TRAINER'S EYE #139 - "Loyalty From the Embers of Growlithe" ft. AdaEnchilada - As The Pokeball Turns

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AdaEnchilada (00:00):
hey, hi, hello.

(00:00):
I'm Ada Angelata and this is myPokemon story.

David Hernandez (00:42):
Welcome to as the pokeball turns where we
interview people about theirexperience with Pokemon.
My name is David HernandezToday, I'm joined by Ada, the
enchilada, here to tell us allabout What makes an enchilada
the best?
Ada, welcome to As the PokeballTurns.

Hey, thank you.
Thank you.
And actually, it's the salsaevent.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just kidding.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
But yeah, thank you for havingme.
Ha ha

Is it the Salsa Vida?
We need to start an argument.
Is it the Salsa Vida or the redone?

don't know.
The funny thing is, every time,like, so, of course, I love
Pokémon, but, you know, in mydown time, I play a lot of pew
pew games.
Let's say, like, Valorant.

Right.

time I start in a match, the first thing people
usually ask in, like, the chat,Red or green?
Gotta know, red or green.

Yeah?

like, guys, it's apparently these topics.

This is the thing we need to know.
What kind of taste do you have?
Is it red or green?
People think it started with redand blue.
It's actually red and green.

It really is.
I mean, you know, they justnever released, you know, green.
They only chose red and blue forUSA.

I know they canceled Bulbasaur's seed before
it even can crawl.
Yeah.

Man, how dare they?

I know, right?

a girl character, too.
Uh, no, that's a

Oh, yeah, yeah, they didn't, they canceled leaf
too.
They canceled the entire groupof people.

Goddamn! World wasn't ready for a woman! No.
Um,

still aren't.

Right?
It's too real, it's too real.

I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but continuecontinue.

I think you're good.
It's like, it's too true, butyou're too real.
I, I would say, I'm, I love mesome spice and I know that you
get more spice with the red, butthe flavors I like more in the
very thing.
Yeah,

not because it's Bulbasaur color, but it's
actually because I prefer thetaste of it.
Yep.

like, I mean, I'm a sucker for spicy, but like,
the flavors always will outwinthat for me, so.

but I know we were talking earlier about like
how this name came about andactually wasn't because the food
is actually For different reasonif you don't mind, you know
letting people know

so funny if people were like, Yeah, I'm actually
highly allergic.
So I, you know, just to likehate on myself, I name myself
something I can't eat.
Yeah, yeah, you know, I just gostraight to the ER.

(03:14):
But no, um, so like, of course,like my actual name is Adriana
or Adriana, if you want to sayit in the Spanish way.
but, growing up, I think sincelike fifth grade, I just
remember like, it was like mysister's, like, friend was just
like I'm gonna call you Aiden.
I'm like, okay my name's justtoo long um, and I basically

(03:37):
stuck with that nickname for whoknows how long?
and this was before I had likeany like social media handles to
get like a username and stuffdon't think I made like a
twitter handle till Sometime in,maybe late school, I believe.
Oh nine, sometime around thattime.

(03:58):
but during, you know, back inthe day when we were, you know,
we didn't have them cell phones.
We had to go and pick up thattelephone, you know, and call
beep, beep, beep, beep to ourfriends.
Uh, be like, got to call thatlandline, you know?
Um,

to use a payphone

Imagine, like, the rotary.
Yeah, yup.
Like, I'm gonna be side tangent.
I don't know if you ever playedthe tribute, like, Murder
Mystery from, like,

Yes.
Yes.
Love that.

usually, like, Oh, there's like a murder one where
you have to do, like do the likeRingphone thing too quickly to
to survive.
I'm like

I'm ready.

this

I was born in this era.

I'm like first one done.
I'm like hell.
Yeah You guys don't know how touse a rotary phone You're right
But, I would call my friend, andthey had caller ID, and usually
shows only like the last name,and so my best friend's mom.
Would just like read like thethe name and just like butchered

(05:06):
it hardcore.
It was just like And Honestlythat that that that has like
stuck with us Till as you cantell now and the time that I was
trying to think of a username.
I was like You know what worksproperly, you know, it's like

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odda Enchilada also kind of hasOtta in it, so, and it's like a
little homage to my last name,but very bad homage.
So, Otta Enchilada was born.

And she's been rolling on your Twitch screens
ever since.

Exactly.
I just slapped it on everything.
I was like, nobody's takingthis!

It must be kind of cool though, cause you kind
of acknowledge, you know, yougrowing up with Ada Angelotta to
now doing Twitch stream.
It's like people kind of get tokind of grow up and kind of see,
you know, you get, it's likeyour own childhood goes with you
on your Twitch journey.

Mm hmm.
Oh gosh, at the beginning ofFebruary, just celebrated, uh,
six years of, like, streaming.

Oh, wow.
What is it?
What, what, what, what went toyour mind when you hit the six
years?

God, I'm old.
No, dude.

to prove it.
Yeah.

Literally.

Yeah.

I've got like, this is why we wear the beanies
actually.
You know?

That's the hide it.

the top.
You don't see the top of thehead where the grey hairs or
silver hairs are coming.

You know, it actually reminded me of I don't
know if you ever watch edit andEddie.

Oh my god, of

You like your double D to where the head just
kind of

Yeah, yeah.
Where does the head start andthe hat

right, right, right.

but yeah, no, it's kind of crazy to think, like, I
don't know.
further I go in, at least likeonce it's past certain
milestones, I'm just like, Justkind of happy to just be able to
be here and just like I didn'tdo anything super crazy I just
wanted to be with the communitythat like has been along with
the journey do what I we've beendoing for these several years

(07:10):
and which is just making eachother smile and give good
positivity that we need in thisworld.
So, that be Rage Karting andMario Kart, trying to find a
shiny, I've been in such adrought recently, um,

Her shiny box is drowning.
It's been hit by Grudon.
Somebody bring the key ogres.
Oh, no.

so hard to get a target shiny this week, it's
hurting my soul.
but yeah, or like even justplaying like few, few games.
Cause I know a lot of like mycommunity also loves playing
like different games, likeFortnite and stuff like that.
You know, I just like, beingable to, to, to be there.
It's always a good time.
Yeah.

Is that why you went into streaming initially
just to try to be kind of thatinfluence?
Like what made you want to diveinto Twitch or to whatever
you're doing now?

always.
Loved being creative like Ithink that was always I've
always had the creative bug, youknow, they always say I don't
think it's true, but you knowwhat I'm gonna use it I'm a
lefty and they say usuallylefties tend to be more on the
artistic

Lefty.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Look, y'all don't know thestruggle.
Okay.
We're forced to be right handed.
The cars in America are righthanded.
I feel so much joy when I meetsomebody who's another lefty.
Shout out to all the lefties outthere.
Okay.
Lefties.
Lefties.

(08:33):
Yeah.

and then you come out of it It's just like

Yep.

just darkened from the pencil

you got all the, it's like a badge of honor
on the side.
And then what ticks me off themost because I'm a guy, we have
to wear ties.
All the tie instruction videosare right handed.
They all say the same thing.
Just do it in reverse.
The other way that has nothelped me.

I'm a visual person, or like, hands on, like,
what do you mean?

right, right.

Dude, or like, the people who take the, like, the
few left handed desks, it'slike, you're right, why?

Yeah, you took away my accessibility here.
Yeah,

struggle

it's it's such a real struggle, man.

um, yeah, I've always, um, loved being, like, I
don't know, comedic relief, alsoloved being, um, Like, I loved
being a goofball, just liketrying to lighten the mood or
like make people like, happy.
also loved being creative, likeWhen I was younger, I just loved
trying to like take pictures andstill love doing that too, but

(09:35):
God damn, this is so expensiveto get like a newer camera to
like be a photographer andstuff.
Cause, uh, at one point I justwanted to do photography.
trying to show people what Ienvisioned through my POV is
always something that I'vealways wanted to do.
And at one point it went fromlike photography to which we

(09:56):
were Growing up in the YouTuberealm and seeing people be
creative back in our time.
It was just like anime musicvideos or people doing AMVs or
people like doing their ownmusic videos to certain songs.
And I have a friend at the timeshe wasn't, uh, my friend yet,
but, She's actually one of myinspirations, Strawberry17.

(10:17):
she started a long time ago onYouTube, but now it's like on,
more on Twitch now.
And I would just see her doingthis creativity and I'm just
like, man, that'd be cool.
I want to be creative makingvideos too.
And you know, I would try doingsome cute little videos in like
high school.
I literally made this whole,like, story behind this, like,

(10:38):
Puppet.
parrot from like one of myscience teachers and made music
videos with him.
was a whole time.

