In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by Good Morning Johto, a Pokemon Trainer from Ohio and daily morning podcast hosted by Lanethemain.
Good Morning Johto shares his experience with Pokemon, starting with the video games and Pokemon TCG. During his entire life, Pokemon has remain a significant mainstay throughout his life, branching into fan made games created by the Pokemon community.
Good Morning Johto branches off into his early history into radio and how he started the podcast. He shares the challenges of keeping a daily schedule and gives insight into starting the podcast and the different type of guests he has had on the podcast.
Finally, Good Morning Johto gives his experience for GO Fest in NYC. He shares how welcoming the Pokemon community, particularly Pokemon GO, has been welcoming for him.
Oh yeah, don't miss his favorite breakfast!
Sources
Opening Song: "Forget You" by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay
Connect with Good Morning Johto: Twitter
Connect with David Hernandez: Linktree
E-mail Me: asthepokeballturnspodcast@gmail.com
In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by Good Morning Johto, a Pokemon Trainer from Ohio and daily morning podcast hosted by Lanethemain.
Good Morning Johto shares his experience with Pokemon, starting with the video games and Pokemon TCG. During his entire life, Pokemon has remain a significant mainstay throughout his life, branching into fan made games created by the Pokemon community.
Good Morning Johto branches off into his early history into radio and how he started the podcast. He shares the challenges of keeping a daily schedule and gives insight into starting the podcast and the different type of guests he has had on the podcast.
Finally, Good Morning Johto gives his experience for GO Fest in NYC. He shares how welcoming the Pokemon community, particularly Pokemon GO, has been welcoming for him.
Oh yeah, don't miss his favorite breakfast!
Sources
Opening Song: "Forget You" by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay
Connect with Good Morning Johto: Twitter
Connect with David Hernandez: Linktree
E-mail Me: asthepokeballturnspodcast@gmail.com
My name is David Hernandez, and you're listening to As the Pokeball Turns. Welcome to As the Pokeball Turns. Our journey takes us to Ohio, where we meet a Pokemon trainer whose passion for radio led him to creating a morning show podcast about Pokemon. Monday through Friday, you can hear him bringing daily news for Pokemon Go, the TCG, And sometimes a little Scarlet and Violet as well. His interest in Pokemon goes beyond podcasting and dives into the world of the Pokemon TCG and Pokemon Go. Here is his origin story into the world of Pokemon. He is the host of Good Morning Johto. This is LaneTheMain. Today I'm joined by your favorite morning radio Pokemon host, Lane the Mane. Lane, welcome to the show.
LaneTheMain:Good morning. It's not morning, but I usually start with good morning.
David Hernandez:And that is the interview. Lane, thanks for coming on the show. But before you go, we have to ask the question we ask every one of our guests. What is your favorite breakfast?
LaneTheMain:Oh my goodness. You know what? So I've asked every guest on the show. What their favorite breakfast, you know what I mean? It's a cut. Like everybody has Pokemon questions. Everybody has favorite breakfast. So you had one of the best answers. So if people go back to that, you had a really good one. and here's the thing too. And I know this wasn't the question. Every single guest has had a different answer from all the other guests. when we started, I thought they were all going to be the same, but no, they're all, no, you know what? So we're going to start it off biscuits and gravy with probably sided bacon. Fried eggs with like sriracha, hot sauce, ketchup, and then maybe a waffle. Who knows
David Hernandez:Yeah, that's not a bad. It's like a IHOP
LaneTheMain:yours was a full course meal, right? Like
David Hernandez:Hey, you got to go big or go home,
LaneTheMain:yeah, you went through, like, I'm going to have this and start out with this drink. And then I'm going to go to this one and start out with this one. I'm like,
David Hernandez:I mean, it's breakfast. You know how difficult it is to choose a breakfast with just one? Like, why? You just said breakfast. I was there. Well, he just, he didn't say one breakfast. So I might as well just go for the whole
LaneTheMain:Sure. I think that's the thing too cause I can do like steak and eggs or different things. Like, I, I don't know why, but I'm really. Obsessed with breakfast food, but yeah, I don't know why I love it.
David Hernandez:Trainers, thank you so much for everything that you do, and we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. Good morning Johto, my name is David here at the Goldenrod Radio Tower bringing you your weekday news for Pokemon Go, Pokemon TCG, and sometimes a little bit of Scarlet and Violet. There's so much news to cover, but first, we need to hear the sound of the week. Jeff, what sound do you have for us today?
LaneTheMain:killed it. You can take my job,
David Hernandez:And now it's time for some Pokemon news. Lane, what is your experience with Pokemon? What's the early history of the Pokemon franchise Lane?
LaneTheMain:And I wanted to say this too. I've gotten this question. Jeff is a real person. Jeff is a real individual that I work with in radio that I always give a shout out on the show just cause like, that's the thing, like with me, with radio, but now with my history with Pokemon, I want to say it's not like the basic usual answer, just as a kid got ahold of the games, I believe I probably learned to read off Pokemon. I don't know if a lot of people did during that time.
David Hernandez:Really? How'd this work?
