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What's up, everyone? Welcome

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to the six hundred and thirteenth episode

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of the Pokémon Podcast. It's super effective.

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I'm your host, Steve. With me is

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Hannah. I am here.

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I have complaints. I have complaints.

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Oh, no. That's one

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complaint more like, but I feel very

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strongly about it. It took over a

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year. But finally, we have Hannah to

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be the complainer. No,

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I've complained about this before.

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She has fully made it into

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the show. Took

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a little while. We also have Bobby here.

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Bobby, please tell me you have complaints too.

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I probably but I am also

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addicted to the music

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of Pokémon Sleep now. Just

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wonderful. At least Cyan Beach. Cyan Beach.

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I should have guessed you would like that one. You

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might not like Topalo as much as I do. Okay.

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Okay. Yeah. I might

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be staying at the beach for weeks to come. No,

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you'll learn very quickly. The beach

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has nothing. Except

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the music. I'm like three days in the

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beach and I'm like, why am I here?

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Oh, should have gone to Topalo. Yeah,

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I could have got an annex. I got a pincer

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I didn't have before, so that's like a plus. Okay.

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There you go. I was getting some Iglibuf spawns and that

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helps. I don't have a good one of those yet.

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All right. Well, we don't have a

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lot of news this week because we are recording

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on a Wednesday because I leave for Florida on

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Thursday. So if I saw

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you, great. Thanks.

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Awesome. I'm sure it

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was a good weekend. I will say

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though, because I always do my disclosures, even

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though it's like a $12 ticket to attend

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to regionals. I do have to disclose that the

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Pokemon company did provide me with a $12 ticket. I

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know sometimes, sometimes there's like YouTube comments of

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like, why does Steve always say the Pokemon

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company pays for them? Because I have to,

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legally, according to the US government. As

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no matter how, if it was a $5 thing or a $1,000

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thing, Uncle

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Sam needs me to tell you guys. That's

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just what it comes down to, so. Yeah. I

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always try to get the disclosures out of the way.

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So we have some Pokemon Sleep, some Pokemon Go, some

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Pokemon Anime, and Pokemon TCG

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stuff this episode. So it

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happens to work out because that's

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what we've been talking about. Everything

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that isn't Scarlet and Violet. Let's just

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talk with Pokemon Sleep. There's not a lot

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happening, but they did push an in-app update

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saying 1.5 is coming, which

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that means something big usually, normally.

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Theoretically, we just don't know what yet. Okay.

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So they're point updates, they're like point

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updates are typically bigger or versus

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like a 2.0? Like that would be huge. Well,

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I think Raiko was, I could be wrong, so feel free

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to correct me in the comments. I think Raiko was 1.4

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and then there was 1.4.1, which was fixing the one thing.

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And then 1.4.2, which was fixing another thing. Yeah,

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and we are on 1.4.3 at this point. I

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think that the main thing with version 1.5 was

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that they were going to make it not

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available to Android 6 anymore.

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Was that what I saw? 7.7, I thought, right? The

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one that's eight years old. Yeah, I think

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it was 7, I thought. Yeah, Android

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7. I heard

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that like certain flip phones can't

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play Pokemon Sleep. And

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yeah. You mean like foldable phones? Oh,

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yes, sorry. I was like, I

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don't think any flip phones can play Pokemon Sleep. That's

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the new yeah. My752, your

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razor can not play Pokemon Sleep. Ha,

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ha, ha, ha, ha. I had two of those

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and I loved them. I

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had the T-Mobile sidekick and I loved it.

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I had a flip phone. I was too young to remember

4:16

what kind it was. Was

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it not just a Motorola? Everyone just had a Razer

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at a certain point. At one point, yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah, certain foldable phones struggle to

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play sleep. I know nothing

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about foldables besides there's like a lot of

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them now. Are there

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some? There are a few. There are three

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major companies that do them, I think. Who's

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the third? There's Google Pixel, there's Samsung.

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There's Google Pixel, there's Samsung. I think there's

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the third. Didn't Motorola make

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a Motorola? They called it the right though.

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I think so. They did. Yeah,

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yeah. The flip Razer. Yeah, that

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one. Oh, the flip one. Yeah,

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you're right. Okay. I'm

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not. Can't just bit me. He's

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very mad at me. I'm not sure. This

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episode's off the rails already.

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What we get for a Wednesday episode.

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Here's our, what's our speculation here? Do

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we think they're going to do Entei

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first or Suicune first? What's

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the Pokedex order there? I always get them mixed up.

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I don't know if Suicune is last out of the

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three in the Pokedex order, but let me verify real

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quick. Yeah. Yeah, I don't

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have a poster with all of the Pokemon on my wall

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right now. It's Raiko Entei Suicune is

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the order. Then

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I would guess Entei next. That

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just seems- Is it just Pokedex order? Logical.

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Yeah. Well, obviously Entei at

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the beach doesn't make any sense. Yeah.

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No. Entei in Topalo

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doesn't make sense. Entei in

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Topalo doesn't make sense. In

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Topalo, yeah. But I'm still kind

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of convinced that- If they do it at

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all in a non-greengrass island,

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they will also have an option

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for greengrass. I'm

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not convinced they would do an event

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just on a non-greengrass

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island. It would

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be nice to see, oh, Ente

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is here. You can either choose greengrass or you

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can choose Apollo. Yeah, that

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kind of thing. But one is

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harder than the other when it comes

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to powering up. As

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someone who didn't play at all

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before the Raiko event, did

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the spawns change on greengrass before

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the Raiko event? Or

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are there still only specific things that

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are going to spawn on greengrass, regardless

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of whether there was a Raiko

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event or not? Raiko didn't bring

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any unique spawns to greengrass,

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like slightly increase the chance

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of electric Pokémon. Okay,

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but all those electric Pokémon were already

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available to be found on greengrass prior

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to Raiko. So if

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Ente came to greengrass, it

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would be the same. It was most likely

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the same Pokémon would be able to show

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up along with Ente on greengrass. It wouldn't

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be. And maybe they boost something, but the ones

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that were already there would stay, would probably be

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the ones that would spawn. Higher

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Pokémon are even on greengrass besides Charmander.

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So you get an influx of Charmander. Yeah,

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I think Rala is on greengrass. Yeah, I think

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so. Okay. Have

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they done in the past where

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there's like an event, but it's multiple

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places? Yeah,

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there was the event where they introduced the

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Dene and they also introduced some

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Pokémon from Lapis. So

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you could, that was the week that Lapis opened. Well, Lapis technically

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opened, I think like three days beforehand or

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something like that. Where like it opened

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midweek and like people jumped to it midweek, which

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is those hardcore players. A

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choice. And then when that event

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started, you could either go to greengrass or you

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could go to greengrass. Lapis. Got

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it. There was a very small percentage of players

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that had that choice. Because you have to

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be pretty far in the game to have Lapis unlocked.

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So you were kind of forced. There

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was also a week where they boosted

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shiny Pokemon. And it

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was like six Pokemon that were shiny. I had like spent

8:17

way too long in a YouTube thumbnail about

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it and then that YouTube thumbnail ended up

8:22

being a very bad click

8:24

thing for YouTube for the

8:26

podcast. But it was

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like Absol, Jigglypuff, Pinsir,

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and then like three other Pokemon that

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had increased shiny. And you could go

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to any island. But some islands like

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Topalo spawned none of those Pokemon. So

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there was no point in going to Topalo. And

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then like Greengrass spawned all of them. But

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like if people wanted Absol, they were like just

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Absol. You would go to like Tundra. It was like

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really weird. Like it was technically

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every island, but they were not

8:55

equal by any means.

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Yeah. But it was nice you

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got the choice. Sad that

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I missed a shiny event. I

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hope they bring one around again. Well, you

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haven't gotten any shinies yet, right? No.

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Okay, interesting. I call myself a shiny

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hunter. All

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my shinies are bad. Yeah.

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And I don't even have that many. They

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introduced Didenae with Ryko

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technically. Like Didenae was like

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the new Pokemon like a week before Ryko came out

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or whatever. Two weeks.

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Yeah. Okay. I

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would assume they would maybe do like a new fire Pokemon. I don't

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know what that would be like Ponyta.

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That one would be popular. What

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other popular fire type Pokemon

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would they have that would look cute

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when asleep? Because I think that's another

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factor. I think people will be surprised to have

9:52

cute Volcarona can look sleeping. Do

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you have any Shin 5 Pokemon? Maybe

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we have Dead to Night's Gen 6 and Glade

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is Gen 4 so they have-

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Unova Unconfirmed. No Unova Pokemon

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in Pokemon Sleep. How

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sad. I actually don't

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think there is any Unova Pokemon. They're

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saving it for Pokemon Sleep

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Black and White where it's only

10:19

Unova Pokemon. Yeah, only Unova. Yeah.

10:23

Yeah. I would assume

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that this 1.5 is getting ready for the

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next Legendary. Also

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before we move on to Pokemon Go,

10:33

I've not used Dideat at all this

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past week and I'm regretting it because

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I don't- I think Dideat is so good. Dideat

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is amazing. Why aren't you using Dideat? You just found-

10:43

You thought you had it better. Because I'm

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on beach and so all my Pokemon, it's

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like Oran Berry, Pekka Berry which is wiggly

10:49

tough Oran Berry's water Pokemon and then the

10:52

Flying Berry. I don't remember what that's called. But

10:54

I have Pokemon that match all those and

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Dideat doesn't match. So I was like, okay,

10:58

I'm- go all the- like I- for the first time

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ever, I have like five Pokemon that match all of

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these. No. And

11:05

Dideat is Electric, not Fairy, right? Yeah, Dideat is

11:07

Electric in this game. I felt like

11:09

I was critting once a day with Dideat. Yeah.

11:12

I have had a day where I crit every

11:15

single meal because of my Dideat

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or at least in part thanks to my

11:19

Dideat. And

11:21

I'm- I mean, my Dideat

11:24

does not collect the most berries, does

11:26

not collect the most ingredients, but that

11:28

skill is so useful.

11:30

I have like a Slow King and it's

11:33

possibly the best Slow King you could

11:35

have. And to

11:37

get Slow King Tails, because it's

11:39

the only Pokemon that can get Slow King Tails, is

11:41

the Slow Poke line. Eventually

11:43

Ditto. And Slow King is better

11:46

than Slow Bro. There's no difference,

11:48

it's just Slow King is like 0.1% better

11:51

than Slow Bro. And

11:54

it just feels so useless on my

11:56

team. Just- Oh

11:59

no. I don't know how you get it,

12:01

like I'm, there probably is a better sloking out

12:03

there, but my sloking matches everything that should be

12:05

good and it just feels completely

12:08

useless. And I probably will

12:10

switch it out for Dedenne just because it

12:13

barely gets any berries, it barely gets any

12:15

slopo tails. It has like

12:17

ingredient finder M. Yeah, I'm

12:19

feeling like almost any team I want to

12:22

have going forward is gonna need to have

12:24

Dedenne and Wigglytuff on it. Just

12:26

the combination of those two. Yeah, you

12:28

could sub out Wigglytuff for Espeon or

12:31

the Ralts line. Mm-hmm.

12:35

Right, but the Ralts line is from Lapis, right?

12:37

Yeah. You have to get Ralts from

12:39

Lapis. So that is... I'm still 16 more

12:41

sleep styles away from that. Oh no. Yeah.

12:44

So I'm much closer than I was before the Raiku event. That's

12:47

good. Yeah, I have an Iglibuff

12:49

right now that I know I'm using, but

12:51

I'm months from Lapis

12:54

probably. Pokémon

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Go. There was actually a

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lot of Pokémon Go news this morning,

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so very convenient. Thank you Niantic. Before

13:05

we get to the news this morning, they

13:07

didn't announce the April Community Day will

13:09

be Bellsprout. It is on April

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20th. Some

13:14

people celebrate that day for whatever

13:18

reason. People celebrate a

13:20

lot of days. I think it was like National

13:22

Donut Day the other day. It is on

13:24

Saturday, April 20th from 2 to 5. Just

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also a fun fact about Bellsprout.

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Its Pokédex number is 69. I'm

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sure there's no coincidence there. Yeah, there's no...

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Definitely. There is a coincidence there's what

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I meant, sorry. Also

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gets to move magical leaf. Whoever

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planned out this Community Day...

