In this episode, Anne from Pikapi Podcast drops by to discuss some of the songs from Pokémon 25: The Album. In addition to the tracks themselves, we cover the release strategy, music videos, and whether these songs would work with Secrets of the Jungle.
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Last weekend, I attended the North American International Championship for Pokémon and participated in a number of side events. How did those go after a long event drought?
After a long dry spell, I was finally able to go to a Pokémon event in Milwaukee WI. What was my experience at the event?
In this episode, I interview James “D Train” Williams. While many of you will know him as a co-performer of the original PokeRap, it turns out he’s actually had a very extensive career, both as a lead singer and a backup artist. For even more stories, be sure to listen after the outro:
In the early days of the Pokémon franchise, James "D-Train" Williams had an opportunity to do vocals on the PokeRap. As it turns out, however, this is just a small portion of his career, and I got a chance to talk about what he's been up to both before and since:
In this second part of our “Secrets of the Jungle” discussion, we cover the score of the film, and our thoughts on the movie itself. In the process, we revisit a song from a previous Pokémon movie, and make some observations about scientists in the franchise’s recent cinematic outings-there’s definitely a pattern:
In this first part of our "Secrets of the Jungle" discussion, Anne from Pikapi Podcast helps me go over the movie’s six songs. It’s a lot of material to navigate, but we manage to cover all of them, including comparing the ones that are different between the Japanese and Western versions. So…maybe it's really ten songs then. In any event, we had a lot of fun with this one, and we hope you do too:
