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It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast

Chicago Pokémon GO Fest Recap

It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast

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Pokemon Pocket, Leisure, Pokemon Podcast, Pokemon Go Podcast, Video Games, Pokémon Go, Pkmncast, Pokemon Tcg, Nintendo Switch 2, Games, Pokemon Cards, Nintendo, It's Super Effective, Pokémon, Pokemon

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dual episode with GOCast! We talk about both city play and park play of Chicago Pokémon GO Fest. Some ups and downs, but overall it felt great to return to Chicago to play Pokémon GO with everyone again! Our thoughts were recording live in a Chicago studio and published here.


TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00-Introduction

00:02:00-Pokémon LEGO Sets

00:04:45-Fossil Museum Thoughts

00:14:30-GO Fest, Part 1

00:27:45-GO Fest, Part 2

00:54:30-Credits


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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone, welcome to the 724th episode of the Pokemon podcast. It's super effective. And the, uh, how, what would, uh, oh, I didn't prep. 374, 372. Okay. Yeah. He just gave us an extra two. Uh, episode 372 of the GoCast podcast. Yeah. There we go. We're together again at a go event. I'm your host, Steve. With me is... I'm Chris. And we got Austin here. Hello, I'm here. Kyle's also here. Hi, yeah. We're getting really good at this dual host. Yeah, it's too bad. It's too bad. We're doing this show in a new podcast studio. We did the one in L.A. This one's tight. This one's very nice. Yeah, very nice. Look, a high phrase already. We're trying to get a discount if we gas them up. We're under a minute already. This is great. Perfect. So this episode was going to be focused on GoFest. We just did the morning session of GoFest and then all city play was yesterday. Yep. So we are in a time limit today. So we won't have three segments, we'll have two segments and then after credits we'll do our Patreon bonus, which will be free on both of our feeds because it has to be free when it's a share. You're welcome. Again. If you know Chris is here, then it's free. That's right. That's why we love you, Chris.

1:28.6

We really like you around here. You're bringing so much value to the patron. Good. Whatever it takes, you know, I'll take any points I can get. So pretty much all go fast. I know there was some Lego news, but you guys didn't seem too interested. I mean, I'm interested to hear what it was. I don't know anything about it. Oh, okay. We can delay the go stuff. We can sure go right. Where we're at right now is we understand that there are Lego sets and people were upset about the price, but we've seen all the counter arguments that per brick is actually not so bad. Yes. Other than that. Well, I'm not like a huge... Are you, are you, like...

2:01.6

I'm not really a Lego guy either now.

2:02.6

Oh, well, this doesn't...

2:03.6

I mean, I like Lego. I used to build them all the time as a kid, but I'm not an adult collector, Steve. I'm sorry. No, no. No, they just announced a bunch of new sets. So, like, Gangar Cubone, Joltian Charzard, Muteu

2:15.4

Bulbussar B-Doof is a set

2:18.3

Oh well

2:19.0

I'm okay

2:19.4

I think

2:20.7

as a non-Legro guy, but a big Pokemon guy, right. I think they look okay. I think there was the, you know, people didn't like the Venusaur blast always Charzard kind of thing yeah was the was the was the complaint that

2:35.3

people don't like what the small like the small ones look like do people like i think the complaint

2:39.7

was the the first set of legos looked ugly compared to med the megablocks though yeah okay

2:45.4

fair enough which is the first time in history anyways ever said that the the the logos looked worse than Megablog? Yes. And I will say that as somebody who owns several Megablock sets. I'm just saying there's a stigma that's unfair, I think, two megablocks. But people tend to think that Lego's high quality just because it costs more. And that might be true to a degree, but doesn't mean the sets look as good, you know? I don't know if I've ever built a mega block, but I've sure built Legos.

3:09.9

Okay.

3:10.4

So I guess I can't compare.

3:12.0

But I do, I think some of the new ones do look good. The Muti one's pretty cool. It comes with like the tube. Yeah. Yeah. That one's all. well they're the also the the ones that like light up and interact with each other yeah that's

3:22.3

the smart brick did you hear they like i saw like a tic-tok of them showing off like the sounds

3:27.2

they sound off like the sounds.

3:27.3

They sound nothing like the Pokemon. Nothing at all. It's like good or bad. I don't know. I mean, it's fine. Charmander. Yeah, it's like, okay, I don't know. No, they like went with the in-game cries,

3:39.3

but it's like pitched weirdly, I think,

3:40.9

but I mean, whatever.

3:42.1

Interesting.

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