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hey everyone welcome back to the chibi trainer
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pokemon podcast the place where we talk all things
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pokemon from the tcg to the games to Everything
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in between. And my name is Ryan. Now, the Pokemon
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took a little bit of a break, but I'm picking
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it right back up. Before we carry on, we had
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such a house move and we're planning so much
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in, like, for the year. There's so much going
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on. We're house moved, but now we are settled.
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So I am now ready to pick the reins back up for
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the podcast. Sorry for the hiatus, but we're
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back, we're going to do this, and today's episode
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is a really special one. Because we're diving
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into something that honestly defines my entire
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kind of identity with Pokemon at this point,
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and that is Ghost -type Pokemon. And I feel that
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right now, more than ever, Ghost -types are having
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a full moment, whether it's in the games, the
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trading card game. or even just online, people
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seem to be connecting with ghost type Pokemon
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in a way that feels different. And not just because
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it's, you know, it's not even spooky season right
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now. So a lot of people seem to pick up ghost
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type Pokemon or that kind of theme around that
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kind of time. But you know, it's April, we're
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getting into spring, we're getting into summer,
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and people are seeming to react and vibe with
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ghost type Pokemon in a much more... in a much
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more loving and different way, and in a deeper
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kind of way. So today, we're going to break down
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why that is, like what makes ghost type Pokemon
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so unique, why they might actually be the most
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relatable type in all of Pokemon. But before
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we get into that, let's take a quick look at
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what's been happening in the world of Pokemon
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this week with some Pokemon news. Alright, so
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let's kick some things off with some Pokemon
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news. So we've got the Pokemon 30th anniversary
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going off. So yes, this is news, I guess, throughout
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the year. But one thing I've been seeing a lot
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of is people taking the Watch Your Favourite
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Pokemon campaign and turning it into something
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a little bit more expanded. I guess I've been
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doing this on my Instagram as well. And it's,
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I think, the... 30th anniversary theme of what's
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your favorite has got people thinking a lot about
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their own pokemon journey and their own special
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kind of commitment or um kind of love with pokemon
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in a different kind of way so my like my favorite
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pokemon is mimikyu you'll see him like when i
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go to event you'll see the little clips you'll
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see the t -shirts you know there's there's i'm
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always representing a ghost type and i'm always
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representing my favorite mimikyu But then I've
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also got a different tangent to What's Your Favourite
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as well, which is, what's your favourite region?
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You know, my favourite region and my favourite
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games are Pokemon Black and White, so Univer,
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Gen 5. And that is my favourite region, but it's
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not particularly known, I guess, for ghost -type
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Pokemon. You know, it's the generation that had
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more of like a dragon focus than anything else.
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So it's kind of, you know, we can be multifaceted
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as Pokemon trainers. I think the Pokemon 30th
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anniversary is starting to kind of see that and
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bring out a lot of that in all of us, which is
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really, really interesting. I'm loving seeing
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the representation. There's so much more merch
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on Pokemon Center at the minute. There's the
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Explore Pokemon range, which is like a... A little
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bit like Patagonia theme kind of style stuff
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where it's like badges for different regions.
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There's pins, there's desk mats, there's t -shirts.
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I did a post up on my Instagram of me repping
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like Univer Gen 5. I got the t -shirt for Univer
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and I got the desk mat as well that featured
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all the different regions. So it's really, really
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cool. Do go check that out. I'm not sponsored
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by them at all. I wish I was. But go check that
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out. It's really, really cool merch to kind of
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help you kind of really dive into the what's
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your favorite theme. There's a lot of TCG buzz
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as always. So the TCG buzz at the minute is the
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new set that's coming, which is Ninja Spinner
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in Japanese, but it's Chaos Rising in the West.
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This is more focused on like Mega Greninja and
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a little bit more of Floret kind of themed as
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well. One of the most gorgeous cards is Eternal
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Floet, like Mega Floet. And it looks absolutely
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amazing. Some of these cards are great in this
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set. I don't think I'll be... going for this
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set um i i kind of pick and choose which sets
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i kind of go for depending on whether i kind
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of vibe with them to be absolutely honest and
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i don't like the idea of having so many unfinished
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sets either right now i'm working on mega evolution
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one the master set the master set for journey
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together which is like 96 done so i'm very very
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very close to being done with that one Mega Evolution
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3, which is our most recent set that's come out,
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which is Perfect Order. And also the Mega Evolution,
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no, not the Mega Evolution, the Master Set for
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Black White, so the Black Bolt White Flare. That's
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what I'm working on at the minute. I won't be
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going for Chaos Rising, I don't think. There
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are some great cards in there, though it's not
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a huge set. We're looking at 37 secret cards
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and 83 for the base set. So, you know, we've
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got... It's an okay -sized set. It's more like
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120 overall, so it's a decent -sized set. Nothing
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huge again. I thought it would be bigger compared
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to the smaller size of Perfect Order, but they
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look roughly the same. Which is interesting.
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So I think we're due a huge set after this. And
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the biggest set after this. Not even rumour wise.
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No it has been confirmed. We've seen some art
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this week. Which was Abyss Eye. Which is more
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focused on Mega Darkrai. Which looks awesome.
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I have to say. I'm so here for like a dark, moody,
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spooky vibe set. So if I don't do Chaos Rising.
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I'll most likely do Abyss Eye. This one. There's
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been some. Some news around the Japanese set.
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The cards are rising a little bit in price. So
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it's coming with a little bit of, is this the
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right set for them to do it with? Will this hit
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enough for them to commit raising the price?
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I don't know if that'll happen here in the West.
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I guess that depends on country, whether you're
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listening in the US or the UK. Price could rise.
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So we have to kind of keep that in mind. It's
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like anything else nowadays, I guess, isn't it?
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But, you know, we can keep that in mind. I don't
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think that'll stint or hinder my love for the
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Pokemon TCG. So I'll end up getting them anyway.
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Let's be honest. I'll end up getting them anyway,
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whether it's slightly higher in price or not.