Mm hmm.
Yeah

Pedro the parrot.
People who don't know him

Right, right,

uh, shout out to my teacher, uh, also like my big
sis, uh, Mrs.
Greco.
Let's go.

this is Greco

Yeah, she, she, she really like, allowed me to
like just kind of Just to putmyself out there.
Cause I mean, you probably alsothink that I'm like, from
knowing me, like, like prettyextroverted.
I didn't think I was growing up.
I was very like in like work orschool settings, I was very
introverted.

(11:22):
I don't like putting myself outfor out in the, in front,

hmm.

is so not the usual characteristic of an
extrovert.

Right.
Yeah

but, I'm more of the one where it's like I like
to include people, gatherpeople, try to like connect
people together and stuff likethat.
but once, like when I'm out ofthose settings, yeah, I thrive
basically.
so I would do all those, domaking little videos, but at the
time I also didn't have likereally a job or money to get
stuff like when they first werecoming out with like Adobe

(11:53):
Premiere or other things, you

makes it a little difficult.
Yeah

I'm trying to make like these little videos, but
it's so hard, you

Mm hmm.

and at some point I had to like put that a little
bit behind, you know, once youget, get into like college, got
to focus it, you know, yourideas a little bit.
Oh, your, your, what you want todo, So I still did like some
photography just for funsiesduring that time, but I was
hardcore struggling in collegecause god damn I am so not good

(12:23):
with, with, with learning.
but I was still like, you know,always fascinated with that,
with that side, with that realm,with being creative.
and it wasn't until.
after college when I kind of gotback into that realm, including
gaming.
Gaming was always a part of my,my life, before thinking of

(12:43):
creativity and stuff, you know,I was a tomboy.
I never really liked playingwith Barbies and stuff like
that, you know, Mom lovedplushies.
for the longest time, my familytried to, you know, Not to have
us go too much with the gamings,but

I'll say they're trying to keep you away
a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah

my aunt's probably one of the main reasons why I
actually got into Pokemon Or atleast the games Because I
definitely got cards growing up,the, like, I watched the shows
growing up.
I remember having little, likepictures of just like me with
like little, like plushiesactually, even though you guys,
you can't, you guys can't seethis.
I wanna show David.

You can see it if you check out or stream on
twitch.
tv slash out of enchilada, bythe way

let's go This is a nineties Pikachu.

That's a 90s Pikachu Wow Wow

from back in the day,

taken care of that big boy.
See, you got the originalPikachu when he was fat and
thick and lovely.
See now I'm

Yeah, he's, he's got a little bit of chonk.
He's been in my life for a very,very long time.
Oh, yeah.
See, we got.
Yeah, I don't know

Yeah.

is for.
We'll ignore the SP.
I don't know.
yeah.
But yeah, he's been in my lifesince I was a little lad.

So is that what your aunt gave you or Oh,

kid.
But like there is one time whereI got pretty sick.
so she took me to Toys R Us.
And she was like saying like Ican go pick out something, you
know.
So the first time I was holdinglike this little tiger plushie.
And then I come.
Across the R Zone.
Which, And, at the time, theyonly had Pokemon Blue available.

(14:38):
I also didn't have the Game Boycolor at the time.
Um, so, Uh, what did she say?
You can only choose one.
Right?
She's like, you can only chooseone.
I was like, okay.
I ended up getting both.
And I ended up getting the limegreen.

(14:59):
Game Boy Color.
Where I got to first play myPokemon Blue game.
and Made me dive into the gamingworld and just Also, just being
able to like unlock thecreativity of just like
imagining yourself in thesedifferent POVs and different
realms Like, putting intocharacters and stuff like that.

(15:22):
went from there, didn't have the64, but uh, when we were a
little older, my sister and Ialways like saved up like coins
and stuff and saved enough toget a GameCube, so we got that,
and then got a DS, a Game BoyAdvance, so we were always a
Nintendo family for a very longtime.
so that's always been in mylife, even through college.

(15:44):
Like I remember junior year ofcollege, I saved up enough money
so I could get, the 3ds I canplay Pokemon X and Y.
once we got out of college, youknow, kind of getting back into
the YouTube realm, gaming,YouTube and gaming, was very
into Minecraft at the time.
And my friend who, I wasfollowing for the longest time,

(16:05):
with their YouTube journey, whoalso is very into Pokemon, was
just seeing them transition,kind of, from YouTube to And I
thought that was super cool, I,and started making other friends
as well, because she made acommunity Minecraft server.
That I joined for funsies and Imade a lot of friends from there
that are still my besties untilthis point in time.

(16:28):
Fun fact, that's actually how Imet my husband from the
Minecraft

Oh, wow.
Okay.

but, I had another friend who also was diving into
the YouTube slash to Twitchrealm.
And I was like, this is kind ofreally cool.
Like, you know, I love beingcreative, but it takes so much
time to be creative when youdon't really necessarily have
the proper tools that you wantto try to express yourself.
And

and stuff like that.
Okay.
Okay.

like seeing how you can also still be creative.
While streaming was a wholedifferent like realm for me, and
I was like, you know what?
This looks like something Iwould love to try at the time I
didn't really have a way toStream or like what I wanted to
stream because didn't have a capcard and have stuff like that So
it's not like I could streamPokemon The first game that I

(17:19):
actually tried was, KingdomHearts 3.

Oh, okay.
That was your break in intotrying to do Switch.

yeah, so I eventually ended up getting,
like, an Xbox One when I, gotout of college, started making a
little bit of money, cause Iwanted to play Fallout 4.
and I eventually made my own, myfirst, like, PC.
I didn't realize there was a wayto connect the Xbox One to the
PC.
so, when I heard that, like, Iwas waiting for Kingdom Hearts 3

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to come out.
And I was just like, well,apparently there's this way that
I can connect this.
I was like, I

It's like writing.

try?

Yeah.

you know, going live, you know.
I mean, see if this works.
Yeah, I mean.
In my mind, like because I, I'vebeen so in, uh, integrated in
like this like, gaming realm andlike, at this point in time I've
had so many online friends aswell too.
and we love hanging out witheach other.
And time zones are a bitch aswell too.

(18:19):
I just thought this was such agreat way to also just include
them or have them be able tojoin me just hanging out and
just being able to games aswell.
and then eventually, you know,it started growing.
I literally basically giftedlike a, Like a hand, like a,

(18:41):
got, g g gave him a hand that Idid not expect because, I don't
know, I don't think I would've,been able to hop into the
Pokémon Realm as quick aspossible g without, this person.

gave you a hand?
That's kind of odd.
They cut their hand off and justgave it to you?
Yeah.

some people say I can be too trusting, but, you
know, it's probably going tobite me in the ass at one point
in time, but, I like to say thatI usually have a good judge of
character of people.
I, Met a friend who was reallyinto Pokemon Go at this time
too.
I would go Pokemon going allover different communities in my

(19:23):
area.
And I ended up meeting this, onefriend, because I literally
noticed that he had like a JasonMraz shirt.
I went to that concert the nightbefore and we're like, Oh my
God, besties.
Ah, and he was just like, tryinghis streaming journey at the
time, but then he had to move toa different country and he
literally was like, I just wantto give all my, like, streaming

(19:45):
stuff to you because I know thatyou're actually going to do
something with it, so the micthat I'm using right now, the
stream deck that I have, myfirst capture card, Even a green
screen I got all from him and Idon't think I would have had
that that that jump and Beingable to do Pokemon and all that

(20:05):
stuff for a very long time if itwasn't for him.
So That got me to go a littlemore creative because with a
green screen, I'm like, oh I cando different things different
background I have a proper mic.
I have a stream deck where I cantry to think of these different
things that I could do

your mind's just running with ideas of like,
Oh my gosh, I can do so muchnow.

Yeah, and slowly but surely, you know, you learn,
you try to figure out how tomake things more interactive.
I think the cool thing aboutTwitch is that like, everything
is just real, a live time, youknow?
You get to interact with thesepeople, like, YouTube is still
super cool, but like, you don'tget that response immediately,
you know?

Yeah.
If you get a response at all,sometimes it takes a while to
get known on YouTube.

