I haven’t seriously collected Pokémon cards since around 2001… and coming back to the hobby now feels absolutely insane. I was there for the original cards, the playground trades, the binders, the Game Boy games, and the first wave of Pokémania. I followed the hobby off and on over the years, but in 2017 I sold my original collection for basically pennies compared to what those cards are worth today. Now I’m jumping back in as a normal nostalgic collector — not a scalper, not an influencer, not a hardcore investor — just a guy trying to understand what happened to Pokémon cards. @WhiteBatAudio In this Off THE COUCH TOK livestream podcast, I’m talking about the current Pokémon card market, scalpers, crazy prices, sealed product, nostalgia, old-school collecting, modern sets, and what it feels like to come back to the hobby after growing up with  ...