Rich Bartuc · PowerPacks Diamondhands Club

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[0:08]BetterCallZaal: Welcome, welcome to Better Calls Z Yap. Uh, I'm here with Rich Baruch. I hope I pronounce that right with the Power Packs Diamond Hands Club. Welcome to the podcast, rich. It is good to have you here. Um, how you doing today?

[0:22]Rich Bartuc: I'm doing excellent. Thanks for having me on the stream, z. Appreciate that.

[0:26]BetterCallZaal: 100%. 100%.

[0:28]BetterCallZaal: Well, we'll just have to get right to it because this is probably my favorite topic of the things I could possibly yap about. So let's get to it. Why and how did you, um, personally kind of get interested in, in GameStop and, and then kind of, uh, power packs or collectibles as a whole? Tell us a little bit more about yourself.

[0:49]Rich Bartuc: Yeah, I'll start with the collectibles since it predates GameStops. So, uh, you know about. 30 years ago or so. That's, that's kind of crazy to say. I, uh, I was walking by this, uh, card store and I'd never been in one before. And, uh. They had, uh, star Wars on the, the wall and match at the Gathering and, and Babylon five and Star Trek and, and some, some other games.

[1:15]Rich Bartuc: And, you know, I went in and checked it out and I saw Darth Vader in the case. I'm a huge Star Wars fan. And then, you know, the rest is history. I, I still have that Star Wars, uh, Darth Vader card. Signed by, uh, David PRUs. I don't know if you know who that is, but that's the actual guy inside the Vader suit in the original episode four, five, and six.

[1:34]Rich Bartuc: So, uh, so yeah. So anyways, after that, you know, uh, eventually got into Pokemon. Also played a lot of physical games. Nintendo, Sega, uh, played on the genesis, the the 32 wax, the CED, you know, the Game Cube, the Super Nintendo. Um, so if you can think of a game system, I pretty much played everything that came out between 1985 and 2005.

[2:00]Rich Bartuc: Um. And then from there, you know, obviously EB games, I, I, I was familiar with that, and then obviously GameStop afterwards. But, uh, I had never thought of it really as investment until 2020 when, uh, when Ryan Cohen, you know, put out his activist letter. Right. So at that point, um, I read through it and I said, wow, this is, this is kind of an opportunity.

[2:27]Rich Bartuc: Um, GameStop, he, I, I can't remember, 8%, 10% stake or something like that. At that point, I was like, okay, just based on market mechanics, that means, you know, he is reduced the supply, the the price has to go up a certain amount and, um. And so I got into it, you know, picked up some options. It was at three or $4 at the time, in, in, in 2020, Q3, Q4, um, and, you know, picked up some options.

[2:52]Rich Bartuc: Everyone was like, oh, buy these $15 calls. You know, it's gonna go to, it's gonna go to 20. And I'm like, ah, I don't think it's gonna go to 20. I mean, maybe I'll pick up these eights, these nines, these tens, but I don't, I don't think it's gonna go to 20. Um, and, and so it was like, you know. End of the year, whatever, it's 2025 and then January comes around and, uh, you know, had shares at, at $3, $5, $10, $15, whatever.

[3:20]Rich Bartuc: Um, and then January comes around and I'm just like, I. Okay. Um, it, they're starting to move a lot more. I didn't know anything about Roaring Key at that point. I knew some about Wall Street bets, but I, I really didn't pay attention too much Roaring Key at that time. It was all about Ryan Cohen watching his, you know, ex and seeing what we, what was going on with him.

[3:40]Rich Bartuc: And, uh, you know, we get into this, this interesting. Dilemma where the, the price of the stock goes up so much, you know, the Friday before January 28th and all that. And uh, you know, obviously at some point you're like, you gotta start selling. Um, so on Monday, uh, I was in this discord. We had thousands of people, uh, it still exists but in a much more diminished format.

[4:08]Rich Bartuc: But all these people were kind of retail investors. It was all going crazy and, um. And, and basically we were all just kind of guessing a little bit, but I, I saw that the volume. Was insane. And I'm a volume momentum trader. So the, I like stocks that trade 10 x 20 x, 50 x their, their normal daily trading volumes.

[4:31]Rich Bartuc: And when I see that, um, that stock can do amazing amounts because the turnover is so high of the stock. So basically the more you trade, uh, the underlying shares that are actually available, the faster you do that, the faster the price can move. I mean, that's just supply and demand, right? So. Not enough shares, um, left in the, in the hopper there.

