Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nerdificent. I am
Speaker 1: one half of your host, Danny Fernandez, and sitting across
Speaker 1: from me. How's it going? And you can't see, but
Speaker 1: he's in magino. These are some shorts I picked up
Speaker 1: while I was in New York um at the Billionaire
Speaker 1: Boys Club. It's the ice cream shorts, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to it. Yeah, and today we're joined by
Speaker 1: one of our dear friends. We've known him because if
Speaker 1: you and I were hosts at hyper OPG where we
Speaker 1: met Matt um who's also a host there. He's a
Speaker 1: host in producer. It's Matt Asservato. Hey, yeah, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. And I gotta say I love the main boo.
Speaker 1: It looks real good, looks really good. If he yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you would call this, but
Speaker 1: I am color coordinated and in magenta nice and yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm in a common huh, a unique low Pokemon shirt.
Speaker 1: So yeah. So we normally start a podcast with what
Speaker 1: we're seeking out about, but since we're covering Pokemon and
Speaker 1: it's such a huge topic, I thought we would dive
Speaker 1: right into it. But I do know that when we
Speaker 1: asked for Pokemon people, like, so many people tagged you
Speaker 1: and it made sense. I think you were supposed to
Speaker 1: come on our Nintendo episode, but you couldn't because you're
Speaker 1: also a big Nintendo head. Yeah. Nintendo. It is like
Speaker 1: my is my forte. It's what. It's literally the thing
Speaker 1: I'm most passionate about of anything. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'd ever want to work for Nintendo because I love
Speaker 1: it so much. That's hilarious. We've done hosting for them.
Speaker 1: I've like hosted for them, like that's like about the
Speaker 1: extent of oh yeah you have Yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: really fun. But I just they're just I know, I
Speaker 1: feel I love about this is that company is that
Speaker 1: they just focus. It's just so positive. I feel like
Speaker 1: like all their content and all their their game is
Speaker 1: all about bringing people together and I just really latch
Speaker 1: onto that. Yeah, so is that something? I mean, I
Speaker 1: assume that's how you got introduced to Pokemon was from
Speaker 1: the games? Yeah, it was the games and I was
Speaker 1: really young man, I was I was in uh I
Speaker 1: think first grade when the game came out, Pokemon Red,
Speaker 1: and I got it for Christmas along with the game
Speaker 1: Boy Color, and I just I know was before the
Speaker 1: show I think. I think the show came came after,
Speaker 1: but the game was what got me hooked on it.
Speaker 1: And I just remember like that, that's the feeling of
Speaker 1: opening up on Christmas morning and you know, putting it
Speaker 1: in here, that the ding, you know, and and just
Speaker 1: the dune, like the dunt, the dunt dunt, and just
Speaker 1: the sense of adventure that's happening. And from the moment
Speaker 1: Professor Oh asked me like what my name was, I
Speaker 1: was like, that was the name part of what are
Speaker 1: you a boy or girls? Oh customization. I think our
Speaker 1: friend Kylie Bear is the voice of Professor Oak. No, Oh,
Speaker 1: you would know, because he's a voice of adult go on.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, he stoke too. Yeah, well he's got
Speaker 1: a great voice he does. Yeah, it's done so many
Speaker 1: world the Pokemon Oh, that's totally him. It was wild
Speaker 1: because Pokemon was like kind of, at least for our generation,
Speaker 1: this like smash hit and it was like everyone was
Speaker 1: poking crazy. You know. We ended up leading up to
Speaker 1: having a movie and it just kind of took over everywhere,
Speaker 1: and it was a thing that we thought would eventually
Speaker 1: grow away with the nineties, and it stood. The anime
Speaker 1: kept running. They kept coming out with new versions after
Speaker 1: and it seems like there's a whole new generation of
Speaker 1: poke It fans. Yeah, and I feel like what they've
Speaker 1: been doing, it's been so great because you know, they
Speaker 1: had the games, you have the expement from the games,
Speaker 1: and the show comes out and it's like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: are we done with the game? Oh, here's a new
Speaker 1: game like that. I feel like they're pacing with releasing content.
Speaker 1: It's just so dang good. Well, you know, Digimon kind
Speaker 1: of came out around like a little bit after, but
Speaker 1: kind of around the same time, and it just hasn't
Speaker 1: definitely still has its fans and it still has you know,
Speaker 1: things that are coming out, Um, I know Digimon Adventure.
Speaker 1: Uh uh huh. Yeah, Well it hasn't latched on the
Speaker 1: same way or has it been blown up the same
Speaker 1: way that Pokemon has. Yeah, I think, uh, I love Digimon.
Speaker 1: I think what happened was to uh, you know, American
Speaker 1: audiences at least because it came out around the same
Speaker 1: time Pokemon came out, and it has a similar name.
Speaker 1: It kind of like became oh it's just a copycat
Speaker 1: of this, but did you want it's like a completely
Speaker 1: different thing. Which is like, you know, it's and I
Speaker 1: don't think it latchunks. I don't think the games are
Speaker 1: nearly as good as Pokemon. You know, yeah, they're more
Speaker 1: traditional JRPG style kind of games. Yeah yeah, well Pokemon
Speaker 1: is a little more user friendly, I think. Yeah, oh yeah. Well. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I've said this before, the
Speaker 1: Digimon anime is way more solid than the Pokemon anime.
Speaker 1: Like the Pokemon anime, you know, there are some stands
Speaker 1: for it, but I feel like, you know, Digimon had
Speaker 1: to beat every time. The design was cooler. But thus
Speaker 1: a last Pokemon is the one that I mean, it's
Speaker 1: got one of the best dub theme songs ever made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. I can't I will say that because you know,
Speaker 1: it was just Digimon Digital Monsters, Digimon the Champions did
Speaker 1: Ultimate Digital Monsters, and then we have Pocket Monsters. So
Speaker 1: let's just hop into the history of Pokemon. So it
Speaker 1: was created by Satashi Tajii, and he actually when he
Speaker 1: was growing up, he had a fondness of catching insects
Speaker 1: and tadpoles uh near his home in suburban Tokyo, So
Speaker 1: he essentially wanted to make a game. He actually had
Speaker 1: a magazine. I don't know if you know. He actually
Speaker 1: had a magazine that he made. It was a gaming
Speaker 1: one called game Freak that he did with the help
Speaker 1: of Ken Sugumori. So they did that, and then when
Speaker 1: Tajii discovered the game Boy, then he had this idea
Speaker 1: to to move. Essentially, he actually was inspired by ultraman
Speaker 1: an Ultra seven, which is a fantasy television show in
Speaker 1: which the protagonists used giant monsters contained with small capsules.
Speaker 1: That sounds familiar, and so when he made this new game.