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How with this. They

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thought. Real hard about

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it. I'm very

13:54

excited to bring this Community Day

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to life. Yeah, they've been waiting

13:58

years for this. when is

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the next time April 20th is

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on a weekend? The

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news about this isn't like Bellsprout being

14:08

shiny or that it's on 4-20. I

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think the news to take away from this

14:14

is Niantic is not afraid to still do

14:16

Gen 1 community. Well,

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I think at least in

14:21

our Slack, there was a poll

14:23

to ask how many shiny Bellsprout

14:25

people had. And most people still

14:27

don't have many if any. I

14:30

don't have a single one yet. I

14:33

might have two. Yeah, I

14:35

got them years apart. Yeah,

14:38

it's definitely one that's not. I don't think

14:40

it's been in anything.

14:42

I'm trying to think if there's any

14:45

event that really... Because when it was

14:47

released, it was just released I think

14:49

during a... During a big drop. It was a

14:51

game tour, it got released, wasn't it? No, no, it

14:53

wasn't. It came out before Game 2. Because

14:56

I have one from... I remember I got

14:58

the day it released and that was the

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first time I've ever gotten a shiny day

15:03

of release. It was Bellsprout. I

15:06

got one in February 8th, 2019. Wasn't

15:12

it like Save

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the Trees, Plastic is Bad event?

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That's how they label it in America, Save

15:21

the Trees, Plastic is Bad. Oh,

15:23

isn't the week you're talking about, Steve?

15:31

Save the Trees, Plastic is Bad. Sustainability week.

15:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The

15:36

week after the Bellsprout community day? Yeah,

15:38

I think it is. Okay. Yeah,

15:41

it's just... There you go. It's a rubbish is supposed to be. And

15:44

by the way, I was looking at the completely

15:46

wrong Bellsprout. My first shiny

15:48

Bellsprout was from July 19th, 2020. So, year and a half

15:51

after I thought it was.

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But that still was prior to Kanto Tour.

15:58

So, yeah. Okay. Okay, so this

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is April. I'm going to

16:02

go fast. And then May

16:04

should be pop Leo. Theoretically.

16:08

Theoretically. And then

16:10

June should be

16:13

whatever the scam dragon won

16:16

last year. Right. It'll be

16:18

goomy from last year. Goomy. Goomy. Yeah.

16:21

Which is a good shiny. Yeah. Great

16:24

shiny. Great shiny. I somehow got

16:26

two of them last year during go fest and neither were from raids. Like

16:29

because they were in the wild. That was kind of the

16:31

first time. Yeah. They did where there

16:33

was in the wild as well. And I got two of them

16:35

during go fest. So that was. They were also

16:37

in research I think too. Or maybe it was research

16:39

but they weren't only in raids. Yeah, there

16:41

was something else. Different. I got a

16:43

shiny goomy. Not

16:45

raiding. Yeah, but the

16:48

research was do five raids or something like that,

16:50

wasn't it? Oh, maybe. That

16:52

would not surprise me. I was raiding just not for goomy. That

16:55

sounds. That feels like the

16:57

right thing. Yeah, that does. I

17:00

feel like they usually because like go fest

17:02

isn't until in July though,

17:04

right? I feel like they do the the rate.

17:07

The at least this happened like

17:09

last year and the year before. The community day

17:11

for last year's dragon

17:13

raid Pokemon is like

17:15

right after go fest.

17:18

And I feel like it's always to remind everyone who

17:20

just raided a bunch like by the way, this is

17:22

going to be next year's thing and you just spent

17:24

a bunch of money for no reason. People fall for

17:26

it every year still. I fall for it every year.

17:29

I'm so close this year. If

17:33

they were doing shiny jeng mo at the

17:35

in person go fest at the New York one,

17:38

I would do the raids there but they're

17:40

not. So they are saving me. Are they

17:42

not? The shiny is not.

17:45

The shiny is only at the global. Oh,

17:47

I see. And I'm not going to do it

17:49

for the global. Well,

17:51

no, no, they forgot to add the shiny

17:53

symbol. No, it

17:56

was announced. It was one of the first things

17:58

that was announced. Wow. It's

18:00

a very shiny. It's one of my favorite shinies

18:02

and I'm gonna be patient. That's

18:04

a great... That

18:07

is the opposite reaction of what I have

18:10

in any of this stuff. I

18:12

am gonna try to be patient. Well,

18:15

they did announce more stuff for

18:17

Go Fest, speaking of Go Fest.

18:20

Sendai was sold out as of this

18:22

morning. Only Saturday is sold out, the

18:24

pre-sale sold out. So they did allow

18:27

more tickets. I don't know where

18:29

these people are staying because

18:32

the whole area of Sendai doesn't have

18:34

any hotels. And anytime I

18:36

go to a hotel site to double check, they're like,

18:38

the nearest hotel is two hours away. Would you like

18:40

to book? That's

18:42

what people are saying. Can I have to get there on the bullet train every

18:45

morning? Yeah. You

18:47

know, take a 13-hour flight to Japan.

18:49

Maybe a two-hour train

18:51

ride is not terrible. I'm trying to

18:53

ride every day. I do

18:55

wonder how expansive

18:57

the like... Play in Sendai.

19:00

Because Sendai itself is not big. So

19:04

is that gonna extend to Fukushima? Is that

19:06

gonna extend to... We

19:09

don't know what the play area is. I think

19:11

for New York, it was like every borough you could

19:13

play in. It

19:16

wasn't just like Manhattan.

19:19

It was like all of New York.

19:21

And I think a little bit of

19:23

that. Jersey. Where people were like, yeah, I was like

19:26

across the lake and I was

19:28

still getting spawned in that lake river. I think

19:30

so. Gave Jersey

19:32

a chance too. Yeah. Jersey got

19:34

something finally. They announced the

19:37

official Pokemon Go Fest 2024 t-shirt.

19:39

You can buy it. It

19:42

looks like it is shipping. It

19:45

is a purple with a

19:48

prism pokeball and just

19:51

slap Nacrozma right across from it. It

19:53

is. Okay, when I say slap, it's

19:55

not like the image from Bulbapedia, which

19:57

a lot of merchandise is like. What

20:00

image can we have from Bubblepedia? From

20:04

Kensuke Mori. Slap it on, charge you

20:06

$40. This does look like

20:08

a new piece of artwork of

20:11

Necrozma. Necrozma. Maybe. I

20:14

mean, it's head on, which is

20:17

not usually a Pokemon artwork, but they've

20:19

done that of Necrozma before. It's

20:21

definitely a stock image from somewhere. And

20:24

this is also, this is where

20:26

I have my complaint. I

20:29

said this last year for this shirt,

20:31

for last year's shirt that I'm

20:33

wearing right now, they need to move the design

20:35

up by an inch or an inch and a

20:38

half. I don't know why they've

20:40

decided to center the design around the solar

20:42

plexus. That's not how a

20:44

t-shirt is supposed to work. Here's

20:47

mine from 2021. Look how much higher

20:49

it is. It didn't used to be this way.

20:51

This is where it's supposed to be. The design

20:53

is still too low. It looks fine in

20:55

game. They released the picture of the

20:57

models in game wearing it and the

20:59

in game models look fine. The

21:01

design is one or two inches higher relative

21:04

to the in person t-shirt and

21:06

the in person t-shirt is different and

21:08

it's wrong. You're saying

21:10

a man designed this t-shirt.

21:13

Yes. Yes. And

21:20

it looks bad on everybody as a result.

21:23

Yeah, I bought. Otherwise it looks fine. The design is

21:25

neat. The color is different. I need more purple in

21:27

my wardrobe. It needs to be... Yeah.

21:30

The design needs to be higher. And

21:32

it is a light... It's like a lavender. It's like a

21:34

very light purple. I would say. It's

21:36

not... I wouldn't say it's a... Yeah,

21:39

lavender is made yet. It's not pastel. No.

21:42

But it's a lighter purple. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

21:45

Yeah. I agree with Hannah

21:47

that the design is too low. I will

21:50

say Niantic does a lot of things wrong. They

21:52

barely do anything right. Whatever

21:54

they work with for clothing, that

21:57

was a right decision. I have

21:59

gotten... multiple shirts that

22:01

I've purchased from Niantic and

22:04

they always just feel better than like shirts

22:06

from like Pokemon Center or What

22:08

you get at like Target? I don't

22:10

like the Pokemon. Definitely that. I don't know I feel like

22:12

the Pokemon Center has good quality t-shirts. Yeah.

22:15

Oh really? Yeah, I

22:17

feel like the Pokemon Center shirts

22:19

are too boxy interesting. There's like

22:21

well the different that's fair There

22:25

they're there and they feel like very 90s. I

22:28

guess I would say that of my

22:30

Pokemon World's 2019

22:32

shirt that is boxier and

22:34

a sturdier fabric Mm-hmm it is sort of

22:36

the ones the ones that I've

22:38

gotten from the Pokemon Center are usually closer

22:40

to what I get from Niantic which is

22:42

kind of a really comfortable Fabric.

22:45

Yeah that just kind of you

22:47

take it out of the packaging and go. Oh, this

22:50

is this feels like a high-quality shirt Mm-hmm.

22:52

Yeah, I agree I will say I had

22:55

you have a couple shirts from Pokemon Center that

22:58

are a little bit boxier a little bit

23:00

I think kind of weird, but

23:02

I would say Niantic

23:05

like to Steve's point is like the best

23:07

shirts I've ever worn for the

23:09

way I like to wear my shirts They

23:11

fit just right and then Pokemon

23:13

Center. I feel like a second to that with

23:16

their shirts like I do really enjoy The

23:19

Pokemon Center shirts as well But

23:21

yeah Niantic I for some reason I didn't

23:23

buy the 2023 go fest shirt last year

23:26

But I will say it is still available at

23:29

least in some sizes So I was able to

23:31

pick up one of those today along with the

23:33

2024 shirt But yeah,

23:36

Niantic shirts doing it right. Maybe

23:38

they should move to selling work Structure

23:42

is right the design right

23:44

there is still yes, there are definitely still

23:47

Yeah, I know I'm not an answer without an issue right like

23:50

gotta have something. Yeah, I don't know what like

23:52

sure it's it's not even like it's Gilla

23:55

Gilla den or gliad in or whatever

23:57

that one shirt brand is Gladion,

24:02

it's not like a hein. Yeah, I was trying to figure

24:04

out if you were trying to pronounce the Pokemon character. No,

24:06

no, it was. Was that... Is it Gildin

24:08

the shirt company? Gildin? Gildin,

24:10

I think. Gildin. I hate Gildin

24:12

shirts. Yeah. They all

24:14

feel boxy to me. The Gildin shirts always feel boxy.

24:17

And they're not soft at all. Mm-mm.

24:19

Also when like... Like fan paper.

24:22

I have made some merch before

24:24

and like Gildin is like the

24:26

bottom, like the cheapest here

24:29

you can get when you're making a shirt. I

24:31

guess if you wanted to like maximize your profits, you

24:34

would go Gildin. They

24:38

also announced this morning

24:40

was... Necrozma is

24:42

coming to Go Fest in Raids. It's

24:46

on the shirt, so I would hope so. It

24:48

is on the shirt. Crazy.

24:54

Necrozma, the prism Pokemon will make its

24:56

worldwide debut in Pokemon Go in Raids

24:58

during Go Fest Global. They

25:01

also updated the website a little

25:03

bit. We see that three star

25:05

raids will have Espeon wearing a

25:08

day scarf and Umbreon wearing a

25:10

night scarf. This is different

25:14

than the Eevee wearing the sun crown

25:16

or the moon crown unless they're

25:18

not telling us that the crown

25:21

morphs into a scarf when you

25:23

evolve it. I don't think

25:25

that happens. That would be new.

25:28

Yeah. The clothing item dramatically

25:31

changing. The clothing item

25:33

evolves. But they have definitely

25:35

done an Eeveelution

25:38

who has something

25:40

that the other ones don't glace

25:42

on in the like winter cape

25:45

is a good or maybe the only example.