It's true.
It's true.
I very much wasn't like astraightforward job twitch in
the first few years.
It was very much like a hobby.
I never thought that I could doanything crazy with it.
It became definitely a balancingact the longer I went because I
would remember like at one pointI was celebrating 200 followers
and then at another point it waslike, you know, a thousand

(21:11):
followers and I'm like, wow Andit got to a point where I was
definitely, dealing with somemental health issues later on in
life.
Like, this is like, we'retalking like a couple years back
now.
I had to stop taking care ofmyself.
then I kind of tried to go backinto the work realm, which was

(21:33):
not the best.
Unfortunately, it was very, itwas a toxic as well to my mental
health.
Um, and I just, at that point intime, I was like, I kind of want
to focus on myself.
I was lucky enough at this pointin time that I think I'm able to
focus on myself while justcreative and with something that

(21:54):
I'm passionate about which wasTwitch.
I had an a big enough communitythat was super supportive and
wanted to To, see this, happenas well, too.
until this day, this is wherewe're at.
Where, this is my sole income asof right now.
it's very much a journey, forsure, going the ups and downs of

(22:16):
Twitch.
Um, but I never got the positivefeedback that I would get from,
like, my other job.
Like, being able I may have,like, still, like, a long day, a
rough day, but, like, comingsitting down in this chair and
just having someone just saying,like, they had a, like, bad day,
but, like, coming here and just,like, being able to, like, be
surrounded with the community orjust, like, me being, like, my

(22:39):
goofy self, it just, like, helpsthem just, like, have a better
day.
It's Really, really, it's, justlike a gratifying, uh, a
gratifying take for sure.
Mm

I mean, it goes to the idea, like people go
where they're appreciated andyou just didn't feel appreciate
the job and you wanted, you feltappreciate with your audience.
I remember for me, I had asimilar thing to where I stopped
feeling appreciated my job.
So I took some time off myself.

Mm.

to four months and I said, I'm going to focus
on what I'm doing now with theinterviews.
I want to learn how to make aPokemon interview better.
I spent all the time trying tolearn how to art, how to like
formulate questions and allthat.
And for the first time, Iinvested in myself.
And I think that's what itsounds like with you.
You got to invest in yourselfand invest in this creative side
that you've really never had achance to.

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You know, you kind of playedhere a little bit there, but you
never really had a chance toreally flesh it out.
And like, what is the real oddof the enchilada, right?

Yeah, no, my family never really, I mean,
they always knew that they wouldalways say it's like, ah, you
know, she loves making thejokes.
He loves, uh, like, uh, makingus laugh.
You know, they always knew thatI was somehow creative, but they
never would have, saw this as anopportunity to be a job.
it was took them a very longtime to see that.

Were they kind of resistant to it a little bit,
or they thought that maybeyou're kind of

It was never like, and it still isn't of course,
but

sure.

like a solid job, you know, like You get paid once
a month the paycheck varies, ofcourse But them being able to be
included in a lot of things.
The one thing that I alwaysloved doing with streams is, I
say that I wouldn't be herewithout the people, like,
surrounding me and giving me thesupport.
I love my friends.

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I even love including my familyevery now and then as well, too.
I've had my mom, like, come onstream before and She played her
first Pokemon game.
She's never played a videoconsole, period, so like, I
remember her like, joining andtrying to learn all of this at
the same time.

Oh, wow.

Scarlet and Violet.

That was her first Pokemon game.

Yup.

Oh, wow.
Okay.

So seeing the interactions and how like people
are talking and stuff, like, Ithink them seeing that now, like
they understand it more, likethey, you know, it's like, oh
yeah.
So whenever I go to like, see mygrandmother, like, I, they're
like, oh, I gotta go.
It's like, well, you gotta go.
It's like, you know, it's like,oh, you need to work.
It's like, yeah.
It's like they, they, they, theyunderstand.

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It's like my, my, my job, youknow, so it, it's, it's an.
cool too now that it's kind oflike spreading with like other
families as well, too Like Ihave Bolivian relatives that
well, you know, they're like, ohmy god, she streams You know
It's like they come through andthey say hi and they're in my
chat or like I have othercousins Though like I'll call

(25:26):
just randomly on stream andthey're like, oh hi stream.
How you doing?
It's like I you know, you know IThink there's something And I
don't know how to say it thatmaybe homey or just like being
able to just like feel likeyou're just like a part of just,
you know, if we're all just likehanging out in like a room, you
know, just like shit talking,just playing games or stuff and
then she's just like, oh, youknow, just like picking up a

(25:47):
phone call.
It's like, oh, hey, you know,how's it going?
It's like, oh, you know, justhanging out with my besties.
Hello, nobody.
Hi.
Tell them I say hi, you know?
So it's just something likenatural feeling about it, you
know, instead of like trying toput like a act or something like
that.

I mean, it sounds like going back to you,
like to connect people, you liketo,

Yeah,

experiment.

like I guess you could say the social experience
meant like I think that was itwas another eye opening thing to
see that like so many friendsthat I mean, yeah, they started
off as online, but now they'rejust friends that were at my
wedding versus like with myfamily.
And so there's just seeneverybody coming from literally
they're like, wow, they'recoming from like, you know, UK,

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they're coming from Texas,California, you know, like all
Florida, all of these places,California.
It's like, wow, it's, all ofthese friends everywhere.
Oh my God.
You know?

I wanted to ask, so what was it like?
To invite your mother ontoTwitch and to see her try to
play her first Pokemon game.

Oh, gosh.
I mean, I was super excited.
You know, like, I know shealways, like, she, understood
Pokemon.
she eventually grew to not onlysaying like everything was
Pikachu, like she knows mysister's favorite is Eevee.
Uh,

is Pikachu and Eevee.

which is Growlithe, but I think it's hard
for her to remember the name,but she would know what it is.
And, it definitely was alearning curve for her because,
she'd never touched any type ofvideo console.
like, growing up, saw kind ofgaming as a little bit of a
negative way because, like, hmm.

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She would see like my cousin,who was like an older brother to
me, basically like get lost inlike World of Warcraft for hours
at a time, you know, it's justlike, where's the education
going?
You know, it's just like, Oh,this is not good.
Video game's not good.

She was worried you, she would, you would get
kind of sucked into that andyou'd just be playing video
games all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.

and how the interaction works.
Like, she was able to see, like,what other people would be
saying in chat, while alsotrying to, like, help her out as
well.
And then because I also at atime she would be like, I don't
know how you stream for so long,you know the time that she was
with me, she was like, oh mygod, how is it almost four
hours?
I was like see It just goes Iwas like it goes very long, you

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know know when you're having agood time, let's let it just
like it goes quickly.
But I think she had a good time.
She like whatever she would saylike she she like came on my
stream She'd be like, yeah, Ichose my pokemon too.
What was it?
It was the duck, right?
It's like quacksley It's likeyeah, yes my quacksley And I
think it helps with her, like,kind of understanding a little

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more of the Pokemon realm, too.
saying like, oh, going to theseevents or stuff like that, like
Pokemon Go or I'm going to, uh,wait in line for some Pokemon
cards, because it's a new, like,release or something.
Like, I told her today, too,technically.
Because my parents are actuallygoing to Bolivia tomorrow.

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I was like, oh, do you need tolike fill custom stuff?
like, yeah, ask your sister, butshe hasn't helped yet.
Do you want to help us?
Like, I mean, I got a podcastinterview But like afterwards I
could probably if you stillhaven't done it and like they
understand like about likePokemon stuff It's like, you
know it makes me happy, like,them, like, at least my mom,

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it's still gonna take a hotsecond for my dad to understand,
but my

he's still kind of figuring it out.
Okay.
Mm

think my dad is necessarily the one to, like, my
mom is definitely where I got mycuriosity from or trying to
learn stuff, you know, cause mymom will constantly be the one
to also want to just.
Yeah.
YOLO or like try to understandtry to like jump in

She's very adventurous.
Yeah.

you have my she's been on plenty of true like
trips with my sister atdifferent places like last
minute but she very much is theone who would like to try to
just like like understand whatyou What I'm seeing from my POV
and stuff like that and which Ithink honestly is why I also I
love trying to just, like,understand people as well, too.

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I, and I have a lot of patiencewith that as well, too.

You said Growlithe was your favorite
Pokemon.
What's the story behind that?
Why?
How did Growlithe become thefavorite?

Oh, man, I, I mean, growing up, I was always a
dog lover.

Yes, there we go.

dogs.
I love dogs so much.
for the longest time, we weren'teven allowed to have a dog, and
I would just always be like, ForChristmas, I want a dog.
And it's like, uh, what I geton, uh, at the end of the
Christmas tree is just a plushieof a dog.
It's fine.

I mean, it's still a dog.
At least it wasn't AnimalCracker.