LaneTheMain:Like, because for me. it's really easy whenever we do go tours, because I always pick whatever game I picked. Right? Like really easy. I don't look at the shinies on one. I don't look at the one and the better the other, like the, cause you always have to choose one. I just always choose what game I played. And my first memory is I don't really remember I have blue. I have my name on it. I have like my save file. I have everything there. And I just remember getting so frustrated because I think in my mind, I didn't know what the people were saying. Right. And I'm like, I know that's a pidgey right in my mind and it was like a trial and error thing and then I remember really getting into gold and silver and crystal being like, Oh, I'm now picking up on what the game's supposed to be. So I don't even know. I think I finished first gen years later, but yeah, the one that I really sink my teeth in was Johto. And I think there's a lot of things. It's the one that gave us 16 badges. You know what I mean? It gave us a little after scene. and after that I played every single game and then I skipped one. I, I've only ever skipped one series of games that I just could not finish. Just could not get into.
David Hernandez:You can't leave his hand that way, so which one did
LaneTheMain:So I guess it technically, counts as two and I'll say this before I'd even just play like the main, like I played Trozei and mystery dungeon and ranger. I loved all of those. I have a March birthday and usually the DS games came out with something, right? We didn't get a main series game. We would get something around that time. I remember asking for Trozei and Ranger and the mystery dungeons. And I love them all. And the same with the pinball. I really think they were all, especially Ranger. I have a scratched up screen because of how bad Ranger. you have to do the circles, have to do the circles and I scratched up so much because of the circles, I don't know if this is a hot take, but I really could not finish a black and white. I could not in a lot of people, they love it. Cause that's like the first actually storyline, I guess. And. my wife we were dating at the time. Her first ever Christmas to gift to me was like a black and white two and like a black and white one, which is now I knew you haven't checked like almost 200, 150.
David Hernandez:Oh, they're still sealed.
LaneTheMain:I, I, I maybe one was sealed. One is full complete. Like literally I got it. And here's my reasons.
David Hernandez:You know, Lane, you know, if you hate the game so much, I'll buy it off you for like 10
LaneTheMain:Yeah, like that's, well, for me now, it's one of the first gifts and she always says, of course, it's the she got me, because I'm like, oh, there's a second one. I'll try it. And as of when it came out, I'm, I'm sure this is true. So is it's the least amount of new Pokemon that we've got into a game? Like dex wise.
David Hernandez:No, it's the most.
LaneTheMain:Are you sure?
David Hernandez:We got 160 from the Black and White series. The least one was, I believe, if it wasn't, Kalos, it would have been maybe another generation.
LaneTheMain:See, I love Kalos. I thought it was like, I guess that's what I didn't like to. early on, we didn't just get all the new ones, right? Like they really trickled And for me, I want it to feel like a new game. and I always said one day I'll go back and play it like on a stream or something. And I love the ROM hacks. I'm really, really big into ROM hacks. And that's still just like, I could not beat black and white. And I know people are really, I met the voice of in and I could not bring up like, Hey, I could never finish that. I never
David Hernandez:voice, voice of N from the anime.
LaneTheMain:Yeah, the anime, the American voice actor, and he did, I was more talking about him doing, Quacksly, than N, cause I thought it was so crazy about that, like, to do a Pokemon voice and not a person's voice.
David Hernandez:You said you do romhacks. So what is it about romhacks that appeals to you?
LaneTheMain:Because it's fresh, I think that's what like with cultures and cuisine, like I'm all into the new stuff and I literally bought a device for traveling, and you can download on an SD card, all the ROM hacks. you know, I bet you I've played probably a dozen to 2000 rom hacks. I love rom hacks because it is new, right? Like the fakie mom, the different things. I remember that's the first time when I played a rom hack where they used H M's as a key item and not as like an HM, like a, like a, Bidoof or you use one to keep them all, that's the
David Hernandez:Oh Yeah, before it became like Tauros and the
LaneTheMain:Yes. Yes. Yes. Like, I remember seeing it in a ROM hack they did it with one of the, like, you could ride a ride horn or ride something. Right. And I'm like, oh man, I'm playing this ROM hack. I'm like, man, that would be an incredible idea. Like, I never even thought about like, they used blow up lapras as like, you used it as, and they're like, The waves took you there. You know what I mean? it's a chance to do new things or like, if you like more, gritty, like a Darkrai cult is one or like they add a type where there's plutonium or, you know what I mean? It just something new and fresh, but still something that's so familiar, to your Pokemon brain.
David Hernandez:It's what people have always wanted Pokemon to kind of expand into all of them They ever well because they have their target audience They've Pokemon to address more of the not the coming of age, but getting into adult kind of themes when it comes
LaneTheMain:I think Arceus did that to a point and I still have that upstairs. I'm still like on the dad gaming of like, I'll get to it in five years. But that's, I think that's what like the space really can do and these people spend like five or six years creating these free games, right? Like of a parody law type of situation.
David Hernandez:don't make a dime either because they
LaneTheMain:don't make dime.
David Hernandez:they would get shut down
LaneTheMain:Yeah, it's like a parody law and like, they get to like go through like a free use type of thing. And yeah.
