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What's up, everyone? Welcome

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to the six hundred and twenty

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second episode of the Pokemon podcast.

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

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I don't know. Well, I brain

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freeze there. I'm your host, Steve, with

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me as Hannah. I'm

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your co-host, Hannah. I'm here. Hi. Greg

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is also here. This is after

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a real shaky start. I thought I had to get

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up early and I'm much more functional than the two

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of you. I worked a

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full nine hours already. I've

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been talking to people all morning. I think that's

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not the case for me. I have had to

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talk to people all day

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today about all sorts of various

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anosundry learning objectives.

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Yeah. How do you want to learn

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today? Hannah and I have just been

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sitting in silence all day. That's I

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talked to my cat. But

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does the cat talk back yet?

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She does. Mm.

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She's so good at it. We're recording

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this on a Tuesday, so a little

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bit early. So forgive us if there's

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some breaking Pokemon news that happens after

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this episode comes out on

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Monday because I'm leaving to

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Madrid tomorrow. And

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I was trying to get as much work done possible. I

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don't have to bring a bunch of equipment to Madrid.

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Then do with that. We got an episode for you

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guys today. We still got plenty of things to cover.

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And if I saw you at Go Fest in Madrid, it

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was awesome. It was very nice to meet you. I

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keep getting asked this question. Yes, I am

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going to New York. Greg

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is also going to New York. I am going

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to New York. Hannah is question mark to New

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York. Yeah, to be determined. OK,

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it's like an anime episode to

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be. Find

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out next week. If

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Hannah is going to New York Perfect.

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So let's just jump right into

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things and we'll start off with

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Pokemon sleep. We know the details

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of Mr. Cramorant

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The game has updated So

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when this podcast comes out, you

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will be able to get Cramorant I

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believe after 4 p.m He

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starts spawning in the game local time

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or something like that. Obviously, you can't

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get him Sunday into Monday It has

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to be Monday into Tuesday. I Think

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it's to prevent people from like taking a nap right away.

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It would probably be after 4 a.m Maybe

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when the day switch is over. I don't

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have the thing in front of me, but What

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is the thing? Okay, is it the official

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summer festival when does it start? No,

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not the summer festival. It would be

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the Cramorant being added. Anyways, as

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you guys look that up Not that that

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matters. I don't think anyone is waking up at like 8

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a.m. On Monday morning and being like I need to take

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a nap Because

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you wouldn't even have enough I don't know I guess if

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you were paid to win Maybe you could get it

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up to that rank June 17th

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beginning at 3 p.m. 3 p.m. See I'm not in

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Absolutely. I'm only slightly crazy No, Cramorant instance

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can be used starting from the date and

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time above which is June 17th at 3

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p.m Got

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it. I wonder what would happen if you used

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it before 3 p.m. And You

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took a nap Nothing, maybe

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you can't get it before then maybe it maybe it

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would oh maybe it would just like lock you out

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You know how you can't be yeah

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incense on certain islands. Maybe

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it's like that we know

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now we now know that

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Cramorant's a Main skill

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is tasty chance small which

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is the same as the

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dene And

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it is the second and only Pokemon

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to have tasty chance small As long with

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the Denne, if you don't know what that does, it

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means that base level, it will give you a 4%

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chance of getting a

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critical hit on your meals. And

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if you don't get the critical hit, and

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you get another tasty chance small, it just adds

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up. And it will keep adding up until you

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get a critical hit. And then,

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I think it gives you more than 4% on Sundays, but

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Sundays are already a base 20%, I

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think? That

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is 30. I think it's base 10,

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and then Sunday adds 20. Something

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like that. Yeah. I think it hits 30.

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So yeah. Does the fan do anything

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yet? Or is it just another animation I

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have to fit through for no good reason?

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It goes faster now. Not

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fast enough. Well,

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when they added Cramorant, glad you brought

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up the speed thing, they also updated

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how fast you add ingredients to

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your cooking pot. So that

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animation is way quicker. I don't know if

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you know this, but if you just hold

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down on the ingredient, it'll just keep

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adding it over and over. That

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animation is way, way faster as

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of this morning, I guess, because

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that's when the update went through. See, there

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is a small difference between Cramorant

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and Dedenne. Dedenne

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is a skill mod. Its

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skill will activate more often, which

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is a tasty chance small.

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And then ideally, you would want skill

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trigger, main skill level up, that

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kind of stuff. Cramorant is an ingredient

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mod. So it means that even

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though its main skill is still tasty chance, it

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probably will not proc as often as

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Dedenne's because its focus is

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also ingredients. So on Cramorant,

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you're probably looking for still skill

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trigger, main skill chance. Ingredient

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Finder would still be really good here. The

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only thing we don't know is one, how

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often that main skill does proc compared to Dedenne. Safe

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to assume though, it's not as often as Dedenne.

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just based on skills first ingredients. The

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other thing we don't know is what ingredients

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Cramorant can get us. We won't know

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that until somebody catches their first

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Cramorant. For some reason that can't be data

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mined even though literally everything else can

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be. But

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yeah we never know ingredients until then. I

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would assume Cramorant would have corn since corn is

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like the best ingredient in the game. Yeah

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corn was my first thought. Maybe

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also milk. A lot of things

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have milk. Yeah I feel like we have too many things

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have milk. Eggs. Eggs,

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eggs. I can see eggs. Corn

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makes sense because they're in the shape of

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aracuda. I

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don't know if that's a

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particularly compelling reason. It

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looks like a fish. I

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mean mushrooms fit into that too. Corn

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looks like a fish. They actually look more like an

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aracuda because they're colored the same. I

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don't know what would be. I'm not that deep

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into sleep where I'm like I

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need, I'm looking for like this specific ingredient. I

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guess I'm looking for corn. But that's just because

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corn is so new and so few

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Pokemon have corn. But like I have a

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really good potato man. I have

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a really good mushroom man. So

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like when I'm thinking of like oh I need those ingredients I

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just switched to those Pokemon for like a day. I don't have

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a mushroom man yet. Yeah neither do I.

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I think Gengar is still the best.

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I have a shiny Gengar and it's. No

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mushrooms. Level 60 is mushrooms. And

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I only use shinies. That's my thing. You're

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not a shiny get off my team. Unless

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you're my one butter free who's like super

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ingredient finder and I have nothing else to

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put in there. Then

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it goes to butter free. Maybe

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oil. This may be the best possible outcome

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for Cramorant. Oh yeah I think so too.

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I feel like oil is too dark.

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You know. You know like.

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No. Child of the 80s. Doing

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oil. It's just too dark for

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me. And I'm gonna just reject that

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right now. Thematically

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though, you know? No.

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No, it's odd to show- It's

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odd to show that Cramorat go hand in

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hand because of the Exxon Valdez. It's

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like a possibility. So

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milk and corn and eggs, that's what we want. Take

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this with a grain of salt because this is from

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the people who look at

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the update and then tell

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us what the update says. It's

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saying, on Greengrass, Cramorant will start

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spawning at Master Rank 1 for

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your 1 star, Master Rank 5 for

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your 2 star, and then Master Rank

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6 for your 4 star. I

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don't know why 3 star doesn't have anything,

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but I'm guessing that's just because it

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probably is between 5 and 6? Because the

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other ones have stuff? Again,

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that's why I say take this with a grain of salt. If you're on

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the beach, Cramorant will start

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spawning at Ultra Rank 3, and

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then Master Rank 2, Master Rank 8, and

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4 star is Master Rank 3.

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Which again, a little confusing, but

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I guess 4 star is just a

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repeat of 1 star. Everyone has noticed

9:14

this, right? Like the Pokémon

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that appears on the stomach is

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just a previous Yulee used animation.

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I feel like maybe there's one or two that are

9:25

slightly different, but yeah. And

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then if you're at the Tundra, it's going to

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be Cramorant will start spawning at Ultra Rank 1,

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Ultra Rank 5, Master Rank

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6, and then the 4 star

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would be Master Rank 1. And we've talked

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about the Pokémon that spawn in what area?

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There are boxes that

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I think the middle box for

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1200 gems will get

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you a Cramorant Incense, and then it

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looks like you can earn a Cramorant Incense through Event

9:54

Missions, and then we'd

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know the Cram-O-Matic

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as well. As Hannah said last

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week, it's more and more

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expensive. Noticeably so.

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I don't really understand the point

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of the ChromaRatic. If you

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have too many candy of a Pokémon you

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are never going to use candy on, you

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can use the ChromaMatic to condense it

10:17

into a type candy that is most

10:20

likely going to be for the type

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that you use to make it. I

10:25

get the theory behind it. I don't

10:27

see the point of it. But then

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you can use that candy on a different Pokémon

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that you actually will use. Do you know how

10:33

many candies I have just sitting

10:35

in that thing because I always get S rank?

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I literally have to throw

10:44

candy at a Pokémon, one

10:46

of my shinies, to make bag space

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all the time. I burn through

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a large, six

10:54

medium, and 46 small rare candies.

10:56

A large is a hundred rare candies.

