'm these guys talking about guns I'm sure you don't have to sell anything to support your plinking just buy less of one thing and more of another So I'm not gonna talk you out of anything If you see your collection as something you can part with or make room for another thing then by all means do so So these guys are like hey as long as you're fucking collecting something

It's okay. Yeah, like if you're getting listen, we understand. Also, you don't really want to be like, like, you don't want to be really confronting the guy about stopping collecting when he's like, yeah, I'm going to stop so I can buy a fucking sniper rifle. You don't really want to like be like, you're a fucking idiot to do that, because all of a sudden you're on his fucking Steve Buscemi list from Billy Madison And also you want them? Cart oh yeah in the end you get the car. Yeah, you know you could probably add that so I feel like

This guy's talking about getting rid of his cards though specifically get rid of my cards and get my gun Okay, so it is money from the card sales to buy more guns I can't I wonder how many cards he has are like because they're not that expensive. And again, as, as we will set, I don't know what the resale is like. That's a big thing. Because there's like, you can give a value to something, but as everyone knows, if something is only as valuable as what somebody will pay for it. So you could like put this value that it's like worth this,

but if nobody wants to buy it from you, then it's worth it. If there's not a guy in the community that has a ton of money, because that's really what you're hoping. You're hoping for a big white whale. Yes, I got a role in and be like, I've always wanted that. You know, Microsoft Windows 95 deck. Yeah, like I need to complete my Microsoft Windows 95 deck. Yeah, like I needed to complete my collection

of computer decks and it's the last one. And it's like, he'll pay you fucking 75 grand. It's crazy that there are those guys though, where you're like, who in their right mind would ever want this specific thing? And there's always gonna be some. Yeah, there's gonna be collectors who, some collectors who have that real thing in their brain

become very rich and there's famous ones or whatever. I think Nick Cage collects art or whatever. They say fine art. So I think there's just guys like that who have that and they become super rich and they're just looking to collect, that becomes their life goal to get that shit. Yeah, you're trying to get- Yeah, someone might really need this Jeff Stryker joker car.

Oh my god, he's got a great hog. Jeff Stryker's got a beautiful hog, everybody. Jeff Stryker's a hog. It almost hits his knee. I feel like he's chubbed it, but it is pointing down. It's pointing down. It's pointing down. It's heavy.

If it's that size and it's pointing down, I don't want to see it when it's pointing down, it's heavy. If it's that size and it's pointing down, I don't want to see it when it's pointing up. This thing was knee level. It was knee level. This was hanging. It cast a shadow. This thing was hanging, man. Man, this guy goes,

so I'm not gonna talk you out of anything. If you see your collection, okay, so he goes, although if you have a couple shoe boxes in the back of the closet with some very nice pairs of kicks that almost never adorn your trotters, perhaps consider selling the shoes. Wait, what? This guy's saying it.

Why do I talk like that? But also, this guy, that's such a cycle. Like variety. If you sell some of your old shoes, like nobody wants to buy your old shoes unless you're like a sneaker head. They're saying that, they're saying shoes and like a sneaker head like they're saying that they're saying are you a sneaker head? too like they they have now all like kind of decided this guy collects every everything cuz a

Sneaker head is a very specific type of person and not just a get tight a collector. That's a different type of collector I feel like yeah, he goes although he goes Perhaps consider selling the shoes and using their boxes to house your collection. Well, you got to sell a box to you Yeah, you're so so here's my old fucking shoes or the box. No, I need that box I can't think of anywhere else put my fucking This guy's got bad advice I'm also just realizing I don't know I have no concept of how much a gun is. Yeah, I mean a sniper rifle I would imagine

would be like a couple thousand dollars, right? Or a thousand dollars. Yeah, my guess is that he's probably buying an AR-15. Like is my guess, but I might even be wrong because I don't think those are exceptionally expensive. I don't know in the scope, who knows how much. I don't know in the scope. Who knows how much? I don't know either.

I'm not a gun person, so I have no real... I want one, but my wife won't let me have one. That they're very cheap in America, but that's judgmental of me. They're not, because I wanted to buy a pistol a few times, and then I'd be like, oh, I worked out all the prices we can get at. My wife was like, you're not getting a gun. And just to be clear, Claire, it has nothing to do with the price of the gun as far it My wife was like you're not getting a gun and just to be clear Claire It has nothing to do with the price of the gun as far as why his wife says we're not getting a gun

It's because she's very thought considerate considerate person who also knows Brian really well and Knows what all of us know it is. It's a bad idea for him to own a fire This guy goes there he goes take me this guy goes these are two interests as shouldn't class I'm assuming that card collecting satisfies a certain artistic desire while precision shooting satisfies some sort of sporting me I love that yeah you know anything a sport I get it but like

shooting a gun at something shooting a gun at a target is something. But I don't know if it's a skill. But yeah, when that guy at the Olympics got up there, like just wearing his t-shirt or whatever and like not using any of the machine, you know, what was that guy's name? I forget. He just shot the target dead on. He was really famous at the Olympics, but it sort of like, it sort of showed people that like, I don't know, man, I don't know if this is a a sport this guy just kind of walked it off the street like John Wick and just fucking shot It's kind of the thing. It's like got a medal You know, I love that you guys are gonna love the rest of this post he goes don't fall

He goes why is one more important than the other? Can they not coexist? Don't fall into the trap of new is better It may be but not for that reason. Besides, if you're looking for a new fresh card, designs arise farther more often than that for guns. Though he's like, there's more cards than guns. I know you feel like you're at the end, but they're coming out with new and exciting cards. The card technology they're coming out with nowadays is insane.

