Hello and welcome back to TheCraftPogs. My name is Brandon. Today we are on episode 44 of the Pirate101 walkthrough. Today we are in Miranda to do this dungeon. So yeah. Okay. Let's do this.  He's gonna be like nup. That's cool. Okay. Let's go Annabelle. Okay. Whew. Getting a bit spooky. Okay. So last episode, if you don't recall, we got El Toro. We found out we got Captain Blood's hand so we can play his cards. We also spoke to Death. That all happened last episode. Really? Wow. That feels like such a long time ago. I need to and it's down. This is way too loud for me. Okay. That's better. So yeah. If you haven't gone and checked out last episode, go do that. Playlist link is in the description as well. So if you haven't checked out any of the previous episodes you should. So yeah. That was good. Double mega. That's amazing. But nice. Wow. So yeah. This episode might be a bit longer but you know. We're close to finishing which is good. Did it did it did it did it did it did it did it. Bum bum bum bum. Okay. Let's go. Blah. Baa baa Baa baa baa. Okay. That was good. Bap. Nice. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. don't hit me no stop I don't lack of these why is everybody on me this is not fair obviously you just want me to do this and all this damn it I can't even do it why game why do you do this to me actually I can sweet there we go but but nice damn it first but yes he's dead nice that was good amazing good wow what cheeky that was good sweet okay one left and he's like nearly dead as well so that's perfect done perfect okay let us head on woods okay already dying no this is not good this is one of my favorite places I love the tenon music and cool ranch and this one's even better because it's all slow and broken stranger this table is still occupying the game's not finished you want to finish the game very well you'll need to bring a missing hand of cards back and play them I know where they are all of them to find the first head back to the general store at the edge of town find father Ryan he holds the first card I thought it was internet issues but it wasn't it was fine it just took a second to update that I actually did get the quest I don't know I don't know what does what that means oh my god so many side quests what you but not one of them I can see the virtue in your heart I don't know what black magic captain blood snare to sin but it's clear his cards are the key I'll give you the card I found if you help me bloods pirates ripped my prayer book to pieces without those prayers I can't give the last right to these poor souls the pages from my prayer book are scattered all over bring them back to me and I'll give you this card okay I just want to see what these quests are to see whether they would give decenter Shakespeare and we need to hit on in and then we are good you're as good as your word pirate and so am I here is the card now I must pray may you walk a righteous path there are four more cards to find let's get back to the dealer okay that is good well not really good but you know what I mean hmm and this we've got one down one of the five here we go back inside welcome back stranger ready to play that card no captain wait you will not play these cards captain blood will we'll see about that you have one card time for the next when El Toro defeated captain blood he buried the pirate in a shallow grave mr. Hockley one of the mutineers is waiting near that grave for you he holds the second card you seek okay second card yeah we were just over there he's like over this way he needs quister when you know where you're going you know he's right over here here he is perfect but there's something he's doing first we organize the mutiny I said to him his shipmates to wait in caves were supplies I never came for them they die waiting for I won't have their souls trapped in this vile place give their bones a decent burial in the cemetery I'll give you the card when you're okay let us head off but nice where are we going down this way I don't even know where these guys are down here that's right we see other one where is the other one this way well okay then cemetery perfect okie-dokie let's get off I should have gone the other way oh well oh well it's fine just a bit longer my navigation skills a mariner so bad I haven't been here for so long okay you are here you've seen to me mates I thank you for it here's the car three you left let's see where the next one is okay let's go back and find the next one next one next one next one where is the next one I think the next ones in the mines if I can remember correctly but I'm not sure not all the cards ended up in friendly hands captain bloods bosson found one and has kept it close to his dead chest ever since bosson bud is hiding in the old mine near town he's dead set on keeping his card away from anyone except captain blood you'll have to take it okay what's the cyclist hey you go deal with these criminals in no uncertain terms bring me their eye patches as proof of your progress okay I'll do those all of us will be done off-camera you do realize that right hopefully anyway let us go and defeat and collect this card in the mines in Z mine but better better better better better better better oh my god it's a wee little jackrabbit so it will jackrabbit okay there's a yum that we need you know just just an evil sound be near cup in my cup in the deepest part of his mind we should find what we seek okay might as well just get it as we're going through okay let's go find this evil soul of bosson okay let's go fight me fight me fool fight to me fool you know you want to bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum okay it's crazy we've got like three buffs to start with that's pretty good nice there we go perfect that's no crit that's upsetting oh yeah that's right he puts out starfish bombs not like I would have gone over them anyway you know but oh well and they all like grow so you know when they're gonna explode it's kind of cool but like really weird at the same time oh they're in a line that's perfect we can do cheeky one of you do you we can do him and you can do him sure done bat bat bat bat bat nice that's really good okay really don't dodge that's cheeky nice really day one down I should hope no no you just getting one knock down block yes thank you block yes thank you block yes thank you man I love El Toro block no okay that's fine block really bat bat bat bat nice okay these starfish are really unnecessary and just stupid okay what can we do you know I'm just gonna it's gonna have fun shooting the shooting these guys actually know what you can go on home done okay that's good well that was good really super nice El Toro nice okay um tournich I think they're about to explode nice here we go that was good okay blah blah nice let's go find out where the next one be yeah maybe I should start election no we can't even mark in this place so I was gonna say maybe I should start marking but you can't even mark I don't think anywhere in Miranda because it's a dungeon which is a bit stupid oh well oh well what are we doing next I don't even know where the next nose yawning there I'm a bit tired okay let's go up this way back to the car dealer only two cards remain stranger to get the next you'll need to find the only living soul in Miranda besides you and your crew that is a gambler named Pikmin wandered into Miranda while back drawn by the legend of Bloods cards he found one maybe he'll give it to you look for him in the old bill he's close okay I like how he knows exactly where all the cards are it's kind of kind of weird but you know you know it is one of those can we like you we can go across yeah that's good okay hello captain bloods cards they're not worth it friend have you seen the hideous things walking around in this place I managed to find one card but then the dead they trapped me here there's no way I'll make it to the docks I'm a goner for sure you look a tough sore if you can clear me a path to the docks I'll give you the guard what do you say really really why would you get stuck here a few man okay let's go facing the tips what a virtuous blades drive back the darkness the way is open Pikmin gonna skip thank you captain you've saved my worthless soul here's the guard my advice to you is get rid of it as soon as you can you're almost ready stranger only one card left captain bloods last card lies buried under the ashes of a farmhouse not far from here into this game's been a long time coming good luck stranger okie dokie I'm back I just had to rest up my game for some reason I don't even know I don't know not even gonna question it it's weird okay but we're gonna dig up the last card now so yeah let's go let go let go let go yeah it's right here let's game and for that to take him do he's got he's got to peer which oh there's a gravestone do we care there that's done can you feel it I think we brought peace to one of the tormented souls of this place okay that is lit so yeah what we're gonna do actually wait a second wait a second we're gonna get help actually driver I think I have a potion I'm just gonna use that sweet okay here we go I'm waiting to be finished here you brought the missing cards back to the table players here one is the other will be here directly I expect captain place bloods hand upon the table time for the showdown what's this what's this too late captain the cards are played by your own hand two pair aces and ace death's flush wins and you captain blood you lose me and ha cheaters thieves I'm not lost yet someone still has to kill me who's going to do it this pirate here this well this well did not come alone El Toro is that you you look different if I look bigger it is only because your evil has shriveled you down to nothing today you meet your end how about you okay whoo that's cheeky let's do this I have been preparing my whole life for this battle hey share haven't you're okay yeah we're just gonna go for a normal normal setup you know just just let's just do this he's gonna summon his flame yep I actually forget how you meant to defeat this kid I think you have to kill captain blood first but I can't remember there was like a secret way there's like a way I'm just gonna get captain blood out real quick I don't even know you know I don't even know I assume we have to kill captain blood I know he keeps respawning the minions so I think you have to kill them but I can't remember it's been so long and if I do it on my wish to do the farm for the road it's like really easy because it's got like no health compared to what I can hit it's like two hits okay at least we're doing quite decent damage on them okay I think just focusing on kept in blood will be good really dodge that's cheeky okay he's gonna keep summoning those