10:59

On just Dratini, if you

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would like to waste your candy as fast

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as possible, Larvitar and

11:06

Dratini will suck up. Especially if

11:08

they have EXP down. Yes, both

11:10

my Larvitar and Dratini have EXP

11:13

down. So because pseudo-legendaries in this

11:15

game are still the hardest to

11:17

power, well, pseudo-legendaries and legendaries, I

11:20

was really hoping to unlock

11:23

corn before next week on

11:25

my Dragonair. I'm

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out of rare candy and I'm at level 27 of 30. Oh

11:31

no. Well,

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before next week, it's only Tuesday as

11:36

of recording. If you keep it in your

11:38

party and just check

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the game frequently enough,

11:43

you may be able to get to level 29. I'm

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in that 30. You'll never get corn. I

11:49

also will be putting Altaria on my team

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every night because it has the XP, Pokémon

11:54

and XP bonus every night. So we'll

11:57

add a little bit every morning. Yeah,

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the crime-o-matic is gonna get more expensive every time you

12:02

use it It

12:04

looks like the first time you use it

12:06

is about a thousand dream shards the second

12:09

time you use it is five thousand Third

12:11

time is fifteen thousand and fourth time is

12:13

forty thousand per something

12:15

But it's increases per day So

12:18

I think if

12:20

you are free to play or if you're a casual person you

12:22

should use it once a day Every day

12:25

if you're a little bit more hardcore You

12:27

could probably get away with using it twice a day every

12:30

day But don't wait

12:33

till like Saturday and be like

12:35

I didn't use it all week I'm gonna use it

12:37

four times because it's just gonna clean

12:39

you out of dream shards I

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don't know anyone who would be using it four

12:44

times a day every day besides just whales

12:48

Yeah, someone's going to but It's

12:51

gonna take up a lot Yeah,

12:54

it seems very expensive I'm

12:57

curious on a on a

12:59

different level why they limit

13:02

the incense purchases Like

13:05

the medium one is 1200 You

13:08

get the crime-o-ran incense. I don't know what else you get But

13:11

they only let you buy one It

13:13

is kind of weird. What if

13:15

you just want more crime-o-ran spawns because they're so

13:17

hard to catch Like I

13:20

remember getting the dead in it and sense that

13:22

first time and using both of them and neither

13:24

time did any was hungry Neither

13:26

time it crit. It wasn't until the

13:28

third time did any showed up naturally. I was able

13:30

to catch it to cater

13:33

towards whales You

13:35

would think like why what's what's the problem

13:37

with them spending another $20 for another crammer

13:39

ant? Because I think 12 I think 1200 gems is 20

13:41

bucks I

13:44

don't understand in general why they do false

13:46

scarcity and a lot of these things but

13:48

they do They also

13:50

don't make it possible to purchase the master ball.

13:53

Yeah There's just

13:55

some level of challenge there

13:57

is maybe what it's for

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I guess I

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don't know I don't have enough dream points

14:06

to get a master ball for a cram

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rent I'm not actually expecting to get a cram

14:10

rent this time oh you don't have

14:12

like 4,000 points you're saying nope

14:15

I figured there was nothing I needed a

14:18

master ball for anymore I haven't did

14:20

any surprise I think I still have two

14:22

master balls I master

14:24

biscuits I should say I have one in my

14:26

inventory and then I have like 8,000 points

14:29

so I could buy another one I don't

14:32

know I guess that's my plan right is like

14:37

I could I could probably get to ultra money

14:39

as possible yeah I could probably get to ultra rank

14:42

3 in the first night on beach because I've

14:44

done it before and I'll be using good camp

14:46

ticket but it would be use

14:49

the first incense that night spawn

14:51

the cram rent master ball it

14:53

if it's not hungry get the

14:55

second incense spawn it catch it and

14:59

then hope the rest of the week that

15:01

more spawn in I guess

15:05

yep it's slumbering

15:07

chance you've got well not

15:09

that any of us have ever cheated

15:11

in Pokemon sleep nor have our listeners cheated in

15:14

Pokemon sleep but slumbering is the easiest to get

15:16

like you can force slumbering

15:18

mmm very

15:21

ring is the one you can slumbering

15:24

is one you can force right

15:26

you just put it on

15:28

your bedside table you're like

15:31

guaranteed slumbering that's it more

15:35

hacks the

15:37

hot sleep tip not that I would

15:39

ever condone they're

15:44

being so nice to you though with the cram

15:46

rent being the best Pokemon it

15:48

could be yeah yeah yeah yeah

15:50

knowing my luck is all kit it's like it will

15:53

have a good ingredient like corn and the mic rammer

15:55

it will be like all eggs

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or something yeah that's

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the plan Oh,

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sorry, before we get to it, there was a

16:04

small update to Heracross and Pinsir. Very

16:07

very minor update. I think each one

16:10

can now hold three extra items. I

16:13

think Pinsir is three and Heracross is four. And

16:15

then I believe their main

16:17

skill has gotten a small activation

16:20

boost for both of them. Don't

16:23

think that like changes

16:25

anything too much.

16:30

But both of those Pokemon got

16:32

a minor buff. I

16:35

don't know if like Pinsir was plus three and Heracross

16:37

was plus two. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I

16:40

don't know if they've ever nerfed the Pokemon in this game. I

16:43

think they've only buffed. All buffs, no

16:45

nerfs. All buffs, no nerfs. The sign of a

16:48

good game. Yeah, all

16:50

buffs. Okay, this is off

16:52

of Saraby. Japan

16:54

Universal Studios. There's

16:57

a no limit

16:59

summer splash parade that

17:02

is happening. This is Pokemon

17:04

related, I promise. There's a

17:06

no limit summer splash parade happening at

17:09

Universal Studios in Japan, which is located

17:11

in Osaka. This

17:13

summer, there's a new Pokemon element

17:16

announced. If you don't know, Universal

17:18

Studios in Japan does have a

17:20

Pokemon parade that runs I think

17:22

at least once a day. I

17:25

did not go to that because I'm

17:27

just not a theme park person. It's

17:32

limited in the Pokemon stuff, but

17:35

they do have some Pokemon stuff. But anyways,

17:37

during the duration of this parade from

17:39

July 3rd to September 1st,

17:41

you can get a special

17:43

Gyarados themed drink. I

17:46

don't know. Tourism is very high

17:48

in Japan right now. If

17:51

you were planning on going to Universal

17:53

and you're listening to this podcast, which

17:55

I assume means you like Pokemon, get

17:58

your special Gyarados drink. Don't

18:00

know what it looks like. Don't know what it tastes like. I'm gonna

18:02

guess it's gonna be blue. Okay. We do know what it looks like.

18:05

What it is. Oh wait, do we have a picture

18:07

of it? It's... Yeah, if

18:09

you click into the the Serabii

18:12

page. Say, not on the front page.

18:15

On their Universal Studios event page. Oh, you gotta click

18:17

through. Sorry, I used my magnifying

18:19

glass to use this website. It's

18:23

a Garidosis Whirling Smoothie. It has a

18:25

soda and pineapple flavor and I think

18:27

it looks really good. It's bright blue

18:29

with pineapple in it. That does sound

18:31

awesome. Right? That's good. Oh,

18:34

and there's the normal drink they

18:36

have is a Bulbasaur Melon Soda.

18:39

That's also so good. Melon Soda is

18:41

such a good flavor. These both sound amazing.

18:48

Greg, you're not a Melon fan? Most...

18:51

Okay. Watermelon... Yes.

18:55

But most melon drinks

18:58

aren't watermelon. They

19:00

are honeydew or

19:03

cantaloupe or musky

19:05

melon-y flavored. I'm not a fan of those

19:07

types of melons. To be honest... I'll

19:10

eat them, but I'm not a huge fan

19:12

of them. Melon soda in Japan,

19:14

which is usually bright green, doesn't

19:17

taste like any of those, I think. I

19:20

think it doesn't really taste like a melon.

19:22

It just tastes sugary and amazing. Yeah, very

19:24

sugary. I actually think it's a little too...

19:26

As somebody who lives off sugar, I think

19:29

it's a little sugary for me. Like, I love

19:31

it, but I can never finish the

19:33

can. Because you can

19:35

get the melon soda in the vending machines

19:37

there. I think I've

19:39

only had it at karaoke in Japan. It

19:44

is a great drink for keeping your voice going. Okay,

19:47

let's take a quick break and then when

19:49

we come back, we have some more Pokemon

19:51

news. So we will be right back. And

19:56

we are back from our break

19:59

again, because... We're recording this podcast

20:01

in the future and it's

20:03

coming out. Electric type M-Bore

20:05

would have happened. At

20:07

least the first week, I would be in

20:09

a different country. So I wouldn't have been able to help

20:11

people on Twitch like I normally do. But by

20:14

the time this podcast goes up, there should be raid counters.

20:16

So at least if you're watching this on

20:18

YouTube, there'll be a little button that appears somewhere

20:20

at the top that'll say raid counters. I

20:22

will help people the second week when I'm

20:24

back. I

20:27

think at one point in the podcast, or maybe it was on

20:29

Twitch, I was like M-Bore would

20:31

be the electric type because of wild charge. This

20:34

wild charge works with its

20:37

hidden ability of reckless and

20:40

wild boars. Wild charge. Seven

20:45

wild boars. Yes.

20:49

But it's still fire, still fighting.

20:54

I don't know what the, as of this recording, I

20:56

don't know what the final move set would be, but

20:58

I would be very shocked if they opted for thunder

21:02

punch over wild charge. But those are the two

21:04

electric moves it gets, thunder punch and wild charge.

21:07

And wild charge works with its ability. But

21:10

if you'll need help, I'll be doing

21:13

help on Twitch the second week.

21:16

And hopefully the raid counters I put out cover

21:19

all the bases. M-Bore

21:21

gets a lot of different moves, but it

21:23

doesn't get a lot of status type moves.

21:27

Compared to other Pokemon, it doesn't get Swords Dance

21:29

or anything. It gets bulk up, but- Gets bulk up,

21:31

doesn't it? It gets bulk up in Curse, yeah. Okay.

21:35

Which ultimately the same move, except Curse

21:38

has a downside, bulk up doesn't. So I don't know. Yeah,

21:41

it's going to be bulk up. If

21:43

it was anything, it'd be bulk up. What's the

21:45

last Pokemon? Oh, Swampert. Yeah, they didn't give Swampert

21:47

anything. They give it Yawn. That was actually really

21:49

surprising. The attacks it got

21:52

was not surprising. Like it had hydro

21:54

pump, it had a sludge wave. It

21:56

had muddy water. None

21:58

of that was surprising. Giving it- Yawn was

22:00

just like, okay. I

22:05

mean, yeah, I guess it. Yep.

22:09

Sure did. Sure did. Does

22:11

Emborg get any level up?

22:13

You can level up. No. Okay.