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But we've got a little more merch, like I've
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already mentioned. And so yeah, so loads happening
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in the Pokemon world right now. There's always
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so much going off, but a lot in the TCG at the
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minute. But let's dive into today's main topic
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because this one is the one I've been really,
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really excited to talk about. So our next segment
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is the master ball topics. This is our. Our main
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topic for the podcast now, and that one is, why
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do ghost type Pokemon feel so popular right now?
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Now, I, like I've already said, I'm always so
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here for ghost type Pokemon. You know, I will
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always, always represent my favorite ghost types.
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My favorite type, I guess overall, I love all
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the ghost types to be absolutely honest. My favorite
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being Mimikyu. But I think this is the first
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thing, I think the first thing to understand
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about ghost types. is they're not just designed
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to be scary I think a lot of them a lot of there's
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a misconception that I think all the ghost types
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are literally just spooky and that's kind of
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it you know there's there's not just a surface
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level to them a lot of them are actually built
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around stories or emotions and a lot of them
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have a folklore or something much more deep and
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much more a lot more kind of emotional with them
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as well it's not always just that they're purely
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spooky a lot of them such as bonnet or phantom
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bonnet has a story where that pokemon especially
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in anime as well is actually a a cursed doll
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essentially she's a haunted doll because in the
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anime there's a um i can't remember what episode
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it is or even what season to be honest but bonnet
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there's a girl and she ends up moving home a
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little girl with her family she ends up moving
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and the doll is placed on these boxes And, you
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know, the people are told to get the boxes, moving
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company, get the boxes, you know, move them all
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out. Let's get them into the truck. Let's get
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this family moved. And Burnett ends up being
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left. The doll ends up getting left. And the
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doll is left on the side. It's waiting for the
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owner. And it eventually becomes like a, not
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particularly a vengeful spirit just yet, but
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it becomes. it becomes haunted, it becomes possessed,
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essentially. There's no negative way to kind
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of say that. A spirit enters it, essentially,
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and it kind of becomes alive and goes hunting
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for the child or the person or whoever left that
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doll behind. And in the anime, the girl has all
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grown up at this point. It's been a long, long
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time since Burnett was able to actually find...
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the the child and becomes a vengeful spirit so
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she and then you know it becomes a full bonnet
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i get i guess but there's a lot more emotion
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there you know bonnet is a pokemon where it was
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actually there's a lot of emotion it became a
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vengeful kind of ghost pokemon because of it
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feeling left behind it feeling unloved it feeling
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lost i think that's so kind of dark and deep
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and and sad i think there's a lot of things like
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that phantom I believe it's Phantom is the Pokemon
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where their lore is it's actually a child that
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got lost in the forest and unfortunately passed
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away. And then there's Trevenant, which actually
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is more of a theory of Trevenant is the guardian
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of the various people or kids or spirits that
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wander through the forest a little bit like Phantom.
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So Phantom kind of evolves to be the protective
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entity of different Phantoms. which i think is
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really cool i think it's not evil it's just it
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a lot of them misunderstood you know i think
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that's an interesting point for these pokemon
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to to kind of have that kind of depth to them
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you know we see gengar gengar's one of the most
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popular ones where we see we see gengar wait
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for his trainer that that left him on you know
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and gengar waits on the steps in the anime and
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it's so so sad we wait for you know we see gengar
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we kind of wait with gengar essentially for this
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train to come back and gengar waits so patiently
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and he doesn't come back and you know someone
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else um comes for him i guess but i think that's
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something really interesting that there's a lot
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of the time ghost type pokemon have that human
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connection and have a human emotion connected
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with them in their own story and in their own
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background that makes them what they are I think
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there's something there's a big finger being
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pointed at us I think with ghost type Pokemon
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and how they how they are how they become what
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they are I think there's something really interesting
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there but then you've got Pokemon like Mimikyu
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and this is where things get really really interesting
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I think that connection, whether it be in the
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anime, in the TCG, in the games, in whatever,
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in real life, it can be a connection to us as
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actual people, as Pokemon fans, as well as actually
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just having the connection that makes the Pokemon
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themselves or makes them the Pokemon, I guess,
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like Binette, like Gengar, like Phantom. I think
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there are some that really, really resonate with
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us. For me, that Pokemon is Mimikyu. Kind of
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coming back to that, what's your favorite? theme
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and idea at the minute with Pokemon it Mimikyu
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is my favorite and there's not to get too deep
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with it here but like one moment that really
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made this kind of click for me was a European
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International Championships in London in in February
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this year recently I actually got to meet Mimikyu
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in person which sounds crazy it sounds ridiculous
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trying to say it but I think seeing the Pokemon
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that you resonate so much with in in real life
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becomes something so so special and it feels
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like it kind of unlocks something I guess it
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feels like you're it feels like you're you finally
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come full circle I guess you know I've got the
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plushies on my on my desks I've got the cards
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there's all this kind of like memorabilia I guess
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for Mimikyu and then kind of getting to meet
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him at EUIC The championships was just so special.
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We didn't actually think it was going to be like
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a meet and greet. I'm saying that like as a celebrity,
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but I didn't think. You know, we saw the Eevee
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one, we saw the Pikachu one, we saw the Snorlax
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one. And then all of a sudden on Instagram, Pokemon
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UK posted a little photo, I think it was a reel
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of like a surprise appearance, I guess, of Miku
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at EUIC. And it was minutes after seeing it.
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I was in the queue to play Pokopio. the little
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trial that you could play off Pocopio at EUIC,
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which was amazing, and I'm addicted to that game.
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And being able to kind of see that, oh, actually,
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today, Mimikyu will be around at some point,
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and we randomly seemed to check and ask this
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one person that was working there at the event,
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you know, is Mimikyu going to pop up? Are we
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going to see Mimikyu? Do we get to have photos
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with him? And it was like once every hour. and
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it was like we had like 10 minutes to wait so
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it was so it was perfect timing it was absolutely
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perfect um but it was so special Mimikyu is my
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favorite because I think growing up I hid so
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much of myself um to try and fit in or try and
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be cool or you know at school I was that nerdy
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kid that that liked Pokemon that liked anime
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that liked what people called the weird Japanese
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cartoons or, or, you know, that kind of stuff.
