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What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, aka New York Game Wars nominated, AKA best jack in the business. Blessing Eddie O. Yee, June, yeah. Good day, Greg. Good day. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you?

I'm great. Are you excited that you didn't wake up at 6 a.m. for this Pokemon direct? Oh, I'm so excited. Okay. Especially because I wanted to sleep in today. I got the first day of soccer happening today. Yeah, new season. Kind of scared to be back at soccer.

It's been since, I think, last November, since we played soccer. We've been doing volleyball. That's not when Leonza got hurt, though, right? She got hurt in a long before. Yeah, that was like, what, a year prior or something like that. Okay, okay, okay. So we're back. Of course, he's the master of hype.

Snowback. Mike, are you joining blessing this soccer season? No, I am not, but sorry to Leenza. Ever since Leenza went down, coach, Mike hasn't been the same. I lost a good one, and I have to wear that on my chest. I sent him the link to sign up. Unfortunately. Why did you sign up, Mike?

You know, I watched one of our players go down in a horrific way, and I've just never recovered. And of course, he's playing Pokemon Friends just like me. It's the Hispanic heartthroat Texas treat. Latino hit. Click and has a ribbon shreds. I got it. Like, it's all there.

It's just like a step behind. You know, 340, nitro rifle, Twitch.tvies, Andy Quetaz. So, Mike, it looks like there are multiple puzzles a day to do. You don't just have one. That's great. Yeah, yeah. Whenever you succeed, you get. yarn and then you take the yarn to the little plushy maker.

You make the plushy of your choice and then you put it and decorate it in your room. Beautiful. This is Think Town, a cozy corner of the world that's famous for making Pokemon plush. The kids yearn for puzzles. Does your brain feel untangled? Um, yeah, I would say so. I've dreamed about making plush here since I was little. And I arrived today, ready to make that dream come true.

I'm connecting the track so that Sablea could get to the goal. Okay, okay, fair enough. If you didn't know everybody, this is the Kind of Funny Gamescast each and every week, day, four, sometimes five, best friends together on this table. Coming to talk about the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews, or conversations we need to have, or reactions to Pokemon presentations that we just watched. If you like that, of course, we'd love you to support us. Pick up a Kind of Funny membership on Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny games. Apple or Spotify, get all of our shows ad-free. get you deliatives of me, Greg Miller in a series I call Gregway.

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Cosmic Invasion panel Thursday. 445 p.m. Tim is hosting it. That's right. Tim Gettys hosting that. If you're kind of funny, member, today's Gregway is 15 minutes about what the ROG Xbox Ally X means for Steam Deck. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, so Megabuster and Delaney the Psalm twining. Today we're brought to you by mood and factor, but we'll tell you about that later for now. Let's begin the show with what is and forever will be. Topic of the show. Tots, tots, tots, dots, dots, dots, dots. Of course, we just watched

on a delay. The Pokemon presents live reaction. Now it's time for all. review. Andy, what did you think of Pokemon Presents? I mean, among one of the worst ones, I would say. We got the theme park announcement, which was awesome. And then I kind of forgot everything that happened after that. It was on par with a lot of other of these Pokemon Presents where they're going to show you a bunch of stuff that I would never in a million years care about. And stuff that I may try out for one day, like this little Pokemon.

on yarn game. Friends, Pokemon friends. Yeah. But overall, I mean, if I was to put a score on it, I'd give like a five or something, I don't know. Okay. I just, you know, what they showed more of ZA was stuff that I was hoping to get in the game, but I don't know if I necessarily

needed to see it. No Gen 10 announcement, no, you know, like, I don't know, just overall, eh. Also, this is the seemingly the extent of the theme park, which I don't even know if we can really call a theme park. Well, it's part of a bigger with theme park, right? That is correct, yeah, of course.

My notes say that we're talking about what do you mean? Yomi Murray land, yo Murray land amusement park in Japan. Yeah, this is a section of it. Will it be a lot of like

ceramic, like beautiful dolls out in the middle of the force that you just kind of point at? Well, they have animatronics. Like when you go to Jurassic Worldland, it's like,

here's blue and fucking blue is flying out of that. I do believe, uh, bear, I'm toss into assets for the animatronics. Yeah. I don't even know.

I don't even know. I don't even know. I don't even know. Well, there are a show, you the miniatures of like, this is kind of like, this is just all Let me read.

Let me read from the, well, actually, so I guess we're all, we're just going, who cares. Let me, this is the thing I just went up on Pokemon.com. Barrett, I sent it in assets. If you scroll down,

there's a quad of four photos that are just ceramic Pokemon. Now is that what they are? Who knows? The Pokemon company is proud to announce the grand opening date for Pokemon, Poca Park canto, coming in early 2026,

stretching over 26,000 square, meters in a corner of Yomi Yuri land located in Tokyo's verdant Tama Hills. The grand opening will be set for early 26, advanced tickets. Sales are expected in late 2025. Poca Park Kanto is a trainer's area, a Pokemon packed park where trainers can make unforgettable discoveries on their journey through the forest and town home of over 600 Pokemon. The Pokemon Forest is a spacious wilderness spanning nearly 500 meters in length.