22:17

Scary face. Does he get that by level up or does he get that by

22:19

TM? I get that by TM. It

22:23

gets, he crashed obviously, but

22:25

he crashed doesn't work with Reckless. There

22:28

are only three moves Emborg gets that

22:30

work with Reckless, which is head,

22:33

smash, smash, wild

22:36

charge, and then slayer blitz. Slayer

22:39

bits? Yeah. Slayer

22:41

bits. Take down. Oh

22:43

yeah, it gets take down and double edge,

22:45

but double edge would be stronger. And

22:48

then head smash is like 150. It's like

22:50

crazy, crazy strong. And

22:52

then it also gets like earthquake. It

22:55

gets really good coverage. It gets

22:57

scald. I think scald is probably the most surprising move that

22:59

it gets. A fire type Pokemon

23:01

getting water coverage. No

23:04

one start typing the comments Volcanyon.

23:06

Yes, sure. It's

23:09

a water and fire type, I understand. But

23:12

most fire type starters don't get a

23:14

water type move, but obviously thematically, the

23:17

water type move that burns you. Yeah.

23:21

I still don't know why Poltegeist doesn't get

23:23

scald. That still makes me mad. Mm.

23:26

Yeah. And they gave

23:28

it to, what's the

23:30

one? Cinnastraig gets

23:32

it. Yeah, Cinnastraig gets it. Yep. Poltegeist

23:36

doesn't. How? It's

23:39

right there, it's hot tea. Poor

23:43

Cramorant doesn't get it either, but I think that would hurt his

23:45

throat. You

23:48

gotta protect the throat at all costs. Protect

23:50

the throat at all costs. Pokemon Masters EX.

23:54

Pokemon Masters EX. I'm

23:57

pulling this off Bubble Garden here. There's...

24:00

spotlight sync pairs on the

24:02

passionate spirit. Yeah.

24:04

Passionate spirit. Yep.

24:06

This is the return of the strongest fighters

24:08

event that happened in 2022. Yeah,

24:11

it's been a bit. So

24:13

the event focuses on

24:16

Gloria and Karina. Gloria

24:19

has Urshifu, Karina has

24:22

Marshadow, and as

24:24

usual, increased chance of bonus

24:27

rewards for a specific,

24:29

featuring the specific sync pairs. There's

24:32

also, so Gloria, Urshifu,

24:35

Karina, Marshadow will give you the 60%, 1.6 bonus

24:37

reward bonus. If

24:40

you don't have those, Bee and Surfetch'd and Buruno

24:42

and Machamp will give you a 40% bonus,

24:45

and then all other sync pairs with

24:47

the Passionate Spirit theme skill will

24:49

give you a 20% bonus. Anything

24:52

else happening in Masters, Greg? I

24:55

will say this, one

24:57

of the best pairs in this

24:59

entire game is

25:01

Karina and Marshadow. It is

25:04

incredible across the board. This is like,

25:06

if you don't have it, I would

25:08

strongly suggest trying to pull for it.

25:11

They gave Marshadow the ability to

25:13

steal the power-ups from

25:16

opposing Pokémon. It gets you

25:18

through a lot of things where they spend a bunch of

25:20

time powering up and you just steal it. It's

25:22

a really, really, really great sync pair.

25:26

The Vrision and

25:29

Thunderous, the Sharon and Bianca

25:32

are still running. They

25:35

have teased the

25:37

most exciting pair that's coming. Cannot wait.

25:41

Near Bee and Ludicolo. Wow. Not

25:45

that good. The actual

25:47

most exciting pair. That is the most exciting

25:49

pair, and they ignore me every time I

25:51

suggest it. They have

25:54

teased the greatest gym

25:56

leader of all time, will finally be coming.

26:00

very excited for. He's just gym leader. Oh, Larry.

26:03

Yeah, they have. So

26:08

that is what I'm saving my gems for right

26:10

now. They showed the

26:12

silhouette that can only be one person. Got

26:15

that. It is Larry. And

26:17

I want it. Did they show the Pokemon? Is it

26:19

Flamigo? No, they didn't. They

26:22

just showed his silhouette. A

26:26

lot of people are speculating which

26:28

one it is. I

26:31

have my guess as to which one it

26:33

is. Are you just leaving it there? You're

26:35

not going to give us the guess. It's

26:38

my favorite. It's the Dunsparce. Oh,

26:41

the Dunsparce. Yeah. We

26:43

don't really have a lot of great normal in

26:46

the game as it is. There's

26:48

not a lot of great normal pairs. Not

26:51

that normal does a lot. Well,

26:53

I guess we should clarify which Larry it

26:55

is. Is it Larry showing up for his

26:57

gym leader duty or is it Larry showing

26:59

up for his Elite Four duty? Well, we

27:01

don't know until those stories are. We have

27:03

both gym leaders and Elite Four in the

27:05

game right now. So we have no clue

27:07

but it's probably gym leader Larry. So

27:10

that wouldn't be Flamigo. Right.

27:13

Mm-hmm. Right. It would be normal. It

27:15

would be normal. Larry's so cool.

27:18

Larry is the greatest. We

27:21

still haven't heard. To be fair,

27:23

I will say that Larry is

27:25

bait because the anniversary is coming

27:27

up. I don't care that Larry is

27:29

bait. Larry is

27:32

the thing that I want. Yeah. I

27:34

mean, if you want it, then it's not bait. Then it's

27:36

not bait because I want it. But

27:38

I will say if you

27:40

are looking for a pair right now,

27:42

do try to get Karina and Marshadow.

27:44

Like it is not as broken

27:47

as Ash is but it's up there. It's

27:49

up there. Do

27:53

you think the anniversary is bringing back Ash? That

27:55

is like the most in-demand unit at this point. It

27:58

is. It's. possible

28:01

they're bringing a back a

28:04

lot from 2022 I think

28:06

that's when Ash hit mm-hmm

28:11

so it's possible it's

28:13

weird because Ash is

28:15

just not in the

28:18

general media right now like nobody's

28:20

talking about it like there's not

28:22

a lot of reason for the

28:25

anniversary to bring back Ash I

28:28

don't see that I feel

28:31

like Ash is going to

28:33

come back when they have them reintroduced

28:35

in the anime in the future or

28:38

at least referenced in the anime yeah like

28:40

reference in the anime because

28:43

Ash was yeah Ash was

28:45

2022 and they are bringing back a lot from

28:47

2022 it's possible

28:50

I just don't think it's very likely

28:53

just because there's no reason

28:55

there's nothing talking about Ash right now

28:57

there's no anime there's

29:00

no game there's no there's

29:02

no nothing that is Ash

29:04

centric this would be the thing talking

29:06

about Ash though yeah they could it

29:08

is it is a unit that needs

29:10

to come back because

29:13

it's Ash is

29:16

oddly incredibly strong like just

29:19

like there's no good reason other than it's Ash from

29:21

the anime and that is a good reason

29:24

yeah but it is

29:27

one of the strongest that

29:30

that they put out and they've just not brought

29:32

it back so they could they're doing

29:34

a lot from 2022 so we'll see I have

29:38

a feeling though the anniversary is

29:40

gonna focus a lot around I

29:42

have a feeling it's gonna be

29:45

a new Volo we have been building

29:47

the story up to Volo becoming something

29:49

more important and

29:51

the storyline it has Volo's been playing weak

29:53

that's why only as a toga piece so

29:56

we I expect there to be Volo

29:58

with probably Probably the

30:01

other form of guarantee Garatina Against

30:05

what Cynthia has so thinks

30:07

Sydney has the original form

30:09

and he'd get the worm form Yeah,

30:12

that is sort of my feeling everyone what's going

30:14

to happen around the anniversary I

30:19

feel like that's what we're leading to

30:22

with the mystery stone. We've already had

30:24

the first storyline showdown between Cynthia and

30:26

Volo they've already met and

30:29

Stared daggers at each other. Hmm.

30:31

I really need to play this game. Yeah although

30:34

I don't just think I have a problem

30:36

with this general

30:39

theme of this game where everybody knows these

30:42

people are dangerous criminals, but they're like But

30:44

we really can't do anything about it. So

30:46

we're just gonna keep our eye on you

30:48

and i'm like I

30:50

don't see that Like

30:53

you know You

30:55

know Cyrus wants to blow up the

30:57

universe and the only thing keeping in

30:59

the line is sophically like make

31:01

this make sense to me These

31:04

are known wanted criminals and you're all

31:06

like we know that but maybe

31:08

you'll change No Greg

31:12

I would like a pokemon unite update

31:15

From my from my knowledge watching

31:17

naic this this past weekend Uh,

31:20

I was both excited and disappointed

31:22

at the same time because

31:26

While no one was playing cramrant, which

31:28

was the disappointment Cramorant

31:30

kept being people's ban choice

31:33

Which is why no one could play it Yeah,

31:36

so it seems like cramran very good and people

31:38

did not want to play against it because it

31:40

kept getting banned Yeah cram

31:42

rats in a good spot again. Yeah,

31:45

unite is in a weird spot I

31:48

I I took I was just saying I was I took a

31:50

break Uh, the draft thing

31:52

is not Fun with randoms.

31:54

It's definitely fun to watch in tournaments that

31:56

are you know, it's great if

31:58

you have a five person and you

32:01

can talk about it, it is not

32:03

great with randoms. So the new season has

32:05

started. Wait, wait, hold on. How does it

32:07

work with randoms? Because you're not

32:09

talking. You're not talking. Somebody,

32:12

two people are chosen to pick

32:14

the ban on each side. Randomly.

32:18

Yeah, randomly. And you can make

32:20

suggestions as to what everybody

32:23

thinks. You say, I suggest you ban

32:25

this. It is up to them what

32:28

they have decided to ban and sometimes you're

32:30

like, okay, so there is some in-game communication

32:32

though. The

32:35

tiniest bit. You can put up a picture

32:37

saying, I wish you would ban blast toys.

