Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! Santiago here! Hope you guys had fun guessing my POTW from last week's episode. The POTW I was describing was..... MORPEKO!! Morpeko is a Pokémon first introduced in Generation 8 and recently debuted in Pokémon GO. This is one of the many "Pika-clones" and it has the unique ability to change its form in bat…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers, Santiago here! I hope you guys have been enjoying these Pokémon of the Week episodes as much as Madeline and I have been enjoying making them. We really enjoy coming up with clues to the Pokémon we pick and even more excited to share them with each other and with all of you! So in last week's episode, Madel…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Santiago here with another Pokémon of the Week episode. Last week I gave you a total of 9 clues for you and Madeline. Some of these clues were academic based, so if you were able to figure it out, give yourself a huge pat on the back! After a few tries, Madeline was able to correctly guess my Pokémon of the…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Santiago here. This is another Pokémon of the Week episode with the menacing Madeline. Last week Madeline gave you a few clues to figure out her Pokémon. And her Pokémon pick of week 6 is.... Falinks!! Falinks was introduced in generation 8 and is known as the Formation Pokémon. As you heard last week, one …

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Santiago here bringing you another Pokémon of the week episode with the menacing Madeline. If you're tuning in from last week's episode, I bet you're wondering what the answer to POTW 5 is. And the answer is..... *Drum roll*..... UrsaRING! Madeline's initial guess was Ursaluna, but I told her that Luna was …

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! Welcome to week 5 of Pokémon of the Week! Last week Madeline gave you 7 clues for her Pokémon of the Week. We invited you to go come to our Instagram page and give us your answers if you thought you knew what it was. And the answer for last week's Pokémon is.......... SAWK! Sawk is a fighting Pokémon introd…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! It's been a while since we uploaded a Fusion episode, but here we are! This week's fusion is Grass/Dark. Fall/Autumn is here and spooky season is almost upon us! Madeline and I love Halloween and so we wanted to do a "spooky" type combination. The Pokémon with this dual type are: - Nuzleaf - Shiftry - Cactu…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! Santiago here, and we're back with another Pokémon of the Week episode. In today's episode we reveal the Pokémon from last week's hints. That Pokémon is none other than.......... Articuno!! I picked Articuno because we just got news from Pokémon GO, that the shiny Galarian Birds will be coming to the game. …

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Welcome back to another Pokémon of the Week! The Pokémon of the Week for week 2 was: PHIONE! This one was a little tricky for Santiago, he forgot that Manaphy could breed and produce a baby form. Anyways! We also talk about why Madeline chose this particular Pokémon and Santiago recounts his memories of Man…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! It's Santiago! Thank you for tuning into our 2nd Pokémon of the Week episode! If you listened last week and you were anxiously awaiting for us to reveal what the POTW for last week was, wait no more! It's Brionne! Madeline started taking guesses almost immediately after we finished recording last week and s…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers, Santiago here! Going forward, Madeline and I will be adding a new type of episode to the podcast known as: Pokémon of the Week! This is nothing new to the fandom of Pokémon, there's other podcasts and social media pages that already do this, but we wanted to jump on the bandwagon as well. We will still be d…

Send us a text Hi guys! It's Madeline and Santiago! I hope you've all been having a great summer, if it's summer where you're currently living. This is our last July episode! A lot happened this month, we had the 8th anniversary of Pokémon GO, and we also had GO Fest in person and global! If you play Pokémon GO, I hope you all had a wonderful time.…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! Madeline and I are still alive! Woo! Just to recap where we've been, we went to Belize for a week (it was incredible), and then came back home and almost immediately got sick. 🤢 Our Belize trip was incredible! We spent half of it on the coast where we were able to get a lot of regional Pokémon in Pokémon GO…

Send us a text Hi there everyone! Update! Madeline finished her 1st year of nursing school and she did so well! One year left and she'll be certified Nurse Joy. Santiago is still working and currently applying to PA schools and it is stressing him out, so send him luck and good vibes if you can. We recently celebrated our dog's, Apollo, one year go…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers ! As you can see from the title this is going to be a marked explicit episode due to the contents. You've been warned. Happy 420! 420 has long been associated with marijuana use in the United States, and the date April 20, which can also be written as 4/20 holds a special place in the hearts of cannabis enth…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Madeline and I had so much fun in our last episode playing "Who's That Pokémon", filling out a bracket of female gym leaders, and doing some trivia and hearing Madeline's jokes. We loved that format so much that we decided to do it AGAIN! But this time it's me, Santiago, curating the episode for Madeline. S…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! Sorry for the late episode, Madeline and I were caught up with school, work, and getting our foster dog adopted. Thankfully he was adopted and he found his forever home! Since I, Santiago, have been busy with work and Madeline had a few days off from school, she decided to take over this episode! So as the …