It features various terrains, including hilly paths, tall grass, tunnels, rock trails, and more. Observe a wide variety of Pokemon from Kanto and other regions as they run, battle, and share berries. Here you will find a Pokemon that tower high overhead and others that hide underground or behind greenery. What exactly are those Pokemon doing? Keep your eyes peeled and find your favorite Pokemon. So it's a, this is for all my Midwest people. It's a prehistoric forest, but for Pokemon. Yeah, it's like a nice nature walk.

Sedgown. Sedge Town is a place where Pokemon and trainers from around the world meet and forge new friendships. In Sedghtown, you will find the Pokemon trainers market full of goods as well as the Pokemon Center, Pokemon, Cedge Gym, a Pokemon parade, and two other attractions, connects with Pokemon trainers and Pokemon alike at Sedgown. Iconic pre-marina fountain for an unforgettable experience. This could have been so much cooler. Yeah, a thousand percent. This could have been a almost like a really...

real-life Pokemon snap where the sensor on your phone you're waving in front of that one thing and it throws like a fake ball that you don't see and it hits the ground and the diglets come out of the ground or something like that and then maybe the Charzart comes out of the trees

or some shit like that but if it's just statues, great for photolops. I'm sure there's probably going to be something that is happening I hope so. Yeah, I hope so. A Pokemon Parade you assume it's people in suits. Yeah. Hopefully this is just the start of of bigger theme park additions.

Again, you would hope with what people have seen in general for theme parks, but looking at, you know, the Super Nintendo world or whatever, right? And how many people have loved that that Pokemon realizes they have something there and how this would evolve and go, who knows. But you're talking about the, you know,

scanning and things happening reminds me so much of the Galactic Cruiser stuff, right? From Star Wars, where you were looking at that and how that was the whole thing and it didn't work right and blah. We all watched the video that woman did the industry. I'm even thinking, no, I'm thinking of Nintendo where like you can punch the block and then the little

thing like that happened and the gumbas come out whatever like I think there's ways to make this interactive without it being like this ridiculous experience I do have good news great news actually Pokemon Friends the bundle combo bundle is 3399 Wow about what what is it going to buy more puzzles

You get the basic pack The puzzle on pack one and puzzle on pack two Wow They let you play puzzles as often as you like It adds new puzzles, new plushes, new features, and new color yarn. Because whenever you, if you make the spark yarn, then you make Pikachu. But I got some fiery looking yarn, got a Charmander made, and then a Charrazzard got made as a bonus. Wow.

Cameron Kennedy in the chat also says, the game just caught up to 2006. Give the theme park a bit to catch up to 1960s animatronic. Sure, sure, sure. Mike? Yeah, Greg, I acknowledge that I am not the Pokemon audience as I once was. a young child and I've definitely not connected with Pokemon like I used to. I still appreciate the trading card game. I really enjoy some of the odd offshoots that they do like Pokemon Unite.

I continue to be baffled by some of the things that they do and announce like Pokemon sleep. And I say what in the heck is that? But you know, there's a market for it. As Andy has pointed out, someone will definitely pay $33 for a Pokemon puzzle pack. Shout out. We get two new Pokemon shows. Those look fun and cute.

I don't have any children to watch them with and I probably won't watch them. So, you know, one day... I'm looking forward to it. Like I said, we had watched some of... He's more in... Ben is more into Pokemon the normal show, the classic one, because I think Jen's so into it.

But we did watch a little bit of this. What is it a Pokemon resort? Is that the name of it again? Pokemon... Concierge. Concierge. Thank you so much. Yeah, the misadventures of Surfech and Pichu was the other one they announced here and talked about.

And that's the Wallace and Gremitt and Sean the Sheep team and all that stuff. Premiering in 20207, this stop motion animated series is a collaboration with Ardman, delivering heartfelt comedy and craft-driven storytelling. Interesting cute. Yeah. Sorry back to you, Mikey. Yeah, of course.

I mean, these are great, right? If I was a kid having these shows would be fantastic. One day, you know, I'll watch it with my children. It would be fantastic. Pokemon World Championship coming to Anaheim August 15th through the 17th. That's lit, right? If you were super into Pokemon, that would be a fun one. Me and Blessing went to Magic, the Gathering.

that was awesome, right, to go to the big MagicCon. So the idea of this coming to the States, being down in L.A., I hope you can go. Pokemon Unite, the card game, the game itself. Like, these are all exciting stuff. If you ever get the opportunity to go to those, it is actually really fun and in person. So, yeah, I'm sure that will be absolutely lit. That would be cool if I went, you never know.

Pokey, let's see, Pokemon Friends, Pokemon Unite. All in all, Greg, none of this spoke to me. I was not more excited for Zah. I guess I continue to have more questions every time I watch Zah of like Will I ever be entertained by this? Will I be interested? And it keeps coming up with no.

So I'm going to give it a solid five out of ten. Okay, another five out of ten there. Blessing Eddie Oye Jr. Step up. You're a fellow Monmaster like myself. Yeah, I'll probably give this like a 2.5 out of it. Damn! I mean, what here was interesting.