Yeah, it's true.
But yeah, I just remember likeof course like Gen 1's always
gonna be my favorite cuz it waslike what got me into Pokemon,
but just seeing like dog likePokemon also was like a fire
dog.
It was loyal to you.

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I mean, I Immediately fell inlove with it there was a time I
would even like, imagine when itwould turn into Ark Nine.
I'm like, wow, I could justlike, wake up.
I'm getting late.
I'm being late for school.
I could just hop on it.
Extreme speed on my way toschool.

Let's go!

Exactly.
Like I w I would just bedreaming.
It's like, wow, if Growlithe wasreal, this would be the best
time ever.
And I was very into like, Firetype Pokemon as well, too.
I'm just a little bit of apyromaniac, you know.

We all got a little bit in my cells.
I do the same.
I gotta burn some stuffsometimes.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I loved, uh, doing
fireworks growing up a lot, too.

Oh, okay.

like, being able to have like a, this dog like
companion.
There wasn't really, I don'tthink there really was, other
than Volpix, which, It was, youknow,

Yeah.
It's a fox more so than a dog.
Yeah.

so like I grew immediately attached to it I'd
go to the next game.
It's like oh growl.
This isn't here bet.
I didn't even care like if Ichose like fire pokemon for my
starter I didn't care.

Mm hmm.
Growlithe

I can't say no to growl Yep

Growlithe in Arkhanine when it came out?

gosh, when that happened.
I remember that day so clearly,cause it also puts a, like,
warms my heart that, like,People will see his sue and gr
and immediately think of me aslike, wow, I did my job

Really?
Oh, wow.
Okay.

so many messages, so many mentions where you're
like, oh my God, on a luck.

Your favorite Pokemon's got a regional form.

Yeah.
I was so excited because like beto have another version of the
best boy, I mean, original'salways gonna be my favorite, but
like to have another one that.
Oh my god, I, I was so excited.
I couldn't wait to get it inArceus.
I was like, I want Arceus now!Dude, it is so cute.

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I've actually currently been onthe journey of trying to get
alpha I like to call it bestboy.
So any any any Like theGrowlithe I'll call best boy.
I will always name it best boyCuz he's the bestest of boys

yep, yep.

I call Arcanine best man because he's big boy
now

Ooh, okay, so there's best boy and then
there's best man.

Exactly exactly And I was like, I need to find
an al a Shalfa Best Boy, Ialways call it that, and I've
been on that journey for a hotsecond trying to find the alpha
version of Hisuian Growlithe.
One day it will come to me,

Someday, yeah.

key, like, now that I have a little more
capability of, like, being ableto shiny hunt in older games and
other things, I want to try toget as many Growlithes as
possible

Oh, wow.

generations as I can get.
The, like, my most prizedGrowlithe is probably in
FireRed, that took a long time,but I think it was a little over
40, 000 encounters and twophases, that I got, uh, Shiny
Growlithe.
Heh

Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
So you were determined to getthe shiny Growlithe.

Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Dude.
it is just so, it always looksso cute.
It looks, it's just like to, to,to say that it's like the, a
loyal fire Doge to you.
It's like, that's what I loveabout dogs too.
They're always like loyal andthey always look at you.
No, like I'm just,

They're just your companion no matter what.
Yeah.

yeah.
I'm just like, damn.
I always think that way withGrowlithe

hunt and fire red and you said you love Kanto.
You started with Pokemon, Ibelieve you said blue and it was
the only one available.
Sure.
What was it like to finally, youknow, when fire red leaf green
came out to kind of reexperience Kanto for you?

I will say my top two games are FireRed,
LeafGreen, and HeartGold,SoulSulfur.
I know people are like, it'stechnically Gen 3, but like,
it's literally the remakes ofthose games and making, like,
yes, I will always be a Gen 1fan, Kanto fan, but like, I
mean, at that point in time, youknow, was as far as I could get

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at that point in time.
It's not as easily replayablethose games you know, it's a
little bit harder, but liketaking that story and then like
even upgrading it to be able tothrough it was so nostalgic
being able to also hop into gen2 like the Johto realm through
there as well because I loveJohto as well too.

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It's a close second and thegraphics and the colors and all
that, it was just, it made myheart so happy.
growing up, usually my sisterand I would get like two
different games besides like, Ithink we didn't do that for
Sapphire.
but I got FireRed, she gotLeafGreen, and I had to get
FireRed because A certainperson, a certain dog was only

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exclusive to FireRed.

Yep.
Yep.

Yup.
so I was like, I have to get it.
but, yeah, able to relivethrough those games.
Same thing with like, uh,

HeartGold.
Yep, I was gonna say.
Yeah.
Yeah.

even to this day's like I can replay those suit so
easily and just reminisce backlike back then when I first
played it and let's say Mysilver cartridge or crystal
cartridge or my blue cartridge,you know, but It's easier, you
know And you get the the bonusof trying to get those shinies

I mean, I played so many hours on
HeartGold, SoulSilver.
I think I was SoulSilver becauseI love Lugia, but.

got SoulSilver, but I didn't know that I
couldn't get Best Boy at thetime, so But I

yeah.

as well.
That's why I got SoulSilver.
Mm

but it was just so much fun and still one of the
games that held up over timethat I just enjoyed playing so
many ways and there's just somuch to do is like, endless.

Mm hmm.
And now, like, because, I didn'treally like I knew, but also
didn't know back in the timethat Shinies existed.
I've been going back into theseolder games trying to get those
shinies because I want to havethat, that, that feeling that I
missed out on trying, findingone of those back in the

Mm hmm.

I've gotten starter Charmander, Empire Red
as well.
I've gotten a starter Chikoritain SoulSilver, and I have a
shiny Mareep in SoulSilver aswell, too.
Which, those, they take forever,but it's the, it's so satisfying
when you finally see it shine,and it finally happens.

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Oh my god.
This

What kicked you into shiny hunting?
Because for me, I give thatrespect for y'all.
Cause y'all just are sodetermined.
Cause you just said earlier, Ithink you went through what?
32, 000 for shiny Growlithe.
I can't remember.
Some crazy number.

thousand,

Exactly.
So what is, how did that sparkyour interest with shiny
Pokemon?
Was it something like justhappened or?
Yeah.

and Somehow just somewhere in my brain, you know,
I knew that Chinese existed.
I just never looked into it Itwasn't until like Pokemon go
that like, you know, he's like,Oh my God, we can go out, we can
go catch Pokemon, like in realworld.
Oh my God.
You know, I was so obsessed withit growing up.
and then when they finallyreleased like the first set of

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like.
Shinies in Pokemon Go, it wasMagikarp, I remember literally,
like, walking around with myfriend, getting a shiny
Magikarp, and literally turningaround to her and be like, Oh my
god, it's like in Silver, youknow, where they have the, it's,
it's the red Gyarados, you know,the Magikarp.
Oh my god.
It's like, I had thatinformation in my head, but

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somehow I just never like lookedfurther into that.
So I would start collectingthese shinies in Pokemon Go and
then eventually I got Let's Goand I was like I should Try
shiny hunting in Let's Gobecause I know that that's a
possibility um, and kind of likefound this realm of people shiny

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hunting in Twitch as well too.
So it's like, I kind of want togive it a try now that I can
actually, you know, show whatI'm doing as well, too.
Since I have a cap card and theneventually evolved into me doing
it with my first shiny hunt inlike sword and shield Of course,
my first shiny hunt in Let's Gowas best boy

Of course you got, you gotta give shiny
Growlithe.
Yeah.

wasn't my first shiny though, unfortunately

Oh no.

mainline games I phased on a Rattata

Oh, that's the worst one.
Ha ha, Lane.

know, but I couldn't say no because it was
my

know, I know.

So my first, his first one technically was a
rant, but then I got my shinyGrowlithe and I was like, this
is just so cool.
Just the, the rewarding feelingbeing able to get something,
that is rare that you have towork to get it scratched an
itch, it scratched an itch, andI continued to do so in Let's

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Go, jumped on over to like Swordand Shield.
I believe my first one was likeShiny Shinx in that game.
I would always play through thegames first and then I would
like switch into like ShinyHunting.
And now there's be like so manymemorable different like
Pokemons that I would rememberAnd I would being like, okay, I

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like this Pokemon too, butthere's a different method to
shiny hunting I've only knewabout like originally just like
how let's go was just a wholedifferent way of shiny hunting

Yeah,

I only really Afterwards knew about like
encountering their softresetting.
I was like, oh, okay.
Let me learn about this.
Oh, there's Dynamax adventuresOh, okay.
Let me learn about this.
You know, there's a shiny charm.
Okay, you know, I'm learning allthese different methods and ways
You know newer games come outlike oh, okay I could do radar I

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could do this, you know, so Justbeing able to I don't know.
I like I like Expanding myhorizons.
I like learning.
I like a different learningdifferent methods then
eventually I was able to Gobackwards because I'm like, well
now that I've kind of done this.
I know so many people have shinyhunted before Like, twitch was a

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thing, you know, and I was justlike I need to try this As well
too.
Yes.
Is it harder?
Yes, but

much so.
Yeah.

not?
know,

not?
Why not?

