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What's up everyone? Welcome

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to the six hundred and

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third episode of the Pokemon podcast.

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It's super effective. I'm your host,

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Steve with me is Hannah. I

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am here. Yep. Hello. Greg

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is also here. I am also

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here. Hello. Welcome.

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Welcome back to the smooth

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sounds of jazz 104. Okay.

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We have a episode for y'all today. We're

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going to start off with some sleep and

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some go. And then after the break, there

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is some pretty exciting

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unite news, I think. And

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then there was the finally the scarlet and

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violet patch happened. And then we're going to

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end with the Pokemon company hitting me and

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releasing more products that I have to buy.

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Let's start off with Pokemon

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sleep. Hannah

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gave up on it. She's done. I

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did not. Good job. Congratulations.

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You're free. Hooray.

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I've picked it back up this week.

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I have fed my Pokemon at least

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once per day. Every day this

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week. And I don't think I've missed a sleep

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day either. All right. But I

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did realize why I don't. I

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realized why it's falling off for me. I realized

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the one thing that is just keeping me from

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getting into it every week. I

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wish that we were actually able to choose

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the island ahead of time, like

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on a Sunday, and know

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what food and what berries you are going to

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be using for the next week. Because

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every time it goes into a Monday and I

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choose an island, and then it gets halfway through

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the day before I can plan out a full

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team for the new island. I

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feel like I've lost time with a

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non-optimized team and then it just Continues

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being more time with a non-optimized team

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because I've already lost that time and

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why why why should I fix

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my team? If I've already lost

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the time Hey, you

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don't let your

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team just be suboptimal. Let's let

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follow what your heart says I got a

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shiny ghastly. I made it a shiny Gengar

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Does it work? Heck no. Do I have it

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out so I can watch them walking around going back?

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Absolutely. I just a weird bad

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shiny plan. Yes Like

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snowdrop and the beach and The

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berries are all set but the meal types aren't

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yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. I see what you're saying

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I see what you're saying I wonder

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if like because that is like both

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a bummer and exciting for me on Monday to

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be like, okay Where are we going? What Pokemon

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do I need to switch out? Am I leveling

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up anything? But it is like that first meal

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you're like, oh nothing is optimized because I'm still

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in the process of switching I

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do wonder they feel like I'm already behind I

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do wonder if like there are people who are like

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this is my beach team and I'm going to the

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beach next week And so I'm gonna change it Sunday

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night before I go to bed So then when I

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wake up the beach team is like ready to go

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because after your final meal You

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don't really need anything anymore You

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don't but I feel like it's better to change

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it in the morning of Monday I just want

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to be able to have a team ready for

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that so that your last team is all rested

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and fresh HP and you can put them in

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the box all healthy instead of all drained.

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I Just

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like it the fact that everybody now gets a drink or

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a dessert when I make it I'm making it for

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everybody on the Field I feel better

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about this process instead of I'm just

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feeding one and the rest of those

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poor suckers I'm stealing berries from Yes,

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a little drink animation or meal animation.

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They added was very cute. They added

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that with lapis. It feels very

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neko there was a there

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was a couple updates that happened they added that

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new animation they made the fan speed faster when

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you're you're fanning well the fan speed does not

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increase your lucky chance just still putting a fan

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that does nothing I still had it though cuz

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I like making it jitter I still

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hit it as well they increase the bonus

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for each island so you could only go

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up to 50% bonus but

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now with lapis I believe you can go

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up to 55% for each that's not

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any of the news because that was just stuff

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they did with that update Pokemon sleep

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gets updated more than scarlet and violet which is

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pretty crazy mm-hmm they

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did add stuffle Ralts and

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Dratini and so there's one more week

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of that before they permanently move to

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lapis for good but I

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went to green grass because I didn't

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have lapis unlocked I need like 15 more Pokemon

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for lapis at this point but after

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so when you're listening to this there should be

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one more week of the lapis event I don't

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know why they decided the lapis event was like

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two weeks long like I'm not complaining it's like

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cool it's like yeah sure give me they

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may be learning that people play more when there

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is an event happening it seems

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like right now they're trying to keep a

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constant event happening kind of like go I

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wonder if they knew that like there was

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a big subset of people that were very

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close to lapis so this event we

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won was like okay you can finish

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off you need like four more then

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the next week you'll be able to go lapis I wonder

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yeah I don't know I

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don't know how many people are like like my highest

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level Pokemon I think is like 38 I

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guess I could probably bring them up to like 46

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but there's really not a point because it's

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not 50 yet I don't know when I

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give Pokemon rare candy I like to give it candy

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to the point where it gets something yeah

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like another unlock yeah I don't

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know if that's optimal or not

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but anyways Valentine's Day

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event Monday the 12th

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this might seem like one of the better

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events they've ever done one of the best

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events we could say It's

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a little young to say

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best, but about like a half a

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year. I just got charged my $50 this morning, Greg, for

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another six months of this game. How

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much? It's $10

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a month, but if you do all six months, you

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save $10. We've

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talked about that. I know. I

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just don't understand why. For

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$12.95 a month, you can get

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a full MMO that has

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a ton of

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content in it. Can I give them

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Azumarill donuts though? I don't think so.

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Yeah, well, you can give certain things

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donuts because there's farming in Final Fantasy

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XIV now. There's fishing

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too. There's fishing, there's farming, there's

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sleeping. I have a

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house now. Valentine's Day will be

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a week long. Snorlax will be

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set to dessert and drinks for

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the entire time and the dish value will be

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multiplied by 1.5 the entire week. The

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multiplier for extra tasty will be different

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depending on the day. On Sunday, extra

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tasty will be four point times as

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much strength. The other days, it will

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give you three times. I think how

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people figured it out was the

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little...it's the critical hit to get the

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extra tasty. It's 10% Monday

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through Saturday and then on Sunday, it's 30%. I

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believe that's how it works. For me, it's 0% constantly. Yeah,

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same. I get it once

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every two weeks, maybe. How

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are you both so into this

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game and so bad at this game? I have

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shiny... I feel like I should

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have been a creep. I hit extra tasty all the

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time. I think it knows that I don't care. It's

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like a cat knows. Version

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that does not want it will come over.

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Sleep is like this person does not care.

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Make it happen. Make it rain over there. Try

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to gain interest. Like I hit the button and

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look at my pretty people friends walking around. They're

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shiny. Like if we keep giving

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them critical hit, maybe Greg will check the store

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out more often. I forget

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the store exists. You're

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a really good daily free item now though.

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I know but I forget. I'm like oh.

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The item is good. It's usually

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like. No you're thinking there. Well

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whatever. You only like bad. I feel like the bad thing that you

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get in the item is the pillow. I never use the pillow. I

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always have Wigglytuff. The Wigglytuff

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is already keeping everyone healthy. My

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S Rank Wigglytuff that

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the calculator said. Okay. Have

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you used the fees to get it to the S

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Rank? Yeah. Yeah. Because

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I'm in the premium store so I get to see. Yeah. So

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you can buy them. Buy them with my points. I

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just do S Rank sleep. I've gotten S Rank

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sleep before once I switched to my new method

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of sleeping. The cheating? It's

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not cheating. It's just

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telling it I'm going to bed at 3am whether I'm going

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to bed or not. I am in the

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bed. I'm

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just not sleeping sleeping. Bulbasaur,

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Jigglypuff, Slowpoke, Pinsir, Chikorita and

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Absal will be boosted. More

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likely to appear during this

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event. Also they

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are saying that Shiny Bulbasaur,

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Jigglypuff, Slowpoke, Pinsir, Chikorita, Absal

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will be boosted.

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I don't know what the boost is. We've

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had this before for the Pikachus

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and there was something else that was boosted

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at one point. There will be limited time missions.

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You can get up to 10 Poke Biscuits by doing the missions.

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There will be two new desserts and drinks

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added and there were some new

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desserts. There were some new meals

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added with Lapis because they added corn.

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So I think one of the desserts is like

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popcorn or something. Mmm.

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But I think only Stuffle has

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corn. Ooh I got Dratini. Dratini

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does can. can

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have corn. Ok, ok. I think for

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sure Stuffle starts with corn. Yes, Stuffle is

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all corn. You

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can go to any area for the shiny

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boosted event or the desserts

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or the drinks. I will

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say off the top of my head,

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all of these Pokemon appear on Greengrass.

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That's probably your best bet. You could

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go to the beach, but you won't

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see Absol or

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Bulbasaur at all at the beach. And for,

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just don't go to Top Hollow. I know I

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personally hate Top Hollow, but I think out

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of all of these Pokemon, only

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Jigglypuff spawned at Top Hollow, so I

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don't know why you would consider that.

