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The Iced Coffee Hour

The Pokémon Expert: THIS Makes More Money Than Stocks, Crypto, & Real Estate - Combined!

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.4786 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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0:00.0

Think about cheese.

0:39.9

Make your thoughts cheesier. Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipoplae sauce and amadea cheese melt, and it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's. Did we mention it's cheesy? Cheese. Available to the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m. Plus and participation may vary. Subjects availability. I am on a lifelong scavenger hunt looking for the next big toy. I think this will be the biggest transaction in pop culture history. There's been several in the 5 million range. Nothing like this. Yeah. So what determines value of a collectible? Scarcity is everything in collectibles. If you do not have scarcity, that is the death of a collectible. When I was a kid, there were baseball cards that were $15,000 that are now $50 million,

0:46.2

and you start seeing these things happen in other categories. Collectibles can be a great way to

0:51.8

diversify your portfolio. Why do so many collectors lose money?

0:55.2

Don't chase something just because other people are doing it.

0:57.7

It's just like a stock in that regard.

0:59.5

If you know more about the companies that you're investing in, you tend to do better.

1:02.5

What is the rarest and most valuable item you own today?

1:05.7

This case is holding the most valuable modern work of publishing.

1:13.2

This book was the most ever paid for modern work.

1:21.6

Jeremy, thank you so much for coming on the Ice Coffee Hour.

1:24.3

You've predicted and made millions on major collectible trends from

1:28.5

Pokemon, WWE, Squishmallows, NFTs, and so on. I'm curious, what is your biggest miss?

1:34.6

Oh, man. I've had a lot of misses. Okay, and I think that's the spirit of being an entrepreneur.

1:39.6

And most of my misses have been in businesses, not collectibles, because when you focus on your

1:45.0

collectible interests, you tend to do okay over time. You learn a lot, you become passionate about

1:49.5

something. Businesses, if you're investing in someone else's business, it's out of your control.

1:54.4

So I invested in a Groupon clone back in the day, and I lost $60,000, I think, in three weeks.

2:04.1

And to me, it was the amount and the time,

2:09.1

and at the time that I invested, the little amount of money that I actually had, those three things together made it for me one of my biggest misses. How is it so fast? Where does $60,000 go in three

2:14.8

weeks? That's right. It goes nowhere. Exactly. Who knows why they needed it in the

2:19.9

first place, right? Like, it's hard to gauge. The more information you have, the deeper you are in somebody

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