Pokémon: The Movie 2000 with Matty Limerick

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Pokémon, we've got Matty Limerick of Saturday Morning Confidential on to spread the gospel of forced animal fighting with the next generation! Check out all the anniversary crossover episodes on certainpov.com

Starring Ash Blodgett, Bret Eagleston, Samantha Willson and Pat Edwards

To donate to Ash's Gofundme to help her family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-the-passing-of-john-blodgett

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Pokémon, we've got Matty Limerick of Saturday Morning Confidential on to spread the gospel of forced animal fighting with the next generation!

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Bret: Welcome to another episode of Let's Rewatch, the show where we watch movies that we loved in our youth and find out if they're still any good.

Pat: And I'm PAT.

Ash: Oh yeah.

Sam: Naked vet.

Bret: And today is a special day.

Ash: Back together and it feels so good oh wait maybe I'm not gone yet I don't know.

Pat: Yeah you're you are back in the release timeline.

Bret: I haven't released any of the I haven't released any new episodes yet where she's gone I think there's only going to be one where she's gone and then she's going to be back and then she can be gone again and then she can be back again.

Sam: Perfect Space it out.

Ash: I will be doing my Pokemon evolution in between periods or you don't.

Pat: Like you yeah you personally.

Sam: You're stuck as Kakuna.

Pat: What do your ass and then would the nice.

Pat: Yeah.

Ash: Wait he never has also no hash bash yes and then Ash smash is the Final Four.

Bret: Ash so you're some kind of deer or fire type right.

Ash: So I am Pisces so I could be watertight but you know they do suck so.

Sam: Those are fighting words.

Ash: I know I'm going to taunt him.

Pat: You're bashing and smashing are you not allowed to talk either cuz you haven't introduced yet and all our guest wants to Our Guest wants to oh man that's just.

Ash: Yes.

Bret: We need to start streaming these videos cuz cuz the video is where the action is at.

Sam: Show yourself.

Matty: O'maddy's Limerick from the Saturday morning confidence oh hi everybody.

Pat: If we choose.

Ash: Maddie I choose you goof that's what we should have done first just edited in back go back and edit that in the beginning.

Bret: It's at the Pokemon episode and it's your least favorite namesake Ash but can you do a good Ash Ketchum anyway have you ever done it.

Ash: I don't I don't know.

Bret: You just kind of squeak up your voice.

Bret: It started out really good.

Ash: Pokemon.

Pat: I was going to be a better.

Ash: I'm Ash Ketchum I don't know what does he sound like okay.

Matty: What's good you have to pitch it up you have to pick it up but also be really gravel at the same time so I can 11 year old that smokes Marlboro Reds like it's got to be both.

Bret: What are you watching.

Sam: So today we're washing.

Ash: Sophie's Choice.

Matty: No yes.

Sam: Kind of but the kid version.

Pat: I mean Sophie's Choice is kind of a kid version.

Matty: Oh God.

Bret: Oh oh oh gosh.

Sam: God.

Ash: I know you know I have never seen that movie but I know what it's about just from Context Clues.

Bret: Bouncetown Stark.

Sam: Thanks Pat for all right well so today.

Sam: Watching Pokemon the Movie 2000.

Bret: Which is different from Pokemon the movie because it's now Y2K.

Sam: Yes yes.

Bret: Williston.

Bret: 1999.

Ash: Mm mm movie right that's how it works it's like fun 2000s mm store right.

Bret: You really hit the nail on the head there now.

Sam: Yes yep exactly exactly.

Ash: Hit the noodle on I don't know.

Matty: Through the middle on the wall and it was not ready.

Ash: There we go.

Bret: Not yet.

Sam: Yep excellent so this was released at least in the United States July 21st the year 2 000 so this was a hot hot summer release.

Ash: It was released in 2000 that makes the name make more sense I guess.

Pat: I thought you said it first 1999 I was like the Liars they are already lying to us.

Sam: It's it's because on IMDb it is Pokemon the Movie 2000 (1999.

Bret: * 6. 1 or I'm not supposed to say that out loud.

Sam: Obviously that's higher than I would have thought at a 10 so.

Ash: What 6. 1 on IMDb.

Sam: 6. 1.

Ash: I know I just I've seen the Rotten Tomatoes score at the score for other websites and I'm shocked that it's that high on IMDb.

Bret: You know what the IMDb trivia that I really want is is who votes on IMDb.

Sam: Let me tell you Army of Darkness 3 on IMDb says.

Ash: That's probably Matt storm right.

Sam: Yeah probably he says to put it to put it simply this movie is really good! Pokemon is so underrated and always thought of as stupid by so many people why cuz it's projected towards kids but these movies and cartoons are really good and a lot more complicated than than what meets the eye.

Bret: I take all my social cues from Pokemon.

Ash: I love the range of emotions Maddie is displaying on his face.

Pat: That was very like second opinions on how did this get made.

Matty: It's very like I felt like Britney Broski in income her kombucha girl respond like I just I had that dick cuz like you know what I'll say many things about Pokemon but the greatest of a genre is never one of those things that I will say when it comes to the show or TV or the TV or movies so it's I mean.

Matty: I also would never call it underrated either because it's.

Ash: Yeah it's extremely popular.

Matty: And it's exactly what it is I think people take it for exactly what it is both whether their child fan or an adult fan III.

Sam: This is written from the perspective of a kid whose parents didn't grow up with Pokemon.

Sam: So like this like the parents.

Ash: Is it a kid do that that handle is not.

Sam: I'm not I'm not saying their kid anymore because let me tell you kids today their parents grew up with Pokemon.

Ash: Can I tell you something sidebar that made me feel super old someone commented on my plants versus zombies video today and said I watch this when I was a kid and I'm watching to get now and it's pretty funny I guess but like the fact that someone has watch my content wolf as a child and an adult made me feel very old I don't know maybe five or more years old.

Ash: Maybe I don't know.

Bret: It's got a busy almost feel like it's older than that even how old is oh my God from a lifetime ago how many views does it have now.

Ash: I mean do you really want to know.

Pat: A person is on from sweat 13 to 18.

Bret: It's like the most impressive number.

Ash: It's the only impressive thing I've done with my life video that has I don't know I think last time I checked it was 18 million.

Sam: Oh my gosh.

Matty: Plants versus Zombies came out like 10 years ago it's it's been awhile since that release of those games.

Ash: 19 million yacht.

Ash: And it was.

Matty: That's amazing that you can hope you go Glen CoCo four for you Glen Coco.

Ash: I know it's the gift that just keeps on giving.

Bret: It's roughly 19 million more people than I've seen this movie.

Pat: Oh girl.

Sam: You say you say that but.

Ash: When does.

Bret: What does.

Sam: Shelly just I'll get into two facts I don't know much about the movie that's wise yeah it was directed by Michael Hackney and Cooney Fuki yuyama.

Bret: No one here is going to correct you.

Sam: All right.

Pat: Kunihiko yuyama.

Ash: I see the yuyama sounds right the beginning I don't know.

Sam: Thank you Pat.

Sam: Yes I took French and I.

Pat: I'm going to go to the cast page and just I can.

Ash: Therefore I am qualified to pronounce Lee's Japanese names.

Bret: Remember When.

Sam: No I'm Skype.

Ash: I know.

Pat: I am in no way I am no waiver stand it in Japanese names but I always feel like I do have a knack for names of all like of like how to pronounce Zoe go for a I got you like.

Sam: Okay Pat's going to back me up.

Ash: In fact just you'll say it but Brett can edit in Pat's voice for you every time.

Bret: Yeah can you say it like that like a f****** Microsoft Sam or whatever.

Pat: What army over Sam.

Sam: Yes I super I hope that's what happens I have a laugh so we've got.

Sam: Simply that the IMDb page for this movie is very odd and that Ash is not listed.

Sam: I know unless unless.

Pat: Head like a character.

Ash: I did so much work on this movie.

Sam: Unless they listed the Japanese name so tushy.

Ash: I don't know.

Sam: That might be Ash but the Japanese name for Ash the voice is Rika Matsumoto and they voiced all of the Pokemon movies we have meows voiced by an American Madeleine Blaustein they also did meows for other movies and stuff.

Sam: And then we got Pikachu which is I Yukio Tommy and they've done Pikachu's voice the entirety of the series like even in the new detective Pikachu so yeah pretty cool.

Ash: I thought that one guy was The Voice.

Bret: It was so good.

Matty: Well he was like speaking voice of Pikachu no no you're good but I was going to say Pikachu is one of like two voices I think other than Togepi that they never dubbed in American version of they only used they only did a they use the Japanese audio for the American show as well as the Japanese show because that Pikachu that and it's synonymous with the entire franchise is only the human characters are only synonymous with the Anime Pikachu the entire franchise has on his chubby little back so.

Ash: Fat.

Bret: Pikachu.

Sam: He's so cute and fluffy.

Matty: He's chunky original Pikachu's chunky he's skinny now but used to be chunky I like.

Sam: I agree I agree.

Ash: Like peanut butter.

Sam: Right.

Sam: Okay so most of my my facts are about Pokemon the franchise in general we should mention the reason why we're bringing this it's back to the the let's re-watch table is because happy birthday Pokemon your 25 you can rent a car.

Bret: I'm sorry.

Ash: What.

Sam: What.

Ash: What is so mm.

Matty: Well you know what's funny is during this movie they released Volkswagen Beetles that look like Lugia and Pikachu I believe it was for this movie yes and they still exist they were promotional they went from city-to-city I believe someone will correct me on the internet but there's a girl in Florida that still owns one of them she restored it I believe it's the Lugia one but they exist there were four or five of each and they toured the country with the big logo on the side of it and it was a very real thing.

Ash: That's the only acceptable time for you to own a Volkswagen bug.

Sam: I mean it is the bit is the vehicle of the Nazis.

Matty: True but it's also her be one of the most delightful non-speaking Disney characters of all times.

Pat: Hey Herbie was a racist he's a racist car little known facts.

Matty: Walt Disney is racist so just needs racist so that is that is tipping expected.

Matty: Hands down.

Sam: I mean yeah what was definitely an anti-semite so it does not make sense. It does not surprise me that her baby would be movie.

Bret: The most anti-Semitic place on Earth.

Sam: Yes.

Matty: I do like Pac-Man.

Bret: I do like Pokemon I've been I feel like I've been a little a little harsh on it but it's harsh out of love.

Sam: Okay Pokemon we like Pokemon they're Happy YouTube.

Ash: That's just your MO.

Pat: I'm curious with everyone's experience.

Sam: Oh no.

Ash: What is my experience with Pokemon let me tell you my experience.

Pat: Like what is Joe movies games cuz it's like lots of iterations and then there's different iterations of games right what is like they actually did a card game version of it where you like deck builder where you have the cards and of course the million video games in Pokemon go in or like Pokemon Arena is like a million iteration so what's I'm just curious cuz everyone I feel like as Ashley you had mentioned it's very well it's very ubiquitous at this point the brand but I feel like everyone probably has slightly different levels of how much they like it.

Sam: You got it you got to give your personal experience and then you got to give what your starter Pokemon is.

Pat: I can go first or y'all think cuz I I'm getting a vibe that I'm probably the least verse.

Pat: In the Pokemon world because.

Ash: I don't know mine is the right surprise you.

Sam: Fancy q.

Pat: I've never watched the show I'm a very aware of it I've always been very aware baby as far as my actual personal I really only played like one game like one one of the iterations of it was relatively early it was on I believe the Gameboy Color like their first Game Boy Color suit Series so like.

Sam: You're a little late to the game.

Pat: And I want to say I picked the Bulbasaur to start with I do I like this.

Sam: Yeah team boli.

Pat: I like the turtle evibe to him I like turtles I had to turn.

Sam: Delta Squirtle Squirtle.

Bret: Pat bringing the I like turtles energy.

Pat: Squirtle Squirtle the turtle I know out I knew it was Bulbasaur but those are kind of has like.

Ash: Yeah I get what you're saying there's sibler.

Matty: Computer frog.

Pat: I know it's I know it's ruined because there is literally a turtle also such a bad analogy Anna's bed.

Ash: Maddie's going to just be such a hard time zone for us.

Pat: Bulbasaur.

Pat: That's about it for me.

Bret: Did you make it to the final four like how far did you get there.

Pat: I don't know maybe 600f the way through the game.

Pat: Muscle super aware of it like I've always been there on the periphery.

Bret: My first Pokemon game was Oman yellow playing with Pikachu however I immediately trade hacked the Pikachu into a Mew.

Ash: Superior Pokemon.

Sam: How did you do that immediately because you had to get Pokemon that had swim and then you had to like swim up and down.

Bret: No no no. The Etrade trade hacking you it was you you hook the wires up the tray cable up someone else and you initiate the trade and then you unplug the cable from West Pacific side of the trade at a specific time and the trading animation and it glitches it out and then you get a new.

Pat: Yeah right as we say yeah yeah yeah.

Ash: You didn't think she did this legit did you were talking about Dre he doesn't nothing.

Sam: I know there was another another hack but I realize mine is how you get a Mewtwo.