32:39

Okay, and so the are you saying that

32:41

the random people in charge are picking, are

32:44

they are they picking things that should be

32:46

banned or are they just being like, I

32:48

have a vendetta against Dodria. Mostly

32:50

I have a vendetta. It's mostly

32:53

I don't like playing against this, so

32:55

I'm going to ban it. Some

32:58

of the choices just don't make that. Also,

33:00

it's very confusing as to

33:02

who's making the choices. So often the

33:04

person that's supposed to make the choice

33:07

just doesn't and so nothing

33:10

gets banned and then

33:12

everybody gets a weird penalty because

33:14

the team didn't do something and

33:16

you're like, this is just chaos.

33:19

Just pure chaos. Playing with master

33:21

rank people, right? Oh yeah, sure.

33:24

Yeah, I mean you are. They

33:28

played enough games to get the master rank. They played

33:30

enough games to get the master rank. The other problem

33:32

with the way it is, is that you never know

33:34

when you're getting a draft match because

33:36

it's random when you get thrown into a draft match.

33:38

It is not all the time when you're at master

33:40

level. It's you could have normal

33:43

match, normal match, no rest and suddenly be in

33:45

a draft match and be

33:47

like, okay, I have no idea what's going on. I was

33:49

not prepared for this. I hope

33:51

I can choose. They pick the bands

33:53

that I think are appropriate and

33:56

then you're also running into randoms who often

34:00

don't have alternates. So like the thing that

34:02

they want to play either gets chosen or

34:04

banned. And so they are just, they just

34:06

randomly pick something and don't know how to

34:08

play it. It's super frustrating. So

34:11

they're moving it back to 1400. It was dropped

34:13

down to 1200. And there's

34:16

just too many people who don't know

34:18

what they're just, it is not a

34:20

great level. It's just too chaotic. It almost feels

34:22

like there should be two, this

34:24

probably won't work, but it feels like there

34:27

should be two competitive cues. There

34:29

could be. I want a draft cue or I just

34:31

want a normal game cue. That

34:34

would solve a lot of the issues. How? Would there

34:36

be enough people for both of those? I don't think

34:39

there is. I don't think there

34:41

is at that level. I just don't

34:43

think so. This season, they are putting it

34:45

back to 1400. The bad thing

34:48

is EX Pokemon are

34:50

back in. You can have

34:52

one. They're allowed again. So that just

34:54

makes the season a little bit more

34:56

frustrating. Crime rant is a

34:59

good spot. Surillage is going to be here

35:01

on the 13th. It looks

35:03

very fun right now. It looks a little two

35:05

week on the test server,

35:08

but that is every time they

35:10

have something. It always is two week on the

35:13

test server and then it gets launched. Right. No

35:15

numbers up before they ship it. Yeah,

35:18

they crank it up. I

35:21

guess it's more of a question for people in

35:23

our Discord or Slack or if you're watching on

35:25

YouTube, feel free to like comment. How do they

35:27

do it in League of Legends? Because

35:29

League of Legends has draft. League of Legends

35:32

also has like seven million characters

35:34

you can pick from where like Pokemon United is at what

35:36

like 70? I think we're

35:38

at just at 60 or just

35:40

below. Like Zacian brought

35:42

us to 49 I think and then

35:47

we've had. Yeah, I think we're in the 50s. Does

35:49

League of Legends or Dota or I

35:52

don't know what the other heroes

35:55

of the storm do people still play that? I

35:58

guess that maybe works because people. have microphones, but

36:01

I don't know what's the difference of somebody being like,

36:03

hey, you ban the

36:06

fairy that floats on the book. I

36:08

don't know anyone in League of Legends

36:10

versus like you, Greg holding up a

36:13

picture of like Combe. Yeah. Yeah.

36:16

I feel like there should be some sort of voting. Yeah,

36:19

there probably should be. Also,

36:22

the other thing is like League of Legends matches

36:24

can go on for an incredibly long time and

36:26

unite matches. Yeah, they're 45 minutes. Yeah,

36:29

the 40 minutes. I've seen one that lasted two hours. I'm

36:31

like, what's going on? Somebody do

36:34

something. Yeah, I don't know how it works.

36:36

The other ones I think they have, I think

36:38

unite could use a separate queue. I think they

36:40

could make a ranked that is all draft

36:43

from low level all the way up for

36:45

people to play in. I think that would

36:47

be a better solution than sort of what

36:50

we have now, which is randomly at master

36:52

rank at whatever level you get to. I

36:55

know a lot of people were very are just not

36:57

happy with the way that the draft

36:59

is and are very happy that it's going back to 1400. We

37:01

also haven't had

37:04

a lot of Pokemon added. I mean, Suru

37:06

ledge, it took a while to get

37:08

here. So there's some concern

37:11

that they are slowing down. What were the

37:13

like the last four Pokemon are about Suru

37:15

ledge failing failing or dose?

37:18

Garreto Mariah and

37:21

Mariah. I mean, that's a lot.

37:23

I feel like that's a lot of Pokemon since

37:25

Pokemon Day because Mariah was Pokemon Day. We used

37:27

to get one every month. We

37:29

Garados was before Pokemon Day. So

37:31

it went right on a Pokemon

37:33

Day. Phalanx. Okay.

37:36

That's really in four months. Yeah, it's it.

37:38

They were kind of getting a much steadier

37:40

clip and they've slowed down, which is both

37:43

good and bad, I guess. We just need

37:47

a new map that'll fix everything. Yeah,

37:49

I mean, there

37:51

are rumors as to what the next

37:53

EX Pokemon is supposed to be. Where

37:55

are the rumors? The rumors are that

37:57

Ho-Oh is coming not as the

37:59

center. Pokemon as a playable as

38:02

a playable defender. That is the

38:04

rumor defender. Defend with rainbows

38:06

because they're they're running out of days

38:08

for pride. That's about rainbows. And

38:11

they call in Lugia. That is

38:13

the rumor we just. Things

38:15

have been kind of quiet on the

38:17

Pokemon leveling front. We're just

38:19

like, OK, like generally

38:22

by the time Sir Alleg

38:24

was announced, we would have heard at least what

38:26

the next thing was. And we don't even have

38:28

that. We just we don't have anything. Yeah.

38:31

Unite the anniversary is end of July. Yeah,

38:34

the anniversary is coming up. So something big

38:36

should be coming. It is probably another ex.

38:39

It is quite possibly ho, which

38:43

will be overpowered and will make the

38:45

game unplayable for for

38:47

a few months because ever do a play

38:49

at it, it's OP. I

38:51

think as far as balance wise,

38:53

everything is well balanced right now.

38:57

Even I mean, you sort of have to

38:59

suffer with with a person, you know, a team

39:01

that picks three at three exes like they're

39:03

back in play. You're just going to have to deal

39:06

with it. I think it

39:08

is probably best for drafts to stay at

39:10

fourteen hundred. Because I think it's just too

39:12

frustrating at the lower level. Yeah. I

39:15

wouldn't be surprised if this year, especially

39:17

for the anniversary, trying to think of

39:19

like what would be good for anniversary.

39:22

You know what they haven't done yet? Aporion,

39:24

Flareon, Jolteon. They have

39:26

not done the originals.

39:30

And if there's if there's if there's

39:32

a type of Pokemon that brings people

39:34

to a game, it is the Eevee

39:37

Pokemon. Yeah. And they have

39:39

not done those three yet. So you have you

39:41

have you have the Eevee fanboys and you also

39:43

apply. You also appeal to

39:46

the Gen 1 people as well with

39:48

with those Eevees. We

39:50

also only have one of the

39:53

Paladion starters. The other

39:55

two are true. Unknown.

40:00

We have we have we don't have a lot of the

40:02

starters too like there's a lot of

40:04

the generations don't have starters in that game Yeah,

40:06

you know what? I think what would fix unite

40:08

would be Incineroar,

40:10

I think it would

40:13

be a good addition We

40:15

would see how people would react to that. I Feel

40:19

like Evie they may be leaning into

40:21

Evie day being a thing so I

40:23

could see that happening in November. Oh

40:27

Yeah, I forgot about Evie day. Yeah Evie

40:29

day. They may bring them into Evie day

40:32

But you're on that miss Evie day where

40:34

they announced it, but it didn't come out

40:36

until afterwards Umbreon I think

40:39

oh yeah, that didn't come out until after

40:42

Yeah, even like the leaguers don't have anything

40:44

about new Pokemon coming out like the last

40:47

thing is through ledge And

40:49

again, it comes out on the 13th. It

40:51

will only be gems at first It's

40:54

the same thing It's gems for the first week and

40:56

then you can buy it with coins after so you'd

40:59

be able to get it for coins on The 20th

41:01

Pokemon's in a good spot

41:03

with leaks I Can't you

41:05

kind of I I think you know not to

41:08

not to go back to Pokemon day But when

41:10

if we were to go back to Pokemon day,

41:12

which was four months ago

41:15

three months ago, you know it was

41:18

Let's let's go whooper. Let's go

41:20

giraffe rig. Let's go crow bat

41:23

You know it was gen 2 stuff, and it was

41:25

a bunch of gen 5 stuff all

41:27

of those leakers were wrong, right? Every

41:30

single one was wrong, and we have gotten no

41:33

information about the

41:36

a We don't know what's

41:38

coming in unite. We don't know

41:40

what's coming in masters we

41:44

Don't even know I'm

41:47

trying to think like we we don't know what

41:49

the Pokemon would be before Suicune and Pokemon sleep

41:51

the only reason we know Suicune coming is because

41:53

they told us all three legendary

41:55

beasts are coming Like

41:59

it's I don't want

42:01

to say. The. Pokemon company has

42:03

figured out they're leaking problem. But.

42:06

There, we don't actually know what's coming

42:08

this year. At All. No. I.

42:10

Mean one, the things about you night the

42:12

stuff has to go on the public test

42:14

server. thus for most of the league's come

42:16

from. Yeah and because they're public. And

42:19

nothing's nothing's happening in the public test

42:21

server other than through lead so it

42:23

as think people in general little like.

42:26

Uneasy as about what's happening as it mainly

42:28

because one of the cause of an easy

42:30

we know the universe who's coming up. We.