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I got, you know, it wasn't popular back then.
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It wasn't, it wasn't the cool thing to be into.
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It wasn't a thing you should be into. You know,
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it wasn't, it wasn't the, it wasn't the, it wasn't
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like it is now, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't
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what it is now. And Mimikyu represents that kind
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of time for me, I guess, of putting on a mask,
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putting on a facade. to try and be loved and
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try and fit in, try and find a place in the world.
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And Mimikyu, I think, I think that's why I really
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resonate with Mimikyu. It really kind of drives
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it home of where I was and where I am now, of
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actually, no, I'm going to have a space in my
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house that is filled with Pokemon stuff. I'm
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going to go to these events. I'm going to wear
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a Pokemon t -shirt. I'm going to wear Pokemon
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Converse. to go to shopping I do not care you
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know and having that confidence that I do now
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whereas Mimikyu I don't feel like has that and
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has a lot of hatred towards the world because
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it feels like it's not accepted Mimikyu feels
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like it's not got a place yet or not found its
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place yet and that's why I love kind of people
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or trainers like Acerola that specifically have
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Mimikyu as their Pokemon not their signature
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Pokemon but she does have it as in her team,
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and you know, we see a lot of her artists fixing
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Mimikyu's costume and stuff, which is something
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I would 100 % do all the time, even at the risk
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of unaliving, if I saw Mimikyu's real form, but
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I think that's, I think that's something super,
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super deep, and there's, there's something about
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Pokemon, Ghost -type Pokemon, not only having...
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an emotional connection to their own storyline,
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their own kind of evolution line, their own lore,
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but also what they have for us and what they
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mean for us. I think that's something that is...
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I think that's something that's true for any
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type. I don't think it's just ghost types. I
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think because ghost type Pokemon seem the most
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emotionally driven and the most emotionally kind
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of connected, I think that's something that...
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that makes it easier to kind of connect with,
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but I think there's something you can find within
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your own favorite Pokemon, when you ask your
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question of what's your favorite, you know, why
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is it your favorite, you know, what makes you
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driven to that Pokemon, what is it, there is
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something, every Pokemon is someone's favorite,
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and I love the idea that we are so diverse, we
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have so many different connections, so many different
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emotional ties to different Pokemon, for different
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reasons, it might be a place in time, it might
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be a feeling, it might be a vibe, it might be
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however it might be a physical location even
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why not you know i think there's so much but
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ghost type pokemon don't just look cool to me
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i think they mean something to me i think there's
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something really really deep there that was way
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more emotional than i i had planned but i like
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that you get that i like that you know being
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able to kind of really really go through that
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But let's go through TCG. So we've already kind
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of mentioned a little bit about the TCG, but
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there's some that are coming up. There's some
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that are coming up and then there's some that
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are like my favorite cards that kind of fit this
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theme as well. So let's dive into those as well.
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So now bringing that into the TCG, the trading
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card game side of things. I've actually been
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organizing my GoStack cards recently. If you
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see me on Instagram or TikTok, I have a GoStack
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binder. It's a Vault -X binder, soft plug if
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you use code ChibiWeeb. At checkout, you'll get
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10 % off your order. So do use that. Do soft
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plug there. But do use it. It's C -H -I -B -I
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-W -E -E -B. That's C -H -I -B -I -W -E -E -B.
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And you'll get 10 % off. It's really worth it.
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Get yourself 10 % off. Save yourself some money
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for your hobby. This hobby is expensive enough.
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So save yourself 10%. But I love the idea of
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sitting down with a coffee. or any other beverage
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you choose. Mine's usually a coffee cider in
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the afternoon. I'm looking through the binders
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and I have a ghost type specific binder to collect.
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It doesn't have to be like every card. It doesn't
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have to be like everything I want. That'd be
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great. That'd be so much work. I also don't have
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the budget for that because the Gengar cards
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are enormously priced on the market. So that's
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just not going to happen unless I hit the lottery.
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There may be. But, you know, there are some favorite
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cards and I love the idea. I think you could
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do this for your own favorite type or your own
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favorite Pokemon specifically either as well.
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Is setting up a binder for that specific one,
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that specific type or that one to really celebrate
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it and let yourself really dive into this. You
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know, there's some awesome creators like Cinedex.
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He does. Oh, they do. They do. Sorry. They do,
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like, an awesome Mew binder, and it looks so
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good. So, so good. It's, oh, binder dreams, if
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I'm honest. Mine's a little bit more rough and
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ready feeling, if I'm honest. I really need to
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work on mine. I really want to do the, I forgot
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what the binder technique is. The one where you,
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is it Muri? Muri? I forgot what it is. I'm so
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sorry. I forgot what it is. The one where you
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can kind of get the, you print out an image,
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you'll stack, you'll like lay the cards out in
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a different way instead of just all putting them
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in. I love that technique and it's so, so pretty.
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My printer, I don't think is good enough to print
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that good image. So I need to kind of maybe do
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a different way. But yeah, it's tangent and it
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doesn't matter. You can set it up however you
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want. But I think that could be a really, really
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great way of celebrating that Pokemon and celebrating
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that theme. there are some that i i'm kind of
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weird with it to be honest i like perfect order
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for example has a illustration rare of dewblade
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which is a steel and ghost type pokemon with
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the swords essentially and they look so so good
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it's a gorgeous card i posted this on my instagram
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so do go check that out if you if you have time
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um but there's there's that card and i'd want
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a duplicate of it because it's going to go in
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there then the perfect order binder me3 but then
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i also want it to go in my ghost type binder
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as well so i really want to duplicate that you
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know don't have to do that it's still technically
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got the card for the master set but i like knowing
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i've got it in both but that one is one of my
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favorite cards at the moment it's so so gorgeous
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there's so much detail it's like jewel blade
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floating above some suits of armor in like an
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old castle kind of vibe and it is so kind of
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like gothic horror vibe and spooky but really
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detailed really lovely looking and it fits it
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so so well one of my other favorite cards is
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actually one of the mazato cards which is The
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Froslass card, and I forgot what set this particularly
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comes from, but it is absolutely stunning. It
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is Froslass, the Ice -type and Ghost -type Pokemon.