Sam: Excuse me.

Bret: Hey.

Sam: Yes and proud of it you can't Sheamus you can't poke Chez moustache.

Bret: I watched all the way from the beginning of the anime until at the first time Ash didn't win at the at the I can't remember the second Stadium the big thing.

Bret: Where the second thing was anyway I watch Netflix season 1 of the anime and most recently we've been put me and Sam we're doing Pokemon go by which I think Sam still does I let it go but man that first summer of Pokemon go when everybody was playing was magic like Balltown was outside.

Matty: Cultural phenomenon.

Sam: Was it still just like a super fun time in my mind that is gray.

Ash: You guys were the worst to hang out with that it was.

Sam: Are you still pissed about the Pokemon go beer crawl at Comic-Con that you did not participate in.

Ash: No no I'm pissed about the times that we would be driving in a car and one of you while driving would be playing Pokemon go and I'd be like what are you doing.

Bret: But you had to go really slow though it was like a safe speed cuz if you're going over 15 miles an hour it doesn't work.

Ash: Oh my God it was not know you were the worst you were the worst.

Sam: I would like to make it known that I do not play Pokemon go while driving and I never have.

Bret: I'm the chauffeur.

Ash: I wasn't going to like straight out and say it but anyway.

Ash: Anyway.

Bret: Is that the same summer that HQ was popular cuz we were insufferable about both of those.

Ash: Yes yes it was.

Pat: I was I love HQ I was all about HQ for like three months and then I got suspicious I'm like okay something's going on here they're spying on me I'm done with this.

Pat: Yeah.

Sam: So Pokemon go came out the summer of 2016 cuz it was the year after Brett and I got married HQ came out either end of 2017 or beginning of 2018 because we were shopping for houses in Portland and we would have to take breaks in between or house tours GHQ.

Ash: This is what I'm talking about you guys would not put the phone down ever with the Pokemon go either.

Pat: I don't blame them I was hard up for HQ during that when it's like in its Heyday everyday like my sister my brother-in-law my dad and me like everyday.

Bret: It was so much fun.

Pat: I won like less than a dollar total.

Ash: What was the HQ was brilliant I will say that was some of the most.

Ash: I just everything about it was very brilliant how they did it for sure.

Bret: Except for the non feasibility of the business but.

Pat: But it was wild how late was like it exploded and I feel like literally everybody did it and then nobody was doing it it was.

Sam: Yeah okay so that we've gotten yours Brett you kind of talked about yours but what's your starter Pokemon.

Bret: As I said Mew bud.

Pat: Start with Mew.

Sam: Pikachu know that they know you know of the three.

Ash: You heard him.

Bret: Pikachu and then and then and then I mean neutered him.

Pat: The three I even know this Bulbasaur Squirtle or.

Pat: Charmander.

Bret: You don't start with Charizard Pat.

Sam: Charmander.

Pat: Charmander is the baby version of yes thank you.

Bret: Listen if you buy yellow you start with a Pikachu that's the version I had to choose my starter.

Sam: All right all right I'll allow it lawyer.

Pat: Play to win over here.

Ash: Show me look if we can call you nerds you can't bust him for not knowing either.

Ash: Calm down you could so worked up about hookah.

Sam: Is.

Bret: Pokemon is so important Ash you don't know Pokemon and what are you even doing here Pokemon episode.

Sam: Alright.

Ash: Pure for Maddie.

Matty: It means a lot thank you.

Sam: It is.

Bret: I can tell that are ranting and banter is like slowly killing Maddie over there.

Matty: No I love no honestly it's just like listening to an episode of something here doing it live I love it.

Sam: Which one of these going to go Maddie or Ash.

Matty: So I didn't have a Gameboy or anything cuz you know one of those times when you were like lower-middle-class most of the time you don't know your middle lower-middle-class has a kid like it's just a thing.

Ash: Until you don't have a Gameboy save Z save Z.

Bret: Wow.

Matty: It's true well and you know I feel like has Pat and I are the same age and I'm not too much older than the rest of you guys that like I was like 7th 8th grade so I was the precipice of it either could have been really cool or really not cool and the kids I hung around with who I like wanted to be friends with they loved it so like I was just eating up everything they told me about it for me it started with the show cuz it was only thing I had access to and then the cards even know nobody played the cards for my 16th birthday I got a Game Boy Color and silver and so I then have never not played a Pokemon game even if I don't really love them.

Sam: I want shiny.

Matty: Yeah that's been my thing now I finally have all Kanto 151 which I've never done except in Pokemon go which I still love I still counts and so now I'm going back through and try to get all the shinies if I can but I think for me of the original three starters I have to pick Bulbasaur I love grass types even though a lot of times in games they're not the easiest to get through the game with for me Chikorita was my very first star driver picked I love her she still right there myself but I was right next to her.

Matty: It's got to be Bulbasaur but a shout out to popplio from Sun and Moon because it's water and Ferry and just the gayest possible Pokemon so I just have to love I have it to dry clean Pokemon I love it it's just so good.

Sam: He's too cool for us.

Matty: Oh yes.

Ash: Well if you probably maybe if gas is a little bit hatred and dislike Bill said no no not not necessarily just growing up with the name Ash I constantly was teased by Pikachu and.

Matty: Hahaha.

Ash: I got to the point where my response was often dead in my backyard do you want to join him.

Ash: Still there was a little bit of like animosity towards Pokemon for me just because of that but I did really like the card game and I actually play the card game a lot I also was too poor to have a Game Boy until.

Ash: Sixth grade where a friend of mine gave me their black and white old clunky gray Game Boy.

Bret: LG.

Ash: Yeah which I stink I had a Pokemon game was there what I feel like there was one for that one.

Matty: The original Jen came out for that and like pinball I think also was out in 4 for the original.

Bret: A wise choice.

Ash: But at the time it was like play this crappy old giant box thing or play Spyro so I'm playing Spyro instead but I really did like the card game and I play the card game a lot and I lived at the time when I was playing the card game I lived in this apartment complex with the other kids and we would all play together there's like a picnic bench at there's like it was like the community had like a circle in the middle and in the middle there was like a grass area with a picnic bench we'd all sit there and play with your Pokemon cards and she was a kids they were twins actually babysat them and they were obsessed with Pokemon and so they would constantly be playing the movies there's a good chance that I may be have seen this movie just because they would always have it on in the background like it always have Pokemon something going on but but so they had a severe love for it that you know they would sort of tell me things or give me cars or we go buy cards together at the local UNO card store but I don't have like.

Ash: Like intense love that a lot of people have like my friend Alex I love you Dad Alex I know you love that Pokemon and I just don't have like it's not that I don't like it it's just that I just didn't really I didn't have access to the games I saw like a couple episodes of the show but I didn't really watch the show cuz I think this is like a little old for it at the time and at the time I was like hardcore into.

Ash: Like other anime.

Ash: I know I was like hardcore into like saber marionette J or Naruto before it was like even anywhere close to the popularity that it is now and like like all these like weird animes that you've never heard of kind of thing was what I was into and so I was very like as a teenager was very like anti whatever's cool so I wasn't super into Pokemon because of that but I wouldn't say that I hate it I just wasn't like really into it but my starter Pokemon in the game that I had was Pikachu but in the card game I always preferred charger.

Sam: I mean if you if you had Charizard in the card game you f****** favorite that card let me tell you yes.

Sam: Oh yeah.

Ash: I did have Charizard yeah actually I yeah I tried to go out of my way to get all the fire cars I think like I had Ponyta and you know and then you know you'd be getting real shinies cuz he be getting like real cards that are shiny and I think I had a shiny Charizard or Charmander at one point at remember I don't think I still have my cards.

Sam: Play Shiny Charmander or a lot more available than the shiny charizard but my my brother did I was like the traditionally do baseball just know baseball game and then we go to The Car Store my dad would buy us a pack of Pokemon cards and I swear you could hear my brother scream on the East Coast the day that he opened up his pack of cards and got a holographic Charizard like.

Ash: Oh that's cool.

Sam: He lost his s*** it was such a fun day.

Ash: Like most things for me I got cards for free from other people's if I didn't have money to buy card so it was rare that I actually bought my own Pokemon cards but I remember like the other kids in the neighborhood like gave me a bunch of cards.

Bret: What is the best Pokemon game Pokemon Snap.

Ash: I've heard it's good.

Sam: Talk about that.

Pat: Set the one with Thanos in it.

Ash: Yeah on switch right yeah.

Matty: Which we're getting a new one we're getting a new Pokemon Snap yes it looks incredible yoga for switch.

Ash: I love it.

Bret: Snaptube Pokemon out of existence.

Sam: I'm very excited so no.

Ash: They've been breeding too much.

Matty: Oh my God.

Sam: That is quite funny.

Ash: I bet it really is Sophie's Choice Ash has to really choose.

Sam: Oh God oh God I don't even know if I bring this background.

Pat: I forgot to do my new system.

Matty: Will Sam I think it's interesting that you brought up Digimon because I've always thought that like in my head while I've enjoyed recreationally the anime of Pokemon I always thought Pokemon was the game and then I always went to Digimon for the good TV show that's in the same genre of the monster cuz I if there's something I like more than Pokemon it is Digimon so like like cut me open and I.

Pat: What to say man is lost.

Ash: What about a Yu-Gi-Oh.

Matty: Yu-Gi-Oh was just act like Yu-Gi-Oh hit in high school for me and so I had the cards but again I was obsessed with collecting things but I didn't know how to play and like was like Pokemon I just had them but no one around me actually played my mom cuz I had Christian parents I couldn't go hang out at like the comic store so like it was just a thing of witches.

Ash: Yeah the devil hangs out there you can't you know.

Pat: No his kids artist oh my God.

Matty: Oh absolutely I mean that is 90s Comics or like the devil is in Rob liefeld animation so like you know it happens I don't know where that comment came from I apologized.

Matty: Yep yep.

Pat: Waste you can get your thumb and index finger around on women in like like.

Ash: Gross.

Bret: Haley.

Sam: No they aren't.

Matty: Actually didn't start playing the cards as an adult and I started competing competitively as an adult went to Nationals twice with the card game cuz I'm that I'm that kind of know if you I've got a whole stack of my my Decks that are I love games but I played magic for years but magic fans are not fun to play cards with like it is not fun it's not fun to shut it down.

Matty: Listen.

Ash: Listen listen I'm one of them Brice Brice stops like magic with me because I'm so competitive at Magic and with every time.

Ash: Destroy them.

Matty: But when I get really competitive with magic but I also like when people are like if I can beat you in four rounds I don't want to play it's not find where to me I enjoy Pokemon because now they've developed it where you actually can have strategy there used to be no strategy with Pokemon the card game but now because they've also they have made it because they were so they have the like big cards that you pay a lot of money for for your competitive decks but I find it fun and everybody has a lot more fun my ex and I actually used to go and sit and we would moms would bring their kids to play Pokemon on the weekends and they really could you guys just teach them know they be like.

Bret: I think back to cuz we watched the first Pokemon movie on the show a couple years ago and I remember that our take away from that was.

Bret: Jesus actually like I really deep plot for a kids movie like like a heavy.

Matty: Yeah I actually.

Ash: Nick sucking loved it he loved it.

Sam: Perfect.

Matty: It's it's coming up I mean that's good. I think I have something Rotten Tomatoes which I think is totally out of line just cuz but it's not a movie I expect the critics to do well actually.

Sam: The irony.

Ash: Slavery you mean.

Pat: No you're the guest.

Matty: Give gift certificate. Sorry I am totally strong-arming this episode away from you I apologize.

Bret: It's it's it's benevolent slavery ad.

Ash: Go sit in the closet and think about what oh wait you're already there.

Matty: I'm already in the closet.

Matty: I said so long coming out of the closet don't you dare put me back in.

Pat: Yeah.

Sam: I do have to say like the ethics of Pokemon is very sad and like I mean it's definitely a suspension of disbelief like he got to let this one go cuz if you're really think about it it's not that great.

Bret: It's also in a way the strongest argument against anyone who's ever been like video games are corrupting the minds of the youth take if that was true kids would be really into f****** dog fighting.

Ash: Rat fighting I guess.

Matty: What's also interesting is you can tell that the that game will not make you forget it's cuz the Pokemon company handles everything now.

Ash: We haven't seen it.

Ash: Oh okay.

Matty: Detective Pikachu just kind of jumping forward to the legacy of this franchise that they made an adult centered Pokemon movie that did so well and was brilliant I thought it was brilliant I loved it but that they built will one it's also connected to that original movie insane like the moment that it was literally can't oh I'm so sorry I'm so sorry but they the city we visit in that nobody keeps Pokemon in the balls as like fighting Partners you get like one Pokemon as an actual living partner that like isn't equal to you and helps you in your daily job whether it's as a cop or reporter or or what not and so I think it's interesting to see that the franchise itself is aware of that like that one thing that we can essay about it and they are aware of how they have a buddy that walks around with you and they're making these little tweak so that the problem is the whole genre of the game is based on fighting animals and so like you can't take that out but I you know it's a nuanced.

Sam: Yeah right you like like what you said how they are kind of differentiating like the content and how they treat Pokemon versus like the game so I think that definitely helps with the suspension of like okay this is just how you make this world a playable game you is by collecting them and fighting extra with them but like there's always like that funace in catching all of them would like this one is my special buddy you know like you give them names you give them little stars like you know you have your special ones like so.

Ash: Yeah yeah I feel like when it's a game.

Bret: You put them in the machine to send them back Professor Oak and never see them again.

Sam: You release them back.

Matty: Yeah yeah.

Ash: When it's like a game it makes more you know it's like it's like okay game rules you know like like even Uncharted if you think about it you're like holyfuck Anissa Drake is like a mass murderer I think about it but like Ito there's a.

Sam: Yeah.

Bret: What's that stock like Stockholm syndrome like your Pokemon love you like you like.

Sam: I mean I mean.

Ash: I love being squished in a tiny little ball the time I don't know.

Sam: Are you are you guys still like haunted by the TV episode where Pikachu like.

Sam: Threatens to leave Ash.

Ash: Think I've seen it.

Sam: Like I just remember being a kid and like waking up early and watching that with my brother and like it's just you know like ash treats Pikachu so well and then like let him decide if he wants to leave so.

Sam: I mean they definitely address that.

Ash: I remember that episode.

Matty: Well in like the earliest one is bye bye Butterfree which I discussed on on my episode of this with with our group that we had on there that was the first one where ash you know it's the first Pokemon that Ash evolved all the way up and then he's just like oh it's probably better if I let you go and live with all these other and he's like oh you want to go in like live with these other okay so maybe we're just friends for a little while but I always love you and like that episode I cried so hard and.

Ash: Yeah but she's a granola crunch in motherfuker right sorry I just had to get you.

Sam: Yes I will say it.

Matty: Oh my God.

Pat: I'm really I don't know nothing about this particular movie Sanju have like a logline or a like a one-sentence synopsis or a tagline.

Ash: Do they wear like baby blue glasses and like shells and have flakes frosted tips.

Pat: Because of that era.

Bret: Nolita to the year 2000.

Matty: God I hope not. I hope not God.

Bret: Mass Cash.

Matty: Ask ketchup A Sketch.

Bret: That's a good p*** name.

Sam: Yes as Ash Ketchum past yes sorry God that is a snuff film my friend ask ketchup that is definitely.

Bret: Do not ask catch up.

Ash: Onoda no catch like these the catcher yeah yeah.

Ash: No.

Sam: Okay okay that was like cheese.

Ash: Okay.

Matty: No I said I said I said ask ketchup I said ask ketchup.

Bret: My God asked.

Sam: I really could be but no alright alright now that we've been completely derailed.

Ash: I mean maybe you're really into licking kashyap off of certain places I don't know.

Sam: Okay.

Bret: Sister f****** Hot Tomato anime.

Pat: I'm trying I feel like Spider-Man trying to hold the Staten Island Ferry together right now.

Sam: Pat Arts aren't you so glad you asked for this logline.

Pat: I just wanted to know what the movies about.

Sam: All right.

Bret: I don't need to know the log line about ass catch up thank you.

Ash: It's about Pokemon patches.

Sam: All right just to avoid further conflict mr. Ketchum must gather the three spheres of fire ice and lightning in order to restore balance to the orange Islands Hisar logline hair.

Bret: Spheres is Dragon Ball movie.

Ash: Is he a mr. Though she's pretty young yes that's the crossover event of the century.

Sam: No it's not it's not mister I just.

Pat: Let's do the.

Pat: I imagine it was successful.

Ash: Can we watch a Dragon Ball movie please.

Bret: I want some Broly phy.

Matty: I love the Broly movies they're so good.

Ash: That you were saying.

Pat: I imagine it was financially successful to do the money game.

Bret: Show me the money game.

Sam: Yes okay f****** a alright.

Matty: I think we should actually after looking at the first one I think we should.

Matty: Of course of course.

Bret: I feel like this episode of super far off the rails but.

Ash: You're welcome.

Sam: Yes let's do the money game only the middle section I had so many like Colfax prepped about Pokemon the franchise but we're good here.

Ash: Oh no I want to hear them noise as it sounded sarcastic but I really didn't mean it.

Sam: Oh no I really wanted to hear them.

Ash: Bright Willamette.

Pat: This is going to be tricky I feel like I've had a good handle on decent at not animated movies guessing like what they cost to make I have no f****** clue.

Ash: And it's a foreign film kind of right so alike.

Sam: But it's also the most expensive country to animate in so.

Ash: Is it.

Pat: Oh-so.

Sam: Well foreign country.

Pat: I want to say it cost $40 to make 4 0.

Sam: That's a good guess all right.

Ash: 45.

Matty: I'm going to say 25.

Ash: I don't remember at all.

Matty: Because I remember what the first one cost and then made so I'm going to say I'm going to say 25.

Ash: I'm just being a dick and want nothing.

Bret: Yes I'm going to go with the 30 so they'll be we're all in it in a 5-mile Range.

Pat: Don't really boxing me in.

Sam: Yeah yeah no sorry guys.

Bret: Budget budget.

Sam: Box office a review budget budget okay okay.

Sam: UMC little too high I'm sorry and Maddie you're you're a little too low but but mr. Goldilocks there is Brett right on the nose the estimated budget is 30 million you can look at.

Bret: Looking at the notes.

Pat: Looking at you he's next to you is he looking at your your nose.

Ash: Corsi is red says nothing legit we already established that.

Bret: I have never cheated this is money game is sacred.

Sam: I know for a fact that it's not true.

Bret: Sacrosanct.

Ash: You have and I know for a fact that you have.

Pat: The money game he respects the Integrity of the money game.

Ash: Okay not the money.

Sam: Yes so yes 30 million estimated budget like this is not a cheap film so and it's.

Ash: And they had to hire like 2 voice actors write per character to do a translation.

Sam: Dub so so the way it happens.

Ash: Not included.

Sam: Do it be included but if it happens after the fact so it's not like you're making two versions of the movie.

Ash: Right I just meant that would add to the punches wouldn't.

Pat: I think.

Sam: A little bit Yeah but it's not it's not hugely significant.

Bret: I thought a lot of dubbing was like third-party.

Sam: Yes.

Pat: Wouldn't be the animation be like the overwhelming Lion's Share of that cost itself and just hot and paying voice actors I feel unless you have like a huge name manga boys.

Ash: Voice actors.

Pat: No I would love to do what I'm saying I'm saying I but I imagine they do they don't.

Sam: Is correct.

Ash: Yes they don't get paid a lot of money.

Pat: Command the paychecks of big movie stars yeah yeah.

Sam: Of of your budget for your animated feature your voice actors work for maybe three days tops that you pay them for three days tops but you know who works for weeks.

Bret: Years maybe.

Ash: The Simpsons cast.

Bret: Hitman hours.

Sam: Here's maybe the rest of your crew yeah so so a majority of an animated films budget goes towards just the cost of all of your artists and your employees so it's not like a live-action shoot you know where oh it's a 90-minute movie and you get it shot like in a month or two like you're pre-production so just the rapping to hire the animator's was at least or months at least so.

Sam: That is where your budget is going to go so.

Ash: Draw faster.

Bret: How much money did it make.

Sam: Ono has a Hertz money game so.

Ash: Jokes your mom.

Sam: Where can I do cumulative worldwide look okay okay.

Ash: He was reacting.

Sam: Okay keep in mind guys this came out 2000.

Sam: The the video game.

Sam: Was not released in the US until 1998.

Sam: So this is two years after the first release of the video game and also keep in mind Pokemon.

Sam: Is the most financially successful Series in the world.

Ash: What is Star Wars.

Sam: Hehe lotsofbunnies.

Ash: Right save more stuff I guess.

Matty: Well you've also got you got one game every to you you've got one or two games every two years and the main franchise for 25 years yeah plus the extras and the toys.

Pat: Okay I'm going to say.

Sam: Where do kiwi live.

Matty: How much it made.

Ash: I'm sorry what is this a worldwide okay.

Pat: Cumulative worldwide gross worldwide I'm going to say 115 million dollars.

Sam: That is a very good guess.

Ash: That's a good guy I like.

Ash: Can't wait if you just give it away what do you say that.

Pat: Damn you don't tell me if it's a good guess cuz then they're going to kill me they're going to cut me off.

Sam: I'll just tell you guys good guesses.

Bret: Where are you getting fingered.

Pat: If you tell me it's good then – and we're going to be like 116 million.

Ash: Movies that Gabrielle Swope and then be like.

Pat: To say that sucks.

Ash: 100 billion.

Bret: I was going to go 140.

Ash: There you go see we got a low we got a high.

Matty: Well I'm going to say that I know cuz they did a little research on this movie it was the English version was re-released in Japan after it has been released yet they released the dub.

Ash: Also they had another box office run oh s***.

Matty: So technically it's got a Japanese running American run and a Japanese and an American Japanese run but I'm going to say 130.

Ash: Does it have a chicken run as well.

Matty: I love that movie let's not even get me started don't get me started I love that movie.

Bret: Damn.

Pat: Pokemon.

Sam: Chicken ding ding ding Maddie lime 133 mil yeah so this this movie made a lot of money.

Ash: You should just stop going for a spin.

Sam: How do pets cast was still very good like.

Ash: Well technically speaking as long.

Matty: My question for you guys this film people the first film on shoe releases made 174 million so would you still necessarily consider this like as this had a bigger merchandise tie in would you consider it as a successful I mean hundred 1330.

Bret: I know it is definitely.

Ash: Technically speaking as long as you make your money back it's considered successful.

Bret: This definitely had the.

Bret: The vibe of the less successful one because I don't f****** know what it is.

Sam: Yeah I do remember that from when I was a kid like I remember going to see the first one in the theater and then I remember the second one I was like.

Bret: Well I remember confusion about the second cuz there's like Pokemon the movie and then Pokemon the Movie 2000 wait is that the same movie is this different movie we already saw this didn't we and then like we didn't see it.

Ash: Mm one.

Matty: Well in one was released in November and one was released in July literally like nine months apart and in this was right after silver and gold was released in Japan but and it would be another year before it's released in America so there was such that the conversion time between that you took so long but there was a lot of confusion and with Pokemon it has the most interesting.

Matty: System where they know most of their demographic is going to age out between games and projects but they also know that their younger siblings or there's another set of June there's another demographic literally coming into it so it is likely that I mean this always happens cuz the movies don't get a theatrical release anymore just because they pump six of them out a year I think they're 35 of them now there are so many there's so many Pokemon movies.

Ash: There's not mm.

Ash: I was made for TV.

Ash: This is a brilliant business strategy.

Matty: But most of them most of them are just made for TV now so it's you know the first movie was actually just made for TV and then go to the Epic release but I was made for radio y'all can see my face but it was also a huge and that's when like animation stepped up the game stuffed up every kind of stepped up his otherwise it's just them in gamefreak making the games and then they make everything else.

Matty: Like when your voice actor you work for the Pokemon company which was a big they fired everybody win for kids that's a whole traumatic thing you've ever want to go into something that was f***** up.

Ash: Wow that's cheaper.

Matty: They fired the entire cast except like two people when for kids when they bought off for kids and then the Pokemon company just fired everybody and cap like two or three of them really like people that did 17 or 18 voices and then fired everyone else and higher brand new voice actors yeah it's it is a wild story.

Sam: That is crazy.

Ash: Being an artist.

Ash: It's so great.

Sam: As you probably know Pokemon is short for Pocket Monsters shocking as I kind of mentioned before the video game.

Ash: Pocket monster.

Bret: I'd like to show you my pocket monster.

Sam: What's the no no more p*** talk keep it in your pants you guys.

Ash: Listen some people might have this fetish and that's okay.

Sam: No no no.

Matty: This is why you won't need a patreon just so you can put this content on the patreon.

Bret: Montego my pokeballs baby.

Pat: I mean Bulbasaur could also be slang for a dick no Bulbasaur.

Sam: Don't you bring boli into this repo be out.

Ash: Are we getting the tentacle.

Pat: It get excited to get more bulbous.

Matty: Sam-i-am I would love to know this trivia now. Make it stop.

Sam: All right.

Sam: All right.

Ash: You know there's some weird hands out the internet for sure.

Bret: He's got them tentacles.

Sam: Oh God.

Ash: Pensacola Florida.

Pat: Let's just called henti henti.

Bret: Don't Google Bulbasaur h*****.

Matty: Lalalala lalalala lalalala.

Ash: Or if it's your thing maybe do we killed Sam.

Matty: Famous dogs on the couch.

Sam: I can't alright.

Ash: What's a better without me.

Bret: Bulbasaur.

Ash: Who's airing out though.

Pat: Ash.

Sam: Guys okay pull yourselves together put your dicks back in your pants and let's talk about Pokemon.

Ash: Alright.

Sam: Even though Pokemon is kind of known for the anime and the trading card game is actually the video game that was first made so red blue version so that yeah.

Ash: I think a blue was the what I had.