Exactly.
why not

You did a way better voice than I could

I, uh, I like making choices.

What's interesting though is you know,
you grew up with Pokemon justlike I did and for me from my
perspective I feel like shinyhunting didn't really get big
until Pokemon Go Because youthink about when Chinese debuted
in Gen 2, you know Ash caught ashiny Noctowl You had the shiny
Red Gyarados So it sounds likeGame Freak wanted to make
shinies big but they were Idon't know.
I feel like people reallyweren't as interested at the

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time compared to nowadays.
Nowadays, everybody almost likesto shiny hunt at this point.

it's like why I think it's like we somehow knew
of them, but we never reallylike fully looked into it until
late, way later, you know?
at least that was like, for me,I didn't look into it way later.
I think Pokemon Go definitelyhelped a lot with that.
I would remember certainfriends, uh, like people in my
community that would, maybe be alittle bit older than me or

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something like that and theirfirst introduction to the
Pokemon world was Pokemon Go andyou know, everybody's journey to
Pokemon.
I always say is different.
Everybody starts somewhere elsebut the beauty that I love about
my community is that we'realways very Welcoming and always
want to help people like if youwant to dive into something else
We're here for you so you canhave the same experience as we

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do.
I remember, there is this, onecommunity member, I believe, she
won I was giving away abrilliant diamond and she won
one of those and I think thatwas going to be like one of her
first like Pokemon games thatshe was going to go through.
And then she eventually got, youknow, other games as well So
it's just like being able to seeother people's Journeys into it

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or like asking like, oh, whatabout these shiny?
You know, it's like maybe theyonly know about like just
Pokemon So it's like what?
What are you doing with this?
Like maybe you're just they onlyknow about like playing through
it or just the BGC aspect Youknow, it's like it so it's like
oh let me tell you a little bitabout it or I'm still constantly

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learning plenty of things aswell, too because there's just
so much different, like, sidesof the Pokemon universe that you
can dive into.

Well, I thought you would know it all, Ada.
Like you have expectations.
You're a creator.
You should know everything inPokemon.

should take my, my professor jacket away.

I'm gonna take your Growlithe plushie away.

Mm hmm.

of true though, because I remember, you know,
when Pokemon Go, especiallyafter Raids came out.

Mm hmm.

A lot of people I met, Pokemon Go was their only
game they had ever played.
And the best example I alwaysremember was there was this
mother and she literally doveinto learning about the Pokemon,
learning about the moves,learning about the movies and
all that, because her son wasinto it at that point.
And she wanted to bond overthat.
And it was just so cool seeinghow they were passionate about

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Pokemon.
But like you said, it came froma different journey compared to
like you or me, because we camefrom either the cartoons or the
games, depending on, you know,how you define your journey.
Yeah.
But that was just kind of coolpart.
And then I can kind of sharewhat I knew to them.

Exactly, exactly.
I mean, it's like, we all havedifferent, like, who knows?
They might know more stuff aboutPokemon Go than I do.
and I would love to keeplearning, you know?
It's like, give me your POV,your thoughts.
I'll give you if you would likeit as well,

Now, when Pokemon Go debuted, what was it
like for you to when you firstheard about it, what was it
like?
Were you like excited or?

I was so excited.
I was not excited that it cameout, like, super late.
When it came out at first,because I was like, There's a
Pikachu! do I get to him?
I'm, like, trying to, like, godeep in, like, my backyard,
trying to see, because, ofcourse, my mom's not going to be
like, Where are you going?
Dónde estás yendo?
You can't guys, it's night timeright now.
What are you doing?
And I was just like, But I don'tgo catch Pokemon, mom.

Pokemon goes out, gotta catch them all.

There's a Pikachu outside.

I'm way past 10 years old, ma.

Right?
I can be outside, please.
It's only 10pm.
Oh, it was awesome.
Such a life changing experience.
being it it got me very muchmore Active being going out and
about trying to find thesecertain pokemon.
Had this awesome amazing bondwith like My now, uh, past

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doggo, uh, Casper, but he wouldalways know when I would be
going out to like drive todifferent places or stuff, I'll
be like, you want to go PokemonGo hunting?
And literally that's his key toknow that we would, we're
hopping in the car and we'regoing somewhere and he was
always so excited.
He loved journeying with me withPokemon Go.
And I think the, the cool partabout it was, uh, people that I

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would meet along the way.
seeing the different age groupsand all that just joining
together.
I would remember because I livenear DC, be a few times where
I'd even travel to DC, and thehotspots of these areas were
crazy.
Not as crazy as like New York,but I would remember one time we
were at the FDR Memorial, kindof late and Uh, later in the day

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and you see people just startingto run and we're like, what's
happening?
They're like, it's not a itcan't be a dragon.
I know.
No, it's like no, it's not adragonite but it is a golem and
we're like

Yeah, yeah.

to go get it like there was like that fdr memorial
for some reason would also bethe only time at like certain
time of night that like Youwould have a lapras spawn and
i'm like if only I could getthere at night But, I got to
make friends that I have tillthis day, like, one of my most,
like, fondest memories.

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I would make this huge, like,around like my town area where
at some point in time, I wouldstop by Starbucks to get a
little iced tea drink, recharge,keep going.
My, my huge lap to get,

Refill your batteries a little bit.
Yeah, yeah.

and ended up making a, Friends was one of the
baristas there because they sawthat I was playing Pokemon Go.
It's like, oh my god You'replaying Pokemon Go.
It's like, yeah, it's like, ohmy god.
You want to do a community daytogether?
It's like yeah, and theneventually found out more of
them played Pokemon Go and Ibecame include like they we

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became such a close knit Friendgroup I would go there at some
points in time where they wereworking.
It's like There's a raid rightover there.
You guys want me to get it foryou?
They just all give me theirphones, you know, because they
can't go.

I'll be right back.
I got y'all.

I got you guys, you know, I mean, I cherish
those memories and like nowwe're We may have all we moved
all on from that Starbucks,those Starbucks days, but we're
still so close as friends andAnd we still hang out to this
day, I mean That one friend whostarted it, of course, was my

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flower guy in my wedding aswell, too.
So,

Okay.

so many, like, which makes me, like, of course,
you know, with the whole, like,taking away remote reading and
stuff like that, it kind ofmakes me sad because, like, I
think the beauty of like PokemonGo was being able to make these
connections that you neverthought you would have been able
to make.
And remote raiding helped, leastfor me, a lot of that with the
community I have, even inDiscord, because so many people

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get to just know each other,help each other out.
and you grow friendships thatway, you know?
Mm

Yeah, it sounds like, I mean, especially because
you, you know, you found thatyou're all friendships from
online.
That's how we grew up withPokemon, because a lot of
people, especially when it diedout, you were kind of on your
own sometimes.
And the internet was kind of theonly way you could find other
people.
And Pokemon Go kind of,especially with Roman Raids,
brought that back for a bit,especially people who couldn't
play.
They got to finally experiencePokemon Go.

No, one of my best friends, we didn't really
become, like, we knew eachother.
We had mutual friends, but wedidn't really become best
friends until, like, after Igraduated college.
And he found out that I playedPokemon.
I invited him to come playPokemon Go with me because he
was more of the OG Pokemonplayer,

Mm hmm.

And he would constantly be like, man, I wish,
I wish I knew, you like earlier,like we could have, you know,
had all these like moreexperiences.
I always tell people it's like,I feel like, Things happen for a
reason on a certain timeline,you know?
And us like being able to likeget together at that point in
time, I, a reason for it, youknow?
and, to this day now, like, Ifeel like we're even more than

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that.
Even more nerdier with ourPokemon stuff.
Like we're constantly going togo cards, collect cards.
He's helped me with like shiny

I think they call that level up.
Uh,

yeah

we leveled up.

Yeah, you know we've become more of a of nerds.
Let's go

Yeah.

