Feb. 14, 2024

TRAINER'S EYE #77 - "Lady And The Eevee" ft. GrantNAlex

TRAINER'S EYE #77 -
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Season 1 Streamers Women Pokemon Trainers

Join GrantNAlex, a Pokémon Trainer couple from New York City, as they share their unique Pokémon journeys—from Alex’s introduction to the franchise through Pokémon GO to Grant’s childhood experiences during Pokemania in the 90s. Discover how they transitioned into full-time content creators on Twitch, hosting Raid parties and embarking on thrilling Shiny Hunting adventures in New York City. Finally, hear about their epic cross-country road trip, where they visited 48 states, catching Pokémon from each along the way!

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My name is David Hernandez, and you're listening to As the Pokeball Turns.

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Welcome to As the Pokeball Turns, and Happy Valentine's Day from us to you.

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If you're single like me, Happy Single Awareness Day from me and my dogs.

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Our journey takes us to New York City, where we're introduced to a couple who met through streaming.

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Together, they launched a Twitch channel based around Pokemon Go.

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Where they would shiny, hunt and host raids with their community.

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Furthermore, their journey took them to a cross state adventure across the United States in an attempt to explore and catch a Pokemon from every state in the us.

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How did the journey go?

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What surprises came their way?

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There's only one way to find out.

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Here's their origin story into the world of Pokemon.

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This is Grant and Alex.

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And today I'm joined by Grant and Alex.

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Welcome to the show.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate y'all taking all this time to come on to the show We were talking a little bit beforehand and the one thing I want to dive into because you're the second couple I've had on my podcast and I'm a little bit of a hopeless romantic at heart And the one thing I want to dive into first is like how did y'all two come together?

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Like how did y'all meet?

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yeah, so obviously we stream on Twitch now.

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Yeah but funny enough, the way we met was on another live streaming app.

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Yep.

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So, on the broadcasting app in 2016, but we met in person for the first time in 2017.

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Yeah, it was an app called Live.

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me.

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I think it's still around.

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It's around.

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It's just not the same.

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It was, you just streamed from your phone and it was kind of, it was kind of an interesting app.

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It was.

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Yeah, we met on there.

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she lived in Brooklyn, I lived in New Jersey.

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Yeah.

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And then we met up in person for the first time at a concert, actually.

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and we were friends for a while.

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I didn't know he was gonna be there, so I was just kinda like waiting for the show to start, and like all of a sudden I get like a little tap on my back.

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and I was like, It like, freaked out and like, essentially like, jumped on him, so.

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She told me was going to it.

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She was trying to convince me to go to it.

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I'm like, uh, I had to work today.

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But yeah, I surprised her there.

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Yeah.

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And still, we were friends for a while though.

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Like, we didn't start dating anyway.

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then like, a year later we started dating.

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Yeah.

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we weren't really live streaming anymore for a while until Twitch in like, 2020.

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2020.

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So before that, y'all doing your own thing.

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Y'all met at the concert and y'all just stayed friends for a bit and then eventually y'all just got together.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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When did y'all decide to want to do live streaming together?

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Again, that's how we originally met, was on live streaming.

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and yeah, we kind of like put it on the side for a while, but, we both played Pokemon a little bit when it like first came out, actually like a lot when it first came out.

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Yeah.

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For me, a little bit for her.

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But that was before we knew each other, and then 2018 hit, I think, and that's when it came out with like friendship levels in Pokemon Go.

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Yeah.

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that got us back into the game, so we were pretty hardcore into the game for a while.

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And then when 2020 hit and like, I was going back to school.

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She had just lost her job.

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So we started live streaming, uh, with the remote raids.

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Mm-Hmm.

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actually, because that was like a big thing and that's how we kinda like, you know, first started doing it.

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it was a lot of fun.

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We had a lot of fun.

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We didn't know if anyone's gonna watch at first or anything.

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Yeah.

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But like, doing the remote raids helped get like a, like a group in, uh, you know, there's a lot of people that just came into the raids, but we made a lot of friends during it too, and connections community.

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Yeah.

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So it was pretty good.

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It's kind of a unique way to spend time together as a couple in my opinion because I know y'all stream consistently Y'all do rate our I and it's like y'all get to spend time with each other Consistently as well as in front of a live audience.

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So the audience gets to experience y'all's connection together.

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Yes.

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Yeah, for sure.

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it's interesting, yeah, because we basically, we're basically together all day every day.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, it's good and, you know, it can get annoying at times, but, you know, it's mostly good.

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It's mostly good.

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What was y'all's experience individually with Pokemon before Pokemon go

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I didn't really play much Pokemon things or watch many Pokemon things until the game came out.

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Well, you were born in 98.

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Yeah, so I didn't So, like, the initial wave of Pokemon Yeah, For me, I'm a little older.

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I was born in 92, so when they first came out with the cards and everything, like, I was heavy into it.

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I still have, like, my original cards.

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In the binder, so like that was like the thing, I was into that, like the first two gens especially, like, I was heavy into and then I kind of fell out a little bit after second gen.

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I'd still like pick up the, the games every once in a while, like some of the games throughout the years, but I didn't really get heavy, heavy back into, into a Pokemon GO.

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Okay, so you're mostly into like Gen 1 and Gen 2 and then you kind of went in and out but mostly sounds like you were kind of distant away from Pokemon up until Pokemon Go.