flames okay so what we need to do I'm just gonna take take charge of that opportunity you know let's just do that done okay that's good nice yeah he's really half health that's good that's really good okay okay chill bill lost no that's fine yeah that's fine yeah he's dead okay captain bloods dead which is good now we can just focus on these bad minions that's good I think that's how I did it last time but I'm not actually sure because I don't remember there being this many so I think I might have killed captain blood last I don't know I don't know I suggest focusing on him first because these minions aren't that good and they all like clump together so you can just like hit them real close together you know but I'm not sure how that last time but that way works because these minions aren't that good as I said like a billion times I know brain you just need to chill I understand let's just do that you can hit him you can go on him and I don't know I don't know just randomly but but but but amazing lap nice good really dodging geez which doctors dodging what is this okay he's nearly dead that's a lit okay I think last time I did this as well I was like it ended up being just me which was a bit bad like me this kept in blood that was that was interesting yeah okay now we want to do this and get those three out done okay let's see how this goes one down he's gonna be dead no El Toro can't do anything that's unlucky the only problem is these are all range like I would be so good because El Toro could block these things but no that's fine okay chill that's nice okay four lift and we're not really dying which is good actually you can get him done nice here we go that's what we're talking about yeah one more no okay that's fine really I need to give couple senders burst fire next time he gets an epic oh El Toro might die El Toro is nearly dead El Toro died no El Toro I love you you can go on him you can go on him you can go on him and done of course I would wouldn't I yeah I would bother physical that's fine that's fine then pet go boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom okay done that should hopefully kill him nice there we go if I get the robe I'm gonna be so salty just saying did I last last chance goodness all of that's over why these even maniacs continually think they can hoodwink me and get away with it never understand thank you captain well done you've done me quite a favor off you go then oh don't worry we'll meet again take your time we've done far more than that do try to tidy up a bit before you go there's one thing I can't stand its mess there's someone with you Sabatini finally hey yay level nice okay um so I'm gonna end off the episode here in between episodes I will defeat these eight go ships let's just talk to Bartender Jake okay so thank you for watching I'm remember to leave a like and subscribe if you want more and if you've already subscribed press the bell so you know exactly when next episode comes and in next episode we will be finishing cool ranch with a epic fight right at the end that's a surprise to everybody who hasn't played the game and really surprised me when I first finished so yeah thank you for watching and remember craft outside the box


Welcome to the new series does your favorite youtuber know his Yu-Gi-Oh card prices now This is a new series that I came up with it's not all gonna be Yu-Gi-Oh youtubers We might have some Pokemon youtubers and as today there's someone that's neither He's just a commentary youtuber Jarvis Johnson Jarvis Johnson is a former software engineer turned commentary youtuber with nearly 2 million Subscribers he is well known for his hilarious reaction style videos as well as his internet battles with content farms such as five minute Crafts today. We find out if he knows his Yu-Gi-Oh card prices. What's up guys? We're here with my first ever episode of this new series, which I'm pretty sure I named early and already forgot the name So we're getting into it with Jarvis Johnson Jarvis. How you doing? I'm doing good. I'm excited You told me the idea for this and I couldn't wait to play. I'm not that I'm gonna do good Now they're gonna do well, but I think I'm excited to play first of all We're gonna be asking you 15 different questions based on the course. It's the same question every time What is this card valued at? I'm gonna show you 15 different cards you as a somewhat Yu-Gi-Oh enthusiast I mean you're your collector and all that stuff. Yeah, you're not a Yu-Gi-Oh youtuber, but you're close enough, you know I'm around. I'm around. I again I have my little spots We were talking about this earlier like I have my areas of expertise and none of those though is usually the raw prices of cards So so I'm curious to see I think at first I'm gonna have to calibrate even like what does a Yu-Gi-Oh card even cost And then we'll go from there. Okay, so we're gonna do 15 questions The idea here is that you stay as close to the actual value as the value is So if it's a $15 card and you guess $15 you're right on if you're anything around that like 20 you're gonna get five points So your points are gonna add up as we go We're gonna have a meter on the screen so you guys can see you want to stay within percentage points of the total value Which sounds confusing. We've got a graph on the screen It's not gonna be if you keep it within 25% of the total value at the end you will win $100 for the audience That's you audience You keep it within 10% of the total value out of all 15 questions You went $250 giveaway for the audience five percent $500 yeah, we're getting insane and if you go absolutely super say in god mode or whatever and get within 1% somehow $1,000 giveaway, so I hope you do that at some point, you know you or somebody else I know I hope I don't let your audience down. I hope I can win them some money Just please give within 25% don't mess up. Yeah, I really mess up your bank account Last thing before we actually get started with the questions There are three lifelines for Jarvis. You'll be able to activate these at any point during the 15 questions I'm gonna let you know now. I haven't told him these yet. So let's just see what you think The first one tell me which amount tier I am in so there will be three tiers the tiers are One to $100 value. There's going to be five questions in one to $100 There's going to be five questions in tier two $200 to $250 and then there's going to be five questions in tier three of 250 plus dollars I'm grabbing a pin just so that I can Yeah, you can write down take notes do everything you want to do Your lifeline will be if you just ask me. Hey, am I in tier one two or three? Like which amount range am I in that'll give you kind of a hint on what to guess So that's my first lifeline lifeline number two will be lower or higher you get to put a benchmark You say any number you want and I'll tell you if it's below or above that number Okay, and the final one will be you want to redo you want a new question from the same tier If I ask you and you're like I have no idea You just ask me for a new question. It's going to be the same tier as you had before I just have a second backup question for you. Okay. These are great These I can't believe you put this together today. It already seems so well thought out I don't know how it just came to me. How's all this going? Well, see if it works out or not. We don't let's not phrase anything yet question number one Jarvis. Are you ready? I'm ready. I'm ready 15 questions. You got to keep it close. All right The first one you told me right before this that you opened one of these recently. Oh So it's from a set you just opened it is dark magician girl Megaton or mega pack 2022 first edition near men. Okay mega pack dark magician girl So if memory serves from looking at the little price guide on tcg player, obviously, this is one of the money cards Obviously, it's dark magician girl. You know, um, it's a fan favorite It is one of the many reprints, you know, they're never gonna stop But there is a premium on cards like this. There is indeed. Yes. What do you know about the megatons? I know the megatons. They're all reprints.   It's a reprint 10. So what does that mean? What exactly does that mean here? Well, what does it mean? Yu-Gi-Oh cards are expensive It's expensive to build decks, especially meta cards, especially staples that you're gonna need like for example The forbidden droplet so when those things come out and they become meta relevant the price spikes It goes up and it can become cost prohibitive for players to be playing with the meta cards So konami needs to do reprints to keep the prices within a reasonable range, right? So your forbidden droplets until this launch. I think they were like 80 to 100 bucks, you know, and I know pretty close I know the forbidden droplet reprint is somewhere in the like 20 to 25 range And I do believe the dark magician girl is the money card from this set It's possible that it's not it and I'm thinking of another card, but my guess is going to be 40 dollars Okay, so you're locking it in 40 bucks. Let's go 35. Let's go. Okay. You want to drop it down to 35 that your final answer That's my final answer 35 Okay You made a good decision there at the end to drop it down a few bucks the final price By the way, I use tcg player near mitt low for all of these Oh near mitt low. Okay. You were very close when it was first released. It was around 30 bucks But it fell down to an official 23 dollars. Okay 23 bucks. So all right. You're not too bad You're in the right ballpark You're only 12 bucks off that one's tricky because you know the market does shift a lot So I think I haven't looked at the prices really since they settled That one's pretty tough because it's like a new artwork and it's like kind of the card or whatever So it's like, you know, you were in the right area But it's kind of hard to guess with those exclusives But not bad really 12 dollars off the start that I don't know what percentage wise how we're doing but Not too bad. Yeah a percentage wise. It's pretty bad. But you know, it's fine The second question is I'm sending it over right now Jim and I elf first edition labyrinth of nightmare the picture is unlimited, but it's first edition I'm asking you about near First edition laritha nightmare. I know you have a connection to this card. So I do have a connection to this card You know back in the day, uh, you know first 1900 normal monster four star I also when I got back into yugioh like kind of over the pandemic I did go on tcg player and buy one of these but I didn't buy it in first edition I just wanted to like kind of have it and like look at it, you know, remember the old times. Here's the thing Okay, raw cards raw near mint It is first edition Yes Pack cards like cards that come out of traditional sets even in first edition in near mint are not crazy expensive I feel like to get into the crazy Expensives you've got to get into like your either your ghost rares in your star lights or you know Your tournament packs your things like that So I'm between tier one and tier two you do have lifelines if you want to figure it out I do have lifelines. This is what I would like to get right, but uh, you kind of feel like you know it, huh? I don't know. Uh, you have a you have a decent idea. I feel like you think you know I feel like it's on the top end of tier one near mint Near mint and the top end of tier one is a hundred dollars So I'm I have half of mine to just say 150 and I have half of mine to say 80 interesting Okay, so you got you got kind of a couple numbers you're going for there I'll use a lifeline just for fun.  