25:48

But yeah, so this would be kind

25:51

of interesting if they ended up like at

25:53

some point doing each Eeveelution has its own

25:55

unique. I mean, it's

25:57

another way to get people to raid, right? Get

26:00

me more money on that but it would be

26:02

kind of interesting for like each evolution to have

26:04

a unique costume of its own down the line

26:08

So I like the I like these ones these

26:10

scarves on Sb on

26:12

the number one. Yeah, I mean they are

26:14

very clearly trying to make sure these are

26:16

raids people want to do in The

26:20

one star raids in the three star raids in the five

26:22

star raids We have the shiny

26:24

Jeng Ma oh we have the Eeveelutions with the

26:26

new costumes and we have the shiny

26:28

Nacrosma so they're trying to

26:30

make sure people want to do these raids

26:32

which Is

26:34

fair things being locked to raids

26:37

is is a thing, but I understand

26:39

why they do it money

26:43

It works for them. Yep. I mean

26:45

to be fair like if

26:48

you were to purchase the raid lover thing

26:52

Which is what like 18 free passes a day

26:54

and you get it for all the

26:56

days you play it's a

26:58

good deal and even

27:01

even me who Has

27:04

given Niantic way too much money and

27:06

is always upset about it and is

27:08

I would say I would consider myself

27:10

a hardcore Pokemon go player sometimes

27:12

you just get distracted with other stuff You

27:15

you don't raid as much as you

27:17

anticipate what I'm saying is like if you

27:20

purchase the Raid

27:22

lover pass you need to burn

27:24

your raids on something so it's

27:26

nice that you can burn your raids on something

27:29

that isn't just like neato

27:31

Queen or like Yeah,

27:35

like do I agree like something that's like

27:37

Oh, why is this in raids? I don't

27:39

need this It can't even be shiny. Like

27:41

it's cool that like this is a new Pokemon. It

27:43

can be shy Well a new costume

27:46

it can be shiny It

27:48

seems easy enough to do for people that are like

27:50

I bought the raid lover pass There's

27:52

only like me and one other person we can't

27:54

do Stock a

27:57

taka. So it's not stuck attack tonight in the

27:59

game. We can't We can't

28:01

do Tapu Bulu with two people, but we can at

28:03

least do Espeon wearing a day

28:05

scarf. So yes, it is

28:07

money grabby, but also it feels

28:10

more respectful of people who purchased

28:12

a raid lover who maybe don't

28:15

care to do the Ultra Beasts because they already got

28:17

them or they don't have

28:20

enough people to do them or they... Like,

28:22

let's be honest here, Espeon and Umbreon

28:24

are incredibly popular Pokemon. Umbreon

28:27

is at least. Espeon is less.

28:29

It's still very popular. Not as

28:31

popular as Umbreon though. Okay,

28:33

fine. I will say I'm surprised

28:36

they haven't leaned into that a little more with

28:38

the One Star. One

28:40

Star has always been kind of fine, right?

28:43

Because they will throw

28:45

easier Pokemon who are maybe newer Shinies, things like

28:47

that into a One Star raid. Five

28:49

Star raids have been Five Star raids forever. And

28:52

then Three Star raids have always had that weird

28:54

middle ground where most of the time... They're

28:57

bad. They aren't worth

28:59

doing. They are if you are looking

29:01

for very specific things. And

29:04

for a while, the thing they did with Three

29:06

Star raids was they put Pokemon in there that

29:09

were strong against the Five Star raids. If

29:11

you didn't have a Pokemon to battle the

29:13

Five Star raids, you could do a Three

29:15

Star raid and get a Pokemon for the

29:17

Five Star raid from that. That was, for

29:19

a long time, the gimmick. The

29:22

problem is that most people don't... A

29:25

lot of people don't need those Pokemon.

29:27

Right. And I think that

29:30

there is something to putting Pokemon

29:32

that are popular but also ones

29:35

that can be Shiny because for a long time,

29:37

there weren't Shiny Pokemon in Three

29:39

Star raids. It would almost never be something

29:43

that could be Shiny in a Three Star raid. But

29:45

things that allow people to solo

29:47

raid or just raid with one other person

29:50

because, like you said, sometimes you don't have

29:52

five or six people to raid with

29:55

to do the Five Star raids. So they're not... So

29:57

maybe you can't get those Five Star raids but... in

30:00

three-star raids that's also popular but

30:19

cool I can do this on my own or just grab one other person

30:21

to to raid with and I'm surprised that

30:23

they haven't leaned more

30:25

into that outside of events. They're

30:28

starting to go that way like the three-star raids outside

30:30

of events do have more like

30:33

shiny opportunity now now that more shiny pokemon

30:35

are in the game but it would

30:39

be fun to see I don't know maybe like more I love

30:41

I love costumed pokemon so if they wanted to like

30:44

start adding more I know that's a real controversial

30:47

thing because some people hate

30:49

costumed pokemon but I just

30:52

think it'd be interesting to have them lean

30:54

into more fun three-star raids for especially for

30:56

people who don't have groups of

30:58

five or six to do those five-star raids. I

31:01

will say I also prefer it when

31:03

they also have an opportunity to get

31:06

those newer pokemon or

31:08

more exciting pokemon in

31:10

research as

31:12

well as in raids especially research that isn't

31:15

win five raids but that's rare.

31:18

Yeah that doesn't usually happen. That's the

31:21

worst when the research is

31:23

like oh it's not in raids

31:25

that's great it's going to be in research. Research wins

31:27

three raids. That's worse.

31:29

You should have just put it in raids. Did

31:33

they say I know like if you if

31:35

you go to the global page and you

31:37

hit learn more you can see like everything

31:39

that's supposed to be spawning

31:42

like one-star raids is Pikachu, Pikachu,

31:44

Jengma, oh three-star raids

31:46

are the Umbreon Espion, five-star raids

31:48

are Nihiligo, Buzzwall, Pheromosa, Zirke Tree,

31:51

Celosilah, Kartana, Guzzlord, and Necrozma. Is

31:53

there not going to be like a day and night theme

31:56

at the Skofest like they did for Sinnoh Tour where it

31:58

was um current

32:00

time and then like the ultra

32:04

distortion the space-time

32:07

distortion so they did like a

32:09

half hour of non space-time and then a half

32:11

hour of space-time space-time anomaly

32:13

in Pokemon go yeah

32:15

anomaly not the distortion

32:19

there's a reason for that uh-huh so

32:21

wouldn't like Pikachu in the moon crown appear at

32:23

like the night and then Pikachu

32:26

with the Sun crown during the day and then

32:28

I would assume some ultra beasts would be at

32:30

night and some would be during the day otherwise

32:32

that just seems like it's too

32:34

random of when ultra bees can come out like

32:37

the baby like the most disappointing thing that could

32:39

happen is like you're playing worldwide in your city

32:41

your city only has like two gyms and

32:44

like it announce they did announce

32:46

the four habitats so I think that's what

32:48

you're looking for there the rotating

32:50

habitat thing and so they announced

32:52

two habitats being kind of daytime

32:55

habitats and two habitats being nighttime

32:57

habitats at least this is on

32:59

the global news I'm assuming it's gonna be for

33:01

the in-person ones too similar to

33:03

how they've done it in the past

33:06

yeah they have the dawn meadow habitat

33:08

the shining day habitat the

33:10

creeping dusk habitat and the

33:12

darkest night habitat these were all

33:14

generated by AI like give us

33:16

give us the most generic no

33:20

I think they're fine but

33:24

inside even even like go fest

33:27

or Sinnoh tour LA had habitats

33:29

for habitats you could walk to but inside

33:32

those every half hour it still changed

33:34

yeah do you so you're thinking

33:37

you're wondering would they do that something like

33:39

that for because you you

33:41

wouldn't want I mean yeah

33:43

to your point there are eight different

33:45

five-star raids that could possibly be occurring

33:49

right there's eight and

33:51

there's four habitats it would

33:53

break in half no I could see

33:56

I see your point though if like

33:58

you said if you have a if you're in a town and

34:00

there's like a few just a few gyms what

34:02

is to say you don't end up with you know three Cortana

34:06

right like there's a big variety

34:08

of Pokemon like that like

34:10

five star raids so I

34:13

know they typically do what do

34:15

they do now 30 minute increments for raids

34:17

so they'll switch them out like every 30

34:19

minutes typically for these events.

34:22

For a raid day they do kind of reset the raids

34:25

every 30 minutes at this point so that if

34:27

you only have three gyms nearby you and

34:29

you have three hours to do the raid

34:31

day then you have six opportunities to do

34:33

those raids. Right I think Cenotore

34:35

was that way too like all the raids were

34:38

resetting like every 30 minutes 20 or 30 minutes

34:41

yeah as well. But also Steve I think

34:43

you're thinking too much of the in-person events

34:46

where there's actual physical locations to go to

34:49

with the different habitats based on that. On

34:51

the global ones with the different habitats that's

34:53

usually based on time at

34:55

least historically so it's going to rotate

34:58

through those over time

35:00

and yeah the raids are probably

35:02

going to be broken down into a different

35:04

subset per habitat would

35:06

be my guess. Because the global

35:08

Cenotore didn't do the same

35:12

30 minute thing that the

35:14

in-person LA one did where like it

35:16

was the back half was the back

35:18

half was did they time distortions it

35:21

was also the same for the I don't I didn't remember

35:24

that for the global one but I remember for the LA

35:26

one yeah like the back half of the hour was distortion

35:28

so you were getting the origin form. Maybe

35:30

they were re-enrades. And the front half

35:33

was the modern like

35:35

the regular Dialga and Palkia for the

35:37

LA Cenotore. No yeah they still did

35:39

the back half because when it when

35:41

it turned into the space time anomaly

35:43

not distortion that was your only chance

35:45

of getting the horse forms.

35:47

Right but in the global tour they

35:50

that was every hour they switched between

35:52

like they switched between the

35:54

space time like the Hisui stuff and then

35:56

every one hour it was yeah and at

35:58

the end of the day. the global

36:00

one that was switched per hour but

36:02

at the LA one it was every

36:04

half hour 30 minutes. Yeah, it was every half hour.

36:06

Yeah, that they switched it. Okay, then I am just

36:08

remembering got it. But they

36:10

could do the same thing with these habitats

36:13

in the same way. They could hourly when

36:15

they switch the habitat per hour on the

36:17

global one, they could switch. Okay, now you're

36:19

gonna see these because there's

36:21

eight so they could do these two Pokemon

36:23

these two five star raids will happen between

36:25

you know, these hours and then switch

36:27

it every hour so that it's

36:29

not just eight random

36:32

ones every single time. Yeah, I'm just

36:34

thinking that like, that one

36:36

was for legendary Pokemon, technically to

36:38

poutias to the algas. And

36:41

this is eight Pokemon. Yeah,

36:44

a lot. It is a lot. Did

36:47

they say anywhere whether Celestila

36:49

and cartana would be respective

36:52

to their regions? Just shows

36:54

them both. It just shows them in the

36:56

pool of eight. If they're not, which

36:59

is fine. Well, not fine. It's

37:02

would be expected. That's like

37:04

seven Pokemon instead of eight and eight

37:06

fits into four a lot better.

37:09

If they are saying like, Oh, Nyligo and

37:11

Buzzwole is the first habitat and pheromones and

37:13

zurkachrees the second one like I

37:16

could see them having them all and

37:19

kind of doing away with the hemisphere thing for

37:21

this event, just because it's just

37:24

because it's go fast. Like, yeah, I think

37:26

I mean, like they already milked people at

37:28

this point. They already like multiple

37:30

times three times. They've

37:34

already done the cartana Celestila milking

37:36

phase multiple times. At

37:39

this point, although if they do break

37:42

these different five star raids down into

37:44

kind of two two

37:46

Pokemon per habitat chunks, Necrozma

37:49

is going to be harder to get. That's true.

37:53

They want

37:55

people to operate for the new one. That's why they

37:57

made it shiny. it

38:00

shiny is something is interesting because that

38:02

kind of shows that they

38:04

do want people to rate it a bunch versus

38:07

maybe just doing a one and done kind of thing

38:10

which would make more sense if they

38:12

were just introducing it without the shiny. Well, like

38:14

Necrozma is a weird exception because like it's

38:17

not, cannot spend

38:19

a half hour on this but I would,

38:21

it's not an Ultra Beast. So

38:24

it like it's a weird exception because it's not

38:27

an Ultra Beast here, it's not an Ultra Beast

38:29

in general and so they can milk

38:31

Necrozma in a different way. They can do Necrozma,

38:33

they can do Ultra Necrozma, they can do Dawnwing

38:36

Necrozma, they can do Duskmane

38:38

Necrozma. This

38:40

being shiny is like here's your Necrozma

38:42

that's gonna be the worst out of

38:45

the other four like we have three

38:47

other Necrozmas that are significantly better than

38:49

this one. If

38:52

they're thinking how do we get the most money out of

38:54

our customers, they'll go crazy and spend

38:56

a bunch of money to try to get the shiny and

38:59

then guess what? We got three more

39:01

Necrozmas in the closet that you're gonna do the

39:03

same thing for and they're going

39:05

to be better than this one. Well, we

39:08

don't know how they're releasing Pokemon

39:10

that fuse because like we haven't had that

39:12

yet. I mean we had. We did have

39:14

that. We had that for six hours and

39:16

then they pulled it from people because they

39:19

did that but the way

39:21

they did that wasn't raids. The way

39:23

they did that was go battle league. I don't think

39:26

it was supposed to be there. No,

39:28

no, no. No, it wasn't supposed to. Obviously.