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Yeah, I would play some of the new games, like I remember playing Diamond and Pearl a lot, and I would pick up like cards every once in a while, like just a pack of cards here and there.

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But yeah, I wasn't like, into it like we are now again.

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Do y'all have a favorite Pokemon at all?

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Right now, my favorite is Squibbit.

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And apparently that's an unpopular opinion, so.

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That is a rare one.

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I think you're the first one I've ever met, but Squovet.

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Okay,

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so cute.

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She loves Obsession with berries.

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Yeah, that's really

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I thought it was maybe because it was a squirrel.

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That too, it's really cute.

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my favorite Pokemon's always been, Eevee.

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Just cause like, from the first gen, like, from like, when I was a kid, like, it was the only one that could evolve into different things, and I thought that was so cute.

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so it was always Eevee for me,

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Do you have a favorite evolution you like at all?

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Yeah, I mean, I like fire, so I like, you know, Fire Emblem, but also like, Jolteon was like, always like the fastest, so, again, I like the OG ones, I like, more, but then, you know, friggin Umbreon's awesome too, so.

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that's

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hard.

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I really, I really want to, I know everyone's been waiting, but I really want a dragon evolution.

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Yeah,

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Oh my gosh, that'd

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that'd be so cool.

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Yeah, how do you envision that would look like?

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Have you ever thought about

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yeah, yeah.

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ha ha

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In my mind, creatively, it looks kind of like a mess, but I think they can make it work.

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I think they

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It has, like, dragon claws and it's in scales.

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Yeah, I think it can look like, kind of, you know, badass, for sure.

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I've always been a fan of, hopefully, a steel Eeveelution.

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robotic cyber Eevee, yeah, like that.

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It's like a Registeel meets a Yugi.

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what was y'all's experience with Pokemon Go?

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Like, when did y'all first start playing?

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I started playing in 2016.

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and again, I played for about a few days with one of my friends.

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But then kind of left it alone because there wasn't really much to do on the game.

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And then we met and then came back to it in like, 2018?

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2018, yeah.

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Yeah, when the Friendship came out in the game, because one of my friends from Wisconsin got me back into the game.

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Yeah.

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for me it was, I started in 2016, I was on vacation when I started, and then like, I went like crazy into it, like I'd go to Central Park every weekend and grind for 12 hours straight.

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And I pretty much got everything in the decks except for, uh, like regionals at the time.

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and so like at that point I kind of like hit a wall, it was like winter coming, there weren't raids yet or anything, I kind of hit a wall and I kind of stopped playing for a bit until The Friendship came out in 2018.

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what is it about the friendship mechanic that brought y'all both back into the game?

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It's pretty interesting that that's the one thing that really kind of brought y'all back into Pokemon Go.

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Yeah, well at that time we were dating too, so like we were, but um, again yeah, my friend from Wisconsin was still playing it, and he was telling us about it, and he's like, just give it a try again, and I'm like, okay, and like so we could send gifts and stuff, and then uh, ended up walking to a nearby raid, and there's like a bunch of people there.

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And, like, the one guy gave me, like, a QR code for a local Discord as well.

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so we found a local Discord at the time.

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It was a pretty big Discord.

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It got kind of torn apart over the years through politics, but But, um, but it was, it was, there was a, there was a golden age of that Discord.

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It was really good, and we made a lot of, like, really good local friends off of it.

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Yeah, that we're still close with, like, to this day.

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yeah, so just starting the game back up and then I was just, like, walking into, like, some raids, like, in town.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, met people that, you know, were part of the discord and we joined that.

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That really got us into it because then we had a lot of local people to play with too.

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Yeah.

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Like, what would y'all do?

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Like, I would just do raid trains all the day.

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like, how was the community at the time?

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especially the raid days, like with the birds and stuff, we'd do like these huge raid streams.

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Yeah.

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we'd try and like organize like carpools and stuff like that.

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community day, we usually have like a fully carloaded, like, you know, one of us was driving, like we'd have a fully carloaded and We do, like, around here, we do a lot of parking lots, because the spawns are really good in the parking lots around here.

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And now we have, like, lifelong friends, so.

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Right.

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Now we don't use the Discord really as much, but we have people we've met off the Discord that we still, like, hang out with and organize with and do stuff.

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That's awesome.

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And it's amazing how Pokemon go brought, I know y'all two together kind of came a little bit separately, but brought y'all friends y'all could get to connect with and do things still.

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And you kind of share that with your community on Twitch.

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I feel like, because I know, I don't know where y'all go to when y'all do y'all shit screams, but I noticed that sometimes y'all just drive around and y'all hit these cluster spawns a lot.

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Is that kind of the same place as y'all played back when you were with the community in New York?

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Well, this is actually, we're, just outside New York and New Jersey.

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So yeah, it's like, parking lot hopping is kind of like the most optimal way, like, in our town.

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For clusters, yeah.

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we have a couple, like, abandoned parking lots, and they still have really good spawns, so it's really good.

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But, yeah, that's pretty much how we play.

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We in New York, it's a little bit, you know, different because it's, like, sort of traffic and stuff, Well, actually little bit off topic, but we used to go to the college campuses a lot for, um, Ingress.

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Niantic's other game.