[4:50]Rich Bartuc: So they just keep going, going, going faster, faster, faster. And so I pick up, I don't know, I think it was, I was like something insane. I was like, I'm gonna get these $80 calls, a hundred dollars calls on, on Monday, and it went from like a hundred to 120 in the next few hours. I saw a MC, it was around three or $4.

[5:07]Rich Bartuc: I was like, you know, I love GameStop, I love a MC. I was like, A lot of people are talking about a MC. I'll get, I'll get these a MC calls that are at $5 $6 and then on Wednesday it hits like 20 or whatever it is. And I make like, I don't know, uh, I, I don't wanna say how much I made that week, but it was seven, seven figures were showing and I started with, you know, five figures.

[5:31]Rich Bartuc: So it's, uh, it was a good week. It was a good week. And then obviously Friday happened. The, the, the buy button's gone. All, all that stuff. And it's just like, at that point, my entire world was almost shaken. My worldview had to change, it had to adopt, uh, a whole new worldview saying that the market, uh, is rigged in mm-hmm.

[5:53]Rich Bartuc: In some form or fashion. Right. Because how can you take the buy button off, not just GameStop, right. It was like 74 stocks. That had all gone wild or whatever it was that meme baskets some people call it now. And, uh, and so I was just, you know, a little bit in shock did I lose a little bit of money on Friday?

[6:12]Rich Bartuc: Sure. Um, was, was I, was I down over the prior day? Sure. Was I up for the week? Dramatically? Absolutely. Um, and so then, then, you know, over the next week, two weeks, you know, everyone's like, it's gonna come back. It's gonna come back. And then it just kind of stays dead. And then I'm just watching it and watching it.

[6:29]Rich Bartuc: And then in February, uh, of 2021, um, there was a tweet that happened, but I, I had been waiting and watching and I'm like, look, it went from, what was it, like four 50 down to 40? I'm like, it's a 90% drop. It's gonna pop somewhere around to the 30%, maybe the 50% mark, which means it would go to around a hundred to 150, 200.

[6:57]Rich Bartuc: And so I picked up these 50, $60 calls for like. Zero three. So basically like three bucks and they went up to $30, uh, $60. Um, it was, it was like, and $60 means 6,000, right? Yeah. So I put three and I, and I came out with, you know, $900, $2,000. Uh, it was, it was insane. So, um, that was the best day, uh, for me.

[7:24]Rich Bartuc: Personally, 'cause I, I had 300 extra turns, which means 30000%. Um, it, it was, it was pretty dumb. And not only is it dumb, I, I posted a day and a half prior what I was doing, so hundreds, if not thousands of other people copied my, my strategy. Yeah. And then they sold of course a little bit sooner than I did.

[7:46]Rich Bartuc: 'cause I, I had a specific target in mind, but everyone had just made a ton of money and it was all very, very exciting. So. Since 2021, we haven't really had any excitement like that. Um, last year, roaring Kitty came back and he got me back into GameStop. I had kind of got away a little bit. I kinda was, you know, focusing on, on some other endeavors.

[8:07]Rich Bartuc: But, you know, I took a few months off after March, April, whatever it was, um, in 21 and, and just kind of refocused on what I wanted to do. And so, you know. So some big things, some important things to me. Um, you know, financial literacy. I, I care a lot about that. I care a lot about educating people. And so that kinda leads me to, to back to May, 2024.

[8:34]Rich Bartuc: Uh, a lot of people, yet again, it's the same scenario. The volumes through the roof. It goes from $10 to $60 in the matter of a few weeks. Um, I make a bunch of money again on Thursday before it was announced that Ro Kitty was gonna go live on Friday. I picked up, it was almost like February, 2021 all over again.

[8:54]Rich Bartuc: I had, I had picked up thousands of calls, um, Thursday morning that expired Friday and the next Friday, and, um, it was yet again, something crazy. I was like, it was at 80 and now it's at 20. I think it's gonna go back to 30 or 40, and it goes back to 30 or 40. And, and yet again, it.

[9:15]Rich Bartuc: But, uh, but yeah, it was significantly elevated. So I say all that because this, this is what I, I've kind of got me into power packs. Mm-hmm. So, roaring Kitty, he's posting, you know, the what's in the box, memes, all these different memes, all this different foreshadowing. Is it real? Does he know anything that's coming?