David Hernandez:What's one of your favorite ROM hacks?
LaneTheMain:Oh man. Insurgence is really good. So what they do is instead of adding like full fakie mon and full, what they do is the premise It's darker. They've switched all the typings. instead of Bulbasaur being, okay, let's say Squirtle. Squirtle's now a fighting dark type, right? So they did experiments on them. So a lot of typing switched. and there is like 15 new ones where like, I think Charizard's like a skeleton. So I think he's ghost dark or something. Maybe he's Ghostfire, and they have Megas for these two, but then the main story is, like, Giratina, Darkrai, and all these have cults, and the, like, almost Digi Jest and each have, like, a Celebi and a Mew, and you're getting the kids that have these destined mythicals. To fight, it sounds so cool like you're trying to meet these other kids that have these hidden mythicals to take down these cults, that literally sacrifice people and want to take over. And like, the beginning scene is your dreams are being eaten from Gengar. So you don't remember anything where you came from because cult captured you and everything. And
David Hernandez:Is it like amnesia almost?
LaneTheMain:yeah, so that's what it was is the amnesia because Gengar just ate basically your brain, like, or your memories and everything. And you're just trying to like get everybody together and shaming and all these like wonderful other people. And then along the way still have that like new stuff. And cause a lot of ROM hacks will just like switch up the starters and have their stuff and, but no res insurgence is the big one. That's a big one
David Hernandez:Well, Lane, thanks for coming on the show. You've been a wonderful guest. But before you go, I have to ask every question we ask every guest who comes onto the show. What is your favorite breakfast?
LaneTheMain:So. my favorite breakfast now I've been really getting into oatmeal. I think oatmeal is like a, low quick breakfast. I like that on the go. I just named maybe 10 minutes ago, if I have amnesia, a really, really unhealthy breakfast. So when I feel like it's too unhealthy, I go like an acai or like a full like. Uh, the
David Hernandez:it's okay to be unhealthy. I mean, you don't have to be healthy all the time.
LaneTheMain:problem is I'm healthy. None of the time I remember because you've been in almost every single time. Like, I don't just call it one show zoom call. I just say it's a zoom call of friends and I was really scared because of like how much we were going to walk last year, that I was going to be pooped. And I wasn't too bad. the blisters on my feet said otherwise, but I'm like, I don't do this. Like, this is not my normal thing, but yeah, that's the too much unhealthy breakfast in the, in the Appalachia Pokemon trainer, which there's not a lot of us.
David Hernandez:I mean, oatmeal's pretty good. It's underrated, I feel like, as a breakfast item. You don't hear many people really say, like, oh, I like oatmeal, it's just, it's there kind of
LaneTheMain:because when it's at restaurants, it's just bland oatmeal, but not like when it's at home, like your brown sugar, your, apples and cinnamon. You know what I mean? Like there's always like, I do two healthy meals a day and then I have one that I just go nuts. And I know that's not how it works, but. That's how we're starting it out.
David Hernandez:Hey, it's called progress. you know, you eventually work your way there.
LaneTheMain:Sure. and then I go to places like when we, like, when I go to all these out of town trips and then just eat like a crazy person, you're in a new city. It's like Christmas. You don't want to like be on a diet during that time.
David Hernandez:Oh no, definitely. Thanksgiving and Christmas, well, Thanksgiving if you're in the states, is one of the worst times to try to do a diet. It's just impossible. I mean, you have to have the willpower of a god, I feel like.
LaneTheMain:Well, yeah. And it's like a special thing. And I don't want to be that person. That's like, Oh man, sorry. I'm on a, diet. Like, no, I'm like, I'm just going to eat whatever.
David Hernandez:Well, Lane, thanks for coming on the show. Trainers, thank you so much for everything that you do, and we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. Good morning, Johto. My name is David here at the Goldenrod Radio Tower. Wait, I feel like I've done this, Lane.
LaneTheMain:Maybe it
David Hernandez:seem familiar?
LaneTheMain:Hey, if you do it every day for like a year and a half almost you got it
David Hernandez:Do you ever go to a point to where you're like, I think I did an episode today, and you're just not too sure? Because I feel like we've done this already.
LaneTheMain:There's sometimes where I feel like I've repeated my intro a bunch
David Hernandez:Really?
LaneTheMain:why don't I just record it and then put it up in the beginning?
David Hernandez:That's a good question. Why don't you just have a
LaneTheMain:I Think I say that every day. I
David Hernandez:just like to, Oh my God. So you've recorded every single episode raw or brand
LaneTheMain:Oh, a thousand percent. And that was the thing too. So like, it really was like, I went to college, I went into like professional radio, I did all this stuff. I always said when I go on other shows, I dropped like the wrestling, like the, aura of me actually being in Joe town, like I record every single Sunday through Thursday. this is one thing too, that they taught us. And it's like the weather. You can't pre record the weather because if you do, there's a big chance you can get it wrong. So I don't want to record all my shows for Sunday because with Pokemon go new news comes out almost every single day. so literally every single night my sleep schedule is awful. I wait until almost the last minute and then, okay, all the news is done now to get ready for tomorrow. and I've done that for, since December of 22.