Man, when have they what? When have they invented a new gun? Yeah, this is really like last week's episode. We talked about Apple guys. Yeah. They were like where Apple guys were like, well, the reason they're not inventing new stuff is because all the stuff's in that. Yeah, they're done with the cards. They can't do anything more. I mean, he's right in the sense that like there's an, it's unending possibilities for car. Like you just, Hey, here's a card of the fucking, you know, here's a keyboard card for the, you know, it's keyboards or whatever. Like there's just, everything in the world can become a card,

whereas everything in the world can become a gun. So that is a good point. He goes scratching that itch with a new deck is something that will occur far more often Yeah, these hobbies is much more expensive than the other ask your wallet for its opinion before pulling the trigger These guys Claire you saying that really did like they talk like variety man. Yeah, they are very Unique style of talking. I don't even know that it's like any of the other ones. It has elements of other types of guys, but. I think they should like, they just want to get into

creative writing, it seems like. Oh, we know a lot of guys who are, we read some guys who do reviews. Those are my favorite kind of guys, where they really want to do creative writing, but they never got a creative writing job job and their review is like this really Intrigue it well written thing and that to them is their creative, but it's annoying I just read a review the other day. Oh, I got to talk about this. Okay. I read a review the other day

There's a new place right by my house. Oh good Pizza. I know. Super close to your house, right? Like right there. I love how you just tell everyone where you live. I mean, they know I live by the convention center. At least it doesn't still have your address on the LLC that you... Nope. New address. Yeah, that's good.

And there's security in the building. I live by this place, Goodfellas Pizza, and I was hungry the night and I was like I'm gonna go there open till 3 a.m Mm-hmm. I was like I'm gonna hit up this good fella. I had been walking past it They have breadsticks that are like this this long. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating. It's as long as my penis and Claire I apologize. He did it's a running joke that he says he has a 17 inch penis I don't he doesn't normally just say like hey, yeah, it's like the size of my cock Thinking of buying a pistol like the size of my cock like he's a normal guy. He's like Politics Claire, I swear he has good. I have the. I swear he does. I'm a prominent leftist

Well, I was asking he actually I was kind of sad Because I was at the community festival over there and I walked by the DSA tent. Nobody knew me Oh, I kind of want to go over there and be like hey guys. How's my hey, I'm murder Brian. I'm a prominent leftist Dirt bag style. Yeah, yeah, you can see the Wikipedia article for it I'm actually referenced on it. Yeah. Yeah for sure So so this guy goes He goes one of these hobbies is much more expensive than the other. Oh yeah, he goes, notice how you use the word quote prized in referring to your card.

Doesn't seem like you're ready to let go. Finally, like the last two guys wrote, handmade dead man's deck would be awesome. I don't know what that is. What's that? A handmade deck. A handmade deck, listen that would to me That's like a one-of-one one of a kind by some crazy like like like you talked about that guy

Who's the famous card deck maker or whatever? Brian the one who like posts up imagine you get a deck that he hand makes a one-of-one deck That would be like the top of it like most expensive best kind of deck you could get in my Opinion it's sad my one of one Brett Hart Hart is missing. It's in one of my boxes Brian got her you got a we met Brett. Do you know wrestling at all Claire? I didn't know of the Brett Hart. Yeah, you know like you know Brett the hitman Hart. He's still going strong actually He's still looks great I know Brett the Hitman Hart, he's still going strong actually. He looks great.

I mean he really looks good. He looks as good as any 60 year old wrestler. He looks like he can wrestle. He comes out with all kinds of, yeah, vim and vigor. But Brian got a one of one autograph card of his. Actually it was pretty exciting. They didn't quite understand what was going on and then the guys were like, let us take a picture with you on the big prize.

Yeah, they're taking photos with them and stuff like that. Like Brian, like really, like it was a real collector moment. And then Brian sat on it and broke it. Now he lost the broken car. He sort of sat on it. He sat on it was in like a plastic thing and broke. It's fine. I could get a new plastic thing any day. This guy is a site admin answering this question.

Are you similarly considering divesting yourself of your comic book? I can't remember if you're the sort of who gets dupes. If you do them for some reason, I don't think you do. You may want to try pairing down the dupes and see how it feels to sell those off before you touch the heart of your collection. There you go. Hey, try selling a couple. I don't care about as much. Sell you go. Hey, try selling a couple. I don't care about as much sell the makes you feel sell the dupes and just see once you get rid of the dupes, you only got one of each

then see hey, was it worth it? No, I might have to dupe up again, actually. I'm feeling like this is Yeah, people who use things like dupes are I love that when like, yeah, when they shorten duplicate, if you don't allow me to suggest caution Hold on to what you have for a little while longer and see how you feel These guys are just like these guys heard this guy is thinking about getting rid of his card to buy guns and they Immediately ran to their their partner and they sat down. They're like, I can't believe it One of the guys from the United Cardistry message board is selling his art