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It is the worst choice unless you really

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want the Jigglypuffs. Yeah. And

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then for the Snowdrop,

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I think that would be

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everything but no Bulbasaur or

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Chikorita on Snowdrop. And

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then for... Not Pinsir either. Oh no, Pinsir.

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It would just be Slowpoke, Jigglypuff, and Absol. Lapis.

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I know Lapis is for sure Bulbasaur and for sure

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Chikorita, but I don't think Absol is there and I

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don't think Jigglypuff is there. Jigglypuff

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is there. Sorry, I have an infographic

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up. Yeah, okay. On

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the thing, it's down... It's in

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the press release. It

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is in the press release. Let me see that. That

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was pretty good. I have to cough my head, honestly. You were doing

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pretty good. You were remembering almost all of them. No,

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there's... I think I know what infographic you're looking

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at and it's really bad because they decided to

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shiny some of them and not. And then in

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the comments, they were like, oh... All

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the comments were like, oh, so the shiny odds for

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this is here? And they're like, no, I just decided

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some were shiny and some were not. I was like,

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that's not a good infographic. You can't

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just decide to make artistic choices.

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Sometimes you want style over substance. I

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haven't got a shiny... in

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like four months and I give this game

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money. So I have

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three Chinese mid-hargoes. In

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the last three weeks alone, I got a

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shiny toga pee and a

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shiny Cassly. I tell you,

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for loving this game

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so much, you are bad at it. You are

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bad at this game. I have 10 shinies,

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don't you? I

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got a shiny Pichu this week and

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the Pikachu recently. I will say...

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I kind of forgot about the subscription until this

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morning when I took my email. The

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subscription does make a difference. And

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this event, this Valentine's Day event, is doing

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what I want, being able to let people

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plan their teams out ahead of time because

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you know that the meal is going to

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be desserts and you know on most of

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the islands what the berries are going to

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be. So unless you're going to greengrass,

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which I probably will because I'm not...

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I had enough level for Snowdrop to

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be comfortable, you can

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plan out your team far ahead of time

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for this event. And I think it's

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very exciting. Also

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I don't know if your luck is better.

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Like maybe if you really

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wanted an Absol and you're like I'm going to go to

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Snowdrop because it's either Snowdrop or Greengrass,

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but I'm still assuming you have to be pretty

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high level to get the

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Absol to appear anyways. Like we saw this

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with the Eevee event. Oh yeah, that was

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the other Shiny Boosted. I was the Eevee.

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Like Vaporeon wasn't appearing on the

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beach until you were like Master 4. So

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like there were a lot of people that were like, oh I never

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saw a Vaporeon. And it was like yeah because

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you were ultra 5. Which

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like is whatever. That might be what you have.

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But if you were going to that event being

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like, oh I want Vaporeon, then you just

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didn't have a good enough team, then you wouldn't have seen it. Yeah,

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too low a level, just stick to Greengrass. This

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event seems cool. It's kind of

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crazy to go from two weeks of Lapis

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event to a brand-new week

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of sleep so excited.

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I then

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I'm starting off real bad when it

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10 a.m. or something mm-hmm so

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I need to change the the bedtime okay

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our sleep segment

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is we'll check

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back in next week for sleep

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let's talk about Pokemon go and then we'll

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take a break enamorous

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actually this is really funny because we talked about

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last week how the only way

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to get enamorous is to spend $60

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and then transfer it into scarlet and

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violet and play a whole lot of

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that game yeah I play yeah well

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that's a good game though yeah

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no it's fun hey you know I've

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only played through it once and a half so I'd

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actually be curious two years later is now

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that game is two years old which is wild

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that that game is two years old I wonder

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how that game feels two years later because I

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haven't touched in a long time anyways

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enamorous is coming to Pokemon go it's

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coming in elite raids which the last day really rate

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this cat is get out of here this

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cat the last elite

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raids were Reggie drag go and Reggie Ellicke if

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I remember and then before that was Hoopa Reggie

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drag on Reggie Ellicke eventually moved

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into normal five-star raids

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if I remember correctly at

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some point they did so

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enamorous is coming it's debuting on

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Valentine's Day elite raids

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are what replaced ex raids

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even though ex raids

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ex Jim's still exist in the game like

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I'm all America you can like see which

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right like gyms are EX even though they

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have taken some of the things

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in the game for EX raids out though I

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think that the EX raid passes

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no longer exist in the game's code

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anymore I wish mall America

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would get elite raids because for

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some reason they don't they're not a

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park they're not a park that's right

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hey at least

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it you could go to a park in

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Minnesota right now and oh I

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mean it's shorts weather let's let's be real yeah it is

16:35

it is it's our weather right now and it's

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supposed to be 50 on

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Tuesday so like we're

16:43

where we're changing we're changing the tune we

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can go to a park and

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be like I'm outside in February for

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the first time in seven months well

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the anemorrhos raids are on Valentine's Day so

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it's a week from now and who knows what

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the weather will be doing a week and a

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half so yes anemorrhos will

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be set at four times on Valentine's Day on

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Wednesday so it'll appear at 12 o'clock 1 o'clock

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5 o'clock and 6 o'clock

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where local

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time wherever you are and then when you

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defeat anemorrhos certain Pokemon

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will spawn around that gym for 30

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minutes I think they did this for

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hupa but they did not do this

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for Ellikey and rego which was confusing because

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people were like oh I didn't get any spawns can't

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remember what the bonus for Ellikey was because

17:30

like hupa had did do this

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for the regis no

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cuz hupa had a chance for like articuno

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zapdos moltres to spawn with the

17:39

other oh you're thinking of super special

17:41

spawns around it yeah yeah

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they didn't do that for the

17:46

regis what's spawning around anemorrhos is

17:48

also not articuno zapdos moltres yes

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it's not as good as that it's just

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a bunch of fairy Pokemon and a taylor

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fairy and flying Okay,

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Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Snubbull, Talo,

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Wubat, Emolga, Rufflet,

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Fletchling, Spritzzy, and Swirlix.

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All of those can be shiny except

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for Emolga. Get rekt,

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Emolga. And

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you'll see 24 hours ahead of time where

18:17

the eggs are hatching, unless that breaks. So

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put a big asterisk right there. It's

18:23

been a while. It's been a

18:25

while since they did Elite

18:27

Raid. Things could have broken since

18:29

then for sure. There have been a lot of updates. Once

18:32

the egg hatches, the boss will be available

18:34

for 30 minutes. No

18:37

remote raid passes. Gotta be in

18:39

person. I'm sure if you

18:41

miss this, it will come back. They

18:45

did what, Hoopa twice, maybe even three

18:47

times. They did Regieleki, Regidrego once

18:50

or twice, and then they put them in five stars at

18:52

a certain point. So that was, I don't know, the third

18:54

time. I think it's cute that the

18:56

Pokémon that is pink with hearts on

18:58

its neck and a heart on its

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horns is debuting on Valentine's Day. I

19:04

think that is thematic. I

19:06

understand the complaints that it's during a work

19:08

day, but I thought I'm

19:10

gonna, here's my soapbox that I'm gonna

19:12

stand on. Ever since I was

19:14

like 14 years old and I was in

19:17

my first relationship, everyone, your

19:19

friends, your peers, your teachers,

19:21

your parents, said that Valentine's

19:23

Day was a garbage holiday and it was

19:25

a corporate holiday and it was just to

19:27

sell gift cards and to get you to

19:30

go out to dinner to buy overpriced meals.

19:33

So don't, I don't want to hear

19:35

people complaining that it's ruining your overpriced

19:37

Valentine's Day dinner. It's not that

19:39

big of a deal. Go to dinner on Friday. Valentine's

19:43

Day is a good holiday and I will stand

19:45

up for it. Corporate holiday?

19:47

It is important to be able to tell

19:49

people you care about them. I

19:52

tell Greg I care about them every night before

19:54

bed. You do not.