Speaker 1: When they made the new game, they called it Capsule Monsters,
Speaker 1: but then due to trademarking issues, they ended up changing
Speaker 1: it to Pocket Monsters or as we know now, Pokemon,
Speaker 1: which is so awesome. I love that even represented in
Speaker 1: the game to see like not only is you know,
Speaker 1: the element of catching, but also like you know, he
Speaker 1: liked to catch bugs, and in all of the Pokemon
Speaker 1: games are the trainers like I'm book catcher, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm fisherman. I'm definitely shouting out those bug catchers throughout
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Yeah, don't sleep on the bug catchers, man,
Speaker 1: I know they keep popping off, but yeah, we're talking
Speaker 1: about you popping in the first one. And as you know,
Speaker 1: the franchise began as Pokemon Red and Green, which was
Speaker 1: in Japan, but we knew it and Pokemon Red and Blue,
Speaker 1: and it was a pair of video games for the
Speaker 1: original game Boy that we're developed by game Freak and
Speaker 1: published a Nintendo in February, which was my birthday, which
Speaker 1: is probably why I was able to get it in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, making that um eight years after me
Speaker 1: and Danny. Oh my gosh. Well well, well yeah, the
Speaker 1: game came out in Japan and then was so popular
Speaker 1: they were able to have it come out in right.
Speaker 1: I was so interesting too because it was two separate
Speaker 1: games but the same game, which I mean now Fire
Speaker 1: Emblem is kind of doing that with the houses, but
Speaker 1: they had Fates and birthright the one before that, and
Speaker 1: and that is like a different energy to kind of
Speaker 1: capitalize on a craze because not only do you customize
Speaker 1: your character in the game the names of your Pokemon,
Speaker 1: but also you can have a choice of which version
Speaker 1: you want to have and the Pokemon you're able to
Speaker 1: catch changes between that and there are you know, as
Speaker 1: you said, there were there are exclusive to each game,
Speaker 1: and back then it was like a way bigger deal
Speaker 1: because you want to catch them all. You either needed
Speaker 1: the link cable, which I feel like no one happened,
Speaker 1: or you needed to just get both copies of the game.
Speaker 1: You needed a friend with rich parents who bought them
Speaker 1: every accessory for the thing. But like even that weird
Speaker 1: reading light that would plug I had the reading light. Man, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're the rich I guess so heard it here first. Yeah, man, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was just like and now it's
Speaker 1: it's just easier with with online, everything is just so much.
Speaker 1: You don't I don't feel like you need to get
Speaker 1: the other ones. I think if you were talking about
Speaker 1: fire mb them, like at least with each house it's
Speaker 1: like different stories a little bit like you're getting different
Speaker 1: sides of it. But at least like nowadays, if we
Speaker 1: do Pokemon, you can just trade, Like I can just
Speaker 1: trade with Iffy's Like, oh, like if you have an exclusive,
Speaker 1: but mankey on your I need to make you so
Speaker 1: I'll go to you and we'll trade. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: can you walk people through what those first games were like? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: so the first games, well, it's what it was like.
Speaker 1: The just the overall experience, yeah, or like you know,
Speaker 1: playing them on the game Boy essentially was your goal
Speaker 1: and the characters that you ran into. I'm gonna transform myself.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back into the shoes of seven year
Speaker 1: old Matt and my experiencing it. It was the first
Speaker 1: time for me that I was the one. It was
Speaker 1: like my journey. It was like Matt is in this game.
Speaker 1: I named him Matt, and you know, I was going
Speaker 1: on this journey and I got to go and you know,
Speaker 1: make new friends and allies and rivals, and it was
Speaker 1: just this discovery and growing not only with myself, with
Speaker 1: my Pokemon who became my friends, who had name after
Speaker 1: my friends back in you know, first grade. I would
Speaker 1: name him like, oh, this one's Patrick and this one's
Speaker 1: like just even or whatever. But it was like my
Speaker 1: party of friends that we like we grew together. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same we're not just only not only
Speaker 1: are we like just trying to be the best, we're
Speaker 1: also like uncovering like a mafia plot going on and
Speaker 1: like thwarting like bad guys at the same time. Um,
Speaker 1: because you know, in the first game, there's Team Rocket
Speaker 1: and Team Rocket is doing this whole thing where they're
Speaker 1: trying to you know, replicate you, which is the first
Speaker 1: ancient Pokemon, and so they created me two and they
Speaker 1: did a bunch of shady stuff and like you're just
Speaker 1: this ten year old kid going around busting their chops. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that was like real, real cool. So I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: it's just I just get so happy thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I know. It's what's cool too, is you know it's
Speaker 1: a solid formula because it's kind of repeated in every game,
Speaker 1: and there's minor tweaks here and there, but you know,
Speaker 1: you have your hero character, which is you. You have
Speaker 1: the Professor, You always have a um what is whether
Speaker 1: they called at the Pokemon Center, is it nurse Nurse
Speaker 1: Joyce and Officer Jenny's. Yeah, Nurse Joy's, Officer Jenny's you
Speaker 1: haven't him. Leaders and you have the eleait for and
Speaker 1: you have your team Rocket or it's changed over the years,
Speaker 1: but you're your antagonist Gang and then of course your rival.
Speaker 1: And now they've kind of added a buddy to take
Speaker 1: that like last Pokemon. Yeah, I Do'm not you know,
Speaker 1: the buddy. He's cute. The buddy's usually cute. Well, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, get out of here kids, let me get
Speaker 1: my rival there, let me be him. Yeah, show Who's boss. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, even though in the first game, because
Speaker 1: like I wasn't aware, like I think the main weakness
Speaker 1: has made sense, like fire beats you know, grass, grass
Speaker 1: uh beats uh you know, water, water beats fire. But
Speaker 1: like outside of that, it was a lot of discovering
Speaker 1: of like, oh my gosh, like what defeats rock and
Speaker 1: what defeat the psychic you know, and it was just
Speaker 1: this like water biting. Yeah, So like that, especially that
Speaker 1: first time through, it was just like really just figuring
Speaker 1: it out, you know. I know, it is funny the
Speaker 1: the types and the weaknesses because it all starts. I
Speaker 1: feel like it was pretty like I can see why
Speaker 1: water would beat rock, I can see why fighting might
Speaker 1: defeats kick. But now we've got we got very right.
Speaker 1: Very is good against dragons because dragons were repie for
Speaker 1: a long time. They were very They were only week
Speaker 1: to drag. Yeah, I mean, and Lance was the guy.
Speaker 1: You know, Lance was super cool man. I loved Lance.
