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Valor Rising Behind the Scenes - The Making of Valora Part 2 · Pokémon Adventures by Kaden’s Korner

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  SPEAKER_00: In Valora, where steel and spirit are forged as one, a new journey begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: With friends by his side and courage in his heart, Caden sets out to rise above every trial.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Pokemon Valor Rising.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to Pokemon Adventures by Cadence Corner.
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  SPEAKER_01: But today, this is not a normal episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are no gym badges on the line, no surprise attacks from Team Crucible, no intense battle music in the background, because today we are revealing the secrets of the Valor region.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're about to find out how the lore was created, where our characters come from, how we invented our own Pokemon, and what actually happens before we hit record.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did we plan everything from the beginning?
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do we sometimes bec come up with ideas five minutes before the recording?
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll have to listen to find out.
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  SPEAKER_01: What started this one simple idea?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey Dad, what if we made our own Pokemon region?
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  SPEAKER_01: Somehow turned into a full world, new towns, new rivals, new Pokemon, and a story that keeps getting bigger with every episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, today we are going behind the scenes, and yes, we are definitely talking about Steeleon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, Dad, are you ready to tell them how this whole adventure really started?
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll get there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about building the Valora region itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, where did the name Valora come from?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't really remember, but I know it has to do some wait, no, that's the um I know it has to do something with Lake Erie.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait, no, that's the um Lakeville.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So It's based off of Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_00: The whole region of Valora is based off of the state of Ohio, which is where we live.
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  unknown: Woo!
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not giving out any more details, but we live in Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so a lot of the regions and things like that are are based off of different areas in Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the name Valora is just something that we came up with because we liked the original name for this was gonna be Ohioan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like Hoenn was a very good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were just trying to come up with cool names, and so we were doing some brainstorming and we were throwing the word Valor around, so we want to try and work that in because we think it's cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then we used ChatGPT and ChatGPT.
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  SPEAKER_00: ChatGPT gave us a list of like 50 of them, and we narrowed it down and then combined some of them, and we came up with Valora, which was pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which is probably the my favorite um region name of any region created.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do we have a map of the region yet?
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Should we work on one?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we haven't revealed the entire map, so we can't start on one yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Although I don't know if we probably put out the city names and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It won't really give away the story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um So yeah, we basically just so the re the the way we get the names for the um towns is we take two towns in Ohio, put 'em together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uniontown Hardville.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put them in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unionville.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of them are just based off of like the personality of the town, like Forgemont.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is because it's a steel town, and there are places in Ohio where they make a lot of steel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like Sindrell Town is um based off of like a coal mining town, and there's some of that in Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like um Lakeville, of course, based off of Lake Erie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of shot of Gachic Lake.
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  SPEAKER_01: Based around the state of Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, how many gyms are we going to have?
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  SPEAKER_00: Eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: First region.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eight gyms.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then of course the Elite Four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which we're gonna make the Elite Four Stadium.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do we have all oh wait, you were gonna say Um, we're gonna make the Elite Four Stadium.
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  SPEAKER_01: Usually it's like different rooms.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, it's gonna be like one gigantic Ohio State Buckeye Stadium.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna base it off Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sound effects.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I got it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quick class.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stop! I forget.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the funniest episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do we already have the gym leaders and the champions picked out?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, not yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have their types picked out, but we don't have all their names and personalities.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know the Elite Four types yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are they?
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  SPEAKER_00: We just haven't decided on all their names.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's part of my outline.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna tell you now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell me! No.
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  SPEAKER_00: No spoilers.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's even a just pause it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's even a secret from Caden.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody gets to know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so dumb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what you're saying is I know who the champion is, and you don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna- I I think I think I have a prediction.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think you and Ray are gonna Ray and Jay are gonna end up turning into the champion, or they might end up turning or they might end up turning into the um last gym leader, just like in the original game where Giovanni becomes the gr um.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but Ray and Jay aren't the boss of Team Crucible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who's the who's the boss?
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Question mark, question mark, question mark.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the Pokemon we've created.
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  SPEAKER_00: First one, Buck Nut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where did the idea come from?
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  SPEAKER_01: Buckeye treats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Buckeyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we made him, was he always a little raccoon?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, he was originally supposed to be like a nut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he was gonna be just a little round buckeye nut.
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  SPEAKER_01: With uh he was a um he was originally supposed to be a little buckeye nut.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we were trying to base him off of like the egg corn guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Acorn, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: C Dot.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wasn't gonna have arms, he was just gonna have little legs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was gonna have like a little spiky shell like buckeyes do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then and then his final evolution was gonna be the king buckeye.
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  SPEAKER_00: Big big tree, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, it wasn't gonna be a j big tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a tree originally.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I thought it was just gonna be a giant buckeye with like a cape of like a royal cape of like the Noah's gonna hatch into a tree, almost like a creepy version of Groot, kinda.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait, why why is it gonna be creepy?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's gotta be scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a third evolution, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charstone isn't scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's pretty scary sometimes.