Like what here spoke to us really, right? Like, even if you're talking about the things that I'd care, like I would care about. Like, they somehow made me less excited for Zonaut. and less excited for Pokemon champions. And those are the two things I was more excited to see, right? Once we got to champions and you're showing me like the leveling up mechanic thing that like, the UI for it looks so fucking boring.

And I'm looking at that like, man, I just wanted to rent and battle Pokemon like I do in stadium. Like this isn't really giving me, you're giving me that, but you're giving me a layer beyond that where I'm like, ooh, I don't know if I want to spend time doing that shit, right? If I wanted to level up Pokemon, I'd play a mainline Pokemon game. Like I played Scarlet and I played Viola or I played ZA. and then you get to ZA and I feel like they're like I know it's Pokemon right the game's gonna come out is gonna do great is gonna sell is gonna do all that shit right but like this is one of those ones where I was like maybe Greg can review it maybe I won't fight maybe I won't be the one fighting to review this game because like I just don't know if they know what people look for in a Pokemon game because like why am I meeting all these characters that I do not give a fuck about like you're not even gonna bother like you're gonna click through their dialogue and move on yeah like oh and this guy's a DJ and this guy's of this thing and I'm like future future. fashion person. And I'm like, I don't care. Like, this is the weakest part of your game is when you're showing me these characters that feel like they're made in fucking the Nintendo Me Maker, right? Like with no voice acting. With no voice acting. Um, yeah, this was one of those ones that could have been an email for me. I, nothing here really spoke to me. I think the, um, Misadventures of Surfetch and Pichu has a cool art style. And like, poke park kanto sounds cool, but I'm never going to go. So like, yeah. You say that you never know, no. Yeah. You thought you'd never be hanging out with Kajima, you know what I mean? That's true. So I want to turn this question. So I want to turn this question.

to the panel then and have this conversation. As you know, I'm joking around a lot. I'm not joking. Like, I'm enjoying Pokemon more than ever. It's through the eyes of Ben. I'm doing that. I am, you know, violent and this and the show that. And like, I'm super excited for Zah just because I haven't played a ton of Pokemon games like so many of you. To come back and go that way, Bless, what I've always found interesting when

usually Tim's in this seat and you all react to a Pokemon present and then, okay, it wasn't that great. It wasn't this blah, blah, blah. Right, what you just said, Bless, you're not even sure if they know people come to a Pokemon game for. Is there, and I don't mean this is sounded like an attack on anybody here or outside of here, is there a bit of like shared delusion

that Pokemon is for you and adults? Is it not just something geared for children? Like, even the changes and the joke from Cameron Kennedy in the chat, right, of like the games just caught up to 2006. Like, no one's coming to Pokemon the game, I feel expecting it to be rivaling

Expedition 33. Am I wrong? I mean, yeah, nobody thinks them, right? But like, are kids watching this? Like, I don't, I guess if that's the case, right, then like, why are we doing this? Yeah, then why are we doing this, right? Why are we sitting here reacting to it? I'm reacting to it for what blessed ones out of this. Totally fair. I'm not at all trying to take, I want to make, you know that. I'm not trying to take you down. An audience, if you're new around here, I'm not trying to take you down.

I'm just, I think it's an interesting thing of like, for me playing violent right now and it being such a basic ass game. Like, I knew it was a basic appearance looking at Zah. Like, I'm just stoked that I can change my. my outfit to something other than school uniforms, right? Like, I'm not expecting anything crazy out of it other than going and grinding out my Pokemon. I think the thing that I'm most excited about is that we know that the legend series is the middle ground.

It's the iPhone 9-S line. You know what I mean? Like it's the middle thing to kind of hold you off until the next big mainline thing. And when Zah comes out, when we see the first reveals of it, my first concerns were, oh, is it all in the city? which is totally fine for the Legend series because it's them doing something very, it's them trying to be different with what they're offering you.

And if anything, it's like, well, at least this game is going to run better and look sharper. And I'll have that to look forward to. But the next one is like, get me out into the wild. Like, give me my traditional Pokemon, like, experience where if you just gave me, honestly, see, if you gave me another scarlet violet experience, if you like, you know, men in black

zap my brain and gave me a scarlet and a violent experience that looked better and, you know, ran better, then I would go oh shit, this is exactly what I want. Give me towns with wild areas, with like environments and forests and then maybe snowy regions and all this sort of stuff. When I look at Zah, the big disappointing

thing for me is the thing that they are, is the reason why Zah, a game like Zah exists because they are trying to make this one. This iteration is different. Just like, Like Legendarcius or Archaeus was this time travel sort of experiment story or whatever. So I'm still excited for it. I'm still going to play it.

