 Welcome to week five of the pokeballs podcast with your horse Lee and other hosts Scott. How are you doing, mate? You doing good this week? I'm hungry. Sitting there munching, munching on the remnants of an Easter egg. What Easter egg was it, mate? It was a, um, one of the small mini egg ones. Oh, nice. Wasn't that the one that you had like last time we were? I bought three of them. They've lasted a while, mate. Yeah, I'm pretty, um, I'm pretty anal when it comes to not eating everything at once. So I've still got a drawer full of sweets or sweets that I bought like at Christmas. Just don't eat all at once. I know, I know you're the opposite. Completely, yeah. I know you can knock back some sweets when you're going to have some. I'm an all or nothing guy. I respect that. Literally, like, yeah, I will, that will just, if that's why it's better if I don't buy stuff because then if it's in, I'll just eat it. Yeah. Yeah. So if it's not there, it's fine. And I've got like alternative. So it's alright. Um, yeah. Anyway, I hope everyone watching, viewing, listening is doing good. Having a great week. There's been a lot happening in the Pokemon world this past week. Obviously the last episode we got to record in person. We're back in our separate abodes right now and back to normal flow of things. We'll be getting through a bunch of what's been happening in this week to record this episode man. Like after last week's episode, obviously being in person and seeing you as well. I just want to record the next one. We got back. We just want to record the next. Now let's do it. Yeah. Let's pump more out. I know it was somewhere. It was a lot of fun, mate. I had a blast at the event and it was, it was super nice doing it in person. So hopefully it isn't too long before we can do another one. Maybe we have a PC coming up. Maybe we could do a special one for that. That would be kind of cool. Yeah, we could do that. Might be good. Stay tuned for that. Depending on people that are attending, we could have maybe special guests. That would be... Wow, it depends on between rounds. That would be quite difficult. No, I mean afterwards. Oh yeah. That's true. Yeah. So lots to look forward to anyway. Getting on to news for this week. The first thing to kick us off with last night, we had the announcement of the next 7-star Terraried event that will be happening in Scarlet and Violet. And in Teleon, the 8th Gen Star of Pokemon will be joining the ranks. I think a lot of... It's a weird one because I think a lot of people aren't like that excited about in Teleon, but a lot of people like Sobble. So, there's like a kind of a win-win situation with it for most people, but I don't know how do you feel about it, mate? I'm excited for it. I mean, it's cool Pokemon. I mean, I forgot what Pokemon it was, to be honest with you. I was trying to work out... I knew it was the start of Pokemon. I was trying to work out what one it was. It's like a spy. The spy lizard, isn't it? Yeah. But... It's a bond impersonation. The shiny form of in Teleon is actually very, very nice. Yeah, it's got very, very nice shiny. I'm looking forward to Shiny, Her and Sobble, mate. Yeah, and I'll do it 100%. Very excited. So that'll be good. But no, it's a really weird one because, you know, obviously, we've had a lot of comments on your videos saying, well, the last couple of videos and people were moaning about on Twitter. I know Joe Merrick has been complaining about it as well. People are really peeved that home is still not here. And given the fact that we've just been given another seven-star I don't think it's coming any time soon, to be honest with you. No, I got a bit of a theory about this. I was thinking about this earlier, mate. I'll let you go ahead with what you were saying. No, I was just going to say that was pretty much it. Yeah. So I was thinking about this earlier and I was like, huh. So what's home? When they announced that Pokemon Home Compatibility was coming, they initially announced it for early 2023, right? No, it was like, I can't remember. They changed it. Did they announce it in that direct? Yeah, that's when they updated it to early 2023. I'm sure they had a set time that was earlier before that. So in my mind, early 2023, things are running a little bit behind at Game Freak, whatever, and they had to just kind of ballpark a date and say, well, we'll definitely get it out for this date. Now, I honestly, like my heart of heart, honestly thinks that that update that we got in the 1.2 update that caused the save date, the glitches, all the other issues, I honestly think that was what's pushed home back. I think that was probably meant to be the update before we got home, which I think home was, I think they intentionally meant it to be when we got the last week, the 1.3 update. I think that was meant to be the home update there, but I think all the issues that were caused from 1.2 update just put them even further behind. So on a timeline, I was thinking about this. I was like, okay, so the 1.2 came out in early March. About a month and a half later, we got the 1.3 update, which we got last week. So a month and a half out. So I am saying second week in June is when I think we'll get it, which is crazy, because that is so far away, but that's when I think we'll get it. I think you're right, really. I think that kind of goes back to the whole them being really vague with the DLC as well. I think because maybe they had a feeling that all they knew the game wasn't entirely polished and they were like, we're going to give ourselves a leeway here in case they do have problems. It makes a lot of sense to me. That's what you just said. The issues with Pokemon Go, I think caught them completely by surprise. Yeah, you know the compatibility, because in the 1.3 update they said the issues, the crashes caused by the connection between Pokemon Go and Scarlet and Violet had been resolved. I think that was probably one of the issues. I don't think they've not come out and stated anything specific against the save data glitches. So who knows, but it kind of indicates. That is still afraid to play the game. I know. That's one sad thing about it, isn't it? That's why they need to communicate. That's why they need to communicate. They need to come out and say this was a problem. We're really sorry about it. No one would care if they just said this was the problem. Sorry about it. It's been resolved. This is the problem. We're sorry about it. We are working on it. Don't worry if you're affected by it. Contact us and we'll fix it. That's all they need to do. It's like a simple statement, and I think it would put everyone's minds at rest. It's because of this no transparency about it. I know it's only affecting a tiny minute amount of players, but still, because it's only affecting a small minute of players, they're like, oh, we don't want to bring any more attention to it. But at the same time, it's like these are your customers. Just be transparent about it. You get bad press about all sorts all the time. Being transparent and communicating in my mind would be a really good step forward, but who am I to tell Game Freak what to do, mate? They're both company are weird like that. They're almost in denial when stuff happens. They try their