Well, I think I don't think it went down like that in my opinion went down like they their partner just noticed something was up You know what I mean? They said are you okay? Like you haven't touched your fucking mashed potatoes at Turkey You know, it's just like Wayne and the thing, you know, like you had to drag it out of him. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They're like, like, yeah, they're treating it like they're about to lose their friend and they need to save him basically. But in their defense, he did ask, he said, talk me out of it. You know, he did say, I mean, you get money when you sell stuff and I argue that that also feels good. You know what I mean when you get like when I went and sold Legos to that guy gave me 60 bucks Yeah, yeah, I got 60 bucks. You know what I mean like it was so exciting I didn't miss the Legos at all. We tried to get him to donate the leg. I did donate

Well, not all of them. First of all, they wouldn't take it at the library. Yeah, they wouldn't allow it for some reason He had too much I did and so then I took them to one library where they were allowed to do it Yeah, and then I took another one to an LGBTQ Kids place called kaleidoscope in town. Look it up kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope Columbus. How many did they take? Did they take a good chunk of them took a massive by okay, okay and And you know donate to them if you can anyway He goes I can't remember if you're oh he goes if you don't You can always sell them later if you do sell them now then realize that was the wrong choice

You can't easily undo that decision down the road Not without spending a lot of moolah no he's right once you get rid of them they're gone whereas like so it has to be it's true it has to be a very well thought-out measured decision because once they're gone it's a lot harder to get them back than the other way around well this our original poster responded to that and he goes I can count the number of decks I bought this year on one hand fuck. It's not a matter of clashing hobby wise It's a matter of this rifle loadout is gonna be expensive

I have other valuables I can spare to make it happen sooner one of the hobbies can save my life. I Have oh, I mean it can also okay. Hang on a second. So now we're getting down to it somebody Somebody got confronted by a larger man at the grocery store and decided never again Never again is somebody gonna talk to me like that and he's training himself off for self-defense Now this makes my per rifle a pistol not a pistol Brian because no no no He's gonna take the beating and then he's gonna fucking wait in the bushes The next day because he doesn't even want to have to shoot somebody from up close You know as you can't carry a rifle with you. I mean you can you can people do it

people do Here for sure you can do it you for sure. You can do it. You never see it. Well, you do see people. I don't see videos of people in your city. I'm probably in a suburb like that. You don't see them downtown. Yeah. You know, Libby down here, he goes, one of the hobby.

And he goes, so really my comic book collection and playing card collection, both clash and comics win without it even being closed. I'll definitely be doing or trying to do a shooting related giveaway for the next deck of the year so a shooting related giveaway huh yeah that's interesting so you're gonna give stuff away but you're also gonna shoot your gun off like I don't I think it's gonna shoot the deck of cards maybe no because then it would be able to give it away so it maybe you shoot a target and like the target if where it hits like coincides with who gets it or something like that I just I don't know it seems to me like he's kind of trying to shoehorn the shooting into it. Well finally

Finally this guy goes when I moved away from coin collecting I sold many of my more valuable and easily sellable coins. That has still left me with a sizable collection. I guess one of these days when I retire, I'll take time to divest myself of the rest of the collection. In the meantime, I enjoy still having many fun and interesting coins that don't tie up a ton of my capital. Sell how you want. The nice thing about playing cards is that it really doesn't have to be too draining

on your wallet if you will hold yourself to just the new standard issues and avoid the bling of the limited and gilded version. You got to avoid the playing card bling. That makes sense. You may have no major resale opportunity, but also no major investment. Yeah, listen, he's right in the sense that it's very low stakes collecting. It doesn't cost you a lot, so you can continue to do it and And it's not gonna like kill you you could just spend like a hundred bucks a month or whatever on playing cards

And you could be an avid collector. I think the coins got me though I'm I for one love a good challenge coin Claire you you'd collect challenge coins at all. What's a challenge coin? Oh, I see. Is that like a coin you get from AA? Someone hasn't been to the Chive lately, I guess. What the hell? I can't find my coin. I have a coin right here.

This is our challenge coin. We made challenge coins, actually. There's our, oh, let me turn it over. That's Bill Murphy on it. That's Bill Murray there on our challenge coin. Keep calm and guys on. Yeah, the Chive. Do you remember the chive the website? Yeah, so it's still going and they're still doing it like the same jokes and everything and they have challenge coins

It's like a huge part of their where they have all these like Chris Farley like Matt Foley down by the river Challenge coins like Napoleon dynamite. So yeah, we kind of became obsessed with them and then we Someone contacted us said we could make our own so we did and yeah, that's what they were quite popular quite When I moved I had a stack of coins like this that people have mailed me and they're all Yeah, most of them are just like cuz they're police thing like the police and the military give each other coin Yeah, please challenge coins is a huge thing in military challenge. It's really weird. Yeah Here's a question and this is a good this little this'll In our slash magic a guy goes. Do you carry a deck of cards as part of your EDC?