Okay. I like it I think I'm gonna use lower or higher. Okay. The number I'm gonna give is $150 you added some pretty nice numbers there. Uh, it is lower though That is according what I thought that that that fits. Yeah, you're on the right track. I think I'm going to say $95 final answer $95 interesting. Okay. So we know that it's below 150. You were between 80 and 150 dollars I will tell you right now before I reveal the answer. It is within that range So you're between there somewhere. Okay. So near mint first edition jim and i l the final price is $105 Right on the head I feel good about that I was hoping that you would just go You know what 80 to 150. Let's just split the difference. Yeah, that's roughly where I was going I did kind of want to keep it in tier one It's just a little bit over tier two But I was like top into tier one low tier two, you know, I'm off by 10 bucks. I'll take it Okay question number three out of 15s. We're on this. We're like not even a fifth of the way through here So here we go. Number three magician of black chaos premium pack one Oh Interesting. I don't know. I don't know about premium pack one. Yeah, this is what I thought might be a little tricky Am I allowed to ask questions about premium pack one? Yeah, you can ask questions Go for it. What was the year of release? I believe 2008. Okay, so we're I want to say post upper deck at this point Uh, upper no, it was still upper deck upper deck. I think was 2009 or 10 somewhere Okay, but it kind of it started in 2008 was all the crap. So yeah, okay. That makes sense in magician of black chaos Uh, so it's a reprint rate. It's a reprint, right? This isn't the first printing of the card This is the first printing. I believe oh You know what broke?  And so I was like this card's been around Yeah, they just had it in there and it wasn't a real card yet. Yeah, it's kind of like bloods ultimate didn't go till 2006 Right, right. Yeah interesting. Yeah, because I'm I'm thinking of democ which is essentially the same card I get the two names mixed up every single time It's very annoying So my strategy is I don't know anything about this card If this card is the type of card that is in these like niche like minimally printed sets And it's the first printing and it's a secret rare then this could easily be a $250 card And I just don't have a way of like kind of a north star or a bounding box to look into speaking of north star All you have to do is use your lifeline and ask So my strategy well, so like that comes that's you know, now I'm coming back to my strategy Which is I think what I'm going to do is use my lifelines early to try and gain as much knowledge to inform future Future. I like it. That's a good strategy. I do actually want to use my lifeline to figure out what tier it's Okay, so you're asking which tier the magician of black chaos from premium pack one is in This is your second lifeline and the third question. So you're using them early. I like the strategy. This is in tier One there. I knew see I knew I could have guessed so much higher I'm just gonna presume see. I don't know about premium pack Is it one of those packs that includes the same cards in every pack? It's a secret rare But what does that really mean for that set? I don't know that set very well because it's tier one I'm gonna go smack dab in the middle of tier one and essentially give a guess that I would have given for like blue eyes Ultimate dragon, which is 50 bucks 50 dollars. Okay. It's interesting that you said that about premium pack the premium pack Japanese I think they did all have the same cards This one did not have all the same cards, but it wasn't a very big set So an iconic card a very surprising price for me for how iconic it is this one is $6 Okay Holy s**t that would have that got me a lot. You know, that's crazy question number four Jarvis You were doing pretty well so far. I'd say that was your worst one, but that's okay. Yeah. Yeah.  That's why we're doing prices I'm just gonna throw out what my gut is. It's not a final answer, but I'm gonna work backward from here Okay, so it's 220 dollars. Okay. The thing is I don't know a lot about the historic prices of um Like older starlight rares. What set is this in eternity? This is an eternity code. I think 2020 was the release It's not a starlight of an iconic character, but it's a starlight of a staple card I don't know if you know that when the starlight sets they do four starlights from the actual set like new cards And then one reprint. So this is the one of the reprint starlights. Okay. Well, it's you know It's a reprint so but but it does have that thing where like someone's gonna want to put this in their deck to Super bling out the deck, but it's not like a blue eyes Or something like that. It's not like the ghost rare dark magician or something You know that commands a big price because of the combination of an iconic character and the the heart the difficulty to pull Keep in mind. These are one out of ten cases. Keep that in mind one out of ten cases. That's true So they're very hard to pull.  You want to go 300? That's what you want to go with I mean, maybe that's a bad guess. I I'm just wondering like you want to you want to lock it in I'm gonna lock it in. I now you're making me second guess, but you know, we're here for content Yeah, okay. All right. You're locking it. I'm not trying to put any pressure on you. I just want you to know All right Jarvis has declared that the effect valer is a 300 dollar card starlight rare eternity code first edition deer mint This card is drum roll, please 840 dollars. Wow, that is way higher than I expected. Yeah, it's it's an expensive one Yeah, that I mean it makes sense. I guess it's like because I mean there are star lights that are in the 300 range I'm surprised by how much this one has gone up. I personally bought two at around 400 A year or two ago and I just had them in my deck just for no reason just to be dumb and then all of a sudden They went up to like 800 dollars and I was like what just happened with this card to be completely fair I wouldn't have expected any yugioh card to have that sort of rise You know because like right most most retro ps a tens are not that price You know, there's a weird a weird thing with yugioh when it comes to the players You would think it's the collectors But the players Really like these like deck cards that are high rarity and really hard to get like they actually seem to go up a lot So this is one of those like the hand trap high rarity stuff is insane So you can see it here. I don't think my assessment was wrong, but I didn't know what the upper in right Yeah, these are just the hardest ones. So so like now now I'm like a little bit more educated now You kind of know this for like future questions that they are pretty difficult All right, since we just had a really big miss. I reminded me that We're doing one out of the 15 will be thrown out your absolute worst guess that way You can't just like lose immediately on one question. So right now this effect valour guess doesn't count So you're good there. Yeah, okay, we're gonna count it like you got it exactly right even though Let's go. I knew it all along the next question is What is the value of elemental hero stratos ultimate rare from tournament pack nine near mint ot s tournament pack nine Uh, we talked earlier gx not my strong strong point. I do the stratus is like a classic card I also know that you know tournament pack nine is a long time ago. Oh t s tournament pack nine keep that in mind Not original. Oh ot s. Oh, yeah So these are like the thing because I feel like what are we on now like 20 something 20 comes out soon So we're only 10 away from that. I don't know if it's yearly or they usually do about three per year something three or four So this isn't that this isn't that this is only a few years old. Okay. So it's a few years old It's an ultimate rare. It's a hard pull. I don't know how hard the pull is but it's a classic card So this is like your case of a classic Reprint in a high rarity. I feel like it's probably more collectors than anything else that are getting excited about this Well, I'll give you I'll give you a hint on the ot s pull rates They're about you usually get one ultimate every like 17 packs So it's not like, you know, what out of 10 cases like starlights, but how many I mean, you don't have to tell me There's three percent so three percent. Okay on the originals. Yeah, or the not the recent ot s Sorry, my understanding of the ot s stuff is that like if you enter a tournament you like get some ot s packs Right, it's a couple packs usually per depending on the locals. I think that this has got to be tier two I don't know the ot s tournament pack packs to be That expensive especially the ones that are a couple years old and and if the pull rates are so good Then it it see it would stand to reason that if it was so expensive of a card You would just like buy buy up these and like drive up the price and yeah, what what have you so I'm like, is it the low end of tier two? Or is it Not even that. Yeah, I've heard that you should go with your gut instinct. That's what I've heard I'm gonna go With a hundred and twenty five dollars Final answer final answer a hundred and twenty five dollars on question five Jarvis elemental hero stratos ultimate rare ot s nine near mint. You redeemed yourself. This one is a hundred and thirty nine dollars So you're 14 away. Yes So close you almost nailed it. That was really really good So very good guess very solid. You're back on track if you wiped away that last one You're good to go. I don't know the total numbers. They'll be up on the screen You're looking pretty nice. We got a long. We got a long round ahead of us We are a third of the way through you still have one lifeline left. Don't forget about it. Let's move on to number six Question number six. Here's one