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Black People Love Paramore

Pokémon 30th Anniversary

Black People Love Paramore

Sequoia Holmes

Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sequoia shows off her encyclopedic knowledge of Pokémon to mark the Japanese media franchise's 30th anniversary. She's joined by co-host Ryann Gilyard and writer/comedian Garrick Bernard. From watching Pokémon on the WB, collecting ALL the cards and weeping, WEEPING, at Pokémon the First Movie, they reminisce about their relationships to the iconic franchise. Plus, Ryan challenges Garrick and Sequoia to a game of Name That Pokémon. All this and more!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Black People Love Paramar, a podcast not about the band Paramar, but a show about the common as well as the uncommon interests of black people in order to help us feel a little bit more scene.

0:29.7

I'm Sequoia.

0:30.9

I'm Ryan.

0:31.7

And today we also have a special guest, my man, my fiance, Garrick Bernard.

0:38.8

Hey, it's your boy.

0:40.8

It's your, your boy.

0:42.5

Your boy.

0:44.5

And if you are a boy or a five star bitch

0:47.4

or anything in between, rate us five stars

0:50.4

on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on all the things.

0:53.2

I would really appreciate that.

0:54.9

Also, talk to us.

0:56.2

You guys have been talking to us, been very vocal.

0:58.3

The comments on Spotify are going up, comments on YouTube are going up.

1:01.0

Everything is very lovely, having good time chatting with you guys, even when you guys play me sometimes.

1:05.4

Remember in the last episode, not the Lizzie McGuire episode, the episode before that, I was like, I described high school musical perfectly and you guys did not leave me five stars for my description. I said, if you liked my description of high school musical, drop five stars in the comments. I didn't get a single five stars. So many people. So then when I pressed them about it in the next episode, so many people were like, here, damn.

1:28.4

Like that's what I'm saying is like, somebody literally comments it here, damn.

1:32.3

But it's bullying.

1:33.5

What I'm saying is that you are bullying people into complimenting you.

1:37.0

Somebody said, here are five stars for Sequoia's ego.

1:39.5

Somebody gave me one star, said here, damn.

1:41.6

It was just like a lot going on.

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