[9:34]Rich Bartuc: Who knows? Uh. But what we do know is this, is that upon his return, the stock went insane. So whether he has, you know, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars, who knows, don't know that either, but we know there's some amount of either, uh, coincidence or, or Providence and he knows and he knows something, or he can do something that makes it looks just the same, so, mm-hmm.

[9:59]Rich Bartuc: Um, this leads me to power Pack. So basically Nat Turner comes on last year, October, November, and uh, and he's in the board. He doesn't have any shares. I know he gets some flack for that, but here's the thing, he's adding so much value. I mean, he's a

[10:16]BetterCallZaal: meer. It's great for the brand.

[10:18]Rich Bartuc: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, having PSA as a collectible company Yeah.

[10:23]Rich Bartuc: Associated with GameStop. I can't think of a better, of, of a better combination of names.

[10:28]BetterCallZaal: Yeah. Instead getting them into the digital age. Right. And making that in retail. Exactly. And so once they, not retail. Yeah,

[10:36]Rich Bartuc: yeah. I, I mean it, you have to get away from the physical locations to a large extent. It, it's great to have them.

[10:43]Rich Bartuc: They're, they're almost good for marketing from an aspect to keep you in the mind. But from a, from a profitability standpoint, everyone knows they, they're just not that profitable. So the grading came into fruition, and then they, there's a million cards graded at GameStop, and, you know, I tested out the process myself.

[11:00]Rich Bartuc: Very easy. Um, got a lot of tens back. I felt great about that. Put in, you know, nine, 10 cards, get three or four tens back. That feels good. Um, so tested all that did, and then they had these power packs come out. Mm-hmm. And that, I think that series one was, I don't know, February, March, April, some, something around that.

[11:19]Rich Bartuc: And I was like, that's a really cool concept, a PSA eight or higher graded card and a couple of packs. And I was like, you know, honestly, I had, I had been buying a ton of boxes after the whole. Um, you know, Nat Turner joined and I, I started looking a little bit more into Pokemon and picked up some Sergeant Spark.

[11:38]Rich Bartuc: Were

[11:38]BetterCallZaal: those physical?

[11:40]Rich Bartuc: What's that? Were those physical? What? What do you mean the boxes? Oh, the packs. Yeah. They had physical power packs. Interesting. I actually year

[11:48]BetterCallZaal: don't know about that. That's very cool.

[11:51]Rich Bartuc: Yeah. So the series one, uh, let me see if I can get the exact date. But they had series one power packs at GameStop.

[11:59]Rich Bartuc: Um, months before they had the trademark and everything. Here it is Friday, GameStop Power Pack Series One. Let's see if it has a launch date. StockX has, uh, usually really good information. It has series one on here. It has buck the bunny on it, three TCGB, uh, three CTG, three trading card game booster packs, uh, with a PC eight PSA eight plus.

[12:24]Rich Bartuc: So I, I don't have the specific time on here. I was trying to see if it had more information. Doesn't look like it, but, uh, I, I feel like, you know, based on what I remember, they were somewhere around the, uh, February to April timeframe. And, uh, so anyways, I, uh, I, I saw those. I thought it was a great idea. Um, you know, I pulled tons of packs, tons and tons of packs.

[12:52]Rich Bartuc: I spent thousands of dollars on, um. Trying to put sets together and things like that. And I was, I was really looking at the, the pull rate for a good card. You almost never break even buying boxes and opening them. So then I moved to buying boxes and storing them. Mm-hmm. And those boxes have gone up a hundred percent.

[13:11]Rich Bartuc: Obsidian flame, last year was a hundred bucks, another 200 bucks. It's like buy whatever set is a hundred, around a hundred to 150 bucks. That is two or three years old. That's kind of what I was doing, but I was like, that's, that's not really fun. Collecting a bunch of boxes. Isn't that fun?

[13:26]BetterCallZaal: Yeah, it makes

[13:27]Rich Bartuc: money, but it's not fun.

[13:28]Rich Bartuc: Opening,

[13:28]BetterCallZaal: opening the boxes is what's fun.

[13:30]Rich Bartuc: Way, way more fun. So then, so then, um, of course, you know, GameStop does the Bitcoin thing and then they do the offering thing. But you know, the whole Push Start arcade really caught my attention. I know it caught a lot of other people's attention, let's be honest.