Speaker 1: He was the dragon elite. But it was like, it's
Speaker 1: so cool and I wanted to punch his face and
Speaker 1: I was like, I have you keep beating me and
Speaker 1: I'm going to end you. Yeah, you know, and like
Speaker 1: talking going back and talking about like our first time through,
Speaker 1: I'm remembering like every like now it's just kind of
Speaker 1: the subconscious that I know all these Pokemon they could
Speaker 1: they bring him back, you know, but the first time
Speaker 1: I every single time you see a new Pokemon, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, what is this thing? You
Speaker 1: know I used I used to masterball the first time
Speaker 1: on a Ditto because in the show that was like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, Dido can transform into anything. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I have to catch that Ditto, and I was just
Speaker 1: so excited the first time I saw I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is so rare, Like I've never
Speaker 1: seen ditto again. So I just I didn't even tried
Speaker 1: a weekend. I just threw my mask ball. I got
Speaker 1: silf Coo and on this ditto and I had when
Speaker 1: I got to mewtwo, I was just using like ultra balls.
Speaker 1: I did it backwards, man. Yeah, but you still caught
Speaker 1: me too, so there you go. Yeah. So this year
Speaker 1: the games came out also saw the release of the
Speaker 1: trading card game, which was huge. By the way, it
Speaker 1: had a hundred and two cards and was super popular.
Speaker 1: I was like the person that had all of my
Speaker 1: cards in the little card holder and then I would
Speaker 1: just like take them to school and I just like looking.
Speaker 1: I just thought they were so pretty. I did that
Speaker 1: with like all of my anime trading cards. I just
Speaker 1: thought I just didn't want to give them up. I totally.
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you on that though. I don't want
Speaker 1: anything to happen to them. Same and for me, you know,
Speaker 1: it's weird. Me and my cousins we didn't play the
Speaker 1: card game until later. We just collected the cards. It
Speaker 1: was just weird, should not be doing that. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: I had a set of Pikachu and um, it was
Speaker 1: this Pikachu toy. I think it was like the Here
Speaker 1: No Evil c No Evil or something. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was something like that, and I literally did not
Speaker 1: take it out of the box. I did not. I
Speaker 1: was that kid, and I just left. I thought my
Speaker 1: Pikachu was so pretty and I didn't want anything to
Speaker 1: happen to it, and I just left it. So in
Speaker 1: the starter set where you can where it has the
Speaker 1: window so you can see the card in there. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: I never had that. My parents would never invest that
Speaker 1: much money into a thing I liked, so I always
Speaker 1: bought boosters, And if you aren't aware, boosters don't come
Speaker 1: with energy cards, they just have other Pokemon card. Uh.
Speaker 1: So what that means is I had a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of Pokemon but no way to play him, so I
Speaker 1: never was able to play the game. Meanwhile, my best
Speaker 1: friend Welton, his parents were taking them to Walden's Book
Speaker 1: to compete in the Pokemonage because they had the local
Speaker 1: Pokemon leagues where you would play against people and then
Speaker 1: when you would win, you'd get a badge, a physical.
Speaker 1: If you actually got badges, that's like a drink of
Speaker 1: true man missed out on it. They still have them
Speaker 1: that you could go to. I mean they're the league
Speaker 1: is still going strong. They go live on Twitch quite
Speaker 1: often for the championships. But that you know, we'll get
Speaker 1: to this later. But even like watching like pro Pokemon fight,
Speaker 1: like it really seems like the stratus to one shot
Speaker 1: every Poke, so like it's never that exciting to watch
Speaker 1: because it's like, all right, this guy has the thing
Speaker 1: to one shot. Yeah. I never got into the competitive
Speaker 1: aspect of the of the game like that because of
Speaker 1: that I'm like, well, we're just gonna keep you know,
Speaker 1: trading in like you know, returning Pokemon and sending out
Speaker 1: the ones that's gonna match that type, you know. But
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a gamble. It's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: hope he throws out this. But there are crazy combos
Speaker 1: that you can't do. Like there's there's moves that like
Speaker 1: can you can like I forgot the name of this move,
Speaker 1: but it was like returned to other person's Pokemon to
Speaker 1: the pokemall and they have to put through in the
Speaker 1: next one other party, and there's like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: combos you can do and stuff. But I never got
Speaker 1: that deep into that because it was it was mostly
Speaker 1: just for me, you know. Yeah, same same here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Was a huge year because after so they have the
Speaker 1: game release, they have the trading card release, then they
Speaker 1: have the manga release, you know, then and then finally
Speaker 1: this is when I really got into it. Finally the
Speaker 1: following year, April is when the anime series premiered. We
Speaker 1: had Pokemon Trader Satashi, who was later dubbed as we
Speaker 1: know Um as ash Catchum, who was named after Satashi,
Speaker 1: the creator Um based on Red and another character introduced
Speaker 1: in the first episode was his rival, who was later
Speaker 1: Gary Oak based on Blue Gary Guy. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: the anime is I mean, I will be the best
Speaker 1: no one ever was catch them. So yeah, that's so iconic.
Speaker 1: Gotta catch up. You teach me. We might not have
Speaker 1: gotten to that park, Danny. We don't know how much
Speaker 1: we can easily played because it could have been. It's
Speaker 1: back to us the first ten seconds. Okay, so talk
Speaker 1: us through some of the main characters here. Team Rockets,
Speaker 1: so you touched on them, but we didn't really talk
Speaker 1: about you know who they are. Yeah. So Team Rocket is, uh,
Speaker 1: this corporation that basically they're trying to take capture strong
Speaker 1: Pokemon for their own purposes. And the ones that we
Speaker 1: see primarily it's it's ran by the eighth gym leader spoiler,
Speaker 1: which is Giovanni UM and he uses normal type Pokemon
Speaker 1: to fight. But Giovann is like a mob guy and
Speaker 1: like and the people that we see all the time,
Speaker 1: or two people, one named Jesse and one named James
Speaker 1: in the American version, um because they're thieves and you know,
Speaker 1: like Jesse James, uh, and they have their me that
Speaker 1: talks that's talking to me outright, that's right, um, and
Speaker 1: they're just trying they see the speaking tune and Ashes
Speaker 1: speaking to is pretty special. It's kind of I like
Speaker 1: to think of it as like a shiny Pikachu because
Speaker 1: is is very powerful. And they're always trying to capture
Speaker 1: this Pikachu for the boss because they're Jesse and James
Speaker 1: were there like meant to be like someone like, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the top grunts, but like they kept getting
Speaker 1: thwarted by like Ash. Now they're kind of like fools
Speaker 1: because of it. And I think there's like a vendetta
Speaker 1: because of that. That's why they want to catch the
Speaker 1: Pikachu to like get there, get it. Yeah, that's always
Speaker 1: been funny because like Pikachu is such a whatever pokemon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's cute, it's yellow, it's a mascot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah. One of the mottoes of Team Rocket that
Speaker 1: you can see on the walls of one of their
Speaker 1: facility in the game is steal Pokemon for profit, Exploit
Speaker 1: Pokemon for profit. All Pokemon exists for the glory of
Speaker 1: Team Rocket. Yeah. Yeah, it's not funny that they would
Speaker 1: just put that weird bad boy in case you were
Speaker 1: wondering who stole it? We did? It was me Team
Speaker 1: Rocket Yeah, um, yes, so, I mean it feels weird
Speaker 1: like being like playing Pikachu, who's like the you know,
Speaker 1: the most famous ever. But let's dive into some of
Speaker 1: the Pokemon. So Pikachu arguably one of the most famous
Speaker 1: the mascot iconic Pokemon we had. I can say that
Speaker 1: officially because we have Detective Pikachu. So yeah, he's his
Speaker 1: name was on it, so he is the goat. I
Speaker 1: mean they created a whole version for Pikachu because there
Speaker 1: was red, blue, and then we had yellow, which copied
Speaker 1: the uh anime, and you were able to walk around
Speaker 1: with Pikachu at your side, and there was a big
Speaker 1: surf mini game that I was never able to reach.