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I sent you that good dog TikTok and I know you

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laugh. Yeah,

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but I don't get those at night. I get

20:04

those in the morning. Well, I'm sending them to

20:06

you at night. Yeah, well, you're sending them at

20:08

two in the morning when I am dead to

20:10

the world. I am not one that

20:13

I like the idea of Valentine's

20:15

Day, although again, much like New Year's

20:17

resolutions, you should be telling people that

20:20

you care about them a lot more

20:22

than one specific part set

20:24

aside day. It should

20:26

be more normalized. The thing

20:29

I don't like about Valentine's

20:31

Day are people's

20:34

judgments around what should happen

20:37

and how you should be

20:39

on Valentine's Day. There

20:41

are judgments if you have a partner

20:44

and you're not doing something. There are

20:46

judgments if you're single. There are judgments

20:48

if you don't celebrate the holiday. There's

20:52

so much weirdness around how people treat

20:54

Valentine's Day and how people treat other

20:56

people around Valentine's Day that I don't

20:59

care about it. My husband

21:02

and I specifically do

21:04

not count Valentine's Day,

21:06

although that was technically our first

21:08

date. It was a group date, so

21:10

it doesn't count. I'd

21:13

have Valentine's Day date with seven people at

21:15

that point. It was the first time we

21:17

went and hung out together, so

21:19

we don't count it because it's not really was a group date.

21:22

But there's just a lot of

21:25

garbage judgments around Valentine's Day

21:27

that I don't care for.

21:31

I don't think I've ever, maybe

21:34

at some point, maybe like 10 years ago, I

21:36

had dinner on Valentine's Day, but now it's like,

21:38

oh, let's go out

21:40

for Valentine's Day dinner, but let's do

21:42

it like five days later.

21:45

Yeah, let's do it as convenient, not

21:48

on a Wednesday. Yeah. It

21:50

costs slightly less. I don't

21:52

know. When

21:54

the White Castle was doing the Valentine's

21:56

Day, dine in,

21:58

make those decisions. I

22:01

saw it. Yes. Greg, can

22:03

we go to White Castle for Valentine's Day?

22:05

You mean IKEA? Or

22:08

IKEA, whichever one. I

22:11

think both of those sound awesome. It's on a Wednesday.

22:17

I know, I'm flying on Wednesday. That's what I

22:19

leave for LA. It's on a Wednesday. Also,

22:22

I don't think our IKEA is doing the Valentine's Day

22:24

dinner. No,

22:27

but what may I... I don't know.

22:30

Anyways, I had to listen to a whole

22:32

spiel about how there's a pop-up IKEA coming

22:35

to Roseville from my mother-in-law today, and I'm

22:37

so done with talking about IKEA. Oh, I

22:40

thought there was more there. No. I

22:46

will also stand on my soapbox once again,

22:48

and I will say I like Elite

22:50

Raids a lot. I like

22:53

looking at Campfire, knowing where

22:55

they're going to be, which is usually the one park

22:57

that we go to, Greg. I don't remember what it's

22:59

called. The

23:02

park in... Yeah,

23:04

the park that we went to to do

23:06

Go Fest that one time. Centennial?

23:08

Centennial, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And

23:11

I liked EX Raids. I liked

23:13

being like, oh, at 5 o'clock

23:16

or 6 o'clock or 1 o'clock, the 1 o'clock

23:18

actually works better for me. That

23:20

you can go here. Other people will also know

23:22

to go up here. You just do it. You

23:24

don't talk to anyone. You leave. Now,

23:27

I do know that, like, when I'm in

23:29

Mall of America, again, privileged, very beneficial, best

23:31

place, indoor place to play, that 9 times

23:34

out of 10, I can jump in any raid

23:36

and we'll fill up. But

23:38

before that, before I moved here, when I

23:41

was in Milwaukee, it was like, oh, there's

23:43

an EX raid at this park. At this

23:45

time, show up. People are there. We do it. We

23:48

leave. It's great. I love

23:50

it. I think it's great. I

23:52

also work technically second

23:55

and a half shift or whatever. I work

23:58

like 6 p.m. to – well, second – Second

24:00

shift is what? 12 to 8 and

24:02

then third shift is? Yeah. The

24:05

second shift 12 to 8, I thought it was 1 to 9. Oh,

24:08

I think you're right. I think it is 1 to 9. And then

24:10

third shift is what? Like 10 to 6. Oh

24:12

boy. God, according to Indeed. Oh,

24:15

did the corporate overlords change it?

24:19

This is the weirdest thing I've

24:22

ever read. Second

24:24

shift hours are 5pm to 1am. I

24:27

don't think that's right. And

24:30

then it says, okay, so it says

24:32

first shift is 9 to 5. Sure.

24:36

Second shift is 5 to 1 and third shift

24:38

is midnight to 8am. That

24:42

doesn't sound right. Yeah. I mean,

24:44

I think slowly. Kind of okay. Feels

24:46

like it's pushed back too far. Whatever.

24:50

Anyways, anytime an elite... This one says 3pm to 11pm.

24:54

This is all made up. Oh yeah.

24:58

Anytime elite or raids get announced, there's this wave

25:00

of people who work 9 to 5 that get

25:03

so upset that there are

25:05

slots at lunchtime when

25:08

there are times afterwards. Like

25:12

it's not only lunchtime. Also,

25:15

some people do go on their lunch. When

25:17

I worked at 9 to 5, I left the office. I was

25:19

like, I'm not going to be here. I'm

25:21

going somewhere. I

25:24

do miss working downtown because on

25:26

these, there was a group of

25:28

people who were playing for their

25:30

kids. Gosh, that makes me

25:33

more upset than the Valentine's Day people who

25:38

were always out. So you can

25:40

go walk around the skyways at lunch

25:43

and then there would just be a group of people who were

25:45

playing for their kids. I think.

25:49

And then you could just find a group. At

25:52

the heyday, there was a couple of people who were

25:54

super enjoying about it because they would be like, we're

25:56

dividing up on my team. And

25:59

think over here. back back when they

26:01

did that oh my gosh yeah I'm not

26:03

doing that that was so annoying

26:05

I will say they have changed the times

26:07

a little bit for these elite raids the other

26:09

ones were on weekends and I don't think there

26:11

was a 6 p.m. one before but there

26:13

is now was there were there

26:16

were three of them or yeah there

26:18

was 11 a.m. 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

26:20

yeah oh I think this is better so

26:23

yes now there is a 6

26:25

p.m. one that is solidly outside

26:27

of the nine to five yeah

26:30

let's be real it's eight to five like yeah yeah

26:33

it is a I was gonna say it is technically eight to

26:35

five yeah plus

26:37

commute time yeah if I

26:39

was going into the office I would

26:43

be close to Centennial Park and I would

26:45

go but I'm not so

26:47

I'm not going I think

26:50

if I wasn't traveling I would probably hit up

26:52

all four just because I

26:55

think an amorous is cool and I would like

26:57

to have more than just one without playing legends

26:59

again but I guess well

27:01

this is free minus the gas and the time but

27:04

going through all of legends to get another

27:06

an ember is a lot more work oh

27:09

yeah I'm sure this will come back again

27:11

obviously the to me it's it's not like

27:14

I sometimes think that people like think Niantic is

27:16

like trying to screw us over like like oh

27:18

my gosh why I work

27:20

during the week I can't go this and it's like

27:23

they're just putting the Pokemon with a bunch of

27:25

hearts on it to debut on Valentine's Day I

27:27

don't think it's that malicious I think if anything

27:29

it's just trying to be like cute like

27:33

thinking amorous will come back and it will probably

27:35

come back on like a Saturday or a Sunday

27:37

so it's really not that big of a deal

27:39

I don't think so but

27:41

I understand there's like a fear of missing out if

27:44

I wasn't flying I would probably do as many as as

27:46

I could but it's

27:49

whatever I'm it comes back

27:51

it will probably be in normal raids

27:53

because the only elite raids

27:55

they have repeated were the Reggie dragos

27:58

because those broke badly And

28:01

then they broke the second time too. That's why

28:03

they came back in normal raids. The

28:05

real news is, is an amorous gonna break or not?

28:08

Yes. Apparently, you

28:11

could speedrun Arceus in four hours.

28:14

That's... Yeah, if

28:16

you know the route. Well,

28:20

I mean, there's four

28:22

hour raids, four hours to

28:24

play Arceus. I think it's a cold... Oh, that

28:26

would be a good Valentine's Day. Get

28:29

your significant other, sit in the car, waiting for the

28:31

elite raid to start as you play Arceus. As you

28:33

play Arceus. As you speedrun Arceus. Another

28:37

small event is Pokemon Go's Carnival

28:39

of Love is going

28:42

to debut Shiny Aura Koryo. That

28:44

will be Tuesday, February

28:47

13th to Thursday, February 15th. You

28:50

will get increased exile candy walking with your buddy. FURFURU

28:55

will be able to be the heart trim

28:57

FURFURU. If you have one of those,

29:00

there's... The POM POMs are not

29:02

moving, so America still has... Sorry,

29:05

the Aura Koryo is not moving. America will still

29:07

have POM POM form. And

29:11

then FLABABE will appear

29:13

as well, or more frequently, I

29:15

guess, technically. So you have Snubbull,

29:18

Skitty, Lovedisc, Flababay,

29:21

depending on your region, FURFURU,

29:23

Aura Koryo, depending on your

29:25

region, Stuffle, and Quaxly? Lean

29:31

into the carnival part. Oh,

29:33

okay. Okay. Okay. They're leaning into that one

29:35

real hard. And then

29:37

if you're lucky, Roselia and then

29:40

White and Orange Flababay will appear

29:42

more often. And then Field Research

29:45

will be Snubbull, Roselia, Clampro, Lovedisc,

29:47

FURFURU, Stuffle, and then Spinda with

29:49

a heart pattern is

29:51

coming back. There will be

29:53

a carnival collection challenge, which

29:56

at this point just says Rosereid? That's

29:58

not really a collection. collection challenge, it's

30:00

just evolving a Roselli. Hey,

30:04

that's tough. It

30:07

results in an encounter with a woman.