[13:47]Speaker 3: Yeah. Right. What,

[13:47]Rich Bartuc: what is this all about? What's Buck talking about? Push Start, arcade. And so, you know, I, I, I have an article. I don't, I don't know if you've had a chance to really look at it or not. It's on my profile page. But, uh, it's 2,800 words way too long for someone to sit down and read and, and just look through, uh, all at once.

[14:07]Rich Bartuc: But if you take some time, it, it, it kind of goes through the timeline. So June 15th, literally right after earnings, they come out with this Push Start arcade initiative.

[14:16]Speaker 3: Yeah.

[14:16]Rich Bartuc: And, uh. People had all these theories and what it's about, and then they show, uh, buck the bunny with these power boxes and not power packs.

[14:26]Rich Bartuc: And, uh, and, and then I'm, you know, like I said, I'm just fascinated. I wanna be in the Push Start arcade. I love GameStop. I love gaming. Uh, it looks like there could be collectibles involved. You know, the PSA name, push Arcade, they're very similar. If you look up PSA, uh, on X, it's PSA card. It's so close to PSA.

[14:45]Rich Bartuc: With the arcade, it's like, uh, maybe. And then it turned out it was that. Yeah, there you go. So, um, it's got like 38,000 views. Um, so a lot of people read through it. It's got great information. If you wanna know anything about power packs, it's all in here. I've shared the odds. How do you make money on this?

[15:04]Rich Bartuc: How do you, how do you lose money on this? Um, at the time when I was going through it, I had spent $47,000 on power packs. Um. And right now I'm over 70,069. Um, but basically this is gonna be amazing for GameStop. The revenue Oh yeah. Has been the major, um, I would say hurdle that they've been trying to get over because if you look at it, um, they're having way more profit.

[15:32]Rich Bartuc: We all know that. But what they don't have more of is revenue because they've been optimizing on their stores and, and cutting and making money. So long story short, this is going to create insane revenue, this fire. I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's crazy. So,

[15:49]BetterCallZaal: well, yeah, I will definitely read, read it, yeah. In depth.

[15:53]BetterCallZaal: But I'm glad I could share a couple of the images.

[15:56]Rich Bartuc: Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty crazy. It's got everything in here that, that you kinda ever wanna know, but, uh, I call it the Greg, the GameStop Revenue Engine Generator. That's really what this is all gonna be about, because you can take a thousand dollars and you could basically do what a bank does and leverage it, right?

[16:12]Rich Bartuc: So you do a thousand, you spend a thousand on a diamond pack, okay? The worst you can do is 500 bucks. The best you can do. $16,000. Okay? So if you spend a thousand bucks, you can have $16,000 or you could have $500, but let's say you did, uh, the $500, okay? Then you put it back in, you buy a platinum pack for 500.

[16:35]Rich Bartuc: Now you hit a thousand dollars. Okay, now you're back to the same, but you're at $1,500 revenue for GameStop. But now you're back in the same spot and you're like, okay, I'm gonna buy another diamond pack. Now you're at $2,500 revenue this time. Yeah.

[16:45]BetterCallZaal: You're able to reuse the same money a lot of times.

[16:49]Rich Bartuc: Exactly.

[16:49]BetterCallZaal: Especially if you get lucky. Right? Right. Because most people that get lucky are gonna continue to spend it.

[16:55]Rich Bartuc: Right. And so what I did was I looked into some other companies that had, uh, a little bit more detail that had been around a little bit longer than this initiative. Obviously this started less than a month ago.

[17:06]Rich Bartuc: And so, uh, one of my friends, uh, dachshund Wizard hit me up. He said, you know, check out this other. He saw all the power packs I was doing. He is like, check out this other place. It's called Bey. And so I looked at Bey and checked it out and it's crazy what they have here. So on Bey, I don't know. Oh, here it is.

[17:25]Rich Bartuc: Here I can show you. So on Bey, you can actually see how many pools, how many swaps. How so this bey, by the way, you would love it. It's crypto based. Yeah, no, I've heard, I've

[17:39]BetterCallZaal: actually been to events that have been sponsored by Bey, so Oh man, it'ss awesome. I've never actually used their platform. Oh, it's so good.

[17:47]BetterCallZaal: It's so good. You can see how profile, tell us, tell us more about it.

[17:50]Rich Bartuc: Yeah, so, so Bey is just like power packs. It's not as, um. I would say it's not as easy to list everything. 'cause they have their own private marketplace. So you, you don't have access to eBay like you do with GameStop, but you get a choice $30 or 50.