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Basically, we grinded the crap out of Ingress for like two weeks.

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It was like our life.

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Like, there was nothing go I remember at the time, there was like nothing going on in Pokemon Go.

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And we grinded the crap out of Ingress for like two weeks straight.

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So, so only so that we can get to level 10, so that we can submit portals.

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Which would become Pokestops in Pokemon.

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it was such a grind, but it was, it was before, now of course you could just submit stops in Pokemon Go, but at the time you couldn't.

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actually built our area up a lot with like stops, uh, Ingress and doing it that way.

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cause we wanted like more gyms in our area and stuff like that.

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you know, at the time when y'all were trying to play Ingress to, you know, add more stops and Gyms, would y'all just map things out?

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Or like, how would y'all find stuff to submit is, I guess, is what I'm asking.

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hmm.

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just that was the reason we started playing because we had a lot of stuff that we knew probably could go through like just like some like playground and some like we have a lot of like, John Bazelon was like a war hero, he was from our town, and there's like so many like plaques of him, and like statues of him and stuff around, and like all this, all this like historical stuff could like easily probably go through, so that was a big rea Like, we know like the town, cause they don't know what's around here, but there isn't really many people that submit all this stuff.

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how's your area changed since doing those kind of submissions?

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Like, how was it before to how it is now?

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Yeah, and well there's definitely more people that submit now too, that were like, when we did the Ingress, they were helping us out, doing it with us, and then now obviously you can do it in Pokemon Go, so there are like a few things that pop up still, new.

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But it's great, because like, when we do raid hours, we still sometimes do it from home, but when the remote raids were unlimited, we could do it from home easy, because we could see 13 djinn from our house, so.

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Yeah.

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originally we could probably only see like, maybe like 5.

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Oh wow, that's a big increase.

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It's grown.

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I know y'all started y'all's Twitch based on remote raids, and of course Niantic has nerfed it to a point to where it's more difficult.

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Do y'all miss how remote raids were compared to how it is now?

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Yeah...

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A

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You can be honest, I'm not gonna judge you.

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Like

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no no! It, it sucks, but.

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Especially for certain things, right?

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Was it the tour or the GoFest for Rickwasser Raids that were unlimited?

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Oh, that was so good.

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It was Hoenn Tour,

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Oh, and tour.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, when they took the limit off, that was, that was great.

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We did so many.

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We did like 300 Rayquaza Raids.

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Yeah, we should We streamed from like Friday to like It was a long stream.

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To like Sunday night stream, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Y'all really went hard on those Rayquazas!

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Yeah, they brought it back the Unlimited.

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They don't do that often, so when they do, it's like, we go And it was Rayquaza, you know?

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Like, Rayquaza hadn't been back in a while.

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Were y'all trying to hunt for a Shundo or a Hundo what was y'all trying to go for?

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still trying to hunt for a Shundo.

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I had the Hundo already.

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She got, she got like six Hundos that day.

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It was ridiculous.

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Yeah.

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Or that event.

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That event.

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I don't know how.

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It was five or six.

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I got, it was five, and then eventually I got a sixth one, but Shundo, Shundo, Shundo, I really like that.

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Well, and loading up on shinies to be able to lucky trade.

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Yeah, to eventually get one.

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my gosh.

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how close have you gotten to Hundo?

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Like I'm sure you've probably done lucky trades too.

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They're always awful.

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For other causes, they're always awful.

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They're so it hurts.

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I don't know why.

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It's just, yeah, not great.

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Oh, what's y'all's way to play Pokemon Go?

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I know you drive around.

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Do y'all like to shiny hunt, or do y'all just like to catch.

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We shiny hunt quite a bit.

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Mainly shiny hunting.

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Mainly, yeah.

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We'll catch stuff if we need candies for it, or like If there's like a Stardust bonus, yup, yup.

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Then we'll catch, but mainly hunting.

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I've loved y'all's reactions because I saw some of y'all's old videos And I love how sometimes y'all would both get shiny Pokemon at the same time like I remember a Deoxys And y'all just are both surprised like that's gotta be kind of a fun feeling when y'all both get the shiny at the same time

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it's wild because like, I get it if we, I don't know how to explain it.

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Like, when we get a shiny both at the same time, Especially in raids.

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Yeah, it's like, what are the chances of that?

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It's kind of like crazy because it's like really small odds that that happens.

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It doesn't happen very often so it's a nice little shock.

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Especially when it's like the first one or like we're really hunting it.

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Yeah, the first time it ever happened I think we both kind of lost our minds a little bit.

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Yeah.

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So.

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something else?

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I think Deoxys was one of the first ones.

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It was one of the first ones.

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Uh, it was either Deoxys or maybe Genesect.

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but like, it actually just happened for the Hisuian Samurott raid day.

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But it was a little, uh, for, uh, for, tell me what it is.

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It happened for, um, why am I blanking?

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Syphlosion, yeah.

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And we, it actually was crazier, and this is the first time this happened, we both got a shiny at the same time, but it was the same cP, which has, like, never happened.

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Uh, and Only it could've been a Shundo.

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If it was Shundo, I think we both would've just, like, went down a little bit, but it still, it was still, like, mind blowing, because, like, we've gotten a Shiny at the same time of Legendaries, but never the same CP.

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It was crazy.

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That's awesome.

