"If you challenged me now it would be no contest." No Pokemon, no battle. Looking to his inert capsule monsters. "It's a same I can't call upon deeze guys here. I woulda liked to have seen how dhey stacked up against deeze other monsters."

Trust him, that fact isn't lost on him. He has to smile at this new image of Kaiba's. "Oh! I didn't forget about you." Kneeling back down to spare Goose a few more pets. "I wish I had some kind of treat for her."

"I'm not sure.... but I tink dhere might have been another insult in dhere." The line about picking up strays. Not that Kaiba was wrong on that score, if he had the means Joey would hate to turn out a monster in need. "So let me get dis straight... deeze monsters want a bunch of people to gather them, and train them for combat....?"

Following suite, Joey snags a free lawn chair for himself.