What's up everyone, welcome to the 294th episode of the Pokemon Podcast, it's super effective.

I'm your host, S.B.J.

It's just me today, it is new year's day, I'm recording this, I just woke up, it's 3pm.

I know the episodes usually come out early in the morning, but of course, holiday, I was traveling, I did a stream.

Here we are, I gave the crew the week off, of course, because I already roped them into Christmas weekend.

So give them the week off, it's okay, it's cool.

It's the slowest time for Pokemon, usually the last week of the year, and the first week of the new year

are the slowest for Pokemon news, I think that's always kind of been the case, and that's okay.

I do have a little bit of news that we're going to talk about, but we got a little unique episode for you,

so we're going to talk about a little bit of Pokemon news, which we some of this we might recap next week,

just to get some other opinions on it, but most of it is not really opinion-based, it's just like,

okay, here's the news, and then we're going to talk real quick about our plans for 2018,

and then I am including the first episode of Mythical Season 5.

At the end of this, if you guys want to listen to that, if you haven't heard it yet,

obviously, it's super effective, it's way more popular than Mythical, but I would love to see

some sort of crossover, but I'll explain to that when we get there, but that'll be the last half

of the show here. So let's kick it off with some Pokemon news.

First bit of news here is there is a new Pokemon album in iTunes and Google Play and Amazon

and on Spotify. Pokemon Movie Music Collection is now available. This is inspired from the stuff

from the X and Y series anime, and Pokemon in the movie I choose you. Total runtime of the album

is 34 minutes. You can buy the whole album if you want, you can just buy the tracks, you can just

stream it on Spotify, whichever you want, but it includes, this is the first album to feature

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