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Like, yeah, what are the odds y'all both get both a and the same

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Yeah.

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I don't even know, I don't know what the odds of that are.

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They've got very, very tiny odds.

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Somebody listening to this, if y'all know math, do the math for us because of us aren't, I'm good at math, but I don't know how to do the math right now for that.

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It's just not happening for me.

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Uh, who has the most shinies between y'all two?

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We throw a lot out, too, because we do community days and stuff.

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Yeah.

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Of

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And we end up getting way too many on the community days.

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But right now I have 2432.

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And I have 2101, so he has a bit more.

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better at managing her storage though, I think.

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A little bit.

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you a bit of a hoarder?

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Well, no, it's just like, I get, like, on the community days, like, I gotta go back eventually, and I don't do it right away.

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Like, I have, like, a million Mareeps right now that I gotta delete.

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Yeah.

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But, we do actually have, the same exact Shundo, though.

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gosh, yes.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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It didn't happen on stream, but it was actually right before we started streaming, I think, actually.

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I think so.

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It was, a wild Gyarados.

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before Mega Gyarados was out, there was some event where Gyarados was spawning in the wild and it was shiny boosted.

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It was like 1 in 64

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Mm hmm.

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and we were stuck in traffic.

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I don't know And so, you know, I just had to be open or like literally bumper to bumper traffic.

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I opened the game and I clicked and it was shiny And I told her to check it, and it was shiny for her too, and we were just so shocked at the time that it was shiny for both of us.

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Right.

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I didn't even, like, IV check it at the time, because I was just, like, so shocked that it was shiny for both of us.

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And then, like, the next day, I remember IV checking it, and I'm like, oh my god, like, what the heck, like, I'm like, wait, is this the one you got?

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And then, sure enough, it was the one she got, so yeah, it was, We have the same Gyarados, you know, it's got the timestamp Shundo.

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gosh.

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was, yeah.

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It was, you know, it was boosted 164, but still, I mean, We didn't even know it was a Honda, like, now some of the, like, locals and stuff will call out Hondas around here and we know, but, like, this was not, like, where we were from, we were just stuck in traffic, so.

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Yeah, it was, it was insane.

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It was pretty crazy.

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That's so cool.

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Like I like y'all both have that Gyarados kind of connected with y'all's journey.

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It's kind of cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, no, that's a really cool one.

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You've been listening to as the Pokeball turns.

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We're going to take a quick break.

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We'll be right back.

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I know y'all's twitch stream has had to change because of the remote ray nerf So how do y'all like approach twitch streaming now with Pokemon go like what do y'all try to show the audience and what do y'all?

00:17:42.602 --> 00:17:44.775
Hope people experience when they watch you.

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So, I guess before, we used to do it, like, mostly, like, raining.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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A lot of times, actually, even, like, we would either both be at home and we could just do the raids, like, that we could see from the house.

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Or I would stay home and he would go I would go out and she would, like, organize the queues.

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so we definitely had to change our setup a little bit, to, like, have it so that we could both be out.

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you know, we have our phones that both have service.

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We have a third phone that has service for, like, the camera while we're outside.

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And then we have, like, two other phones that we hotspot, so it's like, we kind of have, like, a little mini studio in the car.

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Yeah.

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but yeah, so we definitely had to change our setup a little bit and, like, figure out how to work it so that we can both be outside and both manage the streaming because we're outside a lot more either doing the raids or just shiny hunting.

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We try and, like, figure out the best ways to get like the new things and stuff while we're, you know, while we're going.

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We also stream inside.

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We do stream inside sometimes.

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We do stream inside, yeah.

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But definitely not as much.

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Yeah.

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yeah, I think all the time I've watched y'all, y'all have only been streaming from y'all's car, so I

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Usually on like, on Fridays we'll come inside.

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Sometimes, right hour.

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And then the other thing we do virtually every day is our daily incense every day.

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I think we both have all the birds.

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Yes.

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Now we do.

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I caught each one in a Pokeball.

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That was my mission.

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I

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Oh my gosh.

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Yeah.

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That was my mission.

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And I, I got that done.

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I've caught a few of them in a Pokeball.

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I was trying to do it like, kind of color coordinate.

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I don't really know cause I caught one of them in a Pokeball, Great ball and then an ultra ball, but also I think I've caught like two birds in a pokeball now or three I'm not sure.

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I can't remember Yeah, so she wanted to get like match the colors with the birds.

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Basically Right, yeah

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which is more difficult because you're trying to color cadenate the birds that are going to always run and him catching with Pokeballs.

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It's kind of difficult.

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I feel like that'd both be challenging.

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it's just well, that's why we do it pretty much every day.

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So we have the most chances But then there would be streaks where, like, there was like a streak at the end of last year where between the two of us we saw, like, five birds in three days, so, it's very streaky.

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It's very random.

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So eventually Go Fest comes to y'all's neck of the woods in 2023.

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What was it like to have Go Fest in your area?

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I was super excited when I heard the news.

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Yeah, we were, we were hoping that it was somewhere closer and then it ended up being in New York and it was very exciting.

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Yeah, because we went all the way to Seattle the previous year.

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Yeah.

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And, obviously, it's a lot cheaper here for us, you know, it's a lot, it's just easier because we know the area.

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I like traveling places too, but, during the events, you can do too much sightseeing.

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Right.