David Hernandez:Have you ever, like, slept and just say good morning Johto and just say it in your sleep at this point? Like, you said how
LaneTheMain:there was one time I got up at 2 a. m. Like I'm so committed to it and I've done it in the road. Like I've done it, like I've taken my recording set up with me and I know this is the thing too, cause someone taught me this. Like, I think it was RTC that taught me you got to take a break. you got to take a little mental health. Like you've got to take like a week, like so holidays or something just to like. Revitalize you right and I think the podcasters do that really well when we go like away And then that's when all the video people are like what's a break. is what I have to video everything like that So no, I've probably I'm trying to think of how many days off I've taken off it's probably like 10 days or something out
David Hernandez:Yeah, it's not many.
LaneTheMain:yeah. Cause I take the week vacation that I went to Mexico to try to get a halucha. and then like, even when I'm sick here and there, I at least try to post something. but I literally, that's what I wanted to do is I said, like, so many people put up like weekly content, nobody does like, 10 minute dailies. like I said, you're pooping or shower content. And that's what I really wanted to, that's literally what it was. I know of, I won't say his name. I know a creator that was listening to me every single day when he was in the shower and he would do it like before he pooped, but he had it timed perfectly that he would know. For how long my shows usually are that he could start. And when it was stopping, how long it took him, that when my show was over, he was like, okay, lane's ending. Now I need it in my shower and everything. He told me that. Right.
David Hernandez:That's impressive that your show can measure people's bowel movements. I'm really impressed by that.
LaneTheMain:I remember, I think you were one of the people that when I hit like 15 or 20 minutes, you're like, whoa, dial it back there. I know a few of our friends and I'm like, Hey, I'm so sorry. Like sometimes there's 20 minutes hit, but usually I'm like an eight to 12 minutes of just everything. Like, and I have to have it like that was in the beginning. I'm like, okay, I have to split it up through every single day cause you just can't cover the same thing every single day until Friday. I try to fill a void. That's not in our space and I know Kent Pescatore said that he was going to make a knockoff of my show one day. So I'm still on that.
David Hernandez:Still waiting.
LaneTheMain:Yeah, still waiting. He said he was going to get Adam to do it every day, and Adam's like, Good luck.
David Hernandez:good morning Kanto.
LaneTheMain:Oh man, it would be like, yeah. Good morning Professor Network, and I'm like, do it. Do it!
David Hernandez:Well, we got so much news to cover lane, but first I got to ask, like, what's your experience with the Pokemon
LaneTheMain:Man, so, It's something that's so different. And I feel like that's like when we all talk and everything and hang out, I try not to talk too much about it, but I have what I call my, what I thought my dream job would be when I was younger. Like, this is really what I wanted. and I thought I would do it, do radio forever. But what I do is I work at a TCG store, for like Pokemon magic, Digimon, one piece, all the different stuff in like a comic book store. And then also of course, like This is not like a for real, for real thing, but some games have, you have to have the, staff trained in that game. So like, if you sell that product, you need to know how to teach someone that product. before that I knew I really liked Pokemon TCG and getting them into a little bit, this is what I said to, I'm better at the TCG than I am go. But for whatever reason, I do a daily go show. So I've been playing card games. Gosh, probably like for 15 years, it's like been my main hobby, like other card game, but I have just a love of competitive card games and Pokemon has always been the best economy. like it's a good game that I don't have to have like a mental, break. I can like eat a pizza, hang out. and it's just one of those things of, you can just play a lot of really cool cards, I guess.
David Hernandez:I was curious. You said like, you thought you'd be working the dream job. So is it not like what you'd hope to be as a car collector? Cause I feel like be a car collector in a car shop, like that's kind of the ultimate go as a kid.
LaneTheMain:Yes. So that was because, okay, I wanted to, but it's like the same thing. Like everybody says is like, will it provide for yourself or a family? Or you want to mean could I actually do it and not be like a star? What is it? They call it like a starving museum, starving
David Hernandez:Starving artist. Yeah, Oh Sorry. Musician.
LaneTheMain:Exactly. That of like, man, that would be really cool. And. I went into radio and I literally, it was so funny. I did the morning show and I would get off at 10 a. m. And then my wife wouldn't get off to like seven or eight. So I'd send every single day in a card like, Hey, my job was done for the day. I can go do whatever. And then finally I learned like, Oh man, like These guys are great and not just like grinding and making money and like providing for them family because this was the thing and you said it so perfectly and you didn't mean to I always told if You collect comics or cards or whatever open a bar if you collect guitars open a car So you want to mean because the way you said it is like I didn't want my hobby to turn into my job Right, But that was a fear of mine early, early on was that's my escape, that is my, we've seen a lot of people do that in the Pokemon community as a whole, even like in with this, but it was, if that's my escape and my escape comes to my job, what's going to be my escape. And so that's how Pokemon go was born for me more is I still did it every day. Still done it every day. So really lean into TCGs, but then like on my lunch breaks, I'll go play go. Like I can talk about it with customers. I can go do, but when my day's off or my other things, like I'll go play go, but yeah, like, when your hobby becomes your job to not make it still. And my, my boss told me then he was like, don't worry. It won't like, I promise. And I swear I've been at that job now for like almost four plus years and hanging out years before, like, like almost like an intern. Yeah, no, it's fine. never burn out. Never. Cause you can always like switch it up in so many ways. No, it's fine.