best to not comment on stuff, and I get it to a certain extent, but you feel like if they had a bit of transparency, say, for example, your theory is correct. It sounds like a sound theory. Why not just be like, this is what's happened. We wasn't expecting this problem. This is why home hasn't come out, because at the moment, we're in the dark right, so it's just leaving people speculating what's going to happen. And I think that's what causes a lot of the frustration, because no one actually knows what happened. And I get it, game development is difficult. I mean, we've seen loads of games coming out. I've had problems at Cyberpunk, I had loads of problems and stuff like that. These game developers don't get enough time, as we've discussed, particularly to develop the games, and so sometimes you get, well, it seems to be more of a regular occurrence now, like an unpolished game. And I'm really interested to see if Tears of the Kingdom has any problems. I mean, if they fuck Tears of the Kingdom up, excuse my French, I think they're going to be in big trouble. I don't think they will, though. No, but I don't think they will, because they're probably more protective of that than they are the Pokemon IP, because as we've discussed, they've got everyone in part of the house. They've laid so much as well, man. It's like over a year laid from when it was originally meant to come out. So you would hope that it doesn't, I mean, the original, I mean, Breath of the Wild still had like glitches in it. There's like fun glitches that you can do in it, you know, to get like more hearts and, no, not game breaking. I know, I totally get your sentiment. I think like, yeah, there has to be some, like I'm probably not as thoughtful for the game development side as I should be, because it's not really the game developers' faults. If that team of game developers are there and they're under resourced, it's the umbrella over the top that are kind of not providing the support for those employees. That's the problem. And for such a, and this is where my problem comes in, I think for such like the biggest multimedia franchise in the entire world to have problems where departments are complaining because they're behind, because they haven't got the staff. I think that that's a problem. That shouldn't be a problem for such a big organization. But again, it comes back to the not communicating because I think in a way, they're probably scared of the bad press that could kind of follow with it. So sometimes, you know, they're saying, saying nothing is saying, you know, it's better than saying anything, you know, sometimes. But I don't always agree with that. You're never going to please everyone. That's a problem. No, that's the thing, you know, you could have the best news ever and always be someone that will be like, the worst thing. I'm doing a really bad impression, but you get you get the gist. I'll never do that again. I think if they come out and was like, look, they said, we're not the next main series problem game. We're going to delay it by another year because we want to make sure it's really good. Or they come out and made a statement about like the cycle of games, right? And like, this is how we want to run it because we want to make sure that the games, the games, like the games run well. Like, we know you enjoy the games and whatever. You know, I think that make a big difference. I mean, for example, I've played a lot of Apex Legends as I spoke to you about recently. And, you know, it's a PC, like, Battle Royale game, but the last season updates are normally because it's all like character based, they will release a character every season. Last season update, they were like, we're not going to release any characters because we want to focus on fixing a lot of the game problems. And they have kind of done that. And I kind of respect that a lot more. And I feel like in the same sort of vein, if we want to come out or come out and just be like, look, we want to make sure that they run well. Or we know we're just going to give developers a bit of extra time. Then, you know, I think a lot of people would be happy. The problem is they know people are going to buy the game regardless. I mean, as we've said many times, Scarlet and Bullet has smashed records globally. I mean, the fact that we're getting insane numbers at IRL events before, like we've never had that with a game like in terms of like increasing numbers. We've never had that with any other game release before. So like, there must be... Like, you can't blame them. We're like, well, we must be doing something, right? That's it. I was reading earlier actually that in Japan, the Switch and Nintendo stock, like profits for this like first core of the year are like way over what they expected way up. They're doing like amazingly well with Switch sales still, you know, as old as the console is. So it kind of makes me think as well, like, is it like just the pressures from Nintendo saying, you know, you're one of our main IPs. We need you to get this game out like now and Game Freaks saying, we'd rather have like another year to develop this and Nintendo saying, no, it has to come out this year. I don't know how the contracts work, what things happen. I was going to say, how does it work? I have no idea. Like the Pokemon company, do they just rent the license out to Nintendo who then employ Game Freak to make the game? Or does Pokemon make the game? They hire Game Freak and then sell the rights to Nintendo to sell it? Like, how does it work? Richard's Inc is the company, isn't it? That's like Game Freak, isn't it? Which is the developing team of Pokemon. But I'm not really sure how Nintendo fits into all of that, like in regards to... Because there are certain games, right, that are like Nintendo games, like the Mario games that are made by Nintendo. But the Pokemon company is a separate entity. And they're way bigger than Nintendo themselves. So I don't understand how that works. Bro, imagine if they moved to Sony or something, man. Imagine if Sony were like, come on, we're revamping the new... We've got a new PSP model. They're like, come on. It won't work. Could you imagine? Yeah, we're just going to sell to Sony now. It's going to Nintendo there soon. We're not selling to Nintendo anymore. I don't know how it works actually, mate. I'm not really too familiar... Now it makes me want to... I'm going to, for next week's episode, I'm going to have a little dig and we'll be able to discuss this a bit more. Because it's quite interesting. As we discussed before, like obviously Pokemon, loads of money, I actually didn't realise that for a long time. It was only like a couple of years ago, I was going to an event, and Ben was actually saying, it was like, yeah, like Pokemon is like one of the richest companies in the world. And I was like, what? Because I just assumed Nintendo had more money, but it's just like nowhere near that Pokemon has. Pokemon is so rich, man. That's what I mean about like, how can a game like this be like, have these issues? The richest of rich, you know? I don't even think it's necessarily their fault. I mean, we kind of live in an age where people constantly want stuff and so, not even in this industry, but even if you look in the