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In Seattle, we had a day of sightseeing and stuff.

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Yeah, not too much.

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but it was nice because, yeah, we know all the places, especially with the city experience, we know kind of, like, where to play.

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Right.

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And how to play.

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I was not a big fan of the island, the park.

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Nope.

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It was a, it was an odd choice, an odd choice for me.

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There's a lot of spots that could have done it that I think would have been better.

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Even if it wasn't even like right in Manhattan, like outside of Manhattan, other parks and stuff and especially at the time, like we scouted the park out a couple weeks beforehand and like made a little video and stuff.

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but we saw there was going to be a problem right away because there was construction going on in the park and that made it hard to funnel people through a certain area.

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Yeah, their timing wasn't really But I was happy it was in New York.

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The park stunk because of the construction mainly, but also it was hard to get to the park for a lot of people.

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I mean overall it was great because it was right here for us.

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Right.

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And the city experience days were just insane.

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what Park do you think would've been a better fit for you in y'all's opinion?

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For Poco?

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Go Fest.

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It's hard because like, I think Central Park wouldn't make sense.

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It's way too big and even if they did a section of Central Park it would be hard for people to find.

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Yeah, I, I think Prospect Park would be nice.

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Prospect Park already has a lot of events going on throughout the summer, like Yeah, so we closed them down, I don't there's a lot parks, there's a lot of big parks in like, Queens and stuff like that or like Brooklyn that are just like, it would just be less chaotic, you know what I mean?

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And it wouldn't be too far.

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It's still in New York City technically, and it wouldn't be too far from like the main city of Manhattan, like.

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Anything but Randall's Island or any of the islands.

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I mean, there's also Governor's Island, like any of the islands, because there's so, it's so hard to get in and out of there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that was the one thing I didn't like about that park either because I had to go I walked across the bridge

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Yeah.

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We walked across the little bridge.

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I don't,

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the little bridge.

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so there's two bridges.

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There's one south and there's one north.

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There's a car bridge, and then there's like a little bridge from Manhattan, at least if you were coming from Manhattan.

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Okay.

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think I took the big bridge

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With it?

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from uh, Thomas Jefferson or Roosevelt or something like that.

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Yeah, with the cars on it.

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Were The Okay.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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We avoided that one.

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There's, but we had to walk a lot farther though, but.

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man.

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Where were y'all when I needed y'all?

00:22:07.964 --> 00:22:14.785
But that bridge just seemed crazy and there's so many people went I But imagine, like, when, I think the worst was probably, we played in the morning, luckily.

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I don't know if we played in the morning or the afternoon.

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I heard, like, terrible stories in the afternoon because everyone was trying to get out at once.

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at least in the morning when they shut it off, people might go to the shop, people might hang out for a little bit.

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Not everyone's leaving at once in the morning, but, like, in the

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point,

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Everything's shut down, everyone's just leaving all at the same time.

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Where'd y'all go to grind the city experience?

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mostly Lower East Side.

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It's like our favorite part of Manhattan.

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It is.

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okay.

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Lower East Side mostly.

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we were actually car grinding still for a lot of it.

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a bit.

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Cause we were streaming, and it's just, when we're streaming, to hold like all the phones and have the chats, like we have a whole bunch of mounts in our car and everything, it's just so much easier to do it from the car instead of trying to juggle five phones.

00:22:52.923 --> 00:22:58.368
So yeah, we city grinded for a bunch of, we, you know, just kind of basically kept going from like east side to west side.

00:22:58.740 --> 00:23:01.594
But my favorite park experience ever for a Dolph fest was Chicago.

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Yep.

00:23:02.933 --> 00:23:04.223
Oh, you went to Chicago.

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In 2019.

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They need to bring that back.

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That was the best park experience ever.

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Did y'all go together or

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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what was it like for y'all to go to Chicago?

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That was good.

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We drove actually.

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It was like a 11 hour, 11.

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Yeah.

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Drive.

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funny enough, my friend who got me back into the game he lives in Wisconsin but one of his work offices was in Chicago so he was working there that day.

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We left at like 3 in the morning, we got to Chicago and we picked him up from work.

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Yeah.

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And then we checked into our hotel and then we went out and did Raid Hour.

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So after an 11 hour drive we got there.

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My gosh, I just live in that car.

00:23:38.289 --> 00:23:41.400
no, well that time it was in Chicago so we were just walking around doing the Raid Hour.

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Um.

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and yeah, we did the raid hour, and then the next day was our day of GO Fest and it was really good, our day, like, the connection was fine, everything was fine, the park was so good, it was decorated really well, it was a huge rectangle, that's what made it so good, it was just a huge rectangle, so you could walk down one side through all the different zones, and then walk back the other side through the zones, and it was just so, it was a perfect layout, really.

00:24:02.414 --> 00:24:03.785
Well, we've talked so much about GoFest.

00:24:03.785 --> 00:24:07.404
So if somebody was on the fence about going to a GoFest, what would you tell them?

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As long as it's not at Randall's Island, you go.

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I mean, best, best about GoFest is just, also meeting up with people.

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Yes.

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That's the best part about GoFest.

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Yes.

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I feel like.

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That's half the reason, if not more, that I want to go.

00:24:20.678 --> 00:24:21.708
Right, because I mean, you have a global GoFest.