Speaker 1: Everyone talked about it. I could not find the surf
Speaker 1: mini game. Where was that? That's a rule that was
Speaker 1: I don't remember. That was I don't know, Matt, remember
Speaker 1: how I said, I didn't. You're like, oh man, that
Speaker 1: wasn't It was a little fun. That was such a
Speaker 1: fun mini game. Whoa well do you remember playing it?
Speaker 1: Like nine hours? He didn't get there? Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: did not. Can you describe like starter Pokemon and then
Speaker 1: how they level up. So every game has there's three
Speaker 1: starter Pokemon. The standard is fire, grass and water um
Speaker 1: and so and there's and for every generation of Pokemon,
Speaker 1: there are different types. You know. There's literally a new
Speaker 1: generation of Pokemon and the original we have Charmander, Squirrel
Speaker 1: and bobble Star um and those evolved. You know, as
Speaker 1: as you train them, you get to a certain level
Speaker 1: UM and they gain XP and you can kind of
Speaker 1: like focus that XP if you want to like gain
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you want this one to be like
Speaker 1: have higher speed. Like it's told evy training, which we've
Speaker 1: always skip that because that's very deep. Yeah, that's super deep,
Speaker 1: but we we can essentially, uh, just if you're curious.
Speaker 1: Ev training is basically essentially hunting for specific Pokemon with
Speaker 1: like these hidden stats and you have to uh and
Speaker 1: there's like certain like qualifiers you have to do to
Speaker 1: train each of those stats. It's very very deep in
Speaker 1: the game. And yeah, I remember it was explained to me,
Speaker 1: and it was explained how to do it, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I ain't doing all that. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: with with your starter, you choose one uh and you
Speaker 1: get to name it, you know, name you your best friend,
Speaker 1: or just leave it as you know, or you can
Speaker 1: name it something funny, so it's every time you're throwing
Speaker 1: it out and says something funny. Uh. But you as
Speaker 1: you go on your journey, you battle a wild Pokemon
Speaker 1: that you encounter UM, and you battle trainers and they
Speaker 1: gain experience, and when they get at a certain amount
Speaker 1: of experience, they level up UM and when they get
Speaker 1: to certain levels, they then they evolve into their next forum.
Speaker 1: Traditionally there are three forms that they are two other
Speaker 1: forms that they evolved to UM. So usually it's like
Speaker 1: level starters. Usually I think it's eighteen they evolve into
Speaker 1: the next form, so like char Mander will Ulttermelion and
Speaker 1: they believe it's thirty two they evolved to chars ard Um.
Speaker 1: But you can hold off on that if you want,
Speaker 1: if you hold the B button when they're dropout to evolve,
Speaker 1: because if they actually learned moves a little faster and
Speaker 1: game with more XP if they stay in like that
Speaker 1: form longer, So like it might be a strategy to
Speaker 1: hold the B button and and like level up and
Speaker 1: learn some more moves before you evolved. But let us
Speaker 1: not forget in Pokemon Yellow, if you evolved, your Pikachu
Speaker 1: it can no longer follow you. And I had so
Speaker 1: many friends. I was like, well, you're shout Pikachi walking around.
Speaker 1: I'm on Bolba PDA, which is Pikachi Pikachi, which is
Speaker 1: Pokemon's Wikipedia, And yeah it is, and it says Pikachu
Speaker 1: is a short, chubby rodent Pokemon. It has a small mouth.
Speaker 1: I love how the descriptive they are with this. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: one thing to know is that um ashes Pikachu stays
Speaker 1: outside of his poke bon. Yeah, it's probably why it's
Speaker 1: so fit, because all normal Pikachus are really really cute
Speaker 1: and like a chubby, you know, so cute. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at it, and my little girl's self is like,
Speaker 1: knows why I didn't take it out of its box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to take a really quick break and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna hop back into Pokemon right after this and
Speaker 1: we're back. Matt, who are what are some of your
Speaker 1: favorite Pokemon? Oh man, okay, uh this is a great question.
Speaker 1: I think this is a lot about people's personalities. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, but for me, my favorite pokem I have
Speaker 1: a few. I have a lot, actually, but my all
Speaker 1: time favorite I'll start there. My altime favorite is this
Speaker 1: giant sleeping Pokemon named Snorlax. Yeah, yeah, and and and
Speaker 1: when you encounter it in the game, it's literally a
Speaker 1: roadblock in the game where you need to wake it
Speaker 1: up with an item you collect from the Lavender Town
Speaker 1: cemetery like tower cemetery tower called a pokey fluid, and
Speaker 1: then you need to play the poke flu to wake
Speaker 1: it up. And it's it's cute, just like I don't
Speaker 1: really know how to like a bear, like like a
Speaker 1: half panda looking giant like green and white bear. It
Speaker 1: looks like, yeah, completely green, and its stomach is white.
Speaker 1: I love it because he just wants to sleep and like,
Speaker 1: just let him sleep, you know. And I totally get it.
Speaker 1: I feel like I relate to him so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he regains health while he sleeps, so that is
Speaker 1: real cool. And he has the psychology effect where he
Speaker 1: yawns and makes other people sleepy. You want to know
Speaker 1: one of my favorites, I would love to. Yes, now
Speaker 1: you gotta chime in Iffy with yours. Oh man, all
Speaker 1: time favorite. It's always gonna be toxic. Baby Nice is
Speaker 1: top to your Pokemon. Poisonous has blades on his hand
Speaker 1: looks brawlic you know, definitely looking. But you know who's
Speaker 1: that like Buff Cloud dude, It's he's like a legendary
Speaker 1: now right, I'm talking about Thunderous Oh gotcha? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know if he this brought up some bad um freaking
Speaker 1: DVI and art for me. This is uh he said,
Speaker 1: buff I've typed in buff Pokemon who and it's like
Speaker 1: a thick Pikachu and a SWEETO who is he with?