30:09

Oh, OK, OK, OK. I thought normally they

30:11

lay out the collection challenge on Niantic's website,

30:14

and they're like, this is what you have

30:16

to collect. Maybe

30:18

I'm misremembering that. Maybe I'm

30:20

just hallucinating, and that was never a thing.

30:25

There's a new avatar item, which is

30:27

a love disk. Trampol.

30:31

What's that, Tramp? I can't say that

30:33

word. Tambourine.

30:36

Tambourine! Good

30:38

heavens. And

30:41

it's, yeah, it's a pose. You're just

30:43

dancing around with the tambourine. OK.

30:46

It's shaped like a heart. If you're in

30:48

Brazil, trainers in Brazil will

30:50

have an exclusive way

30:53

to earn twice the amount of

30:55

XP. Twice the amount of

30:57

XP for catching Pokemon during the event. I'm

31:00

assuming that's going to start the same time and end

31:02

the same time. That's just. Yes,

31:05

it goes along with the Brazilian carnival. That

31:07

is the carnival part of this event. And

31:10

then for $1, you will get timed

31:12

research featuring Stardust XP,

31:14

two incense, five encounters. Ooh, five encounters

31:16

is a heart spindle. That's actually kind

31:18

of cool. That's it. That's

31:20

what it's saying for that. It's timed research.

31:22

That means if you don't do it, you spent $1 for

31:25

no spindos. Honestly,

31:28

this may be one of the ones that

31:30

I think may be worth it. The spindle

31:32

with a heart pattern is extra cool because

31:35

when it's shiny, it's a broken heart pattern.

31:38

Oh, we won't really? And not people know that. Yeah.

31:40

Yeah, it is. Hey, that is super cool. It's really

31:42

cool. OK, last soapbox

31:44

of the whole episode. I

31:47

spent $5. That's

31:49

not a true statement. I bought

31:51

with my own money. I bought the Team

31:54

Rocket $5 thing for the

31:56

pose. This is my fault. My

31:58

bad. I didn't

32:00

know I had to battle 40 Team Rocket

32:02

trainers to get that pose. And

32:04

let me tell you, that was

32:07

the most miserable experience of my

32:09

life. Because I waited

32:11

until the last day. And

32:14

I was like on step one

32:16

of four, and I was like, oh, you'll

32:18

probably get the pose at the end of

32:20

step three, and then the fourth step will

32:22

probably just be like redeem your like candy

32:24

rewards, whatever. And so I did

32:26

three trainers at home, because the balloons are more frequent,

32:29

and then I was like, I'll just go to Mall

32:31

of America and I'll just do, like I'll find trainers

32:33

there. And I did two more,

32:35

and then the next step was battle five more trainers.

32:37

I was like, okay, cool. Did that.

32:39

Then the next step was battle 10 trainers.

32:42

And I really debated. I was

32:44

like, do I just go home? I don't want to do another 10

32:46

trainers. And I was like, but

32:48

it's timed research. It's not like do

32:51

30 trainers in the next year

32:53

and you'll eventually get your pose, which

32:55

would have been fine. But it

32:57

was like, if I don't get this done in eight hours, I've

32:59

spent $5 on nothing. It's

33:02

the worst. And so I did another 10 trainers. I

33:05

was like, cool. The next step four is going

33:07

to be, here's your item,

33:09

here's your Pokemon spawn, here's your

33:11

experience. Nope. It was battle another 10

33:13

trainers. It was- So lesson learned.

33:15

Lesson learned. I should have checked Leak Duck before

33:17

I spent $5. Correct.

33:21

What question is that? In

33:25

what universe was Niantic was like, this is

33:27

fun. Let me just- And

33:29

the universe that it thinks battling Team

33:31

Rocket seven years later is still fun

33:34

and not- it

33:36

actively makes me not want to go

33:38

to a stop. If I see a

33:40

Rocket, I'm like, I'm going the other

33:42

way. I don't want to even accidentally

33:44

touch it and have to sit through

33:46

the dialogue. If Niantic was like, give

33:49

us $5 and you can turn off

33:51

Team Rocket for a week, I would. I

33:54

know you're not the only one. Like, just

33:56

make them disappear for a period of time.

33:59

This is- Okay, so the carnival thing it

34:01

was like spend it's probably give you five

34:04

dollars get the tambourine pose Yes, please like

34:07

I would I would give you more money not to battle

34:09

Team Rocket I didn't know what I was getting into I

34:11

thought the quest line was gonna be five Buy

34:14

the Team Rocket pose now. I haven't

34:17

checked since the event Yeah, I'm unsure if

34:19

you could just buy the pose because

34:21

it would be the same five dollars just without

34:24

doing any of those It was

34:26

it was the worst There

34:30

was I know sometimes in like Final

34:32

Fantasy or Like

34:35

Pokemon unite you can just like spend

34:37

money to accelerate Like

34:40

the thing like I don't

34:42

do this anymore. Here's here's like five dollars Just

34:44

finish it for me if that was

34:46

an option for this Team Rocket event I would have

34:48

done it it took and

34:50

I also I don't know how People

34:53

would like if you waited last minute and you

34:56

didn't know like me which again When

34:59

I say that I think of like a casual player

35:01

I think of somebody who's like a little bit busy

35:03

maybe doesn't live in a big city Definitely

35:06

doesn't have Mall America If

35:08

you spent five dollars and then the the

35:10

task is battle 30 Team

35:12

Rocket and you were only doing like maybe three or

35:14

four a day and then you got to the last

35:17

day I don't like I don't know what you're doing

35:19

to like yes spawn have

35:21

more Rockets

35:23

but like That's

35:26

and it looks like the pose is not purchasable

35:28

at this point. Yeah, it's It's

35:31

just from a lot of work for

35:33

something that will eventually disappear if you

35:35

don't finish it again I think the

35:37

instant way to fix that entire quest

35:39

is There's no expiration

35:41

date. You spent the five

35:43

dollars do your 30 Rockets However, you want and

35:45

at the end the pose is waiting for you

35:48

The this this limited pose thing that

35:50

I had to keeps doing is or limited

35:53

pose limited time event

35:55

thing is a paid time

35:57

research the worst terrible

36:00

and they could fix this

36:02

just by doing a monthly pass and for

36:05

like $10 a month you get the egg incubator,

36:07

you get the thing. If you do it, cool.

36:09

If not, no big deal because this is what

36:11

other, like Final Fantasy does this as well. Like

36:14

hey, there's an event this weekend. It's

36:16

part of your $15 membership. If you miss it, no

36:19

big deal but you didn't pay extra for it. Yep,

36:22

just do it. But

36:24

for the record, I've given Nyan take this feedback multiple times

36:26

and I've seen other people also give

36:29

Nyan take this feedback. This

36:31

limited time quest thing is not

36:33

good. It's garbage. Okay, speaking of

36:35

mobile, well I guess technically Unite's not a

36:37

mobile game but speaking of games that

36:39

also you can give money, well I guess it is

36:41

a mobile game but also on Switch. It's on my phone.

36:44

It's on your phone but you can give it money. Speaking of games,

36:46

you can give money. We're going to

36:48

talk about Unite when we come back and then we'll talk

36:50

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36:54

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36:56

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40:21

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40:23

a bit, I think. This

40:25

is off. The

40:28

French Sports Illustrated, I think. Italian

40:30

Sports Illustrated. I don't know,

40:32

I haven't read or mowed because

40:34

there's sites littered with ads here. There

40:36

is what's called the Unite test server, so I

40:39

don't really know if this is spoilers, but if

40:42

you follow any Unite news, then you know that

40:44

the Unite server exists and then you know Pokemon

40:46

go up on there and technically the Unite server

40:48

is official, so we're

40:50

covering what other people have covered, but there are

40:53

three new Pokemon. I will put in Asterix by

40:55

some of these because we need to talk about

40:57

them. These initial reports are not 100% true. Okay,

41:00

we're supposed to have three new Pokemon, Miridon, Phalanx,

41:04

and Suruledge. Suruledge is not

41:07

the first Asterix. Only

41:09

Miridon and Phalanx

41:13

are in on the test server. Suruledge

41:16

has been found as a

41:18

placeholder, but it has no moves.