that I believe that you should be familiar with No pressure. No pressure, but I think you're familiar with it gain guardian metal raiders unlimited near mint The picture's first edition but unlimited not first edition. Okay. I mean, so I am familiar with the card Yes, and I actually have we pulled the first edition copy Yes, I thought about doing that, but I was like he pulled it. It's too easy. But you know, it's funny. I can't even remember how much you You know because I'm always looking at the like graded prices. Anyway, right right if for things that are like pack fresh, you know Yep, makes sense. So it's an old Secret rare. It's classic But not the most popular card in the set like even though it's a secret rare It's like uh, it's like more of a tryhorn dragon than a you know dark magician girl, you know what I'm saying Interesting. It's I think it's a little better than tryhorn dragon. I wouldn't go. I yeah, that's fair. That's a lot of people like gay guardian It's not I know a lot of people like it, but it's not I feel like B skull and other like metal summons go like summons go like higher higher price cards You know, so it's not even it's like versus the difficulty to pull that being said it's unlimited It's unlimited. I want you to keep in mind. Remember metal raiders has been reprinted A lot. Oh, right. So don't forget about that. This is this is I oh that that sucks because I was thinking of original printing But now I'm remembering that the pricing is tcg player low and so tcg player low Oh, then it's going to be next to nothing because you're going to get a walmart reprint Most likely a reprint price. Keep that. I'm going to get seven dollars final answer seven. You want to go that low Secret rare metal raiders. You sure you want to go final answer on that? Okay. Give me a second. Give me a second It's still it's still nostalgia. It's still pretty big I think you're under selling gate guardian a little bit for how much people like it Well, so like my thought was like isn't a lob blue eyes reprint raw like 20 30 bucks I'll give you a hint the lob blue eyes is about 50 to 60 really interesting Yeah, just because it's blue eyes, but with that knowledge I'm going to bump gate guardian up to 19 dollars finally. Okay. That sounds that sounds a little better. I like that Okay, so number six you're going with gate guardian metal raiders unlimited near met most likely a walmart reprint Keep that in mind. This goes for you might be I think you're going to be surprised by this based on your first guess 33 dollars. I'm very surprised. Yeah, so it still holds value I think you're under selling gate guardian a little bit a lot of people love that card You know what I'm thinking though I'm thinking that am I wrong that the there's more walmart reprints around of like Legend of blue eyes and there are for metal raiders It seems to be like the location. There'll be like once place.  There depends on what mystery box you're opening on that day Exactly like sometimes you buy 10 mystery boxes. They all have the same ones like all I love you or something Okay, you know what I'll take it especially given my low ball. I'm glad I bumped it up I thought in my head 30 bucks and I'm still like that's too much.  It feels like yeah, okay fair fair Honestly, your score is probably looking really solid right now. We're on to question seven The next one up is genzo secret rare first edition near mint Okay, this one's gonna be hard for me, but I'll explain why so love pharaoh servant One of my favorite like retro sets love genzo used to have one of these that I played in my deck because you know That was the whole You know, we didn't sell it wasn't about the collecting back then the issue is I know that like last year The first edition psv genzo and a ps8 10 was like 15k, but we're in different times We are in different times ungraded. I actually couldn't even tell you how much of psv Oh, wait, hold on. Can I use a calculator? Yeah, go ahead. Go for it. All right. All right. All right We have editing I'm thinking between 250 and 500 and I might just split the difference on that So let's go, um Well 250 plus 500 750 so 375 that's what you want to go with. I think I'm gonna go with 375 I think I'm gonna go 375. All right 375 for a genzo secret rare pharaoh served first edition near mint You are locking that in I'm locking it in so question number seven The final value of a genzo near mint first edition is $450 That's close. That's close. That's pretty good. I'll take it. That was close Ranges you were hitting the range of 250 to 500 like he's in there there Jarvis you were doing pretty well so far. We're almost halfway through after this We will be over halfway through question number eight This is one you mentioned it kind of earlier a different version of this card. So We are asking about the apelosa Bow of the goddess rising rampage first edition. This is the secret rare So the original print secret rare not the starlight same set but not a starlight. So I have pulled this card Oh, okay, but it was a different time. Um, and also I don't know if the card's been re in fact. I think it was reprinted in uh maximum gold or something like that Yes, it had alternate art as well. Oh, but here's the thing people don't like maximum gold players I was gonna mention that. Yeah, I think people players don't like maximum gold.  I was gonna mention that but you where it seemed like you're on the right track So I didn't want to steer you the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, uh, but yes It's only reprints. I believe our maximum gold as the regular or just as alternate art or something like that. Yeah, so Oh, no, it no it has a megaton reprint. Keep that Oh, it also has a magnetic secret rare. Yes That is a nice rarity that people like so that could like sort of level the market In fact, I might prefer a prismatic rarity a lot of people do. Yeah My actual my my cut is $78 Is it is it really 78 is 78? I'm gonna go 78 finally. Okay, you're locking it at $78. Okay. I like it This was a very expensive card, especially when it first came out. The value is $60. Okay. Yeah, so pretty good. You know 60 definitely crossed my mind 60 definitely crossed my mind We're on to question number nine. You're doing very well so far. I would say next up. We have pot of prosperity This is the starlight rare first edition near met. So it's another starlight. This guy you last time So this got me last time. But look, okay, so pot of prosperity. It is a card that people play Oh, yeah, great card, but it also recently got a reprint. Um, it did get a reprint This is the starlight. This is the starlight. We're talking about and those players They really like those blinged out cards. So keep that in mind tier three for sure So but then like tier three goes in it just goes right. It's just 250 plus right is tier three I will tell you that there is nothing above $1,000. Okay, so it's two it will say 250 to 1,000 So I'm thinking of that effect dealer, right? And I'm and I'm comparing it to pot of prosperity And I do know that the different pots like the trade off obviously in in retrains of pot of greed Is to you have to give something now instead of getting these cards for free Uh, which one is pot of prosperity? I will give you a hint. This is I believe the most expensive pot card Oh, interesting. So in that case, I mean, I was already Thinking up high because I was thinking effect failures are pretty, you know, stately type card being a hand trap This is another card that can fit into a lot of different decks. So I'm like $600 That's that's what comes to mind.  Is it $800? So that's that's a thing that that's pretty crazy. Yeah Now this could be completely odd while this is like a stately type card while this is something that you bling out Affects me alert is a character. There is more as a even as a player But like I feel like someone is more likely to Pulling out a card that depicts a character than one. It's a monster rather than a spell card. You know what I mean? I'm gonna go $650 final answer Jarvis question nine. Is this where it all falls apart? Oh, no That's the question. Oh, that is the question pot of prosperity starlight rare first edition near men He had all this reasoning. He had these he's comparing it to previous cards He thought oh, this is a perfectly reasonable amount And he was right because it's 670 Yes That is so much closer than I thought you would get when you said 600 I was like, oh my gosh, he was on the right track and then you bumped it up even closer Oh, oh that feels good That is a huge it like you're well within like five percent of that card You know, we had to have our effect veiler so we can have our pot of press fairies You know what exactly that that effect filler really? I mean you took a lot of like info from that and definitely like I mean you are on fire right now For all these cards that I don't own I feel like I'm doing pretty well. All right We are on to question number 10 You are dominating right now in the first episode of this series that I forgot the name of that I named earlier Maxi ultimate rare from astro pack for near mint I'm gonna give you a little info. Just so you know astro pack is a tournament pack So there's ot s that we talked about earlier before that was astro pack So you have to go back 20 ot s packs and then you have eight astro packs This is the fourth of those so it's pretty old at this point this okay, so this seems Expensive as hell just by the just by the cut of this photo this photo looks like it was taken in the olden times I wouldn't use the tcg Yeah, yeah, it might be so okay. So so this is a very controversial card next. Yes It's also banned in in the us it is in the tcg and there's this thing Oh, is it kind of come back master duel has it just did master duel ban it yet? Uh, no, they have not banned it. I don't think so I do think that this is one of those cards though that people kind of hold on to in hopes of one day Because it's like it's the it's it's a big ticket if it uh, right If it ever gets a band because everybody will want it as soon as that you have to have maxi if you if it's being played So it right potentially an easy sale if it gets unbanned So it's one of those things that I feel like is maybe speculated on more than your average Uh card that's banned. This is one of the most speculated on cards. Oh really? Damn, okay. Yes. You're on the right track. I want you to keep going that direction People are way on this card for future unbannings. I mean Statistically speaking a tier two would make sense here. Uh, how sure are you about this one? Not at all Not sure at all. I I actually remember you do have a third lifeline that could change the card I know that's the thing So there's a part of me that just for the sake of it wants to make a guess on this one But I also don't want to Got my track record given that I don't know anything about this card Do I get to find out the price of it though when I skip? I will tell you the price. Uh, also keep in mind This is your fourth tier three card So there's only going to be one of these and these are the hardest ones to get close because they're so high The the range is so big. So if you're not really sure I'd say that the the lifeline's looking pretty tasty over there. I know I would agree Also, I feel like you gave it away and said this is a tier three. I did. I did give it away Even then you still have a very large range. So I will I will use the um my last lifeline Okay, I think this is a great decision because even before I even after I gave it away It's still really hard. I'm gonna tell you the price the maxi ultimate rare astral pack for near mint Just give me your guess. What would you have guessed so before you said anything? I was gonna guess 250 dollars. Okay. Yeah before I told you that it was You told me it was tier three and I was like I don't know and then I would probably just split the difference again and do something like 650 Yeah, so you would still I mean we're talking high value this one the lowest price one in english near mint for maxi ultimate rare Is 888 dollars.  