Hmm. Oh, do you know EDC Chris got excited. Sorry, I got really excited there. Sorry. Some people, the memory haters on the podcast, the ones who hate when we bring up other stuff, but yeah, EDC is everyday carry. So there's EDC guys who are like, they have their everyday carry that they'll lay it out on the table and sort of show each other like this is what I carry Around with me a knife and tactical thing or whatever and they carry a bag But they call it a man purse because it like if it you know

It like deflates the other people calling it a purse. It's like yeah Notice lately because I know I don't remember who I was talking to but they were like, oh, yeah, I got my mers Taking back the power. They're taking back the power on it And this is from our slash magic by the way, okay It goes is it a good idea for card magicians to always have cards on them. Why or why not? I would say yes This guy goes like you're calling yourself a card magician. You should have a cards on you and I'd say As far as the why I would say in order to do card tricks, but Most of you have done most of us have done stand-up me and Claire. I've done

Stand-up, you don't always have a joke ready when somebody says tell me a joke Well, you never have a joke. You always have a joke ready. No, you always have a joke ready. You just don't want to say it. You're like, fuck off. If someone said, tell you a joke, Claire, you could tell them a joke, because you have a bunch of jokes,

but you just wouldn't want to, because it's really sort of, it's really humiliating. By the way, Brian's never done stand up. He's not really. I tried the boards for several years. Chris has. Don't use my term. I have the boards. I years Chris. Hey, don't use my term I was the boards I used to do

I use stand-up comedy you tickled the ivory So just to be clear it's so funny because I think Brian might believe that's actually what because that's the joke that I say That treading the boards is it means like acting on Broadway. I did No, but that's what I refer to stand-up as and I think Brian really now believes that that is actually I did Broadway too. I've acted yeah Mostly off Broadway stuff. Hmm. Yeah, I was in Green Day American Idiot. I Like to think of stand-up as like what is a microphone made of like what's the tip of a microphone made of metal? What is a microphone made of like what's the tip of a microphone made of metal? No, I mean, I guess I've spit on the metal Oh, yes. Yeah. Have you ever have you ever yes?

Spit on the weight. What's the other thing like the foam? Have you ever spit on the foam? Right have you ever soaked to the foam wait though? There's not usually foam on a microphone on the stand But usually in that side 58 it's there is. There's a little thing. Yeah. It is a little nasty. It has a spit. It's really nasty. The more you talk about that, Clare,

it is really one of the more nasty aspects of doing stand up is like being on an open mic where some of the nastiest people go and spit into a microphone that you then go put your mouth right into. Microphones are stinky. Ones that people don't care about. Yeah, mine is too. Mine doesn't. Go put your mouth right into microphones are stinky Yeah, they stay mine doesn't mine smells great but yeah, they are they do they are this guy goes I used to tossing a deck in the backpack now

It depends on if you want to practice whenever the opportunity arises or perform ad hoc Some folks prefer to have a quote off mode I'm tossing them in not because I expect to practice that much with that deck, which will probably end up at the bottom of the bag for months, but because it'll give me occasional pause to decide if I need more screen time or if I'd like to practice a few slides that I'm rusty on. I have a video. I was sitting in Los at a cafe in Los Angeles, California, uh, at a table outside and a guy comes up to my table and there's nowhere else to say he goes

Do you mind if I sit here? And I go okay, and he pulls out a book he just bought of how to do sleight-of-hand card tricks and he opens up the book and he's reading it and With his hands with no cards. He's sort of like miming And with his hands, with no cards, he's sort of like miming like the hand movements he has to do. And he's just sort of just doing that in front of me. And so I have a little video of this guy reading this book and he's like, OK. I mean, that is that is such a I mean, that happens regularly in Los Angeles. Like that's it felt very that happens regularly in Los Angeles

That's such a Los Angeles thing and I know that I spend quite a bit of time out in Los I had a magician stop me this weekend. Oh really? That's wild like I guess I was down to card Monte But I've been reading the I've been reading these boards for like a week So like maybe it wasn't three card Monte. He just had a tiny little table right sitting outside where he was at this festival. He had this tiny little table. There was nobody there. So I'm like it's fucking tiny little table must be for a little kid. And then an adult man comes up and he's like want to see some magic. And I said no. He said no. Yeah, that sucks for him.

Did that a couple of times, actually. A little kid came up to me and was like they were it was like some kind of Hare Krishna, like thing like some you want to chant with us or whatever. And it gives like, do you ever I don't know. It's like you want eternal happiness. And I said no. And I just kept walking. I just yeah, I'm trying to be more direct with people on the street.

Is that? Yeah, I think you gotta. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I am. Like those people, I don't ever get that sort of, but yeah, obviously the people with the binders or whatever who are trying to stop them, I'm very clear, just like, I'm not the person, you don't want to talk to me about this.

I do think, I will say this, I don't think you should be practicing your cardistry in public you wouldn't Practice doing magic at a cafe. Yeah, you know what I mean, man. I'm a magician so Yeah, he actually he does magic sometimes like that's true I will not like he dazzling Brian is his magic. Yeah, I'm Brian. He pulls the bunnies out That's way too no he does like I have a light up thumb his thumb lights up is his main trick He has one of those like red light up thumbs. No, it's a thumb that lights up I can't do it right now. My magic energy is low his magic energy is low meaning can't find the thumb that lights up. I can't do it right now. My magic energy is low. His magic energy is low. Meaning he can't find the thumb that lights up.