Sam: I had Red version I was very proud of myself I traded it took me two summers but I traded and filled my Pokedex I had every Pokemon.

Bret: In a way red and blue or like the first like no one really thinks about it but the first DLC kind of thing right like the unlockable DLC like your game has the ability to have all of the Pokemon in it but we're going to make it so you have to buy both games in order to get all the Pokemon.

Ash: Is that how it worked cuz I literally never understood why there were two.

Bret: My name is Money game.

Sam: Yasso Red version had more fire Pokemon Blue version had more water Pokemon and then you.

Ash: I had the stupid water.

Sam: Yeah and then you needed Yellow Version for a couple of the lake really rare ones so.

Ash: What did you major in.

Ash: The best.

Ash: That's actually kind of Awesome.

Matty: MLS to do that now that likes Ordon Shield the new games that came out the gyms are actually different in each game cuz you have major gems and minor gems there's a there two sets of gems I don't know what gay Japanese man is designing the like a Barra fantasy that is Pokemon now but I am here for it it's like hot chicks and power boys that's all I needed like everybody or.

Sam: It's so overwhelming there's so much.

Matty: It's so overwhelming will plus there's like in Clarion versions an alolan version so there you know the originals but they are variance or different Evolutions it's so strange.

Bret: Do you think do you think there's a measurable like brain difference in people in our generation like the ability to memorize full databases like think about any other thing that you know as much as you know about Pokemon like there isn't there's nothing else out there.

Sam: Actually have done psychological studies on kids and adults ability to remember the names of Pokemon and it has to do with the fact that like you see the Pokemon a scene image of it and you always see it with its name and by having that like Trifecta and its eight ties into a story so you have like a personal experience and that's why we're so good at remembering Book Thief.

Matty: And most of them say that they say at least part of their name and their in their their auditory and so a lot of that a lot of the time it's much easier know I will say who like there's a clear line where I stopped remembering Pokemon names cuz now I say it's the haunted Sandcastle or The Smiling vanilla ice cream cone or the trash bag not because I think their lesser but because I physically cannot hold 890 Pokemon in my brain I can't do it I can't do it I can't do it I can't do it.

Sam: It's very hard.

Ash: Hatchimal maybe to write.

Sam: Did you guys know that Nintendo almost passed up Pokemon.

Sam: And the the.

Bret: I've been mistake there be no more minute Nintendo holyshit.

Sam: Yeah the producer Miyamoto from Super Mario and Legend of Zelda bag to the company to work on the game and if he hadn't have done that they would have missed out on their most successful franchise.

Pat: Do you have a number for that you say it's most successful franchise or anything I mean with other different streams of revenue from different things.

Sam: I sadly don't have numbers on this.

Bret: Pokemon companies GDP is larger than most countries.

Sam: It's a lot.

Sam: So the original game that we know of as Pokemon Blue version was actually Green version in Japan is kind of interesting.

Sam: And then I thought what we're told you it's the most.

Sam: Successful franchise there was an amusement park which I didn't know yeah it was called PokePark in Japan and Taiwan.

Ash: Excellent Name.

Matty: And we're getting one at Universal Orlando we're getting a fold the kids the kids area is going to become Pokemon.

Sam: Oh my God.

Matty: HHH going with our expansion of Mario Brothers in Hyrule is weird cuz they just open Super Mario Land in Tokyo because they know how to handle covid-19.

Bret: But like.

Matty: But they say it's supposed to have a digital interface with it so you can nope nope that's that's a different time that's a different time.

Ash: Why why.

Bret: Black JK but the Gringotts part of the Harry Potter's land at at Universal is like one of the best theme parks I've ever been to.

Pat: Just about a hundred billion dollars.

Matty: So Sam I don't mean to step over you right now but I looked up revenue and there is no number for how much they've made but I can put it in terms of Pokemon what did you find I found Pokemon go which gives us a good idea.

Sam: All right.

Sam: They almost passed up a hundred billion.

Ash: Can you imagine the pitch Meeting those are you what what is what.

Pat: I have a chart of the top four.

Ash: Really.

Pat: Find the chart discharge a little bit holders from 2019 if I have charge of the top four media franchises is Pokemon number to is Hello Kitty at 80 billion number three was Winnie the Pooh at 75 billion for was Mickey Mouse's 70 billion.

Ash: Wow yeah that's true.

Matty: If you want if you think about that Mickey Mouse has been around since 1928 Hello Kitty and what was the other end Winnie the Pooh have been around well in like the Disney Winnie the Pooh and Hello Kitty both premiered in the seventies so you're looking at 60 years and then almost a hundred years and then this franchise has made more than anything else in 25 years like that just it. Just says a lot about about the same power of this this franchise.

Sam: And it is so funny like to see the Pokemon life cycle is I was working at an elementary school.

Ash: Evolution.

Sam: No I was working in an elementary school and the way I bribe the kids to be good with with Pokemon stickers you know I got like a pack of a thousand on Amazon for like $7 and children can be bought.

Sam: And they be like oh I like this one I was like oh you like the star you and they literally they just look at me like you know then the name.

Sam: Yeah. How do you know the name.

Matty: I was a child once.

Sam: Ulterior.

Bret: Play I'm so I'm so curious to know if the if the young kids will know 890 Pokemon names.

Sam: Close close.

Ash: I'll just have an app that lets you scan everything and tells you the name instantly but it's built into the Rye.

Bret: We are very long.

Sam: All right that's about it for my fax I had another game but we're coming through running.

Matty: Yeah we're running login.

Bret: I predict this is going to be less enjoyable that the first Pokemon one cuz I don't know how anything could hold up to it wasn't a great movie but it was like the themes and the plot I recall or like I mean I still think about it works like that was.

Bret: What's a better movie like the plot was the plot of a better movie that I think that was the surprising thing if it was real deep Mewtwo had his whole like anti-captivity saying and I don't know what we're going to get here with this Dragon Ball plot line if anyone goes Super Saiyan I mean I'll be fine I guess evolving is going Super Saiyan 4 Pokemon right.

Ash: How many Pikachu's always going Super Saiyan really.

Bret: Yeah so I'm I'm anticipating only going to be bad I feel like I've enjoyed almost all Pokemon content I've ever seen like I haven't ever seen trash from Pokemon but I don't think I'm going to like it too much I think it'll just be this is my so so I'm going to give it to the hand wave that's my guess.

Ash: That's an optimistic.

Matty: I remember this having an environmentalist theme of a real Gore like it's.

Ash: Should I think I have seen this movie now that you say that I remember that.

Pat: Just boil it.

Matty: Cuz I remember being about the I won't I remember being about the orbs but it being bigger because of a like a rich white dude cuz it's always a rich white to write so.

Bret: Which white dude is Big orbs.

Matty: Oh here.

Ash: Yay.

Matty: Yeah I feel like I'm going to be the same as Brett where I feel like I'm going to be living for Team Rocket the whole time cuz I remember them literally I remember them just being shoehorned into making really funny jokes the whole time so I.

Ash: I think I have seen this movie.

Matty: I think I'm going to love it for the icons that are Jessie James and Meowth but I think I'm going to be like bro I don't really care about Ash cuz that's always been my problem I really don't care about Ashes to character so but I love Lugia and Lugia thing so.

Ash: Well I guess I guess I've seen this movie cuz now that you said all of that I'm having like flashback memories of seeing this on.

Bret: Constant excitement.

Ash: The TV screen of those kids that I used to babysit I blame and I totally remember that and I totally remember Team Rocket and I feel like I remember of Coliseum of some sort maybe that was the other one I don't know I think maybe I've seen this movie and it's going to be one of those situations where every 10 seconds what's going to happen before it happens but I dearly love Team Rocket yeah now I'm really excited cuz honestly before I was like not excited and I was like I don't think this is going to be great but now I feel hopeful.

Bret: I just wonder when we're going to get a like a Disney's like Cruella style like Team Rocket movie.

Matty: I'm there for it.

Pat: I am super undecided.

Ash: That one chick that one chick from Orange is the New Black as the girl Jessie red-haired one.

Sam: No.

Matty: Natasha Lyonne.

Ash: Yes yes.

Matty: Okay maybe not but okay.

Pat: Ashley Owen ore.

Sam: From that 70 show.

Pat: 70 show one.

Ash: No no no.

Matty: Aurora Perrineau she's crazy.

Pat: Yeah.

Sam: I was like not her not her.

Ash: No not her no.

Ash: Or the chick from.

Sam: Oh my God ass.

Bret: Sorry.

Ash: The chick from what we do in the shadows.

Bret: Tvguide.

Matty: Oh she would be funny she be funny.

Ash: Also Natasha.

Pat: I just going to say I'm just up in the air I don't know I have no clue if I'm going to like this or I would like well reserved net-positive.

Ash: Or even going to know what's going on.

Bret: Risky.

Pat: I don't know I'm going to reserve my net-positive I'm going to say I'm not to be like you know what I mean 51 0s not positive right they cuz I barely liked it that's technically not positive so.

Bret: You're really going outside of your range here but.

Pat: I'm going on a f****** Lim.

Sam: That's it that's your whole prediction is that possible.

Ash: He does nothing he's Jon Snow.

Pat: I don't know I'm imagine there's going to be some good guys are going to be some bad guys are going to scream at each other they're going to have their make their monsters fight which is really problematic like dislike for spiked combat of these animals.

Ash: I would love to see your daughters walking in on you watching this.

Pat: Adair I sleep.

Bret: It's not just for Samuel fighting but like it has that layer of like the animals really want to impress the Masters like it's like psychological abuse to.

Pat: I think.

Bret: Like whenever they lose its just like you failed me Pikachu like.

Matty: APK pure.

Pat: No I don't know I think I feel like I'm not the most Discerning Eye all enjoy it all Charles stuff to talk about but let's go watch it.

Sam: Do I get to 10th and so Pokemon holds a special place in my heart because it's like the thing that my brother and I had together growing up and like we still have as adults so for that reason I'm very nostalgic about Pokemon and I loved it dearly that being said we were way more into the TV show then the movie screwing up and even more so into the games so.

Sam: The fact that we didn't like have this on VHS and re-watch it all the time does not bode well for the film I think I'm a little nervous about that but I think I'll like it for the nostalgic factor I definitely saw as a kid but I remember nothing I don't remember a single plot line joke or anything.

Sam: So we'll see we'll see.

Bret: Alright what we're going to pause the recording here and go and watch Pokemon the Movie 2000 (1999 and we'll see you when we get back.

Matty: You and me and Pokemon.

Bret: We all live in a Pokemon world.

Bret: Pokemon.

Ash: Oh my gosh yeah.

Matty: We all live in a Pokemon world it's it's my favorite of all the Pokemon theme songs actually.

Ash: Is it really.

Sam: It is it's so mm.

Ash: This is very new thousand.

Ash: Stockholm Syndrome.

Matty: Yeah I did actually a well when I was an assistant manager at KB Toys that was one of the songs on the CD that they sent us and so it Loop like 12 times a day so whether I actually liked it or not maybe maybe it's just ingrained but I like I do Bop along to it I find myself when I want like nerdy music I will look that theme song up specifically listen to it.

Bret: Not the horrifying f****** Pokemon polka from the end credits.

Ash: Yeah it's very forgettable.

Pat: Again I don't I don't I've already forgotten I don't I couldn't think guys okay okay just might have been the shortest movie we've ever done for the show.

Sam: 84 minutes.

Bret: How long was it felt feature-length.

Ash: I was like an hour and 18 minutes or something.

Pat: But I have the most question.

Ash: Wow.

Sam: Oh my gosh.

Pat: If I don't count if I take out all the times the four or five times I wrote what is happening cuz it died wrote it like four or five times.

Pat: Like 10 questions that are.

Ash: Were they even in the same room as the bad guy ever.

Matty: Like once once yeah.

Ash: That one time okay.

Pat: He has let him go which worked out really great for him.

Ash: Yeah.

Matty: And he's barely a villain but he also doesn't he has he gets to take a shiny Egyptian Mew card which was a weird tired cuz.

Sam: BK Thai and I forgot about it.

Sam: Yes.

Sam: 23 karat gold.

Matty: Well in that was the one you got for that was the one you got if you bought the clamshell Pokemon the first movie cuz when you went to see in the theaters you got the Mewtwo with the Pokemon the first movie stamp but yeah nbk had the weird like 24 karat gold cards in the pokeballs 23 karat gold I have literally on my on my nightstand.

Matty: Yeah it's.

Ash: Your question.

Bret: Got so many questions.

Matty: What are your questions.

Pat: I mean the first is what is happening cuz.

Pat: Who is this bad guy do we ever learn his name.

Ash: Yes right that has a question to I was like do we even know his name.

Matty: No we don't.

Bret: It's a Marvel crossover right he's The Collector.

Ash: Yes yes.

Matty: Yeah he's essentially the Pokemon collector it's like the highest states with the lowest Stakes ever with a villain and also at the end he never.

Matty: Learns from his actions he's like cool got to start this collection again.

Pat: Yeah if you don't remind me of was Wonder Woman 84 with Pedro Pascal versus like.