[18:09]Rich Bartuc: It's not only, so that's the other issue. It's not only PSA, it's CGC. It's BGS. Oh, that's pretty cool though. Yeah. It's got like, it's got like everything, right. All different kinds. That's pretty cool. Huh? Tag. I got a lot of tag cards. That's what they did. Yeah. So this, these guys started doing the claw. I think January this year.

[18:28]Rich Bartuc: Uh, but yeah, because I'm, I'm a

[18:30]BetterCallZaal: big trading card game person personally. Right. Like, that's how I got into the whole GameStop thing in the first place. Um, yep. But yeah, like magic, the gatherings my, like, go-to and, and like I'm excited to start grading some of my magic cards as well and getting those slab back.

[18:47]BetterCallZaal: So,

[18:47]Rich Bartuc: yeah. So here's, here's what I want you to pay attention to on this though. This is what's really important. 53,000, right? One

[18:54]BetterCallZaal: sec. Let me make you a little bit bigger.

[18:57]Rich Bartuc: Yeah, no problem. Let's do that. There we go. Oh, so 53,000, right? Yep. That's an important number because that's all the, the clause that have happened.

[19:06]Rich Bartuc: So if you do 53,000 times $50, I mean, we can, we can, we can pull up, we can do math, right? Yeah. 53,000 times 50. It's $2.6 million since January. And this is, this is kind of like a homegrown, uh, custom. I met the. Like the founders and, and their marketing, they put millions and millions of dollars in this.

[19:28]Rich Bartuc: But, you know, $2 million, it's not a lot of money to some people it's a lot, a lot of money to other people. And then you can see 48,000 swaps, but the swap volume is, is a million dollars. So therefore, um. Outta the 53,000, the two and a half million. Let's just say it could be lower with the $30, but let's just say it's two and a half million at 48,000 swaps.

[19:50]Rich Bartuc: That means 48,000 people sold their cards back. Well just do the math on that. That's like 90% sell backs.

[19:55]Speaker 3: Yeah.

[19:56]Rich Bartuc: And then out of that, they got a million. Let's just assume they got 1,000,005. That means Beesy made a million bucks. Yeah. On top of that, they have to buy into what? Like how you fill your wallet on this.

[20:07]Rich Bartuc: Um, is also, you have to actually fill it up with crypto. You can only buy right now with crypto. It's the only, only reason. I don't do more of it, but if you go to your, like your wallet balance or whatever, you got your,

[20:17]BetterCallZaal: you just have all

[20:18]Rich Bartuc: this,

[20:19]BetterCallZaal: it's an embedded crypto wallet. Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly, yeah.

[20:24]BetterCallZaal: I mean, sometimes. Yeah, it sometimes it's also weird with gambling when like regulations I know with some blockchain things. So that's also probably why they might not have fiat, but maybe they just rock it. They're adding fiat very

[20:37]Rich Bartuc: soon. They told me in the next 45 days, and I'll jump back, but

[20:40]BetterCallZaal: right now, yeah, $54.

[20:43]BetterCallZaal: I could move some. Some of our, uh. Some of our crypto around for sure. So I'm excited to, to do a couple pulls. I actually, um, when I was doing some power pack pulls for our first episode, um, for that first one, um, someone in the crypto space that I've been watching for a bit sent me this thing called vibe.market, where Vibe Market you can open packs as well and it's like their own kind of style of collectibles and a lot of different.

[21:14]BetterCallZaal: Creators and independent artists have, you know, been added to that marketplace. So it's pretty cool to kind of see other, other people kind of like getting into this kind of same style of like, you know, collectibles, but like that PSA grading and then like this having like other grading opportunities.

[21:31]BetterCallZaal: Mm-hmm.

[21:31]Rich Bartuc: Really cool. So if, if you think about that for a second, 90% right are, are getting swapped, which means you could theoretically do 10. 10 polls and generate 10 times the revenue and you could just be swapping over and over. So, ulus, um, if he's listening, ulus is a great guy. He shared with me. He did over 1300 pulls.

[21:53]Rich Bartuc: He actually had more pulls than me, uh, but his vault was around 80 to a hundred, which means he put back 1200 cards, whether he sold 'em on eBay or he sold 'em instantly. That's, that's, that, that takes us right back to that kind of 90%. And I was like, for me, like I, I, I love collecting, so I've pulled over 1400, but if you look, this is just all my pikachus.