That's kind of what I was saying about the whole picture thing. I was like this one looks mythical This one looks like uh, yeah, this one looks like it's a thing that people are like a big foot You know, they've only captured a few P photos of it right and if you remember even I opened every pack This is one of the last two packs I got because of this card So I can connect some dots for you on why it's so hard to get because everyone opened all the packs Right, right. I do remember only hearing about this from your every pack opening. I think both of those videos So yeah, okay, so you have now invoked your right to have another question. So let's grab this thing You will be asked. It's the same tier which I told you a second ago is tier three I think you'll be a little bit more familiar with this one. Definitely more familiar I don't know if you know the price But the the re-question of number 10 is dark magician ghost rare from ghosts from the past one First edition near mint five hundred and fifty dollars final answer 550 Final answer you're locking it in right away. Pretty sure about this one. It seems like I looked at a price for this card earlier today Um, but I don't know. I don't know what tcg player Near mint lowest is going to be maybe four hundred seventy five. Actually, let me drop it down to five hundred I think you should stick with your gut. Okay. Well, I did say final answer. So Yeah, okay, we're gonna stick with that this card the dark magician according to when I checked at tcg player low of the english card Is six hundred fifty dollars. I'll take it. So he's so pretty close. I was like don't go the wrong way here But yeah, I was around six hundred last I checked but it seems like those had gotten bought recently I don't know what the deal was. Yeah, so it's actually like I might have I had a price guide for um I might still have it open for ghost of it. I literally have it open right now It's five hundred ninety three on the price guide. Oh you're cheating over there. Is that what's happening? No, I It's not I uh When we were playing this game, I was like, let me look at some recent sense Yeah, it's trying to get a little research in well try to figure out my bounding boxes I was like what are the like I was surprised that this card is so expensive because it just came out It's holding up very well. Yeah, it's first ghost of the past. Yeah Yeah, so it's two years old at this point or a year and a half. Yeah, yeah, okay We are on to question number 12. We are 10 out of 15 through this. This is gonna be quite the video. All right Question number 11 this one. I'm sure you're familiar with this card I don't know if you know the value or I've looked at it recently, but this is mystical space typhoon mrl first near mint I mean I kind of have looked at this card recently But I think I've only looked at it in like ps8 10 and it's one of those cards that like you think would be a Lot more expensive than it is at least in my experience It kind of seems like it would be a lot if it was over a hundred dollars because here's the thing. I have a like near mint mrl set, but I don't remember the prices of anything It was one of those things that like I bought in a collection Yeah, the raw mrl See they're a little bit lower than you would think and I remember looking at this card in my own possession In deciding not to grade it for $50 at ps8 wasn't quite worth it because I was like this is going to get a ps8 And it's going to be basically $50. Right. I'm going to go $70. Final answer. Are you on final answer 70 bucks? I think it could be lower. All right. You think this is the last tier one card All right question 11 mystical space typhoon first edition near mint from magic ruler Is this the last card under a hundred dollars in this quiz? I guess we call this thing. Yeah Jarvis Yeah, better get to digging because this thing's a hundred and twenty dollars I guess I better get to dig that makes no sense. I swear to god I looked at like a ps8 10 of this and it wasn't that expensive Maybe I'm like pokemon brained because the fact that a raw cards a hundred and twenty dollars and the graded card Like I feel like you can buy a a base set charizard for like cheaper than yeah That's because people in yugioh actually care about raw cards. I'm like pokemon So that's that's I'm pokemon brain. I'm pokemon brain. Yeah There's nothing like if you grade it gets like 10 times value. So yeah, yeah, let's go to the next one I actually was scrolling through our dms and found that where you sent me a picture of this card when you pulled it So I know you should have known this at some point number 17 leviathan dragon astral from brothers of legend I literally just pulled this card out to gray one second Oh, and there it is. There's the card we've been looking for right there I I don't know how excessive it is Just ask the card what it's worth. Okay. Okay. Well, because the thing is I was going through cards Uh, because ps8 has it's like, you know, $15 bulk submission thing And I'm going through and trying to figure out what I should send And I was pulling out a bunch of cards that might be worth sending along I remember this card isn't the most expensive card and it's in in it's set Uh, I will remind you it was in the dragoon set with the starlight, right? Okay, so this is actually this is Because I don't remember this being over a hundred dollars. I feel like this was 90 dollars That seems crazy given what we've discussed that you still have it wrong. I keep that in mind.   I didn't even put it in a penny sleeve in a card saver What's that interesting? What was that arranged? You usually put cards like that in what would you say? I mean, it must have just been what was on hand at the time But yeah, I feel like this is another mystical space stepping situation where I'm gonna be like This is an $80 card and it's gonna be like you seem to be making your way down interesting I know well because again It's something I didn't want to grade and I'm like, why is that there was a reason at some point Why you didn't grade it, you know, I can also imagine this being a hundred and thirty dollars You could imagine it maybe imagine it you didn't get you said you would grade a card worth 130 dollars Maybe I it depends on what PSA special you said you'd be digging for 120 so 130 I mean, I'm gonna I mean my gut was 90 dollars So I'm just gonna go with 90 Finally, okay stick 190. So you think this is the last tier two card right here I'm not thinking of it like that. I'm thinking of it based on what my memory was Do you think that it is a cheap card because you remember it when you pulled it being disappointing without It's not no no no no hold on hold on I'm not so I'm not so rich. I'm not so like rich that I'm like thinking it's a cheap card I just go oh, this is a starlight and I was like kind of disappointed because I could have pulled the dragoon, right? I'm not putting words in your mouth. I'm not trying to say that Okay, I'm just I'm just saying this is the lower tier the lowest tier. So the cheapest of the options Okay, let's reveal the answer. You guessed 90 dollars Jarvis It was too high 57 dollars Okay, $57. Okay. Okay. This is what I knew would be tricky because it looks so good Yeah, I know I that's what even 90. I was like, I think you I could have gone lower because you were like You're working your way down and I was like well, maybe he's saying that because it's higher and I just encourage you to keep going I couldn't go up. I couldn't go up to tier two. So yeah, I'll take it I'll take it. You are in the ballpark. That was the right range I bet it was 90 dollars when you looked at it because it has gone down My memory is yeah, because it's like I think it must have been 80 bucks or something when I Yeah, I think that that was what you saw and it just just gone down since then So you're pretty close still even then only $23 off or $33 off But not bad at all. We have three questions left And honestly, you haven't missed any badly except the one that we've already wiped away. So let's keep it Let's keep it going question Number 13 Rygeki ultimate rare OTS pack two near mint So this is another ultimate rare from the OTS set, but this was only the second set So it's been several years since this was printed. So this is interesting So we crossed off tier one. So we're in tier two land and that helps me out I do think it's a tier two card. I don't think it's the tier three Okay, because this is a type of card that's playable. It's classic. It's in a unique high rarity and it's not so Recent that, you know, it's easy. It's easily available, you know, right? Let's just try it and see how it goes. My gut is $180 180 that's your gut call. Okay, my gut call. So we know that we have two tier twos in a tier three You're saying I this is not the tier three. That's just I don't think it's the tier three The reason being ultimately it is OTS tournament pack, right? We were looking at astral packs earlier You know, it's like we could be working our way back Also, it is a spell card while it's unbanned. It's not played very often or at least Yeah, was it because it, you know master duel had it as well unbanned before I think and people didn't play it Okay, you're going down to 158 final answer. Yeah final answer question number 13 Rygeki ultimate rare OTS tournament pack to near mint the final answer is $123 So you went in the right direction