00:24:22.218 --> 00:24:25.218
Yeah, they have other things like there's time to play, right?

00:24:25.555 --> 00:24:30.588
But your friends and people that you haven't seen in months or more is like most especially like us.

00:24:30.588 --> 00:24:37.278
Like, you know, and like the online community, like yeah, there's so many people that are spread out so far and this is like the only time they all come together for the most part.

00:24:37.278 --> 00:24:37.729
So it's like,

00:24:38.273 --> 00:24:40.834
Do y'all meet a lot of people online whenever y'all went to the GoFest?

00:24:41.198 --> 00:24:41.587
yeah.

00:24:41.587 --> 00:24:41.887
Yeah.

00:24:41.893 --> 00:24:45.226
Like, so we did a meetup, at, eat in the East Village out of Pizzeria.

00:24:45.535 --> 00:24:46.575
That was a lot of fun.

00:24:46.575 --> 00:24:48.585
And then, We, you know, met people in the fall.

00:24:48.714 --> 00:24:49.025
Yeah.

00:24:49.529 --> 00:24:51.200
We hung out quite a bit with, friends.

00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:54.529
But it's always, there's always the problem is that, like, you always miss someone.

00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:54.619
Yeah.

00:24:54.619 --> 00:24:57.690
Like, there's so much going on, there's so many people there.

00:24:58.002 --> 00:25:00.663
And it goes by so fast that you always miss someone, unfortunately.

00:25:00.685 --> 00:25:01.105
It sucks.

00:25:01.375 --> 00:25:05.516
oh, Someone else that you interviewed, uh, a good friend of ours, uh, Mike Nerdlaw.

00:25:05.721 --> 00:25:06.020
yeah.

00:25:06.510 --> 00:25:07.381
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:25:07.401 --> 00:25:08.840
We, we, we missed him this time.

00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:10.401
We saw him when we were in Seattle.

00:25:10.431 --> 00:25:10.861
Yes.

00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:16.770
And he's such a nice guy, but we couldn't find him in that whole We weren't in the park for that much, and he was in the park the whole time, I think.

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.200
but he's such a nice guy, we didn't get to see him.

00:25:19.210 --> 00:25:19.599
No.

00:25:19.930 --> 00:25:27.613
so that's, that's the one thing that stinks is like, there's so many people there that it can be overwhelming and hard to organize everything, but it's cool to see like, a lot of people that you don't get to see, outside of that event.

00:25:28.208 --> 00:25:32.048
speaking of meeting people, y'all actually took a trip around the states earlier, right?

00:25:32.351 --> 00:25:32.851
We did.

00:25:33.144 --> 00:25:35.864
Yeah, and our mission was to catch a Pokemon in every state.

00:25:36.078 --> 00:25:40.352
we, again, we haven't put out like the content from it yet I'm trying to like edit it in the best way.

00:25:40.402 --> 00:25:41.731
The best way, yeah.

00:25:42.021 --> 00:25:43.092
But it was, yeah, it was a lot of fun.

00:25:43.092 --> 00:25:45.723
We went to all the continental states, so 48 states.

00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:49.563
We caught a Pokemon in every state, we tried to do an activity in every state.

00:25:49.633 --> 00:25:52.595
Yeah, yeah, we didn't want to just go and catch a Pokemon in every state, right?

00:25:52.595 --> 00:25:59.573
Like, that's cool and all, but like, while we're in the states and like, exploring states that we might not be back in, we wanted to at least do something everywhere.

00:25:59.772 --> 00:26:03.303
We tried a bunch of food places in all different states.

00:26:03.553 --> 00:26:04.952
It was, it was a break, right?

00:26:05.012 --> 00:26:08.210
So it was kind of a nice like, of mixing like, Pokemon with traveling,

00:26:08.953 --> 00:26:10.913
How long was the trip just overall?

00:26:10.913 --> 00:26:13.493
Like how long did it take y'all to get around 48 States?

00:26:13.796 --> 00:26:15.195
for a little over a month.

00:26:15.497 --> 00:26:19.601
so the Northeast, we went through pretty quick, because most of the states we've already been to, you know.

00:26:20.238 --> 00:26:21.548
and they're all smaller states, right?

00:26:22.087 --> 00:26:25.508
Once you get in the middle of the country, then they're all bulky, and it takes like a day to drive through them.

00:26:25.816 --> 00:26:31.885
we rented like a van, so actually we put like, one of our friends gave us this foam that we could put in the back, so we could actually sleep in the back at like rest stops and stuff.

00:26:32.256 --> 00:26:40.203
Sometimes, sometimes we got hotels, but sometimes it was just more convenient to sleep in the back and, you know, save some money, my favorite place for me personally was Yellowstone.

00:26:40.503 --> 00:26:44.077
It was beautiful there, and I'm not a big nature person, but it was just so nice there.

00:26:44.704 --> 00:26:51.444
the service stunk a lot, except, like, at, like, big, like, landmarks there so I did catch a Pokemon at Yellowstone at, uh, Old Faithful, actually.

00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:53.660
Wow, that's crazy.

00:26:53.779 --> 00:26:56.430
Um, so that was so cool to see Old Faithful.

00:26:56.430 --> 00:26:57.140
What was your favorite spot?