Pat: I guess I'll go back to my life I was the villain I almost killed the world but I'm just going to go back to my life now.

Ash: YouTube learn to love his son though I guess I guess I'm not going to defend that movie don't work.

Matty: Yeah he's Ash's Dad Dad come on.

Bret: Yeah is very steamboy.

Pat: There was a 00 the Wonder Woman I'm like he had a son in this movie and I miss that okay no but the opening actually is like not bad in the sense of like great it establishes like this is obviously the bad guy and he's like I'm going to get these three Pokemon and icing help me get this other really awesome Pokemon I had this crazy f****** steampunk Airship that I've kind of dug the design of it was really Bonkers and wild in a fun way and like so I'm like okay for the first like 5 minutes I'm like okay great I got it like the steaks like are set like it's like here we go happening what is the underwater current thing is underwater currents going around the world I don't what and then all the Magikarp.

Bret: They did that whole monologue about like not being just a collector of Pokemon is like oh wait they're describing me.

Matty: I mean it's obvious right from the beginning where the other 25 cuz so the first movie how to find million dollar budget this one under 30 million dollar budget this like computer Graphics was very obvious we're all of that extra budget went and I don't think they actually looked that bad I mean according to today there but like honestly fairly solid first Studio that's just starting to explore and it's not something they ever have done until recently with the television show when it went digital so you could tell that they you know that first movie.

Bret: I was not mad at the CG it was it was good.

Pat: No it's like kind of wonky looking and I don't know it wasn't his like.

Sam: The cloud.

Ash: The Airship was all right but there were a few points like the the like title thing that you said Brett that came up there like Pokemon whatever what was it power 1 or whatever it was just like.

Sam: Movie 2000.

Bret: I love movies with like two colons do right like the Pokemon the Movie 2000.

Matty: So what's funny is I watch this on a different platform than you all did and I got to watch the Japanese release of the American movie so it had so it has the Japanese score and the Japanese title cards and ending theme.

Ash: Is probably better yeah.

Matty: So I think I enjoyed it a little more yeah Shadow 2 Dailymotion.

Bret: Do they have that Rippon f****** metal solo at the beginning.

Matty: Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.

Sam: How's the American version.

Matty: Oh yes it was.

Ash: This music was very mm in a bad way.

Sam: Yes.

Sam: Yes.

Pat: Yeah love love Team Rocket fake Magikarp submarine that is obviously six times larger than any real Magikarp that's not going to stand that are they.

Matty: And in our heroes don't notice or following them after that like it's it's been a huge part of the show cuz this is like the end of the second season so I like or beginning of first second season and feel like it's been following them for a while.

Pat: Why do they want Pikachu specifically.

Ash: Good question.

Matty: Ash's Pikachu is a special Pikachu it takes them years to go into it but it's he's more powerful and they're trying to give him to Giovanni because they just want to be the top team so all if they go to it later on in the anime but all of Team Rocket is sets of pairs we need another pair that actually really evil could Butch and Cassidy and.

Ash: I love their names.

Matty: Right right well and so good like you get the idea after while the Jessie and James are really bubbling in their me out this supposed to be like the worst me off but for some reason can talk and so they just want Giovanni to like them and give them respect in a higher position and so they always think that by bringing them this Pikachu because this because she was powerful and it's really attached to Ash that they're going to get some sort of cloud or they're going to be overrun Team Rocket one day.

Matty: Fat Pikachu.

Pat: I like it in the course of that they come across multiple other Pokemon that are obviously more rare and more powerful than this Pikachu but like nope that's the one we got to get that one are there other animals that are not Pokemon in this world or are all animals Pokemon in Pokemon world.

Ash: No in the show.

Pat: Okay.

Matty: That's a really good question cuz we've seen fish we've seen birds who are not bird Pokemon and we've seen dogs and cats who are not dog and cat Pokemon they they were not in this movie they they show up occasionally in the early seasons and then by the time the Pokemon.

Ash: I don't care.

Matty: By the time the Pokemon company takes it over they make sure they streamline in the only things we see our Pokemon so early on there some inconsistency because of the animation company but that's always a question cuz like they'll be eating meat and I'm always like okay what meat are they eating cuz in the game's there's a whole thing about people eating Slowpoke Tails like it say it is a plot in the game in the anime but we see them fishing often as well and so I believe there is a consensus that they eat Pokemon Eggs to eat fish Pokemon they like I'm guessing Tauros in things I'm I'm guessing they do eat some Pokemon.

Pat: Dry-aged.

Bret: Maybe it's like ethical consumption right cuz like there is I remember there is that place that was just outside of La that was the Exotic Animal Farm and they had access to Lion me but it was sustainably-sourced because it was basically it was like an old lion from the zoo and they are like good for the lion that yours who died they would buy those their big freeze it freeze lion me and then you could you could eat lion meat if you wanted to and if you believe it up there where that it was sustainably-sourced ethical lion meat which I don't know.

Ash: Words Their took their word.

Pat: I mean I don't I don't put the past.

Pat: They're forcing these animals to fight each other so I don't I mean eating them.

Pat: It's not a big it's not a huge hurdle for the society to get over.

Ash: Interesting that they kind of touch on that too it just feels like there was like a comment about it and I was like oh so you are aware of it in the cell.

Pat: Who's the talking Pokemon with the bib.

Matty: That's looking so that was a big deal that you introduced Slowking in this movie at the first time we ever saw him cuz this was the point they were extending the Johto Pokemon which is the second season of gone to Johto region yet II region but this is after Ash failed at the Elite Four and so they're introducing some of those Pokemon early and so this was the first time we got. So she's the he's a Slowpoke and the shell instead of eating its tail and become a Slowbro he puts it on his head and become super smart and that's how I become Slowking.

Bret: The voice acting.

Pat: The shell Centre.

Ash: I feel like your answers are even more confusing for Beth.

Matty: Dish of Ascension I believe I know I'm so sorry I'm so sorry that the voice has a thing for the movie it's not a thing about the Pokemon he's not necessarily like they don't speak and in Canon.

Sam: Message sellwood.

Bret: Every time we heard that thing talk we were laughing and it's this is so bizarre.

Matty: I was forgot it's so strange.

Sam: Yes it was so good.

Ash: She has the best line in the film I could use some pants Best Line in the film.

Pat: Oh I love I dig him he's might have been my favorite part.

Matty: I'm very confused by him in the film in the same way I was confused by the Dragonite in the first film but the Dragonite didn't keep showing up this one keeps showing up.

Bret: It was a very standout way to do the voice acting cuz there is the kind of like spatially grounded like like men my name is Slowking and my goodness why are you so close to the mic sir.

Matty: And then we got.

Sam: Yes.

Ash: From like NPR something and may I say that if you were 100.

Ash: Yeah.

Matty: It's one of those things I don't know how you know it was it's like the Veronica Taylor got fired is Ashley with mostly cash but I was like I know and I know voice actors are incredible stars and their talents at what they do but like musical theater performer in my past life like you have to do a lot to maintain and so like I can't imagine.

Matty: That's why they do what they do cuz they are amazing so.

Bret: I like to think that their record sessions are just one eight hour day and they've done the whole things in flight.

Ash: I don't think so.

Matty: It's it's surprising if you guys listen to the upside I do with Erica who is been a voice actors on the show she's doing 415 episodes of Pokemon and she is like she took over for Nurse Joy she's most of that she is a ton of Pokemon she talks about how like a Pokemon has one line and an episode and you know it's just you know it's it's just.

Pat: And I am Groot situation.

Matty: They do a lot and then have them overlapping which is really interesting to me yeah it's it's.

Pat: Is Vin Diesel was given a version of the script that showed what each time he says I am Groot is supposed to mean.

Bret: Yeah it's so totally that vibe.

Matty: I was I was confused why Lugia spoke like it's one of those things that I.

Ash: I was okay I was confused about bed to.

Matty: I'm confused because they always choose sentience Furrow I don't want to take that chance but like they choose speaking for certain Pokemon throughout the show there's a Lapras that speaks at one point I mean okay so Lugia is a psychic type so that could be why same reason is Mewtwo.

Matty: Again.

Pat: Was it actually talking with his mouth I don't think it melt it smells really moved when it was communicating yeah.

Pat: Exposition Maddy for exposition they only got 84 minutes to get in and out of there.

Matty: No it was no so I assumed it was probably telekinetic but also I was like you don't spend most of this movie talking why suddenly when the hero unlock the achievement do you need to start talking like I don't I don't know it's one of those weird things I know I know I know I know I know.

Ash: Like why were they fire the other ones attacking him I didn't understand that.

Pat: Yeah why were they attacking each other too.

Bret: Toxic masculinity.

Matty: I am never I've never understood that about this movie.

Ash: Okay alright.

Matty: I'm sorry Brett did you just assume their gender.

Matty: Because I'm fairly certain that they are legendary and they are not gendered at any point that they're being that toxically hostile I do assume that they are male.

Pat: Ashley Zapdos just coming to me like this island is mine now f*** off.

Matty: Articuno Articuno tsegay sibling we know that like he comes in his just like I hate you all and he Sparkles like and Moltres is just like I'm going to tell Mom.

Bret: The screaming.

Ash: I could not stop laughing at this dreary the screaming sound effect.

Ash: So bad.

Pat: The screaming was really uncomfortable discordant also I wrote down I was like those things those that's a weird those like hula hoops that capture them or like those are Pokeballs.

Ash: Right.

Pat: It was it was it was electrical hula hoops that fly.

Bret: I guess they're less constricting than Pokeball.

Matty: Pokeball they kind of the Pokemon has to willingly want to be in the Pokeball so like.

Ash: When is it in I Dream of Jeannie situation like is it roomie in there do they have like a whole room.

Sam: You need to watch the Robot Chicken sketch.

Sam: It's so good.

Matty: It's so good oh it's so good but that's also always been generationally we've all gone like what the hell is inside of a Pokeball.

Matty: Do they have to pull them out to eat but like what's the point are they in stasis are they Eno in a coma-like what's this thing but I guess for him it's he's putting them on display cuz their collection so the whole thing is he's going to want to feature them but they're so powerful like the humans in this world are so f****** stupid like they're so like they're science is so Advanced but they're just idiots all of them.

Pat: Yeah yeah I was terrified of being a horse and they.

Ash: I mean have you ever been on a horse because I've been on a horse and I was like oh you can f****** up real good you definitely blessed I am not the master in the situation I am completely sure you are.

Pat: Pokemon world is terrifying because all of these these three legendary list they are there f****** dragons their literal actual f****** dragons that spit different types of breath weapon and.

Ash: Shrew.

Pat: This is Pokemon world is terrifying.

Bret: And everybody is pretty much okay with the three dragons and then when the 4th Dragon showed up I was like.

Matty: Rainbow Dragon.

Ash: Yeah f*** that there's only room for three dragons.

Matty: Will and also this idea that all of the Pokemon in like the surrounding region show up and it's like oh s*** oh like.

Ash: And they do nothing literally about face.

Matty: Well I mean you know cuz I guess there's not much they could have done I mean cuz it's weird but.

Ash: Guess how everyone.

Sam: Girls showing up.

Sam: Message.

Bret: They are all showing up just in case they're needed because sometimes you just have to be there right now God was it what message are you trying to send.

Bret: I need that last movie Pat.

Pat: That would be cool if they actually did something came through and all together like all 20 million.

Matty: Yeah oh with the magical tears the magical crying tears that'll bring a human back to life.

Matty: The thing that gets me about.

Pat: Suspended so much.

Matty: Pokemon movies.

Ash: I mean they they were sensing impending doom and like who is it right.

Pat: Hey was it 2000 or 2021.

Matty: I am all of those Pokemon in that moment same thing right.

Bret: You remember Independence Day the when the the people that were like Beam Me Up beam me up and they're standing on top of the building that guy was with the Pokemon we're doing like it's the end of the world let's see if I could go there man.

Ash: Cavalier.

Matty: And you know some of them are like yo if this goes bad we're just going to kill the humans right like this rage let's rage the humans.

Pat: I'm in Dessa Pokemon movie I want to see is the Pokemon Revolt where they like the f*** you guys we're not doing this with you anymore we are way more powerful than you.

Ash: What was Pokemon.

Matty: Have you not watch poke you have you know what's to take a Pikachu then.

Pat: Do I have a.

Bret: There are some angry Pokemon.

Matty: Oh it's not really the plot it's not the plasma out the plot but that is a moment I guess I mean.

Matty: If I.

Ash: You're like Disney's Pokemon traps inside your pokeballs apart.

Ash: Oh my God yes.

Matty: Yeah yeah that's me that's me that's me to give me a call with once a day and go haha you're here forever though I just I had the thought of how much funnier with floating a benefit of invoice by lin-manuel Miranda like room where it happens.

Matty: Fishers get introduced to a group of people who then suddenly give them a wives tale that they run they're into or a spiritual religious story that they based their entire part of their entire culture on that then comes true the same thing happened in the first movie cuz you've the Harbormaster who is a woman of Science and Authority but she's like We're shutting it down because there's an ancient story about a c.