But yeah, I tried to find the thumb. I think these guys shouldn't be practicing in public. I agree. I, yeah. I don't want to see you fucking. I don't want to see what you're doing. And I want you to fucking be because I love, I don't know what it is, but when I see a guy do that thing where he flips the card up into his other hand I'm like that's impressive that is the kind of thing I find impressive. Yeah In public then there goes the magic there goes the mystery Yeah, it's true Claire next time you that guy try to pull some shit on you be like wise

I know what you did there I know I seen you do it and over and over again with your hands like you did a Johnny's a To two timer. Yeah, you did a reverse Johnny up will up vote, you know Standard move we're gonna look at what's the most expensive deck you've ever opened then some card reviews Okay, so I told you tell us the story how much was it worth at the time you opened it Why did you open it and what have you done with it since any regrets first guy goes? Crypt the deck is unique and that it can be opened without being open. Okay, wait wait What right now wait? What I don't know what that

What did he say what I think it just means it can be resealed in a way that like makes it seem like it. You know what I mean? Maybe it's just sealed with a sticker that can be restock or something is how I imagine it. What did he say though? The crib? Did he say it's like crib? It's so it's it's a it's a deck that is in just a plain cardboard thing. Right. And it's the one you're not allowed to take a picture of. You're not supposed to take. So this is this is a special one that we heard about initially. OK. Yes. It's crypt from low track. No pictures. I can show you the the all I have here is yeah I guess you can't show us a picture of it. I can't show you a picture. I can show you how it comes So this is Crip

You know, it just comes in like a nondescript brown Cardboard box just like a shipping box. Yeah, so that's a $400 deck that cost $400. That's a $400 deck So anyway goes the deck is unique and that it can be open without being open So anyway, he goes, the deck is unique and that it can be open without being open. And one of the most beautiful decks I've ever seen. I keep it in a carrot case and giggle at the plain cardboard. I open it occasionally to admire the beauty. $400. Do you think sometimes if you spend $400 on something, maybe you feel like you have to open it up every now and then to admire the beauty and you maybe convince yourself that it's quite beautiful and that you weren't ripped off. I would say that yes, because of the way it come that.

So if you're going to show off your collection to people who are layman, right? Yeah. layman right yeah which I'm not but you guys are if I was gonna show off my collection to layman I would have to explain this you would have to say this cardboard back right here that comes in a cardboard box that's worth $400 like he has to say yeah the value of it cuz otherwise like I guess you could start like how do you quantify the importance of it or whatever other than that to say like it's very limited you're not allowed to take pictures it's like very exclusive but really at the end of the day they're gonna be like they can't really

quantify it unless you say it cost $400 yeah there's no brand name recognition no Louis Vuitton no exactly unless they're no unless they're like a card person in which case there's you don't even need to tell them They already know. Yeah, my brother saw a guy in a stone-cold Steve Austin shirt. That was like very rare bootleg Like sure, you know what I mean from from the 90s. Yeah, it's like when the hell is that, you know I mean, I was like that thing's probably fucking $700 He's like no, it's not I was like it is he's like it's not even the official brand and I was like that's that's why We're so fucking much. Yeah, so

Yeah, I I don't I used to wear like a lot of high B scare and I used to get bugged if I didn't get a Compliment which by the way, I was wearing it to Keshhi Murakami, LA Dodgers t-shirt with flowers on it on Friday night. Right. It looks so fucking cool. I'm walking with my wife and she's wearing a guns and roses t-shirt. It's like crop that is like a little older and you know that this fucking guy, he goes he goes hey nice shirt and I was like thanks man and then he was like guns and roses and I was like brutal wrong that happened to me once I was walking down the street and I was

fixing my hair and a guy was driving by and yelled out your hair looks perfect honey you don't have to fix it and I know thanks and he goes Not you woman behind me with a really beautiful long Floating hair work it made more sense. I wish I wouldn't have said anything You know what? I mean? Like if I didn't say hey man, thanks and then he clarifies. That's why I said to my wife I was like why did he clarify what a fucking day? Why would he clarify? You know well. I mean he's a Guns N' Roses fan. He was like he had a moment with a fellow fan

That's what he thought he was a Dodger He didn't give a fuck about hypey stuff. He goes charmer signature I'm not a fan of low tracks in-house plastic bag wrap and I wanted to feel the texture of the silk hook I have it in a carrot case and didn't want it to be damaged as the bag was putting pressure on the tuck box when Inserted into the case. I also told myself I wouldn't be reselling it $240 So this guy doesn't tell you the prices which is annoying. And this guy goes, so the other guy says Crypt. And he goes, Crypt and Standard Oath GOG would be my most expensive ones I opened.

I opened them because I opened 99.9% of the decks I owned to see them with my own eyes. No regret, because I saw their overall underwhelming and sold them well north of what I paid for them. If I would have never opened them, I would have had them still sitting on my shelf and taking up space and funds. I like this guy because.

Oh shit. The deck that nobody can look at, he bought and said it fucking sucked. Yeah, it wasn't that good. Yeah, and this guy goes, if you found Crypt underwhelming, what are some decks you find impressive or overwhelming? So now he's made guys in the subreddit mad.

They're pissed. Yeah, they're like, what the fuck are you doing, dude? We all have agreed that the Crypt is like the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like you're taking this away from us. Like, this is the thing I want to. This is one I'm aspiring to get. And now you're like saying that it kind of sucks. Like my life is based around getting this deck. So

yeah, he explains it in a really long winded way. And I want to do some reviews. Another guy says, NPCCD 2019 sugar plum decks, not too sure what they'd be worse since I haven't seen any sealed ones for sale I'd imagine $200 and Then this guy opened a gold monarch because he's dying to see what the gold foil looked like on the cars It was not disappointed and I didn't regret it either as I had two others sealed Okay, then yes, no fucking point telling this story as travels that guy had triples. He's fine. He's trips I use them a few times for cardistry before trading them. What's hard to straight? Can you?