39:30

Obviously they took it away from people. But

39:35

um. Well, there's only like

39:37

what like three Pokemon in the game

39:39

that like you can change forms that

39:42

would be like Hoopa, Fervrue. And

39:45

Shaman. And Shaman. And

39:48

oh yeah, so far. Yeah.

39:51

And then they gave up. They

39:54

just milk the heck out of this. They'd

39:57

give you Nacrozma and then eventually

39:59

Sogalia Lunala. Come to raids because

40:02

they're just gonna do that again because you can

40:04

only get one anyways And that's just easy money

40:06

for them. And then they're just gonna do dawn

40:08

wings Necrozma and dong's wings Necrozma Duskmane

40:11

and dawn wings just like when white

40:14

kyram and black kyram come Like

40:16

your current kyram is useless. There's nothing that's

40:19

gonna like Yeah,

40:23

yeah, I'm still hoping they will do

40:25

adventure effects on some of these Pokemon though

40:28

I want to see more of those. Yes.

40:30

Yeah, I don't think Necrozma is good enough

40:33

for an adventure effect But I think like

40:35

a Duskmane or Dawn wings would be yeah

40:37

those ones save it for like

40:39

I guess I'm a little shocked That

40:41

they're going all in on Ultra Beast

40:44

plus Necrozma and not so

40:46

Galio and Lunala are not here Well,

40:48

they're not fully going all in because we

40:50

still don't have plus several on or stock

40:52

attack. Yeah, or Well, I

40:54

guess we have poipole. We have poipole. But

40:56

like poipole is also not here Yeah,

40:59

I can't evolve poipole though. So you

41:01

we only have poipole and

41:03

that was also a Sad

41:06

release of that Ultra Beast. It was

41:08

just like here it is step one

41:10

of the research. Yep, you get poipole.

41:12

You got it You're good We

41:15

don't need to worry about it. I guess like

41:17

poipole makes sense in that because like in ultra

41:19

Sun ultra moon It was gift in gift. Yeah,

41:22

you're around tundra DLC. It was a gift in

41:25

Niantic it was a gift of please play

41:27

our game Please play the season Please

41:33

Yeah, I guess so I I think

41:35

that to your point I think

41:38

they're going yeah, they'll milk Necrozma for years

41:40

I'm sure just like they do with everything

41:42

else but I Do

41:45

think and again, I

41:47

think Solgaleo and Lunala will new

41:49

loo Wow, I can talk Lunala

41:51

will also come back in raids

41:54

when Probably when

41:56

it can be shiny I

41:58

would imagine like they'll bring them that's when

42:00

you could probably get a shiny one will be

42:02

in raids. Yeah, I don't know. They

42:04

still need to give us a fourth Cosmog

42:06

so I can finish the line because

42:09

right now I don't have Lunala because I

42:11

don't want to evolve my Cosmo

42:13

on until I have a

42:15

fourth one one day. Maybe.

42:19

Maybe. One day maybe. I

42:21

don't think a lot of raids is necessarily bad. I

42:23

do remember the one year where they were

42:25

like every legendary is coming back to raids

42:27

and that was like gen one through three

42:29

or something. That was a go fest? Yeah,

42:32

that was a go fest. Yeah. That

42:35

was. I think it was the second global

42:37

one. Yeah. The 2021 go

42:39

fest. Okay.

42:43

I think. And I just remember that being like

42:45

a really good raid day. It felt like fresh.

42:47

Because like even if you think about the last one

42:50

with the Sinnoh tour it

42:52

was like, do you have the

42:54

Alga? Do you have Palkia? Do you have the

42:56

Alga that looks like a horse or the Palkia that

42:58

looks like a horse? All right, you're done. Whereas

43:01

it was like the

43:03

birds, the beast, Lugia,

43:06

Ho-Oh, Raudan, Kyogre,

43:09

Latias, Latios. They had. They

43:12

made a whole day out of that didn't they?

43:14

Yeah, they did. Because in past they were like,

43:16

okay, Saturday is this kind of like it's kind

43:18

of more focused toward story and

43:20

catching things. And then

43:22

Sunday is like raid day. Yeah. It's

43:25

like go fest raid day. Yeah. Okay.

43:28

I do remember that. Yeah, they made like an event out of

43:30

that. I mean, I will say

43:32

on the website for the

43:34

Sunday on go fest, it does

43:37

also have like Sunday is a little

43:39

bit different than Saturday. In

43:41

that Sunday it says there

43:43

won't be any actual rotating habitat hours. So

43:46

on Sunday, all the Pokemon will just appear

43:49

throughout the day. So

43:52

I could see them doing Saturday

43:55

rotating habitats with the

43:58

raids rotating. Then Sunday

44:00

you could have all eight of the five

44:03

star raids just happening throughout the day as

44:05

well, which would kind of Get

44:07

both sides satisfied there where maybe

44:09

you'll be able to stack

44:11

up on the crows my that day if you want

44:14

We don't think like this go fest isn't gonna give

44:16

us like this is gonna be our fourth Cosmo Like

44:19

is that probably not gonna be

44:21

part of a story research that they

44:23

do maybe but they've been pushing more

44:25

shadow and everything So I feel like

44:27

they're going to focus more that way

44:29

and then raids like ultra beasts and

44:31

things Yeah, more like legendary slash ultra

44:33

beasts for raids versus. Thank you for

44:37

This closing that you're not all I'd be

44:39

serious with that for you

44:43

Although Necrozma in the video

44:45

that Niantic posted this morning. It comes

44:48

out of an ultra wormhole. It does.

44:50

Okay So so gail, this is the

44:52

so Galio and Lunala can open an

44:54

ultra wormhole, too They're not

44:56

all to be Bro, that's true.

44:59

That's true. That's true Yeah,

45:02

what? Yeah, they are from all the real

45:04

estate, which I understand They

45:06

should do is yeah They should

45:08

switch it so that we are

45:10

traveling through ultra space during go

45:12

fest Switch up the

45:14

whole thing the whole map and have like

45:16

a half hour at a time We're traveling

45:18

through ultra space to go get those ultra

45:20

beasts that would be the way that new

45:22

encounter screens But I don't think they're up

45:25

for that Yeah the real test

45:27

will be to see if they bring beast

45:29

balls back and to see if they

45:31

use the beast balls for Necrozma this

45:33

was my biggest complaint that would be

45:38

We know that the Beast Ball doesn't work

45:40

on Necrozma That's part of

45:42

the reason why it's not an ultra

45:44

beast here's 30 minutes of me complaining

45:47

number one Necrozma does not have beast

45:49

boots every single ultra beast has beast

45:51

boots number two The Beast Ball

45:53

does not work on Necrozma Number

45:58

three This

46:01

is the thing that Saraby said for

46:03

the longest time, that like the code

46:05

doesn't say that it is, and then

46:07

in Scarlet and Violet they did actually

46:09

code out that all

46:11

of these Pokémon are Ultra Beasts,

46:13

but Necrozma, Cosmog, Cosmoem, Sogelyo, Lunala,

46:15

they are under the legendary category,

46:18

they did make a separate category

46:20

for Ultra Beasts. In the video

46:22

game, Dulce of the Ultra Recon

46:24

Squad says Necrozma is like an

46:26

Ultra Beast. In the anime,

46:28

they say it's reminiscent of an Ultra

46:30

Beast, but it's not. Even

46:36

if you don't believe the anime or the game for

46:38

whatever reason, the Beast Ball doesn't work on it, and

46:40

it doesn't have Beast Boost. But

46:42

yes, it is from Ultra Space, that doesn't mean it's an

46:44

Ultra Beast. Also we know in the

46:46

games that Ultra Beasts are very common in their world, that's

46:48

why when you take the portal to the thing and you

46:50

get there, there's like a bunch of zurketries running around, and

46:52

it's very cute. There's not

46:55

that world for Necrozma, Sogelyo, Lunala,

46:57

because they're not common, they're something special,

46:59

they're legendary. Anybody

47:03

wants to go back to any older

47:05

episode of It's Super Effective, and clip

47:08

out where Steve was ranting about Necrozma

47:10

not being an Ultra Beast. I'm sure there are 15

47:13

to 20 episodes where you can find this rant

47:15

from Steve. I'm sure at this point you can

47:17

probably get a good half an hour. Okay.

47:22

If Niantic messes this up, I'm going to be so

47:24

mad. The Beast Ball does

47:26

not work on Necrozma. In

47:29

order to bite on this, what

47:33

is Necrozma if not an Ultra Beast then,

47:35

Steve, as it's floating out there through Ultra

47:37

Space? It's just a legendary, I

47:40

don't think Necrozma is any different than like an

47:42

Eternatus or like a Deoxys. Okay.

47:46

It's just a legendary that also can travel

47:48

through, that also travels through Ultra Space, like

47:50

Sogelyo and Lunala. Yeah.

47:52

I'm not riding my, I'm not riding my

47:54

Tiogre through Ultra Space, I'm not riding my,

47:56

I'm not even riding my Deoxys

47:58

through Ultra Space. I bet you could

48:00

ride a Rayquaza through Ultra Space or a Deoxys.

48:03

I'm sure they could. Maybe

48:07

even a Staryu or Clefairy. They're from space.

48:10

They're both from space. It says in the Pokedex. I'm

48:14

not making that up. We

48:17

need to take a break. We

48:20

need a mini-art. That's what we need. Yeah.

48:23

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48:25

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51:26

we are back from

51:28

our break. We have

51:30

some TCG news. It's

51:33

off Pogie Beach. There's supposed to be

51:35

a special English Scarlet and Violet 6.5 set

51:39

to release in August which

51:41

I wonder if they're trying to line this up with Worlds.

51:44

Oh it's right before Worlds, August 2nd. It

51:47

will follow Twilight Masquerade

51:50

which Bobby was saying,

51:52

Bobby correct me if I'm wrong but this set

51:54

is coming a little bit quicker than Twilight

51:57

Masquerade. Yeah. Yes, Twilight Masquerade.

51:59

comes out May 24th which is

52:01

almost exactly two months after temporal

52:04

forces and they don't

52:06

usually... It's usually three months between

52:09

regular sets and Twilight

52:11

Masquerade is coming out two months but you know

52:13

it's just two months between these sets. So kind

52:16

of a quick release but it makes sense if they

52:18

wanted to push this one out, push

52:21

this special set out in August. They probably

52:23

wanted to give a little bit of time

52:25

between Twilight Masquerade in this set but

52:27

I guess I understand that but yeah.

52:30

It's just... The cards are coming

52:33

too quick. Too

52:35

many. If

52:37

this set is coming out right before Worlds, does

52:39

that mean people are going to be able to play

52:42

these cards at Worlds? No,

52:44

that format should be locked by then.

52:47

Okay. It should be as the

52:49

key word. Should be. It's also a special set

52:52

which is normally like a lot of reprints with

52:54

like different art. So they would

52:56

be able to play if the card text

52:59

was like exactly the same but

53:01

the art was different. Okay. Yeah.

53:04

Saying there will be an Elite Trainer

53:06

box with nine booster packs, promo card,

53:09

accessories, a new illustration rare with four

53:11

booster packs, three promos, code card, three

53:13

blister packs, promo card, mini tins with

53:15

two booster packs. The thing that's interesting

53:18

to me is this new illustration rare

53:20

collection box that I mentioned, that

53:22

second one you mentioned because it's four booster packs, three

53:24

promo cards and a code card. I

53:26

wonder if all three of these promo cards

53:29

will be illustration rares instead of regular

53:31

cards. This would

53:33

be the first time them doing an

53:36

illustration rare collection. So really leaning into

53:39

the illustration rares since those were... I mean

53:41

they've done alternate art things and stuff prior

53:43

to Scarlet Violet but these illustration rares are

53:46

new to the Scarlet Violet

53:48

era. So it'd be kind of cool

53:50

if there were three illustration rare promos

53:52

in the box. Just another reason to buy

53:54

a collection box. Foggy

53:56

Beach is also reporting that there's a...

