The 30th Anniversary of Pokémon Begins
It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast
PKMNcast.com
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
We look back on some of the Pokémon news that TPCi seemed to deem worthy to write in their retrospective. A neat Japanese Pokémon ecology book is getting an English translation and coming out this Spring. Pocket gets some updates. Pokémon teases a 30th Anniversary logo with a small trailer. We speculate why older games still might not come to the Switch or Switch 2.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00-Introduction
00:06:30-Poké Ecology Book
00:14:10-TCG Pocket News
00:26:50-30th Anniversary Start
00:51:00-Red, Blue, Green
01:05:00-Look Back on 2025
01:29:40-Credits
LINKS
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EPISODE CREDITS
Hosted, edited, and produced by Steve Sarumi
Theme songs and segment jingles by Nicholas Burgess
Ad music comes from Evanto Elements
Podcast artwork by Steve Sarumi
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone, welcome to the 7002 episode of the Pokemon podcast. It's super effective. I'm your host, Steve. With me is Bobby. |
| 0:24.1 | I have returned from the desert and I have survived. Not the desert in Metroid. |
| 0:29.7 | Yeah, you're not surviving that one. Not that desert, but the real desert, palm desert, |
| 0:35.1 | and I have survived. Austin also here. |
| 0:38.9 | I have not chatted with y'all since last year. |
| 0:41.7 | Welcome in. |
| 0:43.6 | I hope you had a great New Year's, everybody. |
| 0:46.0 | I spent mine watching Heated Rivalry, the finale of Stranger Things, which we could skip |
| 0:50.8 | right over that one. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome in. |
| 1:10.9 | Wow. Hello. I didn't hate the finale of Stranger Thing. No, it was okay. I thought it was fine. I thought it was okay. I thought it was okay. It could have been worse. It was very, it was like a very Disney ending. Mm-hmm. Hmm. I need to catch up. It was fine. Stopped at season one. Oh, you have a lot to catch up on it. |
| 1:12.6 | Or maybe you don't bother. |
| 1:13.7 | I don't know. I don't know. I feel like if you made it to season four, it's like you might as well finish it. Yeah, that's, yeah. Season one, I don't know. Yeah, I was super hyped when season one ended. and then it was just a while between one and two, I think. |
| 1:27.9 | And so I just... |
| 1:28.9 | It was a while between every season. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. hyped when season one ended and then it was just a while between one and two I think and so I just |
| 1:28.6 | it was a while between every season yeah it was yes correct but wasn't season one I'm like |
| 1:34.5 | that was the writer strike or is that season two going to three that would have been two going to three |
| 1:39.9 | okay I think yeah yeah it was it was fine it was fine some some could argue that ZA is just fine that is also true well hold on if you guys both talk about a show you watch I finished pluribus I gotta start that I gotta start that it looks good yeah I watched the first three episodes of fallout season two oh yeah i watched |
| 2:02.4 | those were good that show is fantastic maybe better than stranger things i for sure it is |
| 2:10.1 | for sure it is awesome uh oh one show that's also good right now is The Witcher. Season 4 is out. |
| 2:18.3 | Now I give up on that one. |
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