41:22

Everything about it is a placeholder,

41:25

so people are assuming and

41:27

that it's fairly a

41:29

safe assumption that it will be coming at

41:32

some point, but it is not on

41:35

the test server. You cannot place Suruledge right

41:37

now. It doesn't have anything associated with it.

41:40

It doesn't even have its proper moves.

41:42

All the moves that are listed are

41:44

placeholders from other Pokemon, so the

41:47

two that you can see that

41:49

we are sure of because they're being

41:51

tested on the test server are Miridon

41:53

and Phalanx. Miridon is going to be

41:55

EX license. Yeah,

41:57

just not surprising. It's

42:00

supposed to be an attacker. People

42:02

are, well, we've heard rumors of Mariahdon

42:04

a couple of months ago, so that's

42:07

not super surprising. And people

42:09

were saying that it was probably going to come out

42:11

around Pokemon Day. Ironically, that's

42:14

in like 24 days from now, so that

42:16

kind of makes sense. And

42:18

then people were also speculating that Mariahdon was going to

42:20

be free on Pokemon Day. Free, I'm assuming, is like

42:22

do this questline and at the end of the questline

42:24

you get it. Much like a

42:26

lot of the EX licenses, it is fairly

42:29

safe to say that this would be another

42:31

board game, collect puzzle pieces

42:33

type deal to get it for

42:35

free. Again,

42:38

you can pay to complete

42:41

the puzzle and not

42:43

have to do it all and get it.

42:45

Like they are always offering these

42:47

things for you to pay gems for,

42:49

but probably there will be a free

42:51

way to get this. Niantic was like,

42:54

here's a dollar, you can skip Team Rocket. Thank

42:56

you. I'm going to leave some money. Let

42:59

me move on. That's saying what

43:01

Mariahdon can do here, Greg, can correct me. It

43:04

can create an electric terrain and weaken

43:06

goal zones, fire attacks from

43:08

a range, and use auto-seeking AOE

43:10

attacks. It can drift into enemies

43:13

with electro drift, and

43:15

it can use AOS energy to boost

43:17

the effects of electric terrain. We

43:19

don't really know what weaken goal

43:22

zones means yet. I saw a

43:24

video of it and the person

43:26

commenting was like, I don't know what that's doing. We

43:30

can't tell. We think

43:32

it makes you harder to

43:35

interrupt. You can't tell. It's

43:39

incredibly difficult to tell from the test

43:41

server what it's doing. It

43:43

creates an electric terrain and

43:46

something happens while you're in it. What

43:48

that is, we don't know. When

43:51

it says fire attacks from range, it's got

43:53

thunderbolt and thunder. Auto-seeking

43:55

AOE attacks. So it's

43:57

thunder move is. like

44:01

DelFox's spinning

44:03

fire. Also follows in.

44:06

So it follows, but it's shooting lightning down

44:08

and then it so

44:10

it will unlike

44:13

DelFox's thing which it

44:18

does follow a bit better. This one seems to

44:20

really like focus and hone in on one of

44:22

these little less over. It's much better at finding

44:25

a target and going straight

44:27

at it. That'll probably

44:29

get changed. Electrodrift

44:31

is its big thing. It

44:34

can zip across much like,

44:37

basically electric ones have a jump and can

44:39

jump back thing. It just shoots across in

44:41

a ball. And again, we don't

44:43

know. Nobody can tell what

44:45

electro train does. So it's

44:47

like, I guess you can boost it. We

44:49

don't know why you would. But it

44:52

would be similar to Zashian of like you can

44:54

use your own AOS energy to do something. Yeah.

44:57

So Zashian creates a zone and you can pump

44:59

it with AOS energy and then when the zone

45:01

goes off, the more AOS energy you put into

45:03

it, the more it will damage things. This

45:06

says we can goal. So we don't know if you

45:08

pumping it in to make it so

45:11

that you can score almost instantly. Like

45:13

we just don't know what this electric

45:15

train and we can goal does.

45:20

I've watched a lot of videos and

45:22

everybody's like, I

45:24

can't tell that anything's different. I don't

45:26

know what is different. The

45:28

ground looks different. This

45:30

is also public test servers. So

45:34

things may not be working as intended.

45:36

So the videos we have, it just might

45:38

not be working yet. Like they may put

45:40

it and realize, oh, it doesn't do what

45:42

we wanted to do and only get fixed.

45:44

So who knows what it's going to do.

45:47

The next Pokemon is Phalanx,

45:51

which I don't know

45:53

how I could describe on this

45:55

audio show how cool

45:58

Phalanx is in motion. be

46:00

Greg. It's so

46:03

cool. Unlike, you

46:06

just sort of expect it to always stay

46:08

in a line because that's how it is

46:10

in game. But in

46:13

Unite, it is able to break

46:15

up into its individual pieces and

46:17

take formations. One of

46:19

its moves allows you to just send

46:21

members out like bombs and they just

46:23

stay there attacking things that come close

46:26

and then you can suck them back

46:28

to yourself. It

46:30

does turn into a Beyblade for its Unite.

46:34

It does let itself rip. It

46:38

turns into a big circle thing with them running around.

46:41

It's funny how unique

46:43

they have made Phalanx design that nobody

46:45

is even really caring about Mariah Don.

46:47

They're like, whatever, it's just another thing.

46:50

Yeah, Mariah Don looks so lame. This

46:52

thing is so cool. They

46:54

messed up. They messed up. Phalanx

46:57

proposed a Monday. Yeah.

47:00

It also looks very broken on the public test. So

47:03

again, what you're seeing is public test. The numbers

47:05

are not going to stay that way. But

47:08

the basics of what it

47:10

does are solid. Like those are going to

47:12

be its moves. It can change its

47:15

formation when it changes its formation. The

47:18

moves get shorter but do

47:20

more damage. There's

47:22

a lot of interplay with how the

47:24

moves that you pick and how Phalanx

47:26

plays. So it is going to probably

47:29

be a higher skill Pokemon to use.

