Haunted Pokedex w/ Eric Silver
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever thought about how messed up the Pokemon world is? We have! We’re joined by Eric Silver to do a deep dive into the most terrifying entries in the Pokedex, and what it means for the folklore of the Pokemon universe.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of murder, child death, child endangerment, body horror, medical experimentation, racism, classism, animal endangerment, and freezing to death.
Guest
Eric is a writer, audio producer, game designer and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s the DM of Join the Party, a D&D actual play podcast with tangible worlds, genre-pushing storytelling, and collaborators who make each other laugh each week. He’s created and produced 8 podcasts you know and love, and shaped many more. Follow him on twitter @el_silvero. He is not Eric Schneider.
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About Us
Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spears podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:10.5 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world, or the region, as it were. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 267, The Haunted Pokedex with guest Eric Silver. |
| 0:22.4 | It's me. |
| 0:23.6 | Who's this? |
| 0:24.6 | I've never seen you on this podcast before. |
| 0:26.9 | You're new to these parts. |
| 0:28.3 | That's true. |
| 0:29.0 | You sound much like Charles the Gamesman. |
| 0:31.0 | No, I killed him in a bloody rage. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, no. |
| 0:35.4 | Well, you know, he turned into a werewolf and then he attacked me. |
| 0:39.1 | So I had to, you know, find silver bullets and it was a whole thing. But no, Charles the gamesman is no |
| 0:45.0 | longer. It is just me, Eric Silver from over on the other side of Multitude. I like the idea |
| 0:49.9 | that Multitude is like a big house. Oh. Like I'm like in the basement like playing my little |
| 0:54.3 | games. I was going to put you in like the West Wing or something like that. But no, you can take |
| 0:58.6 | the basement if you want, but they'll fade all of my game books if it's, uh, if there are windows in |
| 1:03.9 | the room. Of course. So I have to be in the basement. Are we certain that you and Eric Schneider |
| 1:07.8 | have been in the same place at the same time? Oh, this is actually very important. I'm actually not talking about Pokemon. I'm coming on to say, |
| 1:15.2 | I'm not Eric Schneider. Spirits listeners, I'm not Eric Schneider. You don't edit the podcast? |
| 1:20.5 | I don't edit the podcast. I don't live in Ohio. I'm a different person. I am the DM of join the |
| 1:25.5 | party where I amuse Julia and Amanda with my |
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