Speaker 1: Oh that was great. I'm so glad I had you
Speaker 1: searched that just for that reason. Oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is rough, baby, that's amazing. That that's gotta be That's
Speaker 1: that's one of the best. There's like a twelve pack.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it was Yeah. I wish you could just
Speaker 1: have seen what Danny was forced to see. It was like,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be in the footnotes. So I'll
Speaker 1: let you know that I've stumbled on something. Back. You're
Speaker 1: you're that you're walking a path when you look up
Speaker 1: those problems walking a path? Okay, anyways, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't feel good. Sorry, I can't look away. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have seen the magic harp that one I saw the
Speaker 1: dude where like they just wear the little fish head
Speaker 1: and it's like they're super buff. I've seen that cause play. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a character in the game. It's like, isn't like
Speaker 1: a Magic Harp fan. It's a fan and you can
Speaker 1: find him and he's just so weird. He literally wears
Speaker 1: like a carp like mask thing with big old eyes
Speaker 1: and shirtless above and you item and that was one
Speaker 1: of the most fun. That's also, like we talked about
Speaker 1: being excited about seeing the different Pokemon, but the different
Speaker 1: trainers you encounter are super fun too. Yeah. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then in the different gyms, you know, well, I love
Speaker 1: about the gym's that there. For those who don't know,
Speaker 1: we didn't don't think we mentioned this. But you're on
Speaker 1: this journey, you're trying to collect you're trying to be
Speaker 1: the Pokemon Champion in this region. So in every every
Speaker 1: game there's different regions. Why they're different Pokemon, right exactly.
Speaker 1: Um so the first game during the Kanto region, uh
Speaker 1: and in this region, you're you know, in all of
Speaker 1: them are trying to get to the Pokemon League and
Speaker 1: in order to which is this top four elite, this
Speaker 1: Elite four, if you will, literally called the Elite four
Speaker 1: of trainers in this region and you have to battle
Speaker 1: in order to become the Pokemon Champion UM. To get there,
Speaker 1: you need to go through different towns and fight going
Speaker 1: to gyms that our specific type of gyms like a
Speaker 1: rock jam or a water gym, etcetera. And you have
Speaker 1: to fight the gym leader there and if you beat them,
Speaker 1: they give you a badge. Um. You know that depicts
Speaker 1: that you that's shown that you have defeated that gym
Speaker 1: leader and you're worthy to move on to the next gym. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also every gym has a singular Pokemon type, which
Speaker 1: is very important and interesting because you can scuff your
Speaker 1: run if you pick uh Pokemon as your starter who
Speaker 1: is weak to the first gym. For example, I think
Speaker 1: the first gym UH was Brock, which is rock uh
Speaker 1: and it's weak against leaf. So if you picked Bulbastor,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna serve that person up. But it's uh.
Speaker 1: It's strong and water, so Squirrel, you're good, but it's
Speaker 1: strong against fire, so you're gonna have a tougher time
Speaker 1: when you rock with the charm nder. Yeah, exactly, man, exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's especially in the early game, it's like what
Speaker 1: do I do? What do I do? What have you
Speaker 1: done to maple him all? But there's some really great
Speaker 1: trainers out there man. Yea. The gym leaders too are
Speaker 1: so cool. Like Lance, he's so cool man, you come
Speaker 1: back to land, He's got you know, he's great. A.
Speaker 1: Lance was like one of the cooler designs. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about all the new new designs too. And then I
Speaker 1: mean in the new Pokemon h the region is called
Speaker 1: the Gallery Region and there it's essentially the UK. It's
Speaker 1: like the regions similar. It represents like the UK basically,
Speaker 1: so it's all like it's like like stone and like
Speaker 1: are not stone like a brick and their giant windmills
Speaker 1: and it's like it's like the countryside of the UK.
Speaker 1: It's really cute. But the leaders in this this and
Speaker 1: this new game Sword and Shield, which is the new
Speaker 1: Pokemon game coming out the in the November for the switch,
Speaker 1: like the gyms are giant, like football size stadiums yea,
Speaker 1: and they're it's like an event. It's like it's the
Speaker 1: first time I feel like it's actually like a big,
Speaker 1: big deal, And I feel like that's kind of just
Speaker 1: finally taking the note from the anime because I feel
Speaker 1: like in the anime, the gyms were such a big
Speaker 1: ordeal in the games, Like it was cool, like you
Speaker 1: usually every gym starts off with a puzzle you have
Speaker 1: to figure out before you get to the gym leader.
Speaker 1: So if you solve the puzzle, most times you fight
Speaker 1: less trainers. But me, I was like, no, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just fight all of y'all, so mature. I'm like, high
Speaker 1: enough level. You get more XPT for fighting trainers than
Speaker 1: wild Pokemon, y'all. Yeah, you gotta beat them up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But and I just love in the and this new one,
Speaker 1: like you were seeing some really cool guys, Like there's
Speaker 1: this guy who looks like Mario basically or like r
Speaker 1: G like, but he's like he's they're saying, he looks
Speaker 1: like he has like a Canadian like yeah, ranger hats
Speaker 1: and stuff, and uh, he looks really cool. Yeah we
Speaker 1: can talk. Oh and this will kind of help us
Speaker 1: speed along the games. But really for the so that
Speaker 1: the one other thing we're missing from Pokemon that is
Speaker 1: across the game is there's usually a legendary and the
Speaker 1: first Red and Blue and Yellow it was the Three
Speaker 1: Birds zap does Maltris and Articuno and no matter which
Speaker 1: game you had, you were able to get all three
Speaker 1: as if I remember correctly, uh and then with uh
Speaker 1: and then after blue and you had yellow, which was
Speaker 1: just red and blue, but you had Pikachu on your side. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what the next run was, Silver
Speaker 1: and gold, Silver and gold, And that was the first
Speaker 1: time they split because if you had silver, you can
Speaker 1: catch Lugia. You had gold, you can catch ho Ho.
Speaker 1: And that was a big deal because now it's like
Speaker 1: you when you choose a game, you're choosing like I
Speaker 1: know for a fact, I'm going with sword because I
Speaker 1: want a dog with a sword in his mouth. That's
Speaker 1: literally dog his huge sword in his mouth. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: huge ocamy vibes, you know. So so like that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of been the real deciding factor going forward after
Speaker 1: Red and Blue to which game you go with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like hoh a lot um. If you If you
Speaker 1: guys have ever seen the first episode of the show,
Speaker 1: ho is the is the mysterious golden bird like Pokemon
Speaker 1: on the ash seeds of Pikachu after he says Pikachu
Speaker 1: from a swarm of like be drills and he sees
Speaker 1: it fly over a man it's like this the first
Speaker 1: sign that you know, like it's such a rare sight
Speaker 1: and that you could catch up Pokemon in the second game.
Speaker 1: That's a legendary gold uh man. Great. Yeah, So one
Speaker 1: big thing that Little Danny remembers was Pokemon, the first movie.