there. You're very close, you know one Okay, so when I went let me go with my gut and I was like 180 the other number was 125 Oh And that's why I split to 150 at the end. That's a good idea. So I'll take it. I'll take it So you are looking pretty good right now overall I don't know exact numbers. We're gonna be doing the math at the end But yeah, you're probably in the between five and 10 percent. I feel like you're doing pretty well Okay Yeah, this is how we're gonna do the last two because you know it's a tier two and it's your three We're gonna ask both questions at the same time You're gonna have to give an answer for both because I don't want to just give you a freebie and you know what the tier is Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fair. That's fair question 14 and question 15. Here we go. Number 14 Blue eyes white dragon ghost rare first edition near mint from ghost from the past two Question number 15 exodia the forbidden one ultra rare legend of blue eyes first edition near mint I will tell you that the prices on tcg player. They don't have a lot of raw cards of this This was a ps8, but I thought it was pretty close to raw value. So Both of these are up right now. Oh, okay. So this is this is interesting. There's a lot to unpack here There's a lot to unpack here. So one I have this blue eyes. I'm gonna set it off to get graded I remembered you were looking for this one. That's why I added this and then my only other experience with exodia head Is I did briefly have a dds Exodia head in bgs 95. I almost put that one in here. I should have done that But this is this is first edition lob. Yes, this is the original set number one. Here's the thing about blue eyes I Know That when these cards were coming out This blue eyes was above 250 dollars But as more and more product is opened I do think that the price could have gone down to below 250 Yeah, and it is harder to believe that a first edition lob ultra rare Is below 250 especially something as iconic as exodia now Exodia when you're comparing lob stuff dark magician and blue eyes are a rank above exodia head You know when you pull an exodia limb, you're kind of like that could have been something else Exactly. Yes, even even when you pull the head, I feel like it could be a little bit bitter sweet But it is near mint It is near mint and but the other thing is like that blue eyes I do not think is the most expensive ghost from the past two ghost rare. I think that it's the dark magician girl I want to remind you when ghosts from the past two came out the hype was nuts There was a lot of people buying that set but Ghosts were twice as more crisis common and goes to the past two then goes to the past one. That's what i'm saying Lots of people opened it. Yeah, exactly So so every the hype was huge because the the list of ghosts was crazy Right, it was so good. It was insane I'm going to go with blue eyes in tier two Okay, at $250 solid you're maxing it out and then the exodia in tier three at $400 near mint before you lock it in lob is a $20,000 box. Okay, that's fair Mmm This is an ultra rare.  Um, okay, so With that maybe i'll bump it up to $600 for the exodia Okay, let's do it the final two answers were at question 14 and question 15 done pretty well so far We have the blue wise wide dragon ghost rare first edition near mint We're gonna start with that one This card you were pretty sure was above 250 at one point and you think that it fell below I will confirm it was above 250 upon release And I will also confirm that it is below 250 and you guessed 250 so you're a little bit off But yeah, the final answer. I was actually shocked to see how low this is got as god. I checked it It's even lower. It's $150 Wow I could not believe how cheap this card is and that just shows you the sheer print of that set There must have been a ton open honestly like this I would have guessed around what you guessed if you had asked me like I would have said to 25 When I pulled it when I pulled it is the last time I looked at the price It was probably $300 then or something like that exactly Yeah, so that one was you were in the right tier, but it was like it's crashed. It's insane So yeah, let's move on to the exodia forbidden one. Would you say almost seems too low seems like seems like an opportunity But yeah, buy all the blue eyes Instead of a legend, the blue eyes box is by the ghost rest. Yeah. All right. Our final one. We know is tier three question 15 Jarvis, you've done very well so far. You guessed 600 dollars on the exodia head The final card we have $850 I'll take me out. I'll take me out there You were saying that exodia is not good. Well here. I think here's the difference between the dds and this This has other cards that fit with the exo the dds exodia doesn't have prismatic limbs So this one has the other parts you could put like pay with it. That sounds like a disease I can't come to football practice. I have prismatic limbs Oh my god Yeah, so I think that may be part of it But also just being such an expensive set. I think I honestly would say this is the I think it's the fourth best ultra So there's uh, and I I'd say monster reborns right after that But you could argue flipped there But the other three are just so like nice and like fair having to pair five cards together is always a pain So it definitely hurts the value But overall still pretty good that last one only you were 250 off But that was your worst one besides the effect valer, which we wiped clean So now we got to do some math and see how well you did 12 seconds later So the total value of all the cards in this for $4,514 you were off by $767 so if you do the math you were 16.99 Wow So honestly pretty good. Yeah, that's actually pretty sick. I mean that's like uh, that's like a month in in The crash, you know what? I mean like like your whole portfolio. I watch your you know, six months later videos or whatever Right on the year a thousand dollars. It's like hey sometimes that happens Honestly, like this could have just been the variance at this point without the markets going like Yeah, you asked me to six months ago. I would have given all the same answers So would you get like like you completely nailed it? So that puts you in the 25 here that means we're doing a $100 giveaway in this video Not bad. If you guys enjoyed the video make sure. Oh, yeah. Go check out Jarvis. He's awesome He has multiple channels. They're all really good. I watch all of them So go subscribe to him if for some like somehow you don't know about him. Go check it out now So shout out to Jarvis. Thank you for being here. You got any final words. Thanks for having me. This is super fun I'm excited to watch other people struggle their way through this But I'm I'm very happy and gracious to be the first guest. Yes, this has been awesome Thank you day of he made this happen. So yeah, very clutch We've really enjoyed this and I've had a lot of fun doing it. 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Okay, so we're going to talk about the gut brain axis and this actually should be dedicated to women because women have known basically forever that they have an intuition or a gut sense and guys have always laughed at them that that's ridiculous, but in fact each passing year and with more and more research we're beginning to realize that we have two brains and years ago there was a quite a popular book called the second brain which detailed the fact that there are more neurons the cell of the nervous system lining your gut then there are in the entire spinal cord which connects the brain to all the rest of you so the phrase was coined the second brain but in fact I'm going to make an argument in the upcoming book the longevity paradox that in fact your brain up in your head should properly be called your second brain and that your first brain should be properly called your gut now that's a pretty bold statement but with the previous lecture we talked about the fact that around 90% of the cells that make you you are living in your gut and that 99% of all the genetic material in you is contained in your gut and your skin not human cells and that most likely we have uploaded information processing to our gut for most of the functions that we need to do now when I was in medical school and even up until a few years ago we knew that we thought that a lot of the hormones that affect our mood among others serotonin and affect our sleep melatonin initially we thought they were made in the brain but then subsequent research showed that they we thought that they were made in the neurons in the gut and then sent to the brain well now it's clear that most of the hormones within us are actually made in the gut themselves by bacteria and if we have the time we'll talk about one of the amazing effects that round up glyphosate has had on poisoning our first brain and I think that has huge implications on the rates of anxiety and depression that we currently have in our country and other Western countries okay so the basic concept of how the brain talked to the gut was that there was a very large nerve called the vagus nerve that ran from the the brain down to the heart down to the lungs down to the liver and then down to the gut the intestines and the brain via the vagus nerve would basically tell the gut what to do it would control the motion of these smooth muscles that don't otherwise take orders via nerves so it's basically the old idea of cable wiring your home or even electrical wires or telephone wires there's literally a direct electrical signal that goes now this is actually a fairly fast signal as anybody who hits a hot plate or a hot fire you get an instant burning sensation that goes to your spinal cord actually never gets to your brain and you immediately pull your hand away so that goes via a cable what we were taught is that this is this was primarily a one-way street brain told the gut what to do now as I mentioned before women are much smarter than this and they long known that the gut tells the brain what to do with a gut sense and of course you were right for every one wire going down from the brain there's actually nine wires going up from the gut to the brain and this was one of the first indications that perhaps we had it all wrong as to who was in charge and so this is one of the first indications that probably the first our first brain our real brain is down below and this is an important but second brain now there's this cable system or hard wire and whenever I'm doing a podcast or a radio show they always want me to be on a ground or ground link because cell phones are fairly unreliable but we have a cell phone system so the second way that we communicate information is via hormones and hormones don't travel via wires they travel via if you will blood vessels or lymphs or there's even a suggestion that they travel along meridians of electrical charges but let's just say that so the second message is text-messing and they serve and emails so this is a believe it or not slower process than the hard wire and it's more subject to misinterpretation because you have to have a tower or a cell phone that is capable of getting a good signal and if you remember anything we talked about how lectins may disrupt signaling is that lectins among other things will bind on to a cells receptor for a hormone and just stay there and block a hormone such as insulin just give you an example from actually getting the information that it needs to get to a cell and so both of these systems are very important we used to think that most of the hormones that we make are made in the gut primarily some in the brain and they were made probably by specialized hormone producing cells but with each passing year as we're beginning to understand how elaborate the gut population is the more we're realizing that it's actually the bugs in our gut that are responsible for making many of the hormones that communicate to our brain so rather than a kind of top-down information system of the brain being in control of us it's actually at least equal between the gut and the brain and I think in terms of our short-term and long-term health that both the first brain down in the gut is probably the big winner long-term I'll give you an example I recently was visited by a very famous meditator from Japan a woman who is actually Deepak Chopra's representative in Japan and she actually translates all his books and she has suffered from severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune condition and she it's so bad that she was on two immunosuppressants she'd already had two knee replacements for her severe arthritis and she had such incredible pain that she really moved around with the help of a wheelchair and a walker and she firmly believed that she could meditate her way out of this condition and I think that's very admirable but clearly it wasn't working she also followed a are you Vedic diet and with large amounts of brown rice and legumes as her principal diet and she took all the usual suspects she took lots of anti-inflammatories like turmeric and to no avail and apparently she was in Vancouver Canada last December when an acquaintance handed her the plant paradox and she took it home and read it and I met her in April of this year when she flew to meet me beautiful young woman she walked into my office she was on no medications she was pain-free and what had happened well as much as her second brain tried to overpower what was happening down in her gut this was actually the problem and don't get me wrong meditation actually works extremely well for a lot of things but meditation has yet to break into this first brain's barrier and so when when this brain is out of whack the consequences are severe across her and she's just one example let me give you a better example we talked there was a question on the last time about good bugs and bad bugs so we know that there's there's about 10,000 different species of bacteria so far identified in our gut and there's probably well over a million different viruses that live in our gut and a nice smattering of worms and fungi and we're just beginning to figure out what all these guys do but we can classify them generally as good guys and bad guys and you know that I call the good guys gut buddies and the bad guys gang members and the gang members have different food requirements of the good guys and what's so fascinating about the gang members and this has been worked out very well in animal models and there's a couple human models that we can talk about so the gang members love sugars simple sugars and they love saturated fats love them the good guys can't live on this and what we now know is that the gang members send text messages up to your brain to your hunger send centers and the text messages basically say you're hungry we want more to eat and we actually want more of the things we eat and we want more sugar and we want more saturated fats and those of you who've seen Little Shop of Horrors the movie or the play the movie had Rick Moranis in it and an all-star cast but the blood-sucking plant that poor Rick Moranis had to take care of wanted human blood and her name was Audrey and Audrey constantly got bigger and bigger and needed more and more blood and she constantly said feed me see more feed me and poor Seymour had to go out and get her what she wanted so we now know that the bugs in your gut actually tell you to feed them now the converse is true we know that the good bugs actually want these complex sugars resistant starches inulin which is a complex sugar and they actually if you give them what they want over a few weeks time they will actually kind of drive out the gang members and they'll start sending messages to your brain to feed them what they want and I have so many men who are meat and potatoes guys that would never think of even having a salad within two or three weeks maybe a month they'll they'll come in and see me so doc this is the weirdest thing I crave salads I can't go a day without having a salad that's really weird really weird well it is really weird to think that this brain has more control over what you're actually seeking you're actually seeking foods for whoever is control of this brain and this brain in turn controls this brain and there's been some beautiful experiments with germ-free mice where they've taken germ-free mice who don't have any bugs in their gut and they give them feces from fat rats now the nice thing about working with rats and mice is they love to eat each other's feces I have a dog we won't go into that and they just love it so you don't have to give them enemas fecal enemas you just give them the other rats feces so they take the skinny mice who are and you give them the feces from obese mice and lo and behold the skinny mice will become obese and this is actually in the lands at a few years ago there was a case report of a woman marathon runner who I mentioned in the plant paradox who is skinny she developed the severe intestinal infection called C. difficile or C. diff which is the ultimate gang member and she got it by getting a lot of antibiotics and it killed off all her good bugs and the gang member took over so one of the ways we treat that now is a fecal transplant and a fecal transplant is exactly what it sounds like we take feces from healthy volunteers I was actually one in medical school back in the dark ages at Georgia where we actually use fecal transplants to cure this problem and once a week they would take around a honey bucket we called it and medical students would take a crap in it and then we'd put it in a wearing blender a Vitamix and a modernize it and then we put it in a bag and shoot it up one of our patients rear ends so that's a fecal transplant so it's now actually recognized therapy so this woman in England had a fecal transplant we like to try to get a close relative because it turns out that people who live together share their same microbiome so and it turns out one of the theories of why fat families are fat is that you all share the same obese microbiome and skinny families are skinny because you share skinny microbiome and it's not willpower as you're being controlled so this woman marathon runner gets fecal transplant gets cured of C difficile from a niece now her niece was about 30 pounds overweight within a year the marathon runner despite returning to marathon running gained 30 pounds ate exactly the same foods that she did before because you know she's a healthy runner well how'd she do all that well it turns out there's another really interesting twist to the subject that we talk about a lot in the plant paradox the obese mice are obese not only because they have bugs that make them seek out other food but the bad bugs are actually very efficient at extracting food from the things you swallow and sadly they're actually very efficient at passing it on to you in other words they're the gateway and so even though this marathon runner was eating pretty much the same thing and believe it or not the skinny mice were being fed the same rat chow that they were getting before they were given the obese mice bacteria they all gained weight because these bugs were very efficient at extracting calories but then passing it into things that we could absorb now what's really interesting is the good guys they actually if you will or rather greedy and don't want to share and so they take the foods that we give them particularly inulin and oligosaccharides and they do two things with it they make more bugs more kids and they make a particular kind of fat that are called short chain fatty acids that are called and the most important one is sorry butyrate now butyrate gets its name from butter or butter gets its name from butyrate there's a little bit of butyrate in butter now don't turn off the set and go running for the kitchen and get some hot buttered popcorn there's very little butyrate in butter but there's some there and one of my colleagues has become famous for bulletproof coffee which has butter in it and that's why it's in there anyhow butyrate it turns out is the primary fuel for neurons and more importantly it's the primary fuel for the mitochondria in all of ourselves but in particular in neurons and you'll see that the more butyrate producing bugs you have the better your health and the better your brain and the better your energy levels because of what the mitochondria are getting okay so these guys take everything you eat make some butyrate in exchange oh by the way butyrate if you listen to the last lecture is essential for the cells that line our gut as their main fuel supply and the more butyrate they get the plumper and healthier and happier they are and the better off you are long term the bugs additional bugs come out your rear end and then you have terry walls looking down at that giant coiled snake in her toilet so they took most of the food you ate and made more of them so it's a win-win they give you in exchange this incredible clean-burning fuel source that helps plump up your gut makes your brain happy makes your mitochondria work and they take most of everything make more bugs and you poop them out and you stay thin and again that's why you could have someone like me who you know lost 70 pounds doing this or Kelly Clarkson who lost 37 and a half pounds without exercising and people say that's a miracle how'd you do that well she got rid of her gang members by starving them to death the good guys moved in they ate most of what she swallowed and