Where did those bottles come from?

In a recent discussion about PokePark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure, I recount a task that involved taking some bottles from the beach to a nearby recycling bin:

Poke Press Digest Podcast: Episode 66-Day 2 Events/Discussing the music of "PokePark Wii"

In the first segment (1:22-3:54), I interview Vince Krekeler of Day 2 events, the company that runs many of the regional Pokemon tournaments in the middle of the US. I took this opportunity to talk with him about how things are going for the first full season back from the pandemic, and gave him an opportunity to talk about some of the other events they run.

The second segment (4:56-45:45) is a discussion of the music of PokePark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure. Anne from Pikapi Podcast helps me cover the soundtrack of this final fourth generation side game. As you might expect, PokePark's array of environments meant that we got to discuss a wide range of tunes. If you want to know what we thought of the game itself, we examine that after the outro:

Links:

Day 2 Events
Pikapi Podcast
Poke Casters Network

Superficial Similarities: Mario Odyssey vs. PokePark

Super Mario Odyssey isn't the same as the PokePark games, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun figuring out what they have in common. This is Superficial Similarities, a series where we compare Pokemon and non-Pokemon content to see what parallels we can draw: