It's Rebecca Black's favorite day, Friday, and that means it's time for me to tell you

about the latest patron exclusive episode of Returnouts.

In honor of the fact that the Pokemon series has finally taken a significant leap forward

in its designs with Pokemon Legends, we've traveled back more than 25 years in time to

where the franchise began, with Pokemon Red and Blue, or rather, Pocket Monsters, Aka and

Midori.

Early this deep-dive exploration goes back well more than a quarter of a century back

to the early days of the Game Boy, Game Freak Designer Satoshi Tajiri began kicking round

ideas for a Link cable battle and trading game.

Join myself, Jerry Parrish, and Pokemon Fanatics Capairly, Shiven Butt, and Kasey DeFritis,

or the first chapter in a series of in-depth looks at the history of the Pokemon series.

And if you enjoy this mini episode teaser, you can enjoy the whole thing by subscribing

to Returnouts at the $5 month level or higher.

Not only will you be able to listen to this full episode, but also to a two-year backlog

of bi-weekly Patreon exclusive episodes, plus a massive collection of Diamond Fights

this week in retro columns and mini-podcasts, and even discord access.

That's a lot of stuff.

So enjoy this sampler, and then head over to patreon.com slash returnouts to be one of the cool

kids who, uh, gets to listen to adults talk about Pokemon in frightful detail.

Patreon.com slash returnouts.

I didn't have a lot of money, but I had a lot of, uh, some leftover lunch money that

I used to pay for one of those, uh, Charmander Burger King toys.

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