TV industry and even in the movie industry, if you look at like, VFX artists being given like, no time to do the VFX for Marvel movies, you know, we've known that for a long time. They get treated like crap basically and have no time to do stuff. And I think that, you know, it definitely shifts, you know, the similar thing happens in the game industry where there's a lot of pressure to constantly release stuff and they're just, you know, trying to, you know, improve your game and, you know, the quality of it. You kind of, you need that extra time. But it's what's it been since like, I mean, I get that and I totally get that. You need that like, it almost feels like there has to be a constant churn of new product to keep the product alive. But it's not really the case because I think Zelda is a perfect example of an IP that doesn't necessarily like fall by that crux, you know, where they are like, how old to switch because Breath of the Wild launched with the six years, six years between titles. This is why it hasn't, it hasn't damaged the, it's probably just strengthened the IP. You've got to think, you know, but then was those games that IP is run differently to the way the Pokemon company is. Of course it is, yeah. The brand is built on, okay, we release games often. You know, we're nearly on, we're on gen nine now, right? So it's like, that is, I think Pokemon have fallen into that, that like horrible cycle of having to release something every year almost when, you know, back when it was red, blue and yellow, gold, silver crystal, between generations, it was normally about three years before you got a new generation. And it still is that, but every year we're getting something different. Like now we're getting the DLCs in between. We'll probably get black and white remakes next year. And then the year after that will be the back end of it, when we get probably gen 10. Do you know what I mean? And I feel like it doesn't need to be so fast paced. And we might even get a Legends game like bunged in amongst all of that as well. I mean, yeah, was it like when we had like the Diamond and Pearl me make Legends and then Scotland Violet. Yeah. So it was November, November, Diamond and Pearl, February, the Legends RCS came out and then in November we had Scotland Violet. Crazy. Yeah. I mean, I think the, I think the problem, one of the problems is, again, you could change this. So it's not really nice to choose. Pokemon games, a lot of games, particularly games, you know, like the Zelda franchise, the story requires a lot more time, right? There's a lot more thought that goes into it. Whereas the Pokemon games, Scotland Violet doesn't, you know, does have a longer story and there is more in it. But because they, they've never been like, long, grimy kind of games. So if you, if they did that and then wait three years and you got like 20 hours of playtime out of the game, because realistically that, you know, once you played through, they aren't really, I know we've got the DLC coming out, but again, that's kind of the same thing, I guess. There's not really much else you can do after you've done it, other than like, shiny hunting and obviously, but again, I understand that's the nature of Pokemon, but you know, they could wait longer and just make the story a lot bigger. Because that's essentially what they're doing with the DLC, right? Imagine if, instead of releasing Scotland Violet last year, they released it this year, but with both of them DLC packs? Yeah. Yeah. And it was well-optimized. People, I don't think people would be upset. I mean, they can do enough stuff, you know, in order to fill the gap, you know, if they really wanted to, they could experiment with other Pokemon games in between, you know, which I guess they kind of ... I mean, they did it with Diamond and Pearl, you know, they outsourced it to Ilka. I mean, they could usually do it with other studios as well. Like you said about, you know, the next generation of console that comes out, you know, are we going to be looking back on it and being like, we're so stupid? They obviously did this for a reason, you know, you know, the console comes out and it's like insane. It's got like, all the different things that they've been testing for the last couple of years. Maybe they've been rushing it because rushing, because they want to test it before the next-gen console comes out. So when Gen 10 comes out, you know, it'll be an absolute banger. I mean, I could be wrong, but you know, hindsight, you know what hindsight's like? It's a bitch. So we could ... So I know the stuff that they were testing, I've probably said this before, I know the stuff that they were testing in Legends Arceus was, that would be all earmarked. If that went down well, that would be earmarked to implement in Generation 10. That would never be intended to implement in Gen 9 because by the time, the life cycle of when, like Gen 9 was due to come out, it was all kind of finished. It was definitely finished by then. Yeah. So we'd never see any ... It's just that understanding. I think like, you've got a lot of players at the time that play Legends Arceus and I hope these, the series would be in ... There were really a lot of legends as well, which is ... Yeah, yeah, yeah. The two pods back, we talked a bit about Legends Arceus. Great game, mate. The music in it is like, peak for me. I need to play. It's so good. I keep seeing clips of people playing it. It does look ... It looks better. It's not much fun. Your character can be fainted as well. Really? Yeah, yeah. Like Pokemon actually attack you in it. That's cool. Like Pokemon eat you out of there. That's pretty cool. It's good. Yeah, it's pretty good. But getting back all the way back, from that little side segment, I think you're right about the ... The intelligent raid being announced. It kind of does give you the indication that Pokemon Home is not coming out for a while. And it feels like we're going to get a new cycle of starter Pokemon. It feels like we're going to get pretty much ... I don't know why I don't do that. ... the starter Pokemon. Just like mix it up. But I feel like because they started the starter Pokemon. Stardust. They're going to finish with it. We've got to keep rolling with it. But I mean ... It could be linked ... Yeah. But there's 27 starter Pokemon now. So ... We don't have time to get through them all. Yeah. People will be really paid off if they cycle through all of them. Home compatibility, 20, 24. Sorry. We made a mistake with the three. We meant early 24. It was a typo. Yeah. Now, the history in Pokemon would be great. I've been saying that for a while. But I think ... I think once home's out, I think that's when they'll start doing it. But we'll see. Like, yeah. I think you're right. They kind of started with the starter Pokemon, sticking with it. But there's also the link with the DLCs, with the masks, and the new mechanic with the masks in the Teal Mask DLC. And the link to the starters having specific masks that give them specific unique terror typings or terror, like, terrestrialization. There's always ... There's always the ... All the starters would be kind of good to get that. On this ... You know, because you think ... It is entirely on, just like a reaction to, like