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Yakuza Lieutenant Arrested in Tokyo for Stealing Pokémon Cards

#pokemoncards#yakuza#cartel#charizard#organizedcrime
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0:00 I have a question like what is the dumbest thing you stole that you were like why did I steal that your mom's virginity [Music] oh anybody got uh their favorite organized crime syndicate that what is that like the cartel or something Mafia the cartel the cartel scares me it's not my favorite but I'm the most scared of the cartel it's most like relevant and real to us right cuz we're close to it in Southern California anytime I watch a show that's like cartel based I get ████ like oh my skin crawl dude the cartel was fun for me in like in high school but then like fun when you were were you it's fun cuz like you're like oh that's some like you just feel like some tough ████ you feel invisble you feel like you're not going to die like and then I started

0:50 seeing people die and then like like friends being kidnapped and stuff and I was like yeah this is not a game like it's real you know it's like close to you and ████ yeah and then I'm in Mexico my family members were like getting killed so I was like all right yeah I'm out family members killed by the cartel oh yeah yeah yeah I got family members that got like uh uh kidnapped which is why they're in America now I had family members that like were killed yeah big time like for ransom and stuff like no because like they were hanging out with the cartel they're being a part of it and then ████ got real for them and then just like you hit him with the loso yeah yeah I mean they're not like ████ close like you know huh no sorry I was just wonder you ask if he cried favorite uh criminal topic about

1:40 dude right now bro relax ████ open up right now dude no no I'm sorry I was just I was trying to make sure the topic yeah yeah yeah look I was I always thought that the swag of like you know obviously we love the pey blinders type ████ right there's too much swag there and like the the mob and what gentlemen but the reality always sucks more than the romantic but the mysticism and like the legend of like the Yakuza has always been really really cool to me I just feel like you know the way that they've been portrayed in like you know anime and cartoons and different cool things stories you know even even subculture topics and and the way that you kind of see like hints of what they are and like Kill Bill you know what I mean it's like there's always just this cool swagger about the freaking Yakuza right yeah except there's a this a really funny thing that recently happened there's actually a Yakuza Lieutenant who was just arrested in Tokyo

2:31 what for stealing Pokemon cards what shut up D cuz he is I have to catch them allc he's obsessed to catch them all yeah do do a Japanese accent go ahead oh get I have to catch I have to catch I like the after sound yeah yeah it's pretty good so the gutural noise that's my favorite ████ Ninja Turtle movie dur in Japan dud it's my ████ favorite the third one I love the third one was your favorite that was my favorite one off number one and Secret of the Ooze number two I like it a lot I'm sorry you like what you like like like the are you talking about like the old ones where they had like the like the rubber heads and stuff with the the movie yeah we're talking about with ████ oal in the beginning Casey

3:21 Jones oh guys yeah that's my favorite one dude that's my favorite one and they ████ the the Japanese going to America and then they are ████ learning to you know they're eating pizza and they're learning about music and they're ████ yeah my very Japanese dude they indulge in cultures but sorry just like like move the but what's a Yakuza cuz to me Yakuza was on Tokyo Drift Oh I thought it was fake what I thought it was a fake no it's the biggest criminal organization in the world with over like 100,000 members again in the world huh uh Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift that's what they talked about they were in there yeah yaku when it was yeah it was like Yakuza scenes yeah DK DK was like with the Yakuza or some ████ like that his uncle his uncle uncle yeah they didn't look they didn't look real though

4:11 you see ████ ass ████ little boww dude don't go that's yaku and I'm like calm the ████ down dog chill little yeah so talk more Yakuza Yakuza there it is there it is like a fancy ass jacuzzi dude so he got arrested for for for doing what with Pokemon cards again stealing them so I mean they make ████ money now yeah he was literally just arrested for a crime um including stealing Pokemon cards this uh 39-year-old k k saoo he is a 39-year-old KOMU or officer in the Takin nogawa family of Japan's second largest organized crime syndicate the sui Yoshi Kai Al so they're organized crime they're like Mobsters they're like Italian is it like the oh

5:01 okay okay I got you super smart yeah they uh they broke into a uh an office in the town of oano and saitama which is a prefecture bordering Tokyo yep my mom Liv in that area 29 pieces of property with a total value of roughly 252,000 Yen or $1,625 were stolen with the hall including 25 Pokémon cards $1,000 the Pokemon cards are just included in the hall that that's so funny I need a [Laughter] Charmander he's original it's the shiny y he sees the ████ package like Cham please CH he ████ flips the cars back first Expos it I got the first edition first edition