Like card tricks hard trick, but not card tricks Just like fly a flare card flare like where you're doing the thing like fanning it out But yeah, most cardistry if you go to the cardist, these three subreddit, it's a bunch of guys going, did I invent this and then do it with their cards? I see they're like, like, holy shit, I was just like flailing my arms around with these cards. I think I might have been meant to the next big day. I think I invented a new card move.

Yeah, like that's what I saw. So many guys be like, I think I invented a new card move and then people be like that's called the you know, the pale man's divorce or something Because they always have a weird name. Hey Chuck. It's your cousin Marvin, you know Theory 11 makes cards. I will show you guys this deck is 1299 $12.99. Yeah, and we have covered We definitely have covered MCU guys. This is an Avengers deck. I See, this is the thing where I would this is what I kind of thought was that it was you like the Avenger Well, you know, I love Tony Stark Stark. You know I love Iron Man.

He's so fucking badass, man. I like him because he's got so much money. Absolutely. My two favorite superheroes are Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne. Not even Batman. I like Bruce when he's just out there making, when he's doing business deals. He's actually a pretty good businessman.

He's actually managed to accumulate great wealth and it's like yeah He had like parents who were like pretty but it's like he pretty much built himself up as well Like he had to like work really hard when he was younger. They did look this up and it is the the face cards are the Avengers Kind of so like the king is still looks like a king but with Tony Stark's man but it's Tony Stark is the king I think so yeah because I have it I looked them up it was very and so the because the first review I want to read you the first review the cards ain't have any Avengers on them the

cards are regular cards and the only thing cool about these are the cover so that lady the cards ain't got so I had to look them up yeah yeah I'm doing it right now I think that that would be the allure of it obviously but that's when I imagined playing card people I always thought that like it was a thing people collected as part of a different collection if you know what I always thought that like, it was a thing people collected as part of a different collection, if you know what I mean. Like, I'm a big Avengers fan, or I'm a big Star Wars fan,

so I have Star Wars playing cards. I never even considered people collecting just playing cards for themselves. Me either. These are the cards, it's not impressive, right? Those are kinda sick. But they're kinda cool. I really like those but they're kind of they're kind of honestly if you guys are Go look them up if you if you're wondering but they kind of I agree

They look kind of cool because they look like the playing card design like kind of have that cool Design, but then they're yeah, like there's a black panther one. I don't know what that one on the left is is Captain America That's Captain America. Yeah, but they call him Cap. But one of the big complaints about this deck that I don't think you're going to hear in the reviews I have is that the numbers and letters are too skinny. They're like fired up. What the fuck, man?

You skinny letters. The letters are really skinny. I just noticing. So funny. The letters are really skinny. Well, because the A in Avengers is a really skinny. I just noticing Really skinny well because the a and Avengers is a pretty skinny a oh, so maybe they're using the the yeah They're using the font probably the Avengers Margins I guess I would say why would you care but whatever it that's part of collecting the goddamn cards I don't know this This person goes, not really Avengers card. So not one star. So not worth it. The only thing that shows anything related to Avengers is the two joke,

both the back of that and the back of each card and font front are just regular cards. What? I read that and I was like, what would it be? Cause you can't change the suit. You can't say this is an eight of Star Lords because you need to know if it's clubs or heart or die. Yeah, you have it. It is. You're right.

You have to give that information. But could you have some of the Avengers just kind of like on the card, just kind of flying around busy though? And like you're playing it. You're trying to play. I think it would, it would be too busy. I don't think you're trying to play though. I don't think you're trying to play. I think you're an Avengers fan, Avengers fan who's just wants to look at different Avengers stuff. Like you'd buy like a sticker book of Avengers or whatever

Right just holding a playing card deck and like just looking at it Yeah, just looking at it there's nothing wrong with buying something just don't look at it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I just thought again I don't know what you want When it comes to that, you know They didn't even do anything special for the jack queen or king which by the way they did he just didn't notice it You didn't even notice it you like it's not that subtle though, by the way, it's like pretty obvious that it's that And he goes They didn't even have anything special for the oh he goes

I thought it would have the gold Avengers crest on the back of each card at least nope plain blue. Nothing special Yeah, they yeah, you got out of the gold though, you know, it makes this time so cool. This guy says total crap One star these cards are total crap. I bought them for my son's birthday. I have accidentally spilled water on the tablecloth. The box of the cards has immediately absorbed the water like a piece of toilet paper and colored the cards black. Some cards also absorbed water. I've never seen cards of such poor quality.

Oh, sounds like you who fucking ruined your son's birthday. Yeah, bitch. And now you're looking for anybody else to just shoulder some of the blame. Pour a glass of water on a stack of cards. This motherfucker that went Will Ferrell and old school mode, which is fucking just crashing, knocking tables over and shit. And now he's just like, well, well the playing card this quality is playing cards ridiculous Hey, honey, and she's just like oh my god. You're so embarrassing. You know she's just like humiliated Like we should call the playing card company to talk about how much it pops absorbed it

It's like how about we call call someone to talk about your drinking you know like It absorb it like toilet paper is so funny This guy bought the cards and then spilled water all over That's brutal. That is fucking brutal. I could say I have my kids too young to now But I can imagine like that just sounds fucking brutal, but don't blame it on the cards, man Like that just sounds fucking brutal, but don't blame it on the cards, man If he had dupes he'd be okay, oh yeah, you should have bought dupes daddy should have bought dupes I'm sorry, honey. The reason your cards are are

Ruined is because daddy didn't have the foresight to buy dupes. I'm sorry. Well, they're $12 deck. Yeah, it's a $12 deck. For some reason, your father doesn't even think to get dupes. I don't know. I just don't know. Who would pour water on a $12 deck? So anyway, this guy, last review of this one, one star. Don't buy it. Money down the drain. Number so small and narrow it could not be used to play. So. Oh, so then. Thought about rewriting the numbers with a Sharpie. Gave up midway through and then trashcan.

