 Would you like the intro? We'd start it. Yeah, we'll start it. This could be the intro. Great intro. Welcome to another week of the Pokerballs podcast. My name is Leigh. I'm joined by my brilliant co-host as always. Scott, how are you doing, mate? Brilliant. I'm doing very good. Thank you. Brilliant. Brilliant. Great. You're brilliant. Stop. It's good to be back, mate. No, it's really good to be back. Another event for week, shall we say? Well, we could say that, mate. It's been something. One polite way of saying it. Very polite. Very polite, I would say. It's been a bit of a whirlwind, to say the least. I mean, I even messaged you over the weekend and I said from Saturday morning how I felt Saturday morning, I felt like I'd actually been trolled by Pokémon with everything that had been going on because it just felt so like, I just felt gaslighted about all these announcements and then everything else that just seemed to go belly up over the next few hours since the announcement of Pokémon Home. So shall we just break down, let's just dive straight into it? Yeah, let's do it. Do you want me to timeline it for us? Well, I mean, I'll bring it up and then we can go from there. So obviously, you lead the way on the 18th, which was when was the 18th? The 18th was Thursday and Thursday. So obviously, sorry, before that, we had to the planned terror aid spotlight event which was going to take place on Friday across this weekend. It was for the great task and. Iron treads. Iron treads, that's it. Chestnut coming back and the chestnut coming back and everything was fine. And then on Thursday, they go, oh, Pokémon Home's coming out next Wednesday and I was like, yes, finally. And we've got this tweet of Pokemon being like starting from the 24th of May, you'll be able to get a special Pokemon when you link Pokemon Home with your Pokemon Skyline Violet. You'll be able to get a Spigotito, Fulcoco and Quacksley with their hidden abilities as mystery gifts on the mobile versions of Pokemon Home. And everyone was like, yeah, yeah. And then it's here. And then Friday rocks up or Thursday night, should we say? Thursday night, yes. And then why don't you go for the event of that? Because you were trying to make videos to post on Thursday night. So, yes, Thursday night happens. It's 1 a.m. for me, British Standard Time, so midnight UTC time because we're British summertime at the minute. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The event's got live and I put up the chestnut video. So for beating the chestnut, I had a new build that I'd done for that and went over everything else that we'd kind of covered to help players solo this raid if you hadn't got it. Easy to get. And if you wanted to farm it for the good item drops, which it has, then you can use any of the Pokemon that it did. So I put that video up great. And then I started on the Great Tusk's Iron Treads video. Had some really unique builds for that. Recorded that, edited the video. And this time it's getting on for around two thirty. I had no trouble with the Great Tusk's Iron Treads raids. I did two Great Tusks and I did one Iron Treads online because I was playing on Scarlet. Finished the edit, uploaded it, did the thumbnail, all that. Really happy and I'm like, great, I can go to bed now. I've got work. I've got to get up at like half five. So I'm going to get a few hours sleep. This is good, right? And then as soon as I'd uploaded the Great Tusk's Iron Treads video, I started to get these messages of people saying the games are crashing when they're going into the raids. There's something wrong and there's this weird non-item that's appearing in the rewards. And I was like, what? I haven't had any of these issues. I've even been online. So I'm like, what is going on? Go on Twitter, have a look. More people have these issues. So I'm like, OK, let's just see. I'm going to go into one raid and just test it out. And I go into one raid, beat a Great Tusk in my game. And lo and behold, in the rewards screen, when after I beat it, there's this item that says non. And I'm like, oh, I've got it. I wonder if it's going to crash my game. They come out with the raid into the other world. And yeah, lo and behold, my game crashes. And I hadn't saved anything before that point, like for the whole night. So I lost like all of the raids that I'd been doing for the chest note and everything like that. So it was like kind of annoying. So I proceed to make a video about this non-item and saying that there's an issue with the raids. Make sure you're aware. It doesn't seem to be happening every time you go into a raid, but it is something to be aware of because it is crashing games and probably won't have any effect on the game other than you're just losing and being put back to where your last safe point was. Did that video. So this time it's like half three in the morning by the time I get that up. It's a short video anyway. Then I realized there's some people saying that they can't find the raids. And I'm like, ha, have they actually taken it down? And I'm like, don't say this. This new video update is already uploaded. So I get my switch and I'm like, okay, I'm going to connect to the internet. Connect to the internet. And lo and behold, they've taken the raids down, but they haven't announced anything at this point. The raids are just gone, mate, right? So I'm like, this is so annoying. So I'm like, okay, I'm just going to put a community post out just saying it looks like they've taken the raids down and I'm going to come back to this in the morning. And I've taken all the other videos down because they're irrelevant right now. There's no raids happening. And well, I'll sort something out in the morning. So I go to bed at this point. It's like 4am and I'm like, this is not good. So I get up in the morning, I check and like an hour after I went to bed, Pokemon put out a tweet. I think it's play Pokemon saying there was issues with the raid and they've taken it down and it's not coming back. It's canceled. So then I do the video on that. So I'm like, okay, that's canceled. And then it gets more spicy, mate, after that. Because about two hours after that video, we get news from Pokemon once again saying that the news about Pokemon Home, the day that they'd mentioned the 24th for it being released for compatibility with Scarlet and Violet, was actually miscommunicated and that won't be the date. After they'd announced it would have been the date that players would be getting Pokemon Home for Scarlet and Violet. So that's where the icing on the cake kind of came in. And you're thinking, I was at that point, I was like, what is going, what is literally going on at the Pokemon Company? And it all stemmed from a Japanese, the Japanese Twitter page. They put tweets out that were stating that it was miscommunicated to other regions in the world and that a date hadn't been set yet, but it would be coming soon. So they did apologize for it. And then that got fed through to the Play Pokemon and Official Pokemon Twitter pages. And that's where we are, mate. That is where we are. But that's my timeline alongside it. But that's why I said to you, I think on the Saturday I was like, I just feel like I've been trolled because it was just this series of announcement of the new spotlight events. Then the Terrarid event, Seven Star Returning, covered those, covered the home update. And then there was the issues with the spotlight Terrarid event. It covered that quickly. Then they pulled it. Then I did a video on that. And then Pokemon Home on top of it. And I was just like, what is actually going on? It's just absolutely, like you couldn't even write it. You couldn't make up that 24 hour period, I don't think, for such a big company. You know what? Tonight is actually going to be a really interesting night. So we're going to use it on Sunday. So unfortunately, we're going to have to record the pot on the weekend. So we're not going to know what's happening tonight. What announcement are we going to make tonight? Right? Because normally we'd be getting a Seven Star Raid right now. Yeah. Is that going to happen? Who knows? I don't know. Right. I actually don't understand. And the thing about