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Coming through a traditional Japanese home in
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winter at night time, you can kind of see the
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moonlight shining through the window. Froslass
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is kind of letting a lot of snow in, and she's
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kind of floating through the home, hunting through
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the rooms, I guess, looking for someone, maybe
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it's Train, and maybe... a victim i don't know
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you know there's it's so stunning the art in
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this this one i was so lucky enough to have got
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a print of and assigned and got it signed off
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from european international championships in
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february and it's framed up in my my office at
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the minute it's so so stunning i i'm so happy
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with the fact that we managed to get one of my
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favorite card arts in a poster form and signed
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by the artist as well mazato absolutely awesome
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an incredible experience I'm so so happy it was
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the first time I'd managed to kind of get that
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at EUIC um it was fantastic but there are some
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great cards for ghost sites there's one and sometimes
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it's not only the ones that are the super decorative
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ones it's sometimes the common ones as well that
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are the awesome ones the ones that give us the
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most kind of I don't know, you can kind of pause
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with them a little bit longer because they're
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not the super special ones. Well, always, the
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common ones deserve love too, but sometimes it's
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those ones that make us stop more because you
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don't expect them. There's Imperfect Order, the
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newest set in English, has Gastly, Haunter and
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Gengar in common, uncommon and rare card types.
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But the Gengar card, there is a GameStop one
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that's got the stamp on it, which is... Going
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everywhere online, it is super, super popular
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right now. I don't really know why, to be honest.
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I really don't get it. But it's, you know, it's
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like any other Gengar card. I guess it is super,
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super expensive to try and buy if you want that
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specific one. But you can pull the normal one
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without the GameStop logo on it. I pull it in
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the ETB, the Perfect Order ETB. You can pull
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it in the normal packs as well. but it's it's
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really cool it's kind of it's Gengar in a little
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cabin it's came through the window it's doing
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a little attack or some kind of like psychic
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kind of dog attack kind of thing there's a cabin
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vibe it's got that kind of quintessentially spooky
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look which is really really cool and I love that
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it's a common card a lot of the time we've just
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had Mega Gengar EX there's a lot of different
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ones for Gengar there's so much love for Gengar
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which is awesome you know we all love Gengar
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right we can all agree on that we all love Gengar
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but sometimes it's the it's the oh great I won't
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be able to get my hands on this because it's
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Gengar you know it sometimes it sometimes the
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TCG community or the scalpers ruin it you know
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we we've all been burned by that before but being
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able to kind of pull that and have it be a normal
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rarity card is awesome you know sometimes having
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the opportunities for a Pokemon like Gengar to
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not be a super rare or a full art or an illustration
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rare is great. And that really only helps collectors
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like me that are building a ghost type binder
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or just want to collect the sets in general.
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But yeah, anyway, Tangent Ophir, you know, there's
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so many different cards in the CCG for ghost
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type Pokemon and I'm sure there'll be loads for
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your type as well. I mean, there's a hundred
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percent is. But maybe think about a binder as
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well. Do like a themed binder for yourself. It
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can be a really cute little side line to collecting
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the cards anyway. It can be really, really fun
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to kind of work through your bulk, organise the
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bulk a little bit as well. Who's to say you couldn't
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have ones for every single type? That could be
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really, really cool. You know, do it. Why not?
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Why not? But even in a CCG, you can feel like
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that same kind of personality comes through of...
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Whether it be the emotion in the cards, the story
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through the card arts, things like that. And
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I think you can curate that in a binder. But
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before we wrap up, before we wrap up, I want
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to leave you with one final thought. So let's
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go through the hidden ability. So ghost type
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Pokemon aren't just designed to be scary. They're
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designed to be a reflection of emotion and human
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connection, I guess. And I think that's something
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that... No other type really does in the same
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kind of way. I think ghost type Pokemon, because
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they're designed a certain way, because they're
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designed to be the spooky one, it does allow
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for that deeper, darker emotional connection
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to kind of come through and have that kind of
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reverence for and that kind of deep connection
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inside. I think that's something that many of
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us could connect with with them. If you've enjoyed
00:27:44.009 --> 00:27:46.670
this episode, do make sure you follow the podcast
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I'm going to be picking this up so so much more
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I'm so sorry for the hiatus but I'm back I've
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got a new podcast structure I've got a new settled
00:27:53.509 --> 00:27:57.210
office oh it's it's all settled guys and I genuinely
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love to know what is your favorite ghost type
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Pokemon I'm so here to talk about spooky stuff
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all day I love ghost type Pokemon I love horror
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movies I love spooky stuff um but yeah let me
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know what is a ghost type Pokemon or a Pokemon
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in general Any Pokemon that you emotionally connect
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with, that you think, yes, for me, it's always
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been that Pokemon, or right now it's this Pokemon.
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And I think it'd be interesting to know if they
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change. You know, do they change? Have you changed
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recently because you're in a different place?
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Are you in a different mindset? I think that's
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fine. There's no judgment. But I want to know.
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I think that'd be really interesting. You know,
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what does that say about us? What does that make
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us connect with? Where are we at in a Pokemon?
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Could be something that's more than just a, oh,
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it's cute. It could be something that actually,
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at this point in my life, I loved this Pokemon
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because it represented this. Or at this point,
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it represents this. And now, you know, like now,
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I love this Pokemon because it represents this.
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I'm in a different headspace. I'm in a different
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place. I'm in a different region. You know, I
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think that could be something really, really
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interesting. There's some kind of like PhD thesis
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in all of this, I am sure. And I will become
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a professor, a Pokemon professor, if you will,
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because of it. I think it's really, really interesting.
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I think there's something psychological there,
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you know, without going super, super deep and
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weird with it. I think there's something there.