David Hernandez:when it comes to the Pokemon TCG you said it's accessible it's cheap that's what's kept you engaged with it.
LaneTheMain:Yeah. Because like you look at boxes, you look at card prices, you look at all this stuff and it blows you away, but competitive decks are not like that. Like at all, 50 bucks, you can get almost like probably if not the best deck or really, really close. And that's if you don't have the stuff already. And then. So what other online TCGs do, or don't do that Pokemon does is for every pack you buy, you get a pack of online cards. Well, that pack of online cards is like literally a penny or two. So if I want to buy 500 codes, it's 50 bucks. And that gets me basically the complete set. So if I need to spend 10 or get people like to donate, cause I know collectors that throw those cards out and that's where it gets really good too. So the really, this is usual. This is 90 percent of this game. The high, high end cards, like the big fancy ones are not playable ones. They're garbage. which means they want to get rid of the terrible cards, which usually are the playable cards. And then the. TCG people are like, okay, I want to build more decks and stuff. So when I pull this big, awful playable card, I want to get rid of it to make more decks. So it's this own circle of its own thing. like the Umbreon Moonbeer on from a volume says it's like 500. Hasn't seen play has not touched play. Really? It's been almost like three years. Nothing. 500. the most popular usually are like Charizard, Pikachu, Eevee evolutions, Dragonite, Gyarados, you know what I mean? You could probably like name like
David Hernandez:the OGs, anything you think of popular Pokemon, it's probably gonna be worth a lot.
LaneTheMain:Yeah. And I've never had one that shocked me. Cause I can't remember who said this out of our friend group, but someone said like every single Pokemon is someone's favorite Pokemon.
David Hernandez:Yes.
LaneTheMain:I've always thought of that. I'm like, Oh man, that's so true. that's why I'm like, man, someone may not like this, but Hey, it's somebody's favorite.
David Hernandez:When it comes to like the TCG side, do you like to collect the entire collection or do you collect certain cards? Like, how do you,
LaneTheMain:So I do more on digital now. I do a lot more because like if I'm in the store, this is what I tell people when I hire it. Like when I I'm on the hiring board for them or hiring team, it's like. You have to give the fun, right? Like I'm helping new trainers get into the game. I'm giving away, I'm teaching people. And then I'm running the tournament as a tournament organizer. so most of the time I'll have like paper cards, but I usually go like, if it's a Pokemon I like or something, I'll get like a, an alternate or something. I like it. Like I, I of course pick ludicolous. but a lot of it, I do digital. I really, really like doing a digital plus it is cheap.
David Hernandez:Since we're on that topic, what are your thoughts on the new Pokemon TCG they announced recently?
LaneTheMain:so someone explained this to me like Hearthstone, Marvel snap dual links? Have you ever heard of it? Like any of So someone said they hope it's that version of that. Pokemon's already. And a lot of the Japanese games are best at one games, not like the Americanized best of three. so most of the time Pokemon or your locals is 35, is it 30 or 35 minutes? Close to that. It's already short. Some other games are 50 minutes, 60 minutes, 110. but with Pokemon, it's already short. I love Marvel snap and some of these other games like hearthstone, because there are three to five minute games, no matter what you're in and out, people's attention span is not like, I'm really big on capturing people's attentions, spans and I think pocket is going to be a similar version of that. Is that, that's what I think, right? They already showed it's going to be the TCG, but not really the TCG. so if it's a quicker version, I want to see what it offers me differently than me playing on live.
David Hernandez:you don't care for like the new art to where you can kind of immerse yourself into it. Cause that's my favorite part. I look forward to seeing kind of how the art comes out.
LaneTheMain:So this is what I say to, and this is where it really gets back to, I'm really love playing Pokemon go, right? Like I know it's an incredible game. I tell people, I believe it's one of the greatest games ever created because it changed the sphere of gaming for that one summer plus on and whatever takes away from me playing go now, if I'm on a route or something, what I'll do is like, I'll let the go plus plus, and I will pull up like a quick card game or something to pass the time while I listen to. A bunch of different shows. I do think some of the AR stuff is cool, but that's where like the NFT, like if I could trade or someone like what does it offer me? So this is how I think about food places. What does it offer me that this food place doesn't offer,
David Hernandez:facts. facts.
LaneTheMain:always said, every food place has to have a thing, right? Like what are you known for? You just can't be, we're a food place, not to call out any food places, but I have like a list of them that I'm like, what are they good at if they're good at nothing?
David Hernandez:Lane. This is what we need to do. We just need to start a podcast and talk about food
LaneTheMain:I can talk about food every single Max and Hermes was that food place, they got chicken tortilla soup and it changed everything. They made a chicken tortilla soup burger where you poured soup on the burger, you got a side of soup, like they knew they hit gold. I wanted to do, when I was in radio, a daily food review of like me going to all the different food places to try all the different foods.
