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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

And Rob, you wanted to talk about Pokemon today.

So you are going to have to be my Virgil leading me through the Pokey hell and all the way to the Pokey Paradise.

Because as longtime listeners will know, every time this comes up on the show, I am lost in a dark wood when it comes to Pokemon.

I do not have the Pokemon knowledge of my peers.

Well, maybe I am the Virgil of Pokemon because I cannot enter Paradise.

I can only take you so far because I came into it really late as well. We were actually

chatting off mic with our producer JJ earlier, and JJ is of the right age to have been

properly brought up in the Pokemon world. And so we were chatting just a little bit about

knowing your way around Pokemon and just the, the enormous pop culture shadow that Pokemon casts, uh, for, uh, particularly for millennials and Gen Z, uh, with strong signs that it's going to continue to play this role for younger generations as well. Like you can, people who grew up with Pokemon,

can, do they just talk about it? They can use it as reference points. It's, uh, it's like a language

unto itself. Yeah. By the way, JJ, if we, if we make a big pokey blunder in this episode,

please do interrupt us and we can fill the listeners in with your, with your insights. Uh, yeah, so I, I'm

not like somebody who's never encountered

Pokemon before my personal experience with it was basically at the same time as every other

kid in america i played the original Pokemon game boy game i never finished it but i played

that when it came out when I was in like sixth

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