Bret: That was professor of Great Lake.

Pat: What you just described this movie.

Ash: Yeah that's what he say.

Matty: Exactly that's the thing I realized and then.

Bret: Space that there's a legend that says all water it comes from this one spot and scientists say no but you know what it makes sense but don't doesn't.

Sam: Please send that to.

Matty: At least in this one the guy went we just do it for the Taurus kid but you know what the same time that's why they're still making these decisions and it maybe it's the conversation that I had with I want to do you think that if we watch this with subtitles with the Japanese script that would have changed our perceiving this film because I know they really played down they like pumpkin the kitty like childlike comedy for the American version and kind of worked around what they put with the Japanese script cuz like I swear to God if one more person.

Ash: And don't don't tell me meows that James isn't gay come on come on please.

Matty: They clearly they clearly said it without saying it.

Pat: I think he says the way there's a line that like.

Matty: So it's Jessie and James there clearly like.

Matty: Gay friends.

Ash: Yes totally.

Matty: Cuillier I mean they've also both like Jesse often plays a man a man when they have to be in disguises in Chains always has these big voluptuous titties like when like it's one of those things like four years. It's one of those things I talked about it with a little bit never had anybody in the media so like when queer people became adults like we're kids become adults and we look back.

Ash: Have each other.

Sam: Opposite sex yeah.

Pat: Yes that was it that was it yeah.

Bret: Is that real joke that you don't need you two don't need the opposite sex you've got each other.

Ash: That's why I was like don't imply but they're a couple they're not.

Matty: They're clearly not that's why when I see fanart with them with kids I go okay maybe but not know.

Pat: Platonically raising them together.

Matty: Exactly exactly.

Bret: Some good lines.

Ash: Hilarious.

Matty: Be out we're here for the sequel and Ashes like don't worry I'll catch it on video I'm kind of busy.

Ash: Yeah yeah.

Matty: Played me cuz that's what this is only reason why Team Rocket was in that first movie with they were like who's that Pokemon and everybody at home was like oh my God they said the thing but in this one like honestly just give me.

Sam: Let's not say goodbye.

Bret: Let's not say goodbye know we're going to die.

Ash: The problem is is.

Pat: The underlying fathers movie can you really good and it just kind of money it up like honestly if you take out the whole island Legend thing in the three crystals just toss it in the garbage and keep it real simple there are three legendary Pokemon that are the living embodiment of these three elements of our world the weather and like taking one of them or all of them out of there whatever equilibrium Fox up weather for the world right stick catastrophic is like an undercurrent climate-change like message they're just guys being selfish it's that you know this guys being selfish he's doing it for his own gain maybe he won't he's got like a for-profit zoo or something stop being a selfish assholes you selfish assholes have your adventure you know with your climax around Save the Day.

Pat: Like streamline it and then like to have a good cool animated new Pokemon on Pokemon action sequences and some one-liners and all that and then I think it's just so much more like less muddy complex.

Pat: Action sequences I said action sequences.

Bret: I was trying not to laugh.

Pat: I knew what I was saying I was like yeah.

Ash: Read to me so that I could not have it the problem is is.

Pat: Stop quantifying everything.

Pat: Yeah you could.

Ash: They didn't have enough plot for a full feature film like they said they had to fill it with this other s*** that's obviously like garbage and boring as f*** at like really I kept thinking this should be 30 to 40 minutes shorter like this is too long you could have done this whole plot in like 30 minutes in a TV show episode and I think that's the problem is they're trying to stretch it need to be longer.

Ash: Yeah that would be better.

Bret: It really is just Dragon Ball.

Pat: We don't have the islands right next to each other have them look across spread across the world then it's like then you've got then you got here three then you've got your three app.

Ash: Fall Out Boy.

Matty: But it also makes sense that if you got these creatures who are so strong and so powerful it would make sense that they literally could affect the Earth's polarity and the actual weather and then therein lies the danger and so it's I agree that I think that they gone this idea that this guy taking them is what is what is upsetting the balance and not just that they're just like.

Pat: Did you can go with him it's like.

Matty: Three angry teenage birds like they did seem so strange in this is but this is an issue with the Pokemon movies there is no BNC plot in this movie there's barely a b plot and like a whisper of a sea plot that Ash's mom is suddenly regretful that she let them go away and do this thing and I was like yeah you lecture 11 year old go on a journey around the world yeah like bring your creepy mr. Mime and like travel around with Professor Oak we know you're shacking up with.

Matty: Reno.

Ash: And she came in like way too late to is like a cactus 3 here she is like okay.

Pat: I do not like for multiple reasons that mr. Mime is a thing as a Pokemon from a cuz mine's clowns creepy creepy but beat that is way too like one foot in one in like that's a person or as an animal like its way to say wait no that's a person no it's not it's an animal.

Ash: Are you calling mimes animals with happy.

Pat: Dog singing the Pokemon are animals.

Matty: I mean if you met her mind before.

Pat: Right I mean.

Ash: Don't know I mean is the Pokemon world calling mimes animals like what is going on what is the messaging.

Bret: Also he's he's a terrible Mine He's just my my my my name is shut up dude.

Pat: Who batted this yes the core the core tenet.

Sam: I'd say the one thing that like really bothered me about the movie Just is that the world felt a little flat I really wish.

Ash: Scope is really small.

Sam: Yeah I wish that they had kind of built that up.

Sam: Any the Festival ideas really cool like they could have easily had that be more of a plot Point till I get them to the island and like kind of shown their cult yeah.

Ash: And we've seen festivals in like Studio Ghibli films and like this was pretty lame and comparison.

Sam: Yeah so I mean it's at I just I kind of missed that element of it and I know like later iterations in the Pokemon series kind of go on to like Explorer the towns and there's more like cities and stuff.

Sam: But that that's what felt missing to me.

Matty: Quotes you can tell as the story as the series go in the games go they culturally-based every game in a different country or a different city and so you could tell there more invested when it's.

Matty: Are combining cultures or when it is you know date they start telling brought her stories because you do have to be careful on the show that had a thousand episodes and it's different forms you can't you have to be careful not to 3 tell the same story and well that will end up happening you have to explore more and at this point you could tell they were exploring the world of Pokemon just enough to tell the next animated story because they didn't even really give us that much in the games because that's before they would give us a ton of background in the games like we know more about Lavender Town than anything else because they made it super f****** creepy and that original game.

Matty: But you know it's just one of those things that they themselves hadn't really thought about the dramaturgy if you will of their own world and culturally how they were going to bring Japan culturally into this world that is based on Japan and so.

Matty: You know it's because like in the new games it's in England and Scotland and they have a Highland game section and like it's just obvious that they thought about these things were the French and the American sections had very American and French things about them where you know this is still early in there.

Matty: Creation of this world so I guess I'll give them that but I agree with a specific lien in same without that because they didn't explore it felt rushed and like they were cramming too much story but not enough story Into the length of time that we had.

Matty: 96.

Pat: Franchise props for such quick success cuz it was started in 96 and in four years they had multiple video games a TV series into movies.

Bret: Pretty wild.

Matty: What's funny is that are actually Pete and they were starting to wane already with the because silver and golden come out in the US yet and so that initial kind of surge happen and then like most Americans do we got bored quickly and then a lot of people that go with it and going to let it go where the Aged out but like they were still trying to figure out that way of like how we keep people coming back getting people to go to the movies to see an anime movie that wasn't Disney or Bluth like cuz we didn't have DreamWorks quite yet quite quite yet.

Bret: Yeah definitely.

Matty: It's it's impressive that they were able to get people to go watch a TV show movie in the theaters is not even cuz you know what.

Ash: I think you could do that today.

Ash: An animated kids show.

Matty: No probably know cuz most of them that do movies they sell it do it straight to TV or now animes popular enough that you can do a limited run release of an anime dub film and do it in theaters but then still also release it online at the same time but yeah I know I agree with you I don't I still don't think it's something that we'd be able to do they don't release the Pokemon movies in theaters anymore.

Sam: Military that doesn't count I mean detective Pikachu though it's not animated though.

Bret: Yeah I'm like thinking about it and they weren't they always wrap them up really nice but the only one I could see myself going to the theater to watch his like if they had movie for one of the Avatar series you know like those are the only ones that feel like they were developing the worst movie I've ever seen.

Matty: I mean detective Pikachu I think is the law is that estimate to the longevity of cuz that was for the 20th.

Matty: But like it's that that's kind of Pretty in the longevity of a franchise that you can then do a live action that is actually super successful.

Matty: It's coming out it's coming.

Ash: Yeah actually they are doing.

Pat: I would be hyped for a Cowboy Bebop movie was it really.

Ash: Yeah but live action right yeah.

Pat: Really don't shed.

Matty: They're filming at right now yeah John Cho is yeah yeah John Chau is Spike Spiegel yeah.

Matty: It's super it's 8 everybody hates and it's an all white cast I love that it's not about lightcast but yeah it's filming literally right now or it wrapped or something but yeah he's they've been filming it.

Ash: I have a really important question though about this movie.

Ash: Where the f*** is Brock.

Bret: I know the answer to this.

Sam: Albret lixia.

Matty: She was there he's in it he's in that background scene with Professor Ivy he's running back and forth.

Ash: So is he okay cuz he I was like he's in this photo and I was like that doesn't count.

Matty: So at this point in the show Barack had left to be a Pokemon.

Matty: Reader and work with Professor Ivy and so when the TV show bracket left in Tracy at come in and that's how we started transitioning into the Johto Pokemon with Tracy once maybe it's Tracy wants me the Pokemon breeder Tracy's a Pokemon research that much of the anime.

Sam: Tracy at Yusuf.

Bret: The matter of of that is the the showrunners thought that they got scared when everybody was like Hey jinxes design is really racist and they like oh oh no Brock's design is also kind of really weird and so they pulled him from the show temporarily but never everyone was like what we love broadcast so they brought it back eventually but that's why that's why we got f****** Tracy that useless piece of s***.

Ash: Yeah.

Ash: Is it Morgan.

Ash: No no.

Matty: Tracy do you know what Tracy's last name is can I please tell everyone what no no no oh my God hold on it is right here it's in the f****** Wiki and I pissed myself Tracey sketchit and he is a Pokemon researcher who sketches Pokemon his last name is f****** scatchet which I guess makes sense when Ash's last name is ketchup.

Ash: Ketchum.

Sam: Yep.

Bret: Your name has to be what you do.

Matty: I will give them one thing the the universe to Pokemon the TV writing has gotten a ton better over the years and actually I've watched all of the current show that's out right now for sword and shield and it's really good it's it's just kiss it's really solid but we also think they're about to have Ashley the show and give it to another protag so that could be the what happens after 25 but they're setting up the protag from sword and shield does names go go H22.

Ash: I think it's like one of my problems with any of the Pokemon narrative content in general not the games but like the TV show or movies or it's like in this ashes like I'm the chosen one it's like every single time it's it's I'm the chosen one no one else can do this except for you and I'm like there's literally three other people with him and one of them maybe do something for once like.

Bret: He also doesn't do s***.

Ash: This is true we really doesn't.

Sam: The last bird flu and back the girl Melody played the the flu in the microwave.

Bret: Team Rocket got him to the last thing the the bird flu and back the girl Melody played the the flu like he put the egg in the microwave.

Ash: He called Pikachu out or something.

Ash: That's a different movie.

Matty: It well it's the Frozen the Frozen one The Chosen One Centrum the Frozen one The Chosen One friends syndrome of they're all they all have really f****** dumb luck except maybe Neo in Matrix but like it's the same thing with Harry Potter it's seven books of this piece of s*** with dumb lock like no one f****** cares like.

Bret: And always annoyed me that Harry Potter beats Voldemort with the very first spell he ever learned.

Matty: His mother's love please no one's mother loves them enough to beat Satan honestly.

Ash: Just kidding.

Matty: Mine doesn't my mother wasn't even impressed when I lines on Law & Order she certainly doesn't love me enough to defeat the Devil I'm kidding my sister's going to listen to this so I my mother is a wonderful woman but you know it's also thinking that.

Matty: Really all the Pokemon stuff happens in like a. Of like two or three years so like 20 years has happened in two or three I just I don't I would I would just like crawl into a cave at some point I just feel like I don't want to be chosen no more I don't want to travel with nobody me and Pikachu or just going to get old we're going to eat beedrills it's fine we're just going to live out in the woods leave me alone.

Ash: She literally does have a freak out though where he's like how can I be the chosen one and then turns on a dime and he's like that's right I'm the chosen one b****** and I was like seriously.

Pat: Again he had had to be quick they only had to get in and out in 84 minutes so he just had no time for actual character growth.

Matty: If it's a hot the hot the hot does everything among the hot turns around he's confident it's out of bipolar the bipolar hat if you will so I have to say though ultimately.

Ash: Maybe that's why the mom was okay with Buddy listen I need a break for a while show.

Matty: You're a kid you're a whole lot but like what parent of a 10 and 11 year old doesn't like you or I can send them out into the world with some wild animals cool peace love you baby I'll put money into your account every few days washer socks please buy.