this is it just seems so phony for them to be like, oh, it was a mistake. It doesn't like, it feels like a lie. But at the same time, I'm like, why not just be transparent with people and say that, because what it seems like is the game is broken again. And they're like, fuck, we can't release time now. Like because it might not work for whatever reason. I honestly don't think the issues with the raids have anything to do with a home being delayed. I think the issues with the spotlight raids are genuinely down to the Pokemon materials. You know, when you go into a raid and you beat a Pokemon and you get like the, like Makuhita fur or whatever it is for that Pokemon, it can be a Harayama. Well, the Paradox Pokemon don't have any Pokemon materials. So the non-slot is what's being theorized is to be the slot where you would get these materials for that specific Pokemon. But because the Paradox Pokemon don't have any, that's why it's shown up as non. And then that's why it's crashing the game. And it's obviously a template that they've got where they are just putting in the Pokemon to appear in the games and using the standard like spotlight template and then saying, okay, well, it goes live at this time, whatever, but they haven't checked that. And once the terror is live, I don't think it's editable. So that's why they've had to pull it all. And they're going to have to do something to get around it. It was fine with walking wick and iron leaves because they're not registered in the Pokedex. So they wouldn't have had any materials anyway. But the fact that these two Pokemon are registered in the Pokedex, they're kind of... There's obviously some glitch up where the game's pulling some sort of Pokemon material and there's just nothing to pull through. Interestingly enough, on this event, like you say, we'll be getting the announcement later tonight. We should be getting an announcement tonight about the next raid. But they did put a post out on a Japanese page where they said, this event has been canceled due to a problem. We will inform you about a future response of this event, such as the schedule of rescheduling at a later date. We apologize for the inconvenience. So in my mind, I was like, they're just going to bump it to the next weekend. But I feel like they're going to just bung it in somewhere else down the line. I'll let them walk in the mic. Yeah, I don't think we're going to see it. Chestnut come back. The annoying thing for a lot of people, I think, as well is because of Tears of the Kingdom dropping last week. A lot of people didn't take part in the Chestnut raid event because they were busy playing that and they knew it was coming this weekend. So they were like, I'll just get it the second weekend and now this happens. And it's like... I've read a lot of comments that said that. Yeah, kind of just rating. It's such a wall of my chair. So who knows, man? I mean, I just don't... I don't know. I feel like our theory for when it... I feel like our Tear Raid theory with the Starpark one don't really make sense anymore, given what has happened, right? If we're really believing that that was a real tweet and that that was when it was meant to be, you know, dropped, just like... Well, like what we said, it was just... Was it just going to be random? Was there any plan at all? Like, how nice. I think there was a plan. I think it goes even deeper than this. And this depends on how much you believe the information that Ridley Koo puts out. But I would peg my hat on. Most things that he puts out are legitimately real. He's been fed information from somewhere and it's pretty reliable. Like, he's got such a good track record going up to this point that I would say anything that he does put out, he doesn't just put out lightly. And he put that number 19 out. And I honestly think when he got told that 19, that was going to be the date for when Pokemon Home should have been released. Because I think from everything that we've heard from him, from all of them, and Central Leaks, that Home is ready to go. Like, they've tested it, it's ready to go. For some reason, something's come up and it's not ready to go yet. And whether or not that's because they've found something and they need to fix it, or they just want to do some more thorough testing, which is super fine. But I think the initial date was the 19th. And then they obviously bumped it a week later to around the 24th. You think it was meant to be the 19th of May? I think so, May. I really do, yeah. And then I think our theory might make more sense to when we'll see a DLC trailer. Like, when that, you know, originally when we said it'll be Delphox next, which should be announced tonight. And I fully expect Delphox to get announced tonight. And then it'll be really boom, right? And then that four-week period will take us to mid-June, which will be around the 19th of June, I think. And that's when I think we're going to get a DLC trailer, which will explain why we've had these seven star aides and how these Pokemon will have specific new terraforms in the DLCs with these masks related to them. Somehow. And it's all these Pokemon, other ones, that are going to get the new forms first. And that's why they've been fed in the seven star aides. But I don't know, May. It's all just, it's all just theory at the minute. And I think the Horm release date, and these dates being banded around like the 19th from Ku, the 24th, it was... Like, where's that come from? Like, if that's been miscommunicated, it's a pretty big miscommunication, you know, to like the UK Pokemon, the US Pokemon. I feel like surely it would get questioned as it gets passed down, right? Like, as we've discussed, obviously, this is a big thing, or it has become a big thing because they haven't released it when they have. So surely they'd want to get it right. Like, surely there must be exacts being like, is this Will? Like, is this actually like, are we announcing it now? There's no way they wouldn't check it. No way. There's no way. That's what I mean. They would just be like, oh, the Japanese did it. Oh, well, we better do it then. Funny thing is, the Japanese, like, Twitter pages and sites that were talking about it never mentioned a date. They didn't mention a single date, and you can go back through all of their tweets. There isn't a single date mentioned in Japan. There's just the information about the added features. To Pokemon Home, like the move relearner, that we've got, like, the ability to switch between games when you're in Pokemon Home that we haven't had before, the backwards compatibility, the Roman gimme ghoul that you're going to trade in. That's like, all information is on the Japanese, like, page of information. But there isn't a single place where it mentions a date, which is really interesting. It's only like, the Western Pokemon companies that seem to have this date. But like you say, like, they can't do anything without the Seiso from Japan. So it's like, that has come from somewhere. It's just like, how did that get, like, how did that get okayed if it was wrong? Do you know what I mean? I'm totally with you. I just think it's like, that was probably the date that they were planning on doing it. But then it's something's, something's went wrong. And I'm with you. I just think, like, just be transparent about it. Like, be transparent if it, like, the thing is now, I think the problem is because then not, we haven't got that transparency. We haven't got that trust with what they say to us is, do we believe that it is just a simple miscommunication, which it could be, right? But I think we're all sat here questioning it and thinking, well, is it actually that? Or is it something else? And it's such a bad luck as well, that you've got this issue with the spotlight terror happening in amongst it all, which just gives it an even worse luck. And I think the lack of transparency along the way, for the years that we've had that lack of transparency doesn't help the whole situation. So who knows? I think you're right. I think it's 100% the reason why we're questioning it right now, you know, just goes back to anything really, if you know someone and they just, they feel like they're hiding