53:58

We know a trademark. named Paradise

54:01

Dragonia in Japan and

54:04

since this is the year of the dragon and

54:06

since old special

54:09

sets have been dragon themed,

54:11

for example, Dragon Vault, Dragon

54:14

Majesty, that this might

54:16

be like a dragon themed set.

54:19

Yeah, and those... So Dragon

54:21

Vault came out in 2012 and

54:23

Dragon Majesty came out in 2018 and

54:26

there would be six years between each...

54:30

Ah, the patterns. The year of

54:32

the dragon, right? No, I just mean like, is it six between... It

54:35

is six, no. How many do you know? 2018 to 2024. When

54:39

was the last time you were the dragon? Not

54:42

six years ago. There are 12 years ago. There

54:44

are 12 years ago. It was 12 years ago.

54:46

Yeah, so halfway through. The 12 years ago. The dragon

54:48

last time and the year of the dragon the time before

54:50

that. Was it year... So it

54:52

was the year of the dragon for... Dragon

54:55

Vault, I believe. Dragon Vault. 2012

54:58

and not year of the dragon for

55:00

Dragon Majesty in 2018. Yep. As

55:05

I was saying that, I was like, there are so many

55:08

more than six. Why am I saying six right now? There

55:10

are absolutely more than six. 12,

55:13

it sounds better. We

55:16

also don't know how many cards are in this at all.

55:19

No, I mean, knowing that it's a

55:21

special set, you know, it should be... Should

55:25

be less than these regular sets. Although

55:27

these regular sets are huge to begin

55:29

with. So we'll see. I mean, there

55:32

are a couple dragon Pokemon, new

55:34

dragon Pokemon that haven't been in

55:37

the TCG yet. So

55:41

they could... This could be their time to introduce those

55:43

ones to the TCG as well. Which would

55:45

be cool if they did do kind of a

55:47

dragon themed set. And

55:50

they have been introducing the newer Pokemon

55:52

from the DLCs already. So that wouldn't

55:54

be too surprising. Yeah. And

55:57

there was some talk about... there's

56:00

another, there looks like there's

56:02

another set coming out in

56:04

Japan in July called Stellar

56:06

Miracle, where they're going to be introducing

56:11

like Stellar Terra cards. And

56:13

so they're saying they could make this a part of

56:15

that as well, but it kind

56:17

of seems like it might be more dragon related

56:19

this time around. So we'll see what comes up

56:21

as time goes

56:23

on. But yeah, at this point, we just know

56:26

pretty much the

56:28

first wave of products coming out,

56:31

which is not, you know, which is

56:33

typical with like every special set, there's

56:35

no booster boxes, there's no single sleeved

56:38

booster packs. You kind of have

56:40

to buy a collection set

56:42

of some kind in order

56:44

to get packs. If you're buying them, unless

56:46

you're buying them right, which probably

56:49

don't do that, it's your best interest to

56:53

not do that. I have

56:55

had such an itch to

56:57

play the TCG, but

56:59

then I think, oh, TCG

57:02

live. I

57:04

was going to say the same feeling

57:06

that I've had when I have that

57:08

same itch. I'm like, yeah,

57:10

maybe and then oh, yeah,

57:12

TCG live. We should

57:14

just, we just need to wait until Pocket

57:16

comes out. Yeah, I think Pocket

57:19

will scratch that itch hopefully of like

57:22

shorter, quicker games. Yes.

57:25

Hopefully, I do. I don't know what that

57:27

looks like still, but... And

57:30

hopefully it'll still come out this year. Yeah.

57:33

Did they say it was coming out in 2024? They did. And

57:36

they announced it, I forgot. If

57:38

it doesn't come out before Worlds, I would assume like

57:41

Masters, they would have like kiosks at

57:43

Worlds where you could like demo it

57:45

or try it. When

57:48

they did that at, gosh, I think

57:50

that was the DC Worlds where

57:52

you could try out Masters, they gave you like

57:54

a pin and some other stuff for like waiting

57:56

in line and playing it. And

57:58

all about the pins. Yeah,

58:01

that's that Disney thing. Whatever

58:04

Disney does, let's copy it. Successful.

58:07

We also got news this

58:09

week that Netflix

58:12

is getting part two of

58:14

Horizons, March, April, relatively quickly,

58:16

less than three months. Part

58:19

two is coming to Netflix on May

58:21

10th. Liko

58:23

Roy and the rising Voltacklers are

58:25

setting sail. That's all it really

58:27

is. It's supposed

58:29

to be 12 episodes. Oh, sorry. 12 episodes

58:32

of the first one. They

58:34

don't actually say how many are on part two. Yeah,

58:37

quicker than three months, which is good.

58:41

Yeah, we might actually eventually get

58:43

close to catching up with the

58:45

other English episodes in places like

58:47

the UK. Yeah.

58:50

Eventually, but they're good. I'm

58:52

very excited. I saw the

58:54

news this morning that that was going to

58:56

happen way sooner than I expected and made

58:58

me happy. I did

59:01

cancel my Netflix for April. So

59:05

you got the month off, but next month

59:08

you'll have to get it back again. Right. I

59:10

expected to have like two to three months off,

59:14

but I guess I'll get stopped to renew.

59:16

That's like a weird conversation with my text

59:18

guy. He's like, Netflix? I was like, I

59:20

have to subscribe. I'm not

59:22

watching it for pleasure. I'll

59:26

tell you that much. I'm watching it because I need to

59:28

know what happens. I could talk about

59:30

it. It's good,

59:32

though. It is good. No,

59:35

I do. I did like the first 12 episodes of

59:37

the Verizon a lot. Did

59:40

not watch them yet. But as we were

59:43

saying earlier, my kids

59:45

do like Pokemon, and we've been watching a

59:47

little bit more of the anime. So

59:49

I think now is the time to

59:52

sit them down and throw them Pokemon

59:54

without Ash. Wait, how

59:56

old are your kids? Six

59:59

and four. I don't

1:00:04

know kids age range like when does a

1:00:06

kid stop like watching like telly tubbies or

1:00:08

Barney or Mike has never watched tell it

1:00:10

up he's or Barney so I have no

1:00:12

idea but Louie is like Louie my kids

1:00:14

watch Louie either okay

1:00:19

they don't watch blue what Paw Patrol

1:00:21

no Paw Patrol either they we've been

1:00:25

watching Spirit Rangers your angels is great

1:00:27

and they just came out with season

1:00:29

three yesterday and that's great that

1:00:31

like not sure angels podcast but that

1:00:33

is a greater version of Power Rangers it

1:00:36

is no it's um the

1:00:38

characters are Native American and actually all of the

1:00:41

cast and crew of that show is Native American

1:00:43

and they kind of follow their different

1:00:46

things that they do throughout the state

1:00:49

park that they are the

1:00:51

part that not the state park but the park that they run

1:00:54

basically great show it's actually it's

1:00:56

great for kids and adults so

1:00:58

Spirit Rangers it's on Netflix know

1:01:00

about Sesame Street they've watched like a couple

1:01:03

episodes of Sesame Street but they and they

1:01:05

read some Sesame Street books but

1:01:08

no Sesame Street was never a thing I'm trying to think of the

1:01:10

things that my kid my kids don't watch

1:01:12

TV they didn't watch TV for like my

1:01:16

son he's the older he's six he didn't

1:01:18

watch TV for like the first two years

1:01:20

and made two two and a

1:01:22

half years and then like my daughter a little

1:01:25

bit earlier than him but they didn't

1:01:27

watch a lot of TV when they were really

1:01:29

really young I don't know Pokemon

1:01:32

Horizons is probably especially

1:01:34

good for Gen Alpha Gen Alpha

1:01:36

kids just with the way

1:01:38

they are doing kind of

1:01:41

YouTube sort of stuff is

1:01:44

built-in and apps and

1:01:47

devices and so I will and

1:01:49

just the whole vibes of it

1:01:51

feels a lot more connected to

1:01:53

modern children than ash just going on

1:01:56

adventures around the world ever did

1:01:59

right right I

1:02:01

know that people are always like Pokemon why are

1:02:03

you playing that kids game or that like but

1:02:05

there is or like kids show There

1:02:07

is like Pokemon kids Which

1:02:10

is like for? Again,

1:02:12

I don't I don't know what the edge is

1:02:14

like if you're six years old, what grade are

1:02:16

you in? Are you even at school yet? What

1:02:20

my kids don't go to school? Oh, yeah, you're

1:02:22

home school, but they would be yeah six years

1:02:24

old You'd typically be about first grade first grade.

1:02:26

Okay. Yeah, but they do watch

1:02:28

Pokemon So one thing that we do have

1:02:30

is YouTube and we have YouTube

1:02:32

premium But so we don't

1:02:35

have that much ads but we have they

1:02:37

do watch like stuff on YouTube and the

1:02:39

Pokemon kids channel on YouTube

1:02:41

is wonderful as

1:02:43

well like it's a lot of bunch

1:02:45

of songs and They're

1:02:48

very it's very up-to-date I mean there are Pokemon

1:02:50

from pal day and stuff in these videos like

1:02:52

they keep them up to date and there's like

1:02:54

all kinds of Fun stuff

1:02:56

that they do on it's like you

1:02:58

I think it's Pokemon kids TV Discovering

1:03:04

that it existed and I was so

1:03:06

surprised because there's so much content so

1:03:08

much content. There's so many songs

1:03:10

There's so many different videos and

1:03:12

it's all I mean, it's all from

1:03:14

the Pokemon company So it's you know, it's

1:03:17

very up to date, which is

1:03:19

awesome Yeah, I guess I guess like what what

1:03:21

I think is like when does a child?

1:03:24

Graduate from Pokemon kids into like

1:03:26

the Pokemon anime because they're very

1:03:28

they're very different They are

1:03:30

but like my kids watch both Pokemon kids and

1:03:33

the Pokemon anime so I like at this like

1:03:35

they switch back and forth like we'll watch some

1:03:37

of the Indigo like

1:03:39

we watched some of a bunch of the individually

1:03:41

episodes and then they'll just be like Oh, we

1:03:43

want to watch YouTube. We want to watch Pokemon

1:03:46

like on YouTube and it's typically the

1:03:48

Pokemon kids TV stuff on there

1:03:50

So they switch back and forth, but I don't

1:03:53

know every pair I don't want to I'm not giving

1:03:55

parenting advice that is we're not turning this into that

1:03:57

because that's a whole different set

1:03:59

of I do not want for

1:04:01

me kids are a kid my kids at six

1:04:04

and four like the Pokemon anime has been fine

1:04:06

Okay, it's been good. It wasn't

1:04:08

like they're too young to like follow

1:04:11

or it's too complicated for them to pay attention

1:04:14

Like they I remember watching the Pokemon anime when

1:04:16

I was six Was

1:04:24

at least I was exactly when the Pokemon

1:04:26

anime came out so I was a perfect

1:04:28

age I remember crying

1:04:30

when Misty and Brock and Ash went their

1:04:33

separate ways. I was very

1:04:35

young then probably probably Yeah,

1:04:42

yeah perfect Some

1:04:46

other Pokemon anime news, so I guess

1:04:48

it's not really anime but Pokemon TV

1:04:50

news We never talked about this,

1:04:53

but this was back in the end of

1:04:55

February More Pokemon concierge episodes

1:04:57

are coming to Netflix which is actually

1:04:59

in retrospect is kind of survived surprising

1:05:02

that they didn't mention this

1:05:04

on Pokemon day Yeah,

1:05:07

yeah, it was very popular a lot

1:05:09

of people really liked it and the first time they

1:05:11

didn't have concierge My kids watch that too

1:05:13

was that was a Pokemon day. Yeah. Oh

1:05:15

was it last year's Pokemon? It was like

1:05:17

a Pokemon day. Yeah, it was more episodes

1:05:19

of Netflix is adorable animated series Pokemon concierge

1:05:21

are now in production I Am

1:05:25

letting I am happy to let you know that

1:05:27

we are now working on new episodes of Pokemon

1:05:29

concierge said the director in a statement To variety.