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But thank you so much for listening. I'll catch
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you in the next episode. I'm really hoping to
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hey everyone welcome back to the chibi trainer
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pokemon podcast the place where we talk all things
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pokemon from the tcg to the games to Everything
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in between. And my name is Ryan. Now, the Pokemon
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took a little bit of a break, but I'm picking
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it right back up. Before we carry on, we had
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such a house move and we're planning so much
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in, like, for the year. There's so much going
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on. We're house moved, but now we are settled.
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So I am now ready to pick the reins back up for
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the podcast. Sorry for the hiatus, but we're
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back, we're going to do this, and today's episode
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is a really special one. Because we're diving
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into something that honestly defines my entire
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kind of identity with Pokemon at this point,
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and that is Ghost -type Pokemon. And I feel that
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right now, more than ever, Ghost -types are having
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a full moment, whether it's in the games, the
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trading card game. or even just online, people
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seem to be connecting with ghost type Pokemon
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in a way that feels different. And not just because
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it's, you know, it's not even spooky season right
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now. So a lot of people seem to pick up ghost
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type Pokemon or that kind of theme around that
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kind of time. But you know, it's April, we're
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getting into spring, we're getting into summer,
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and people are seeming to react and vibe with
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ghost type Pokemon in a much more... in a much
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more loving and different way, and in a deeper
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kind of way. So today, we're going to break down
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why that is, like what makes ghost type Pokemon
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so unique, why they might actually be the most
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relatable type in all of Pokemon. But before
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we get into that, let's take a quick look at
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what's been happening in the world of Pokemon
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this week with some Pokemon news. Alright, so
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let's kick some things off with some Pokemon
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news. So we've got the Pokemon 30th anniversary
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going off. So yes, this is news, I guess, throughout
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the year. But one thing I've been seeing a lot
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of is people taking the Watch Your Favourite
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Pokemon campaign and turning it into something
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a little bit more expanded. I guess I've been
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doing this on my Instagram as well. And it's,
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I think, the... 30th anniversary theme of what's
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your favorite has got people thinking a lot about
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their own pokemon journey and their own special
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kind of commitment or um kind of love with pokemon
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in a different kind of way so my like my favorite
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pokemon is mimikyu you'll see him like when i
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go to event you'll see the little clips you'll
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see the t -shirts you know there's there's i'm
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always representing a ghost type and i'm always
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representing my favorite mimikyu But then I've
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also got a different tangent to What's Your Favourite
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as well, which is, what's your favourite region?
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You know, my favourite region and my favourite
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games are Pokemon Black and White, so Univer,
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Gen 5. And that is my favourite region, but it's
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not particularly known, I guess, for ghost -type
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Pokemon. You know, it's the generation that had
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more of like a dragon focus than anything else.
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So it's kind of, you know, we can be multifaceted
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as Pokemon trainers. I think the Pokemon 30th
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anniversary is starting to kind of see that and
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bring out a lot of that in all of us, which is
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really, really interesting. I'm loving seeing
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the representation. There's so much more merch
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on Pokemon Center at the minute. There's the
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Explore Pokemon range, which is like a... A little
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bit like Patagonia theme kind of style stuff
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where it's like badges for different regions.
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There's pins, there's desk mats, there's t -shirts.
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I did a post up on my Instagram of me repping
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like Univer Gen 5. I got the t -shirt for Univer
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and I got the desk mat as well that featured
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all the different regions. So it's really, really
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cool. Do go check that out. I'm not sponsored
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by them at all. I wish I was. But go check that
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out. It's really, really cool merch to kind of
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help you kind of really dive into the what's
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your favorite theme. There's a lot of TCG buzz
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as always. So the TCG buzz at the minute is the
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new set that's coming, which is Ninja Spinner
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in Japanese, but it's Chaos Rising in the West.
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This is more focused on like Mega Greninja and
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a little bit more of Floret kind of themed as
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well. One of the most gorgeous cards is Eternal
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Floet, like Mega Floet. And it looks absolutely
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amazing. Some of these cards are great in this
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set. I don't think I'll be... going for this
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set um i i kind of pick and choose which sets
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i kind of go for depending on whether i kind
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of vibe with them to be absolutely honest and
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i don't like the idea of having so many unfinished
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sets either right now i'm working on mega evolution
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one the master set the master set for journey
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together which is like 96 done so i'm very very
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very close to being done with that one Mega Evolution
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3, which is our most recent set that's come out,
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which is Perfect Order. And also the Mega Evolution,
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no, not the Mega Evolution, the Master Set for
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Black White, so the Black Bolt White Flare. That's
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what I'm working on at the minute. I won't be
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going for Chaos Rising, I don't think. There
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are some great cards in there, though it's not
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a huge set. We're looking at 37 secret cards
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and 83 for the base set. So, you know, we've
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got... It's an okay -sized set. It's more like
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120 overall, so it's a decent -sized set. Nothing
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huge again. I thought it would be bigger compared
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to the smaller size of Perfect Order, but they
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look roughly the same. Which is interesting.
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So I think we're due a huge set after this. And
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the biggest set after this. Not even rumour wise.
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No it has been confirmed. We've seen some art
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this week. Which was Abyss Eye. Which is more
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focused on Mega Darkrai. Which looks awesome.
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I have to say. I'm so here for like a dark, moody,
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spooky vibe set. So if I don't do Chaos Rising.
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I'll most likely do Abyss Eye. This one. There's
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been some. Some news around the Japanese set.
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The cards are rising a little bit in price. So
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it's coming with a little bit of, is this the
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right set for them to do it with? Will this hit
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enough for them to commit raising the price?
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I don't know if that'll happen here in the West.
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I guess that depends on country, whether you're
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listening in the US or the UK. Price could rise.
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So we have to kind of keep that in mind. It's
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like anything else nowadays, I guess, isn't it?
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But, you know, we can keep that in mind. I don't
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think that'll stint or hinder my love for the
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Pokemon TCG. So I'll end up getting them anyway.
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Let's be honest. I'll end up getting them anyway,
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whether it's slightly higher in price or not.
