PoGo and Switch Life

Episode 120: the tubular hundred and twentieth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! This week, news is happening!

• Pokemon Go has announced upcoming community days on Saturday, September 22, Sunday, October 21, and Saturday, November 10. Saturday, September 22 is Chikorita day!
• Pokemon GO has announced that they will be rolling out Niantic Kids, to let parents manage their kid's accounts. Details still forthcoming.
• Regirock is out as a raid boss in PoGo until September 20. Get it while it's rock!
• Celebi Special Research is available worldwide RIGHT NOW! GET STARTED!
• The Pokemon Let's Go games are coming out November 16, 2018, and more details have been revealed... You'll get to battle Team Rocket — Jessie, James, and Meowth, explore Vermilion City, and Mega Evolve your pokemon!
• Nintendo Switch Online service is launching in September. You will need it for online play for some games, including Splatoon 2. The next splatfest will still be free, but you will need to be a subscriber going forward!
• Fork or spoon? What about knife!
  
  

  The next #Splatoon2 #Splatfest asks which is more important, a fork or a spoon? Pick your preferred tool and get splatting 8/24 @ 9pm PT!
  
  As a reminder, a Nintendo Switch Online membership will be required to participate in future Splatfests as of the second half of September. pic.twitter.com/1rqZ1tn6Ti

  — Nintendo Versus (@NintendoVS) August 18, 2018

  
  
  Vote in our related poll!
  
  

  In honor of the upcoming #Splatfest for @NintendoAmerica , what's your OTHER preferred tool?

  — PokeProblems (@pokemoncast) August 21, 2018

• Switch LIFE! New games are happening:
  • Okami HD is already here.
  • Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate will be out for Switch August 28th. The demo just came out!
  • The World Ends with You: Final Remix Comes to Nintendo Switch Oct. 12.
  • Diablo 3 is coming to Switch “Fall 2018”.
• Miz Sylver is playing this like crazy, how about you? The Wolf Doctor thinks the new plot points sound like Kingdom Hearts...
  
  

  Wherever you live and whatever faction you fight for, you can be part of one globally unified front as #BattleForAzeroth begins today!
  
  🕒 Find out when you can play: https://t.co/uzqCgGFAaB pic.twitter.com/GwdSwG8sty

  — Blizzard Entertainment (@Blizzard_Ent) August 13, 2018

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Eevee Community Day

Episode 119: the nifty hundred and nineteenth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. This week is news!

• Pokémon GO Community Day is August 11 & 12 - Get an Eevee or Eevee-lution with Last Resort!
• Get a code for Kyogre & Groudon at GameStop August 3rd - 26th.
• Did you see all the excellent news in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct? New pokemon in pokeballs, like Alolan Exeggutor, Belmonts as playable characters, and Monster Hunter bosses! So much awesome stuff!
  
  
• Overwatch Summer Games with Lucio Ball!
  

  You’ll get a kick out of this! ⚽
  
  Team up with your friends for Summer Games on August 9. pic.twitter.com/VSyxMDTrc3

  — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) August 3, 2018

• PAX West is coming up! Miz Sylver is hosting the Street Pass Game Show: Retro Edition on Sunday September 2nd at 8 pm in the Hippogryph Theatre, with JV, Kelsey, Sean, and Andrew! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY to be one of the 100 gamers and enter to win a spot on the show!
• Overcooked 2 just came out for Switch!
• Enjoy our special feature on Gen Con memories! Featuring Mike White, Scooter, Matt Maranda, Pre, and frequent guest Skerrit the Green!

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David Erick Ramos Rocks the Oc

Episode 118: The hilarious hundred and eighteenth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight, we have a special guest! David Erick Ramos, ocarinist extraordinaire! He tells us about his journey to becoming a leading American ocarinist with a really excellent YouTube channel! From his first ocarina, a Songbird ordered out of Nintendo Power magazine, to working for Songbird and STL, to starting Ocabanda, the first American ocarina septet in over 70 years, he takes us on his incredible journey. Catch up with him online to get in to the world of ocarina music.

• Find everything on David's website. (A new website is in the works!)
• David's youtube channel is incredible! He releases new videos weekly, there are hundreds up there!
  
• David's Patreon has lots of rewards!
• Find him on Facebook!
• Follow @daviderickramos
• David's Instagram has lots of action shots!
• And don't miss out on Ocabanda! Follow @Ocabanda

David is featured on some of the tracks for Yoku's Island Express. It's a super cute game! It's available on Switch, PS4, XBox One, and Steam!





David gives a shout out to Insane in the Rain!

After that awesome interview, we talk news:

• Pokemon Go has a lot going on! There are special trade bonuses through August 18th! It's a good time to try to get newly lucky pokemon in your trades. Raikou is the August research reward pokemon! Eevee community day(s) are August 11 and 12!
• The newest Pokemon movie is coming to theaters November 24, 26, and 28 and December 1st.
  
  
• There's an adorable new Pikachu Funko Pop.
• Team Squid won the Splatoon 2 Anniversary Splatfest!
• Link your Overwatch account to your Twitch Prime account before September 4 for sweet rewards.
• Bit Bar Salem won the Reader's Choice Best of North Shore 2018 First Date.
• Gen Con is this weekend! HAVE FUN EVERYONE!

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