Matty: But I will say.

Ash: The different time you know.

Ash: This last week.

Matty: Yeah yeah I did I found myself now maybe it doesn't help that I watch funny episodes of the anime and both of the first movies in the same week and play through almost all of blue I enjoy this yeah this is lichens a literal last week in the last 7 days I actually really enjoyed this and I enjoyed this movie more than Pokemon the first movie honestly.

Matty: Iowa one I thought the stakes were higher especially at the end of that one mute he's like I'm just I'm just appearing in this never happened you don't remember I was like all great zero f****** steaks you kidnap a girl and hope she's fine where this one there's actually higher stakes and I'd like that we saw it.

Ash: Pepper that crab use lime that was the great I was like excuse me I had to rewind and make sure that I heard her say correctly but I have crabbie's.

Bret: There are a few I got a few laugh out loud in there.

Pat: I think it's pandemic.

Matty: Oh yeah me too I definitely giggled I smiled I enjoyed I cried a little there was a moment where I did tear up just a bit I cried like a b**** during the first movie I don't care what happens I always cry when Ash turns to Stone so like you know that.

Sam: I thought that was pregnancy because I'm 30.

Pat: I think I cried more watching some some peas are reading or watching some piece of content in the past year than like the last 10 combined.

Pat: Shut up Vine.

Matty: You shut your shredding aside the toxic masculinity Pat you can just you can cry it's okay so did you guys enjoy watching this movie like all all the issues aside you guys have fun for the 80 minutes of the movie.

Sam: I was expecting like kind of a.

Sam: Running down the crashing.

Bret: I know I know I did this was definitely beat my expectations set up cuz yeah I was expecting like kind of a whatever met Flatline I was not expecting to laugh as much as I did I thought the couple of times I was like this is a really fun set-piece they're running down the crashing drone thing Drumcastle and then it crashed they were like running down that thing.

Bret: Voice acting.

Matty: But works at all.

Pat: You're not a sailor Ash you don't know you are not.

Ash: This is not how boats works though this is really cuz I really we haven't even touched that and I'm really I can't get that boat is so f***** up by the end of the post movie it is unusable.

Sam: Also wait a bruin like a Priceless historical like Landmark or Landmark like cheese.

Bret: Locate so I mean there's other questions.

Bret: What is the plot of this that say did this pokeballs Dragonball hunt like every couple of years and that whoever they sent out always died because like no one no one ever even got to one of them.

Ash: Yeah what is going on.

Matty: I don't know I'm confused like I don't understand how like they stayed in there like oddly Aztec looking but somehow slightly Hawaiian looking like a bird statues and there was peace cuz they were tired and then suddenly someone woke them up and they were like oh God guess we got to unify at that other Island oh you know a hundred fifty feet away from this one what a terrible here.

Ash: Inconvenience.

Ash: Yes.

Pat: Hahaha.

Matty: This movie kind of reads like a brand new DM doing a one shot campaign with a new group of players like that's very much what this move like.

Ash: How to test this out.

Matty: Like like I feel like it's one of those they wanted to play one campaign in about 3 hours 4 hours this is what they chose for them and they were like okay cool like Dungeon Crawler light like.

Bret: Absolutely.

Sam: Absolutely awesome.

Ash: Yeah you solve my Island puzzle.

Sam: We should address the elephant in the room here that this movie stole a lot from blade.

Ash: What.

Matty: Same to you and you want to give us that faces you want to give us your thesis there.

Bret: Set the NBA.

Matty: Oh.

Sam: Yeah what's with the ending with all of the lake green blood that has to go through all of the little Shadows.

Bret: They definitely killed the rich guy right.

Ash: No he got away.

Sam: No he was alive at the end.

Bret: Master Lock weather.

Matty: He picks up he conveniently finds his Dusty Egyptian Mew card that all the kids at home go all we got that too and he picks it up like Yugi wooden Yu-Gi-Oh and so we could see the back and looks at it and goes off with a collection And So It Begins and you're like I'm sorry so you're just going to go do this s*** again Elon Musk f*** you with your Tesla spaceship Moc off b**** like also I was like oh he's British.

Matty: Could we know how Brett feels about the Brits and he's very Posh X in yeah I know that's why I said there's no ramifications for him he just gets to slip away.

Sam: Once it's very realistic thoroughly grounded movie no repercussions for the rent no credit and you know what.

Bret: Coming in that sense it's very realistic it's a thoroughly grounded movie no repercussions for the wrench the f****** idiot thinks he saved the day the women get no credit and you know what we're still going to go fight animals like there you go Pokemon.

Matty: From this movie must have been made 99 honestly it's like that all the could have been that it could have been Bad Boys 2 for all we knew honestly.

Bret: They have the most 90s vehicle in it the fan boat.

Matty: It's true also speaking about the most 90s things can we talk about the pop soundtrack for this because.

Sam: Oh my God yes.

Sam: What.

Ash: What do.

Matty: We got the B-52's to record an original song for this called The Chosen One.

Pat: What when was it played.

Bret: I had a feeling that was weird Al and Holy Ship.

Bret: Flying Without Wings.

Matty: I don't know it's a song called The Chosen One in the wiki says that the B-52's recorded the song just for this movie and it was brand new song and Weird Al did the Pokemon poke on it is weird out yeah and Westlife who was a giant pop star pop group of the time from Ireland did Flying Without Wings which was a hit on radio at the time but like that soundtrack which.

Matty: I remember like I had the soundtrack without seeing the movie really cuz I had all the Pokemon pop soundtrack they were pushing Pokemon is like a big papa like thing because this is.

Ash: Because the first one had a killer soundtrack right.

Sam: What.

Bret: That's insane.

Matty: This is when Pokemon live was touring the US and they were doing life starring Andrew rannells from Book of Mormon as James Andrew rannells was playing James on Pokemon live and there's video of it on the Internet or two.

Matty: Really pushing pop music with Pokemon because I don't know I don't really think of Pokemon is a pop vehicle but apparently they did.

Bret: That feels like a miscalculation.

Ash: What was the 2000.

Sam: What is the 210 mm yeah everything was pop music NSYNC was big Backstreet Boys Spice Girls like.

Sam: It was the thing.

Ash: Marquis name keep going.

Pat: 98 degrees 98° O-Town.

Sam: Yeah.

Pat: Motown.

Ash: I would like to see that bad.

Bret: The f****** medieval pop band.

Pat: What's the BB Mac or what's the one.

Bret: 98 Degrees.

Sam: 98 Degrees Destiny's Child.

Pat: Until you're back here baby.

Matty: Bbmac you know do you know who do you know who performed the the actual theme song to this movie The Power of One.

Sam: What.

Matty: Donna Summer Donna Summer performed the power of one.

Sam: God damn man.

Matty: Yeah it's it's wild Yolanda Adams Youngstown Weird Al The B-52s O'Town O-Town did two different songs for this.

Sam: Crazy anime never did this again right this was the only time they tried to do music.

Bret: That's crazy and they never did this again right this was the only time they tried to do music.

Ash: The first one to.

Matty: Are the first movie the first one they had a crazy Christina Aguilera was on the first movie before she was before it cuz it released before like they recorded before she did Mulan blah blah but yeah I know there was a lot of like.

Matty: People who were going to be pop stars but just couldn't make it past the lights State Fair Mall tour circuit.

Ash: Been there.

Matty: Like yeah right honestly I couldn't make it past the non to Union Regional tour circuit but here we are so apparently.

Matty: Where is the stinker bad Movie Awards.

Matty: Which is a thing that exists and in mm.

Ash: Results of the razzies.

Sam: Stinker bad movie awards.

Bret: F****** mom get the stinker bad movie award Jesus.

Sam: Borat.

Bret: Alright Borat.

Matty: Right right I was like it it sounds like someone's coming over and say that movie was stinker bad terrible movie it gets all the terrible the world but apparently.

Matty: This film was nominated for worst achievement animation and the remake or sequel that no one was clamoring for or needed.

Sam: Rude because the cfx animation is actually quite lovely in this movie like that is.

Sam: That is a rude assessment.

Matty: I think it was animated lovely cuz it looked better than any episode of the show.

Ash: They probably just meant as a category right not literally.

Bret: Someone needs to slap them with a hundred billion dollars.

Matty: Yeah.

Sam: A hundred billion dollars.

Ash: Right yeah.

Matty: Well I feel like it was probably one of those like you know this came out the same year this came out within months of Tarzan so like when you got Disney animating.

Matty: And on using their shiny new computers and you got this which I agree I think it looks great I think it's still even it looks better than some new animation that we have.

Matty: Just cuz it's digital designs make it better.

Ash: I think the animation look good I kind of feel differently about the CG but.

Matty: What I mean CG.

Sam: 8.

Ash: It wasn't the worst though I will give you that.

Sam: Yeah they used it wisely.

Bret: Discount in the year of wear CG and it was not worth CG.

Matty: How this this also came out right after like Godzilla which.

Matty: And I will die on that Hill.

Ash: Do they get Battle War.

Pat: The Broderick Godzilla.

Matty: Broderick Godzilla the other brother Godzilla with the great another great pop soundtrack but apparently the.

Pat: Diddy song.

Matty: The movie that won worst animal achievement in animation that year was the Digimon movie.

Matty: Which I will die for that movie I will stand for it any day.

Bret: Matrix.

Pat: What is the conceited Digimon Lake what is the mechanism for how the monsters fight what is like the what's the deal.

Matty: Yeah it's It's All Digital they are comprised of digital things and it's every digital trainer gets one Digimon and they evolve up and down will using a device but like your Digimon can die and be turned back into data and that's it it's much dark it's.

Matty: Yeah kind of it's much darker it's much much darker and a much better I consider a much better storytelling element until you get to like season 4 C and then season 6 but it's quite good but they only made games based on it because people want to play video games.

Matty: So do we do we talk Rotten Tomatoes score for this already.

Sam: Think it.

Ash: It is very low.

Matty: It's very low it is so it has the lowest of all of the first for it has the lowest and I again I don't think it necessarily A deserves a 12 what's the fan rating.

Sam: I don't remember what the fan rating was.

Bret: Google Warriors score.

Pat: Battery for what.

Matty: Are the fan fan or eating purple.

Bret: Rating for Pokemon the Movie 2000 The Power of One.

Bret: Brackets 1999.

Ash: 56.

Matty: Longest titles button are needlessly long it's coming up it's taking forever taking forever to load taking forever to load it's loading.

Matty: Oh yeah I guess I give you that the audience didn't like it either which I think is funny but also like Americans that are going back and reviewing it now have a weird Nostalgia for that first movie and make it unshakeable and then this one they're like f*** it it's terrible but.

Matty: It's Tracy fault but you know.

Ash: It really is though this would have been so much better with Brock.

Ash: I don't care that would have been great.

Matty: Okay but Brock would have just been like thirsting after their boat captain and then thirsting after the young girl.

Bret: You wouldn't have got all that like lesbian sexual tension between Misty and the boat captain.

Ash: It's true that is true.

Matty: That's so that's so true cuz not saying all women need to be glamorous but if you look at Misty and then look at her sisters and look at the focus of who they are as women I'm thinking Misty cares much more about trading Pokemon and finding the woman in her life you know.

Ash: That's why she's so upset every time someone says ashes hit her boyfriend.

Ash: Okay wow.

Sam: Appropriate I love the Lord Jesus bread.

Bret: I bet she wants to find a woman in her sorry inappropriate I only say things to get Maddie to react.

Ash: I wish I had.

Matty: Got to help your screenshot any I hope your screenshot to get anybody's I mean you're not wrong you're not wrong I do think it's funny that this has a higher rating than airplane to cuz it says okay I'm Rotten Tomatoes it says you also might like Rock-a-Doodle The Little Vampire airplane 2.

Sam: What.

Matty: That's so much like the rest of the Pokemon chadra and then Pokemon the first movie.

Ash: I like I like that it's like you like garbage would you like some more garbage.

Matty: A7iii standby Rock-a-Doodle I love Rocky doodle it is bad it is so bad but I love rock and roll.

Sam: I'd say there's no way that holds up.

Bret: That's got to be a mess.

Matty: There's no way yeah yeah.

Sam: It doesn't even.

Bret: It was a mess I mean it's memorably a mess right like it doesn't even hold up in my memory.

Ash: I cancel that out.

Ash: No I don't either.

Matty: I mean it was 92 so yeah I don't think I'm actually you know what I remember liking it but I don't actually remember anything about that f****** movie about Rock-a-Doodle yeah yeah.

Pat: I don't know what the f*** that is.

Bret: Next time you're on we're doing Rock-a-Doodle.

Sam: About Rock-a-Doodle I remember too much.

Ash: Astrodienst.

Matty: Okay I'll listen I'll come back for Rock-a-Doodle or Cats Don't Dance one of the two I will I will come back for either of them.

Sam: But Cats Don't Dance is actually good.

Ash: It is a masterpiece.

Matty: It's actually good yeah yeah I don't know do we think there's much more to say about Pokemon 2000 Pokemon the Movie 2000 The Power of One.

