Lured Up - A Pokémon GO Podcast

Lured Up - A Pokémon GO Podcast

Lured Up is a weekly podcast dedicated to the game, culture, and community surrounding Pokémon GO. Hosts Ken and Adam offer insight from multiple perspectives in an uncensored format. Lured Up covers topics that are relevant to both casual gamers and hardcore Trainers, while providing a heaping dose of entertainment as well. Lured Up - The Podcast where we take Pokémon GO way more seriously than we do ourselves.

Episodes

August 22, 2025 64 mins
Lured Up Podcast 359 Live Streamed on - 8/19/25 Publish Date - 8/22/25 Delightful Days: Taken Over Pokémon GO Worlds Event Dark Skies and the Max Finale G47IX Dark Skies Infographic G47IX Max Finale Infographic GMAX Battle Update Sunkissed Shores The Max Finale is finally here and we can finally push through it so we can all rest, right? There is still no end in sight to the onslaught of events, even with the Max Finale a...
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Lured Up Podcast 358 Live Streamed on - 8/12/25 Publish Date - 8/15/25 With less than two weeks until the GO Fest Max Finale, the event calendar will not be giving anyone a calm before the storm. It’s time to start strategizing on how to best prepare for the lead up to Eternatus. From item and storage maintenance, to banking consumable items, it is in your best interest to start thinking about how you want to approach the event....
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August 9, 2025 64 mins
Lured Up Podcast 357 Live Streamed on - 8/5/25 Publish Date - 8/9/25 We hope your calendar is clear this month, because we have a non-stop barrage of events that will require more effort, more time, and even more dedication if you plan on staying ahead of the FOMO. We see the return of 6 hour daily events on top of an already hectic and unrelenting calendar throughout the month. With Max Finale being the highlight, the rest of the ...
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August 1, 2025 57 mins
Lured Up Podcast 356 Live Streamed on - 7/29/25 Publish Date - 8/1/25 We are starting to hear chatter in the Community over whether the Scopely influence is making its way to in-game decisions. The patching of the micro-drift exploit, which Trainers have used for years to allow them to use a local Raid Pass on a Raid that is just out of normal reach, has caused a bit of a revolt. From Trainers saying they are boycotting, to confusi...
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July 25, 2025 60 mins
Lured Up Podcast 355: You Only Get One Live Streamed on - 7/22/25 Publish Date - 7/25/25 Did you play with the sound on during the Summer Concert Event? If not, you really missed out on some of the game’s best music to date. Masuda had our blood pumping with some inspiring and motivational music to grind to, but only if you had the sound on! While we are at it, Happy Birthday to Professor Willow, who we hope one day will benefit fr...
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July 18, 2025 57 mins
Lured Up Podcast 354: Fatigue Live Streamed on - 7/15/25 Publish Date - 7/18/25 We hope you were able to get out and grind through the Ultra Unlock: Hisui Celebration. 4x Catch XP and Stardust is wild, and we will have another shot at it soon when part 2 of the Ultra Unlock drops in about a week. Lilligant Raid Day was fun and being a three star boss made is super accessible and easy for most Trainers to at least use all of their f...
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July 11, 2025 64 mins
Lured Up Podcast 353 - Every Day For Nine Years Live Streamed on - 7/8/25 Publish Date - 7/11/25 We hope you don’t have much to do outside of Pokémon GO this week because the game has turned the events and bonuses up to eleven! Starting with a recap of the last week of gameplay, we discuss Community Day Classic’s two day format, and how it takes some of the stress out of playing the event. The weekend format was great for some more...
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July 4, 2025 67 mins
Lured Up Podcast 352 Live Streamed on - 7/2/2025 Audio & VoD Publish Date - 7/4/2025 We started this episode with ambitious intentions. We had planned to cover the onslaught of news and events that packed the July calendar, and discuss the monetization shift the gameplay flow has seen over the last few months. Instead, we ended up talking shop about GO Fest Global for the entire show! The GO Fest Global weekend was incredible and w...
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June 27, 2025 66 mins
Lured Up Podcast 351 Live Streamed on - 6/25/25 Publish Date - 6/27/27 This week Ken is joined by Jamal Harvey of the Wayspotters Podcast! Jamal sits in for Adam and joins the fray to dive into the last week of Pokémon GO action. We kick things off with a gameplay recap, touching on Yamper’s Paw Prints, Jangmo-o Community Day, and the start of Ancients Recovered. All of this action is coming just a week before GO Fest Global, which...
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June 22, 2025 54 mins
Lured Up Podcast 350 Live Streamed: 6/18/25 Audio Published: 6/22/25 We are in that weird time frame between IRL and Global GO Fest that makes it difficult to decide if you need to rest or get back out there. We’ve had a bit of everything in addition to GO Fest this month, with GMAX Inteleon and Phantom Ruins keeping us busy last week, along with Remote Raiding in Paris. The game’s pace doesn’t care what is going on as the events a...