00:26:57.309 --> 00:27:05.222
My favorite spot is kind of hard to choose, but I think if I had to choose one, besides Grand Canyon, it would probably be Idaho?

00:27:05.656 --> 00:27:06.416
Is that what that was?

00:27:06.819 --> 00:27:08.369
Well, because she got to feed baby bears.

00:27:08.450 --> 00:27:15.262
I got to pet and feed six cute baby bears, and I don't know if anything could beat that.

00:27:16.262 --> 00:27:20.047
Um, so, I think that has to be my favorite.

00:27:20.356 --> 00:27:23.757
Now were they wild baby bears or were they like at the zoo or?

00:27:23.936 --> 00:27:25.967
was a zoo, it was like a bear sanctuary.

00:27:25.997 --> 00:27:26.757
Basically.

00:27:26.757 --> 00:27:28.277
Yeah.

00:27:29.136 --> 00:27:30.576
I them with a baby bottle.

00:27:30.972 --> 00:27:33.583
Oh my gosh, that must have adorable.

00:27:33.633 --> 00:27:35.123
They were like little babies.

00:27:35.757 --> 00:27:38.156
I was worried if mama bear was behind you and it's like

00:27:38.307 --> 00:27:39.336
Oh yeah.

00:27:39.517 --> 00:27:45.576
No, we got to see, we got to drive in a circle and got to see like big bears and like different other animals.

00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:50.180
but with petting, it was like baby bears that they like take care of there.

00:27:50.569 --> 00:27:55.515
And They're, they're like cute, messy eaters and it was just really cute and I want to go back.

00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.049
did y'all have any like things that went wrong during the trip?

00:27:59.367 --> 00:28:02.147
Uh, yeah, like one of the first days I like pulled a muscle in my leg.

00:28:03.817 --> 00:28:04.127
It's not funny.

00:28:04.128 --> 00:28:06.218
Getting out, getting out, it was like freezing cold.

00:28:06.218 --> 00:28:07.357
I don't know why I'm laughing, but.

00:28:07.538 --> 00:28:17.734
And I got out, I was trying to jump out, because again, we were like sleeping in the back, like the back pulled down with this van and I was trying to like jump out and I think it was a combination of me being cold and jumping out and I It was.

00:28:17.744 --> 00:28:18.525
I pulled a muscle in my leg.

00:28:18.846 --> 00:28:19.326
it got kind of bad.

00:28:19.356 --> 00:28:22.247
We actually ended up going to the hospital in, like, Montana.

00:28:23.176 --> 00:28:24.207
Idaho, actually, Idaho.

00:28:24.502 --> 00:28:28.333
But everything was fine, it was just like, because I had this massive bruise on the back of my leg.

00:28:28.383 --> 00:28:28.923
Yeah.

00:28:29.212 --> 00:28:30.772
that was really the only big hiccup.

00:28:31.143 --> 00:28:31.792
Yeah.

00:28:32.853 --> 00:28:34.323
It was, yeah, this was pretty good.

00:28:34.532 --> 00:28:35.252
Quite the adventure.

00:28:35.272 --> 00:28:37.022
We made it through all 40 states.

00:28:37.022 --> 00:28:38.502
We didn't get pulled over once, which is, you

00:28:38.617 --> 00:28:39.607
That's impressive.

00:28:39.643 --> 00:28:40.144
know, I know.

00:28:40.144 --> 00:28:40.468
Isn't it?

00:28:40.761 --> 00:28:41.791
That was pretty good.

00:28:42.092 --> 00:28:50.592
we met up with a couple people, like, from different states as we went, and played, like, Pokemon people or just people that are our friends, like, that we ever see, like, yeah.

00:28:50.981 --> 00:28:52.382
My gosh, I need to do that someday.

00:28:52.382 --> 00:28:53.162
That sounds like so much

00:28:53.721 --> 00:28:54.811
it was really fun.

00:28:55.174 --> 00:29:00.724
I would say for a road trip through all the states, I think, like, six weeks, six weeks would be more optimal.

00:29:01.021 --> 00:29:05.829
there were, like, some days where we were kind of, like, you know, rushing a little bit I think six weeks would be like, yeah,

00:29:06.420 --> 00:29:08.144
Would y'all ever want to try that trip again?

00:29:08.144 --> 00:29:09.498
Or have you thought about it?

00:29:09.748 --> 00:29:09.837
Ha

00:29:10.633 --> 00:29:11.512
there.

00:29:11.712 --> 00:29:13.623
So not every, not all 48.

00:29:13.633 --> 00:29:15.279
Cause Lord knows I can't do that.

00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.319
Um, but

00:29:17.515 --> 00:29:18.875
You did it once before!

00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:21.359
about this is it was like a sample, right?

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:21.569
Yes.

00:29:21.569 --> 00:29:22.279
That's what, yeah.

00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:22.660
Yeah.

00:29:22.710 --> 00:29:25.670
So now we kind of know the places that like, Oh, there's like some cool stuff here.

00:29:25.670 --> 00:29:26.480
I never would've thought of.

00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:29.502
And then like some other places were like, Oh, like there's not really much here.

00:29:29.502 --> 00:29:31.432
Like, you know, we checked it out.

00:29:31.442 --> 00:29:32.423
We didn't, there wasn't really much.

00:29:32.883 --> 00:29:37.813
So now we know, like, kind of like, you know, regions or areas that we'd want to go back to and explore more.