But it's super cool being able to you know
people who didn't know like backthen they felt they were they
were alone like he he honestlythought like kind of had to hide
his like love for pokemonbecause people thought that that
was like you know that's weirdyou know it's nerdy but i don't
know for me growing up i neverlike I was just like, if I like

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it, I like it, you

Yeah.

and I think that's what helped me also like be able
to find more people that hadthat same like passion or
interest.
And I think that's what as well.
with, connecting with like otherfriends or even helping others,
connect with even more like, uh,friends and possibilities.
Cause it's like, you never knowunless you just be yourself.

So you mentioned how sometimes you'll
camp out, or you'll go for cardopenings.
What is that like for, from yourexperience?
Like, do you see kinda likepeople who are just scalpers, or
do you actually see genuinePokemon fans?

I haven't gotten to many of them, but the times
that I have, I think itdefinitely be a mix.
I feel like you'll get more ofthem in the local stores of just
like people who are just tryingto be scalpers.
The, the worst experience, ofcourse, is you trying to get
them online.
Like, you don't even everusually have a chance online

I don't even try.
Yeah.

It's just so unfortunate.
But I'll go to, like, my, like,local stores here, and you
definitely have some people whohave gone to different places to
already try to get stuff, butthen you have, like, uh, who
are, there with their kid tryingto get, some cards or People who
are like a lot moreunderstanding that we want

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cards, you know, we're not goingto be greedy about it.

Yeah, yeah.

and I've definitely like been able to
strike up with conversationswith people.
And.
at least, the ones that usuallycome to, like, more local card
stores are, to be, like, morefriendly and more understanding.
I feel like people who arescalpers don't necessarily try
to go to those types of stores.
Uh, they'll just try to go tothe main ones and just, you

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know, yeet at all.
Like, I remember seeing thatvideo, like, you probably saw
the video with the Costco andthe

Oh my gosh, yep, yeah.
That's disappointing.

Yeah, I'm like, I know we all want Pokemon stuff,
but like, also, like, you do notneed to get that much.
Like, I mean, sure, if I had themoney, I would love to get all
those, but I'm alsoacknowledging that there's going
to be other people who want it.

Right, right And I mean like for me like
because I used to always go tothe games whenever they did
midnight releases I always wentto them

that

and it was just such a good experience because
you get to see other Pokemonfans Waiting for the game
excitingly.
It's just a lot of fun

Mm hmm.

Yep

was that's always so cool being it those types of
events if you're able to oh,yeah being surrounded by that
community that all understandIt's kind of like the same thing
that even though it's notPokemon related like for me
whenever I go to like Concertsor stuff like that you're
surrounded by the same peoplewho are there for the same
reason, you know, like you'reall sharing like the the same

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like passion or hobby and stufflike that.
So you you just feel comfy Mm

Yeah, and if you're going to midnight, at
least for a Pokemon game, youare dedicated.
You are definitely a fan.
And we would talk aboutdifferent Pokemon.
We usually would talk about likethe prior games and seeing like
what we liked about them.
Just a little chit chat likethat before the new ones and
what we kind of hope to see.
And those are always had thebest memories for me.
It's just, I always try to doit.
Like I think, I think Scarletand Vi did one as well around my

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area.
I did to midnight release and Iwas excited because I hadn't
gotten a switch at the time.
That was my first games actuallyfor the switch.

Cool nice

Yeah.

Heck yeah, I remember getting the, like, the
first time I got my Switch, I,like, don't know if GameStop
does it still, but I, they did,like, a pre order thing where
you can put a certain amount ofmoney on,

Yes.

hold.

Yeah.

And because I didn't make as much at the time,
I just remember, like, going,like, maybe, like, every two
weeks or so when I get mypaycheck, put a little bit at,
go to GameStop, put a little biton it again and again.
So I, by the time I had to pickup my Switch, it was just, like,
bucks I owed or something likethat.

And now ADA's a seven figure streamer.
She can buy a bicycle withouteven thinking about it.

God damn.
Oh, I was like, what?
Bicycle.
I don't know how to ride one.
No jy.
I know how to ride one The, theonly bicycle

Yep.

is, uh, the, the one in Pokemon on Cycling Road.
Yep.

I wanted to ask something because I know you, of
course you mentioned, you know,you, uh, met your husband in
Minecraft, but you also, I thinkyou streamed your wedding on
Twitch.
What was it like to just havethe wedding on Twitch plus have
all your friends come together?

yeah, like of course even though we metal
minecraft and like, you know itwasn't for minecraft, we
wouldn't be here but our mainthing that really kept us
together was pokemon like we hada Ongoing challenge against each
other of like who can get morepokemon into pokedex first, you
know I'll be like, oh

Oh, wow.
So it was competitive.
I like it.
Okay.

yeah.
Pokemon was very much both ourlike our first like stuff that
that also like connected us themost That so much that we had a
Pokemon theme wedding.
and like all of our, likegrooms, spades, groomsmen had
like their favorite Pokemon pin.
Uh, I, I was

Oh, that's cute.
I like that.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Continue.

No, you're good.
Uh, had Pokemon themed classicalmusic for the opening ceremony
and walked out to a pal town,uh, classical song.

Oh my gosh.

Every table was a different area in, Kanto, had a
love ball, like everything was asuper Pokemon themed, but like,
not in like a, it was in aclassy way where it's not like
screaming nerdiness, but itactually looked really pretty
and and we even had like a cakethat had, a little like
Growlithe and a Jolteon.

(57:55):
Zapdos is his favorite, but, uh,It was going to look a little
bit weird on the, on there.
So Jolteon was, you know,

Yeah, yeah.
Color could, the color contrastwould have been off.
Yeah.

it would have looked a little bit weird to put
on the cake versus with aGrowlithe, but, so we went with
the Jolteon, and so being ableto show like how much this like
connection has brought ustogether and also brought so
many friends that we still haveto this very day are like made

(58:26):
super close friends as well too.
having them be there, meant alot.
like I was saying, like, seeingeverybody coming from all over,
and seeing the room just likefilled with everybody was like
wow We if we didn't have thislike love and passion for this
This game the we I might not bestanding next to him.
I might not be looking at thesewonderful faces that are all

(58:50):
surrounding me in this,reception hall right now, you
know, a life would be entirelydifferent.
and I'm glad that we are thenerds that we are.
Yeah, we, in live streaming it,you know, I was, you know,
determined, of course, when wedid like a wedding sub, a
subathon for it, that like, ifwe got to a certain goal, I

(59:13):
would live stream at least aceremony, which I did.
cause so many people through mystream are a part of that
journey too.
Seen like how my relationshiphas grown, seen these other like
friendship connections and stuffand, they are basically like a
second family where, you know,we, we might not see each other
all the time, but you know, wecatch up and say like, you know,

(59:35):
what's happening and stuff likethat, and of course I would
want, uh, want them to be a partof this, uh, this big event, uh,
in my life as well too.

And it's not even just that.
It's also not just, you said,just like a family.
It's people who choose to bethere

Yeah.

you know, it's not people you're born and you
feel obligated.
People who generally want totune in and you want them
included.
That's the best type of

Yeah

and love you could ever ask for.

AdaEnchilada (01:00:00):
Mm hmm.
I always say that I feel likethere's like two types And it
could be different as well tooBut usually there's like kind of
like two types of streamerswhere it's like you watch a
streamer Because they're so goodat what they're doing.
then there's also the streamerthat you just love their
personality and just no matterwhat they're doing.
You just love being there.
I kinda hope that I am thatladder, because there's no way I

(01:00:20):
am an expert at anything.
Both like, if, I mean, I haven'teven gotten a target shiny in
who knows how long.
I am very much not an expert.

David Hernandez (01:00:35):
It's still, it's still bowling in your mind
that you still are running ashiny job right now, but

but it's okay.
I'm not bitter at all.

it's kind of cool though, because your
audience can sense yourgenuineness.
They can sense that you wantthem there.
And what is it like to kind ofhave people just tune in for
that reason to, for you to justhop on and have people who
welcome you for who you are.