1:05:31

This is a variety comm life at

1:05:33

the Pokemon resort will continue. Please look forward to it

1:05:36

Let's see which Pokemon come to visit this

1:05:38

time as a guest the for the

1:05:40

first four episodes premiered on Netflix on

1:05:42

December 28 15

1:05:45

minute episodes introduced Pokemon fans to

1:05:47

the Pokemon resort. They didn't

1:05:49

say how many episodes or when

1:05:52

the second part was

1:05:54

coming The first

1:05:56

one was four episodes, right? Yeah, or

1:05:59

very short episode episodes, but that's not too surprising

1:06:01

with Playmation stuff. Yeah.

1:06:03

No, they were still very good. Yeah.

1:06:07

No, they were fantastic. Or they were enjoyable. No,

1:06:09

they weren't. You guys are right. They

1:06:12

weren't Emmy winning. They were enjoyable. They

1:06:17

were solidly enjoyable and I think back

1:06:19

on them fondly. Yes. I would

1:06:21

recommend them to people who want to have just like, that

1:06:23

would work. Yeah, very chill. I think that would

1:06:25

be a good. They should... Okay,

1:06:28

so I was thinking about this the other day because

1:06:30

I was saying how they should

1:06:32

have turned Pokepilago into like a

1:06:34

mobile game that is like a

1:06:36

almost like a farming,

1:06:39

like a Stardew Valley type or like

1:06:41

a some kind of game like that that's

1:06:43

like Pokemon. They could have turned that into a mobile game and made a

1:06:46

billion dollars. I would have spent money on it. You

1:06:49

definitely would have. That

1:06:52

feeling of like playing the Pokepilago

1:06:55

thing, I feel like Pokemon

1:06:57

concierge is like that same feeling. You're

1:06:59

like watching something versus playing but it's

1:07:01

got that same vibe, that same just

1:07:03

very like laid back, relaxing kind

1:07:06

of way about it. So that is

1:07:08

my recommendation if you're going to want

1:07:11

to watch Pokemon concierge. I

1:07:13

don't think it was worth signing up

1:07:15

for Netflix. Well, you're

1:07:17

going to have to sign up for Netflix

1:07:19

for Pokemon Horizons anyway. That's true.

1:07:22

I do have to sign back up. Do

1:07:24

you think they should have done it as

1:07:26

like a YouTube series then instead? Like for...

1:07:28

Oh my god, concierge felt more YouTube-y

1:07:31

to me. YouTube-y. YouTube-y. Not

1:07:34

to me but YouTube-y. It felt

1:07:36

closer to the TCG, what

1:07:39

was it called? Path to the Peak? Oh yeah,

1:07:41

Path to the Peak. I like Path to the Peak

1:07:43

more than concierge but I think it's because I like

1:07:45

used to go to TCG tournaments so it's like really

1:07:47

relatable to me. And

1:07:49

I used to travel from... I've

1:07:51

never been to a resort so just not

1:07:53

relatable at all. That's

1:07:56

fair but the beginning is really relatable. Everything's going

1:07:58

wrong. Speaking

1:08:03

of PokePeligo and

1:08:06

all of that stuff, the

1:08:09

online services for 3DS and Wii U are now

1:08:15

shut down. What does that

1:08:17

mean for Pokemon games? I will stress this a million

1:08:19

times. Pokemon Bank still

1:08:21

works. They said it would still

1:08:23

work. It will continue to still work. There

1:08:26

will be a day where it will no longer

1:08:28

work. But it

1:08:30

is still working now. As

1:08:32

long as you have it on your 3DS. As

1:08:35

long as you ask that before it pulled

1:08:37

that because the store went down a year ago

1:08:39

and now the island services cease

1:08:42

to exist. Support.Pokemon.com,

1:08:45

support.nintendo.com have clearly outlined

1:08:48

that Pokemon Bank was

1:08:51

and transporter are the exception. You

1:08:57

can still trade Pokemon between

1:09:00

X and Y to

1:09:02

Ora's locally. Local

1:09:04

trades, local battles, all

1:09:07

of that stuff still works if you want to

1:09:09

connect with 3 other people and do the

1:09:12

Pokemon Battle Royale and Ultra Sun Ultra Moon.

1:09:15

You can do that locally still.

1:09:18

The other thing that still works is

1:09:20

Friend Safari still works even

1:09:23

if you were to add somebody today. So

1:09:25

if I was to go up to Hannah

1:09:28

and be like let's exchange 3DS friend codes,

1:09:30

one we can still do that locally,

1:09:33

two I would still be able to

1:09:35

access her friend Safari because

1:09:37

friend Safari is generated before

1:09:39

you even start your game. I think

1:09:42

the only thing that happens is instead of

1:09:44

three Pokemon you only get two Pokemon. But

1:09:46

I actually think you can get around that if you

1:09:49

are still local because the

1:09:51

third Pokemon unlocks when Hannah

1:09:53

beats the Elite Four and

1:09:56

as long as I do like a trade with

1:09:58

her after She's

1:10:00

beaten the Elite Four that should unlock the

1:10:02

third Pokemon for me. But

1:10:04

regardless, you could still go to like

1:10:07

a Pax or a C2E2 and you

1:10:09

could still exchange friend codes locally to

1:10:11

get friend Safari to work

1:10:14

in X and Y. It's

1:10:16

that still works. I

1:10:18

would assume that the Eon ticket in Omega

1:10:20

Ruby Alpha Sapphire should still work because that's

1:10:22

just StreetPass. That's all that is. I

1:10:25

have that ticket. Maybe if I

1:10:27

go to Worlds or something, I'll bring my 3DS

1:10:29

and StreetPass the four

1:10:31

people that are desperate for an

1:10:34

Eon ticket in that game. So

1:10:36

there is like functionality and

1:10:38

stuff. I don't think there's like

1:10:40

any ribbons in X

1:10:42

and Y or Omega Ruby that are tied to

1:10:45

participating online. That was only Diamond

1:10:47

and Pearl. That was one. And

1:10:52

even there's like a workaround for that where you

1:10:54

can just like connect, fail, battle

1:10:56

a CPU and eventually get it or something like that.

1:10:58

There's like a weird workaround where you can still get

1:11:00

that ribbon if you really wanted to. Last

1:11:03

week, I think it was last week

1:11:05

or the week before, I said, oh,

1:11:08

they'll probably keep Pokemon Bank up until

1:11:10

whatever. I thought it

1:11:12

would stay around longer, but I've

1:11:15

reassessed this thought now that

1:11:17

I've seen that Pokemon, like the website

1:11:19

had actually said in the past, like,

1:11:22

while you can still do this, we

1:11:24

would recommend you do this at your

1:11:26

earliest convenience of transferring your Pokemon through

1:11:29

Bank to home. So

1:11:31

like you said, like it's still

1:11:33

up. It still works. It's fine. But

1:11:36

maybe it's not going to be here for years

1:11:38

to come back. And we don't

1:11:40

know how much lead time they're going to give us

1:11:42

when they finally do shut it down. Yeah. I

1:11:44

mean, hopefully it's not like a

1:11:47

day before or something or a couple days

1:11:49

before. We're shutting down in like three hours.

1:11:53

Crash everything when people are

1:11:55

all doing it at the same time. But

1:11:57

yeah, maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe it's. It's

1:12:00

good recommendation too. They have recommended sooner rather

1:12:02

than later. So I think it's probably safer

1:12:04

to do it sooner rather than later. Yeah.

1:12:07

My assumption is that

1:12:09

the thing that would accelerate it

1:12:11

to shut down quicker

1:12:14

would be security issues. Yeah.

1:12:17

And they don't want to put the time or

1:12:19

resources or the manpower into

1:12:21

trying to patch the security issue.

1:12:24

So they're just like, all right, I

1:12:26

guess we're done here. Yeah. And as

1:12:28

long as the speculation and my

1:12:31

fingers are crossed, as long as there's

1:12:33

no huge security issue that bothers them

1:12:35

or Nintendo, it should be

1:12:37

fine to continue operating. So

1:12:40

what are your thoughts here on this real

1:12:42

quick? So for me, I

1:12:45

love SOS shiny hunting. And

1:12:48

so it's one of the main ways that

1:12:50

I shiny hunt. And I have it, I guess there will

1:12:52

be a time to get everything

1:12:54

you can SOS hunt in, you know, Ultris

1:12:56

and Ultra Moon. But just

1:12:58

knowing that I, you know, at

1:13:00

some point, once bank does

1:13:02

shut down, which again, it is not,

1:13:05

can still be used today. But

1:13:07

once it does, I don't

1:13:09

know that I want to do that because then what

1:13:11

am I going to not going to be able to

1:13:14

transfer those Pokemon up, right? So what are

1:13:16

your thoughts? Do you think you

1:13:18

would continue playing the older games and

1:13:20

just to play them or knowing

1:13:22

you're not going to be able to move

1:13:24

those Pokemon up or is it just kind

1:13:26

of that's it for older Pokemon games? I

1:13:28

think I think this shocks people. And it's

1:13:30

kind of like the joke of like me

1:13:32

not liking HeartGold, SoulSilver. But

1:13:35

like, I think that

1:13:37

the reality behind that, like joke

1:13:39

or me teasing older games is

1:13:42

I don't like to

1:13:44

go back to older games, regardless

1:13:46

of that Pokemon or Zelda

1:13:49

or like, whatever right?

1:13:51

So I was on the Nontendo podcast,

1:13:54

I talked about like I had no interest in

1:13:56

Final Fantasy 7 Remake because

1:13:58

I already played Final Fantasy. I played it

1:14:01

a ton as a kid. It was like the

1:14:03

one game I had and I played it over

1:14:05

and over and I

1:14:07

know what happens in that story. With

1:14:10

Pokemon, I don't think I would be

1:14:12

here on a Pokemon podcast or care

1:14:14

about Pokemon. Like I would

1:14:16

still like Pokemon obviously, I would still care about Pokemon.

1:14:19

But the only reason I go back

1:14:21

to old games or want to buy

1:14:23

old games or have 3DS's

1:14:26

and DS's and link cables and all

1:14:28

that stuff is because it is the

1:14:30

one video game

1:14:32

series that you can continue transferring things

1:14:34

forward. I'm

1:14:37

playing Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee right now, which

1:14:40

isn't even that old of a game and I'm

1:14:42

loving it. But also I know

1:14:44

at the end of that journey, the

1:14:46

eight Pokemon or whatever that I end

1:14:49

up getting, I can move them forward.

1:14:51

I caught a shiny Primeape in that

1:14:53

game, Mankie, of all this Primeape. And

1:14:55

all I think is when I caught that and when I

1:14:57

was shiny hunting, it was like, this is going

1:14:59

to be super cool. This is going to be an annihilate of

1:15:01

one day and it's going to be an

1:15:04

annihilate that came from Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go

1:15:06

Eevee. I think that's so interesting and cool. I

1:15:08

just like Hannah's Blaziken.

1:15:12

Please talk about it. She's safely

1:15:15

at home at this point. So

1:15:17

cool. Yeah, for

1:15:19

sure. Yeah, I've mentioned her

1:15:21

a couple of times. I've had that Blaziken since

1:15:24

I was like seven years old, since

1:15:26

Pokemon Ruby came out. She was my

1:15:29

first starter in Pokemon Ruby and as

1:15:31

the newer games came out since then,

1:15:33

I have moved her up through

1:15:35

all of the DS games, through all of

1:15:37

the 3DS games. Where

1:15:40

around X and Y and ORAS, I decided

1:15:42

to start getting as many ribbons as I

1:15:44

could on her and so she kind of

1:15:46

got stuck in the 3DS for a while. But

1:15:48

over the last few weeks, I've worked

1:15:50

really hard to get those last 3DS ribbons

1:15:53

on her and now she is finally in

1:15:55

bank. And I'm checking bank every day just

1:15:57

to say hi to her because I can

1:15:59

actually I actually see Blaziken on my phone now.

1:16:01

But I've had that Pokémon for more than 21

1:16:04

years. And the fact

1:16:06

that that is possible is

1:16:08

amazing. Yeah, I think that's

1:16:10

so incredibly cool. And I know for

1:16:13

sure we're in the minority of players

1:16:15

of like, I know plenty of people

1:16:17

who have never transferred a Pokémon forward.