42:33

Know what a nightmare it was

42:35

when mutu was released without being

42:37

cast as it was just bad

42:39

and I think people are concerned

42:41

that. They're. Going to drop

42:43

another untested, he acts on the

42:45

anniversary. And is going to

42:47

be frustrating. And. That is

42:49

a very valid thing to senior night.

42:52

It has happened multiple times when I

42:54

get sort of the secrecy about it,

42:56

but. Also please let

42:58

us test this a good be feedback

43:00

before it's live in game and making

43:03

everybody miserable. Given the nature of

43:05

the game, a surprise like that is maybe

43:07

not as. Good. As.

43:09

It is in the other games

43:11

Yeah Ah mutu was. Awful.

43:15

And then Darcy and was also awful they

43:17

didn't are you said Mariah Down was less

43:19

bad but it was on the test service

43:21

and will new was going on. What was

43:23

there was like a pokemon. They added. It

43:25

was like around the time of Like Mammals. Why? there

43:28

was a mammoth science mammal finals. Completely.

43:30

Underpowered. Where. They did emergency

43:32

maintenance and they fixed it with him.

43:34

like a day or two of it

43:36

being out. Sylvie. On they

43:38

did that with. The

43:40

I was cranks. Beyond.

43:43

In a not real emergency maintenance for

43:45

me to saucier and. Ride

43:48

on Did. Not emergency maintenance for

43:50

me to it took two weeks. Before.

43:53

They Nerf did they? Did.

43:55

Do. A. emergency

43:57

maintenance on Zashian

44:00

because there was a code error

44:02

that it was doing a hundred percent

44:05

ignoring of defense, which it shouldn't have

44:07

been doing Oh, yeah, but they didn't

44:09

nerf it and then they

44:11

did an emergency nerf on Mariah

44:15

Don I think three days

44:17

after it came out After

44:21

you two sales started to dwindle. Yeah

44:27

That's how it works Sir

44:30

we've sold as many Mariah on this Everybody

44:34

else is doing the free version. So all

44:36

right. All right. Give them the nerve. I

44:39

Do think like I do

44:41

think everything is well balanced so far

44:45

You know, everything's been out for a while It's

44:47

also one of the plus sites is not getting any

44:50

new Pokemon per a bit Like everything sort of settles

44:52

down and everybody sort of knows how to play so

44:54

it's not terrible that we haven't gotten a new Yeah,

44:57

and I think Saru ledge looks like a

44:59

lot of fun like it really moves well

45:01

on the screen It looks like a ton

45:03

of fun. I am probably actually going to

45:05

buy it. I just wish it wasn't Yet

45:08

another all-rounder. We have a

45:11

lot of all-rounders. We we

45:14

don't need more We

45:16

need a new map We

45:20

need a new map. We don't have a

45:22

lot of supporters either like we're really supporter

45:24

light like and

45:26

we Can we balance these out

45:29

a little bit? And

45:31

we don't have a lot of defenders, but I guess What

45:34

are you gonna do? Hmm? Well,

45:36

we can be wants to play the attackers Yeah,

45:39

people people love hitting people

45:41

love the how people work.

45:43

Yep in Final Fantasy and

45:45

destiny and and Garland

45:48

violet people just love being

45:51

the damage. We're everyone wants

45:53

to be the hero Pokemon 63

45:55

okay, okay Hopefully

46:00

Pokemon number signal me Four said

46:02

his belt. sprout. Census.

46:05

Is toxic them for his such as does

46:07

it does a joke in there somewhere else

46:09

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46:13

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We are back from our break. Oh

47:46

come on world's. At

47:48

the Hawaii Convention Center in

47:51

Honolulu. They. Launched.

47:53

While. They had a. Website. But they

47:56

added more to the is. still

47:59

didn't It's no longer a film of

48:01

the information. Yeah. Yeah. So

48:03

NAIC just finished and

48:06

they announced at NAIC that they

48:08

will be coming back to Nalins

48:10

for next year. So sorry

48:13

to Ohio and Indiana

48:15

who previously had the

48:18

national tournament for several

48:20

years. I really liked

48:22

the Ohio National –

48:24

I guess it's called International now, but

48:28

I was a fan of that area,

48:30

that venue, but

48:32

they're going back to Nalins. Did any of

48:34

you guys watch NAIC at

48:36

all? I watched a little bit of

48:38

the Unite stuff, but – Yeah,

48:41

I glimpsed a few seconds here and there,

48:43

but not much. No, not a ton.

48:45

They had like a parade at the beginning.

48:49

Wait, what? They had like some

48:52

– I don't know if it was like a marching band or

48:55

what, but they had trumpets and drums and

48:57

it was very – my

49:00

only experience with Nalins is like the Mardi Gras

49:02

stuff that comes out, but it felt very like

49:06

Mardi Gras. They had a whole

49:08

parade at the opening. That's amazing.

49:10

All right. That sounds fun. Is there a

49:13

video specifically of that? Yeah,

49:15

yeah. If you go to the Twitch or the YouTube and you

49:17

go to the beginning of like when

49:19

the opening ceremonies happen,

49:23

you can see that, which is really cool. They

49:26

also showed off the official

49:28

Pikachu plush, which every

49:31

World Championship has a different Pikachu.

49:34

This is a little Pikachu plush with a

49:36

scuba diving outfit. He has little flippers on.

49:40

That looks great. They

49:42

do say here on the website that Pokémon Center

49:44

is coming to Honolulu. You can look forward to

49:47

the Pokémon Center World Store. Reservations

49:49

will be mandatory to enter, so

49:53

stay tuned for more details in June.

49:56

I think this is just the right

49:58

way to do. that kind of

50:00

thing as much as

50:03

it sucks. Like if your

50:05

appointment's at three, then you're just not waiting

50:07

in line all day. Yeah, it means

50:09

that there aren't people waiting in line the entire

50:11

time who never get to get in because

50:14

that's what you really don't want. Right.

50:17

You don't want to like spend all this money to go to a

50:20

world championship and then be like, well, on Friday

50:22

I spent it, I was all day in line

50:24

and they ran out of backpack, so I'm going

50:26

back on Saturday to try again because they said

50:28

maybe new backpacks will be tomorrow. Yeah.

50:32

No one likes waiting in line. There's

50:34

probably one person that really likes waiting

50:36

in line. The one person

50:38

addicted to this repaint. I

50:41

guess I can also officially announce

50:43

that the Pokemon Company

50:45

did invite me to Hawaii as

50:50

an official Pokemon partner. What

50:52

that really means is they are paying for my

50:55

flight and they're paying for my hotel. Well, this

50:57

is what they did for last year. Well,

51:00

I guess last year they only paid for my hotel. But

51:02

to be fair, I was already coming

51:05

for other related things. I

51:09

always want to be as completely as transparent as

51:11

possible on this podcast. They

51:13

did invite me to London as well. And

51:17

I just said they invited me to Yokohama. When

51:20

they invited me to those two things,

51:22

there was no requirement on my end

51:24

besides the standard FTC disclosure of, hey,

51:27

this company paid for this part.

51:30

But I was not required to make a

51:32

YouTube video, tweet about it, say

51:35

good things. I literally think on this

51:37

podcast last year, we talked about how

51:39

two Japanese dudes fought, got

51:41

in a fistfight over a skateboard. I

51:44

mean, if anything, they probably wouldn't have wanted me to

51:46

talk about that. But there

51:48

was no obligations. There

51:50

was a contract I had to sign

51:52

this year. And

51:55

that contract states that I get free hotel,

51:57

I get free flight, and I also owe

51:59

them three Twitter posts, ironic, it's

52:01

not called Twitter anymore. I

52:04

owe them two Instagram posts, I owe them

52:06

one live stream, and then I owe them

52:09

one YouTube video, which they said the YouTube

52:11

video can just be an archive of the

52:13

live stream. Obviously we've

52:15

been talking about worlds, we're talking about worlds

52:17

right now, I'm not obligated to lay out

52:21

what is happening at worlds, like this is

52:23

not a sponsor, this podcast itself is not.

52:26

The stuff that the Pokemon does, that

52:29

Pokemon rule require me for worlds will

52:31

be clearly labeled of that

52:34

with the hashtag Pokemon partner on

52:36

whatever social media platform

52:38

it is. I think

52:40

that even if you're not going to worlds, or

52:43

if I wasn't going to worlds, it would still

52:46

be a normal part of the show

52:48

to cover worlds since over the last

52:50

couple years, they have really gone

52:53

above and beyond to make this

52:55

a celebration of Pokemon, regardless if

52:57

you care about TCG

53:00

finals, right? You

53:02

can go to, when you went to

53:04

London, or when you went to Yokohama, or even when

53:06

they started doing this back in DC before COVID, they

53:10

were adding so many things of

53:12

picture opportunities, play this demo early,

53:14

do this Pokemon Go thing, on

53:17

top of that we have exclusive spawns. I

53:19

think at DC, if I'm

53:22

remembering correctly, you could watch Detective Pikachu,

53:24

right? They had a whole movie theater

53:26

for that. None of us in

53:28

our group did, but they did have a whole movie theater for

53:30

it. We didn't do

53:32

that, but you could have. But

53:35

we could have. I remember

53:37

for Yokohama, the one thing I

53:39

skipped was Path

53:41

to the Peak, they did the premiere for that, where

53:44

you could watch it early. And

53:46

I remember the Pokemon rep being like, you're skipping

53:48

this? And I was like, I'm gonna be

53:50

honest, I can watch this on my

53:52

couch at home. I

53:54

just don't wanna lose two hours

53:56

of Japan time to something that

53:59

is, they took it. We do a tea ceremony

54:01

right? They did. We'd all these other things like I

54:03

cannot do that on my couch at home. I.

54:05

Can definitely watch your pokemon you

54:07

to visit. The

54:10

couch at home. As. They

54:12

they did. I'm. Okay, so

54:14

that. Like. Disclosure out of

54:16

the way, They

54:18

did put up a schedule. Of

54:22

what's happening. Which.

54:24

Now. I don't know where that schedule went. Down

54:27

with his or her. Does. So.