[22:15]Rich Bartuc: I have 11 Pikachu exes. Uh, but if you look, I have. Over 1,064 right now. Yeah. In the vault. So it's like, I'm not really following that model, which is probably putting a little pressure on GameStop because they probably weren't expecting anyone to hold a thousand of these in their vault. Really? Everyone should just be gambling, right.

[22:33]Rich Bartuc: Or, or collecting. But by selling it back and trying to collect exactly what they want, that's, um, I I, they, they're probably not expecting anyone to just hold everything, um, and, and sell very little, but. But that's what I'm doing. So, um, got some really great cards. Um, I've done diamond packs, I've done platinum packs, I've done it all.

[22:57]Rich Bartuc: Um, I actually really enjoy the starter packs because you get some, uh, some very interesting, um, pulls. Now they give you card ladders so you can kinda see. It's like you go onto here, you can click on it, you can see all the last five sales, you know, 1,050 7, 58, 55. This is really where it gets crazy. You can list right your cards on eBay, but guess what account you're listing on?

[23:25]Rich Bartuc: You're listing with a PS a account. Yeah. I'll zoom in on that. The PSA account 160,000, so. No, like imagine that you get instant access to the best sales platform for your eBay, and you're paying the same fees that you would normally pay. It's like insane, right? Yeah. Somebody could buy your card with Klarna, you know, you could, you could buy this peek at you right now if you'd like, for 12 69, 69, 70 $8 a month, 6,000 population.

[23:57]Rich Bartuc: But they've done some really great stuff. Um, and so. You know, wh why do I like power Pack so much? Why have I spent so much money? Um, you know, I, I, it's because I, I'm, I enjoy it, right? It's fun, I like sharing it with people. I like talking to people about it. Um, and that's really what connected us, right?

[24:17]Rich Bartuc: You were, you were into a pool or something and I think I responded. I was like, you know, great pool, and then look instant. Community. Right. Instantly. Exactly. Like this. This is such a social activity. You wouldn't think, hey collecting. 'cause normally you buy a bunch of packs mm-hmm. And then you're like protecting your cards.

[24:36]Rich Bartuc: 'cause someone's gonna touch 'em and mess 'em all up.

[24:38]Speaker 3: Yep.

[24:38]Rich Bartuc: But now you could pull these, you could share it on social. Nobody's touching your cards. They're already encased, they're already protected. It, it, it takes the, it takes the, the, the, the fear of, oh, somebody's gonna bend my car, scratch my card. Nick my card with her fingernail and it turns it into, Hey, check this out.

[24:58]Rich Bartuc: Check that out. Check this out. Check that out. Yeah. The risks

[25:00]BetterCallZaal: of the physical reality, right? Like, yeah, anything is possible. It could get lost in the mail, right? Like, yep. Yeah. Then it's like it's a one of one, right? Like there's not other cards that they get just like send you another, no. Like if it gets lost in the mail, it's kind of lost, right?

[25:17]BetterCallZaal: Like, whoa, what happens? That,

[25:19]Rich Bartuc: uh, yep.

[25:20]Speaker 3: Yeah. So,

[25:21]Rich Bartuc: so if, if you check it out, there's this power packs, um, x account. If you haven't joined it yet, you should join it. Um, follow it. Yep. See what's going on. A hundred percent the, look at this, look at these people being crazy right here. This just got posted six minutes ago, so I haven't even seen it yet.

[25:38]Rich Bartuc: I was trying to show you something else now on displaying the arcade. Ryan Cohen's underwear. I saw, I saw it when we were going through the video. It's great. Uh, that's funny. Which grade? Anything Nat Turner says. So I guess, uh. I guess he's gonna, he's, he is already graded it. I don't know if it's a 10, maybe you got a nine, who knows.

[25:56]Rich Bartuc: But, uh, no, it, it, it's a really cool account, right? Yeah. So if you check this out, they actually have one of my, my broadcasts on it, right? They only have, I don't know, 22, 22 23 posts, but they, they actually reposted this and, um, it has 11,000 views. It was really nice of 'em. And then, you know this over here, I, I pulled a shining terrain tar.

[26:22]Speaker 3: Wow, that looks beautiful.

[26:23]Rich Bartuc: Yeah, it was sick. And uh, and this was back like two days after they started, a day after they started and they posted that and I was like, oh, that, that's awesome.

[26:34]BetterCallZaal: That, that is cool.

[26:36]Rich Bartuc: So, uh, you know, Aaron Milan Vega, I always call him out roaring sensei. He's great for GameStop. He's been posting nonstop.