I'm pumped to have this, you know, newer Pokemon-like experience. But it's not exactly what I want. And I got to assume that's because the next one will be that thing, where it's a new region with all sorts of locales, not just you battling Pokemon in alleyways and streets. And they have wild zone parks where you're around grass and areas like that, but it's not what I, that's not what I imagine while I'm looking for Pokemon,

you know, like there's, there's such a, there's such a magic to, somebody like me who's such a stickler for visuals and performance and to play a game like Violet and to go, God damn, this thing just looks like absolute shit to watch, like it's awful to look at. And there's a magic when you're out there and go,

oh my God, there's a so-and-so out there. Holy shit. There's a goddamn, oh my, there's a Leafion out there. Oh my God. like that excitement is so hard to reproduce and they have that magic so that's why i'm mainly waiting for the next one yeah what excites me about this one like yeah what excites me about it zah yeah again i think it's the idea that even with violet uh i enjoyed it and i played it and if you remember at launch i played a little bit of it fell off immediately ben started watching the

cartoon it gave me context for the world in a way i had not had as somebody who'd never watched the anime made before. Picked it back up and was playing it as my couch game. Jen's doing this, blah, blah, blah. I'm just grinding. I'm doing the thing, blah, blah, blah.

And now that I'm at the end of it, I feel like it's that idea of like there's still a DLC and obviously you could, do you want to go collect more or this, that the other. It's running better on Switch. There's excitement to it on that level. But it's more the, well,

why don't I just wait for this? Wait, you know what I mean? Because again, what I want out of the experience of playing, uh, violet right now is, as goofy as it sounds,

making my character look more custom. I don't like the options, so I don't like being the school uniform. So I think that's a huge stumbling, not a huge stumbling, but it's one of my hangups in a game that is so simple. That is so basic compared to so many other games, right? I just want that customization for it to then go through and then make them look goofy and do whatever in battle. But it's like, it's similar to like how you guys all know the names of all the Pokemon as we sit here and go through it. Right. And I'm like, oh, the fun I'm finding is naming the one that looks like a giraffe, a giraffe.

And it's like me and Ben sitting, Ben named him giraffe, right? because he looks like a giraffe like Ben's sitting there naming my party. So it's like that shared experience of having the kid eyes for it. And so to see this one and have it be, I think a cooler city than what I'm doing right now, a cooler environment, cooler characters or whatever is like, oh,

I should just stop playing Violet all together and wait for this, if that makes sense. Gotcha. Yeah. But again, I think what works in my favor and works against y'all is like before this, this is I screw this up right. I played Let's Go Pikachu or Evie.

I think I had Evie, right? and then I tinkered with Soul Silver. Like, that's it for me with Pokemon. It's not like I have this. You know, it doesn't wear as thin as quickly as I think as it does for some of y'all where you're like, oh, it's just the same thing. Or it's just above, like, I don't know the, like, I was joking around about like,

I'm battling the final four or whatever. And then they opened the door for the final finals. Like, I didn't see that coming. Like, I know you all know that or whatever. It's like, oh, Tim was laughing at me because I didn't know that. But I think that's what's fun about it for me is really. reviewing games for 18 years, but coming to something that I don't have nostalgia for, but now I'm kind of living a moment of nostalgia for as my child likes Pokemon and he gets

stoked to see a Bulbosaur at Target or whatever. Like, I love that idea and I love that vibe. And again, as someone who loves being a fan of things, I love the fact that there is this Pokemon community. I think presentation, you know, if we're scoring him on the kind of funny scales, we run through and do all of this different stuff as we had. We have a five. We have a five and a 2.5, right? I'm probably right there, too. Yeah, that it's like a 5.5, I would think, maybe probably a flat 5. I don't know, but it's also like, I would never expect the Pokemon commercial to appeal to me in a giant way either, whereas coming in and it's like, hey, Pokemon fans, we've gathered you here and we run you, I want to run through everything they

announced probably after an ad break, but it's like, here's world championships and here's this theme park and here's stuff for going, here's stuff for masters and here's stuff for cafe, here's stuff for sleep. It's like, even though 98% I downloaded the puzzle game, will I ever actually click on Untangle and do the... None of that matters to me, but I love the fact that that exists for people who are super into Pokemon and have the tattoos and fucking chastity with a giant side duck collection.

You know what I mean? It's like, that's all cool. I think there's something to say about a franchise... Like, me thinking back to us just watching the Superman movies. Us watching all of the old Christopher Reeve Superman movies and Nick and Greg being much higher on them because they watched them as kids

and me saying, I don't have this, of nostalgia. These movies don't work for me now as an adult watching them. I know that there's a lot of movies from my childhood that if you watch them with a critical eye now, you'd probably not love them. But for me, it's like, it meant so much to me at that time. I think it says a lot for a franchise like Pokemon to work for someone like you, Greg, who does not have that lens of nostalgia. I think that's super fucking awesome. And I think you do deserve the reviews on. I like that. Thank you. Like I said, maybe I go to the world championships.

I approve my credit. I'll go there. I'll compete for Mike. How to compete. Mike, we're going to need a stream where you teach me how to compete. Okay. Because I mean, I play the games. I've never done the trade cards.

We'll pick a lane on what you want to compete. I'll give you all the events that they do. We might need an end because apparently chat, someone in chat earlier is saying that that's already sold out. That's Craig Miller. Yeah, that's funny. The chat says that. They don't know who I am. That's Greg Miller.

If Greg Miller wants to go to the Pokemon World Championship, he's going to the Pokemon World Championship. He interrupts Pokemon Go Day. I'll throw a name. knock against him. I'll throw a parade. Oh, don't worry. I'm a I got a scheme. I got a skim. But before we dive into a blow by blow, what happened at this Pokemon presentation and talk about it? Why don't we tell you about Kind of Funnies membership? Go to patreon.com slash kind of funny,

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Blessing tries not to laugh. Bear bursts out in the other room. It was because I saw Blessing's face try not to react. Can you imagine if it was Chris Brown? Chris Brown that opened it. You know what I mean? He was like, run it, run it. That's the song.

