There’s Always a Lighthouse, a Pokémon, a City

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Pokémon Legends Z-A is the latest entry in the pocket monster franchise, and the first in years to run quite well on Nintendo’s hardware. But what does the game offer beyond technical improvements? Plus, Keeper plops us in the … shoes? … of an ambulatory lighthouse.

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0:00.0	What are you guys going for a howling?
0:23.0	Oh, no. Genuinely, I have a big problem. What is it? My big concern was that, and I think I talked about on RESTIs, that my son would pull a curveball and not want to dress up as the thing he was asking to dress up as. Oh, yeah. Which happened last year. That's kid law, dude. Kids get messages. Kids get WhatsApps about my kid didn't even have websites.
0:24.2	He gets WhatsApp messages.
0:27.2	She's like, well, dang it, I got to change.
0:27.7	Says.
0:28.2	Yeah.
0:32.6	So this happened last year, and this was after we bought a Yoshi costume for him.
0:36.7	And then we last minute dressed him up as Link from Legend of Zelda.
0:43.7	This year, somehow I was able to mind trick him into wearing the Yoshi costume from last year, which still fits.
0:45.8	So he's into that.
0:50.3	The problem is I've spent all this mental energy and I've no fucking idea what I'm going to dress as.
0:51.0	Oh, yeah.
0:52.3	Okay.
0:53.2	Well, there's still time. What is Glenn Palin in this year?
0:56.2	I'm not allowed to. My son is a firm rule in the house. He says, I am a ghost. Pasta, our dog, is a ghost.
1:07.6	Mommy and daddy are not ghosts. They are parents.
1:12.8	And I say, that is fair.
1:15.2	I'm happy with that.
1:16.0	I like that he sounds like Dracula, though.
1:18.8	He has been watching a lot of very classic universal monster movies, so he might be kind of picking up that cadence.
1:27.4	Yeah, it's working. How up that, that cadence. Yeah,
1:27.7	it's working.
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