00:00A seven-year-old boy was at the Denver International Airport
00:03when he lost his entire binder of Pokemon cards.
00:09Not good.
00:10His dad posted online, devastated, right?
00:13And let's make it abundantly clear,
00:16even though I'm not a Pokemon card collector,
00:18these things are worth something, right?
00:22Like, when you make these collections,
00:23they can be especially worth something one day.
00:26They can be, right.
00:27But, I mean, especially to a kid who clearly has a collection.
00:30He takes good care of it.
00:32He has a binder for his collection.
00:35He's working on growing it, making trades.
00:37This is his thing.
00:39So even if they're worth nothing, right?
00:42Like, this means something emotionally to him.
00:44So get this.
00:45This is the power of numbers that I think is so fantastic.
00:48So United Airlines, their social media team, actually responded.
00:51Now, here I'm thinking, okay, big, big flight company
00:55going to donate some money to help him restart his Pokemon collection
00:59or maybe give him a couple cards.
01:01No, they actually turned to their own employees.
01:04Stay with me.
01:05Employees from across United Airlines responded
01:09by donating their own cards that they have collected over their time.
01:16And they donated, as a team, over 15,000 Pokemon cards to this little boy.
01:22Oh, my gosh.
01:24Wow.
01:24I didn't even know this was a thing, if I'm honest.
01:27So here I'm thinking, like, okay, corporate profits.
01:29They're going to throw him a couple thousand bucks to help him restart
01:31and maybe, you know, get him in touch with a collector or whatever it might be.
01:34No.
01:35They turned internally to their team.
01:37And United Airlines staffers, from pilots all the way down to the ones getting our bags, right,
01:41they came together to donate this.
01:44And now, 15,000 cards, that's a whole lot more than this seven-year-old was knocking before.
01:50So him and his family, they've decided they're going to host a school trading party.
01:55Oh.
01:56And he plans on donating extras to others who might not have theirs
02:00because he knows what it's like to not have his cards.
02:03That's so sweet.
02:04And I'm also thinking this is a win-win because for all those 15,000, you know, like, cards that
02:09were donated,
02:10you know that their owners were like, what am I doing with this now?
02:14Right.
02:15Like, what?
02:16And you can't, you just, again, you can't, it's like there's some emotional attachment to it.
02:20Yeah.
02:20I collected these things, but now what the heck am I supposed to do with them?
02:23They're just sitting in storage.
02:25Perfect.
02:25Donate them to the little boy.
02:27This email probably dinged into all, you know, all of these United Airlines employees,
02:31and they go, I know where mine are.
02:33Yep.
02:34I have a binder.
02:35Get rid of them.
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