you said, the knockback. But then there's also ... They probably could have already planned to do ... All the starters could be part of this Teal Mask DLC, right? Mm-hmm. So this could have been ... They could have already planned to do it this way. And obviously we're thinking it's a reaction to the problems they had with the walking wake update and stuff. They could have ... The home could have been coming out, but they still could have been doing these star-poked raisins. Will the DLC come out? Yeah. That's a really good point, mate. That is actually ... Yeah, because the DLC, the Teal Mask is still ... Because the ... That was the other thing I'm going to touch on today, was the fact that we've now got the download cards available in Japan. And we've got this little bit of artwork that's brand new to us. Of the ... Of the gameplay, really, we have locations in each of the DLCs. But the DLC dates on the game on the download cards are still full and winter. So nothing's changed there. But it'd be interesting to know if we took all of the remaining starters and we kept this kind of cycle of ... Every two weeks we get new star raids. How many have we done? Let's work it out now. How many have we done? Seven, right? How many have we done? So the first one was Charizard. Charizard. I'll tell you. Let's get them up. Charizard. Clean the race. Wait there. I've got them all in chronological order. Let's go back to ... Is it four or five? Ah, okay. Here we go. Let me pull it up. Okay. Let's start, right? We've got Charizard. It's number one here. Okay. It's number uno. Uno. Then we had Cinderace, which is number two. There's a lot of time between those. Then we had ... Greninja. Greninja. Then we had the Pikachu. That's four. I don't know if we count Pikachu. Do we count Pikachu? Let's leave it for now and see how the numbers work out. Okay. So we've got three. Then we had Decidueye. Four. Four. Then Samurai. Five. Then Typhlosion. Six. Seven. Yeah. Seven. Seven. Seven. Seven. Eight. That leaves... Twenty. So, I was left. Every two weeks. That's 40 weeks. That's not going to happen. No. No. So, that doesn't add up. Unless, no, because you've got to discount Venus or Blastoise on intergame data. Okay. I would assume they will be in one of the DLCs. Okay, so that brings us down to 18. 18. What? So, that's 36 weeks. And they're not done. They haven't done, they haven't done Rellaboom. No, it's in like what generation starters have they not done? They've done no Gen 3. No Gen 4. No Gen 2. No Gen 3. No Gen 4. No, they did Gen 2, didn't they? Gen 5, I don't think they're going to do, because Superior isn't in the game data. I don't know if Mbore is, and... Okay, so exclude them three. Well, Samorot is, Samorot is, right? So Samorot, so you could potentially have Mbore as well. Okay. So you discount one of them, which is... We're down to 17 now. And then after that, we had... Oh, no, we've had... No, we had Oshawa. Yeah, which is Oshawa. Yeah, which we just, yeah, we just made. We've had no Gen 4. No Gen 3. So... Then Gen 6 would have been Chespin, the Fox, Del Fox, and... What's the grass one in that? No, that was the Chesnault. Chesnault Del Fox. What's the water one? I can't remember. I always do this. I'm always trying to think of the stars, and I'm sitting and I'm like, what is it? What is it? What is it? I believe I'm googling this. Gris Grinninger. We had... Of course, Grinninger, yeah. We were discussing this. Look, so they have had Gen 6. Are they at Gen 7? So they need to finish Gen 6, alright? So they need to finish Gen 6. So there's two more from Gen 6. Why don't we just cycle through how many program we have left from the generations that we started? That we've had, right? So we've had Ignorant Charizard. You don't reckon the other one's in there. So Soon to Race was the second one. So the other two starters would be... Telion. Telion, which we've just had. And it was really a boom. So really a boom, we're missing. Yeah. What was the one after that? That was Grinninger. No, Grinninger was after that, right? Yeah, Grinninger. So then we're missing Chestnut and Deltsoff as 4. And then... Dissiduous was after that. So then you have... We've had Soon to Race and Dissiduous. So what was the other one? What's the water type for? Gen... That's Gen 7, wasn't it? It's Gen 7. So it's Elythrin and Poipol. Oh, yeah, the seal thing. So that's 5. Yeah. And then we just had... What was after Samo? We just said so Superior and Embo. Yeah, but Superior's not in. So we can't count that. Okay, so we're up to 6. And then we just had Typhlosion. So Meganium and Feraligata. Yeah. That brings us up to 8. Yeah. That'll be 16 weeks. 16 weeks. Which is 4 months, isn't it? Yeah. Which will bring us into 4. 4 months. April, May, June, July, August. End of August. May. This could be spot on. Because that would take us into fall in September with all of those starters. We will know when we get the next 7-star tarade if we are correct. Because if it's not from one of the generations we haven't discussed, gen 3 or gen 4, then we know that there's a fair chance that we're on onto something. Hey, everyone. Scott, out of everyone, who would have thought he's cracked the code for when the DLC will drop will be the end of August, start September. End of August, start September, baby. Here you go. I know they've said fall, so we're kind of ballparking what they've said anyway, but it's a really nice theory that these are the remaining starters and if it plays out like that, mate, props, that's some... For some big brain-speaking mother. Big brain. Yeah, that's good, mate. We'll see in 2 weeks when we get the announcement of the next... Yeah, it has to be from that pool. If it's not from that pool, what should it be? Embo. So, look, we need the game! Yeah. So, yeah, here are the download codes that you can buy now in shops in Japan, so you can get the pack of the DLCs. And that came out today. That is kind of something that people are thinking we're going to get some news dropping very soon in regards to this, because we've had this dropping today. Last week we had this little guy announced, which is the... Let me get this right. Trapagos. I hope I'm pronouncing it right, because I was saying it wrong, I believe, so hopefully you get it right now. It's linked to that somehow. We don't know too much about it. It was obviously revealed in the anime as well. We touched on it a little while ago. Before that gets pulled up on your next outtake. Yeah, and there was this really interesting... I can't pronounce this Pokemon. You've got it down it! Pass, pass, pass. But we did have this tweet as well, Source of the Art, which is a really well-renowned leak analyst. There's some amazing posts, amazing work. I've covered a lot of previous stuff on the channel before, but did put this out, which I thought was very interesting. Fans, what is going on with some of the official Pokemon Twitter accounts? They're posting tons of turtles. So this is after they reveal this little guy, which hasn't had a name, hasn't had any information about it. Turtles, I was so perplexed when I saw them post the Sword and Shield gift first, but now it makes sense. Also, Shuckle is in there. So Shuckle technically a turtle. But they posted more turtle