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June 13, 2025 69 mins
Lured Up Podcast 349: Jersey Baby Live Streamed on - 6/11/2025 Audio Publish Date - 6/13/2025 GO Fest: Jersey City is a wrap and our feet are killing us! This weekend is the highlight of our gameplay year and we made the most of it! Liberty State Park was the perfect venue for the event, with spread out habitats, plenty of room for Trainers, and an incredible view of the New York skyline! There is plenty to unpack about the event, ...
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May 31, 2025 58 mins
Lured Up Podcast 348: Coming Together Live Streamed on - 5/28/25 Publish Date - 5/31/25 With a Shadow Raid Day and a GMAX Battle Day behind us, we share our feelings behind the impact that Remote Raid Passes have had on our IRL Communities. While Ken’s heart is still firmly with the IRL crowd, he was pleased to share that the impact felt from remoters was positive all around. Adam however, is still down on the mechanic, feeling lik...
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May 27, 2025 65 mins
Lured Up Podcast 347 Live Streamed on - 5/22/25 Publish Date - 5/27/25 We are officially on the Road to GO Fest and while event news is steadily flowing in, the event calendar continues to be packed week in, week out. We have events filling the weeks, multiple events over the weekend, and longer, overarching Research that has been carrying the narrative for a few weeks. There is officially no calm before the storm. We start out wit...
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May 9, 2025 81 mins
Lured Up Podcast 346: Potty Training Live Streamed on - 5/7/2025 Publish Date - 5/9/2025 The news that Adam has been dreading was finally announced. Remote Max Battles will soon be a thing, at the seemingly last bastion of IRL group gameplay is under attack. There are emotions and sentiments covering the spectrum of reasoning from hyper excitement, to fears and uncertainty. Time will tell what the real world impact of this week’s n...
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May 3, 2025 63 mins
Lured Up Podcast 345: An Applin A Day… Live Streamed on - 4/30/2025 Publish Date - 5/3/2025 We usually see a calm before the storm in terms of the few weeks leading up- to a GO Fest, however this May is stacked and the events do not relent. With a double stacked Vanillite Community Day and DMAX Entei Max Battle Weekend, the pacing continues to keep our calendars packed.  Five more events will hit the game in the next 2 weeks, and t...
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April 25, 2025 61 mins
Lured Up Podcast 344 Live Streamed on - 4/23/25 Publish Date - 4/25/25 The last week of gameplay had some ups and downs! The Horizons Event was a ton of fun, combining a great encounter pool with fun costumed Pokémon. The Shiny chase kept Trainers engaged in the wild, while some focused on hatching Tinkatink from 7 km eggs. The positive sentiment around the Horizons Event was dulled a bit however, by a GMAX Snorlax Max Battle Day t...
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April 18, 2025 56 mins
Lured Up Podcast 343 Live Streamed on - 4/16/25 Publish Date - 4/18/25 It has been a week of ups and downs in the Pokémon GO Community, as major news has come out of the Wayfarer camp. With only 2 days notice, Niantic Spatial has officially spun off, and Ingress is no longer connected to the Wayfarer system. This could have a huge impact on the future of the Pokémon GO gameboard, as PGO Trainers have relied on Ingress Agents to be ...
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April 5, 2025 64 mins
Lured Up Podcast 342: Last Week, This Week, Next Week Live Streamed on - 4/2/2025 We are working out an updated format to the show this week, starting off with our news segment called, “Last Week, This Week, Next Week”, where we recap the last week of gameplay, discuss the current events, and prep for what’s to come. The event sand news cycle can be overwhelming in Pokémon GO, so while we will always touch on news as it is released...
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March 30, 2025 74 mins
Lured Up Podcast 341 We haven’t dug into the news in a few weeks so on this episode we build out the calendar into April and prep for some pretty great event lineups. The game has really hit a stride in providing event and gameplay loops across their different mechanics. The April calendar is as packed as any previous month we have seen, and the onslaught of events doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all. With GO Fest right around t...
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March 19, 2025 72 mins
Lured Up Podcast 340: Meeting With Niantic Live Streamed on - 3/15/25 Publish Date - 3/19/25 This was quite the week in Pokémon GO. With the Community reeling from the news of the sale to Scopely. The amount of uncertainty and emotion is at an all time high. With feelings spanning the entire spectrum of thought, some Trainers remain concerned with cautious optimism, while others think this will spell out the demise of Pokémon GO as...
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