Okay, all right. We, of course, started talking about the world championships happening in August in Anaheim. New artwork was shared for the Paradise Resort promo card, which will be given to competitors at the 2025 Pokemon World Championships taking place August 15th through the 17th in Anaheim, California. Of course, more information can be found on the championship website. Mikey, you pop for this a little bit.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the big celebration. I think the Pokemon World Championships are cool. someone who tunes in like myself on Twitch to watch some of it throughout the weekend. It's always exciting to see. I have a big fascination and love for Pokemon Unites. I will be watching that tournament as that goes. I am still blown away that we are having millions of people play the card game at a competitive level, people playing the normal Pokemon, whatever year it is at a competitive level.

It is a fascinating world that you can go to besides just the celebration itself, right? people are coming in from around the globe to celebrate the world of Pokemon through art, through good times, little activities that you can have fun with. So, yeah, this is a fun event. This would be cool to attend and go to as someone who loves Pokemon and enjoys the world. I would be all over it to go watch the people play card games and ask them questions, right? Of like, how do you keep up with the meta? Who do you follow that is the meta maker?

Do you have decks that are for you? How do you have so many cards? It's just a fascinating world. you're deep into that. And so yeah, I think it's always fun when you talk about these celebrations what could be going down there. This is back to it where we watch all this footage and all this stuff, just fans being fans

and able to come together and do this. It's so fucking cool. I miss PSX. I, you know what I mean? Like, what a time that was to go there and rally around one brand, one whatever. I know that sucks. But like, it's the same thing of like as an outsider looking in when I go to Disney. We're like, cool. Ben loves cars. This is nice. But like,

of the people who are like, this is their mecca or whatever. It's neat to see people like that. It would be so much cool to me though if these trainers were like awkwardly green screened or augmented reality into a Pokemon stadium like world you know and like they're there with their Pokemon and they're up there and then

like the virtual cards pop up in the way that they would in the car game yeah I would love that presentation that would be so sad we're going to start talking about what I should competing because I saw the video games up there can I take my violet guys and compete oh depending on what game they're doing but yeah that there's like three subsects that I usually say it's

unite the video game and the cards. Oh, you gotta get home. I gotta get home. You gotta get Pokemon home. Take a movie Pokemon. It seems like a stream we gotta do where we prep me to go to the world chain. We need Tim.

We need Tim. No, that's got no Tim. That's the one rule. Up next as we saw, start there was Pokemon Concierge. Of course, this is the Netflix show.

You're getting new episodes on September 4th. I think, have you all watched this? No. I definitely have. So I remember enjoying it and I will, but it wasn't, it's way too much.

Because, yeah, I remember this where, the woman here is like just trying to help these Pokemon like reconnect and do whatever and be happy or whatever but it's helping her reconnect and be happy as well Ben was not about that life Ben wants to see Team Rocket Ben wants to see them fight you know what I mean so like that's why we went back to Ash Casham's story

and when we were doing that whatever but beautifully animated obviously which of course led into what we already talked about the Miss Pokemon Tales the Misadventures of Surfetched and Pichu premiering 2027 again this is from I said Ardman. And then someone in the chat wrote it out and said, how can Greg butcher Ardman? So I have no fucking idea how you're supposed to say this word. But double A-R-D-M-A-N is the studio, the Wallace and Gromit people.

I don't know. She can run. I don't know how else that could be pronounced. You know, you know, Ardman. Ardman. I don't know. Again, it looks cool. Nice announcement. 2027 is a long way away, though. But good things take time. Barrett, I'm sending you an asset something. Is it how to pronounce Ardman? No. Oh, you're sending me something very important. Ardman sounds like he's going to pop up in Death Stranding and be a problem.

Do I Ardman? That's good. That's good, bless. I just want this back. I love that concierge and these little small offshoots exist. This thing debuted on Netflix in 2020 during the pandemic. And like, I just want. sort of a, you know, let's go back to,

it doesn't need to be Ash, it doesn't need to be any, it could just give me another Pokemon adventure where these Pokemon, where it's like another 3D version of the cartoon, or another 2D version of the cartoon, these animated properties are like, they're great, but what got us so jacked up about Pokemon's kids was seeing the character go through this, like,

journey of being a trainer and like all the stuff. And like, and I know that they still have, that like 2D version or whatever and I know that like Ash won finally what was it like five years ago or something like that boy my bad shit people are still catching them but like I when that 3D thing came I was like oh my god this is awesome this is the first story that we remember just kind of redone in 3D and that's so cool and they just like did away with it and never went back to it was like huh it was like that loop in the third movie remember that yeah it was so beautiful um also I thought you we were going to pull this up. We got to share this

on Blue Sky. The Pokemon DJ, the Pikachu DJ was the countdown to the presents. So that's, yeah, that's what he was doing. Oh, anything you didn't like it. Number four was again, Poca Park canto coming early

2026. It's really cute. There will be a day. Okay. When they go down and it's like Universal Mario Land and it's going to blow the doors off of everyone. This one is sadly not that. But it'll be cool the idea of like,

you could go and have a fun Pokemon experience for the day. But this is not what I imagine. When I was a kid going, man, imagine a Pokemon world. Imagine the theme park that they could build. This sadly did not capture that magic that I was looking. It sucks as so far away.