54:29

Ah Friday, August sixteenth

54:32

The opening ceremony will

54:34

be nine am. A.

54:37

White Time. Which. Of

54:39

what is how it is, times as work

54:41

and why it's not like an hour behind

54:43

California. It's like. Three. Hours?

54:45

I think. Yeah yeah. Then.

54:48

The middle of the ocean. It

54:51

is. It's closer to Japan

54:53

that people think. Noom.

54:55

Yes, three hours before. West.

54:58

Coast and. Dot. Sight I

55:00

was before a else. If.

55:02

Opening ceremonies as a nine Am Hawaii

55:04

Time and it's Nine Am and. That

55:07

would be six am California. Now.

55:11

Now. You're going the wrong way or whether

55:13

I was. So.

55:15

Is a benign. Am in Hawaii. It.

55:17

A new Union Town in California?

55:19

Yeah. Got. It Okay, so this

55:21

event should actually be really easy for people to

55:23

watch. Which. Was. Kind.

55:26

Of the opposite of Japan. Which.

55:30

I think like when the finals happened. He.

55:33

Was like six am or something. That

55:37

sounds about right here. Ah,

55:41

Times. Of the tough. There.

55:44

Are a lot of them are to address

55:46

sometimes. Opening ceremony will be nine

55:48

a M Y time and then literally

55:50

everything is going to start Unite! Go.

55:53

Tcg and Vdc. Will.

55:56

All start. And. Then

55:58

on Sunday. You will, actually

56:00

on Saturday you will have the

56:03

single elimination Unite finals

56:06

starting at 9am and then you

56:08

have the Unite final finals at

56:12

7.30pm on Saturday which

56:14

is going to be 10.30pm

56:17

California time. And

56:19

then you have top cut for Go

56:22

TCG VGC and then on Sunday

56:24

at 9am Hawaii time you will

56:29

have the grand finals for

56:31

Pokemon Go and then you will

56:33

have the TCG finals at 10.30pm and

56:37

then you will have the VGC

56:39

finals at 2.30pm and

56:41

then opening, closing ceremony will be at

56:43

5.30pm Hawaii time. So

56:48

if you're watching on Twitch or YouTube, should

56:52

be pretty watchable for everyone in the United

56:54

States which is the majority of people who

56:56

listen to this podcast. Don't

56:58

make me do time zones for Japan at this point. They're

57:02

in their own world. There are converters you can

57:04

do online. Yes.

57:07

And then they said there will be a

57:09

bunch of activities from Thursday to Sunday with

57:11

no pre-registration. They have not listed what those

57:13

activities are. They did show the

57:15

Pikachu plush. They also showed the little card

57:18

which is the champion card. It's

57:20

the same champion card as last year. The

57:24

card itself does the same thing. The art

57:26

is different. Pokemon Go is

57:28

featured on the art. I

57:31

think the card is like any

57:34

Psyduck in play has one less

57:36

of a retreat cost. That's

57:40

what it does. That's what it did last year. That's...

57:43

Yeah. Yep. That's what it

57:45

looks like I think. Yeah.

57:50

They switched it. Yeah, I

57:52

think last year was called... I think it's

57:54

called Paradise Resort. Yes, it is. The card

57:56

is called. Yeah.

57:59

The retreat cost is $7. in play both yours

58:01

and your points and one star left. So if

58:03

you don't know the history of the world championship

58:05

cards, they're almost always,

58:08

there's probably an exception to this, they're almost

58:10

always stadium cards. And

58:13

so stadium cards can be played for both people. Whether

58:16

you participate in GO or UNITE

58:18

or VGC, you

58:21

get one of these cards as a competitor and

58:23

then there are cards that

58:25

will say like top 32, top 16, like champion.

58:30

You get a different card also when you're champion, you get

58:32

like a card that says you're champion which is really cool.

58:36

Regardless of, again, regardless if you win VGC or

58:38

TCG, you get the champion card. And

58:41

then there's also staff versions of

58:43

these world, of these

58:45

stadium cards that go out because if you're

58:47

violent. From what I

58:50

was told, this is new information to me, that

58:53

they do now pay their

58:55

staff. I've been told that

58:57

it's $100 a day which

59:00

I think they're scheduled eight hour days. So

59:03

you get $100 a day, you get

59:06

your Pokemon cards or whatever

59:08

because they give people booster boxes and then you

59:10

get your food stipend as well. So

59:13

that's cool. Back in, geez,

59:15

like 10 years ago when I was playing competitively, if you

59:18

wanted to be a judge or any staff

59:21

that helped, it

59:23

was here's three

59:25

booster boxes of noble victory.

59:27

Surely volunteer. Yeah. So

59:31

it sounds like they're paying people which is

59:33

very cool. I don't

59:36

think anyone's like quickly signing up to be like, ah,

59:38

great pay. I think people genuinely want

59:40

to help out and want to be judges and stuff

59:42

but it's great that they're getting paid for. It

59:45

sounds like some of the other activities include

59:47

photo ops and meet and greets is what

59:49

they're saying. So who

59:52

knows how much of that is

59:55

anything more than just a big inflatable

59:58

Pikachu? Well

1:00:00

meet and greets would be a great photo

1:00:02

op. Yeah, well meet and greets would probably

1:00:04

be with Pikachu, Eevee, the starters. Yeah.

1:00:08

Probably Masuda. They

1:00:10

have quite often done meet

1:00:12

and greets with Masuda, which is not really

1:00:14

a meet and greet. It is go

1:00:16

up there. They say Konichiwa. Meet and

1:00:19

greet with Masuda's translator is what it

1:00:22

is. It's the signature. It's getting a

1:00:24

signature on something, right? Yeah. I

1:00:27

mean that is the definition of meeting somebody

1:00:29

and greeting them. It's true. It's very true.

1:00:32

I don't know. They

1:00:35

have not told me anything of what they

1:00:38

want content creators

1:00:40

to do. This is the first year that they

1:00:42

put content creators on their website, which is kind

1:00:44

of crazy. So if you

1:00:46

go to the website and you click special guests, you can see the

1:00:48

people they have invited. Anyone

1:00:50

that's Pokemon partner, they have probably

1:00:53

the same requirements as me. They were

1:00:55

proud. They got their flight and their

1:00:57

hotel paid for. They probably

1:00:59

have different things, right? Like I'm

1:01:01

a streamer, so my contract involved

1:01:03

to do a live stream, but

1:01:05

I also have a backpack that can

1:01:08

do a live stream. Yeah.

1:01:11

So I'm sure these other people on the list have

1:01:14

different requirements. And

1:01:17

then there are a bunch of content creators that got

1:01:19

free passes, but they did not get the flight

1:01:22

and hotel covered. And

1:01:25

again, I never say this to brag. I say

1:01:27

this because legally I have to disclose that

1:01:31

companies are paying for things. You

1:01:33

do have to register for a spectator badge. The

1:01:36

venue does have support

1:01:39

for accessibility

1:01:41

and disability. There's

1:01:44

still the normal code of conduct. This

1:01:49

is on the big island of Hawaii, right? But

1:01:53

not the capital. I

1:01:56

mean, so it's not big island. Yeah, it's

1:01:58

not. Oh, it's not the big island. island.

1:02:00

It's not big island. I don't know how

1:02:02

Hawaii works. I don't know the names of all the

1:02:04

different islands. Like

1:02:07

what is the touristy island that people

1:02:09

normally go to for Hawaii? Depends

1:02:11

on what you want. So if you want

1:02:13

to go see the volcano and do the

1:02:16

volcano stuff, that's big island because big island

1:02:18

has the active volcano. Okay I see. Honolulu

1:02:20

is on a smaller island. It's the second

1:02:25

island I think? On

1:02:27

Oahu? Yeah I think it's on a

1:02:29

while. It's on a Oahu but I forget if that's the second

1:02:31

or the third. I

1:02:34

saw a TikTok where there's an island where no one can

1:02:36

go to. Yes.

1:02:40

Yeah it's so it's like big island and

1:02:42

then Oahu's so is it a big island

1:02:44

where the volcano is? The

1:02:46

big islands where the volcano is. So I don't

1:02:48

think Pokemon company is gonna have me walk up a

1:02:50

volcano. No. Okay good. Also

1:02:54

big island is quickly becoming not

1:02:57

the housing of the volcano because as always it's moving

1:02:59

and the new island is already forming. So if you

1:03:02

go to the big island you can see where the

1:03:04

new island will be. I love

1:03:06

construction. Yep

1:03:09

it's fiery fiery fiery construction.

1:03:12

Yeah so you'll be on Oahu which

1:03:14

is where Honolulu. You

1:03:16

can get to all of the other islands

1:03:19

if you really want. They have planes and

1:03:21

boats but it's expensive and if

1:03:24

you don't have a reason to stay on Big

1:03:26

Island like don't go there like there's not

1:03:29

a lot to see if you're not going

1:03:31

to spend time there. And

1:03:34

Maui is where the fires happened which

1:03:37

is a different island than Big Island

1:03:39

and where

1:03:41

Honolulu is. Yes. So

1:03:45

Maui is I think

1:03:48

in between Oahu and Big

1:03:51

Island. I'm gonna need like

1:03:55

cheat cheats or like little note

1:03:57

cards to remember these. I mean

1:03:59

also technically... the fires also

1:04:01

happened on Big Island because there was a

1:04:03

huge eruption not that

1:04:05

long ago. The volcano did. It

1:04:08

is an active volcano. It goes off and

1:04:11

blocks off huge swaths of that

1:04:13

island and it's

1:04:16

quickly why it needs

1:04:18

to sort of decide what they're doing because all

1:04:20

the islands are slowly sinking into the back

1:04:23

into the ocean as the volcano

1:04:26

makes new ones, the old ones go

1:04:28

down and then get eroded away because they're islands. But

1:04:31

yeah, Honolulu is on Oahu

1:04:33

Maui which is where the fires are

1:04:36

or sort of in the middle and

1:04:38

then Big Island is where the volcano

1:04:40

is. And you can kind of see all

1:04:42

of them from certain vantage points on all the

1:04:44

islands. We did do that. When I was in

1:04:46

Hawaii, we did go to the places where you

1:04:48

can kind of see where the other islands are.

