0:00 lost all his points I'd rather be with the NFL football playing a ████ Pokemon these days though hey you got the money it don't matter anybody here a fan of Pokemon cards I don't know ████ about them I you know I actually looked up my value of like some of my cards yeah I hate them because I think all my cards are ████ useless why you don't got like a ████ good story no Charizards you know what's funny I remember when I was a kid when I was in karate class I was probably like five or no it's probably like six or seven Shotokan yeah I should have conquer ready the real karate yeah real ████ my boy uh I think I traded my ████ Charizard for like a much much uh the guy with the four arms why I don't know dude because I thought he was cool my chance because he had cool muscles yeah
0:50 I don't want this Dragon Ball yeah dude uh yeah one of the muscle guy I want a muscly one versus a hologram Dragon I think that ruined my my net worth I think I think there was a mistake that I made when I was a kid because he's like this sparkly dragon is kind of feminine I want the muscly one I was like the dragon doesn't have a six-pack bro like I mean it's kind of true um well so I got beef with it you were wrong um there was an NFL player who uh who quit playing recently and is now trading Pokemon cards and says uh he earns just about the same what just by trading Pokemon cards last November Blake Martinez quit the NFL to pursue his career in trading and selling Pokemon cards 29 year old Las Vegas Raiders linebacker announced his retirement on IG to focus on family and future passion good for him while he didn't reveal at
1:40 that time the exact reason why he was quitting uh because everyone's gonna make fun of him like d fans noticed that uh the NFL star dropped off one of the rarest cards in the world to a trading page um he made let me see backstory backstory backstory blah blah blah blah blah he used to trade Pokemon cards a lot when he was young and he like ████ loved it and then when he had to do um football like he like fell off of it but once covid-19 the pandemic happened he like that's also when Pokemon cards started going crazy again so he just got back into it um he said I lost track of collecting once I started playing football but years later uh covid-19 happened everything started to Skyrocket with trading cards I called my mom to see what I had left she told me the cards had either been thrown away or given away ████ ████ when I decided to get back into the Hobby and start recollecting keep my ████ two years ago yeah two years ago Martinez
2:32 quickly realized that he could make enough money from Pokemon cards to have it as a potential full-time job wow full-time job he realizes from twitch streamers and other streaming platforms doing these box breaks so box breaks include 36 packs of Pokemon cards all of which contain 11 cards each Pokemon FedEx bid on these cards with the hope of attaining to obtaining some rare uh fines though there is obviously no guarantee is it old gen cards though yeah yeah so so like gen sealed pass yeah you would get like a box of like 36 packs of like uh like generation whatever I think wow I think that the old cards were reprinted in what is considered a later generation but it's the same thing so it just depends on what you're capable of getting I'm guessing if you got ████ tons of money though you might be able to get the older stuff and you sit there and you live stream and then people are live bidding on packs before they open wow who wants this one and then people will
3:23 bid for it and then you'll live open it and then you'll just and the rare card's always like the second to the last one or whatever so you're always there's a way that streamers are revealing these things so he's doing that once people bid on those and like this is the one that you've opened and you showed and stuff like that then you'll actually seal the back up and mail it out to that person you should do that on JK maybe it'll save the channel honestly it's it's a fun thing let's do it bro to be honest I did all my isn't here into Pokemon unless there are Logan and you buy a bunch of fake Pokemon cards oh no try to sell the box and the guy's like even validate that this is a real box and it goes oh actually this is fake and lost like what wow millions of dollars is that what really happened yeah yeah didn't he or some YouTuber spend like 10 mil or some ████ on an nft and it went
4:13 to like two books oh that happened a lot of people didn't it yeah like the dragon eggs are still a pretty they're still pretty cool no I traded it for a match now because it has six pack so Martinez got involved in whatnot a retail Entertainment app where you can buy and sell a bunch of unique items he said we ended up doing a box break on whatnot and we turned 50 000 worth of Pokemon cards into a hundred eight thousand in the first show wow speaking on his new business adventure the former NFL player added I'd say I work at least 60 to 80 hours a week on this business whether that's looking for new cars on eBay to buy and resell or reaching out to people on Instagram or friends to find new Consignments that sounds 18 hours a week like if you're about that life like imagine if you're a gamer and you already spend that much time anyway playing games and you're getting paid for it but not only pay what you're paying you're paying ████ good she
5:05 said uh he revealed he sold a card at Golden auction for a stirring 672 thousand dollars wait this is one card one card must have been a macho it was for sure that must have been a six-pack of my child dude I still have that ████ card and that just you know for context that was over half of Martina's base salary with the Las Vegas Raiders which stood at 1.035 million and he says overall he earns about the same as during NFL days but he doesn't have CTE no more yeah that was it he he said he revealed another reason why I quit football and said the long-term effects of playing a high contact sport were definitely a factor in his decision those guys are all what a smart sensible person especially if you got something else that like you're ████ passionate about how cool and you actually like oh ████ you'd rather be with the NFL football