[26:44]Rich Bartuc: He's, he's in a, a, a GameStop evangelist, uh, power packs evangelist. Great guy. Um, but yeah, so, so basically. You know, power packs, diamond Hands Club. Uh, you can see that, that's kind of in my, in my little stream profile here. It, it's just a, it's a small community right now, 300 people. It's just people really in the beta talking about how the beta works, understanding things, you know, sharing what they've learned, sharing the bugs, getting it ready to go for release, but.

[27:15]Rich Bartuc: I really see this as a catalyst for revenue and obviously for profit as well, for for GameStop, but really a massive revenue, um, generator. So really looking forward to, to seeing what the earnings look like from, you know, the Bitcoin, uh, appreciation that happened, uh, last quarter, the switch to sales. The, uh, the day or, or two of, of, uh, power packs, but Q4 earnings is gonna be, you know, that's gonna be when it, yeah, yeah.

[27:48]Rich Bartuc: I mean it be

[27:48]BetterCallZaal: all of beta at least, and then maybe more, but even if not, like, kind of coming into this, uh, you know, yeah. Christmas, it's gonna be pretty nuts. Hopefully, hopefully it's open to the public by then and everyone can, you know, you can share it out, share out a link and anyone can rock it out.

[28:07]BetterCallZaal: Right. So. Yeah, I'm excited. I still, I, like I said, I still need my account. I need access. I'm excited to, to rip open some packs and, uh, and play around with it. But, uh, yes. Yeah, that's a awesome story. I love hearing it. Um, it was really cool. Um, I see someone said, uh, very interested in seeing game earnings.

[28:28]BetterCallZaal: Gotta be good. So. Yeah, no, it's gonna be a blast over the next little bit. Uh, I pulled a Drake May card and I'm a big New England Patriots fan. I grew up 10 minutes away from Foxborough. Um, and I've literally been to like a preseason game. I've never been to a regular season game, but like we've been to like the Foxborough Stadium mm-hmm.

[28:49]BetterCallZaal: Many more times than like, I can count for like, you know, movies and just like a couple buddies lived around there. So it was just like a local place that you could walk around. So being able to like. Collect that, like potential, like our future franchise qb, like it was a nine. So hopefully at some point I can snag a 10, which would be really cool.

[29:08]BetterCallZaal: But like mm-hmm. Being able to snag that was a, was a pretty cool goal for me personally. Right. Like I'm gonna get that slab physically and probably, you know, keep it here. Right. Like that's probably my goal. So Yeah. It'll be awesome.

[29:21]Rich Bartuc: Mm-hmm.

[29:22]BetterCallZaal: To see what else we can get.

[29:24]Rich Bartuc: Agree. I totally agree.

[29:26]BetterCallZaal: Yeah. So my last question for you will be like maybe.

[29:30]BetterCallZaal: Give us your top two or three favorite cards that you've pulled so far, if you, uh, if you have 'em there.

[29:39]Rich Bartuc: Yeah, absolutely. Um,

[29:42]Speaker 4: let's see. So let's go with the one that's the hottest first.

[29:48]BetterCallZaal: Okay. Uh,

[29:49]Speaker 4: yep. So let's go with 2 32 mu EX. Um, this, this, I would say has been my most profitable pull, UEX. Let's see. There he is.

[30:08]Speaker 4: So

[30:09]Rich Bartuc: when I pulled this card. You can see right here it says $500, right? Yeah. This card currently is going for, um, the last one, just one for 2200. 1800. 1800. I sold it two weeks ago for 1669. 69. Um, but when I pulled it, it was only worth $1,100, but I saw it was on a massive uptrend, right? Massive uptrend.

[30:35]Rich Bartuc: Like what, what kind of. Asset like this appreciates a hundred percent Yeah. Two or three weeks. Like it, it, it's just crazy the amount of trades that's happening around this card. So I figured I'd share that. It's, it's beautiful. Perfect. Yeah. Yep. So I'd say that has been my number one card I pulled from a, uh, enjoyment standpoint, upside standpoint.

[30:59]Rich Bartuc: There's a expedition firo here. This one, um, I actually sold back to GameStop for 1343. They're saying the card ladder values, it's 1200. Uh, there's one over here saying 1500. But yeah, this card came out in 2002. It's a PSA 10. It's a, it's pretty beautiful. Uh, I spent a thousand dollars, this is a diamond pack pool.

[31:23]BetterCallZaal: Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah. Yep.