1:16:20

And that's fine and acceptable. I

1:16:22

know people who shiny hunt in Pokémon

1:16:24

Crystal, and they have no... those Chinese

1:16:26

will live in Crystal forever, totally

1:16:28

content with that. Also cool. But

1:16:31

a huge draw to the series and

1:16:33

why I've been doing a Pokémon podcast

1:16:35

for almost 14 years. There's

1:16:38

like a reason to actually go back and

1:16:40

play older games because you can move those

1:16:42

forward. Like I still... I haven't had time

1:16:44

to do it. I still want to...

1:16:46

I have a copy of Battle Revolution. I

1:16:49

think I have a Wii somewhere. I want

1:16:51

to go into Battle Revolution. You can

1:16:53

actually get a Magmar and

1:16:55

an Electabuzz from Battle Revolution

1:16:58

as gift Pokémon. And

1:17:00

you can move them out into the main

1:17:02

series games. And that's...

1:17:04

like it's just... like I

1:17:06

have so many Magmar Electabuzzes, shiny

1:17:08

Magmar, shiny Electabuzzes. Like I have so

1:17:10

many, but I don't have some from

1:17:13

Battle Revolution. And I want

1:17:15

that. Like and

1:17:17

that's why I would... If

1:17:20

I didn't have a copy of Battle Revolution, I

1:17:22

would go out and get a copy of Battle

1:17:24

Revolution to be like, I want those two specific

1:17:26

Pokémon. I think that's so cool. I think that's

1:17:28

so interesting. The second that's all disconnected, whenever

1:17:31

that day comes of

1:17:34

Diamond and Pearl, X and Y, Black and White, they

1:17:37

cannot move into Sword

1:17:40

and Shield. Like that connection is

1:17:42

broken. I don't

1:17:45

care about those games anymore. They're just... Like

1:17:49

my memories won't be gone, right? Like I

1:17:51

still will be... think very fondly of my

1:17:53

time in Alola. But like

1:17:56

I have no reason to own

1:17:58

a copy of Pokémon. Pokemon Crystal

1:18:01

or Pokemon Yellow because

1:18:04

the compatibility is not there yet. There was

1:18:06

no compatibility between... I don't think

1:18:08

it's talked about enough of a lot

1:18:11

of people my age

1:18:13

fell off on Gen 3. And

1:18:17

you could say, I think an easy

1:18:19

reason is Pokemon came out when

1:18:21

I was 10, so still in elementary

1:18:23

school, early middle school, you're getting closer to

1:18:26

the end of middle school and then high

1:18:28

school and that stopped being cool

1:18:30

when Gen 3 came out. But

1:18:33

a big part of that was

1:18:35

compatibility. Knowing

1:18:37

that there were two new Pokemon games coming

1:18:39

and the Pokemon you moved from Pokemon

1:18:42

Red into Pokemon Yellow into Pokemon

1:18:44

Silver into Pokemon Crystal, all

1:18:46

of a sudden cannot move?

1:18:49

That was such a turn off. And

1:18:51

there was no Twitter back then, there was

1:18:53

no Reddit back then, there was no Facebook

1:18:55

back then to go on to complain about.

1:18:57

But that was a huge thing of

1:19:00

like, oh, maybe I'm getting too

1:19:02

old for Pokemon, oh, and I can't even move

1:19:04

my Pokemon over? I'm

1:19:06

done with this series, I'm moving on. It

1:19:09

was big enough that they even came out and said after

1:19:12

that happened, I don't know if

1:19:15

they went as far as to apologize, but they

1:19:17

definitely were like, we're not doing that again. They

1:19:20

did. They did say

1:19:22

that when they

1:19:24

announced... When was that? Was

1:19:27

that like for a couple games or something? Fire Red

1:19:29

Leaf Cream, I think. Didn't they say

1:19:31

that when they announced? Because they were like, well, here's

1:19:33

Gen 1 again and sorry, but we're

1:19:35

not going to make it so you can't bring

1:19:37

those Pokemon up here again. Yeah. I think it

1:19:39

was right around that time. Well, yeah. And

1:19:41

I think they've done a good job for... They know

1:19:44

that our Pokemon are sentimental. They

1:19:47

know that people care about the Pokemon that they have shared

1:19:51

travels and years and adventures and

1:19:53

achievements with. Yeah. I think maybe they

1:19:56

didn't realize how much that

1:19:58

would be true. I

1:20:00

mean, there were this was years

1:20:02

ago, right? So there were whatever reasons that they

1:20:04

had for the Not being

1:20:06

able to bring things forward or just the way that they

1:20:08

decided to do things but I think once

1:20:10

they got the The feedback of

1:20:12

what happened the feedback that they could from

1:20:14

what happened. I think they were like, oh

1:20:17

like People really care about

1:20:19

the these characters. They want to take them with them

1:20:21

all the way up, you know So, uh, and they've

1:20:23

done it. Like you said, they've done a great job

1:20:25

of it since then, you know, they are

1:20:28

As a You

1:20:31

can do it, you know, yeah a little

1:20:33

effort. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not not super

1:20:35

easy But like I

1:20:37

don't I don't any other game for

1:20:40

eventually closing this connection Yeah,

1:20:43

it's like if you if you if you have a how

1:20:45

old is your plays the can handle? Since

1:20:48

Pokemon Ruby came out probably since the day

1:20:50

those games released if you have

1:20:52

a Blaziken that old and you haven't moved

1:20:54

it by now to

1:20:57

a a current game like it's

1:20:59

it's not like I

1:21:01

was trying to get ribbons on her. But what

1:21:03

i'm saying is they they have given us 10

1:21:07

plus years, right they've given you a

1:21:09

long time to move it forward It's

1:21:12

it's not like uh, you know Like a

1:21:14

niantic thing where it's like you got one

1:21:16

week to buy this ticket if you don't

1:21:18

buy this ticket You'll never see this pokemon

1:21:20

again. Good luck Right

1:21:24

They they they just given they've given

1:21:26

a lot and I can't think of

1:21:28

another series that

1:21:31

has had So

1:21:33

much backwards compatibility Like there are people that

1:21:35

have been playing world of warcraft for like

1:21:38

a decade and stuff There have been people

1:21:40

playing final fantasy 14 Like

1:21:43

there is there are still people that

1:21:45

have played final fantasy 11, right? And

1:21:47

that game hasn't been updated for years But

1:21:50

there's nothing like pokemon where it's like I

1:21:53

have a 20 year old pokemon that i've

1:21:55

moved through 16

1:21:57

different games i've moved it to x i've moved it to y

1:21:59

I've moved to Toe Mega, I've moved

1:22:01

it to Ultra Sun, Regular Sun, Ultra

1:22:04

Moon, Regular Moon. There's just nothing like

1:22:06

that, and I think that's

1:22:08

why I go back to older Pokemon

1:22:10

games. Whereas I wouldn't go back

1:22:12

to older games in general. Like, Link's Awakening, one

1:22:15

of my favorite games. They came out with a

1:22:17

remake. Did I buy it? No. Because as a

1:22:19

kid, it was like

1:22:21

one of my two games for like four years.

1:22:23

I had Link's Awakening and I had Kirby. And

1:22:25

so I played a lot of Link's Awakening. I

1:22:27

like it a lot. I have fond memories of

1:22:29

it. It was really great. I beat that game

1:22:31

a million times. Did I buy the one on

1:22:33

Switch? No. I've been there, done

1:22:36

that. Super Mario RPG. They came out with a new

1:22:38

one. Did I buy it? No. Because again, another game

1:22:40

I played a million times. I

1:22:42

would rather play new games. But

1:22:45

with Pokemon, it's like if I play this old game,

1:22:47

I can bring this into a new game. Like,

1:22:50

I'm super excited to get my Let's

1:22:52

Go Pikachu Annihilape in a couple weeks

1:22:55

when I move them over. I

1:22:59

do think that it's important for

1:23:01

games to continue to be available for

1:23:03

people who haven't played them before though.

1:23:05

And that's a slightly different conversation. Going

1:23:08

back to a game you have already played

1:23:10

before and revisiting a remake of a game

1:23:12

you've played before is a completely different experience

1:23:14

from revisiting an old game you haven't played

1:23:17

before. I, in

1:23:19

my process of bringing Blaziken

1:23:21

up, realized I never actually

1:23:23

finished the Ultra

1:23:26

Sun, Ultra Moon games somehow.

1:23:30

I had forgotten that and I need to replay

1:23:32

those and that's I think still going to be

1:23:34

a good experience even though that's playing

1:23:37

a game from a while

1:23:40

ago at this point. Yeah. I

1:23:42

mean, there's the easy solution of like,

1:23:45

put red and blue on the

1:23:47

Virtual Console that like, well, first off, they

1:23:50

haven't used the word Virtual Console in like

1:23:52

eight years. But

1:23:55

like, put like red and blue on the Switch so we can

1:23:57

play it and go back to it. I'm

1:23:59

bored. Like I'm definitely not against

1:24:01

that. But if they

1:24:03

were like we're putting red and blue on to the

1:24:05

switch, but it won't work with

1:24:08

Pokemon home I wouldn't get it.

1:24:10

I would be I'm not interested like right

1:24:13

first off those games are kind of dog water

1:24:15

at this point, but like But

1:24:19

like if I can't go through and be like

1:24:21

I'm gonna move this Mewtwo from red and blue

1:24:23

into Scarlet and violet like

1:24:25

I'm not interested. I I I want

1:24:28

that I again I know that's not for everyone.

1:24:30

Somebody just wants their nostalgia They just want to

1:24:32

go through it because their childhood But

1:24:34

like if I'm going back to

1:24:36

an old game like an old Pokemon game I want

1:24:38

to be able to take what I do in that

1:24:40

game and move it forward Well,

1:24:42

yeah, that's a very Pokemon specific thing. Yeah,

1:24:44

that's that's the thing that I was gonna

1:24:46

say is that these

1:24:48

games Give people options,

1:24:51

right? So if you want to go back and play an older

1:24:53

game so you can take a Pokemon all the way through you

1:24:55

can do that if You want to just go back and play

1:24:58

an older game to just play the older game. You can also

1:25:00

do that the thing for me is

1:25:04

Knowing that you can bring Pokemon

1:25:06

up now but then

1:25:09

When that's not available anymore Do

1:25:12

I want to like I don't mind playing older games

1:25:14

when I know like that's the way the game is

1:25:16

and you play the Older game and it's done and

1:25:18

it's over and that's the end and that's fine

1:25:21

But in this case, it's like well

1:25:23

right now I can play the older game and bring

1:25:25

the Pokemon up and then like let's say

1:25:27

in six months I play the older game and I

1:25:29

can't bring the Pokemon up Knowing

1:25:31

that I could at one point and now I

1:25:34

can't is there something different there to me Like

1:25:36

it's gonna make me feel away about it where

1:25:38

I won't I probably won't want

1:25:40

to go back and play the game And I don't

1:25:42

know if that has to do with the

1:25:45

way Pokemon games with a story for Pokemon

1:25:47

games or something where it's not Maybe that's

1:25:49

not the biggest thing for me and for

1:25:51

a lot of people probably with Pokemon

1:25:53

games I don't need to

1:25:55

go and play that older game to experience

1:25:57

that in the same way. There's something about

1:25:59

it There's something about knowing that now I

1:26:01

can move the Pokemon up, but if

1:26:03

I play that game in maybe six months or a year from

1:26:05

now, it's going to be a

1:26:08

different experience. You're going to lose a

1:26:12

part of what makes the Pokemon game, the Pokemon

1:26:14

series, the Pokemon series in a

1:26:16

way. Not to say that your

1:26:18

experience is going to be worse or

1:26:20

that you may love those older games where you

1:26:22

can't even move things up and that's totally fine,

1:26:25

but part of the Pokemon series has been

1:26:27

being able to move things up and

1:26:30

it's losing that on the older games. It

1:26:33

feels like it's losing a part of what

1:26:35

makes the Pokemon series the Pokemon series. To

1:26:38

your point, they eventually have to cut

1:26:41

it somewhere because there's going to be, like you said,

1:26:43

security things that they don't want to have to go

1:26:45

and patch old stuff, especially

1:26:47

when Nintendo is not even supporting the

1:26:49

online system and things like that. I

1:26:52

don't know. It just feels like it's losing something.