P.S. this is my first review. I don't know how to give it a zero star rating. Oh that's another favorite of ours is I would give it zero if I could. I'm pissed off that I have to give it a star. It does not deserve a star. These narrow numbers. It's such a weird.

I don't think it's that big of a deal. No. Oh, no. We're saying that definitely they were skinny numbers and skinny letters, but not to the point where you're not able to tell what they are. I mean, you're looking at the cards very close up. They're not like you're not you're not playing far away cards or what? Is this an eight or one?

Yeah. What the hell is a fat one or a skinny eight? Here's another deck. This is a you can buy this. This is the industry standard, right? Yeah, this is the one that I used to play when I was a kid the blue and red Bicycle and you get 23 debt or you can get like 10 decks for 23 bucks Yeah, these are these are like she had two bucks of you know you get them at the dollar store Whatever and this is what you use for cardistry because if you bring special cards to do a trick on somebody

They'll think you fucking rigged the deck. I understand So you have to use like bicycle or be you have to use the industry standard the ones that people know and recognize The the real that makes sense now that that's an interesting thing because yeah, they you have to get down to their level basically Yeah, because they don't know shit about cards. Most people they don't know nothing They don't know fucking anything. They don't know about oh, this is a crypt deck It's like it's like you I actually have to fucking gouge your eyes out now cuz even seen this fuck You don't appreciate it, you know, but yeah, it's not over grab your crypt deck and I was like, what is this? He's like, I'm sorry. I don't trust you. Yeah honestly I'm sorry. It's a cryptic and it's like I

Could show it to you. But yeah, you don't seem like somebody who I don't want you telling people what I don't want you I know that you're pretty good at describing things visually and I don't want you to describe this to an artist and have them Recreate it and then all of a sudden I'm left holding the bag, you know Yeah, I got my my dupe orbit deck Yeah, you can go play in the corner with my orbit dupe deck over there And the adults will be over here with the crap This guy goes good, but weird packaging which is a weird thing to say because we all know the package For a bicycle bicycle cards. Yeah, everybody in the world knows it.

Well, he goes, I like the cards. Classic bicycle cards, but not quite sure why each box, not only one came with plastic packaging, but they also came with an annoying sticker. These stickers were meant to show the sealed boxes, but it seems over the top since it already comes in a plastic and the stickers do not come off easily So I could play one suit spider solitaire with all spades But quite annoying to have these stickers that leave the residue on the boxes terrible pack Well, wait a second. Just you just need to you just with your nail even slice the slice the thing across

He's trying to pull the whole sticker off Stupid idiot doesn't know how to open a box I'm sorry. This is like the nor this is like how you open boxes a lot of different boxes This is not just cards. This is like electronics have that it's like very common And we all know how to open a deck of fucking cards But some of us are thinking really hard about other stuff all the time and so there's not enough space in the brain to be like, oh, like opening. Yeah. Especially these guys, especially when they have the deck out, that is a good

point to give them a bit of a, because when they have the deck out and they're thinking about their tricks and their flares and their different like inventing moves and shit and so they're not necessarily there. They got all that. That's when they're probably at their most overwhelmed mentally. Yeah. This guy goes, uh, ordered these for our Euker team used two times and have to replace them. They're delaminated ripping and bending. They are bait bicycle brand, but do not have the logo of the back of the car.

It's not worth it. So I think this person he's playing too hard. It sounds like they're playing cards too hard. Like, no, I think this person did not buy bicycle cars. Oh, they bought fakes. They're definitely bicycle cards, but they just don't have the bicycle logo on it. But it's like they have the designs and it's like, well, no, that's the sort of cards designs, like all of the, you know know what I mean that's not like a bicycle thing those kind of you know what I'm saying like the kind of like that's common with other card companies as well so it does sound like yeah you got a different brand. These next two go together.

Item reads bicycle standard quote jumbo playing card. Since the item said jumbo on the website title I thought the numbers on the cards would be larger but they're not there's nothing jumbo about and then this next guy goes not jumbo standard jumbo is not a good description we wanted jumbo they are not very disappointed glad they were cheap not jumbo enough. I've never heard I don't see a word jumbo and finally. This is a deck from theory 11 This is our last thing here. This is oh Yeah, that's right

It's a Deadpool That's a plan. I love the Merc with mouth. So are you a fan of Deadpool Claire? Have you ever seen the Deadpool films? I've never seen any Deadpool ever. Oh, so you don't know this sort of smart man. He's such a smart ass I know he cusses he's cussing a lot. He's like he's cussing a lot. He's I'll tell you what He's always got something to say about everything and it's like so sarcastic always he's snarky He's flat-out snarky to be honest, but I actually hate I love him Brian loves the Deadpool really hate the Deadpool movies