something or not hiding, but like they're holding stuff back, which if it has felt like for a long time, probably won't like to keep their cars close to their chest. I don't understand that, but you can still do that and have, you know, transparency with your audience. As you mentioned before, I don't know if we mentioned this on the podcast, but I think the reason why Pokemon can afford to do this with the game and, you know, get away with it is because this isn't the games aren't the main IP that makes some money, right? They have with the Pokemon company, like comparing it to Zelda, right? The Zelda franchise, the Zelda franchise, the main IP that they have that makes some money is the games. So obviously that's done incredibly well. The reviews are amazing. It runs amazing on the Switch. Surprise, surprise, you know, as a scholar and violinist should have, but you know, if they screwed that up, they basically ruined the Zelda franchise, whereas they can screw up multiple facets of the Pokemon IP and it not make really a difference to them because they still have, they have the anime, they have the training card, they have the game they have Unite, they have Pokemon Go, they have all Hanforth, all the other merch they sell, the official merch that they sell, you know, and it's just like, then just the name as well, like it's like one of those, it's such an iconic like Pokemon, like most people know Pokemon. So it just like doesn't matter to them. So like why would they care as much when there's less like on the line for them almost? And so, you know, the weird thing is, I think they like generally baseline, I think they do care, I think the developers do care, like I think they do as well, I think it's got to be the execs, it has to be the execs, they've ruined it. Yeah, and whether or not it's like pressure from Nintendo on getting games out on a window for this system, or if they've got like quarters where they've got to get so many games out for the Switch in a timeframe, I don't know what their contracts are, I think they'll ever know, but it's, you know, I think whatever pressures they've got, or like haven't ever been more highlighted than they are currently with these games, just kind of sad because Scarlet and Violet, like at the base of it, if you take away all the issues that Scarlet and Violet have had, actually really enjoyable games. And I think like still, one of my all time favorite, like the most enjoyable playthroughs I've had in a long time with a game, like I really love the game and it's just all these little things keep like chipping away at it and just like tarnishing it a bit more. I mean they're the best, they're gonna be the best selling Pokemon games of all time pretty much, I think, eventually, you know. And it's just like, I shouldn't have all these issues, but I completely agree with you mate. I think all the different fingers and different pies make it a bit easier to take hits. With this sort of thing. I feel like for them to kind of remedy it, right? So I think there is probably, to a certain extent, this pressure to release a game. You know, because they've done it for so long, they've kind of, you know, forced their own hand a bit with having to release a game once a year or something once a year. And I feel like the only way to really remedy it is that they would have to basically just take, they would have to take a couple of buffer years now if they wanted to fix it. Like, because they're in this cycle now, where they constantly have to release something each year. There's no room for error there. Like, if they wanted to suddenly work on a game more, to say, you know, they want to spend the next year on Gen 10, that means we're not going to get something for one year. So they need to take a break somewhere in order to do that. And I think that was what they should do. Take a break and then reset how, look at the structure of how they release games and just take a step back and be like, okay, let's just spend longer developing the games. But then just obviously we're going to have to reduce the frequency that we release them. Or like still do it, but you know, we just need to make sure you have the time in between. Okay, yeah, one year you might not get a Pokemon game. But you know, loads of games, you know, how long has it taken for them to make GTA 6? How long has GTA 5 been out, you know? Like, I get. And the fans aren't complaining about it. That's what I mean. As we said, there are plenty of other things they could still do with their other IP. Mate, we've got the perfect answer for them. The legacy collection and re-release the cards, re-release the game. They could literally just do that. That would make so much sense, right? I would fill such a gap, wouldn't it, man? Cling to the nostalgia. I'm joking a little bit, but it would be, you could do that. It's a good idea, right? They could just do, use the IP that they have. People wouldn't even be mad. People would not be mad, okay? There's the other thing as well, you know, like with like Battle Revolution, with Pokemon Stadium, with Colosseum, they're all like third-party developers as well. They weren't done by Game Freak. They were licensed out and developed by other companies. So like, you know, do something like that, bringing Battle Simulator to the Switch, you know, like so many people would be like down for that as well. Those were like kind of nice games to play. I enjoyed every single one of those for different reasons, and I think that could fill a gap for a year, couldn't it, between, you know, maybe if you are outsourcing like your remake, if we've got like Black and White coming, supposedly this generation, then outsource that like you did with BDSP to Ilka. Do something similar. And outsource like, you know, a Battle Simulator as well, and do that, and that will fill enough time for you to have that extra space for you to do your magic. The thing is as well, I've just had this thought, and I guess it kind of makes a lot more sense. So talking about, you know, how often they release stuff, I guess the problem with reducing the frequency of new content is, so there are two ways to combat the problems, right? You either hire more people and make sure that they have the funds and stuff they need to make sure the games run, or you take time, which is what a lot of developers do. It's just the normal thing. The problem with number one is obviously money, and they don't want to spend any money, because, you know, they just don't want to spend money. The problem with the second one, I guess this is what I've just thought about, if you delay it, right, I know they have other IP, but everything kind of comes from the games almost. So like the anime is released alongside the games, the TCG sets are based on, again, you're right, you could do legacy TCG sets, there's loads of things they could do, but I think they're enough to do the legacy stuff now, you know, they've got enough back. Again, they've just forced their own hand in the sense they screwed themselves, basically, because like I said, they're so reliant on this content from the games that also funnel the ideas for the other IP, like the trading card, like the anime, like all their plushies, and all this constant thing that feeds them, like this incessant amount of money for this pool that they have. Like it just- Yeah, the baseline is always the game. They need to just restructure it. Like I say, when we've had conversations in the past, about like the video, then stop making the video game, they'll never stop making it really, because that is what most things are based off of. Like the anime, like most people won't watch the Pokemon anime. Like I understand they're heirs on TV, but most people get their knowledge of Pokemon. Like the games are way more accessible than anime. Like I haven't watched most- I've gone through stents of watching large amounts of like the Pokemon anime, but you know, to get that larger audience, it has to be done for the video game. And so it's always going to be at the core of the franchise. And so if you start changing that, then you're going to start affecting the other parts of the IP. And I think that is probably one