David Hernandez:Oh
LaneTheMain:My TikTok is formed for all the fast food and like name brand stuff when food drops So I can go get it and try it like at the grocery store and stuff.
David Hernandez:Well Layne, that is an interview. Thank you for coming on the show. before you go, we have to ask you the question we ask every one of our guests. What is your favorite breakfast?
LaneTheMain:So I'm obsessed with cereals that whenever a new cereal comes out I love like the churro cereal the French toast cereal. I'll give you in the poo ones a try. Actually, hot take of mine, cereals to me are more of a dessert. I don't know why, but I like them
David Hernandez:I see that. Especially you get those
LaneTheMain:sweeter later. Like late at night, you're like, man, I eat cereal more at night than I ever do in the morning.
David Hernandez:I bet there's some wacko who says that the oatmeal is pretty good, so. I mean cereal's cereal's where at. Yeah. What kind of cereal? Do you have a brand? Trix, Captain Crunch.
LaneTheMain:Um, cinnamon toast has been putting out a lot of different ones that I've really liked. like different, each week I try to like, literally, I'm not joking. There was one where, what was it? It, it popped in your mouth almost like, Pop rocks. Like it was a cereal that had pop rocks in it.
David Hernandez:Ooh, that sounds good
LaneTheMain:I'm not joking. Literally like, this is what I love cooking. I love the different things, but I will watch like this week on new food brands. McDonald's on Thursday is getting a new milkshake. McDonald's on this talk about getting this and watch out for these new name brand cereals coming out. And I'm like, Oh, okay.
David Hernandez:Can I say the most overrated cereal? Just my opinion?
LaneTheMain:Okay.
David Hernandez:Frosted Flakes.
LaneTheMain:Yeah, it's okay. I thought you're going to say Cheerios.
David Hernandez:Well, I mean everybody hates Cheerios, but Frosted Flakes like everybody says it's so good, but it's just like really cornflakes with sugar.
LaneTheMain:I always thought Cheerios was a manufacturer issue. And I always got the one that didn't have enough honey. So I would pour honey on my honey, not Cheerios. Cause I thought they didn't put enough
David Hernandez:See, I could never get into Cheerios or even Honey Nut Cheerios. I just never liked it. So I was always a Captain Crush person and Kix if you remember that back in the day.
LaneTheMain:man cakes was good. Like but what was well, I'm a honey bunch of oats as an old man. Now, that's my like go to, like if I feel like I need to be healthy, but also
David Hernandez:See, I'm a Raisin Bran person. Yeah. Mm
LaneTheMain:like, man, it's one of those things I won't ask for a bowl of raisin brand, but if you hand it to me, I'm like, Oh yeah, it's actually pretty good.
David Hernandez:Trainers, thank you so much for everything that you do, and we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. Good morning, Johto. My name is David here at the goldenrod tower bringing you your weekday news for Pokemon go. I Feel like we've done this Lane.
LaneTheMain:don't think so. I think
David Hernandez:No, this feels this feels familiar I
LaneTheMain:not doing it. So it's great
David Hernandez:I'm not doing it. I don't know,
LaneTheMain:single day. I have to make sure that they're not that they're a little similar but not a hundred percent similar So like one event I may break up into like three days Fridays, you have no idea what you're getting. I don't even know what you're getting. So I know shows, I know people that worked on like shows like Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune. They only film like, I believe two months a year, maybe month and a half for the whole year.
David Hernandez:See, I'm not that I'm not that organized, bro. Like, I'm I'm a one man show. They got people hired, I got two dogs who sleep.
LaneTheMain:I remember like when I started this friend, a friend of both of ours, FishOnAHeater ask me if I was crazy for a day, he's like, are you okay? Like, Oh my God, it'll be fine. And I have had gotten used to my sleep schedule, not being the best because I have gotten like just before I go to bed every single night going to go record the show and I love it.
David Hernandez:you know, when I had Adam on the show, he said, if my show and your show had a baby, it'd be perfect.
LaneTheMain:together We get a big thing That's every time I get a little burnt out. I'm like, okay if I take a break and then I come back just exhilarated.
David Hernandez:Lane, let's talk about your experience with Pokemon Go. So did you first start playing Pokemon Go?
LaneTheMain:similar to everybody's story I'm a day one. Uh, I like the people that aren't day one. Cause I think their experiences were so different, I remember I was literally live on radio I remember hearing about when it was going to launch, right? Like I remember hearing like, it should be this time today, whatever. And I'm literally, it's pretty rude, but I did it anyway. Cause it was still a job. And I would, they would ask me a question just like you're doing. And I'd be on my phone and I was just sitting there. Refreshing to see when Pokemon go could update. I did the same when the first like go plus came out is like the local game stop opened the time my show ended and I sprinted. I'm like, all right, everyone have a good rest of your day. Thank you so much. Bye bye. And I threw my headphones down and I ran out the door, to go get my go plus.
David Hernandez:Oh, wow.