It's, very, I don't know how to describe it
other than just like, it justmakes you feel like you're
always, you're doing the rightthing.
You feel like you, you know, I,in turn of me wanting to always
make people feel like they canfeel comfortable enough to be

(01:01:23):
themselves and, and belong theretoo.
It makes me feel the same way aswell being able to just like sit
there and we're just like jokingat each other like we're a lot
we're like long time bestieslike we could be like literally
like Cursing out the wazoo ateach other because you know,
we're like I was like you fishyou red shelled me.
God damn it but then like I cango like into like more of like a

(01:01:50):
If we know somebody needs a youknow, like our support or
something like that, you know Wecan't we we can easily like to
that or if let's say mean, I'vebeen trying to, like, ever since
I had, like, a little bit of mymore, like, mental, like, health
breakdown and stuff, I've beentrying to always be more open

(01:02:11):
if, like, listen, I'm not havingthe best of days, you know?
You know, maybe I'm not gonnahave as much of, like, energy,
but I also don't wanna not,know, Sit and not do anything.
And, you

Yeah.

people understand that.
And like, people would alsolike, you know, say the same is
like totally been there.
You know, it's, it's, it's acertain connection that makes
you, just makes you feel likeyou can, no matter what, you can
just like be honest with eachother, no matter, no matter
what.
And.

(01:02:44):
doing the streaming thing, Iknow there's some people who do
have that separation, which, youknow, it's like, you're Anna and
Shweta, and then you're, like,Adriana and stuff like that, but
um, for me, I, I get that, like,maybe, like, if I was, like,
PewDiePie level or somethinglike that, I don't know, like,
maybe I need a little bit moreof a separation in my life or

(01:03:07):
something like that, but, like,It's just so much effort to try
to do that, and I just lovebeing real with people.

Yeah.

want to try to, like, act differently.
like, if I'm having a low day orlow spoons day, I'm gonna let
people know.
And people, and them understandthat, I know that I found the
right community,

And, you know, for those who know out there,
it's so difficult when you'redown, usually depressed for me,
that's when it happened for me

Mm-hmm

just want to get out of bed sometimes.

Yeah.

And it takes a lot of work even more for you to
just push that life button.

Mm-hmm

And to give that

Mm-hmm

and space for people to kind of not only
counsel you in a way, but alsofor you to kind of receive it
back.
And that's kind of so important,especially in a day nowadays
where people tend to be fake.
It's important to finally bearound and experience what it
means to have real people inyour life.
And I think that's kind of whatmakes you a very good
representation for both Pokemonand Twitch as a whole.

Oh, thanks.
Yeah.
I just, I think it's importantto, Like, I, I'll have plenty of
times where I, um, I might evenget emotional talking about this
right now.

It's okay.
My audience is used to it.
We're okay.

No, uh, because, like, When, uh, I got, I got
this, I got this.
When, when my dog Casper passed,like, he was a huge part of our,
my streaming journey as well.
Where oh god I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay

It's okay.

Yeah, there's there's and downs whenever I get
to talk about him, but um He

he's a loved animal, obviously, and you cared
for him deeply.
How did he kind of contribute toyou as a person, as well as to
your streaming journey?

was always the Even even during like the times
were like my family wouldn'tnecessarily see it as like that
I can make a job out of he Atthe time when I lived with my
grandmother.
He was always there.
He was always supportive I evenhad a Casper cam for him or like

(01:05:24):
there was a Times where he'd siton my lap and I remember when he
was sitting on my lap is when Igot my first shiny dirtini and
let's go

Oh.
Oh,

he I mean, I still have a emote of him because you
know he's The You newer, I meanthe older, the older, uh, peeps
that have been around, they've,they've seen, um, been with him
throughout the journey.
Like I remember celebrating his11th birthday on stream, just

(01:05:56):
literally just having him thereand just like, hanging out with
us.
Uh, that was, it was a, he, he'sbeen such a big part of like my
beginning steps and, During thetime that he got sick,
unfortunately, he had a, heended up having a brain tumor.
And, you know, those, those dayswere rough.

(01:06:21):
And I wasn't gonna hide it frommy community.
So, you know, I would tell them,I don't try to trauma dump.
So I try to take it, talk aboutit as like, as, easy as
possible.
But like, because.
all go through these things.
People have their animals, andthere's gonna be times where

(01:06:42):
it's gonna get tough, but, um,Nowadays, even when somebody,
like, maybe comes later askingabout, like, uh, maybe they
haven't been around, or askingabout Casper,

Mm.

like, who's this emote about, you know, might
still get teary eyed talkingabout him or, you know, it's
like, but I'm never gonna notwant to talk about him, um, And,
uh, my train of thought,

It's okay.

understand that even if I'm like, maybe having
like some tears or crying down,um, I just wanna be as real as
possible.
I don't wanna hide like sayinglike, no, I never wanna talk
about this.
You know, just these are alljust like feelings, real, like
I, I've, I've lived these, thesememories of overall they were

(01:07:38):
like, happy times.
And I know that Chad knows thatthere was so many good times
with him too, that it would do adisservice to, to ignore a, a
chapter of my life, you know?
And I think just being able toshow like, yes guys, I'm talking

(01:07:59):
about this part of my life.
Am I crying?
Yes, but know that I am okay.

Yeah.

I might be crying, but I am okay because it's okay
to show these emotions.
It's okay to show thesefeelings.
I think that helps a lot noteverybody, um, it's, it's hard
to communicate.
And, yeah.
For a long time, I wouldn't wantto be a bother to people.

(01:08:27):
I love helping people, but Idon't like telling people, you
know, what's wrong with me.

Right.
You like to be there for them,but you struggle trying to
receive that same kind of feed,love back.
Yeah.

I've learned that it's in, like, I don't care if
I'm having a shitty day orhaving a, like a, like a,
Emotional day.

Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm.

it.
I'll say like, guys, I'm notgonna lie.
I'm on my time of the month,bro.
I feel like I got punched in theuterus.
Yeah,

More power to y'all, man.

right?
Like, something about showingall those ranges of emotions is,
I think it makes that bond withthe community even stronger.
Yeah.

does because until you've lost somebody and
for you it's a pet, or for youit's your dog, it's a family
member really.

Mm

I lost my dad.
I was shattered because my worldwent to shit.

Yeah.
Yeah.

I was bawling, never cried more in my life
since.
To this day because

Mm.

was going on.
You know, the world fell down.
I had no idea what was going onand For you, that's how much you
love casper.
And the one thing I learned whenI was trying to work through my
feelings the grief the cries wehave it's not sad.
It's love.
We can't express That's how deepthe love was for you and casper
and You know, since, you know,my dad passed a couple years ago

(01:10:00):
and I still miss him sometimes,but I love my dogs to death.
I have two.
I have Dukes and Layla.
And the reason why I try toinclude them in my journey is
the same reason why you'retrying to include Casper.
Because they're family.
They've been there when I wasdepressed.
They've been there when Icouldn't get up.
They've been there when I wascrying, when I was about to kill
myself.
They've been there in my darkesttimes, no matter what.

It's

And they still love me to this day.
And for you, it's the same thingwith Casper.
I feel you right there.

He'd always be there.
He was, It was hard this pastChristmas because it was our
first Christmas without him.
He was always like our littleguy where, Uh, I don't even know
how he picked it up, but hewould learn how to open presents
without eating the paper.

Yeah, yeah,

He would just, he always was just so excited like
we would have to tell him youcan't open the presents till
midnight because like I don'tknow if that's the same with
your your your family where Weopen presents at midnight
instead of like waiting till thenext day on Christmas Day

right.

But Prior to that, you know, family's always busy,
you know, everybody's alwaysaround, but he was always there
for me.
And I really wanted to make likeholiday cards.
And this was like seven or eightyears back because he lived to
almost 15.
I was like, well, you know, theperson who, the, the, the, he
was basically, we called him ourlittle umano, so little human.

(01:11:26):
He was always a person who wasthere and ready to do anything
that I wanted to do.
So, we, I, I started a littleholiday card tradition of just
me and Casper.
Literally just me and Casper andit grew into this tradition that
just kept growing and growing.
It used to be just like 25 cardsuntil like this past year we

(01:11:49):
were like doing probably, uh,120 cards, um, sending out.
Um, Because it just, he, hejust, we would always try to
like one, one up ourselves, makethese little studio sets.

(01:12:09):
He would have all these littleclothes, uh, cause he loved
dressing up and he just lovedbeing able to be a part of that
journey.
I would make those holiday cardsand also give them away to like
my community as well too, causethey loved being able to like be
included and, you know.

(01:12:30):
It's some of the memories thatI'll, I'll definitely never
forget for sure,

Yeah, and your community got to kind of
experience, you know, Casper intheir own way through you.
And

Yeah,

just take it day by day.
You enjoy the memories andyou're happy you have them, but
it's okay to feel sad aboutthat.
It's normal because you lovedthem so much.