00:29:37.982 --> 00:29:52.009
Yeah, that would be more, realistic if we could just, not stop at all 48 and just go to the ones that were like, Oh my god, I want to go back there, cause like, that's there, or this, I think the most different part of the country is definitely, like, the Southwest, like, the deserts and stuff in, like, the Southwest.

00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:52.730
That was, like, the most different.

00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:53.269
Yeah.

00:29:53.329 --> 00:29:54.890
It felt like a different world sometimes.

00:29:55.079 --> 00:30:00.599
I think the dust in the air was killing my lungs, but it was so, beautiful and so different that I really, I really enjoyed that.

00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:00.990
Yeah.

00:30:01.582 --> 00:30:04.634
I think the way y'all said it was like it's a sample, right?

00:30:04.634 --> 00:30:10.204
You got to sample state, and now y'all can figure out which one appeals more to what you want to explore more into.

00:30:10.474 --> 00:30:12.244
Yeah, for sure, and that's why the trip was really nice, yeah.

00:30:12.595 --> 00:30:13.055
Yeah.

00:30:13.295 --> 00:30:16.265
we did actually have some amazing barbecue in Texas while we were there.

00:30:16.365 --> 00:30:19.265
And Alex shot a gun for the first time at a shooting range in Texas.

00:30:19.474 --> 00:30:20.028
Ha ha ha ha

00:30:20.194 --> 00:30:21.184
You know, we figured Texas, right?

00:30:21.184 --> 00:30:27.662
It was, yeah, I'm afraid that if I start talking about how that experience felt now, we will be here for 24 hours.

00:30:28.122 --> 00:30:28.332
Let's

00:30:28.372 --> 00:30:29.412
That experience.

00:30:30.623 --> 00:30:41.383
the gun range was a different feeling, like, my body did not come back to reality until we were driving out of there for ten minutes, it was crazy, but also like, adrenaline, like, rushing.

00:30:41.887 --> 00:30:45.518
And then, yeah, the barbeque, the barbeque place that we went to.

00:30:45.617 --> 00:30:46.627
Yeah, there was like a barbeque shack we went to in Texas.

00:30:46.627 --> 00:30:47.847
It was like a barn.

00:30:47.857 --> 00:30:48.958
What was it, Beaumont?

00:30:49.048 --> 00:30:49.468
Beaumont.

00:30:49.857 --> 00:30:50.468
Beaumont, yeah.

00:30:50.557 --> 00:30:54.728
Oh my, if you ever are there, go.

00:30:54.817 --> 00:30:59.097
Because it is like one the best, like, it's probably my favorite food that we, I had on the trip.

00:30:59.107 --> 00:31:00.298
I want to go back so bad.

00:31:00.615 --> 00:31:02.605
I was gonna say, did it feel therapeutic when you pulled the trigger?

00:31:02.625 --> 00:31:05.704
Cause sometimes some people in Texas go there therapy reasons.

00:31:05.704 --> 00:31:06.255
Ha

00:31:06.470 --> 00:31:18.317
It was, I think it gave her anxiety, first of all, if it was, I, I think I would like to describe that experience as anything but therapeutic I mean, the guy who came in with us was super nice though.

00:31:18.317 --> 00:31:19.606
He was like ex-military.

00:31:19.612 --> 00:31:22.067
He was like, he, he was like probably like, 30, I guess.

00:31:22.217 --> 00:31:22.392
Like, yeah.

00:31:22.396 --> 00:31:25.487
He literally told us how old he was and I forgot he was the, like, nicest dude ever.

00:31:25.487 --> 00:31:25.951
He was really funny.

00:31:26.221 --> 00:31:30.162
Yeah, He, like, was with us, the whole time and, it was very nice.

00:31:30.748 --> 00:31:33.208
Well, Alex and Grant, thank you all for coming on the show.

00:31:33.288 --> 00:31:39.448
Before you go, if people want to connect with you, if they want to check out your content, if they want to watch out guys on Twitch, where can go?

00:31:39.458 --> 00:31:41.038
By all means, please plug away.

00:31:42.323 --> 00:31:43.532
just Grant and Alex.

00:31:43.573 --> 00:31:45.383
Grant, well, Grant the letter N.

00:31:45.384 --> 00:31:45.472
Grant N.

00:31:45.472 --> 00:31:45.932
Yeah.

00:31:46.053 --> 00:31:46.522
Alex.

00:31:46.593 --> 00:31:47.022
Yeah.

00:31:47.323 --> 00:31:47.653
On basically anything.

00:31:47.653 --> 00:31:48.932
On everything, yeah.

00:31:49.053 --> 00:31:50.103
Twitter, TikTok.

00:31:50.292 --> 00:31:50.673
Yeah.

00:31:50.702 --> 00:31:51.163
Twitch.

00:31:51.292 --> 00:31:52.002
YouTube as well.

00:31:52.002 --> 00:31:53.772
We're trying to do more YouTube content.

00:31:53.803 --> 00:31:56.593
We haven't really done a ton of YouTube, Yeah.

00:31:56.732 --> 00:31:59.987
But mostly, we're live almost, every day, at least six days a week on Twitch.

00:32:00.126 --> 00:32:00.326
Yep.

00:32:00.924 --> 00:32:01.484
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