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But we've got a little more merch, like I've
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already mentioned. And so yeah, so loads happening
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in the Pokemon world right now. There's always
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so much going off, but a lot in the TCG at the
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minute. But let's dive into today's main topic
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because this one is the one I've been really,
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really excited to talk about. So our next segment
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is the master ball topics. This is our. Our main
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topic for the podcast now, and that one is, why
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do ghost type Pokemon feel so popular right now?
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Now, I, like I've already said, I'm always so
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here for ghost type Pokemon. You know, I will
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always, always represent my favorite ghost types.
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My favorite type, I guess overall, I love all
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the ghost types to be absolutely honest. My favorite
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being Mimikyu. But I think this is the first
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thing, I think the first thing to understand
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about ghost types. is they're not just designed
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to be scary I think a lot of them a lot of there's
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a misconception that I think all the ghost types
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are literally just spooky and that's kind of
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it you know there's there's not just a surface
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level to them a lot of them are actually built
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around stories or emotions and a lot of them
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have a folklore or something much more deep and
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much more a lot more kind of emotional with them
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as well it's not always just that they're purely
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spooky a lot of them such as bonnet or phantom
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bonnet has a story where that pokemon especially
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in anime as well is actually a a cursed doll
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essentially she's a haunted doll because in the
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anime there's a um i can't remember what episode
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it is or even what season to be honest but bonnet
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there's a girl and she ends up moving home a
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little girl with her family she ends up moving
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and the doll is placed on these boxes And, you
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know, the people are told to get the boxes, moving
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company, get the boxes, you know, move them all
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out. Let's get them into the truck. Let's get
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this family moved. And Burnett ends up being
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left. The doll ends up getting left. And the
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doll is left on the side. It's waiting for the
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owner. And it eventually becomes like a, not
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particularly a vengeful spirit just yet, but
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it becomes. it becomes haunted, it becomes possessed,
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essentially. There's no negative way to kind
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of say that. A spirit enters it, essentially,
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and it kind of becomes alive and goes hunting
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for the child or the person or whoever left that
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doll behind. And in the anime, the girl has all
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grown up at this point. It's been a long, long
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time since Burnett was able to actually find...
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the the child and becomes a vengeful spirit so
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she and then you know it becomes a full bonnet
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i get i guess but there's a lot more emotion
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there you know bonnet is a pokemon where it was
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actually there's a lot of emotion it became a
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vengeful kind of ghost pokemon because of it
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feeling left behind it feeling unloved it feeling
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lost i think that's so kind of dark and deep
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and and sad i think there's a lot of things like
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that phantom I believe it's Phantom is the Pokemon
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where their lore is it's actually a child that
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got lost in the forest and unfortunately passed
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away. And then there's Trevenant, which actually
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is more of a theory of Trevenant is the guardian
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of the various people or kids or spirits that
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wander through the forest a little bit like Phantom.
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So Phantom kind of evolves to be the protective
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entity of different Phantoms. which i think is
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really cool i think it's not evil it's just it
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a lot of them misunderstood you know i think
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that's an interesting point for these pokemon
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to to kind of have that kind of depth to them
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you know we see gengar gengar's one of the most
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popular ones where we see we see gengar wait
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for his trainer that that left him on you know
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and gengar waits on the steps in the anime and
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it's so so sad we wait for you know we see gengar
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we kind of wait with gengar essentially for this
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train to come back and gengar waits so patiently
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and he doesn't come back and you know someone
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else um comes for him i guess but i think that's
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something really interesting that there's a lot
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of the time ghost type pokemon have that human
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connection and have a human emotion connected
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with them in their own story and in their own
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background that makes them what they are I think
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there's something there's a big finger being
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pointed at us I think with ghost type Pokemon
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and how they how they are how they become what
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they are I think there's something really interesting
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there but then you've got Pokemon like Mimikyu
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and this is where things get really really interesting
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I think that connection, whether it be in the
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anime, in the TCG, in the games, in whatever,
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in real life, it can be a connection to us as
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actual people, as Pokemon fans, as well as actually
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just having the connection that makes the Pokemon
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themselves or makes them the Pokemon, I guess,
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like Binette, like Gengar, like Phantom. I think
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there are some that really, really resonate with
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us. For me, that Pokemon is Mimikyu. Kind of
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coming back to that, what's your favorite? theme
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and idea at the minute with Pokemon it Mimikyu
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is my favorite and there's not to get too deep
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with it here but like one moment that really
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made this kind of click for me was a European
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International Championships in London in in February
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this year recently I actually got to meet Mimikyu
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in person which sounds crazy it sounds ridiculous
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trying to say it but I think seeing the Pokemon
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that you resonate so much with in in real life
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becomes something so so special and it feels
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like it kind of unlocks something I guess it
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feels like you're it feels like you're you finally
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come full circle I guess you know I've got the
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plushies on my on my desks I've got the cards
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there's all this kind of like memorabilia I guess
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for Mimikyu and then kind of getting to meet
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him at EUIC The championships was just so special.
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We didn't actually think it was going to be like
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a meet and greet. I'm saying that like as a celebrity,
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but I didn't think. You know, we saw the Eevee
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one, we saw the Pikachu one, we saw the Snorlax
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one. And then all of a sudden on Instagram, Pokemon
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UK posted a little photo, I think it was a reel
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of like a surprise appearance, I guess, of Miku
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at EUIC. And it was minutes after seeing it.
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I was in the queue to play Pokopio. the little
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trial that you could play off Pocopio at EUIC,
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which was amazing, and I'm addicted to that game.
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And being able to kind of see that, oh, actually,
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today, Mimikyu will be around at some point,
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and we randomly seemed to check and ask this
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one person that was working there at the event,
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you know, is Mimikyu going to pop up? Are we
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going to see Mimikyu? Do we get to have photos
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with him? And it was like once every hour. and
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it was like we had like 10 minutes to wait so
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it was so it was perfect timing it was absolutely
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perfect um but it was so special Mimikyu is my
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favorite because I think growing up I hid so
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much of myself um to try and fit in or try and
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be cool or you know at school I was that nerdy
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kid that that liked Pokemon that liked anime
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that liked what people called the weird Japanese
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cartoons or, or, you know, that kind of stuff.