5:55 playing a ████ Pokemon these days though hey you got the money it don't matter he gets some cosplay girls now I know these days they got so many uh 60 70 hours anime and like Pokemon groupies and like because that's their generation they got some babies this generation nerd is in guys they're just I was just born in the wrong generation jocks are no longer the leading was it choice right it's toxic masculinity man right correct dude that's why I think it's cool as someone that was eligible for something like the NFL is also a power player in Pokemon it's crazy that the NFL distracted him from his passion yeah yeah yeah that's how good he was he's so good the NFL ████ distracted him he's like a Bo Jackson type but yeah with nerdy ████ can you guys make a career shift like that like would you be able to just go and do something for 60 80 hours when
6:45 you already established yourself doing something else is there something that you you don't do as your job that you could do for 60 80 hours that's what I'm trying to find is like what do I really like like for example um like also if you've already if you've already built like a a following and there's already some sort of like hype and then you also have money already to like get into things like that I think that there's options right you know what I mean but if you're like starting over from scratch that's different so like this I don't like doing anything for 80 hours no that's all I need variety dude yeah me too I need to do a lot well you wouldn't be necessarily doing like that one craft you might be doing like things around that industry in that field trading because I probably spent that much when I was opening up joombie because I had to but I mean it's not collecting Pokemons that's probably way fun variety driven people to do that if
7:37 you have too many interests I don't know I'm trying to think how you would even be able to do that I could see for example let's say um like stopping everything else and just doing for like uh irl's Twitch streaming or something you know what I mean because then like the IRL category is really just anything that you would normally want to do anyway it's just if you're already a social media personality then people are just down to follow whatever it is you do whether you go into gaming whether you're unboxing ████ whether you're just ████ uh reacting to some ████ whether you know what I'm saying you still have to have some sort of foundation platform to like have that be uh encompassing your life for 60 to 80 hours that's what I'm saying like based off of what he said it's kind of like would you be able to like Drop like what you're already at and it's like in this circle it's kind of people are already on social media and doing stuff like that it's like take
8:28 away like take away like barbell Brigade and like JK and he's still doing like yeah all of his like regular like surfing camera stuff but then now you can just like stream it and then maybe make a make a living off of that hypothetically I really like swimming and like any water ████ like ████ Scuba diving whatever but I think like you can't do that 80 hours a week 80 a week underwater for 80 hours a week that's what I'm saying is like how passionate are you to doing one thing live streaming is different though right like live streaming live streaming is like a that's a different game especially when you're like unboxing I feel like that's like gambling you know sometimes with gambling you could just be there you don't ████ have to eat because there's this like adrenaline oh yeah yeah like am I gonna get something and you're making money like when you're if you're on the clock and you're just constantly seeing money rolling I bet you you can sit there for a long time
9:20 you know what I'm saying for like 50 weeks though you know I might go to commit two three weeks what if you're making like ████ 20 grand a day like maybe you don't you'll get desensitized after a year I might need to take a break or something I think it's it's also that weird thing where like money doesn't necessarily like you'll you're just mine's gonna adjust yeah I think once 20K will just become the norm then it's no longer wow 20K yeah because I think think he's genuinely he loves that he loves Pokemon and then I'm I'm like I don't know if I'm obsessed with anything to that level to where I can do it that long because it doesn't sound like it's about them what if what if somebody's paying you like 10 to 20 000 per day and you just have to like screen porno that's that's too much bro but that's yup that's I'm not that passionate about it yeah but you're not like angry at it
10:10 either the thing with this guy is right it's not just that he has a thing he loves but he has an edge on it yeah he does that's the main thing there's there's an edge like if you don't have an edge it's different it's not fun there's something he knows that a lot of people might not and he's doing that edge yeah because I don't think I'm oh okay slash he's got access right right like if you have fifty thousand dollars to start on your first one day yeah that's your seed yeah you're you're in a different realm of like profits you know because he's already been making that while he's an NFL like getting that salary yeah like selling a car for like six hundred thousand dollars a step down from his other salary like that's okay you know what I mean that's a different totally different experience I would say like I don't know many people that have that kind of a passion towards something that they can just switch whatever careers but there's also the
11:01 conversation of like what you are in that industry like he might just be in the entire NFL just like another linebacker who's maybe like XYZ string or like only has so much on his contract whereas like you jump into like the Pokemon world so then that means his cards are worth more than his card [Music]
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