47:32

Just because,

47:34

you can just mash buttons and Unite and get

47:36

pretty far. But if

47:39

you want to play these really, really well, you're going

47:41

to need to learn how and when to change these

47:43

things around. I'm going

47:45

to read the press release and then I'm going to correct the press release. Shiny

47:48

Pokemon have made their way into Pokemon Unite via

47:50

an in-game item that you have to pay. Paid

47:53

cosmetics are no surprise in a live service

47:55

game. Fans are upset that

47:57

the data miners say that the Shiny spray has

48:00

additional stats 50 HP 5

48:02

attack 8 special attack these stats are

48:04

remarkably low blah blah blah blah blah

48:06

blah I have official word from the

48:08

Pokemon company here yes we have confirmed

48:10

the glitter spray item is not intended

48:13

to have stats attached to it the

48:15

text string is incorrect this effect is

48:17

cosmetic only so there you go

48:20

it's called glitter spray so what

48:22

it seems to do is just

48:24

add a glitter effect and not

48:26

change your Pokemon's color so

48:29

people are saying it is a shiny

48:31

treatment it that does not seem to

48:33

be the case it seems to add

48:35

a glitter sparkle

48:37

around you night clickbaiters

48:40

are hard yeah

48:42

without actually making

48:44

you shiny colored

48:47

yeah the amount of shinies are coming

48:49

to Pokemon unite clickbait

48:52

I saw on YouTube in the last three days

48:54

there is for sure one

48:58

shiny coming to Pokemon

49:00

unite yes to celebrate

49:02

Pokemon day it looks like

49:05

the anime shiny Rayquaza will

49:07

be appearing in the center

49:10

word is out if the bonus

49:13

boost is gonna change in its shiny form

49:15

so what it gives you for a shield

49:17

is going to be different some

49:20

people say oh it it gives you different

49:22

bonuses we we

49:25

don't we don't have I've not seen

49:27

that actually confirmed so we just know

49:29

that the shiny model is in-game because

49:31

of horizons and

49:34

that is the only official shiny

49:37

anything that we have for unite

49:41

I'm still betting I'm still betting that shiny

49:43

Rayquaza is coming to scarlet and violet in

49:45

seven star raid I'm Bob

49:48

yeah probably like

49:51

this only solidifies it more

49:53

yeah or they're doing

49:55

it here and not there because they're not doing the

49:58

shiny rates there for some reason yeah Well,

50:00

I think the shiny request appears in the second

50:02

episode of the anime, right? Yeah,

50:05

well, they're really on recurring character. Oh

50:09

Okay So I don't know that

50:11

means I Can't watch

50:13

it here. Even though it's in English. I still

50:15

can't watch it. Yeah, they had to delay it

50:17

They had to you know, the English was complicated

50:19

to figure out For

50:21

me, they had to get rid of the horrible

50:23

English accents to give them American accents Apparently

50:26

there's also a new dragon only game mode coming

50:29

For the six dragons in the game

50:32

Yeah, yeah, I'm assuming it's

50:34

very similar to the Eevee It's probably

50:36

similar to the Eevee to the Pikachu

50:38

thing is probably year. Yeah, it's

50:41

for yeah New

50:43

Year and probably

50:45

the middle Boss

50:48

will be Reggie Drago. Oh Yes,

50:51

cuz dredge Reggie Drago was was

50:53

fun. Felix is also supposed to

50:55

be an all-arounder for the record

50:57

Yes, again these They're

51:00

getting real loose with

51:02

what those terms mean Yeah, cuz they're just

51:05

like like lots of things all around her

51:07

and you're like But

51:10

it plays like a speedster But

51:12

it's all right on one of the pizza. I Mean

51:16

right on the attacker. So I know but

51:19

Mariah zoom zoom fast Yeah,

51:21

it's and it will it will probably actually

51:23

play like a speedster even though it's called

51:25

an attacker I

51:28

don't know. All right. Well

51:30

speaking of scarlet and violet there was

51:32

the Seven star ice in poly

51:34

on that happened My assumption

51:36

is they're going in order of the

51:39

elite four because Crispin had a Blaziken

51:42

Amorous had an employee on the next

51:44

one should be pre marina and then after that

51:46

should be septile Which will be our seven star

51:48

dragon raid because there's no way that's a tile

51:50

isn't dragon type You see how many dragon type

51:52

moves that Pokemon gets a lot

51:54

Especially if they're going with the elite four

51:57

from blueberry to

52:00

be dragon. Yeah so I'm assuming they

52:02

I'm assuming Lacey would be or sorry

52:04

Primarina would be next. Crazy

52:06

actually the seven star raid is just Lacey she's just standing

52:08

there and you have to battle her. Although

52:11

I could see them putting a pause on that to

52:13

like do seven star

52:15

shiny breakways or to be blastoise and Venusaur

52:18

because they love to do blastoise and Venusaur

52:20

anytime there's like a celebration

52:22

of Pokemon and they've already used Charizard.

52:25

I got one. We already used Charizard.

52:27

We already used our Charizard card. The

52:30

3.0.1 update was

52:33

released in January January 31st they did it

52:35

they said mid to

52:37

late January for

52:39

most countries. Many

52:43

maybe not most. It's

52:45

here. What

52:48

did they it was a big update too it was like three gigs. So

52:52

if a player used an item to level

52:54

up ink a to 29 or lower very

52:57

specific the game would

52:59

stop responding to button

53:01

input that bug has been fixed.

53:05

Some materials to craft TM 223 metal sound

53:08

were previously dropped by only

53:10

one Pokemon in

53:13

only one version of the game that's because one has

53:15

shield on the other has Cranidos.

53:17

Cranidos. That issue has been resolved

53:19

they just removed shield on claws

53:21

all together to make metal sound.

53:23

They didn't fix the drops they

53:26

just made it easier to make metal sound in both

53:28

games. So sure whatever.

53:31

After you install the item printer in the

53:33

League Club room which can only be once

53:36

apparently there was a way that you could

53:38

get stuck between the item printer and the

53:40

wall and

53:43

that bug has been fixed. Not

53:46

sure how that happens. That's

53:48

cool. The effects of Dragon Cheer

53:51

that's where if you use Dragon Cheer and you switch

53:53

out and switch back in you would still have Dragon

53:55

Cheer that's not supposed to happen. That has been fixed.

53:59

and Another really specific

54:01

bug is with calorex. So

54:04

calorex can only Calorex can only

54:06

learn certain moves when it's riding

54:08

last year spectra spectra ear But

54:11

then when you removed it from the

54:14

horses, it would still know those moves which

54:16

it shouldn't and then when you put

54:18

it back on the horse It

54:20

didn't know those moves anymore. So you'd have to

54:22

reteach them and So

54:25

all that has been everything

54:27

there has been I

54:31

think a really good example because people

54:34

have probably used zoshian more than they've used calorex

54:36

is If

54:38

you want to get behemoth blade, you

54:40

just have to have any steel type

54:42

move So most people

54:44

just do iron head and then when you

54:46

give it the sword It

54:50

changes it to behemoth blade and then when you remove

54:52

the sword it goes back to iron head So

54:55

that would be kind of cool if you remove the sword and

54:57

then Mmm, it's still had the he was

54:59

good because then you could give it a different item

55:01

and that would be tight But

55:04

yeah, they calorex has been

55:06

the thing they didn't mention But

55:09

they always say at the end of

55:11

it like every company in the world

55:13

niantic bungee Square enix they

55:15

always say like we've sold we fixed other

55:17

bugs But they never go into detail But

55:19

that's at the end of every like bug

55:21

fixes like other bugs have been fixed They

55:24

didn't say but they fixed the smear goal So

55:28

we didn't really talk about it that much because we didn't want

55:30

to like direct people on how to do it I'm sure look

55:32

if you want to like duplicate your items in your Pokemon You

55:34

probably looked it up on YouTube But yep

55:37

Ultimately, there was a smear goal that if

55:39

you used I think it was like you transformed

55:41

into it You ran away from it then it

55:43

kept everything and you could catch it. Whatever. I'm

55:46

Really simplifying it But

55:49

they how they fixed this was

55:52

that smear goal Can

55:54

still sketch transform and

55:57

then when you switch out the Pokemon you want to switch

56:00

it to like Walking Wake or whatever, when

56:02

it tries to transform on you, it will say

56:04

transform has failed. So you can

56:06

still learn it, you can still use

56:08

it as your smirkel, but the wild

56:10

smirkel cannot transform

56:13

during the wild battle.

56:18

That's one way to fix that, I guess. Yeah.

56:23

I thought they were just going to remove the ability

56:25

to transform. Yeah, that's... I

56:28

mean, that's probably the easiest way to fix this.

56:33

That works. All

56:36

of these updates seem so simple and so

56:38

minor and it's cool that they like fix

56:40

it. I'm sure the reason this was delayed

56:42

was literally because of smirkel. I'm

56:44

sure we would have got this update way sooner

56:46

if the smirkel thing didn't pop up randomly like

56:48

10 days ago. Would

56:51

have gotten it actually in January everywhere. But

56:56

I don't know why it was three gigs, that

56:58

just seems like a lot. There's no like hidden

57:01

callows in the three gig update. Nothing

57:04

you know of. So

57:09

yeah, they fixed it. I

57:13

know people are still like, are they going to fix the frame rate? I

57:17

don't think they can and I'm not saying that

57:19

because I know how to code. I'm saying that

57:21

because like other people who work

57:25

on games say they can't fix it.

57:29

When they did fix the frame rate the first time,

57:31

it was them

57:33

just removing like NPCs from the

57:35

cities. Like

57:37

that's how they fixed like

57:40

four of the towns was like, oh, there

57:42

was like four more and there were four

57:44

extra NPCs just walking around doing nothing. It's

57:46

just cosmetic to like add to the immersion.

57:51

They would have to change some foundational things

57:53

about the game, I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

57:58

And this is why like I. don't

58:00

want an extra DLC because

58:02

it wouldn't come with a foundation

58:04

change. Which is like fine

58:07

whatever that ship has sailed like you're

58:09

either playing Skrull and Viola or not you're either okay

58:11

with the framerate or you hate it but you're still

58:13

tolerating it it sucks it's

58:16

not great but

58:20

maybe this is the downside to DLC

58:22

because if it was diamond and pearl to

58:25

platinum they they

58:27

they fixed a lot of platinum. Yeah they fixed

58:29

it. Oh they fixed it so good in platinum.

58:34

If this was sudden moon to ultra-sun and

58:36

moon they also fixed a lot although they

58:38

fixed a lot to be fair the 3ds

58:40

was what eight years old nine years old

58:42

at the time ultra-sun and ultra-moon came out

58:44

they were really pushing that system to their

58:46

pushes they are pushing it to its limits.