LaneTheMain:you know, I've played every single day. I've only ever missed a week where I took a mental break two years ago. And then last year when I went on the cruise, but that was only like two days. Cause I knew my wife and my family would go on any cruise. So I'm like, okay, what cruise would work out best for Pokemon go? Like, where have I not been to that has a regional or something? So I'm like, okay, if I go to Miami, I can get like a Maractus and a Corsola and maybe something here. And then when I go to Mexico, I had a rule with my family that if you see me running, Do not be alarmed like that was I remember one of our friends also said like he was near it and they're rare then and I accidentally timed it that I was in Mexico during vanilla spawns. I'm like, Oh my gosh, even better. I could get when I got one. that, you know what I mean? It's going to be a, a switch up one year and I don't care, but that was my, thing is like, when I did a beginning, it was just cause it was a cool game. Right. But now that I've had kids now, like my son knows when there was a Pokemon go event, like sweet. We get to go to the park and like, we get to run around and now he's getting to the age where like, he knows how to catch, you know, he did use my master ball on an area dose and. I'm like, Oh, it's fine. And I'm sitting here. I'm like, well, I guess I have a really great area dose now. Um,
David Hernandez:you keep it?
LaneTheMain:I thought I did and I called it master ball. I believe, but no, now it's became like a way for me to actually exercise me to actually like do things cause I know, and we, we probably all hear the same thing is when people are like, Oh, that game's still going on or, Oh, like I played that six years ago or whenever, like, Yeah, like it's still, and got to the point where I run our local community. I get everybody, like we've had so many people that are that one person that they think, and then we all get together. and then like things like New York when you're like, man, this game is thriving. This game is because when you get all the nerds to fly in from all the different places, it's really great. I'm going to tell you, and I'm going to say this, that I really love this game. I love everything about it. I like the walking aspect. I wish I was not as try hard. Cause I would have more to do. but yeah, like, no, I just really think this is one of the greatest games ever created. do.
David Hernandez:What are your favorite ways to play the game? Because you said you are a try hard. So like, do you
LaneTheMain:So I,
David Hernandez:like grind?
LaneTheMain:tried to play, I tried to play competitive. That was the new thing.
David Hernandez:Talking about PVP?
LaneTheMain:yeah, PVP. because I was doing a little bit of it and of course, just like anyone and I get customers like this. I'm like, well, like I, think I'm doing okay. And then you actually try competitive and you're like, I suck. Like I am. Terrible. and some of the things fish was telling me was just a completely different language, and it was nothing on him. It was nothing like it was actually like, doing everything within the PVP, but how I've always done it. Is I'll do PVP as like a palate cleanser, right? like for me, I'm like, Oh, I caught a four star. Well, I guess I could try it out. Or if Ludicolo is good, or like, if there's a week that something's good, I'll be like, Oh, I'll really play this. I really liked shiny hunting, but I really like just whenever the new thing comes out, like, you know what I mean? Sharkadet or whatever. I'm like, Oh man, that's the hunt. and they do that every single week. So every single week I have A hunt.. you know what I mean? And like, I don't count it on shiny's. I don't count it on anything. and I also, what I really like is like, let's say my brother or someone's sick while I feel double to go get that for them. Like they, you know what I mean? Like, so when I led, when I lead our community events, like I'll go to New York and be like, okay guys, I'm going to trade. I traded 50 Sigilyphs plus last year. Like, it's almost like a sourdough. Like I'm giving, like, this is the things like you don't have to go do these. Like if you're a rural trainer, like, let us go help you to go do this and all these different things. But no, I really do. Like I love every different aspect. Even if GBL is just, I've been to more regionals. I've been to so many regionals and nationals and I just go to cheer on the homies. and I'm, I'm a supportive parent that I'm like, you know what? I don't know what's going on. but I love it. I don't know what's happening. Chris from go cast and I did that last year at nationals. We're Like
David Hernandez:Mhmm.
LaneTheMain:We're not doing it, but you're awesome. but that was it. So yeah, I'm really going to even do more TCG once here in the next month. I want to like stream more TCG. but yeah, go, if you are GBL, you're a genius in my mind. If you, if you grind in there, you people are geniuses.
David Hernandez:Lane, you bring a unique perspective that I want to highlight. You know, you work at a comic store and a lot of PVP people I've seen, have struggled to try to bring tournaments to the card stores saying card stores usually say they're not worth it. What advice could you give from your perspective working as a comic book, what advice would you give to somebody who's, is a PVP player trying to start a tournament at a local comic store?
