[Bonus] After 7 Years, A New Pokémon Movie Announced

**Bobby** (0:15)
What's up, everyone?

**Steve Sarumi** (0:16)
Welcome to a bonus episode of the Pokemon Podcast, bonus world's episode of It's Super Effective. I'm your host, Steve, with me is Bobby.

**Bobby** (0:25)
Hey, I didn't know we were going to do introductions. So yeah, we're recording at night.

**Austin** (0:33)
At night?

**Bobby** (0:34)
At night.

**Steve Sarumi** (0:37)
I'm so tired. Austin also here.

**Austin** (0:41)
Hey, look, I'm so sad I couldn't be there. I watched the in-person one. It looked like a lot of fun. It sounded like a lot of fun.
But I'm happy to talk about the stuff that was announced. So welcome. Hi.

**Steve Sarumi** (0:52)
Yeah. This is a good perspective. I was in the stadium, Bobby was outside the stadium, and Austin was at home.

**Austin** (0:58)
I wasn't even there.

**Bobby** (1:00)
Perfect. It works perfectly.

**Steve Sarumi** (1:03)
Perspective.
We had limited studio time in the studio I rented. Maybe we'll save this for a future conversation of all the issues with that specific studio. I tried to put out the best podcast I could on Monday. So if it sounded normal, good. If it didn't, I'm sorry. I tried my best to make it sound normal in the time allotment I had that weekend. Obviously, we recorded early. We recorded on Saturday night to in case there was any issues with the podcast. And there were good forethought, I guess.

**Bobby** (1:41)
But no late fee.

**Steve Sarumi** (1:43)
No. That's true. We didn't get a late fee.

**Bobby** (1:46)
Right.

**Steve Sarumi** (1:47)
I kind of knew that there probably wasn't going to be anything too big to announce. If anyone was asking me where Worlds was going to be or what I thought, I was telling people Singapore for the last couple of weeks. And that's what it is. Let me lay out this episode. We are pretty much only going to talk about the announcements that happened. That's it. That's the bonus. There it is. You guys are getting a bonus episode this week. Normally, the bonuses are paid walled. So to keep with tradition, we will have a pay walled segment of this episode.
About 30 minutes of just covering the news here. And then if you want some behind the scenes of Pokemon XP, worlds, some other thoughts that will be over on Patreon, patreon.com/pkmncst.
If you want some more behind the scenes of the weekend, if you're an Apple podcast, you can like upgrade to the premium feed on Apple in the Apple Podcast app if you use that app. So that's the plan. Hopefully, you guys enjoy the bonus, this bonus for the week to cover all of that. And I guess let's just dive right into things. 2027 Pokemon World Championships will journey to Singapore next year. I'm reading this off the just the Pokemon press release. It will take place at the Singapore Expo, which is the only stadium Singapore has, so it has to be there.
There's no other expo hall in all of Singapore.

**Bobby** (3:19)
They could have built one.

**Austin** (3:21)
Yeah, like the Olympics.

**Bobby** (3:21)
Like they do for the Olympics.

**Austin** (3:23)
Yeah, let's just build one.

**Steve Sarumi** (3:25)
I think, to me, that wasn't a surprise. I think to some people, it was a surprise. For those that weren't at Worlds, there was, for some reason, the entire weekend, there was a rumor going around that it was going to be in Mexico City.
And I was like, I don't know where this rumor came from, but it definitely...

**Austin** (3:41)
Somebody there must have just said it and people heard it. Okay, cool. Yeah.

**Steve Sarumi** (3:46)
Well, there was the rumor that started at a card party that it was going to be San Francisco for several more years.

**Bobby** (3:54)
San Francisco, the neighborhood of San Francisco, in Singapore, of course, is what I thought.

**Austin** (4:00)
I believe it.

**Steve Sarumi** (4:02)
A couple of months ago, I did kind of lean that it was going to be at the... What's that called? The Excel Center in London.
And then information kind of changed. And then I leaned more for like, okay, maybe Europe is out and it will be actually Singapore. I know people are saying like Indonesia. I don't think Jakarta or what's the other popular place in Indonesia? I know Jakarta is like the biggest city in Indonesia, where everyone go to the beach, where everyone goes. Bali, Bali.

**Bobby** (4:32)
Bali? Oh, okay.

**Steve Sarumi** (4:34)
I don't think anywhere...

**Bobby** (4:35)
I don't think you mean Bali.

**Steve Sarumi** (4:36)
Yeah.

**Bobby** (4:36)
No, there's no Pokemon World Championships in Bali.