1:26:56

It's losing part of the essence of it

1:26:58

being a Pokemon series game by not being

1:27:00

able to move things up. It

1:27:03

does seem like now with the Switch stuff,

1:27:05

because Pokemon Home is

1:27:08

a mobile app that there

1:27:11

is some level

1:27:13

of security going forward there. Whereas

1:27:16

Pokemon Bank was this 3DS

1:27:19

only app and we all knew

1:27:21

even while playing the 3DS that

1:27:24

this is not going to last forever. Even

1:27:27

though they introduced it by saying two

1:27:31

generations down the line, you would

1:27:33

be able to share Pokemon that

1:27:35

you caught then and there. But

1:27:37

it's like the 3DS is not Game

1:27:40

Freak's product or the Pokemon company's product.

1:27:42

They are constrained by

1:27:45

the hardware limitations

1:27:47

of that device. Whereas

1:27:50

Pokemon Home can work

1:27:52

on the Switch, it can work on an Android phone,

1:27:54

it can work on an Apple

1:27:56

phone. That app is

1:27:58

theirs and they just need to play. that

1:28:00

app somewhere. They never

1:28:02

placed Pokemon Bank anywhere but

1:28:05

the 3DS. Where at least

1:28:07

with this one, it's on three different

1:28:09

platforms, Android, iOS. Yeah, there's more variety.

1:28:12

Yeah. They could make Apple and Google really

1:28:14

mad and get kicked out of the app stores. Somehow.

1:28:17

They're gonna contest like

1:28:19

Epic and just get

1:28:21

banned. Yeah. But

1:28:26

there is more variety now. That is true. There's

1:28:29

multiple places. So there's

1:28:31

more security just in that, that

1:28:33

they have more platforms

1:28:36

that they're on. So that is

1:28:38

good. But still, to your

1:28:40

point, I still think it would be great

1:28:42

if they introduced these

1:28:44

older games if for nothing else,

1:28:47

just introduce them onto the Switch

1:28:50

in some way, like in some kind of

1:28:52

capacity. Maybe not the Switch. Yeah, maybe future.

1:28:54

Well, no, onto

1:28:58

modern day systems so that like,

1:29:01

because people, we'll see what

1:29:03

the comments say, but people still love

1:29:05

the older games. People do

1:29:07

love playing the older games and why

1:29:10

wouldn't Nintendo and the Pokemon Company

1:29:12

want, especially Nintendo, want to be

1:29:14

like, well, all these games are here on the Switch. Like,

1:29:17

come buy a Switch. You have the 3DS, you're playing these

1:29:19

older games here. Come buy a Switch. You

1:29:21

have the older games on the Switch as well. Those

1:29:24

games are Mario Kart. I mean, we've discussed it a few times. Those

1:29:27

games are not Mario Kart 8. The

1:29:30

only game Nintendo cares about. But

1:29:35

the revisits of

1:29:37

older games like that, ports of older

1:29:39

games like that don't make nearly as

1:29:41

much money as new games. Not to

1:29:43

mention the way that the Switch has handled ports

1:29:46

of old games means that the money probably

1:29:48

wouldn't be going to the Pokemon Company as

1:29:51

much anyways. So

1:29:53

there's a lot of reasons in the

1:29:55

systems we have right now that I think

1:29:57

are why we are not getting those ports

1:29:59

anymore. Right. Yeah,

1:30:01

and I guess it is a different experience when you're

1:30:03

playing Those games

1:30:05

on the systems that they were originally

1:30:07

made for right like there is definitely

1:30:09

a difference in like I I take

1:30:13

enjoyment and playing Older

1:30:15

Pokemon game on the 3ds

1:30:17

or in my case now the 2ds XL

1:30:19

but on that like

1:30:21

system versus Going to

1:30:23

the switch Where it's got

1:30:26

the OLED screen and everything you're playing

1:30:28

it there's differences, right? There is a

1:30:30

charm and something to playing it on

1:30:32

that older system the way that it

1:30:34

was played to some extent

1:30:36

versus playing it on the brand new system and

1:30:39

having it, you know, but I just I Just

1:30:41

want them there. I what I really want. Okay,

1:30:44

this is what it comes down to is I

1:30:46

just want a Lola on the switch. However, they

1:30:48

need to do that. They make a Pokemon stars

1:30:51

They just put it on as a virtual

1:30:53

thing some way for me to visit a

1:30:55

Lola on a switch Then I will just

1:30:57

I don't care after that. That's just that's

1:30:59

all I want I think the

1:31:01

only thing they could have done better or planned

1:31:05

out if anyone knew What

1:31:08

was going to like I

1:31:10

think game freak slash any developer

1:31:12

knew that? Nintendo

1:31:14

on the 3ds was Nintendo online on the

1:31:17

3ds was not going to last forever We're

1:31:20

just not going to support these servers. We're not

1:31:22

going to keep up security We're not going to

1:31:24

keep patching loopholes or whatever Like

1:31:26

everyone every developer knew that this is gonna

1:31:28

happen. It just there is a little like

1:31:31

why didn't they build a

1:31:33

different app or update

1:31:36

Pokemon Bank for better

1:31:39

security slash future proofing that when

1:31:41

the servers go down because again,

1:31:43

they did say This

1:31:46

isn't gonna last forever like it

1:31:48

will last after Pokemon after Nintendo's server shut

1:31:50

down. It will still work But

1:31:53

it may be you should transfer your Pokemon sooner

1:31:55

rather than later. Mm-hmm. So it was

1:31:57

a bummer to see There

1:32:00

was no like final update

1:32:04

the Pokemon bang to be like right We

1:32:07

here is the here's the solution going

1:32:09

forward and I don't know what that would

1:32:11

be right like in my head It would be like We're

1:32:14

gonna generate you a one-time QR code. You're

1:32:16

gonna scan it. That's gonna move the Pokemon

1:32:19

over You don't need any online. It will

1:32:21

delete the poke like Probably

1:32:23

probably not a great way to do that Like

1:32:25

there's probably Pokemon banks to begin that that's not

1:32:27

how Pokemon Bank works to begin with because your

1:32:29

Pokemon aren't stored on your 3ds your Pokemon are

1:32:32

stored in the server that they're gonna have to

1:32:34

shut down eventually, right, right Yeah, so it's like

1:32:36

I don't I don't know what that solution would

1:32:38

have been besides like we built this thing 10

1:32:41

years ago And we can't

1:32:43

make it any better and now

1:32:45

Pokemon home exists and that's better

1:32:47

and more future proof But

1:32:50

this was the best we could do And

1:32:53

I think there are fans that are

1:32:55

jaded or upset that like

1:32:57

they missed that opportunity to

1:33:00

even download Pokemon Bank and Pokemon

1:33:02

transporter and There's no

1:33:04

way to get that. Well There's

1:33:06

no correct way to get there's no

1:33:09

The cool way. I don't know how to order that

1:33:11

you can show you could still buy Yeah, you could

1:33:13

still second hand buy a system

1:33:15

with it on it. You know that we

1:33:18

legitimately download it on it And you can

1:33:20

there are where they are selling Pokemon Bank

1:33:22

so it's not being sold on eBay They

1:33:24

are selling for more than just your typical

1:33:26

3ds because of the fact that they have

1:33:28

Pokemon Bank and Pokemon transporter stuff on them

1:33:31

So I bought a Wii

1:33:33

with my Pokemon ranch on it I'm

1:33:38

gonna be completely honest with you.

1:33:40

I've never plugged that Wii in I

1:33:42

have no clue if

1:33:44

it's actually I

1:33:48

Bought it like a couple

1:33:50

months before I moved and

1:33:52

so like it arrived I was

1:33:55

like, yeah, it looks like everything is here and then

1:33:57

I immediately put it back in the box and then

1:33:59

it got packed And it's somewhere

1:34:01

in my house. Can't believe

1:34:03

you didn't you bought a console and

1:34:05

didn't like turn it on like just

1:34:08

to see that the console powers. I

1:34:11

don't know. I trusted

1:34:13

the source I bought it from. Like

1:34:16

that wasn't the worry. I didn't want

1:34:18

I wasn't worried I was gonna get like scammed. If

1:34:20

anything, I worry that like just the

1:34:22

hardware failed. Hey, I that's

1:34:25

not even like I bought a the first

1:34:27

3DS that I bought. I actually bought from

1:34:30

a friend. It made a refer this

1:34:32

made for a real awkward situation. So

1:34:34

I bought the 3DS from a friend. And

1:34:37

they also gave me Pokemon X or something just

1:34:39

to play like they let me borrow it because

1:34:41

I didn't have any games yet. But I was

1:34:44

I bought the 3DS from him. And

1:34:47

I go home and I power

1:34:49

on the 3DS and it powers

1:34:51

on and then maybe

1:34:53

like 15 minutes into playing it starts

1:34:56

acting all weird. And so I turned it off and

1:34:58

like I turn it wouldn't turn back on. And

1:35:02

then I like you know, I read up online at the

1:35:04

time because I was like what's going on and then there

1:35:07

was that whole like issue with the 3DS having that wire

1:35:09

that goes between the screens that would get like stuff

1:35:12

would happen with it and it would know I know

1:35:14

I remember. I forgot about that.

1:35:16

Yeah, that that issue right. Obviously

1:35:18

I trusted my friend like it was my friend. It

1:35:20

wasn't like some random person and I could go to

1:35:22

the person and I did go to the person and

1:35:25

was like you it's broken. Like

1:35:27

I took it home for one day and it's not

1:35:29

working now. But like I promise I didn't do anything

1:35:31

to it. I just turned it on to play the

1:35:33

game and it was a

1:35:35

whole awkward situation. I mean we're still friends and

1:35:37

everything but it was like an awkward situation. But

1:35:39

like I also I also trusted that source but

1:35:42

like these things happen with

1:35:44

these systems especially well. So

1:35:46

you're right. So people are

1:35:48

like why did you buy a Wii U with

1:35:50

my Pokemon Ranch? Same thing that happened right like

1:35:53

the Wii U stuff shut down. There was no

1:35:55

way to get my Pokemon Ranch. My Pokemon

1:35:57

Ranch like Pokemon Battle Revolution has a couple exclusive

1:35:59

Pokemon. One of those is a Mew.

1:36:02

Now I have like 40 Mews. I

1:36:05

have the Mew from Toys R Us. I

1:36:08

got the Mew from HeartGold till Silver. Maybe that was the

1:36:10

Toys R Us one. I got the Mews

1:36:12

from Pokeball Plus. I got the Mew from the Scarlet

1:36:15

and Violet. I got a lot of

1:36:17

Mews. I

1:36:19

don't have a Mew with the

1:36:21

OT of Hailey. That is the

1:36:24

camp owner of my Pokemon Ranch, the

1:36:26

ranch owner. I

1:36:28

believe to get the Mew, you have to move

1:36:30

in a thousand Pokemon into the ranch. Then she's

1:36:33

like, good job. Then she's like, here's a Mew.

1:36:36

I think I did that. If

1:36:40

they want me to get that Mew, once

1:36:42

they announce that it's shutting down in a

1:36:44

month, I've really got to move.

1:36:47

You should turn that Wii

1:36:49

U on before they announce that it's shutting

1:36:51

down. I should start that journey to get

1:36:53

Hailey's Mew. I

1:36:55

think there's a couple other Pokemon you get on the way.

1:36:58

I see a new

1:37:00

Twitch series starting for you of

1:37:02

getting that Pokemon Ranch Mew. I

1:37:05

would say my Pokemon Ranch is enjoyable,

1:37:08

but it's not engaging in

1:37:11

the same way. Yeah, it is

1:37:13

a... I

1:37:16

really liked it. It's very jank.

1:37:20

But you can see Pokemon moving around,

1:37:22

which is fun. All

1:37:25

right, well, that's our episode for you guys. Like

1:37:29

I said, if there's any news that

1:37:31

came out after we recorded this, we

1:37:33

recorded this early because I will be

1:37:35

in Florida. If I saw you

1:37:37

in Orlando, cool. If I didn't, sorry

1:37:40

you missed me. But we'll

1:37:42

be back next week. This

1:37:44

has been another episode. Oh, thank you.

1:37:46

Thank you, Bobby. This

1:37:48

has been another episode of the Pokemon Podcast, and

1:37:51

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1:37:53

keeping a very close eye on

1:37:55

if they bring the Beast Ball

1:37:57

back in Pokemon Go. when

1:38:00

Necrozma's in the game. Just-

1:38:02

just watch it after that. They're

1:38:04

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