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  unknown: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is a goofy turtle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but he's got cannons on his back.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's so messy.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did we pick a raccoon, do you know?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because there's a lot of raccoons in trees.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are a lot of raccoons in Ohio, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we had to pick I saw one a couple days ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you don't want to go near raccoons.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was scurry, it was I s it was like it like stopped in the middle of our yard, started staring at me, and then ran away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raccoons are very cute.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're cute, but you don't want to pet them.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've seen an elf.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know what happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you haven't When somebody needs a hug and that somebody is a raccoon, do not do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just go hug a deer.
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  SPEAKER_00: We already kind of talked about this one a little bit, so we can hit on it quick, but Steeleon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you want to give Eevee a Steel Evolution?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I just so my favorite types are dragon and steel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Steel and Dragon team up to be um super um Steel is super effective against fairy.
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  SPEAKER_01: My least favorite type.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a good defense against fairy type of thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so if you're going against a fairy type gym leader with the grass types, I suggest you use Charizard and then like a Steelix.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so if we're going to do another evolution later, what type do you think it'll be?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it should be psychic.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's already a psychic type.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that this was a freebie.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just said what the other ty what you want the other type to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh you want a dragon type one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that would be super cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or a bug type one.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we could base it off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dragon's way cooler than bugs.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: But we could base it off of the um poodle.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: The poodle the poodle moth.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: There's a poodle moth?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's like a really fuzzy white moth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did not know that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Super cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cutest moth in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't care if that those things live in my house.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: I want them in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you really like steel types?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where Steeleon came from.
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  SPEAKER_01: Second favorite type.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what was a steel type and is now I don't think a steel type anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Valor and Steelix.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess it's steel and fire.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Valor and Steelix's pretty cool.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: I like the concept and backstory where it was like he was supposed to um evolve it, and then he thought, and then Steelix tumbled in Smelter, then he thought Steelix went to the afterlife.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: Who was that gym leader?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember?
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  SPEAKER_01: Jax.
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  SPEAKER_00: And who's that based off of?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, one of my friends.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to you in real life.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: You're an awesome person.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: Jax is a pretty cool dude.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you also very strong.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you make him mad.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: He's extra strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Extra strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: We love Jax.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jax is great.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: So shout out to you, Jax.
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  SPEAKER_01: So why not put him in the show?
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  SPEAKER_01: Dad, we should really make Jax and the other gym leaders appear.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe he'll pop back in at some point.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I think um like team Ray and Jay accidentally awake on Found Drake.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wait, yeah, we already talked about Found Drake.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't talk about the other one yet.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dun dun dun, foreshadowing.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Foreshadow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sneak peek.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spoiler alert.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: There may be another legendary.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: That uh maybe spoiler alert after all the gym leaders Pokemon, including us, get hurt because you know what happens.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: Quit giving away the story, man.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: No, because you know what happens in the um Elite Four battle with um Ash and whoever that guy with the purple hair is, you know what happens?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like Turnitus comes in and ruins the party.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think it should kind of go like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe Boundray comes in, swoops everything, breaks some stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are good ideas, but we're gonna be giving away spoilers if you keep talking about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, this is the half-way, this is the halfway thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a special episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: Super special episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last but not least, I will hit on Oh wait, we we have two more.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two more?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Syndranole.
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  SPEAKER_01: Syndranole.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, he will evolve.
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  SPEAKER_00: Syndrenal already evolved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he will evolve again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Evolved from Um Embered.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna um Ember And Syndranol is based off of what real life Cardinals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is particularly male cardinals.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because they're the beautifulest birds in the world.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because they're brighter red.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because no, it's not just that.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're like, it's just something in the way they fly.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just like wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's up to the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the male ones specifically are brighter red.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um also they have orange beaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And why did we pick the cardinal?
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's the bird of Ohio.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: State bird of Ohio.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: I just headbutted the microphone.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully that didn't come through.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: I hope it did.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um it would be so funny if it did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, last but not least, Gridoking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Griddo King.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will hit on that one because my favorite Pokemon is Nidto King.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been my favorite for a very, very long time.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: Also, he spent a lot of money on an original Griddo Kingal Nidto King card.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to talk to people about that.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's none of their business.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: You bought the original version.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how much it is, but he's definitely spent a lot.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: I love Nidoking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Probably spent over$100.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: We love football.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love electricity.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're a football house.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're a football family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And oddly enough, I uh don't really like poison types, even though Nidoking's my favorite Pokemon, so I wanted to throw something in there that would make it more fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we kind of made him look like he's wearing shoulder pads and be got you.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, that was the other thing.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: We do have an Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: I have posted some stuff on there.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: We also have a social media and a TikTok.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have a TikTok.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, not TikTok.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're not finding Caden's Corner on TikTok.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: But if you want to check out the Instagram where you can actually see what some of these Pokemon look like and different regions and things like that, it is at Caden's Corner Pod.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: Caden, K-A-D-E-N-S, and Corner with a K.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well we want to see we want them to go see the Instagram so they can see what all these guys look like.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to part two of this three-part series of our behind the scenes episode.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh as you probably could tell, we really enjoyed doing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as soon as we started talking about it, it was hard for both Caden and myself to stop talking.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thank you guys for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will be back with part three coming up here soon, and we will see you next time.