Send us a text Hey there Pokémon Trainers! Happy Pi Day! What's Pi day? It's March, 14, or 3.14, which is the number that represents a ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle. In other words, it's a number used a lot in geometry. So we're doing this episode just so that we can talk about our favorite Pie inspired Pokémon, Appletun!…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Sorry again for the late episode. Madeline and I found a puppy on the side of the road last week and we took it in to try to find its owners. We have no experience raising a puppy, but we took him in anyways and we're now fostering him. The puppy is now registered with our local animal shelter and will be s…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! I hope that you all had a wonderful Pokémon day! On February 27, 1996 Pokémon Red and Green were released in Japan and kicked off Poke-mania world wide. I, Santiago, was one of those kids that was hooked into this franchise since the moment I played my first game. This is a fun game that I was able to rope …

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! We hope that you all had a great Valentine's week. Since we're still in the month of February, we decided to do the fairy/flying dual type because it reminds us of Cupid, the flying baby that shoots love arrows! Currently there are 3 Pokémon with this dual type, those being: - Togetic - Togekiss - Enamorus …

Send us a text Hi everyone! By the time this episode comes out it will be Valentine's Day! We didn't have too much planned for this episode so we just went with something very casual. We hope that you enjoy hearing more backstory about how Madeline and I met and how our relationship grew. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a 5 sta…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! I hope you're all having a wonderful day! UPDATE for all of the Pokémon GO players: as of last weekend Varoom and Revavroom have made their debuts in PoGo. However, they are currently only obtainable through 12 km eggs. It's unfortunate that they're locked behind that mechanic, as no other Paldea Pokémon ha…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! Welcome back to another Dragon Dance episode. Today we'll be going over our experience at our first ever official Pokémon event: Charlotte Regionals. Check out the episode to hear our thoughts on the whole event and all the activities that we got into. We also took lots of pictures and we will be posting th…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! It's Santiago and Madeline with another Fusion episode! We just got back from Charlotte Regionals and our next episode will be about that experience, so stay tuned for that. Anyways, this week's episode is on the Fire/Psychic type. There aren't that many Pokémon with this type combination, unfortunately. Th…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Madeline and I are so sorry for not releasing an episode for two whole weeks. We both got sick one after the other and we lost our voices. Madeline got sick first for a full week, and the next week I got sick with whatever she had, which was unfortunate. But we're both feeling better now and we hope that yo…

Send us a text Hey there Pokémon trainers, it's Santiago and Madeline! We wanted to wish you a happy holiday week! I hope that you're all doing well and we also wanted to thank you all for listening to us every week or so. We have some fun topics for today's casual episode. The 1st is, if we had to replace all 9 of Santa's reindeer with Pokémon, wh…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! It's Santiago and Madeline! Today's episode is on the incredible Ice/Fairy combination. The following Pokémon have this typing: - Alolan Ninetales Unfortunately, A-Ninetales is the only Pokémon with this type combination and we both think that it's a huge shame that there aren't more Pokémon with the Ice/Fa…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! It's our favorite time of year, and no it's not because of the Holidays, it's Spotify Wrapped season!! Every year around the end of November to the beginning of December, Spotify generates a personalized little slideshow showing you what your top songs, genres, podcasts, etc. this year were. It's really nea…

Send us a text Hey there Pokémon trainers! I hope that everyone had a fun and safe Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it. If you don't that's okay, I hope you had great time anyways. Madeline and I spent the holiday with her family and we had a blast! But now we're back home and we're ready for the next episodes, starting with this special one. Bug/Roc…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! This week's episode is on ground/dragon! Woo! I love dragons and I really like all of the Pokémon with this type combination. The Pokémon with this combination are: - Vibrava - Flygon - Gible - Gabite - Garchomp - Zygarde They're all very interesting Pokémon with deep origins! Why are Flygon and Vibrava not…

Send us a text Hi everyone! In an earlier episode I ranked all 18 types in Pokémon, and since Madi is going to be a regular on this podcast going forward I thought it would only be fair to have her rank all 18 types. I wanted to know her likes and dislikes with supporting arguments. Also, find out what her favorite Pokémon of each type are. If you …

Send us a text Hi everyone! It's the last week of October and Madi and I are so sad that spooky season is coming to an end. I don't hate Christmas, but it does bug me when stores and commercials start rolling out the Christmas stuff as soon as it hits November 1st. But this year I've been seeing Christmas stuff already before the end of October! Pl…