1:04:50

What was the last time you were in Hawaii,

1:04:52

Greg? We went there for our

1:04:55

wedding honeymoon. So it was 2015. Oh,

1:05:03

quite a while ago. Yeah, it was quite a while ago.

1:05:07

I know. It's just really expensive

1:05:09

to go there. Yeah, I know.

1:05:11

Will goes almost every year but that's because

1:05:14

his mom Greg lived there. And Will

1:05:16

lived there. He lived there for a while. And

1:05:18

that's why him and his mom go often. Yearly.

1:05:23

Yeah. Oh, pretty yearly. I mean, I don't

1:05:25

think it's yearly anymore because it stopped for COVID.

1:05:27

So I think it's every other year now. But

1:05:30

they do go. Yeah,

1:05:32

I think Will lived in Hawaii for what, like four

1:05:34

or five years? Yeah, as

1:05:36

a kid. Yeah. Yeah. But

1:05:40

I think he's been to all the islands except

1:05:42

the island you're not allowed to go to. Yes.

1:05:46

Correct. Because no one can

1:05:48

go to that Hawaiian, the island. Correct.

1:05:50

It's sinking into the ocean.

1:05:52

I had

1:05:54

a bit of dilemma with this because there

1:05:57

is the debate of like. Hawaii

1:06:00

suffers from tourism over

1:06:03

tourism and then there's the like Hawaii needs

1:06:05

tourism and I've spoken to both people right

1:06:08

and even when I was in Japan

1:06:11

two of my two of my friends who live out

1:06:13

there they're from Hawaii they lived in Hawaii for 20

1:06:16

some years and they've been in Japan for like the

1:06:18

last three and they were

1:06:21

super excited about this and they they were one of

1:06:23

the people that were like no

1:06:25

Hawaii does need the tourism like that's how it

1:06:27

funds everything and they're

1:06:29

going back obviously for worlds and stuff

1:06:32

so I what I'm saying is I can see

1:06:34

both sides I can see like Hawaii needs the tourism

1:06:36

and I can see like Hawaii's overrun with tourism and

1:06:39

when Pokemon asked me if I

1:06:42

wanted to go and that they were

1:06:44

going to offer to pay there was I

1:06:48

guess when it came down to it I

1:06:50

thought if I said no because I didn't want

1:06:52

to be part of the problem that

1:06:55

they would just ask so somebody else and that

1:06:58

person could be part of the problem and when I

1:07:00

when I say like part of the problem I think

1:07:02

like if you I don't think

1:07:04

there's anything wrong with going to Hawaii if

1:07:07

or like any country if you are

1:07:09

respectful and you're a proper tourist like

1:07:11

you can see tons of videos of

1:07:13

people being outrageous in Japan

1:07:15

or Kyoto like the Kyoto in Japan

1:07:17

or like any other city Italy

1:07:20

France Spain

1:07:22

I'm naming countries not cities when

1:07:24

I was thinking about it I was looking up

1:07:28

native Hawaiian businesses

1:07:32

mm-hmm what drove me crazy in Japan

1:07:34

I'm sorry I'm

1:07:36

like jumping back and forth I promise my

1:07:38

point will make some sense what drove

1:07:40

me absolutely crazy in Japan is in

1:07:44

Shibuya crossing well that's where

1:07:46

everyone like pulls out their phone because they're

1:07:48

like ah Shibuya crossing but next to Shibuya

1:07:50

crossing there is this huge building

1:07:53

and when you go up to the

1:07:55

second floor of that building there is

1:07:57

a Starbucks and that Starbucks

1:07:59

looks over Shibuya Crossing. And

1:08:02

then the next floor up is

1:08:04

an anime manga cafe. And

1:08:08

it also looks over Shibuya Crossing because

1:08:10

it's literally the next floor up. And

1:08:12

so floors three and four are that

1:08:15

of Shibuya, like

1:08:17

of that anime manga cafe. And

1:08:20

then the fifth floor is the Pokemon

1:08:22

Cafe, the TCG

1:08:24

Cafe, but it doesn't look

1:08:26

over Shibuya Crossing. There's no windows. I

1:08:29

don't know. So I went to

1:08:31

that building multiple times. And what drove

1:08:33

me absolutely crazy is when you

1:08:35

get to the second floor, because you have to take the escalator

1:08:37

up, that the

1:08:39

entire Starbucks was

1:08:41

packed and disgusting. Like

1:08:44

if you looked at the floor, there was trash everywhere, and

1:08:47

there was not a single Japanese

1:08:49

person in the Starbucks. It

1:08:52

was all tourists. And it

1:08:54

was crowded and it was packed and it

1:08:56

was dirty. And all of these people were

1:08:58

like, oh, Starbucks, Shibuya Crossing, which

1:09:01

is like, I don't know. If that's your thing is Starbucks,

1:09:04

I don't know, maybe find better coffee, I guess.

1:09:07

But when you get to the third floor, you could

1:09:09

also get coffee. They

1:09:11

had a whole coffee bar and it was

1:09:14

cheaper and it was quiet and

1:09:16

it was nice. And you could

1:09:18

spend, you could get your coffee and like

1:09:20

look at Shibuya Crossing, or you could literally

1:09:22

for a thousand more yen, which is like

1:09:25

$7, you could get

1:09:27

like a private, area

1:09:29

with a chair that

1:09:31

was quiet where you could drink your

1:09:33

coffee for an hour and you could

1:09:35

look over Shibuya Crossing. You just had

1:09:37

to go a floor up. That's

1:09:40

all you had, there was two floors you could

1:09:42

do. You just had to go one more floor. You

1:09:44

could have easily took your Starbucks up a floor too.

1:09:46

They wouldn't have cared, because they don't care that

1:09:48

much. But like, I don't

1:09:51

know what it is about like, anyways,

1:09:54

going back to Hawaii, I thought

1:09:56

to myself, if I said no, or

1:09:58

if other creators said no. There's probably somebody

1:10:00

else that would be there that would be

1:10:02

like, I'm in Hawaii, let me go get

1:10:04

Starbucks. Getting Starbucks in Hawaii is supporting no

1:10:06

one but Starbucks. It is not supporting the

1:10:09

local businesses there. It's not. So I was

1:10:11

like, after

1:10:13

like seeing the Starbucks fiasco in

1:10:15

Shibuya, I didn't

1:10:17

want to like pat myself on the back,

1:10:19

but I was like, that's not me. I'm

1:10:21

not that problem. Yeah.

1:10:24

I mean, you're, you're looking into

1:10:26

businesses and places to go that native Hawaiians run. And

1:10:29

that is one of the best things you can do

1:10:31

if you're going to be there for a job. One

1:10:35

of the biggest complaints about when

1:10:37

they say we rely on tourism

1:10:40

is a lot of

1:10:42

the tourism money goes to

1:10:44

corporations that aren't based in

1:10:46

Hawaii that don't actually go

1:10:48

to help Hawaii. So

1:10:51

why do the arguments some people can make against it

1:10:54

say, well, Hawaii doesn't

1:10:56

need tourism because a

1:10:58

lot of the tourism dollars that when people go

1:11:00

to Hawaii, don't go

1:11:02

to Hawaiians, they don't go to Hawaiian

1:11:05

businesses, they don't go to Hawaii in

1:11:07

anything. They go to huge corporations like

1:11:09

Starbucks or Hilton or wherever they're staying

1:11:11

for the dollar expense reports that don't

1:11:13

benefit Hawaiians. So

1:11:16

you can mitigate that by actively

1:11:18

choosing to look at native

1:11:21

local businesses. There are websites

1:11:23

and places that will say

1:11:25

how to do Hawaiian tourism

1:11:27

more ethically. But

1:11:29

like you'll hear a lot of people push

1:11:31

back that like Hawaii needs the tourism. Maybe

1:11:35

it's the reality is

1:11:37

most of it currently does not go

1:11:40

back into Hawaii. And that's, I think,

1:11:42

where a lot of the conflict comes

1:11:44

from. So if you do decide to

1:11:46

go like with any country,

1:11:48

it is best to try to figure

1:11:50

out how to support the population that

1:11:53

lives there and not

1:11:55

the corporations that are making money

1:11:57

there. Also, the

1:11:59

TCG line. and Shibuya is fantastic.

1:12:01

It's really cool. I

1:12:05

mean one of the other problems is like a lot of

1:12:07

people do Airbnb. It's just funding the

1:12:09

crisis of housing. There's not a lot

1:12:11

of, there's not a lot of island

1:12:14

in Hawaii. There's not a lot of housings.

1:12:16

So the more people that use

1:12:19

things like Airbnb that encourage corporations

1:12:21

to buy housing that should go

1:12:23

to people who live there, those

1:12:25

are all things to consider when you're going to

1:12:28

these places like what is

1:12:30

the reality like if

1:12:32

I find an Airbnb is

1:12:35

it like how did this how

1:12:37

did this house come to be? Why are

1:12:40

you doing this? It's like same

1:12:42

problem with New York like a

1:12:44

lot of places are cracking down on Airbnb

1:12:46

because of the housing crisis. So

1:12:48

just if you're gonna go to these things

1:12:50

again try to do it with the best

1:12:54

intentions for the people who actually live

1:12:57

there that might benefit from you coming

1:12:59

and spending money there. Yeah,

1:13:01

I also think tourism is like

1:13:03

up everywhere like I think like

1:13:05

Japan's overture has overtourism.

1:13:08

I think France does right now which is only

1:13:10

gonna get worse because the Olympics is happening this year.

1:13:13

Those poor people. I

1:13:16

think Spain has reported that they're

1:13:20

more tourism than expected. Which

1:13:24

like I'm not like the point of

1:13:27

the segment I guess isn't to like

1:13:29

make you feel bad for taking a

1:13:31

vacation. It's just like be respectful when

1:13:34

you go to a place and then you won't be part

1:13:36

of the problem, right? Try

1:13:38

to limit your negative impact when

1:13:41

going to these places. Yeah.