This seems like a lovely, have a coffee walk through to see all these little guys. See, this should be a traveling show. Golden Gate Park at the, you know, the botanical garden. Boom, you're in. Dude, that would be really awesome. Like that's literally what this should be.

Pack these little ceramics up and send them around the globe. It's a Pichu. Oh, there's a Pikachu. Oh, that guy's, he's doing a heroin shot. Don't look at him. He's shitting on the sidewalk. He's jerking all. It's a Pokemon that's coming out of his blake.

Yeah, so the way that this, like, theme park is broken up is like you were mentioning, Greg. There's like those two sections where it's that forest, which is like the prehistoric forest that Barrett was mentioning. But then that the Sedgetown part is the one that, I mean, It could just be bullshit wording and marketing, but like them saying, you'll see Pokemon playing together. So is it just statues like standing it? Because I don't consider that playing together. I think my prediction.

We're throwing of this. I was going to be this. I want to go to this. So if you're an audio listener, we're showing prehistoric forest in Santa Barbara Museum, whatever. Ankleosaurus? I think what you're going to have is a lot of ceramic, whatever the texture is, but statues of Pokemon in different areas.

If you can go back to the actual footage and drag it to where they showed the Pokemon in that one section of the map they drew Barrett, where it was like Bell Sprout and whatever, but it was like a path winding through. I think in these kind of sections, they're just standing there. You walk by and look at them.

I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't an animatronic, whatever, moving around. I don't think it's going to be like fully whatever, but them like, I don't go to enough theme parks to have a good example, but like on skates, but you know what I mean? Moving around, they go behind the tree and they come back out. But their mouths don't move.

what I'm predicting. Well, that's the next level is the Pokemon snap ride, right? We all get in the Savari bus and it's on the rails and we drive through and then Snorlax pops up after being awake and then Charzard blows a little bit of fire. Like that's the ride you want from the Pokemon world. And it just seems like this is like a quarter step to that. We're not even a half step. You were talking about Sedgetown, right?

And they talk about where Pokemon and trainers from around the world meet and forge new friendships, right? There's the market full of goods. The Pokemon Center, the Pokemon, Sedge Gym, a Pokemon. Pokemon Parade. Again, outsider looking in on this, do you at all pop to walking, if you go back to when it was just the red building and the blue building, right, to walk into the Pokemon Center, to walk into the Pokemon Mart. Like, somebody who's played the games, again, casually, because Violet smart suck. It's just these fucking three people standing out in the middle of nowhere.

I hate it. But like, the other ones where I've walked into a building and the nurse takes care of my Pokemon or whatever, it's like, oh, that's neat. And to visualize walking into that, I think would be cool. Granted, it's all like walking into Moves Tavern at fucking Universal, where they just want to get you to pay for stuff. Oh, sure. But like, I'm such a nerd for that shit anyway. Yeah. Like, I, I'm, I'm the type that when you on paper tell me what's inside of Super Mario World at Universal. I go, oh, that sounds super bare bones. Yeah. And then when you're there, when you walk into Peach's Cafe in that restaurant, you're like, oh my God, this is so fucking cool. Like, I can't imagine how even more magical this would be as a kid to be here or whatever.

Yeah. So, like, yeah, of course. When you walk into the. that, you know, where is it, is it in Tokyo where the, like, the MUTU in the, in the Pokemon store is kind of like in that tube or whatever. Even going to the Pokemon store in that mall in Osaka was, that being like the most bare bones version of it all was still like, holy shit, all the legendary birds, like, it's awesome. It's really damn cool. And of course, it's a way to sell you merch.

Of course. But, you know, I love even walking into the Nintendo store and seeing the statues. Yeah, it just makes you happy. I tweak at the idea of this, right? because there's so much possibilities here. You'll have Nurse Joy behind the counter. It would be so much fun to have Bill's PC, a bunch of them,

and the kids can type in their six favorite Pokemon. You walk up with your wristband and Nurse Joy, six Pokemon pop up the little balls up on the thing, and they hover and they revive or whatever. It would be so much fun. You could have some guy in a trench coach with a gangar sitting in the corner, but like half of it will be merch

where you have so much cool opportunity here, right? Police officer Jenny will be there. My mind goes to the, gym. We live in 2025. We are doing some crazy shit. You're telling me, we can't get a giant square with a bunch of AR lasers and have Pokemon battling inside the gym as a show. Like, I just went to Epic Universe. I saw the things they did at some of those places in the rides. They could easily blow this out of the water if they wanted to and make something epic there. And it's like, it's crazy that we watch that. And it's like, oh, this is a nature walk. We're not even building

the ride for this. We're not doing anything. So when they do this here in the States are at one of these larger theme parks, they'll blow out all the ideas that I'm sure I want in the audience. Well, chill out, Mike. They have the Pikachu merry-go-round as the ride. See, and that shit's cute.