Speaker 1: So it's had many movies, but I remember the first
Speaker 1: movie which came out in It actually was released in
Speaker 1: Japan lightteenth and then I think we got it in nineteen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was really stressed, actually November tenth nine.
Speaker 1: It was really interesting. So in Japan it was me
Speaker 1: too new, too read that too quickly. YouTube strikes back,
Speaker 1: which was positive in Japan, but for some reason for US,
Speaker 1: it says that got largely negative reviews, which Little Danny
Speaker 1: does not remember at all. These are these are adults
Speaker 1: writing this who don't enjoy fun, but it was apparently.
Speaker 1: Film critics had a lot of criticism pointed at the
Speaker 1: anti violence message in the film about Pokemon. That's hilarious
Speaker 1: that Americans would be like, it talks too much about
Speaker 1: anti violence. We don't like that. We love violence. And
Speaker 1: it ended up grossing a hundred and seven two million
Speaker 1: worldwide at the box office and sold ten million home
Speaker 1: video units in the United States, it's not actually very
Speaker 1: much at all. That's probably because kids were streaming. Uh
Speaker 1: now what I'm trying to think of what I was
Speaker 1: using at that time, Lime Wire, Lime Wire, another one
Speaker 1: before that, can't remember listen. I checked it out from Blockbuster. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so we had Pokemon the first movie. Did
Speaker 1: you watch all of the anime? I watched most of it. Actually,
Speaker 1: I watched all the way up through. I want to
Speaker 1: say when May came into that would be it's not Uh,
Speaker 1: it was Joe too, so like through Joto, I watched
Speaker 1: like a lot of it. Man, um, And well, I love,
Speaker 1: I love. I watched those movies too. And those movies
Speaker 1: were so cool because, uh, look, ash Ketch him might
Speaker 1: be the goat because you might say he's a bad trainer,
Speaker 1: but this guy, this guy, I think it's an amazing trainer.
Speaker 1: And he stops like world ending like a populist ending stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a savior. Uh. And do you remember
Speaker 1: in the first movie, all these movies, you would get
Speaker 1: a card exclude a Pokemon card, and I would I
Speaker 1: remember that first was it the first word? Second one
Speaker 1: that had the ancient MW card. But one of them.
Speaker 1: You got the ancient MW card and it was so cool.
Speaker 1: I was so excited to get that ancient view card
Speaker 1: and it looked like all like hieroglyphic and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and it was awesome. Well, what's I mean, Ash? People
Speaker 1: might say it's a bad Ash is us. You just
Speaker 1: need to accept it, Like this is how we would
Speaker 1: be if we were put into a world where there's
Speaker 1: literal monsters that you can capture. Yeah, exactly, Like you're
Speaker 1: always going to know what to do and you'll probably
Speaker 1: make best friends with with one that you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be using, but instead you have him out like a
Speaker 1: pet dog all the time. And I think a kind
Speaker 1: of I love about ashcatch him. First off, he's ten
Speaker 1: years old, y'all, so I don't know how time works
Speaker 1: in this universe, but he's ten years old, and he's
Speaker 1: gone through multiple Pokemon leagues and one he's won the
Speaker 1: Loland Not it's not a Pokemon league, but it's like
Speaker 1: their tournament in a Lola, which is uh, the Sun
Speaker 1: and Moon series, and he's like made to the finals
Speaker 1: multiple times. So he's a very good trainer. Um. But
Speaker 1: what I love about Ashes that he teaches us that
Speaker 1: you know there's more to Pokemon and just fighting, and
Speaker 1: that you know it's about the bond, and and he
Speaker 1: teaches us how to how like he sees his friend, God,
Speaker 1: I love this show. He sees his friends who and
Speaker 1: he sees that he that that friend needs to go
Speaker 1: in order to grow. And he's okay, being like it's okay,
Speaker 1: you go, you grow, you do what you have to do,
Speaker 1: and like the Pokemon remember that even come back, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he looks butter free to
Speaker 1: get let go, and you know you're talking about in
Speaker 1: a way opposite of most people I know. Everyone was
Speaker 1: like he's an idiot. Yeah, yeah, that's true. People did
Speaker 1: say that they give a lot of flak for that.
Speaker 1: But even his charges are like his charges ared was
Speaker 1: like out really cocky. His charge's ard. That the charge's
Speaker 1: ard was fun because it it really was the show
Speaker 1: implementing a game mechanic, and it is. And it's a
Speaker 1: good opportunity to talk about something that we missed because
Speaker 1: as you notice the link cable, we talked about it.
Speaker 1: You can trade Pokemon, so you might be asking why
Speaker 1: don't you got a friend who can just trade you?
Speaker 1: All the best Pokemon, and it's because you Your pokemon
Speaker 1: also for some reason respects the authority of the gyms,
Speaker 1: and so your Pokemon will only pay attention to you
Speaker 1: up to a certain level based on the badges you have.
Speaker 1: And there is an added thing because you might be like, okay,
Speaker 1: well maybe a few levels higher, traded Pokemon level up
Speaker 1: way faster than uh normally caught Pokemon, so you are
Speaker 1: also racing against the caught Pokemon speed. So anyway, in
Speaker 1: the anime, Charles are wasn't listening to Ash because he
Speaker 1: wasn't a high enough badge level exactly, and he lets
Speaker 1: charge Are go. He let Charge go and then dumb
Speaker 1: move number two. But it wasn't because Charger got to
Speaker 1: grow and then charge That was his last evolution. Matt, Well,
Speaker 1: he got to experience, He got to like find his
Speaker 1: own journey. He got he didn't have to be encapsulated
Speaker 1: like in a zoo. You know. Um maybe it was
Speaker 1: a social commentary. Yeah, well I'm still catching them all
Speaker 1: in this world. We gotta catch But Charger comes back.
Speaker 1: In the show, Charger goes back to Ash and they
Speaker 1: kicked butt together. Yeah they rock. Yeah, they came back
Speaker 1: during the Elite four, right, if I remember. No, I
Speaker 1: was laughing because sorry, I was laughing because I while
Speaker 1: we're talking about Pikachu, I just wanted to sum up
Speaker 1: some of his things that he's accomplished. But one of
Speaker 1: them he was no. I mean he was listed. I
Speaker 1: saw that he was listed number eight on i GN
Speaker 1: top twenty five Anime characters of all time. I'm like,
Speaker 1: number eight, who's number one? Who in the heck do
Speaker 1: you think is number one? If he it better be go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're out here, You're on here talking about how Ash
Speaker 1: is dumb and they listed one of the most naive
Speaker 1: characters of all time, who we love because he has
Speaker 1: a big heart, like Ash, catchup. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: be dumb and strong. Be dumb and you're can't throwing
Speaker 1: a white Pokemon. But Goku at least like he's like.