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I got, you know, it wasn't popular back then.
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It wasn't, it wasn't the cool thing to be into.
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It wasn't a thing you should be into. You know,
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it wasn't, it wasn't the, it wasn't the, it wasn't
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like it is now, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't
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what it is now. And Mimikyu represents that kind
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of time for me, I guess, of putting on a mask,
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putting on a facade. to try and be loved and
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try and fit in, try and find a place in the world.
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And Mimikyu, I think, I think that's why I really
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resonate with Mimikyu. It really kind of drives
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it home of where I was and where I am now, of
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actually, no, I'm going to have a space in my
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house that is filled with Pokemon stuff. I'm
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going to go to these events. I'm going to wear
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a Pokemon t -shirt. I'm going to wear Pokemon
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Converse. to go to shopping I do not care you
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know and having that confidence that I do now
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whereas Mimikyu I don't feel like has that and
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has a lot of hatred towards the world because
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it feels like it's not accepted Mimikyu feels
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like it's not got a place yet or not found its
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place yet and that's why I love kind of people
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or trainers like Acerola that specifically have
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Mimikyu as their Pokemon not their signature
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Pokemon but she does have it as in her team,
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and you know, we see a lot of her artists fixing
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Mimikyu's costume and stuff, which is something
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I would 100 % do all the time, even at the risk
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of unaliving, if I saw Mimikyu's real form, but
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I think that's, I think that's something super,
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super deep, and there's, there's something about
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Pokemon, Ghost -type Pokemon, not only having...
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an emotional connection to their own storyline,
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their own kind of evolution line, their own lore,
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but also what they have for us and what they
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mean for us. I think that's something that is...
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I think that's something that's true for any
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type. I don't think it's just ghost types. I
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think because ghost type Pokemon seem the most
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emotionally driven and the most emotionally kind
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of connected, I think that's something that...
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that makes it easier to kind of connect with,
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but I think there's something you can find within
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your own favorite Pokemon, when you ask your
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question of what's your favorite, you know, why
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is it your favorite, you know, what makes you
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driven to that Pokemon, what is it, there is
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something, every Pokemon is someone's favorite,
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and I love the idea that we are so diverse, we
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have so many different connections, so many different
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emotional ties to different Pokemon, for different
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reasons, it might be a place in time, it might
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be a feeling, it might be a vibe, it might be
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however it might be a physical location even
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why not you know i think there's so much but
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ghost type pokemon don't just look cool to me
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i think they mean something to me i think there's
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something really really deep there that was way
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more emotional than i i had planned but i like
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that you get that i like that you know being
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able to kind of really really go through that
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But let's go through TCG. So we've already kind
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of mentioned a little bit about the TCG, but
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there's some that are coming up. There's some
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that are coming up and then there's some that
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are like my favorite cards that kind of fit this
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theme as well. So let's dive into those as well.
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So now bringing that into the TCG, the trading
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card game side of things. I've actually been
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organizing my GoStack cards recently. If you
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see me on Instagram or TikTok, I have a GoStack
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binder. It's a Vault -X binder, soft plug if
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you use code ChibiWeeb. At checkout, you'll get
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10 % off your order. So do use that. Do soft
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plug there. But do use it. It's C -H -I -B -I
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-W -E -E -B. That's C -H -I -B -I -W -E -E -B.
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And you'll get 10 % off. It's really worth it.
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Get yourself 10 % off. Save yourself some money
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for your hobby. This hobby is expensive enough.
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So save yourself 10%. But I love the idea of
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sitting down with a coffee. or any other beverage
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you choose. Mine's usually a coffee cider in
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the afternoon. I'm looking through the binders
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and I have a ghost type specific binder to collect.
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It doesn't have to be like every card. It doesn't
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have to be like everything I want. That'd be
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great. That'd be so much work. I also don't have
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the budget for that because the Gengar cards
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are enormously priced on the market. So that's
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just not going to happen unless I hit the lottery.
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There may be. But, you know, there are some favorite
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cards and I love the idea. I think you could
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do this for your own favorite type or your own
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favorite Pokemon specifically either as well.
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Is setting up a binder for that specific one,
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that specific type or that one to really celebrate
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it and let yourself really dive into this. You
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know, there's some awesome creators like Cinedex.
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He does. Oh, they do. They do. Sorry. They do,
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like, an awesome Mew binder, and it looks so
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good. So, so good. It's, oh, binder dreams, if
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I'm honest. Mine's a little bit more rough and
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ready feeling, if I'm honest. I really need to
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work on mine. I really want to do the, I forgot
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what the binder technique is. The one where you,
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is it Muri? Muri? I forgot what it is. I'm so
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sorry. I forgot what it is. The one where you
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can kind of get the, you print out an image,
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you'll stack, you'll like lay the cards out in
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a different way instead of just all putting them
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in. I love that technique and it's so, so pretty.
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My printer, I don't think is good enough to print
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that good image. So I need to kind of maybe do
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a different way. But yeah, it's tangent and it
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doesn't matter. You can set it up however you
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want. But I think that could be a really, really
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great way of celebrating that Pokemon and celebrating
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that theme. there are some that i i'm kind of
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weird with it to be honest i like perfect order
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for example has a illustration rare of dewblade
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which is a steel and ghost type pokemon with
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the swords essentially and they look so so good
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it's a gorgeous card i posted this on my instagram
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so do go check that out if you if you have time
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um but there's there's that card and i'd want
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a duplicate of it because it's going to go in
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there then the perfect order binder me3 but then
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i also want it to go in my ghost type binder
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as well so i really want to duplicate that you
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know don't have to do that it's still technically
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got the card for the master set but i like knowing
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i've got it in both but that one is one of my
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favorite cards at the moment it's so so gorgeous
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there's so much detail it's like jewel blade
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floating above some suits of armor in like an
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old castle kind of vibe and it is so kind of
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like gothic horror vibe and spooky but really
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detailed really lovely looking and it fits it
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so so well one of my other favorite cards is
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actually one of the mazato cards which is The
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Froslass card, and I forgot what set this particularly
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comes from, but it is absolutely stunning. It
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is Froslass, the Ice -type and Ghost -type Pokemon.