[31:25]Rich Bartuc: Yep. Um, let's see. I pulled a, uh, what's another good one? A charr. I can show you a charr. I got a couple of those. Um, so this one's a PSA four. Look. Look how beat up this card is. PS a four just, just demolished. I think I, I picked it up off of a hundred dollars pack or something like that.

[31:51]Rich Bartuc: And then, um, oh, here's another great charge. This is also from the, the, the m that over here. That's beautiful. 1 51. I love that

[32:01]Speaker 3: image. Yeah.

[32:02]Rich Bartuc: It's just, it's such a great image. Yeah. And then, uh, I got a much better PS A eight char art here. Much better. Uh, you can still see it has a little kind. Marks from the holographic, but on the front side pretty much perfect.

[32:18]Rich Bartuc: Had a couple nicks on the back and that's really what took it down. Um, and then one of my favorite Korean cards that I pulled, uh, let's see.

[32:28]Speaker 4: Hospitality. There we go.

[32:34]Rich Bartuc: This was a Korean one. Uh. Erica's hospitality 20 19 12 55. This was also out of a, it was the first card I pulled

[32:46]BetterCallZaal: for a trainer. Why? Do you know why it's so valuable?

[32:49]Rich Bartuc: Well, yeah, let's that, that's a great question. Why? Why would Erica's hospitality be so valuable? Well, let's go take a look. There's 14. There's 14, uh, and it's Korean, so it's hard to find. Erica's hospitality is already a sought after card, but there's only 14 of them. It's from 20 19, 6 years ago, there's not gonna be a whole lot more of these to be found.

[33:12]Rich Bartuc: Card looks beautiful. Um, and then I, the card I think has the most upside, uh, but it's the most, uh. Niche card is gonna be, uh, this rare candy. Um, you know, one day maybe I'll sell it to the rare candy people, you know, but, uh, I don't know if you're familiar with them, but they sell a lot of stuff. Uh, but this rare candy I pulled

[33:35]BetterCallZaal: that's beautiful

[33:36]Rich Bartuc: is, yeah, it's from, it's a first edition.

[33:38]Rich Bartuc: Reviving legends, Japanese, I've looked everywhere, can't really find anything else. Like it pulled it out of a platinum $500 pack and, uh.

[33:48]BetterCallZaal: That's

[33:48]Rich Bartuc: cool. If we go look at the cert number on this one, um, it's even crazier, right? So we have 20

[33:57]Speaker 3: from a 2010.

[33:59]Rich Bartuc: Yeah. So there's, there's, there's no more of these that are ever gonna be graded.

[34:02]Rich Bartuc: I mean, there's still a chance that the Korean ones since 2019, but this is, this is 15 years old and, um. I, I've seen a couple of these go around, you know, a hundred dollars, $150 ungraded. But, uh, but yeah, I seriously doubt you're gonna see, 'cause it, it's just really hard if you look at it. This, this is a pretty tough one to actually, um, grade just because of the, the holographic actually goes past the, uh.

[34:32]Rich Bartuc: The border here. Yeah. So you can see it's, it's, it's all around. But yeah, just a great, great card, I think. I think it has a lot of value. I saw a, uh, I think it was a, so silver. Um, one going for 3000 on eBay. Also a rare candy. So I, like I said, I think it's, it's some, you have to find a collector that collects rare candy and then maybe you'll have a chance to, to do something with this.

[35:00]Rich Bartuc: Yeah. Otherwise you're just gonna have to hold on to it. Yeah. But, uh, but yeah, so I mean, a lot of great cards. That's pretty cool.

[35:07]BetterCallZaal: No, that's awesome. Thanks for sharing. That, that I love it. Like, uh, that's a cool list of, uh, some of those awesome cards and I'm sure there'll be a lot more in the next, uh, next few weeks slash months.

[35:21]BetterCallZaal: So, um, dude, it was an awesome having you on here. Like I learned a lot actually. Um, I'm excited to check out some more of your streams now, um, and tap in over there and, uh, and hopefully connect again in the future and we can chat a little bit more, uh, about where everything's going.

[35:41]Rich Bartuc: Absolutely. Zah, it was great to be on.

[35:42]Rich Bartuc: Thank you for having me. And, uh, talk soon.

[35:46]BetterCallZaal: A hundred percent. Thanks everyone for joining. Uh, appreciate everyone in the comments.

[35:50]Rich Bartuc: Cheers. Have a good one.