And I actually hate Ryan Reynolds because I think he's too much I think he's too much like think he's too much like Deadpool He like he like that's how he wants to be that same sort of way And he also the main reason I hate him though is because he's from Vancouver like this where he's from That's he's my favorite guy from Vancouver Wow, and so and so I I feel like he's people are always like oh Ryan Reynolds from Vancouver Ryan Reynolds You know it's like we don't you know he's he's not he's pretty beloved by like older ladies and stuff here But he's not like considered like the cool Vancouver guy or anything. Yeah. He is he's my favorite

Twisted guy from Vancouver well honestly like Yeah, he's got he's got some of the most sick comedic ideas out of the people from Vancouver. He's got a crazy sense of humor. Now I just thought of who would be the cool guy from Vancouver, and I really can't. It's the guy from Lululemon. It's Chip Wilson? Chip Wilson from Lululemon. Chip Wilson from Lululemon. I tried to get him on my live show in Vancouver I called him on his personal cell phone number and he was very upset with me

This guy goes this person sometimes it's the little thing I was shocked This was my grandson's favorite Christmas gift. This is a five-star review With all those expensive gifts. We gave him these playing cards were the big hit lol He is Deadpool crazy. His bedroom is decorated with Deadpool stuff. I bought the playing cards as a stocking suffer, but it turns out he was thrilled. That's a great feeling. There's not, there's no better feeling than that. I can imagine then getting your child a gift that they just love. I, we just bought Charlie like IKEA, a little tent and like the tube thing,

you know, like the tube tent that he can get. But right. Yeah, like it's a kid tent, but it has the little like whatever thing that he can run through. You know, like, yeah, exactly. And he fucking loves it so much. He crawls through the little thing and he sits in there and lounges and reads his book and it's got a little window and Even that is a great feeling and he can't even like elucidate to me that I like this and this is great And it already feels good

Finally last review five stars from Jay amazing quality and detail must have Chris I think this is a one you'll love Deadpool himself would love these cards Chris, I think this is one you'll love. Deadpool himself would love these cards. They're on the cards. I already know this is going to annoy the shit out of me. Deadpool himself would love these cards. They're on the quality level of bicycle cards, and the designs are great.

The only thing that I was disappointed about was that they didn't have Peter as the face on any of the cards Hopefully they hopefully they do another deadpool card set and papa bear will get his due Who's who's who's alaini who? character in deadpool Rob delaney from jimmy kimmel live stand-up from jimmy kimmel live is that you're talking about I know him from his stand-up set on Jimmy Kimmel live. I don't say right Okay. Yeah, so why they wanted him to what's he in the movie? His name's Peter

And so this regular guy They're just a big joke that he's Deadpool's friend They're just a big joke is that he's Deadpool's friend Like so in let me explain it to you guys real quick and Deadpool 2 there's a scene where Deadpool gets a whole team together and they're jumping out of an airplane for some reason and They jump out of the airplane and all the guys in the gang guy Except Peter who is just some normal guy. Oh, yeah I I did see Deadpool 2 I just deleted it from my mind quick now Peter is in Deadpool

versus Wolverine Yeah, Deadpool Wolverine because he's so he he's like a character. So he's like important I'm dead. He's like Deadpool's right-hand man kind of but the joke is that he's not a superhero at all. He's super normal Is that's a day that that pool calm Papa bear sometime? Oh, that's cool. It is it's funny Yep, you guys I mean you don't know how good it is. You just haven't seen it yet So that is playing card guys. It was a lot of fun. It was very hard to prep. So yeah It just seems like mentally sort of tack the sing to go through these Conversations he's patting himself on the back. I am like I sing like oh I had to like do so much research and dig

So deep to get this he wants everyone to say oh, thank you Brian for doing the research So let's say a Brian. thank you so much for doing the research for the show. Thank you for going online, Brian. And thank you for making the time, as we discussed. You only have, I want to say, 14 to 15 free hours in a day. I don't know what I'm going to do. I got a lot to do after this talk.

In between Legos and videos and stuff. Yeah, in between Legos. What else do you get up to? What are some of the other stuff you get up to? sucking titties toilet logging Toilet for sucking titties started like that. Don't bring up titties and stuff We just got to the end of the episode They're embarrassing me in front of the guests

Yeah Well me in front of the guest. I mean, I could have guessed. Yeah. Oh no. Well, okay. Claire, this comes out on July 15th. Do you have anything you'd like to plug? I guess listen to the podcast that I'm on called Quaraders with the two guys. We love them. So you listeners might be familiar with that sort of aspect I

believe we've had both of those guys on our podcast as well I believe you have Alex and Jeremy I'm not really doing stand-up anymore so don't worry about that and I'm moving to Los Angeles at the end of July so maybe I'll be out there if you see me on the street Just give me a compliment on whatever expensive t-shirt. I'm wearing Also, don't do the cards thing in front of her don't like it Yeah, leave her alone if you got your if you got your cards to do that's too bad that you've I quit doing stand-up as well Claire, you know, it's it's but the thing about it, and tell me if you feel the same way, it's like, you know, you hang it up,

but you'll always be part of the brotherhood, and you'll always be part of the chosen few. I'll always be a card in that deck, as it were. I will always be a card in the deck of stand up comedy. Brian, you can go ahead and end the podcast now. That's the end of the show. See you all next week, and bye. Bye.