58:49

I mean this every time they put

58:51

out a third version like they fixed stuff with crystal

58:53

they fixed stuff with emerald they fixed stuff in every

58:55

one in almost I would

58:57

say in almost every case I would

59:00

rather play the third version if I

59:02

was gonna play it again because they

59:04

just almost always made it better. Oh

59:07

yeah. Which is so bad that they don't

59:09

sell as well I could never sell as well

59:11

but like I would always be like I can't

59:13

wait for the third version because it's gonna be

59:15

better and we just don't get that with DLCs

59:17

anymore. Yeah they just don't have to deal with

59:19

that anymore. I

59:22

guess even though they should. They

59:24

should. No one

59:26

knows what Pokemon Day is supposed to be. You

59:29

can just throw a dart at the board and you

59:31

could just say like any remake

59:33

any DLC and maybe you'll be right on

59:35

them. I am so looking

59:37

forward to let's go Legends

59:39

Arceus. Yeah I'm waiting

59:42

for the remake of Legends Arceus where they

59:44

increase the frame rate they add

59:46

a couple more Pokemon ultra wormholes

59:48

make their debut again. All right

59:50

brilliant brilliant diamond platinum. Oh

59:55

good Jess comes out. Glittering platinum.

59:57

Glittering platinum. Shining pearl glittering

59:59

platinum. I take it back. I

1:00:01

would love Ilka to just come out with platinum

1:00:03

for You just

1:00:06

call it platinum. Hey, look we made platinum.

1:00:08

Hey, we added two buttons to the knowledge.

1:00:10

I I will buy that We

1:00:13

fixed it where the Pokemon just don't randomly disappear

1:00:15

and then show up in front of you when

1:00:18

they're following We fix the Ekans

1:00:20

animation. We did it Okay,

1:00:23

the wand company. This was just a

1:00:25

couple days ago The

1:00:28

wand company has announced That

1:00:30

they're expanding their pokeball replica collect

1:00:32

collectible collection That's a heck of

1:00:34

a lot of words and they're

1:00:36

releasing a new line of mini

1:00:38

pokeballs replicas So

1:00:41

they're saying five versions of the

1:00:44

mini pokeball replicas are releasing in

1:00:46

2024 and they're saying a full-size

1:00:49

Beastball replica is

1:00:51

coming in October, which I felt like no

1:00:53

one Reported or talked

1:00:56

about the Beastball, which is like

1:00:58

super exciting for me because I think the beast

1:01:00

like a Beastball is so

1:01:02

cool. I know one person that's incredibly

1:01:04

excited about this. So Okay,

1:01:07

so the one that I have

1:01:09

the luxury ball what? Size

1:01:12

is that full size? Okay.

1:01:14

Yeah, the mini size is many many many

1:01:16

many. It's great The mini

1:01:18

thing also comes with a bunch of things that people weren't

1:01:20

talking about which is cool First five

1:01:23

mini pokeballs will start launching in February.

1:01:25

This makes sense because probably be around

1:01:27

Pokemon day They're gonna

1:01:29

start with they specifically say it's coming up for

1:01:31

Pokemon day. Yeah, they're gonna say mini great ball

1:01:34

mini ultra ball Mini

1:01:36

cherish ball mini premier ball and

1:01:38

then obviously mini pokeball They're

1:01:42

gonna be they're not going to be all releasing

1:01:44

at once so I'm assuming we're getting the pokeball

1:01:46

first I don't know if it says here Furthermore

1:01:49

the full sign full-size pokeball replicas

1:01:52

will continue to expand with Beastball coming

1:01:54

So I don't think we're getting any

1:01:56

more full-size besides just the Beastball this

1:01:58

year trainers can look forward to addition Full-sized

1:02:00

Pokey and mini balls also in 2025

1:02:03

so they much has just signed another pretty

1:02:05

big deal here Or these

1:02:07

must be selling pretty decently where Pokemon is

1:02:09

like yep continue to make them With

1:02:13

the same display grade ultra premium

1:02:16

precision die cast metal construction as

1:02:18

the full-sized pokeball The mini

1:02:20

pokeball replicas will be equipped

1:02:22

with touch and proximity sensing

1:02:24

technology the mini pokeballs will also come with

1:02:26

a new touch controlled

1:02:29

stand with

1:02:31

the pokeball illuminating and A

1:02:34

new multi-colored glitter ring display in

1:02:37

addition. This is the cool part

1:02:39

each mini Pokeball will also come

1:02:41

with its own collectible silver plate

1:02:43

token plated token featuring different Pokemon

1:02:46

simple silhouettes Which

1:02:48

can be used in an alternative way

1:02:50

to display the replica. They didn't

1:02:52

say like specifically which Pokemon. I

1:02:54

also I'm unclear if like every

1:02:57

pokeball is coming with different Pokemon

1:02:59

plates a little coins Yeah,

1:03:02

I don't know if this is like

1:03:04

a k-pop thing where you gotta buy like the

1:03:06

same album like five times because you want Like

1:03:09

a pop this Pictures

1:03:11

that kind of thing But it looks like it

1:03:13

may only be a handful of Gen 1 Pokemon

1:03:15

just from the ones they have photos of they

1:03:18

have an Eevee They have a Squirtle. I Wouldn't

1:03:21

be surprised if it's just the starters

1:03:23

and Eevee and Gyarados or something like

1:03:25

that. Gengar It's always Gyarados and Gengar.

1:03:27

Yeah, and then the rest of the

1:03:30

press release just talks about the You

1:03:33

know what the wand company is if you don't

1:03:35

know what the wand company is they started off

1:03:37

making like very high-end Harry Potter wands for like

1:03:39

150 bucks and then they moved on to like

1:03:41

Star Trek they did Like

1:03:44

a lot of like fallout stuff like the giant

1:03:46

thing you put on your arm for fallout Obviously

1:03:49

now they're making pokeballs. I think they make a couple other

1:03:51

things. I think they're out of

1:03:53

the I'm pretty sure they're a British company And

1:03:57

I don't think they're really big I think they only have like

1:03:59

20 or some of employees, but they,

1:04:01

I feel like they probably should have

1:04:03

thought about the wand company a bit

1:04:06

more as a company name. Yeah. Because

1:04:09

they don't, they don't really make those wands anymore. I

1:04:11

think they, they used to make like nine of them

1:04:13

and I think they only make one now. Yep.

1:04:16

Nice. They should make zero.

1:04:20

Yeah, you're probably correct. You

1:04:22

know, you can just have a general standard

1:04:25

wand and lots of places use wands. It

1:04:27

doesn't have to be a specific. Yeah.

1:04:30

And they have your following. They

1:04:32

have, they have been like, it is

1:04:34

just a magic wand. You know, like wizards you

1:04:36

like in D and D and stuff. Yeah. You're

1:04:39

for your composers. Use it too. Don't,

1:04:42

not that other one. Yeah.

1:04:45

I don't think they have Harry Potter on their website anymore.

1:04:48

They do not. I'm there

1:04:50

looking around. It's gone. Good

1:04:53

for them. They, did you guys see a price

1:04:55

on the minis? I'm going to assume like 50, 60 bucks. Yeah.

1:04:59

There's no price stated so far, but

1:05:01

I've seen speculations of around 50 bucks.

1:05:04

Yeah. So half price,

1:05:07

like for us feels like, Oh

1:05:09

yeah. Cause it's smaller, but no,

1:05:12

it's probably going to be like 65. Like,

1:05:14

like they're not going to cut the

1:05:17

price at half. They're going

1:05:19

to cut the price and like a third.

1:05:21

Fancy base to it. And the coin. They've

1:05:23

got a lot going on in there to justify

1:05:25

them not selling it at half price. It's

1:05:28

interesting that they decided to

1:05:30

keep the touch sensors and

1:05:33

the proximity in it. Like that's, I thought

1:05:35

they would like get rid of that. I

1:05:37

know like touch sensing and like

1:05:39

glowing is not like the most

1:05:41

advanced technology in the world. I don't know

1:05:43

how much space it takes up the battery

1:05:46

inside the pokeball. Is

1:05:48

from front to back. It's like

1:05:50

the circle that you press to open it and back.

1:05:53

Yeah, they are like, because

1:05:56

I post these on like Instagram and TikTok

1:05:58

and like my unboxing and. and stuff, people are

1:06:00

always like, oh, they look so cheap, or a lot of people

1:06:02

think they're plastic when they're not. They

1:06:05

are not plastic. They're hefty. They

1:06:07

are hefty. Like,

1:06:09

a billiard ball, billiard pool

1:06:11

ball. I say

1:06:14

pool ball, but I don't want people to think like a beach pool.