Speaker 1: Well about Goku is that he never you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't change who he is. You know, he's an immigrant
Speaker 1: and he doesn't change to adapt. He's like who he is,
Speaker 1: like this is me, deal with it. I love that,
Speaker 1: you know, I know. Yeah, but also that, uh, if
Speaker 1: I was Goku, I'd only let my Nigerian friends call
Speaker 1: me if he shud everyone else. Um yeah, just touching
Speaker 1: on some more things from from Pikachu. He's appeared in
Speaker 1: The Simpsons many times. He's also amazing Thanksgiving Day parade
Speaker 1: balloon since two thousand and one. Also in Topeka, Kansas,
Speaker 1: the mayor renamed the town to Pikachu for a day.
Speaker 1: Uh that's adorable. Um. He is known as Japan's answer
Speaker 1: to Mickey Mouse. A year and then in two thousand three,
Speaker 1: Forbes ranked Pikachu as the eighth top earning fictional character
Speaker 1: of the year. He was also named by Time magazine
Speaker 1: the second best person of the year. Yeah. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: now he's in a movie. And now he has a movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we want to hop in Do
Speaker 1: we want to hop into that? Um? We can hop
Speaker 1: into that, I guess. Right after these messages, we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back. We're talking about Pokemon before we happened in
Speaker 1: the movie though, because this kind of led up to
Speaker 1: the movie, we have to talk about the phenomenon that
Speaker 1: was Pokemon Go. It was kind of cool because it's
Speaker 1: like so many people, even even people that don't normally
Speaker 1: play games, got into it, and I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1: It came out the week of my birthday, and I
Speaker 1: remember I was working at the post House as a
Speaker 1: p A. My friend was an editor there and and
Speaker 1: like that day was kind of rough for us. And
Speaker 1: then after, you know, towards the end of the night,
Speaker 1: he was like, you want to play Pokemon Go at
Speaker 1: the Santa Monica Pire, and like yes, and we went.
Speaker 1: It was like the first week we went to Santa
Speaker 1: Monica Pire, we had ever put phones out and the
Speaker 1: pier was nuts, but it was just nuts. It was nuts.
Speaker 1: Was everyone on their phones playing Pokemon Go. And I'll
Speaker 1: never forget a war Turtle showed up and uh and
Speaker 1: everyone was like war Turtle and everyone ran over like
Speaker 1: to the end of the roller coaster where the war
Speaker 1: Turtle was and it was like it was like world
Speaker 1: peace for something. Like it was so yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: was so I remember it came out like right before
Speaker 1: Comic Conto. Remember playing on it at Comic Con um yeah, July,
Speaker 1: and so like there were things that were popping up
Speaker 1: at Comic Con that we're so cool, But I just
Speaker 1: one it was funny that it tricks people into exercising
Speaker 1: and if I found out hilarious, like I walked, I
Speaker 1: walked nine miles today. Wow. Um. But also just yeah,
Speaker 1: it was such a community. It was so cute to
Speaker 1: see like moms and and teens and people like running
Speaker 1: around together and like going in groups and stuff. And
Speaker 1: uh it also spurred I'm in a Pokemon Go Facebook group.
Speaker 1: It would be like people would be like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: one here, and people would you know, for safety and whatever,
Speaker 1: would like walk together at night all night trying to
Speaker 1: find them. I think it's a really good job of
Speaker 1: their community building because even to this day, the Pokemon
Speaker 1: Go communities, it might be like it's quite down a
Speaker 1: bit on like the macro, but if you look at
Speaker 1: the you know, if you look at it on the inside,
Speaker 1: it's it's still really well. It's funny because one thing
Speaker 1: that was uh wild about Pokemon Go is, you know,
Speaker 1: as much as people want to be like you people,
Speaker 1: when are people going to sit back and enjoy the moment?
Speaker 1: You know? It was creating these moments for people to interact,
Speaker 1: would never interact. I remember when it first came out,
Speaker 1: I was at this gym and like I was standing
Speaker 1: in this place fighting and then like some some kids
Speaker 1: walked up, and then somebody and then like we didn't
Speaker 1: say anything for a bit, and then eventually we were like,
Speaker 1: y'all playing Pokemon ago and then we just had this
Speaker 1: conversation and it really were these kids who I probably
Speaker 1: never in my life would have interacted with. We had
Speaker 1: this nice experience and went about our day. I had
Speaker 1: this like so many similar experiences, like it literally brought
Speaker 1: us together, you know. Uh, and it was cool. It's
Speaker 1: like Pokemon in the real world, you know. It was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can pturn on the a R stuff, And a
Speaker 1: R is an augmented reality. And that means like when
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my phone, it'll use the real world
Speaker 1: picture and then lord be a Pokemon on my phone
Speaker 1: like in the world. Yeah. Yeah. The the the argument
Speaker 1: of VR versus a R. VR is a immersive experience
Speaker 1: that kind of closes you off and puts you in
Speaker 1: a specific zone. A R uses the world around you
Speaker 1: to implement things. Uh you know, uh, we could do
Speaker 1: a whole episode. I have lots of thoughts on one
Speaker 1: versus the other, but I think they both can exist.
Speaker 1: I think one's going to be used more as a
Speaker 1: tool and the other one will kind of just be entertainment.
Speaker 1: I'll let you guess which one In which but you
Speaker 1: can also check out our VR episode. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: did do a VR weird it was stremely education. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do for episode. I think we should do a
Speaker 1: Tree of Life live. Yeah. Um Detective Pikachu. Yeah. Do
Speaker 1: you remember when Ryan Reynolds was announced as the voice
Speaker 1: of Pikachu. I did, and I was one of like
Speaker 1: the only people that actually played the video game, and
Speaker 1: I was like, that's interesting by really but like but
Speaker 1: it was a great move though, because it got a
Speaker 1: lot of people's attention. It got like a lot of
Speaker 1: the people who don't know this game to pay attention
Speaker 1: to someone who didn't play. What was the video game about?
Speaker 1: Similar premise to the movie? Um? Yeah, the video game
Speaker 1: is about it's more of a visual novel, kind of
Speaker 1: like a very miniscule puzzle. So it's not as you know,
Speaker 1: strategic as Professor Leyden, but it's like got that same
Speaker 1: kind of vibe where you're you're going around and interviewing people,
Speaker 1: but you're this character named Tim Goodman, um, whose father
Speaker 1: goes missing, uh named Henry Goodman and him Um, all
Speaker 1: all that Timmer knows is that, you know, he sees
Speaker 1: his Pikachu and the Pekachu can talk to him and
Speaker 1: he can only talk to Tim Um. They don't know
Speaker 1: why um so, and they decided to work together to
Speaker 1: try and discover like what happened to his father. By
Speaker 1: doing so, they meet a couple of friends in the
Speaker 1: game that have worked at this luh at g n N,
Speaker 1: which is the news network. Um and like they kind
Speaker 1: of work together to uncover not only the mystery of
Speaker 1: of his father, but like also of this uh this
Speaker 1: drug called R that is making uh you find out
Speaker 1: that you know makes Pokemon go crazy. It's like a
Speaker 1: it's like a very jokery like, Oh, we're gonna put
Speaker 1: it in the balloons and it's gonna make the Pokemon
Speaker 1: go crazy. Uh. So you're working together to uncover the mysteries.