Send us a text Hi there everyone! This is week 3 of the Halloween episodes! With me again is Madi/Madeline, aka 85 Year Old Man. Join us as we talk about the ghost/water type and how we think there needs to be more of them! I love having Madeline on these episodes with me because she brings good insight from a casual Pokémon fan's perspective. Anyw…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! So sorry for not coming out with an episode last week, but Madi and I were riding the struggle bus hard! We had TWO separate car issues, with a dying battery that need to be replaced and a flat tire the next day. But we're okay and we're ready to take on this week's episode of ghost/grass! I really like thi…

Send us a text Happy Spooky Season everyone! So sorry for the super late episode. I was a little busy over the weekend and couldn't work on the podcast until Monday. BUT! Today's episode is still special because Madi is back on the podcast with me today! We're both big fans of Halloween and October in general, so we're going to be covering a differ…

Send us a text Hi everyone! This is a very special episode! Not only is it the 25th episode, but also my 2nd interview on this podcast! I will be interviewing my wife!! I've mentioned her a lot in previous episodes because she also enjoys playing Pokémon and also enables my Pokémon addiction. Check this episode to hear me have a fun little conversa…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon Trainers! DLC 1 for Scarlet and Violet dropped last week! Woo! Unfortunately I didn't have much time to play during the week due to work, but I was able to play for a few hours this past weekend. I've had so much fun exploring the new area and I haven't progressed much with the actual story. The DLC introduced a few …

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! In today's episode I will be covering the bug/ground type! To be completely honest, in the last Fusion Monday Episode I picked a type combo at random and picked the bug/ground thinking that there would be a lot more Pokémon. Turns out, there are only 2! But that's okay because all the bugs are doing their b…

Send us a text Hi there trainers! Like the title says, in this episode I will be recapping everything that went down during the month of August. We had a very exciting month full of Pokémon events across various games and other outlets. I also talk about things to look forward to for the month of September. So if you want to hear the recap or the u…

Send us a text Hey there Pokémon Trainers! Today's episode is on the poison/flying type. This is a surprisingly unique type considering how common the poison and flying types are through out the series. I'm very surprised that this type combination hasn't been used for more than 1 family. Anyways! The Pokémon with this type combination are: - Zubat…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Another Pokémon GO Fest has come and gone. This time it was in New York City. If you happened to go, I hope that you all had a great time, I have some friends who went and they all seemed to have a blast walking around the city and getting to meet Pokémon content creators. If you missed it, don't worry I di…

Send us a text Next Fusion Monday Episode is out! Before I get into the episode, I'd like to mention that as of the end of the Pokémon World Championship, the Pokémon Company released another video regarding the Scarlet and Violet DLC and it has been confirmed that all of the starters from generation 1-8 will be available in DLC 2. There is still n…

Send us a text Hey there Pokémon trainers! I know that this might be a little weird that I'm publishing two episodes of Dragon Dance in one week. We just had a Pokémon Presents this morning, which had a lot of information that I wanted to share with all of you! The first bit of news involves Pokémon GO. Passimian and shiny Scraggy will make their d…

Send us a text First episode for the month of August! There's a lot of stuff that will be going on this month in the Pokémon world! The 1st big news deals with Pokémon GO. GO Fest has ended for London, England and Osaka, Japan. However, there is one last in person GO Fest that will be taking place later this month in New York City! This GO fest eve…

Send us a text Hi there Pokémon trainers! Before I start the main portion of the episode, I do want to remind those trainers that play Pokémon GO that we are currently in the event known as Adventure Week. The debuts for this year are shiny Amura and Tyrunt, the fossil Pokémon of generation 6! There are a lot of fossil Pokémon spawning in the wild …

Send us a text Hi guys! I've talked about being a big Pokémon GO fan in previous episodes. I played the game ever since it came out back in 2016 and still going strong! In fact they Pokémon GO just had its 7 year anniversary earlier this month. They had a whole event to celebrate this occasion and they also had a few more fun events including one t…

Send us a text Sorry for the delayed episode! I went to see some family last weekend and forgot to bring my podcast equipment. That's my bad. But anyways I would like to say that going forward all future episodes will be coming out on Monday just because I think it's a little easier on my schedule to plan things out and record it over the weekend. …

Send us a text We had our 1st ever guest on this show! I talked to Brady Smith a.k.a. Bsmiffy a.k.a. the founder of VGC Corner. Brady is a 3 time regional champion and a VGC coach. He has a YouTube channel where he breaks down the most common teams in the current competitive scene and he has also built a VGC community on discord where he does VGC c…

Send us a text Hi guys! Sorry for coming out with this episode a little late. I'm currently in the process of moving from one apartment to the next and I was super busy and exhausted from moving all of my belongings. So here's the next Fusion Friday episode! Uploaded on Saturday! This week's episode is on Normal/Fighting. Which I always thought was…