1:06:18

A billiards ball. Yes. I

1:06:22

looked up the weight of the two, and the Pokeball

1:06:24

is like twice the weight of that. Mm-hmm.

1:06:28

Like, if you threw it on a wall,

1:06:30

you would put a hole

1:06:32

in your wall. Like, if you threw it

1:06:34

at a monster to capture it, it would

1:06:36

hurt the monster. It's

1:06:41

legitimately a very heavy

1:06:43

metal ball. I

1:06:46

don't think that justifies the $100 price. I'm

1:06:49

not defending that they should be $100. I just

1:06:51

understand that like, high end,

1:06:54

even not even a high end. You just use the word replica,

1:06:56

and you can get away with charging whatever you want. But

1:06:59

they are nice. They are genuinely nice. They're nice. $100

1:07:01

nice? No, but like, you

1:07:03

don't need this. You also don't need Funko Pops.

1:07:06

You don't need a lot of things. Like,

1:07:08

it's just, I like it because I have

1:07:12

a million plastic Pokeballs. I do. I

1:07:14

think Pokeballs are cool, but like, I

1:07:16

got Pokeballs. I got the cheap aluminum

1:07:19

Pokeballs you get at Costco with the

1:07:21

Pokemon cards. That's the question I

1:07:23

have. The $10 one. Not

1:07:25

the $100 one. I finally opened

1:07:27

my great ball back there. No

1:07:30

one needs any of this. It has this Elite Trainer box I

1:07:32

need to do something with. But

1:07:35

it's fine. I think these mini Pokeballs

1:07:37

are cool. I'm assuming this is just going for

1:07:39

a cheaper market. If

1:07:43

they are actually somewhat

1:07:45

less expensive, I

1:07:48

really like the size of them. I'm very tempted by

1:07:50

the mini ones. I'm

1:07:52

definitely going to keep my eye on that. The

1:07:54

question is, do I ignore them and

1:07:56

just commit to the full size? Because

1:07:59

I can't just. I just can't keep... If

1:08:02

I buy five of these and then they come out

1:08:04

with that, I can finish the set. I

1:08:08

mean, I will probably purchase

1:08:10

the mini luxury ball because I'm only

1:08:12

buying luxury balls because I lived the luxury

1:08:14

life. Yeah,

1:08:18

the most disappointing thing here is we're only getting

1:08:20

Beast Ball, although that's a very cool one to

1:08:22

get. No dream ball,

1:08:24

no moon ball.

1:08:30

For audio listeners, things just turned around

1:08:32

and looked at their shelf. No

1:08:34

moon ball yet. Because you have all of them there. I

1:08:36

do have all of them, yeah. We're up to 14. Hmm.

1:08:42

Fuck. We're getting into the real

1:08:44

obscure ones at this point.

1:08:47

They need the Strange Ball. Oh

1:08:49

my gosh, that would be so cool.

1:08:51

I love the Strange Ball. I doubt

1:08:54

that knockoff Tiffany and company won. I

1:08:57

want the one company, not the Tiffany

1:09:00

and company. They

1:09:02

really messed up on their name. They really dropped the ball.

1:09:06

The one company? For sure. For

1:09:08

sure. Should I go with it now? I

1:09:12

mean, it would be worse if they called themselves the

1:09:14

ball company because people would be very confused. Yeah, you

1:09:16

can't really do that. The

1:09:18

replica company. That's

1:09:21

not good either. That's just... It's

1:09:23

all bad. Oh, they do

1:09:25

Doctor Who as well.

1:09:29

I didn't know that. Yeah. They

1:09:31

do Sonic Screwdrivers. Nice. How

1:09:36

many more Pokeballs do we have left? A lot. There's

1:09:40

a lot of ball balls. A lot. There's

1:09:42

a lot of Pokeballs left. Quite a few.

1:09:45

A lot of Apricorn balls that never worked in Gen 2. Are

1:09:49

they going to add the Apricorns after that? Get your

1:09:51

own Apricorn. Replicate

1:09:54

Apricorns. I

1:09:57

think the Cherish Ball is probably the coolest one they released. that

1:10:01

has that cool like indent with the sides on it.

1:10:04

Yeah, the ones that are different

1:10:06

shapes that actually have add-ons to

1:10:08

them like the Cherish Ball or the Beast Ball

1:10:10

or the Heavy Ball, I think those are some

1:10:12

of the cooler ones they could

1:10:15

do. Yeah, but they're

1:10:17

doing the Beast Ball, so they're

1:10:19

opening possibilities. Also, they haven't had the

1:10:21

other Heavy Ball, which was the worst naming thing

1:10:23

in the entire world where the Heavy Ball in

1:10:25

Legends Arceus is not the same, nor does it

1:10:27

function the same as the Heavy Ball in the other

1:10:29

games. Being a Jet Ball

1:10:31

and a Wing Ball. Yeah, and then

1:10:34

there's the, there's just the

1:10:36

Apricorn Pokeball and Great Ball

1:10:38

and Ultra Ball, which there is

1:10:40

an Apricorn Pokeball on the Pokemon Center. I think

1:10:42

it's $70, $69, but that's not made by the Wand

1:10:45

Company. It's

1:10:48

also not the same quality. Yeah, it's

1:10:50

made of like a resin

1:10:53

poly stone and which

1:10:55

is just like plastic

1:10:57

and gravel merged together.

1:10:59

I think it's bigger too. I

1:11:02

don't actually know if the Legends Arceus

1:11:04

Pokeballs are supposed to be bigger than regular

1:11:06

Pokeballs because they're mechanical, but it is bigger

1:11:08

than the Wand Company Pokeballs. The Wand Company

1:11:10

Pokeballs are supposed to be accurate

1:11:13

size. And the small

1:11:15

ones are supposed to be the size of the Pokeballs when

1:11:17

they're shrunken down to fit on your belt. Well, I

1:11:19

didn't even think of that. Yeah. Yeah.

1:11:22

For all you cosplayers out there. Now I need to

1:11:25

collect them. There you

1:11:27

go. So cool. Dang,

1:11:29

that sounds awesome. Okay.

1:11:32

Well, that's our show. That's all the news we have. I'm

1:11:34

sure there was more news

1:11:37

that we missed, but that's

1:11:39

the other news. So

1:11:46

yeah, they fixed it. Oh,

1:11:49

when Empoleon comes back this upcoming

1:11:51

weekend, because it should be gone

1:11:53

by the time you listen to

1:11:55

this, Blissey will return with Empoleon.

1:11:58

This is like the third time. They've

1:12:00

done this for the second week. They repeat the

1:12:02

seven star raid. Blissey comes back But

1:12:04

like I don't know no one talks about it or

1:12:07

misses it because everyone's so excited. There's a new seven

1:12:09

star So Blissey will return so if

1:12:11

you're if you're low on candy

1:12:13

or you're like, how do I get my Pokemon to level 100?

1:12:17

Blissey will be making its debut this

1:12:19

weekend also,

1:12:21

the global challenge was happening this weekend and

1:12:24

Just here to complain that why

1:12:27

do a brand new EGC event

1:12:29

when you are doing a brand new seven star raid

1:12:31

you could wait it a week and then Look

1:12:35

Jeanine Jeanine has

1:12:37

the schedule and we are not

1:12:41

She's got a plan. I don't know what that

1:12:43

plan is. She's got one also the same weekend

1:12:49

Really throwing us under the bus with events here Yeah,

1:12:53

I think I think that's it I'm

1:12:55

sure we'll get more announcements as we

1:12:57

get closer to Pokemon day like this

1:12:59

one company thing, but we'll

1:13:01

see I'm I'm

1:13:05

still thinking that this Pokemon day is not

1:13:07

gonna be the world's best Pokemon day, but

1:13:10

happy to be proven wrong Fix

1:13:12

the frame rate. All right. Thank you, Greg. Thank

1:13:14

you, Hannah We

1:13:17

will be back next week This

1:13:20

has been another episode of the Pokemon

1:13:22

podcast and we are super

1:13:25

effective super time

1:13:28

to collect the many pokeballs Yeah

1:13:32

Effective just just just choose a

1:13:34

lane pick one pick an identity

1:13:36

and save yourself somebody I have

1:13:38

clearly chosen It is the proper

1:13:40

way Choosing one

1:13:43

pokeball is probably the smartest way

1:13:46

Yeah, just make it your identity and

1:13:48

then get super mad online when somebody

1:13:50

says something bad about it like

1:13:53

America All

1:13:55

right Really

1:14:00

nice view. We'll

1:14:20

be right back.