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Coming through a traditional Japanese home in
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winter at night time, you can kind of see the
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moonlight shining through the window. Froslass
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is kind of letting a lot of snow in, and she's
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kind of floating through the home, hunting through
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the rooms, I guess, looking for someone, maybe
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it's Train, and maybe... a victim i don't know
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you know there's it's so stunning the art in
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this this one i was so lucky enough to have got
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a print of and assigned and got it signed off
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from european international championships in
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february and it's framed up in my my office at
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the minute it's so so stunning i i'm so happy
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with the fact that we managed to get one of my
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favorite card arts in a poster form and signed
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by the artist as well mazato absolutely awesome
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an incredible experience I'm so so happy it was
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the first time I'd managed to kind of get that
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at EUIC um it was fantastic but there are some
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great cards for ghost sites there's one and sometimes
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it's not only the ones that are the super decorative
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ones it's sometimes the common ones as well that
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are the awesome ones the ones that give us the
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most kind of I don't know, you can kind of pause
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with them a little bit longer because they're
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not the super special ones. Well, always, the
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common ones deserve love too, but sometimes it's
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those ones that make us stop more because you
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don't expect them. There's Imperfect Order, the
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newest set in English, has Gastly, Haunter and
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Gengar in common, uncommon and rare card types.
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But the Gengar card, there is a GameStop one
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that's got the stamp on it, which is... Going
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everywhere online, it is super, super popular
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right now. I don't really know why, to be honest.
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I really don't get it. But it's, you know, it's
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like any other Gengar card. I guess it is super,
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super expensive to try and buy if you want that
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specific one. But you can pull the normal one
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without the GameStop logo on it. I pull it in
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the ETB, the Perfect Order ETB. You can pull
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it in the normal packs as well. but it's it's
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really cool it's kind of it's Gengar in a little
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cabin it's came through the window it's doing
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a little attack or some kind of like psychic
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kind of dog attack kind of thing there's a cabin
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vibe it's got that kind of quintessentially spooky
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look which is really really cool and I love that
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it's a common card a lot of the time we've just
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had Mega Gengar EX there's a lot of different
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ones for Gengar there's so much love for Gengar
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which is awesome you know we all love Gengar
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right we can all agree on that we all love Gengar
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but sometimes it's the it's the oh great I won't
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be able to get my hands on this because it's
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Gengar you know it sometimes it sometimes the
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TCG community or the scalpers ruin it you know
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we we've all been burned by that before but being
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able to kind of pull that and have it be a normal
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rarity card is awesome you know sometimes having
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the opportunities for a Pokemon like Gengar to
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not be a super rare or a full art or an illustration
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rare is great. And that really only helps collectors
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like me that are building a ghost type binder
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or just want to collect the sets in general.
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But yeah, anyway, Tangent Ophir, you know, there's
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so many different cards in the CCG for ghost
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type Pokemon and I'm sure there'll be loads for
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your type as well. I mean, there's a hundred
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percent is. But maybe think about a binder as
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well. Do like a themed binder for yourself. It
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can be a really cute little side line to collecting
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the cards anyway. It can be really, really fun
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to kind of work through your bulk, organise the
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bulk a little bit as well. Who's to say you couldn't
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have ones for every single type? That could be
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really, really cool. You know, do it. Why not?
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Why not? But even in a CCG, you can feel like
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that same kind of personality comes through of...
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Whether it be the emotion in the cards, the story
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through the card arts, things like that. And
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I think you can curate that in a binder. But
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before we wrap up, before we wrap up, I want
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to leave you with one final thought. So let's
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go through the hidden ability. So ghost type
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Pokemon aren't just designed to be scary. They're
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designed to be a reflection of emotion and human
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connection, I guess. And I think that's something
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that... No other type really does in the same
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kind of way. I think ghost type Pokemon, because
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they're designed a certain way, because they're
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designed to be the spooky one, it does allow
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for that deeper, darker emotional connection
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to kind of come through and have that kind of
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reverence for and that kind of deep connection
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inside. I think that's something that many of
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us could connect with with them. If you've enjoyed
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this episode, do make sure you follow the podcast
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I'm going to be picking this up so so much more
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I'm so sorry for the hiatus but I'm back I've
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got a new podcast structure I've got a new settled
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office oh it's it's all settled guys and I genuinely
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love to know what is your favorite ghost type
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Pokemon I'm so here to talk about spooky stuff
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all day I love ghost type Pokemon I love horror
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movies I love spooky stuff um but yeah let me
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know what is a ghost type Pokemon or a Pokemon
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in general Any Pokemon that you emotionally connect
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with, that you think, yes, for me, it's always
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been that Pokemon, or right now it's this Pokemon.
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And I think it'd be interesting to know if they
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change. You know, do they change? Have you changed
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recently because you're in a different place?
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Are you in a different mindset? I think that's
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fine. There's no judgment. But I want to know.
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I think that'd be really interesting. You know,
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what does that say about us? What does that make
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us connect with? Where are we at in a Pokemon?
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Could be something that's more than just a, oh,
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it's cute. It could be something that actually,
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at this point in my life, I loved this Pokemon
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because it represented this. Or at this point,
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it represents this. And now, you know, like now,
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I love this Pokemon because it represents this.
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I'm in a different headspace. I'm in a different
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place. I'm in a different region. You know, I
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think that could be something really, really
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interesting. There's some kind of like PhD thesis
00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:09.940
in all of this, I am sure. And I will become
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a professor, a Pokemon professor, if you will,
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because of it. I think it's really, really interesting.
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I think there's something psychological there,
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you know, without going super, super deep and
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weird with it. I think there's something there.
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But thank you so much for listening. I'll catch
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you in the next episode. I'm really hoping to
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do these like every two weeks at a minimum, but
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every week ideally. So do keep up, do follow
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really appreciate it. So thank you so much. I've
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