1:13:44

And I know like Pokemon did a really from

1:13:46

what I've from the couple things I've

1:13:48

been told of this like

1:13:50

Pokemon world thing is

1:13:53

that they are

1:13:55

picking Hawaiian owned businesses

1:13:58

or local businesses. And they did this

1:14:00

in Japan, so they already proved that they can do

1:14:03

this. Like in Japan, the things they took me to

1:14:05

were very like, they weren't like, all

1:14:07

right, well, for dinner, we're going to the Red Lobster.

1:14:12

Like every restaurant they took us to was like, oh,

1:14:14

this, this has been a, a

1:14:16

restaurant that is family owned

1:14:18

restaurant that has existed here for 40 some

1:14:21

years. And every

1:14:23

event we did was very like, not

1:14:26

corporate. Yeah, I don't know how to say that. Like not

1:14:28

corporate. Like

1:14:31

not, not an American company sitting there where

1:14:33

the money just goes right back to America.

1:14:35

Yeah. Yeah. Case

1:14:38

in point Starbucks. I

1:14:40

guess to wrap this segment up, I'll be in

1:14:42

Hawaii. I will be

1:14:44

live streaming what I can. I'll

1:14:46

be covering the event the best, the best I

1:14:48

can. I will show you all

1:14:51

the activities, the best I can. And

1:14:53

on the plus side of this, if there's any

1:14:56

takeaway, wherever Pokemon goes

1:14:58

next, whether that's a

1:15:00

different country or close to you, ideally,

1:15:03

it would be cool

1:15:05

if you could go. Because I think these, like, I

1:15:08

wish more people could have gone to Yokohama. I wish

1:15:10

people could have gone to London. I wish people could

1:15:12

go to Hawaii, but like timing,

1:15:15

cost, all of that

1:15:17

stuff is a factor. Hawaii is the hardest state in

1:15:19

the United States to get to. And

1:15:23

from, I don't know, maybe a company that

1:15:25

said that the Pokemon World Championships will be

1:15:27

in San Francisco in 2026. A

1:15:32

lot easier to get to than

1:15:34

Hawaii. And you've got a lot of

1:15:36

time to plan ahead for that. You do, you

1:15:38

do. Maybe if you thought

1:15:40

about going to California, maybe just push that

1:15:42

back a little bit. Maybe line that up.

1:15:48

Still don't know where they're doing for 2025. I

1:15:50

guess in like three months, we'll find out

1:15:52

what they're going to do for 2020. You'll find out soon. You

1:15:55

mean Minneapolis, Minnesota. No,

1:15:57

I don't. Yeah,

1:16:01

not related to Pokémon, but there's,

1:16:04

I feel like WrestleMania for

1:16:07

WWE has been speculated to be in

1:16:09

Minneapolis for the last like four years.

1:16:13

And next year I think was like, oh,

1:16:16

it's for sure going to be in Minneapolis. It's

1:16:19

not, I think they picked Vegas. But

1:16:21

I think Minneapolis is getting SummerSlam, which

1:16:25

is like second pick. You say

1:16:27

it enough times, you're bound to

1:16:29

be right. Yeah, you keep saying

1:16:31

that WrestleMania will be in Minneapolis. Minneapolis

1:16:34

could handle WrestleMania. Like you

1:16:36

have a fake stadium could

1:16:38

handle it. Oh, yeah. I

1:16:41

would still not go. I think the only any senator could

1:16:43

handle it as well. Like we have two giant stadiums. Just

1:16:47

don't get Target Center for that matter. Just for

1:16:50

the record, I would not go. I would still

1:16:52

watch it from my house. I

1:16:54

don't want to be around wrestling fans. So

1:16:59

one time it's close by. No,

1:17:01

I think WrestleMania just like Pokémon,

1:17:04

they have events which

1:17:06

you can go to, but I wouldn't buy

1:17:08

like a seat in the stadium. I would like go

1:17:10

to all like the events like the meet and greets,

1:17:13

the like whatever. And then I'm

1:17:15

like, time to go home to like actually watch it

1:17:17

from the comfort of my house. Not a hard plastic

1:17:20

seat that I paid $1,000 for. Not

1:17:23

interested in that. I

1:17:25

think spectator passes have not

1:17:27

fully gone up yet. By the time

1:17:29

this podcast goes up, spectator passes should

1:17:31

go up. So this was

1:17:33

a problem in Yokohama where

1:17:35

people booked flights and hotels

1:17:38

for Japan and

1:17:40

then didn't get a spectator pass.

1:17:43

And they were very strict about that.

1:17:47

I don't think this is going to be as much of a

1:17:49

problem since Hawaii

1:17:51

is harder to get to than

1:17:54

Japan plus Japan. Really

1:17:57

I don't know if you guys know this Japan. really

1:18:00

likes Pokemon a lot

1:18:03

and it's very easy to get around

1:18:06

that country. So understandable why Yokohama

1:18:09

had its limit

1:18:12

of people and they were very

1:18:14

strict about not

1:18:16

going over that. Spectator

1:18:18

passes for this one for

1:18:20

this year's are still a little bit

1:18:23

complicated though. They're not expensive necessarily.

1:18:25

The single day is still only

1:18:27

$15 kind of like the regionals.

1:18:31

Multi-day pass is $40

1:18:34

but you do have to beforehand add your

1:18:36

name to a list for a

1:18:40

lottery to be able to get

1:18:42

the opportunity to buy a spectator pass.

1:18:45

So I think that's on the Pokemon World's website. So

1:18:50

a little bit of complexity there. Something

1:18:53

you want to be aware of. Yeah

1:18:56

and if you don't get a spectator pass,

1:18:58

I don't. You're

1:19:00

locked out of a lot. You're locked out

1:19:02

of almost everything besides like the Pokemon

1:19:05

ghost spawns. Besides

1:19:07

the Pokemon ghost spawns and it sounds like some

1:19:09

of the photo opportunities too but you won't be

1:19:11

able to go in and actually spectate

1:19:13

for sure. Yeah and

1:19:16

I think for both Yokohama and London. No

1:19:19

for London you had to go

1:19:22

inside the XL center. So

1:19:24

you did not need a spectator pass to

1:19:27

go inside the XL center. So you

1:19:29

could walk to right outside

1:19:31

where they were checking for spectator

1:19:33

passes and you could redeem your

1:19:35

synastee there. So

1:19:38

you didn't need a spectator pass to get. Not

1:19:40

that I'm saying you should fly to Hawaii to get

1:19:42

a digital Pokemon. Don't do that. I'm just saying that

1:19:45

like if you were in London and you didn't have

1:19:47

a pass you could still get like the synastee and

1:19:49

you could still see a lot of stuff in the

1:19:51

XL center. In Yokohama there

1:19:54

was still a lot of stuff to do because they pretty

1:19:57

much tore down that whole

1:19:59

city with Pikachu merch. like Pikachu is everywhere

1:20:01

in that city so no matter where

1:20:03

you went you saw Pikachu. But

1:20:05

in Yokohama they were handing out codes,

1:20:08

like code cards with, I

1:20:11

don't even remember what the distribution was for Yokohama.

1:20:15

I'm blanking on what it was. Gosh,

1:20:19

did I even redeem it? I think I did. But

1:20:25

they were handing out code cards to people so again you

1:20:27

didn't have to have spectator tickets, they were handing them out

1:20:29

in the mall, they were handing them outside the venue, they

1:20:31

were... So

1:20:34

I remember getting a bunch of spectator

1:20:36

ticket or distributions for

1:20:38

like the Slack and the Discord and just giving them away

1:20:40

to people. But

1:20:43

ideally there should be a Pokemon for

1:20:46

everyone, a worldwide distribution, and then there

1:20:48

would be the I was at the event

1:20:50

distribution. So

1:20:53

that's exciting I guess. But anyways,

1:20:56

I think that's our episode. Small

1:20:59

note, I'm just noticing that you

1:21:01

had to have added your name to the

1:21:03

list for spectator passes by two

1:21:05

days before this were recorded, before

1:21:08

this is being recorded, so very much

1:21:10

in the past by the time

1:21:12

this goes up. But they haven't picked the lottery people

1:21:15

yet. Correct, I think. Yeah, because

1:21:18

I haven't seen anyone saying they got

1:21:20

passes yet. I didn't even sign

1:21:22

up to try so I have no idea. I'll

1:21:26

sneak you in Hannah, I got an inside connection. Also

1:21:32

on the airplane to get out there. That'll

1:21:34

be a little bit harder. I'm

1:21:38

travel sized, I can fit in a suitcase. Perfect.

1:21:41

I'll have them redirect my flight to the

1:21:44

west coast first. Alright

1:21:47

well that's our episode, we will be

1:21:50

back next week. There

1:21:52

will be no immediate episode after

1:21:54

Madrid. I don't

1:21:56

expect Madrid to be that much

1:21:58

different than... Sendai,

1:22:02

I'm trying to think of like a city of

1:22:04

drama. But

1:22:06

when eventually when I get back, I'll give

1:22:09

my thoughts and then our last go

1:22:11

fest will be New York, which,

1:22:13

oh boy. It's

1:22:16

going to be fun.

1:22:18

Yeah, New York is definitely a

1:22:20

city. It's

1:22:24

a very big one. Sure, sure

1:22:26

it is. All

1:22:28

right, thank you Hannah, thank you Greg. We'll see you

1:22:31

guys next week. This has been another episode of the

1:22:33

Pokemon Podcast and we are super

1:22:35

effective. Super really

1:22:37

want to try that Gyarados Whirling Smoothie.

1:22:39

It looks really good. It's

1:22:43

bright blue. Yeah, I've

1:22:45

always worried about blue. No,

1:22:48

the best flavor. Blue

1:22:52

raspberries aren't blue. They

1:22:55

just take wild, wild

1:22:59

takes on what blue should taste like.

1:23:01

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1:23:03

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