of the reasons why, as I just said, they haven't delayed the release cycle of stuff. They just need to focus on maybe just like, I don't know, just like hiring more devs, just giving them money, you know, just restructuring, just thinking about it. Yeah, I think you've nailed it. Yeah, that is the issue, isn't it? Because the only other option with them would be do, you know, legacy collection, like more spinoff stuff, of stuff they've done in the past. Like a cling to nostalgia, which wouldn't be a problem. But I only did it well, which I'm sure they could do. As we've seen with that TCG collector's box thing that they're doing, people will always gem one. They could do anything with gem one. People love it. They could do stuff like that. Like you said, they have such an excessive back catalog of games that they could do, even if, say for the black and white stuff, for example, and we haven't had the remake for that yet, but they could still do black and white stuff for that. Like I said, they could just do legacy collections for all the stuff. They could do a whole legacy collection for TCG. They could just rock it back to like the old cards. Just like they couldn't mix it up. But as we've said, it's a bit like coming back to the whole tournament structure of the competitive events is that I understand that we are probably slightly naive. Like there's obviously, the problem with a lot of the larger companies, I was actually talking to my friend about this today, is the larger the company gets, the more things have to filter through, like all these execs that stuff have to be approved by. When you've got someone at the top that doesn't really understand the core game and its value, it's never going to reflect in the IP and what they're doing because they're only going to be thinking about, how can we make more money? Okay, we need to release something every year. When we've got smaller dev teams, and that's probably why they're not as transparent, right, for that reason. Because when you've got a smaller dev team, you can go out and just be like, you know, this is what it is, this is what I'm doing. But because stuff has to be approved by so many people, you're stuck in this sort of vicious loop of, we can't really say anything because we need like 100 people to approve it and we can't change the way the structure of, because it's like the whole foundation of the Pokemon company is built on this release cycle of the games. It's more tightly intertwined than we'll think and it's probably why, part of the course, part of the course, why they've been so successful and you can't knock that, but it's just getting to a point now where, obviously you get, most of the people complaining, right, aren't the majority player base. This is a thing, the people that complain online aren't the majority player base for most games because most people will just play stuff without complaining. I get people, people will still moan about problems and that's fine to moan about problems, but most of the people playing Skyline Violet are kids, as we've mentioned in the past, they don't give them monkeys about what's going on, they don't care, they're still going to, little Timmy's still going to go and ask his parents to buy loads of Pokemon cards, you know, he's going to ask them to buy plushies. Good old Timmy. It doesn't like, realistically, like the people that care aren't the core audience for Pokemon, you know, you can see it with the games, like these games are clearly tugged towards children becoming more and more like that, you know, especially with the characters are basically, you know, they've always been children, but this game feels like it's very much an emphasis of, like, they're like almost like primary school kids, you know, like, well, they are, but you know, it just feels like, it really feels like it's for children now, like, and there's not necessarily a problem because as we've mentioned, like the games are still amazing, but, you know, it's just doesn't take away from the frustration of being a fan, because you know, they have to, because what they do really well is hold on, as we mentioned with the nostalgia, they hold on to people who like, who play Pokemon in their childhood, right? They always manage to claw you back, like when Pokemon Go come out, right? I bet the only reason a lot of people play Pokemon Go is because they probably played Pokemon to some extent when they were younger. Right, because it's been out for long enough now that, you know, people know, like it's obviously a massive IP, but you know, there's good, there's like generational gaps where people have played, like, you know, it spans like, a long time basically, like they've been coming out for like 20 years now, just over like 25 years, just over 25 years of the Pokemon games. So, you know, they have that nostalgia, but you don't want to start losing the people that are older fans, because they're still going to play it. You want to keep those, because you know, because it's only going to help grow your fan base. I have to disagree with you on one thing, that I don't really feel like Scarlet and Violet was more, more a kids game than probably some of the other Pokemon games. I think like, first value, a kid can pick it up and play it for sure, but I think the inner workings of the game are way more targeted to an older demographic, especially when you're looking at like, Terrarium mechanics, the Terrariaids, IVs, EVs, like we've said, you know, they've made some big improvements to hyper training, being able to quickly train up your Pokemon, level them up as well with the accessibility through Excel candies and stuff like that. So I think the inner workings, complexities of the game itself, they're not targeted to kids, right? The longevity of the game, the playability kind of coming back to it and playing it more and more. The shiny hunting and things like that, it's not aimed at that young audience. I think they have a really fine balancing act to play where it has to be really accessible for kids because they're the next generation, they're important for their, the future of the growth of the company, but they still have to appeal to that demographic that's aging with the franchise as well. And I think they do it really well. I think there's some things that they could do better, but I mean, what can you not kind of apply that to in any kind of game scenario, you know? But that's just my, my take on it. That is a good point. I appreciate your opinion on it, but I just think, you know, I think like it is, I think there's a fine balance between what demographic it's aimed for and I think they do it really well, like in my opinion, I think they do it really well. But then it went back to a point. It does worry you, sorry to interrupt, like they, they're stumbling on the stuff that they used to do really well or have done really well for a while. So it worries you. Like what though? Well, like the game optimization, the games have always run well for the consoles that they have. Yeah, but for the most part, they've been like 2D, not open world. Yeah, but that's not, their job's been a lot easier. It's not really an excuse so when you have games like Zelda. And also the BDSP was out very recently and that had many a glitch. Many a glitch. I guess so. All stemming from the same glitches that you got in the, the, the base games really. Interesting. You know, so like, yeah. Authentic experience. It was very authentic. They patched them very quickly. You got to take your hats off to them because I mean it was like a glitch came out. A week later it was patched. And then that's like a went on for, I'd say, I want to say like six weeks that went on and on for where it was like, oh, we found a new way to do it. And then that gets patched. Another new way to do it, that gets patched. It went on. So I think there's been like, obviously throughout the franchise there's been issues with glitches. I just don't think there's been as, I think it's worse in these games because of how popular they're on, how many players are actually, you know, still playing the games and experiencing these issues. And then there's been some real detrimental issues like