Speaker 1: But in the game there's a bunch of micro mysteries
Speaker 1: in it, so like each chapter is a different like oh,
Speaker 1: like like, uh, you know who stole this? And like
Speaker 1: who are you know? Where did the missing where's the
Speaker 1: missing cliff Fairy or whatever? Um And I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: that aspect of it. So is it similar to the
Speaker 1: movie in the sense that one, I mean, the movie
Speaker 1: has been out long enough for spoilers, but yeah, the
Speaker 1: spoiler has already been said, so you just I was
Speaker 1: gonna say spoiler, but we already said it. Here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna bleet the spoiler out, and
Speaker 1: then this isn't going to be a spoiler, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's implied but not confirmed in the game. Correct,
Speaker 1: But there is that the creature if you guys see
Speaker 1: it does show up and the game gives Pikachu an
Speaker 1: option to do something you don't know what it was,
Speaker 1: and he stays a Pikachu. Whatever that means, I guess
Speaker 1: it's still a spoiler. Ryan Reynolds in Justice Smith, who
Speaker 1: you would know from the get down and dress a world.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny because that's the second time that's happened
Speaker 1: that I'm loving movies using that. But I wonder when
Speaker 1: it's finally not gonna work. But it's the the mixed
Speaker 1: family fake out where they present to you a white
Speaker 1: person and the child is black, and so you're not
Speaker 1: You're they're being related is not on your mind, and
Speaker 1: then they you find out they are, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like in Homecoming, like that's the whole Like
Speaker 1: the only like Vulture for a second wasn't even on
Speaker 1: my mind being related to MJ at all, not at all,
Speaker 1: And then you see it and you're like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: so that's a that's a fun, fun feature. Who are
Speaker 1: some of the Pokemon that you like seeing in the movie. See,
Speaker 1: there's so many. And what I love about this movie
Speaker 1: in particular is that people can leave that movie being
Speaker 1: like that was my favorite Pokemon, like this poem, like
Speaker 1: each Pokemon has its own distinct personality and was like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was the obviously the push of it,
Speaker 1: but every single Pokemon like was so unique to an
Speaker 1: audience that may never see him before. Um, and I
Speaker 1: thought was awesome. So for me, uh in the movie,
Speaker 1: my favorite Pokemon the movie is gotta be the bulble
Speaker 1: Sores because they're just so precious and they I've never
Speaker 1: you know, you see them just like you hear the
Speaker 1: little you know, you know, like the little like grunts
Speaker 1: and they help, they help, they help peek at you
Speaker 1: and you know, and Tim and I just I think
Speaker 1: they did like they're just so cute. They're so cute
Speaker 1: in that movie. My favorite thing about listening you talk
Speaker 1: about Pokemon is that you talk about them as if
Speaker 1: they're your children. They're adorable, You're just ceilings, just like
Speaker 1: I'm just so proud of them. They're getting so big
Speaker 1: and strong to grow up and they're just gonna forget me,
Speaker 1: They're gonna leave me. What do you think the future
Speaker 1: of Pokemon is? I mean you talked about the next
Speaker 1: game that's coming up. Yeah, do you see that? I
Speaker 1: mean this this movie did, uh was four thirty one
Speaker 1: million worldwide, the tenth highest grossing film of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: second highest grossing video game film adaptation of all time. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. And because like I feel like
Speaker 1: pol once. I mean, it's always kind of it's always
Speaker 1: been so strong, and I think the future of it
Speaker 1: the movie was a huge It's a huge bookmark in
Speaker 1: Pokemon history because that I think what's gonna happen is
Speaker 1: that is like the taste of here's the world, and
Speaker 1: they put it in this in the city. The setting
Speaker 1: is Rhyme City, which is the city where Pokemon out
Speaker 1: of their poke balls and they don't they don't battle.
Speaker 1: Battling is illegal and Rhyme City. I think that was
Speaker 1: a nice way to introduce to everyone what exactly Pokemon
Speaker 1: are and what does that mean in this world? Um,
Speaker 1: and and then out of this will actually get a
Speaker 1: more traditional Pokemon movie. I think I need to tell
Speaker 1: you all something that I just found. Little Danny was
Speaker 1: not wrong. Little Danny was not wrong for putting all
Speaker 1: of her cards in her little collecting um sleeves. Because
Speaker 1: Mint Conditions set of Pokemon cards sells for over a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. WHOA, maybe my mom, Yeah, maybe, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a lot. I can go there and through.
Speaker 1: I mean I have to go. My mom has like
Speaker 1: a storage unit where I'd have to essentially like go
Speaker 1: through relive the trauma of my parents divorced to like
Speaker 1: but you know, is it where the hundred grand? Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just go back in there. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have them. To be honest, I feel
Speaker 1: like it was something that I would have given, like
Speaker 1: sold when I was needing money in high school or something.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, I hope you find them. Hopefully those pop
Speaker 1: up when you need it most, you know, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and a good friend of when I need him in
Speaker 1: an hang on, it's going to write the next the
Speaker 1: cards all run out No, there's so many Pokemon to
Speaker 1: touch on, and we didn't. Oh, when I was in nanny,
Speaker 1: I bought one of the kids that I nannied for.
Speaker 1: I bought him. This was back in let's see, like
Speaker 1: it would have been two thousand and five, so there's
Speaker 1: even newer Pokemon since then. But I got him one
Speaker 1: of those like posters that's like all of the Pokemon. Nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was massive and you just like framed it in
Speaker 1: his room. Um, there's too many, I think, especially with
Speaker 1: the new game. I think last before the new game
Speaker 1: was like seven three Pokemon, and now the new game
Speaker 1: will be even more so than hundreds. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: I just gave them the starter one, so probably that
Speaker 1: was let us know what your favorite Pokemon is. We
Speaker 1: clearly can't touch on all nine hundred of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are too many Pokemon to touch on, so let
Speaker 1: us know your favorites and will judge you based on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do have to say my favorite is always the
Speaker 1: video of the Pikachus in their costume dancing. They're so great,
Speaker 1: They're so funny. I love it. And oh my mom
Speaker 1: was really excited because she got a picture with with
Speaker 1: Pikachu at STCC I brought him for the first time.
Speaker 1: Well it's not our first time Summer Pikachun. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: that wasn't it. But that is wild. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: You wait, you meet Wait what are you talking about? Pure? Okay? Um, Matt,
Speaker 1: where can everyone find you? Guys? You can find me
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