5:51 holographic those things are worth like Millions now maybe Charizard I don't know about Char Charizard I think that's one of the top Charizards are like such a ████ cartoon though like the boss is into like Pokemon cards they're all like sitting around having a meeting he's just like doing a hall yeah he just fing look at his cards I mean you know what's crazy though if you really think about it what if it's like one of these situations the Japanese Yen been ████ tanking right so so if you're going to be thinking about what's like valuable you're going to be thinking about what's valuable on a global scale USD so Pokemon cards are still going crazy like that yeah Pokemon I had no idea that do stop they're going to be like trading Pokemon cards on the streets now instead of like money they're be like you got that Charizard dude like why is Japan's economy tanking though why is it they're going to they're going through

6:42 deflation yeah we're going through inflation they're going through deflation that's good though right we could go to Japan with USD like 100 that's good for foreigners that's why the price difference is crazy right now that's why everyone's going to Japan you get meals for like three bucks dude I've been seeing a lot of people go to Japan yeah I'm with it that's why everyone's going but the people in Japan are like suffering right now cuz our economy is like basically tanking because everything everything to import is like twice as expensive now so like if if they don't fix the problem like their entire economy could collapse Jesus so does it help that we go over there and spend money I think that makes it makes I think they're still the third largest economy in the world though so even though it's not doing so hot right now I think they're still they still got a lot of money I feel like I never worry about Japanese people as a whole I'm like they're going to be fine they'll figure it out they could survive tsunamis they

7:34 got Honda they got Toyota dude nowadays a PSA 10 which is like a graded like highest level type of ████ Pokemon Charizard first edition ultra rare holographic blah blah blah doy sty doggy style is worth over $300,000 what still a lot of can you imagine as a kid you had that in your closet and you're like hey I just found this woo throw it away that's a sick ass a grade 9.5 is right under it's like 55,000 it's like laminated and everything but that's crazy like the idea of like a collector item a trading card what if you steal 20 what if this Yakuza knows what's up though it's they stole 25 cards they know something's up and they're all Charizards well 20 of them are ████ hologram rares you it's like stealing art like it's worth millions if you steal the right piece so maybe they know know like what they're

8:24 worth so they're like this is currency that's like Picasso for them this article did say it was worth only $1,600 still oh he's hunting this is not one of the rare ones he's out there searching it's fishing they can't all be it's called fishing it's not called catching it's called fishing he went specifically for the Pokemon cards or that was like a part of the for the sake of the story we're going to say absolutely it says he went specifically for the Pokemon C happened to be in the ████ my version of the story is that he was robbing for something else and then he just couldn't help himself cuz he's like Charizard he's like what if oh cuz he's got like a kid at home who loves Pokémon he's 39 what a nice guy he's kind of our generation Pokemon was popular back then you know might be very nostalgic for him still kind of popular today kind of absolutely that's so crazy you would have still know Pokemon cards no why not D you don't like Pokemon I would have gone straight to the register oh my God but what if what if

9:15 you're a big Logan Paul fan and you know like it it's worth a lot this Yakuza guy could have been like oh Rogan Paul he taught him about Pokemon cards you know hey you know how Yakuza will do you know how Yakuza will do that thing where it's like they got they they're in caho with the police right so sometimes they'll be like even though they know somebody else C committed the crime they' be like oh uh subin you're the one who committed the crime go to jail for a year on behalf of us right what if they're doing a whole racket what could what if they're like hey go steal Pokemon card go to jail for that ████ so it raises the value of Pokemon cards and I'll bail you out with that money we s they'll do that ████ you're talking crazy talk that's how Yakuza is dude they're organized like that you they a't going to just behead you they're going to ████ steal Pokemon cards when you talk about the Yakuza and

10:05 them going to jail on my head I'm like they can go to jail they can't just ████ you know they actually lost a lot of power yeah yeah like recently they made it illegal to be a part of a like you know how like we have Rico here and then they took down the mob with that they had something similar there where if you're a part of a Yakuza or organization then it's just just illegal to be a part of the organization oh okay just as long as you're in it you're you're like kind of like what happened with the uh MS13 over there at Salvador yeah but now there's crazier gangs popping up because like the Yakuza is like old school so they had like rules and dude they these guys had like headquarters with their logo like a corporation they really yeah they had like legitimate like buildings

10:57 merchandise dude with merch merch bro get some Yakuza merch bro they like who the who's the guy that pitched that and be like what do we need a logo success wasu a logo we the merch we stickers you know what you know what's also crazy is um there were specific like almost comic books have you tried there were like comic books of like dudes that would listen to the rumors of gang ████ and stories and then they would like add ████ was going down like this assassination happened this thing would happen they would just publish these things and people would follow up with the drama wow yeah that's tight like a Yakuza newsletter that's crazy well I have a question like what is the dumbest thing you stole that you were like why did I steal that your mom's virginity

11:49 oh moving are you a comedian dude how about you stop steing a third grader joke dude Jesus Christ [Music]

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