the save data glitch where people save data was getting erased. I think that's kind of, that's where the line gets drawn. And you kind of have to sit up at that point and be like, okay, like it's kind of funny seeing like a duplication glitch come out. That got patched. But they're not like, they're not game breaking glitches. Oh, they see don't mind. But when it starts affecting like the actual player's experience, I think that's not, that's not cool. Or the random great game crashes. The performance of the games as well is noticeably bad, like the frame rates dropped and just other things like this, just some like the performance, like you say it's not, it's not brilliant, is it? So yeah. So what are you going to say? You're literally going to say something when I interrupted you. I was going to go back to your point about how it feeds down through all of these different levels. And you've got to go from Japan which controls everything and everything has to be okayed by Japan. It's going to be fed over to TPCI in America and that feeds everywhere else pretty much, right? So you've got to jump through a bunch of hoops to get anything signed off by anyone before anything's officially like released. Okay. So there are a little, a lot of issues, but it goes with the same. And I know this first hand from the competitive scene and the issues that they have in the competitive scene, which not really, not like the player base don't know about. Like this season, for instance, there have been issues with the championship points, right? And how players are like, well, we've only got half a season. How are we going to get this many championship points to get to Worlds? And we can't get to events because the capacity for the events that we're trying to get to, there's no capacity. We can't get tickets. Tickets are gone in minutes. So we can't even attend to get our championship points. So there's been this whole issue, right? But you've got to remember that player Pokemon are planning these events the year before, like a year before, right? So they need the schedule mapped out a year before and they need to be able to predict what they think the attendance for events is going to be that next year round. Okay. It's the average, the average attendance for these events so they can hire halls, hire spaces and things like that. Logistically, because they can't hire, they can't hire the excels say for a UK regional, right? If you've gone off numbers from Sword and Shield because regionals for Sword and Shield, you were looking at max 200 players per regional, right? There's no way they had the foresight to say that was going to be like times five, right? Going into regionals for Skull and Violet. So then with that happening, not just on one occasion, but like across the board, right? And then you're thinking, right? Well, how are we going to manage the championship points for that? And that was all decided a year before. And you can't really adjust it at the time. And that's what I mean, like, they have such a hard job. But because of the keeping the cards close to their chest, not being transparent, because for the most part, you know, probably a lot of the employees would be like, can we just say something? Can we just put something out to explain the situation? Why it is like it is. But because they don't want to put things out, they could potentially damage the brand or anything, then it leads to just speculation, you know? And that is where the problem lies. And I think that applies across the board. That same situation that's happened in competitive Pokemon with the circuit structure. And I could go on about that for a little bit. No, I think you're right. I think you're on a lot more depth. But I think the same situation applies right the way through, you know, everything. But again, it comes back to because they've given themselves such a stringent and tight release schedule, they don't have any rooms to repair problems. Yeah, that's so true. So I do appreciate the fact that, you know, stuff is probably planned, you know, they've probably planned out the next two generations of Pokemon. They probably know what they're going to do, what the gimmicks are. Well, they always say, don't they? They always say that they have to, they kind of work alongside each other, don't they? They're working on two at the same time. So when Scholar and Violet launch, they'd be heavily already in development of Gen 10. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Or the concept at least will be there. The concept for Gen 10 would be there for them to start, you know, putting together. I don't know exactly how it works. They just don't have the wiggle room to remedy issues. That is just the problem. No, no. Like I said, you know, with all the stuff Pokemon home and the terror raids, you know, I do, to an extent, believe they are independent, but I do think that it's definitely affecting their decisions. Yeah. But it just shows, doesn't it, like the tiniest little hiccups that they have along the way with this really stringent timeline that they've got, it really impacts everything else. Like, were we originally meant to get like the Teal Mask, the DLC part one? Were we meant to get that and the same timeline, similar timeline to when we got Isla of Arma like June this year? Were we meant to get that? Was home meant to come out in like February this year? But because of all the issues that they had with the game, before that, you know, trying to fix, bring out new patches to fix things. Has it all just been moved back? And then you get these added little annoyances with like the spotlight terror raid event, things that were maybe overlooked with the Pokemon materials. Is that adding to resources being taken away from one thing and going into that? And then it's all just pushed back and pushed back and they're just constantly in this chaos mode of trying to play catch-up with everything. I don't know, mate. No, it's, yeah. I am trying to throw them a bone here. I do really like, I do want to give them the benefit of the doubt with everything, but it's hard to and like, it comes back to the lack of transparency. Yeah. You could forgive a lot of it if they were just like, look, this is what's happening. This is the reason. I feel like everyone would be, the majority of the player base would be super understanding and super accepting because we just had that transparency about stuff and we would be like, fair enough, if that is what the case is. Like no one really minds waiting as long as we just know the situation, but it's the fact that you've got that kind of lack of transparency. And like I've mentioned, I'm like a broken record here, but it is just speculation. Then you speculate. And like speculation is, speculation is actually can be really dangerous. Yeah. You know, this, like this is a really weird tangent, but I was talking about like one of the Linus Tech Tips has this channel and I was talking about how like, you know, whenever there's mystery, it can cause problems, like I said, as speculations, because people become more intrigued and they want to know stuff. And like, for example, like their offices, they have, the offices are based in Vancouver and they, like years ago, they just announced where they're like, where their actual offices are. And they said, it's like one of the best things they ever did because we don't have this like mystery of people trying to hunt us down and work out where we work. People just know where we are. And you know, it sort of just all comes back to the sense of like, when there's mystery, okay, mystery can be cool, but you know, it can cause a lot of problems because, you know, people start asking loads of questions and then, you know, and then room has spread as well, right? As we mentioned, you know, like why, like we're speculating now, right? Why is all this happening? And you know, like I said, we could, we're probably being very naive or at least I know you're trying to play devil's advocate here and we're trying to understand, but you know, there are probably loads of things we don't understand and that we'll never be able to because we don't run a company that's as huge as Pokemon, you