Ash: No we can wrap up with final thoughts of you I will say.

Sam: I think we're ready for final thoughts.

Ash: I will say and maybe I'm the minority here but I was quite bored by the whole film and I agree with Pat we're like the beginning I was like this is interesting and then.

Ash: I just don't even know why they were on a boat even know what they were doing there and I just got so bored and so confused and I just started being on my phone most of the time because I found it quite boring and confusing and there just wasn't yeah they're really I don't we say that there were like really large steaks but were there because like the stakes were that the world was going to turn to Ash but that turned out that that just meant that the world would turn to ask trainer like eating bad actually going to happen that I don't know I don't know.

Sam: If it's a double entendre.

Ash: Maybe yeah.

Bret: I think it was purely coincidence.

Sam: If they didn't they didn't turn around to Ash Ketchum then the world would turn to Ash and dust.

Ash: Yeah either way it's true I guess but.

Sam: Danger of the sea.

Bret: What's the perceived danger of this movie was presented by Professor Oak Veterinary.

Ash: Slam bed Merriam's but.

Bret: They're not f****** geologists or what I mean urologist really f****** was trying to predict there like.

Sam: Geologist do whatever urologist were f****** trying to predict their like.

Ash: And this whole like we should be concerned about the Earth out really heavy-handed and I don't know I didn't enjoy this film did not enjoy the music either which I was hoping maybe would be the Saving Grace.

Ash: The best parts were definitely Team Rocket and I did appreciate them but everyone else no thanks.

Sam: Is a Team Rocket.

Sam: Team Rocket content there is.

Sam: Me a bunch of times within us.

Bret: Yeah I mean for me Pokemon is a Team Rocket delivery platform the more Team Rocket content there is in an episode or movie The More I enjoy it and this one had enough that I was I was traveling and laughing mouth got me a bunch of times with you know Jesse like they're they're going to destroy all intelligent life and yeah you'll be fine.

Ash: Yeah there's some great jokes by them and then I'm like what who wrote the rest of the movie like their farts are great and then the rest of the movie is just like there is just bad dialogue such bad dialogue and like maybe part of it is like a translation Lost in Translation thing but like you could have made that better.

Ash: Oh no.

Matty: Yes I agree.

Sam: Awake when I first watched the movie Akira I watched the dub and I was like this is f****** dumb and it was so poorly dubbed and everything was just cheesy and the dialogue was terrible but then the minute you watch it with Subs it's great like because the acting of their you know line delivery is on point and it doesn't sound so cheesy and then you understand what they're saying so I'm wondering if Maddie's little Point experiment about like watching it.

Sam: The other way would be better.

Ash: I mean even subtitle you know like like Bryce Bryce has been studying Japanese for a couple years now and he's you know nowhere fluent but he understands enough we're like we'll watch a Studio Ghibli film with subtitles and he's like that's not what they said at all at all and so it's it's interesting like it feels like Americans want to force a different perspective into these films sometimes.

Pat: I don't believe it.

Bret: I want times they switch lines in idioms like in Japanese idiom that like American Inc like what the f*** does that mean you know.

Sam: Lines in ATM Japanese idiom that was also too.

Ash: But sometimes they do it with like things that like it would have made perfect sense if you left it alone though you know.

Sam: Consider the times to like these if these movies came out pre-2000 most people didn't have the internet so the majority of audiences weren't as exposed to other cultures as we are now because we have the internet like so they probably were making these changes because they were thinking that the majority of Americans wouldn't get the cultural context of them.

Sam: Are you watching DBZ auntie auntie I was able to import it from pan and I got like the songs and it's way different.

Bret: Man you forget about that like I remember my cousin Chris like bragging like you're watching DBZ on Toonami not dude I was able to import it from Japan and I got like the subs and it's way different way better.

Bret: How could you even do that as a teenager.

Ash: Well like I mean yeah when I was a teenager it was all about like finding the subbed anime but not the American Subs you wanted to find the sand sub because the sand Subs was more accurate and it was all about like finding the sand sub online somewhere which is just you know it's just bonkers.

Matty: In for kids is notorious for having the worst.

Ash: Gout too far for UK.

Pat: No I'm I want to expand honestly like animes issues blind spot for me though I've got various few and I know I could rattle off quite a few names of well-known properties and I get my toe in the water.

Ash: Yeah I mean if it was on Toonami you know.

Pat: On the water on a handful of things but I feel like it's compared to most people I feel like most circles I run in that these days I feel like it is so popular and I just.

Pat: I'm aware of big tropes.

Ash: It's had a Resurgence I think in the past couple years.

Matty: It's called Abby and it's cool to be a nerd it's cool to like nice things now but also for kids is always been known for having the worst jobs ever and for kids like notoriously almost ruined importing anime and translating it cuz like they're for kids did the first one piece where they like turn cigarettes into lollipops and it almost ruined the chance of. Show ever coming to America so like it's it's one of those things of four kids there was a reason why poet the Pokemon company just stopped working with them then why they're not around anymore like they just they're the worst for translating cuz they did the first Sailor Moon as well.

Bret: Well I think we kind of started getting into the wrap-up so I feel like I've pretty much said all of mine.

Bret: Who's who has.

Pat: Is this is this is going to be kind of weird I think this is the first one where I'm going to say I am.

Pat: Total pure neutral on this.

Pat: Okay that's a thing.

Pat: Okay like.

Bret: Well as it a question for you.

Pat: I do.

Ash: Have you ever been naked oh yeah.

Pat: I feel indifferent this movie I'm just like okay.

Bret: My question for you is would your kids look like.

Ash: I don't know.

Pat: Maybe cuz of all the crazy like wacky animals.

Pat: Tell me to put it on for them tomorrow and find tell you.

Pat: I will report back.

Ash: It's not much to like attached to I feel like.

Ash: You don't know.

Pat: I feel like actually I don't want to cuz I feel like they will is Gabby leaving all this one was supposed to ask me so many f****** question why is that why I don't like I asked the same question I asked Daddy was asking his friends last night those same questions.

Matty: I mean the whole animes on Netflix you could always pop in the first couple episodes and see if it sticks with them.

Matty: Right.

Ash: That's true.

Sam: I like this but I like what I recommended.

Bret: It's just interesting cuz like we're review show but we're not a review show that's in the business of telling people what movies to watch cuz like I like this but I would I recommend it to another human no.

Sam: No no.

Matty: God know and I'm probably not going to I probably won't watch it for another 10 years I'll re-watch it for the 35th probably maybe for the 30th but you know I could go forever without watching this again I feel the same thing about the first movie.

Bret: Is that a wrap on that.

Pat: Do I mean I am.

Bret: I feel nothing.

Pat: I feel I feel neither anger nor joy as a.

Sam: I'm kind of with that last sentiment of Brett's like is it a good movie or is it like a really really bad movie no.

Sam: Is it good no like it's just.

Ash: Apparently.

Sam: It floats kind of in that yet neutral like it could have been so much more it could have been a lot worse do I enjoy it because I like Pokemon because it reminded me of being a kid and like it was a big part of my childhood yeah and that's about all it's got going for it it definitely was made at a time when movies were made for kids and they weren't made for the storytelling so kind of in that like pre Pixar phase of like all about like selling the toys in the product like what are the young kids want to get out of this and not thinking of it as a storytelling medium yet so you know.

Sam: I'm torn cuz it's like oh yeah it's very of the time and it stated they're just different times but also it could have been so much more.

Sam: So it in which I think the franchise has grown to accommodate specially in their newer series and their games that have so much more story and world-building and so it definitely has grown but this one.

Sam: It's in the early stages and it shows.

Pat: I mean I really enjoyed talking about it with my lovely friends.

Bret: I feel like is mad easily when I was gone and he left he got bored.

Sam: Probably.

Ash: His review of the movie.

Ash: I forgot to call you today sorry.

Pat: I'll tell you the gist of it I can strenuous in 30 seconds I don't know what was going on back there.

Ash: Oh no.

Matty: I'm so sorry I'm so sorry.

Ash: So anyway Maddie's like the best guy LOL.

Matty: I'm sorry I couldn't hold it anymore which is no excuse cuz we're on the line pregnant ladies.

Ash: You.

Bret: We have arrived at you're the only one who hasn't done a full closeout.

Matty: Oh.

Matty: Everything I could say has been said I have fun I always have fun I will put the old anime on it occasionally I put the new anime on in the background just cuz it is fun is something very nostalgic about it I would not I would not die on a hill that this particularly good I wouldn't seek it out especially cuz it's all behind a paywall right now.

Matty: So if you do want to watch the city's on dailymotion in the original Japanese version so you know but same Android right.

Ash: I mean have you seen them in the same place at the same time I don't think so.

Matty: I just assumed that was because of the Tesla like helicopters like they can fly.

Matty: I'm excited that people still play the games and watch the show but you know it's not bad but you know awesome going with what Sam said you know this was like the same the other Toy Story 2 came out so like.

Matty: We're looking at animated film I just you know it's it's not.

Ash: They will die for you.

Matty: A movement in animation but it's fun it's humor I would die for Team Rocket that that is what I will pull out of those cuz I would die for Team Rocket so I appreciate them if for no other reason so.

Sam: I want to tell everybody one more time not only just about your concert.

Bret: Well that was awesome thanks Maddie for coming on the show do you want to tell everybody one more time will not only just about your content but maybe fill them in on the the big Pokemon crossover we're doing cuz.

Bret: I don't think we gave a full description of that.

Matty: No it's so today is the first day of this releases as well as my episode of Saturday morning confidential where I'm joined By Dana Barros from as well as a and we talked about the first couple episodes of the Pokemon anime.

Sam: Pokemon 2002.

Matty: I'm sorry Pokemon the first movie Pokemon the first movie and then I end my week in the crossover event by sit-down with Matt stormageddon ninja moon in on funny games Matt and Jeff to talk about Pokemon as a video game monolith and kind of how it's changed gaming and really changed history of being a Casual Gamer we wanted to celebrate Pokemon and its 25-year Legacy since the games come out so you can find all of those on certain pov. Com or there is a special link on my Instagram and on Facebook on her linktree which is Instagram is just SMC pod we're also SMC pod on Facebook so I.

Bret: Ash Giants.

Ash: You can also or follow us on Twitter we're at let's re-watch where we do fun things like movie Fools or you guys get to choose the movie and we do things where I'll tweet a still from the movie if you didn't choose it from a pole at least stay still for this movie that there was no hiding it but you have to tell me the exact movie like you can't just save Pokemon and congratulations Brian he was the first one right away who guessed it good job.

Ash: Mitch was sad but he had to sit out yeah.

Bret: Congratulations and I found it showed up right after yeah.

Ash: Mitch had no idea.

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Ash: We have any new ones.

Bret: Whisper our name seductively into your friends years.

Sam: I don't know do we have any new reviews.

Ash: I'm checking right now.

Pat: All Ash's checking you should go had already certain pov. Com I'm at work and all those cool shows that Maddie just told you about and lots of others all made and created by delightful Talent people.

Pat: And Thursday 2 p. M. Eastern come watch me and Brett play D&D.

Pat: Link twitch Channel.

Sam: Brett had a fabulous poem today for.

Pat: Yes it was very choice so excellent yes.

Bret: I can I can read it here for you.

Sam: I I'm only slightly miffed that his D&D character cheated on me his wife with a weird.

Pat: In character Jordan character this is Bat character character mittens.

Bret: I read it as admittance.

Sam: East West Association slow.

Bret: Fortnite's passed since last our paths didn't cross winds came out Groupon widows Quest a child lost to hide a search my nips with rest a salad tossed then semen yes a semen in the scholars quest for fishing fo4 gold liro in science name we ride to slay a beast upon the tide.

Ash: Yeah I'm good.

Sam: Because we hot.

Bret: Because we had to yeah we're looking for widows kid and I did like a little hump dance to like trick her into not watching us search your house and then a fisherman hired us to do some fishing so.

Bret: Just want to make sure.

Ash: White guy was all in the poem Maddie is dying.

Ash: Yes upgrade favorite.

Matty: The fact that you use a line of salad tossed I f****** and I play a pansexual tiefling Bard and not even with a little much for me so.

Bret: I rhymed it with a child lost.

Matty: It works yeah I mean really what else are you going to ride it where I rhyme with child lost baby it's just salad tosses the first place I go.

Sam: Obviously.

Pat: I've been knowing that we missing out on today we had a session today of the day we're recording this and instead of us fighting the giant pleaseeasaur swimming dinosaur monster that the game wanted us to do we made friends with it.

Pat: And break out of drunk.

Pat: I pulled out his tooth try and like prove that we thought it but we just really made friends with it.

Sam: 11 a. M.

Bret: So if you want like the best D&D content that there ever has been yeah was that third Thursdays at 2 p. M. Eastern 11 a. M. Early in the morning for the.

Pat: TV size calculator.

Sam: We got next time it's not.

Bret: All right and that's that's that Pokemon Maddie lime and we got another movie next time it's not Les Miserables know it's labia itches.

Pat: Okay stop with his phone one.