stuff after this, which is very kind of towards... Unless it makes sense, like in relation to the DLC specifically, because one of them's water-based, right? As we've discussed, like land and water DLC type thing. So just water turtle Pokemon would make sense. But I think like they're just, they're either gearing up to drop some news, like a short video on the miniature pre-evolution of Tropaco. So it goes, I'm just going to say the turtle. Yeah, I know it is now. Now I'm thinking about it. That blue turtle thing. Yeah, the blue turtle thing. But yeah, maybe we get like some news dropped now. And with the back of the download cards being released, you'd think Pokemon probably want to start, like, you know, starting the hype up for these DLCs if they are dropping it this year. And if they are coming at the end of August, start of September, they're going to have to start kind of throwing some advertisement around these, these DLC soon, because that's the first on the Teal Mask, right? So it's just interesting that it's a turtle Pokemon. And the kind of the Terpegos is linked to the the second DLC, not the first one. It's kind of interesting. So we'll see where it goes. Let's just try to really just curveball us into thinking something else. Just turtles or just a mess. The theme of the month. The social media manager was just like, hmm, let's play with them people. I like turtle Pokemon, just posing pictures of all the turtle Pokemon that exist. They've let Steve, they've let Steve out again. Steve's been at it. What do we said? I told him, don't let him on the Twitter account. Turtles for days. I don't mind it. I was kind of thinking, are we going to get, are we going to get blast toys? It's a terror raid event. That's what everyone was saying. Not happening. Not happening. Another news though, the second global challenge happened. Over the past weekend. So you can now, if you did take part in it and you complete three battles, either win or lose, you can go into Pokemon home and get yourself your redeem code for this lovely. They're giving out stylish. My mystery rifle bag. They're giving out by mystery if no today. We're giving out one of them by mystery. Yeah, let me find Joe's tweet. No, I think they're just giving these out. They're just available through Pokemon home. You get, if you've participated, you get a code in Pokemon home and then you can redeem it in your game. So the only way you can get this apparel in your games, if anyone listening. Oh, sorry. You're right. Yeah. A blue and white backpack. It's aesthetically, I'm not a massive fan of it, but I mean, it's better than what we've got in the games at the minute. So that is available as well at the moment. There is, of course, more mystery gifts running Scott at the moment. There's a new one running currently for the TMS. I think it's bad and pass and stealth rock. And we're we're two teams to drop kind of. Yeah. I don't know why they just don't drop like what we do. Oh, I don't know. I don't just why don't they drop good stuff? Like, yeah, doesn't make any sense. Like, who's going to use the tip? Like, and it's like to the love balls stuff like the love balls. And I only gave us two, but that's like a good the love balls was really good. That's a really good mystery. Like, give us stuff that's hard to get. Yeah. So the code for that is rock and baton rock and baton. And it runs till the the seventh of May. So there's a little bit of time if you want to get to not particularly, but I mean, if you play singles, right, stealth rocks, probably good, but it's probably used in singles a lot more, but generally, it's a pretty, running self rock. Yeah. It's pretty bad. It's a pretty bad. It's a pretty bad mystery gift, really. Other news, we mentioned it briefly. I'm just going to fly through stuff. Scott, if you don't mind, let's go for it. Get into the juice. They we've got the the 1.3 patch update for Pokemon, Scotland and Violet and all the patch notes there. I did a bit of a breakdown video on the channel. So if you want to check that out and a bit more detail, then that is there for you to watch. Basically, just an overview of it. It does fix the problem with the bad egg. The players were experiencing when they initially dropped the walking wakinine leaves rage where players weren't updating the game and going in and instead of encountering one of the new paradox Pokemon encountered a bad egg. They caught it and then it limited them. They weren't able to catch these Pokemon after that because the bad egg counted as one of them caught it. So that fix. Yeah. There's some updates bug fixes around there's lots to do in battles like could chew the ability was fixed. It will not proc multiple times like it was so it will only trigger once the first time and then that will be it after that. So that's how it's meant to work before that right up to now it's been not working correctly. So that has been resolved. There's a few issues kind of shown on the battle screen when it teracelizes or if it copies something that has teracelized etc. So all those little bits have been fixed as well. And then an issue with moves that are like status moves and happening twice behind a substitute. It's like a really nice situation. So that has been sorted but the bigger ones are the Pokemon goal connectivity and the crashes that happened between that and Scholar and Violet for the Vivillon event or the Vivillon Vivillon event as I heard from our casting segment and then things around the Hissui and Zoroark as well when it was when you got it through the mystery gift from pre-ordering the DLCs it was if it wasn't registered in the pocket exit was registering incorrectly so that's been resolved and then it just finishes with other big bug fixes implemented but doesn't really elaborate on those so that was that mate 1.3 patches being done the walking wake and iron leaves rays will be coming back on the first of May in-game and they'll be running for two weeks and I don't think they'll be clashing with anything else I think they'll be running alongside whatever other seven star raids that they have planned so I don't think it's going to I initially thought we're going to have two weeks without the spotlight terror event for those two weeks because this might just take its place but I mean I mean if we got the Blissey back again right we don't want a Blissey again I don't think they need to knock it again they need to do the Herba I don't know what they need to do the Herba they could have done Blissey in like a month I don't know such a good idea I do have this other bit of news as well we have been following it on the pod the the Niantic decision with Pokemon Go recently they are crying in the community because of the the change to raid passes but there was this that I saw earlier today I thought kind of stirs the pod a little bit more and didn't doesn't look good doesn't look good and you just think that's not a good title was it no come on Niantic really you know when things aren't that great don't keep doing this stuff and this is the tweet that they put out obviously this is someone was able to get it before they took it down because they did take it down so obviously it wasn't taken well by any Pokemon Go players as you can expect like what were