That shit's cute. There you go. Oh, yeah. Very basic. Well, look, no, you got the merry-go-round down in the center. You have two merry-go-rots. No, that's going to be that thing. No, that's going to be the thing where you get it and they fly off. Oh, the dumbbell-on-o. No ferris wheel. That's crazy. No, Ferris wheel, no tower.

Look, you got the big trainer fight pad in the back there. That's cool. Dude, that gym should be super awesome. You theme the gym to whatever, you know, type it is, you walk in, you have the big animatronic gym leader talking to you. He's got the homies. Not even a gym leader. Like,

it's, you would get like Disney stars, you know, like the people that walk around and like just something costume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's time to take you on and like, you got the, and then fucking throw it on. Like, but the thing that I would want the most is, you know, you mentioning this Pokemon snap ride, I would just want a, I love the idea of this park, but you wave your phone other thing because you have the

collectible things and a third animation plays in this animatronic where it does like a different thing and it pops out of the bush and maybe it like reaches for something. Like I would just love to see that level of interactivity as if when you're at a zoo and little kids are knocking on the glass and like, you know, riling up, monkeys and stuff. Like I would I would love to see that level of interactivity as if these things are real in this space as opposed to just stationary statues, which would still look awesome in photo ops, but the movement would add so much more. Like even old-ass tech of the way the cars land cars look with like the screen tech on their mouth moving, you know, and their eyes or whatever,

like that's tech from what feels like a decade ago now. They could. take this so far and make this really awesome. And they will. They'll get there eventually. We have to look at the positive of like, this is step one. They will get there and the hopes and dreams will happen for a Pokemon part, no matter what. From there, we move down to Pokemon Go. The Pokemon Go Fest 2025.

Max finale is coming August 18th and 24th. Take on tons of Dynamax and Gigantamax. Pokemon between those dates and counter Eternos and for the first time. Tim's excited. Those three don't even look like Pokemon. I don't even know. That one looks like a stick on the rights.

That's the soccer guy on the on top of the other thing. Oh my God with the long ears. Yeah, the bunny. Score bunny. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Then we went into Pokemon Masters E.X.

None of you talked about it. I have nothing to say about it. I don't know. What's up with this matcha teeth? Pokemon. What is that? It looked like a What?

Like sinist Sinist That's when we got out of the side of just making animals And we said a pie could be a Pokemon Yeah A chandelier could be a Pokemon And a pumpkin Halloween thing What was that name?

We ran out of ideas His name was Pumpcaboo He's my favorite Pokemon, please take him seriously I saw the gears turning His name was Um,

anyways, yeah, from there it was Pokemon Cafe, got a little update or whatever for this too. This is our quiet section and even the press release Nintendo is putting out

isn't talking about anything other than linking to these things. So none of you all played Pokemon Cafe ever that was never. I dood it up. Yeah. It's cute. What is this?

Is this like a Fallout Vault or Simpson's home type vibe? I don't know what I. I mean, it's like it's a cafe, right? It's like kind of just a very basic puzzle game. Oh.

Yeah, that they update over time. then it was Pokemon Sleep you're getting a bunch of guys in September and a new area in November congratulations there another one I remember waiting so long for that to come out like I was waiting like I was going to use it but like then it finally there's no one ever talked

about it and again I don't know it's not the most interesting thing but it feels like something if Tim's this deep into Pokemon Go you would assume you would have more shenanigans and stories about Pokemon Sleep. If they put out Superman sleep today I'd be fucking talking about it Yeah we talked about it on like AKHG I think when they first released it yeah it was the thing

where Tim's like yeah I did it and I about it. Okay, cool. Now we're done. We moved on from it because it was not that exciting. They did bring up Pokemon Unite to advertise the fourth anniversary, but they did do anything you wanted, Mike. No, it's doing stuff that I wanted. They're adding new characters here. They're adding a little game mode with this volleyball

here just to kind of give you more, similar to what you would experience with League of Legends and kind of giving you A-RAM different options to play and still stay in that and not have the ultra-competitive. Hey, we have to play 5V-5 and sweat every single moment of it. It's a game that I wish I still played, but

But, yeah, sadly, four years is a long time. I just did not commit to that on my Nintendo Switch. Then as you see, it was time for the Pokemon trading card game, getting an update here. Mega Evolution will arrive in September 26th. Are you excited for that, Bear? Yeah, we're still on packpacks every day. Is this? Yeah.

Whoa. But this isn't, yeah, this is the real game, though. This is the real game, though. This is an IRL cards. Yeah. Yeah, these cards are nasty. We left out the pocket. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a real thing. Damn. Yeah, never mind. I didn't see the pocket. Yeah, you're right. You're so right. Damn.

Then, of course, it was the debut of Pokemon Friends, our new game. Available now on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. This cozy puzzle game lets players solve brain teasers, craft plush Pokemon, and decorate customizable in game rooms with over 1,200 puzzles and 150 plush toys to collect. Suitable for all ages. I downloaded Andy's further than me. Yeah, I have several. I'm done with a Pokemon's sleep right now, though.