know, so it's just, it's just frustrating. I mean, you mentioned, you had something interesting, you know, is to notice about the DLC dates, didn't you, on the store? I don't know if you wanted to mention that quickly. Well, well, we can talk about it now. I don't know if I'm just looking into this and the dates haven't changed from the original, but I feel like the date from the tail mask, and I can't find anything online to kind of back my, my little brain up in this situation, but I feel like the, the initial date for the tail mask was not the date that's showing it on the eShop right now. I'll just pull it up. My screen might look a little bit wonky for a minute, but it will be all right. So this is not what I wanted. This is what I wanted. These were the dates that we got and the Pokemon presents. They weren't dates. They were just rough time frames. So fall 2023, winter 2023. So fall is normally between like October. Well, no, September, October, November is fall, right? And then winter is December, January, February, but if we're looking at winter 2023, then that is going to be December, right? But if we hop over to the eShop and we look at the release dates here, now please correct me. If you're on YouTube and you can leave a comment and you can back, back me up on this, not back me up that I'm right, but just correct me that these dates have not changed, then that would be great. But if there has been any discrepancy with the Teal Mask date in particular, that's the one I think that I never remembered it being the 31st of the 12th, 2023. And then obviously the Indigo disc is like pegged for like April, you know, 30th of April, 2024. So they're way off. I know these could be and they do it sometimes where the dates on the eShop, the release dates are just kind of placeholder dates that they give you just as a kind of like, just to give them room if needed. But the reason why I brought it up to you before the pod was because I couldn't remember whether or not the Teal Mask date on the eShop was sooner than that. And I feel like it wasn't December, but I feel like it was a bit sooner than December. But I mean, imagine if they are those actual dates or they were the dates that we're going to get these games, you know, I can't imagine 31st of December being a date that a game gets dropped. That seems a bit unrealistic. But if it is like December for the first day, you'll see that is a long way off, man. That is a long way off. And that is not fall. Yeah, but are we then hypocrites of being like, we need to give them more time to develop stuff but then get angry if they delay the DLC. But come out and say it. Just come out and say, we need more time to do this. I think that's like, there's no, I think transparency about there. Transparency. Yeah. It's like, there's no problem with it. But just come out and say, we need to, well, there's a few issues we haven't sorted out yet. I mean, like the Japanese Twitter page, you know, they put tweets out saying that there were a few things they were working on with Pokemon Home that did got miscommunicated, which is fine. They've said that, like they want to get things right for it, which is super fine. But the fact is that, you know, they put those dates out in the first place and it is a mistake, right? And everyone makes mistakes 100%. So it's super fine. But I think the fact is that there's so much anticipation again for the Teal Mask and Indigo Disc and they've had this huge bunch of time since it was announced that they are coming out to now to say something about these are going to be a bit later than what we planned, you know, and don't leave it till the last minute. Don't leave it till like, you know, don't leave it till September to say, by the way, yeah, because they'll know now if it's going to be ready for 100%. Do you know what I mean? I just think just come out and say, you know, I think that's what would make it fine. And I don't think anyone would have a problem if they were late. And I don't think we're being hypocritical about it. I just think it's the fact that we've been given time frames, rough time frames, and if they're not on those time frames, then you've seen what's happened early 2023. In early in June, that is not early 2023. Nearly in June. Anyone's world, there's wriggle room for a bunch of months that you could put that into and say, ah, maybe, but June is definitely, June's not, not, not any part of early. Yeah. I 100% agree with you. I don't know, mate. They're going to cause a lot of problems if they don't say anything till September. But like, oh, it's December now. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't know, man. Like it's hurting my brain a little bit. Like us going full like, detective, trying to work out what is going on here. But I think, yeah, just see what they come out with and hope that, you know, everything will work out. I'd rather they took way longer with the DLCs to come out and just polished everything up to fix all of the issues in the base games, to make sure the DLCs are a really nice finished article that runs smooth. They don't have any issues with them. Sure mistakes can be made here and there, but on the face value of it, if they just run really nicely and we don't have any like game breaking issues in them, I think take as long as you need to get them out, make this game. Like, do you, Scotland, invited justice? I won't mind it. I'm sure a lot of other people kind of agree with me on that point as well. 100%, 100%. You know, I think I can't really think. I think Pokemon Home fills a gap as well, you know, because we're going to have access to like, all these, there's Suya in Pokemon, all the other Pokemon that you can transfer and there's going to be like a hundred and something Pokemon that are going to be transferable as soon as Pokemon Home's available. So, that fills a bit of time for players, you know, to get them into Scotland, if I let do what they want in the game with them, be competitive, be it breeding shinies, doing other things, whatever. And sorry to cut you off there. That was just... No, no. I think, to be honest, I think my head's kind of fried because I feel like we've just gone so balls deep into that. I don't really think there's anything else possibly to mention. Not really. I thought we would done with the Pokemon Home conversation. I thought this episode I was looking forward to and being like, we can say it's coming this week and then we don't need to talk about it anymore. But it's like, because we talked about it last episode and we were like, we're just saying the same things over and over again and we're back to this old barbecue again. So, one more time round I think, but yeah, I know what you mean. So, it's on the charm. Third time. Third time is the charm. I'm going to get this out because I did get something this week. I've been talking about it. If we want to, if we finished on that, this is a nice thing. Yeah, this is ended there. Let's talk about some happy stuff. So, I did get this this week, which I'm... That's awesome, man. That's so awesome. So happy about it. So happy about it. So, this is very, very nice to get, which I'm like. Still haven't played it yet. I'm waiting. You can open it. We're going to leave it. No, it's not sealed, mate. Oh, okay. Man, if it was sealed, I would not be opening it, mate. I thought it was sealed, man. I was like, what? Oh, mate. No, no, no, no. It's not sealed. There's no way I'd get a sealed copy. It's in a nice protective case, though. And the game's in there and all sorts. So, I don't know. It's secondhand. But I kind of, I really want to boot it up in case there's a save file on there. But I believe it's had a new battery fitted. So, it should be all fine, which is really cool. And you've got the game just sitting there. And then there we go. Look at that bad boy. Can't wait to put it in and play it. So, I've got a few trips coming up soon. So, I will be keeping it for when I go there. I really want to stream it, though. That's the thing on the channel. And I have ordered myself an analog. You have. Done it. Let's go. But I have no idea when it's going to arrive. And the more I dug into that and finding out about when that will be getting shipped. It will still probably be before the DOC jobs. That's my guess. I don't know, mate. You don't think? You don't think? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. They did three waves. They did three waves on releasing. And for those of you who aren't viewing on YouTube and listening, that was a copy of Pokemon Emerald Boxed that I got last week. So, that's why I'm really excited. And I should have explained that at the time. Yeah, but the analog pocket, amazing system. Really excited about getting it. It plays like Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advanced. And it's got the ability to have all of these different cores now. They've been able to integrate software into it now where you're going to be able to get all these different cores, which are essentially just different systems that can play on it. So, you can side load ROMs into it. So, they've got the snares on there. They've got the Mega Drive on there. And there's some guy in Japan who's just figured out how to side load the PS1 core onto it. So, you can play PS1 games on this thing. What? My, that is sick. So, that will probably be like, it's absolutely nuts, man. So, the idea was to get it so I could stream from cartridge rather than ROMs, like some of the old games on the channel. And that's what I was kind of going to save Emerald 4, but knowing that this is going to come probably not for a while, I probably will stop playing it before then because I don't know if I can hold off that long, to be honest. But it's an amazing console. That is awesome. Yeah. Because the dock has a HDMI out on it, so I can plug it straight into a capture card and then I can record, you know, playing actual software. And it's not emulated software, like a lot of the other replica handheld consoles are. It's using the chip in it, actually emulates the original software, hardware, sorry. So, it plays the game, like actual hardware. Oh, it's going to be played on just a better screen. Yeah. Or you can play it on like an original screen. Yeah, it's got loads of different settings as well. So, yeah. Really nice screen as well. Awesome. Very cool. Very excited about that. But like I say, it was, it's been, it got launched in three waves. So, it was A, B and C. And they're on to C now, but I know people have read that people like, ordered in like 2021, pre-ordered in 2021, who are putting to the C wave and they're still waiting now for it. So, with the white C. It does say pre-orders for C, the C group will get shipped in 2023. But we'll say as we, as we know with Pokemon. See, yeah. But the thing is like you have to, like if you want one, I think pre-order it. Because you won't get one otherwise. Because if once they stop that pre-ordering, like it will be sold out and they will not be making anymore after this point. So, they do limited runs on stuff. So, if you miss out on them, the only way to get them after that is on the second hand market. And you can imagine the prices of these things, like already. So, Cool. Cool. Shot. Got that. Yeah. Show me. That was just a total tangent. No, it was good. I've got a few things from Scott's Rocket Game Corner today. Scott's Rocket Game Corner. They're like we should make a little song about that. I should get a bust out the acoustic and create a little track for this. Let's all get two carried away. A little jingle. Hey, man. Hey, man. It could be good. So... Like the Concorde style. I'm a business sack, son. So, I've only got a few things. Nothing crazy this week. The craziest thing I found was, Now, bet yourself for this, because this could be terrifying. Also awesome. So, you know, you need to prepare yourself. So, I found these outdoor Pokemon playground. And then... I don't know what to say. I don't know if that's terrifying or... Or what, but yeah. Oh, my God. But those of you that aren't listening, I'll try my best to describe this. Play Park. There is only like two items I can see in this Play Park that you could play on. There is a Chansey, which looks like it's on like a spring, right? A rocking horse. Rocking kind of... Like a rock and horse Chansey, which looks kind of innocent and cool. And then in front of it is this huge lick-a-tongue slide. And the tongue is the slide, and the lick-a-tongue is just kind of perched over with its mouth open. And that's where you come out of, and it looks... It looks something. And the stairs, I'm assuming, are you go into the rear end of the lick-a-tongue and go up the slide. Didn't even think about that. Brutal. Because it's not... There's no steps, so the steps must be inside the lick-a-tongue, right? And you go in from the tail end, right? It's too much. It's too much. See, it's like a reverse birth. Oh, bro. It's... Yeah. I can't believe that. That's pretty epic. Yeah. I don't know if that's like... Was there any other pictures of the Park or were these the only two items that were in there? No, the comments are like, where is this? I need to know where it is. No, this is where to go in. Quick answer. The tail. The tail. Mate, you've done well. You've done well. You've really done well. What is this? What is that? I didn't know... I did not know this was here. What the hell? But those of you listening, you need to come and look at the bloody video, man. There's a giant Chansey in the middle of this playground, just in front of this weird lick tongue slide. There is a massive like, I'm talking like almost house, small house size Chansey with slides coming out of the sides. How do you even get into that? Do you crawl underneath it? There must be another, again, probably through the rear end. Like, what the fuck? Is there any more pictures? So have a look, see if there's anything else in the comments. There's got to be more to this. Where is this as well? I will find out more about this mysterious, this mysterious part. This can't be the only one, or if this is like a unique only, only one that they've ever made, this is pretty magical place. Let me just see if I can find it quickly. That is, this is a special, this is a special thing. And please, you've introduced me to this. Okay, so... A Chansey is playing Masterful. Oh, wow. Kuriyama Kazayun Park. I'm assuming it's in Japan. And it seems to be Chansey themed, or at least Pink Pug One themed, because, I mean, this Chansey is huge. It is so big. It is like the size of a house, like a two story house, for sure. Like, it's massive. Okay, so this is the other side of it. Wow. Oh, that looks awesome, doesn't it? Imagine, like... Imagine coming across that as a kid. Bro, what is it? That's so cool. That is so freaking cool. Japanese once again outdoing themselves. Outdoing themselves. Player parks. Just doing it better than the rest. Right, so I only had one other thing, which isn't going to top that, but... That was, that was the amazing thing. Just, I just thought this was just funny, because I don't know why, like, I don't know why you'd want to get, so this is a TCG relay product. And obviously, we've discussed in the past, like, one of the best ways to display stuff is to get it graded, because it's a nice slab, right? You can get the stands, they look cool. And there aren't really, you know, you can put it in like a top loader and stuff, but it's not the best, should we say. It doesn't look the best. So you can get cars graded, and someone's had their chairs upgraded, and I don't understand why they've had the chairs upgraded, to be honest with you, because it's so bad that they haven't even given it a grade. That's how bad this is. Oh my God. Like, it has scratches on the front. Like, why bother getting it? Like, unless it has like a mass sentimental that, like, why? It is a shadowless. It is a shadowless, yes, but they haven't even bothered giving it a grade. No, it is very unique in that sense though, isn't it? I mean, it's absolutely destroyed. For those of you that are listening, it looks like someone's got a knife and just went at the hollow of the card and repeatedly kind of sliced down or just scraped at the front or a key or something. What you do with a key when you're like grinding on something, it looks like that's what they've done to the hollow and then they've