they expecting I think Steve's been let out on the social media desk again over at Niantic kicked out of the Pokemon room and straight over to Niantic with these special all-access paths and sort of tweeting out over here wait hang on this is a tweet that they did and then yeah Niantic put out yeah and then they took it down and they took it down yeah oh so they made it oh so they made a joke about oh I see awful someone someone else made a joke and Niantic no no no no this is Niantic that is bad yeah so this tweet here is from Rock Paper Slark this tweet Niantic deleted FYI so yeah this is the tweet that they they deleted that's quite funny to me yeah it's brutal yeah it's pretty brutal but so yeah it doesn't seem like anything it just to me mate it's just really this tasteful because it's just there's obviously a big issue going on with the community and the decisions Niantic are making and we've been quite on the we've been taking a stance from both sides and looking at the decisions we've made and then looking from a player base and I am signing with the player base 100% but we have been looking at it from quite a kind of like an open minded side you know we're looking at both sides of the story here but that to me is sort of it's like it's like the employees in the Niantic are pretty much just like laughing at the situation and it's just it's not a brand at the moment it's not like Pokemon like you know people still buying like the Pokemon games you know but this is like clearly this is stopping people from playing the game like they could lose a lot of players if they just keep this up I think they will as well and they'll continue to it's like I'm not dwelling on it too much there was some announcements some light and odds for Pokemon goal this week that event is starting in May so you're going to get Genesect will be available in five five it's not star raids isn't it it will be raids from the second till the ninth of March and there'll be other Pokemon following it throughout March for the Rising Heroes event that'll be happening in Pokemon Go so that's pretty exciting man that's pretty exciting news for Pokemon Go players that can get out and play of course but yeah hopefully stuff gets resolved you know Niantic I feel like they need to come out and make a big a big apology kind of about it but whether or not transparency you know just burying their head in the sand like yeah it's fine we just won't talk about it it's fine it didn't happen well stupid bro yeah this was interesting we were talking before we came on the pod as well I found this earlier as well Pokemon Company in Japan have you okay I've got something else to say after this go and read something yeah this is this is a good segment really nicely into what you want to talk about this is something else though as well oh nice so this is off the back of the recent releases with the the clay burst and the snow hazard sets which have just been released not just released but you know they were released around early part of April 14th and yeah just you know aware of the situation and they're going to start trying to print more product to meet the demand which is crazy you know you think TCG it had its moment it seems like it's kind of getting a nice stable place but obviously not over in Japan where it's just gone crazy still but I think off the back of it when you look have you seen the artwork from these sets mate and you will once you see the artwork from these sets the nose yeah look at that man they have been smashing out of the park I must say they know how to they know how to bleed your wallet dry it's very nice what is that one the ice cream the one that leaves the ice cream on ice cream yeah the the bascalaba one the whole the whole bascalaba really sick cool one yeah look how sick that is bascalaba man old man cupida so annoying I was like what's this one and they were like alright there's a there it's round this is so cool it's pretty nice these are all like bangers aren't they mate we could be dunce bars dunce bars ooh whoosh in oh mate I need this card have you seen the old art forms of these in this set yeah they are naughty look at that man yeah go to these ones oh mate these are so cool shimpow there the chihuahua is really cool the shimpow and the chihuahua I think is really sick they're all really cool I like that a lot these are very nice very nice and then you got the gold cards here as well hair cross I just like the bright colors I'm a sucker for bright colors look at that right you man but this is why the set's gone nuts I think as well but it's had this knock on effect it's like everyone's like just bought all the rest of the product that's available I need this this is the one this is the one I'll get it for you is that a promise yeah this is a pretty nice card I love the colors yeah colors yeah people say that people are going to lose their mind for this card mate mouse hold I hate the book with so much really you're the only person that doesn't like it only for VGC it's just annoying I love that card actually it's quite nice damn that's kind of dope I'm not the trust that I was in the head not much to fan of like these full arts but I like all the old walled cards they're really sick yeah they look like so nice that G.U. man man I know one yeah we need to get set I'd love to there is none left though mate there is none left I would be through all these as well so yeah so yeah crazy but that was the other thing and I think that's pretty much just a recap of everything that I wanted to discuss here obviously I lead into your stuff and we've got plenty of time to go through everything else as well mate right so I've just sent you on the TCT trial have you seen this special set that is being released in Japan I really want it but it will sell out instantly I'm guessing this is like I have seen it yes I have seen it artwork is really I have seen it yes I have and I've tried not to look at it because I'm like chances of me getting it are very very slim but yeah it's it's super nice is it like one of the original illustrators or something isn't it like didn't they do one recently with like Pikachu it's a brand I think doing like yeah yeah yeah it's all live isn't it I think other way it's a really cool set yeah it's really nice and the whole product looks super nice as well that's it there with everything so you get like a little frame in it as well put your cards in and then the box there which is just such a nice display piece just like by itself isn't it yep yes then frame for people to get hold of yeah very very nice very nice very nice now on to the mega spice okay yeah Pokemon definitely definitely know how to just print money don't they yes and so we saw a post last week I saw it didn't really think much of it to be honest of this alleged someone had allegedly basically it was a table full of rainbow reyes and secret reyes that had been allegedly stolen by a factory worker and would be sold you got links to this so you can have visuals right so this is the original post and I showed it to Lee and we were like they're definitely fake however there have been some follow up posts we sent me I've just sent it on Twitter oh yeah there it is yes there have been some follow up posts basically