But, yeah, the whole... There is a part of me that really does admire their... There's a great tweet. Great posts right here, referencing blueprints. I do admire their business acumen of looking at things in the world and saying, how can we Pokemonify this? and the daily crossword puzzles is like such a solid

comparison right there because that's something that people have made a habit of do every day and well what if we can get Pokemon fans into something that becomes a part of their daily life if they're not unpacking cards maybe they're into just like these smaller puzzle type things it's a thing that I probably won't ever boot up again

maybe I already uninstalled it I don't know but it's it's cool that they are still doing these weird-ass things and we'll continue to do these weird-ass things. From there, they advertise, of course, the Pokemon Scarlet slash Violet already has an update. You knew that for Switch 2, folks. But however, the Terror Raids series,

a new Terror Raid series starts tomorrow. Track suits are out today as well. You need password for them. I took a screenshot. I saw you take that screen shot. I hate my outfit. I'll put those on. I'll get there. I'll do that for that. There are massive news for me, by the way, personally. This has nothing to do with Pokemon. But I just thought I'd let

the gaming audience know. that Sir Benjamin Star hit me up and said Andy, I have one of those jackets from the altas that you are looking for. The $460 jacket from the Alters video game.

He said, I'm going to mail it to you. Wow, he's too nice. So fucking pumped right now, dude. I'm getting the sick-ass jagging. I thought you were going the opposite way. Breaking news, Ozzy Osbourne has passed away. Yeah, that's what I thought you were going to say too. Oh, shit.

No, I didn't know that. I immediately texted Poe, huge fan. Damn, right after the final tour. Yeah, crazy. Wow, crazy timing. Did you see all the shit with that tour? It was awesome. No, I saw that it was a phone tour.

I didn't see that. It was just like a million stars that showed up. Stephen Tyler, who was like, hey, I don't tour anymore for Aerosmith because I can't sing anymore. Obviously, the dude's been resting because he went out there. Bangor-ass performance. It was just all these old-ass rock stars do it. And even current rock stars being like,

we're going to do a little 15-medley, 15-minute little tribute right here. I love that. Damn, rest in peace. Rest and peace, indeed. Then it was Pokemon Champions coming in 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, and Android devices. This competitive strategy title has debuted details for trial and permanent recruitment, as well as three battle modes, ranked casual and private. Bless this and do it for you.

Yeah, I mean, when they first revealed it, it did it for me. But I mean, I watch it now. And again, I'll probably hop into this just so I can do the battles, right? Like, I do like the idea of a separate dedicated Pokemon game that is about being competitive. So the idea here is like no collecting, no walking in a, world. It's just you go and fight. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just think the new thing they introduced here, I don't like the UI for it. It seems like it's one of those things of like, all right,

feed your Pokemon, all these stats and all this stuff, right? And I'm like, I'm down with the idea if they're able to frame it in an interesting way. And here it looked very basic. Yeah, there's something about this where I want to, I know I could be into this, but like I brought up yesterday with Pokey Rogue. It would be interesting to meld those two with the rogue-like runs capturing Pokemon throughout your runs and then having them on your teams for the next time. There's something here

that I would love to see the meld of both of those would be cool. And then of course our final stop was Pokemon Legends ZA launching October 16th for 2025 for Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch Switch. Pokemon Legends ZA introduces

rogue mega evolution and mega evolved Pokemon as well as the ZA Royale a new battle mode for trainers. I liked the concept of going up in rank from Z to A. Yeah. I think that's pretty neat. You think it ends at S?

Huh? Does it end at A or S? You know what I mean? You go from T to R. S plus. I think it could be. That's a neat. Another neat meta.

It's a neat way to frame progression. I think that's a cool way to even walking around the office and hearing Bless talk to Barrett about like, oh, I'm on this sublayer in Donkey Kong or whatever. To be able to like, oh, I'm on rank H right now. Like, oh, shit. Nice, dude, you made a lot of progress. I think it's a neat way to sort of easily see where you're at in the video game, and kind of, it's a neat way to put a carrot on the end of the stick for you.

It's like Project 8 from Tony Hawk, where you're, like, rising up the ranks and you want to be in the top 8. Project 8? Yeah, dude. Not only did you say it, like, you've never heard it. You said it like disgust. Project. It was discussed, yeah. It was definitely discussed.

What was the game Bust was bringing up before the show? Or, Tony Hawk game? No, the mystery dungeon one. Oh, Shearing the Wanderer. You know about Shear and the Wander? All right, we're not doing this. Okay. And that ladies, gentlemen, and NB's was your report on the Pokemon presents.

Again, 5-5, 2.5, 5.5. Nah, 5. Yeah, 5. This is whatever. Yeah. I'm so glad we didn't wake up at 6. I think it's an interesting thing where I feel like, and I'm not trying to cast anything out of it. But, like, y'all, like, on the downward side of your Pokemon fandom, to some degree.

Like, I know you like Pokemon. You'd expect more from it. As you should, you've been around. But I'm on this weird upswing of like, oh, neat, that guy's cool. And you guys, I've seen him since I was four. I've never heard of this guy. I can't remember fucking Pumpaboo's name, but I like him. It's a weird little world to be it right now.

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