in return they gave her what she needed to go on and so what we see with most people is that the weight loss is basically a side effect of getting your gut back into order and it's a side effect you don't have to this is not about deprivation this is not about oh you know I've got to have will power willpower comes from here the willpower you want actually comes from here when you've got text messages from your good bugs saying you know feed me the stuff I want and the bad bugs are no longer giving you information to seek out the stuff that they want okay now as most of it so let me actually this is a good time to talk about glyphosate or roundup roundup is now ubiquitous in all Americans all North Americans roundup used to be most people have heard roundup is what we spray on our weeds in the guard in the yard but roundup was originally developed for GMO soybeans and roundup is an herbicide it kills plants and it does so by blocking a hilarious pathway called the shikamate pathway and it allows plant cells to divide and reproduce humans do not use the shikamate pathway and so when Monsanto invented roundup they assured us that roundup was perfectly safe because we don't have the shikamate pathway to make cells what they didn't tell us is that bacteria use the shikamate pathway to reproduce and so roundup initially was sprayed on soybeans subsequently was sprayed on corn canola and sugar beets now roundup is sprayed on almost all conventional green crops as a harvesting agent and I won't bore you with details but it's much easier to harvest corn or soybeans or wheat or rice or canola if the plant's already dead makes it far easier to separate the seed from the plant so now roundup is sprayed on conventional crops so that these very expensive harvesters can be at a particular field on a particular day when the crop is dead now so this is then so now roundup is on all of these products it's then fed to our animals as feed now nobody goes around with each individual kernel wipes off the roundup it goes into the animals it then becomes part of the meat whether it's a chicken whether it's a pork whether it's beef it's now part of the beef then it also goes into our feed it goes into all of our cereal products all of our bread products all of our soybean products it goes into almost everything wheat goes into all of our corn products and so we are it goes into our wine almost all California wines have glyphosate including a few of our organic wines because the fields next to the organic fields were sprayed with glyphosate in fact I was talking to a wine maker in Santa Barbara County a couple months ago and we were looking at their biodynamic and organic and we were looking at one map of his field and I said well now how about this one he said no we can't certify it as organic and biodynamic even though we treat it that way and I said well why not he said well could see this parcel in here at this parcel they spray you know with with roundup and so we know the wind drifts it and we won't certify it we won't certify it so what happens now is roundup in almost everything we eat number one kills our microbiome period now we now know from some new research from MIT that roundup in and of itself breaks tight junctions which we learned about on the last lecture are what separates the outside world in our gut from us so roundup in itself produces leaky gut but what's worse is these gut bacteria are essential to take the building blocks of serotonin and melatonin serotonin the feel-good hormone melatonin the chill out hormone and take those essential building blocks away and so the gut bugs are gone they no longer have the building blocks so they can't make serotonin and they can't make melatonin now there's a third compound that some people have heard of called GABA now GABA there's two hormones the excitatory hormone which is dopamine anybody who is addicted to a video game is looking for a dopamine charge any gambler is looking for a dopamine hit GABA is the calm down hormone it tells things the nerves to chill out GABA we now know is also made primarily by gut bugs so is it any wonder that we've got an entire multiple generations at least two generations of anxiety depression on edge and and nothing really did and nobody can sleep and it's all because we've we were systematically to strong this brain is okay so far but then the next problem happens okay so neurons make connections with other neurons their social network to exchange information and they send out all these dendritic processes I gotta stand over here so there's neurons are so important that they have their own handlers their own bodyguards and they're called glial cells or microglial cells and they're part of the immune system they're their white blood cells so they're specialized might think of them as a secret service these guys are so important that they they kind of care from the neuron and they protect them okay so that's great now if our gut is leaky or if lectins and LPS's are getting if you remember we've got a bunch of neurons down here and we also have our border patrol where most of our immune system is and the border patrol's job is to alert you me our rest of our immune system about a pending attack so when lectins and LPS's and bacteria get through our gut wall helped by roundup text messages which are called inflammatory cytokines hormones are sent up to the brain and they say oh my gosh you know we're down here in the hindrill ends the walls been breached the hordes are coming protect the neurons at all costs so we now have some very elegant pictures particularly from Harvard MIT and Stanford and UCSF where these defenders of neurons turn into pac-man and they actually eat these dendrites and prune them back and you can think of it as pulling back the troops from the front lines I like to think of it as pulling up the drawbridge over a moat as the you know the barbarians are storming the castle and so they can actually finally get the neuron isolated and then they get so good that they encircle the neuron to protect it and the neuron just like you pulled up the drawbridge on the castle if the horde surrounds the castle waits them out the inhabitants will starve because they don't have anything to eat and what we're seeing now in dementia and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's is these clusters of dead neurons surrounded by their bodyguards now in Parkinson's it has a name it's called a Lewy body and this is a characteristic finding of Parkinson's disease now these Lewy bodies occur in a part of the brain I love this word the substantia nigra just a great word and that's the motor control area of the brain and that's where all the dopamine cells in the brain are and so the substantia nigra we see all these Lewy bodies and oh by the way besides text messages we know that lectins climb the vagus nerve up to the brain and attack the and head for the substantia nigra this has been proven in animal studies but it's also been proven in humans where a number of humans used to have an ulcer operation where we cut their vagus nerve to cure their ulcer and it worked pretty well actually but these people have been followed for years and years and people who have had their vagus nerve cut have about a 40 to 50 percent less chance of having Parkinson's than people who don't have their vagus nerve cut interesting okay so finally tying it all back together so Lewy bodies of the hallmark of Parkinson's dead neurons surrounded by goji berries goji berries glial cells goji berries are evil so got that in so researchers neurologists were wondering why Parkinson's patients had bad constipation they do and they said well it must be because the vagus nerve doesn't tell the gut to move right well they did some animal experiments said you know we should look at the neurons in the gut because there's lots of neurons in the gut and they're in control movement so they started doing biopsies in animals with a model of Parkinson's and lo and behold down here in the gut were the dead neurons surrounded by glial cells Lewy bodies they're down here in the gut what the heck are they doing down there they're supposed to be up there so then they took early Parkinson's patients and do what are now called transcholonic biopsies where you take a colonoscope and lots of people have had a biopsy of a polyp but they go all the way through the wall of the colon and bite off some tissue just beyond and lo and behold in human guts of early Parkinson's there's the Lewy bodies so what we now know is that Parkinson's begins in your first brain in your gut and then that information is communicated to your second brain that the war is on and protect the troops up here so the more we learn about the first brain the more this important brain gets relegated so lastly Alzheimer's everybody knows about amyloid plaque it turns out that amyloid plaque doesn't start in the brain guess where it comes from amyloid comes from the gut and it goes to the brain so the reason we're having this epidemic of dementia of anxiety and depression and sleeplessness it's all because our first brain has been destroyed and under assault and our second brain is suffering for it questions two reasons almost all the diet sodas on the market have an artificial sweetener that causes gut dysbiosis that actually makes bad bugs flourish and good bugs go away perhaps equally as important is you have no sugar receptors on your tongue you have sweet receptors and they're there two thirds of your tongue are sweet receptors they're there to tell your brain that you just hit a fruit tree and that it's summer and the brain ought to be ready for a bunch of sugar because you just ate it so when you taste something that doesn't have any sugar the brain says okay I'm waiting for the sugar it should be here any second now it didn't arrive you got cheated go back and get some more because I know the next time you'll get it right so it makes you want more sugar or another diet drink that's why I was addicted to Diet Coke I was drinking eight Diet Cokes a day in fact there's pictures of me throughout every hospital I've ever been in making rounds with a Diet Coke and I mean it was my signature and actually I was addicted to it by the professor who trained me he was a tab addict but so your your brain never gets the message I mean you keep saying what's happening go get some more go get some more and that's what addicts you okay well thank you all very much appreciate alright thanks for watching don't forget to visit my website linked in the description box below for more of my best tips if you haven't already click the circular channel icon to subscribe and make sure you never miss another video because I'm Dr. Gundry and I'm always looking out for you