confirming that these are indeed real and there's also a statement from Pokemon about it but look at all these cards baby I mean so apparently they are real based on and someone was I was reading the comments and basically someone was saying like they could have made so much money if they just slowly steadily sold these look at the gang of V-maxes mate at the back the old art jeez I mean one I first showed this to you before it was fake right yeah I thought it was but then you can like you take a bit of a closer look and you can see like the text is in the cards well then this post they're definitely not fake this post also showed up on Twitter on Facebook sorry I just sent it to you this one is wild again I think I read the rare the umbra of V-max card is this is this is not cool this is legit not cool and what's that like they're kind of using them 50 of those there yeah must be it looks like there's more of the rare quasi ones easily yeah they're like what's that a corner up there a stack of rare quasi V-max these wild rainbows just casually insane I don't know how how how are they getting them how are people getting these cards well it's actually workers that's sold them from the print line basically this is what this is the theory that the comments supposedly these have been sold and direct from the print factories yeah people that work in them I was speaking to Gabby at the because this this is after you showed me this right and then I had to go and cast for EUIC and I was in backstage and I was talking to Gabby about this she was like can you believe this and I was like this is like this is nuts like like if you're working in the factory like stealing the cards is like literally the dumbest thing you can do because you are going to be prime suspect number one they are going to first off look for people that are stealing the cards as the people that have access to the cards do you know what I mean it's like you're not you're not going to get away with it you are not you could maybe get away with one or two but like when you get away with it maybe like this I reckon you could steal some and then I'm just not just not this many they've clearly got greedy and was just like I would take everything with me yeah it's just they just they got they saw the pre cards and was like damn I got to have a more they could have taken like 10 of the unbrewed cards probably they they probably would have noticed something but not they've clearly taken thousands of hundreds if not thousands of cards yeah judging by the stacks we just saw you know and they got to get caught because they've been called out basically I've just sent you Pugman have actually made a statement about this yeah I did see it I think yeah yeah it's wild absolutely wild I mean it's the first time I've ever seen an example of this happening before so we take the protection of our IP and associated products very seriously do you like that voice is that good the deep voice it's a serious voice carry on this is for anyone that is listening the statement from Pokemon so this is my Mr. Pokemon voice this matter remains under investigation and we cannot comment on details at this time I don't know how well it's longer I keep this up sorry I'm just like just get to the point get to the point however we can confirm that Southern Shield booster packs and products were shipped to retail as intended and we have no indication that the integrity of our products were impacted by any confirmed or unconfirmed theft furthermore we can continue we continue to significantly investigate in both the production and security of our TCG business we value the faith of our fans put in us and our products and these investments are intended to help us continue to maintain their trust so that's pretty much the the big old I mean they had to come out and say they had to come out and say that the products weren't affected by this they must be fuming like you know you know the Pokemon company like even they are they must be seeing when they saw this especially the fact that it's got free money especially the fact that it's got out that someone's posted that you know yeah I think like it could have happened in the past but it was all just hot hot yeah taking care of yeah he's being back at the factory again he's been he's been on the take he's been on he's been stealing more with stuff again leaving with bin bags full of full of cuts come on lads really no I missed one more I missed one more I gotta tell you I can't believe it though mate really like it look at this one look this is a video okay right there I'll open you up it's not stopping anytime soon oh my god look at that they're all muse oh my god oh these people are literally stupid like nowadays like they'd commit a crime and we're like I'm gonna post this on TikTok isn't it like all these people like you know this is a really I know I'll make me go viral this is this is a weird tangent right but during like at the beginning of the year on towards the end of last year loads of tech companies were doing layoffs right because they hired loads of people to uncover it and all that but before that happened there was this trend on TikTok of basically all these people that were working on in high high like large tech firms basically talking about how their job basically involves doing nothing all day and like there were loads of these videos which have been like I just go make myself the smoothie sit down answer some emails literally like legs up on the desk right and then loads of people were laid off and it's just like of course they were you just told on yourself like how would you pivot this stupid man you're gonna commit a crime you don't document it at the same time you literally have the best thing on you you literally are doing nothing away you're going undetected and getting paid for doing nothing except going and buying smoothies and then you post it online I wanted the free cloud the cloud obviously not the job I wanted it more than the job so man it is wild I don't get these idiots but you know thankfully it hasn't affected you know supply but yeah I just thought it was interesting bit of drama there also one more thing crazy though crazy you know how we talk about I don't know if you don't go and read it a lot but the problem I'm always really interested because people always post about but these are the cars that I bought and I'm gonna open them and you see people save up the buy products and wait for ages and then buy them and I'm always some people will spend shit under the money right on loads of product and you'll see the stack and you'll be like how can you afford this right and so this guy and again one more link that's in your reddit has bought has basically bought up saved up and bought every single it's got invited boost box no and it's just opened them it's like time to open I mean no this is this is Jordan Shields Jordan Shields my bad whoosh it's like yeah time to open these all what just on one go he didn't buy these over like as they released over time I don't know they might have released they might have bought them all and decided that when they when they end they just could open them all I just don't get these people that just buy or wait like to be I get them waiting but then to