sent the shadowless Charizard off to get graded and it doesn't look nice, does it, mate? It's kind of sad to see. No, it's very sad to see. But, you know, it probably has sentimental value. That has not been put in a box and that's just happened. Someone's gone at that with something. Someone has absolutely destroyed that thing. Oh, could you imagine? Could you imagine if that was your card and you came in and like, you just like, some little, I imagine it's been like, I'm just making assumptions here. Some toddler has just got a hold of it. Oh, right. You did this when you were a child, right? And so you have this realisation, right? Pokemon cards are boomerang. Oh my God, I have a shadowless Charizard, right? You run upstairs into your loft, you get up into your loft, you pull the binder down, you open it up and this is the state of your Charizard and you're like, why did I do this? I remember doing that for a laugh with the lads. Because I was, I had a, yeah, I'm hypothetically making a scenario here where I was battling my friend who had, I was battling my friend, Phil, who had a blast toy. So I had a Charizard and Phil beat me. So to make it look like the battle was really like, scratched out the hollow on my Charizard. And I have this horrific memory of it. Yeah, traumatic memory of it. It is a very unique card though. So, you know, I bet there's not another one like that. No, there is that to it. But no, that's, that's pretty much it for today. We have some big news though. Because you have something, did I see something about Mew that you had? I did, but I don't know how interesting it is. I'll put it back up again quickly. But I'm interested about it. So hopefully the listeners and the viewers are. So, do you know? Scott wants to end this and I'm just dragging it on. Where am I saved post? Okay, right. So, do you know, do you have you heard of Pokemon 99, the Pokemon 99 tour? So basically this guy went to it. This guy has, he found his old games. All the Pokemon are gone except for two Mews from the Pokemon 99 tour that were transferred by Nintendo and he just has them left on his cartridges. Really? And so he's like wondering like how rare they are. Very rare, very rare. I don't know how we can tell from this. Maybe the name, the OT name, was that Linky and Luigi? Oh, I don't know. I wasn't the 1999 tour. So this is way before when I got Mew. I got Mew on my Red from the 2001 championship tour. They give out Mew at that event. Pokemon Bank apparently wouldn't work since it detects any Mew that isn't from the VC events. Wow, okay. So they're stuck on this poor copy of Red. Oh, that is so annoying when they're like an official, because how they used to do it would be from a, they transfer it from like another Game Boy and they'd hook up with you, like old school and they'd transfer you to the Link Cable, the event Pokemon. Pretty cool. I remember I like Toys R Us and stuff. It was pretty cool. Yeah. I remember trying to look up. They used to do. I would always look up when I was younger. When I got into Pokemon and had Diamond of Puzzle, constantly trying to look up, like are they doing any distribution events and stuff? I've got some stories about places I went to get like... Oh, we'll save it for another one. Yeah. I went on some mad journeys to the back end of nowhere, to these random events that I didn't even know existed, that were like little village events that we're doing sometimes. Got some stories. We'll touch on it another week, but yes. Very cool. Good old days. So back to the news. Oh, yeah. Fully dragged us out for another hour. You know, although it's been good. It's been a good episode. The channel, the pod is moving to its own channel next week. Yes. So episode 10 will be on its own channel, the Pugables podcast. No, yeah, or Pugables podcast as it's named. So go subscribe now. The next episode will be up on there. We may have a guest or we could do it live. I've just had the thought we could possibly do it live, but probably not. We'll see. It depends on how many times we, maybe we'll save the live once. More people know that it's there, but it's moving over now. So it will not be on Lee's channel. It will not be on Osiris this coming week, the following week. So yeah. So the channel is live now. There's no videos on it yet, but obviously we're going to start posting. I've got a bunch of shorts I will be posting on there as well from clips of all the episodes we've done already. Um, but no, please go subscribe. And obviously if you're listening on Spotify and have a podcast, I know you're listening. 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And we'll announce that on the new channel. You know the Pikachu plush from Worlds last year? I've got a spare one of those. We could put that up as a, as a, as a, we'll do a draw. You can't, you can't contact. There's no way to know Spotify. We'll just, you might have a username. That's it. There's no way to prove that it is what it is. You shouldn't have told me that. And then we could have just done that and got a bunch of reviews. And then at the end of it, we could have been like, Oh, well, we can't find out who's done the minimum slow. No, we need to shout out New Zealand. Okay. So I've got this random email from this guy. Obviously trying to, there are loads of ways to track your podcast, right? Loads of websites. And there's this website that does it. They're obviously trying to promote it because he has to put like a five a month for it to work. But in the email, he said that we, our podcast is somehow number seven in the video game category in New Zealand. How? We love you, New Zealand. We love, we love you. But just like four people. Oh, what is going on? Like how has this happened? But yeah, because I mean, I'll see it on. You can see the demographic on there. Like some people we see you. We have some interesting demographic for, excuse me. For, you know, our audience, but New Zealand, 2% of our viewers are probably from New Zealand. So, but yeah, no, we have someone from Oman, Mali. These countries I've never heard of before. Austria, Canada, Australia. You've heard of Austria, haven't you? Yeah, no, I understand that. I'm just listening to other countries. I'm not that stupid. But no, it's, we really do appreciate everyone listening to it. Like last week's episode is at 39 plays now. Wow. That's the most we've had on Spotify so far. Yeah. Thank you so much to everyone that is supporting. We have seven, 27. It's a lot of fun to follow this as well. It's like, I will on the channel put a community post out just to let everyone know that. We'll remind you a couple of times. And I will link it as well. So if you want an easy way to find, keep an eye out for that community post and it will be linked and I will be linking everything in the previous stuff that's on the channel to the new channel. And it will be, yep, we're catching the Pokeballs podcast and it's gone off on its own. And moving away from the Osiris channel, but it's been a nice little journey to kind of just give us a little. I can't believe we're almost on episode 10 already. I know. It's crazy. It's like two and a half months. We'll have a podcast. Yeah. It's amazing. Here's to another two and a half months. It'd be interesting to see where we are this time next year. Two DLCs out. Yeah, okay. We'll see. Yeah. We'll see. Two DLCs out. I've had ability. Pokemon Hunger Play League breaks the game. Black and white two remakes on the way. Don't don't don't tear up my heart. Straight mint. Yeah, it's gonna be good. And then getting close to a Gen 10 announcement. Yep. We'll have to wait and see or have to wait and see, baby. But you know, here's to another two and a half. Two and a half my dudes. It's obviously loads of fun. But yeah, no, I think that's pretty much it for this week. Have you got anything else you would like to say before we say goodbye? No, nothing. Nothing, baby. That's it. Thanks for tuning in, everyone. It's been a pleasure. You've been great. You're beautiful. Thanks for listening. We'll see you all on the next one. Hopefully we've got a bit more better news. Then what we've been wrangling in today's episode. Excellent. Goodbye, guys. See you later.