Mm hmm.
Oh, I would tell chat likewhenever I would have to talk
about him.
I was like I chat will tell youI think I'm doing pretty good
right now with only a little bitof tears Like I'm you know,
there's there's good days.
There's bad days of being ableto to talk about him.
But like I I've never gonna likemy feelings or emotions.
I always want to just be real Solike even if it's a hard topic

(01:13:15):
to talk about I will talk aboutit,

Yeah, of course, of course.
Now, the last thing I want totalk about with this podcast
interview is I know you got togo to Japan.
And I think that was for yourhoneymoon, if I'm not mistaken?

was for my honeymoon.
Yes.
Oh my god.
That was the most life changingexperience ever Yeah,

What all did you get to do going to the home
place of Pokemon?
Of

in general.
Has always been like a dreamdestination of mine probably
since like middle school,honestly, I've of course Love
the games, but also love theculture love the food love anime
manga anything that came throughthat like i've been so like
inspired and like by so muchthat came through japan that it
was just Like a place that Ireally wanted to visit and also

(01:14:05):
living near like DC like we getto I get to go like almost Every
year to like to see the cherryblossoms.
I will love seeing that.
I know that comes from there,too And of course at this point
in time when we get to go there,I'm like, well, I Can't wait to
go to as well a as many foodplaces as possible.
But B, mean go to as manyPokemon places as

course.
Yeah, you got to.

it's so cool like Japan was just like one of those
I mean i've I don't want to saylike I felt at home but because
it was of course like you're ina world where everybody's
talking a different language,but also like It felt kind of
like Welcoming if you're tryingto speak it, you know They're
they they feel happy of youtrying to help you like bridge
that boundary as well, too Howmuch, like, different, like,

(01:14:51):
games or anime or, wereintegrated into their community
was super cool to see, too.
I guess an example is we went tosee, go to the Skytree, which
was such a cool experience.
But, at the same time, they evenhad an exhibition for Jujutsu
Kaisen, which is like, So cool.

Yeah.
Yeah.

it's like, okay, just like I put like a
sightseeing with anime at thesame time.
So cool.
I got to visit.
I think about eight differentPokemon centers and all of them
are so different in their ownway.
There's

actual same thing.
How do they how are theydifferent?
I guess.

There's a good chunk of plushies that could be
the same but A good chunk ofPokemon centers will might have
their own specific, Pikachusthat they will sell there.
Each of the the like Pokemoncenters also had like their own
like Specific statues ordedications to like certain like
Pokemon.
So like Skytree's Pokemon centerhad Rayquaza in the front.

Of course.
Yeah, Skytree makes sense.

had a a conductor Pikachu for the Tokyo Station
one.

Oh, I see what you're saying.
Okay.

they just redid the one in Nagoya, which is like
Celebi themed.
so that one was really cool.
So some Pokemon centers alsohave a special pin as well, too.
the Kyoto one was also supercool where they had Lugia and Ho
Oh as well, because with itbeing Kyoto, so like some of
them were like inspired by thecertain areas that you would go

(01:16:21):
to.
Shibuya had Mewtwo in the, inthe capsule, basically, which
was so cool.

Yeah.

and, certain, centers would have a little
more, special things than otherslike I think the Pokemon DX one,
Tokyo DX, had a wall of justkind of like a nostalgia wall of
like the beginning of like thePokemon stuff to the end and
that was super cool to see youcould go to right alongside it
would be the which I did end upbeing able to secure

(01:16:52):
reservations

Oh, yeah.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Those are the harder ones to getinto.

Five days in a row till 5 a.
m.
I think it was

Dang.
No sleep for a week.
That's crazy.

Yeah to try to get those tickets was much I would
do it again.
I would do it again.
Like all the food was so good Iremember the day that we even
like got there it was like thelast day before we were gonna
hop on the train to go to Kyotonext and And We got there a

(01:17:25):
little early and I was liketaking some b roll because I was
trying I was attempting to dosome vlogging.
I turned around and I was like,Pikachu I was like, so I see
literally Pikachu they're takingpictures with people and i'm
like I know kyle went to go intothe bathroom and I was just like
texting kyle Pikachu I was like,I don't know if he's leaving,

(01:17:48):
you know i'm, like i'm gettinglike a little teary eye because
i'm like I just got i'm beatingmy hero Oh, man, being just like
Surrounded by I mean, yeah,there's like kids as well, but
like just people like my age toojust like a kid surrounded with
all this.
Just feeling like I'm literallyat peace with myself

I'm at home, I've reached Pallet Town.

I mean the integration of like having all
that and then on top of justlike the culture the The
architecture and all that wasjust such a cool experience I
felt like I was kind of likeTransported into like a pokemon
world, but not really becauseit's not like pokemon all around
but it's like this is whatinspired pokemon like Going

(01:18:36):
around being able to just likemostly like walk around to
different places or Theirtransportations were really
good.
I mean most there you see peoplegoing on like motorbikes or
stuff like that I very much missand I really wish I could go
back soon.
So I Literally came we came backwith We, we brought an empty

(01:18:57):
suitcase and we came back withlike two extra filled suitcases?
I don't remember.
Um,

You stuffed your suitcases, yeah.

customs was like, what are you bringing back?
And I was just like, Pokemonplushies?

They gotta be used to it.
They have to.

I was like, I, let me see if I can find the
picture.
Um, I've shown chat this plentyof times.
Um, where is it?
Oh yeah, I guess I can show yousome of the ones.
Like, so like, there's a, ohshoot, where is it?

That's it.

the,

Ooh.

one, which was super cool.
Each one would have like, uh,you'd find the one that had like
a sign, was signed by like, um,the

Aw, I like that.
Yes.

Nah, those were like in Kyoto, um, Oh, Pikachu!

Yeah.

Dude, and then there was like, I was so happy!
I

Aw.

happy! Um, We even got to go to the Nintendo Museum
in Kyoto, which like, On top ofit having everything Of like
nintendo.
It's just like having a hugepunk punk punk.
It's

The fuck?

It was having a huge part of like the pokemon's
history as well, too Had so manyprototypes and stuff like that.
It was so cool to just see whereeverything began I also ended up
getting a few shinies while Iwas over in Japan, so I was
super happy.
Even got, uh, speaking of, uh,leaf green,

Oh, yeah, the original Pokemon green.

we got heart gold Japanese and emerald Japanese
while we were over there as

Oh, dang.
Okay.
It's crazy.
Because I used to think Pokemongreen was a myth back in my when
I was younger.
I was like, there's no Pokemongreen.

It doesn't exist!

Little did I know I was wrong.

Besides the one with the holding the heart,

Oh my gosh.

we collected from different places.

is so great.
Oh, wow.

we had to get one of the special ones.
Each ones like, there's, like,they had ones from the oh, ah,
speak, um, HETA, HETA Airportfrom Nagoya P to Chef Pikachu,
sky Tree Conductor, Osaka,Kyoto.

gosh, that's awesome.
Sounds like a good time.

yeah, and of course we got a few other like
pushy stuff and things for otherpeople as well too.
So.

Well, Ada, that is the interview.
I want to finish on this lastquestion.
And in honor of Casper, I wantyou to give me your dream dog
Pokemon team.
What six Pokemon would youbring?

Oh God dream dogs.
Ooh I mean, it's one of them hasto be Growlithe.
If I could like double up itwould be Growlithe and then
Arcanine

You can, it's your team.

so Growlithe, Arcanine.
I Also would love Mightyena Iwould say Manectric Uh, I was
trying to think what uh, oh, oh,oh, yeah, I would say what's it
called?
What's it

It's your last one, so.

Yeah, It's it's not the midnight liking rock
it's the one that's uh, the

or Dusk?

one.
Yeah,

The Dusk or the Dawn one?

Is which one's the one that's like a sunset like
time that you have

Dusk.

Dusk.
So dusk one.
Yeah.
'cause it's got orange on it, soyeah.

Awesome.
Ada.
Thank you for coming on as thepokeball turns before you go.
If people want to check out yourcontent, if they want to connect
with you, where can they go?
By all means, please plug away.

Yeah.
No, you can, if you, everyone,some good vibes, some laughs,
some, um, you know, some.
as well in some, whether it be aMario Kart or, or raging against
a a a da

If you want to see Ada get hit by a spike shell
and a red shell.

literally.
but no, um, we, we play, uh, wedo a lot of Pokemon, but we also
love, uh, di diving into othergames as well.
You can check me out on Twitchtv slash a enchilada.
Also, you can find me on thesocials, whether it be Twitter
slash.
Eggs.
Uh, we got Instagram.
We got TikTok.
We got YouTube.
Anything that has Ada Enchilada,you can find me on there.

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