just open so much product in one go because these people they'll spend like obviously thousands some of the posts I've seen in here on like sealed stuff and they'll be like I'm going to open it all for my birthday and you'd be like yeah showing me the disappointment I love that yeah the first reply I was literally thinking that I'm like just keep them sealed like now just keep them sealed or some of them sets white are going to be worth a lot of money right the evolving skies the pull rates in it are terrible so you're better off keeping you're better off keeping all of these sealed to be honest and just picking up the singles that you want from the sets I mean I'm not anyone you know and you just want to enjoy them and I'm not I love all of them in packs but when you've got the set there you've got that full set you think that's kind of nice just let's keep that as a just sit on it because you can sell it as a set right yeah you could yeah I want to see if there's a follow up with any of the posts do they not post what you he has not sometimes they normally do do a post but I haven't seen it yet a bit of an anti-climax that mate well if you kind of build this up if you post it fine I will share it we can we can look at his posts on the next week so Choco Donuts that's his that's his handle so keep an eye out for Choco Donuts and opening two four six eight ten twelve booster boxes it's a lot it's a lot of that's a lot of that's a lot of rubbish mate that is a lot of packaging that you're going to have to get rid of well yeah it's kind of bulk yeah and about twelve records at best no when you boil it down like that you know I've got one more thing we can just show yeah the the the grading service in Japan this is it's my favourite part yeah you just show me random stuff no it's good I like it I like it I like it I'll just send you something else okay no Japan's grading service just look way better we should name this Scott's Goodie Bag Scott's Goodie Bag this is a section coined it right Scott's but what's in Scott's Goodie Bag this week Japan's grading service has a beautiful slab design I think this is really sick I don't know if I like it at the bottom if you like and I don't know if that's like just because I'm not used to it that the bottom it feels like it should be at the top but I guess it makes it should be the thing at the top right I think it's just different right you know all of most slab designs they're all at the top right so I like the label though it looks nice that's what I'm saying it looks cool sick different design something different very nice yeah B&I that's pretty much it's in a sleeve is that in a sleeve or is that just in there I don't know on the great on the back of the card yeah wow that's cool QR code that's very cool I like that it's nice it's a nice display piece though that's what I mean that's what I like that guy that's got that stack of them once they get those sent off that we looked at before it's like someone's PSI is like why has someone got like a hundred VMAX Ambrans they've just sent them to us they just don't they just don't clock it it's like yeah I'm so confused I wonder if that's had any effect on like devaluing those cards significantly in the market I don't really keep having an eye on the market to know for those cards to say like you know yeah no I mean that was pretty much it like you said I don't own any of those like I don't own the the Rekwaza I really want it don't have it I don't have the Umbrian I had a chance to get it when it first dropped and now it's just way out of my price point the Gengar as well another one ugh I feel bad for the people that have those I've spent loads of money on them and then there's just people like that just like rocking around with like wands a ward of Rekwaza old arts just like right when they go into a shop right they say they just start paying with proven gods for that trust me this is a lot of money can I have a Tesla please yeah that'll be that'll be 45,000 pounds of Rekwaza old arts is that alright yeah that's good that's good 20 of those yeah it'll be fine this is my money baby yeah I don't know if there's much else to talk about obviously this we've kind of went over most things mate this week we've got the Intelion read kicking off later this week so that'll be a bit of fun we started the show off with that and you came up with the epic theory about what to expect from the remaining I've I really do I think it could be onto something here mate if the next one is I'm making a video a big video about this you should do it I think it'll be a cool video yeah if the next one and we have to wait I think for the next one and then right we got it we nailed it down other things that are happening I don't think there's much going on and competitive this week and oh it's a global challenge weekend or is that the weekend after global challenge three yeah there is another global challenge next week not this week is it no no register now for the global challenge three registration absolutely pleasing for these I did I did see something about it I didn't have too much time let's have a look live and inform ourselves as well as our audience so register now for the 2023 global challenge it will be running from yeah from Thursday the fourth that's next week it's not this week not this weekend next weekend yeah and you will get yourself I think it will be the ultra bag that you will get doesn't does it say does it say unless they announce oh excuse me unless they announce what the gift will be yeah big eons mate big eons for gym today into the gym yeah absolutely yeeted me earlier I'm so tired no that doesn't seem to be anything but you can imagine it's going to be the ultra bag right we've got the pokeball bag for the first one in the great ball and then it will be the masterball bag for the last one I reckon yeah yeah before we get and hopefully between oh you've got to hope that at the start of May we get some DLC news as well some big fat trailer like just like just five minutes of like gameplay or something just give us a sneak sneak peak and it give people what they want but I need to I need to actually put some time into Scotland Violet this week I need to get some money and I need to get some ability patches and I need to get just general level up countries I am so rinsed after doing the video today for the best builds for intelligent I am depleted mate I've got nothing in my game yeah so do it I'm maxed out my level up counties I have to sell some of mine today just to get some money for some vitamins or vitamins vitamins it was paying for me yeah right there let's not ramble on too long no let's do it thank you so much to everyone for tuning in to this week's episode we'd love feedback of course if you are listening on Spotify please leave us a review it really does help the podcast grow it helps us be more discoverable and things like that and it would mean the world to both me and Scott if you could just take a couple of minutes just to go and do that for us it would be amazing also if you are on iTunes do leave us a review on there and then if you are on YouTube let us know down the comment section what your favourite thing from today's episode 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