LaneTheMain:This is such an incredible question that I don't even know how incredible, you know, how many you may have just asked this question, what's so cool about this is I think both the shop and the player need each other and they don't know it really yet at this time or they're getting close to it. So for me. we're in like 10, 000, 15, 000 people living in the area, but we still have in our tri state, like 150 to 200 trainers that play pretty frequently. And whenever I bring up go or for GBL, and they're just like, you know what? Like it's something I want to try it or different things, but what's hard. And this is what's so difficult about it is that. When you go to the store, there is nothing Pokemon Go wise. They can give Like If you go like the store and us as a store workers is like, what would a trainer playing Pokemon go? What, right? Like, if you don't collect the cards, we got nothing. we don't get codes from night. This is where the balance between Niantic and, TPCI really is the balance where, TPCI really pushes GBL and competitive, but The only thing that I know and all of go that you can get in battle wise is the world's trophy. cause I said, even they could give us some, magic together and other things do this. Give me a random cosmetic that's in the game already. Right. Give me a pair of shoes. Give me a scarf. I don't care. Give me something where if you don't, and this is where the trainers that usually do do it, and I know plenty of PVP people that are like, I play go, but I also collect that's where it is for the cards that I could go in and then the shop offers you a box or offers you something that give you as a compensation. Other than that, I can give you tons of sun chips and barbecue chips and some Coke, right? Like, you know what I mean? Like, I feel bad love, like I can give you a gift card, but I don't know how for you to use it, but then. that's the step for the trainer, but if the trainer just wants to get to a store and everything stores have to fire Pokemon go monthly tournaments, or even weekly tournaments to get their way spot. So they have the, usually their tour, their store, a Pokestop but to get the special one that says like you're a Pokemon store, you're an official, you now have to have, starting from January of this year, monthly Pokemon go tournaments. A staff member like me, I'm like, please come to our store. Like, I want this back. You want this back? we can sit and spend Pokestops all day. Put when Lura parties were a big thing. I'm like, we can sit there and hang out. But a lot of families are really getting into it. I think what the struggle is, Back to the sourdough, the game doesn't tell you how to play GPL, right? Like the game does not tell you about IVs or any party building or a AAB or ABB or anything like that. you have to take that step further to go to videos or different things and then go to the store, where I can buy a TCG deck that teaches me all the rules, teaches me everything. but then go into the store. I think there's a lot of store places that I knew that don't know how to do it. Like I went to a lot of, like LGS is LCS is that they're like, man, we're really in to go, but we don't play anymore. So that person may be you. Like if you have a local area that doesn't have a trainer, that's in front of it. Take it, grab life by the feet or whatever. I didn't want to say journals be the person being the person that heads it up, I've always saw that because if nobody else is going to do it, how many other people want to, that just can't or won't, and then you'll be surprised on how many other people like start popping up, even if it's five or six. So even if your store doesn't know how to do it. and I'm near a place like an hour and a half away that like have, I believe, like a monthly 20, 30 people for GBL who, who knew Lexington, Kentucky had like a, giant place for GBL thanks, Wildcat dad. like I said, it's a sourdough when you have someone to spread out that knowledge. That he can teach and those people teach and then it grows that way. but yeah, like just go to your store, see what you need to do and, maybe become that person, even if you don't know too much.
David Hernandez:I want to pivot next to your in person experiences because I believe you went to your first go fest in New York City Is that correct?
LaneTheMain:Yeah. And I don't know why you guys let me do it.
David Hernandez:we're gonna stop you. I
LaneTheMain:Well, because we all room together and you're like, hi stranger. Nice to meet you. Hope you're not a murderer. Like. Like you
David Hernandez:check my background.
LaneTheMain:we all, I always get really like, it's in me emotional about this. When I started this, I come from a big magic, the gathering background. I got the idea of good morning Jojo. Cause I've, I do tech talks every day for a magic, the gathering company. And I'm like, Oh, I can just do that to Pokemon. So I knew a lot of magic creators and different people that I could kind of bounce ideas off. When Good Morning Johto started, I knew nobody, not a soul, not a local person, not in one person that just streamed. Not one person that I'm like. I'm going in this alone and all I knew was I was a fan of the shows and I'm like, okay. And it started where I'm like, Oh, Lord up has the Monday night zoom calls. I'm like, it's the, how do you make friends? Right? Like what is the formula, to
David Hernandez:You new kid in class. You're trying to figure out like, where do I belong? How do I make a friend? So I ain't
LaneTheMain:I feel like I just moved to a new school. I knew everything from this other game that people don't care about. And that, you know what I mean? No one wants to hear like this other stuff. So I'm like. Okay. I'm here and I want to try and, the group just opened with open arms. I got, I remember I started that January and I'm like, Hey, I have this little show, like, I'm just here to learn. and then by may we're like, all right, you going with us? We're staying. I'm like. January, February, March, I, I even said on that show last year, I'm like, I'll go to a go fest one day, maybe three or four years. I said this in 2023, like maybe I'll go one year.
David Hernandez:oh wow, so you weren't even committed that
LaneTheMain:No, no, no. Because I didn't think I knew my show was different. And I knew my show, um, like I w it was, like I said, I was that new kid. And I'm like, maybe one time, like if I really take a year or two to save the money, we can get out because I was thinking in my brain, like I'll buy a hotel room by myself. I'll do, you know what I mean? Like I'll go to GO Fest by myself. Like I did not think of, I would go with a group, especially in 2023, and I remember telling my wife, I'm like, Hey, maybe in 2024, 2025, like I'll start going or maybe like, we'll just see how everything's going. And then by like April, you got it. Or may, I think it was a later release that last year. Cause uh, it was an August and the price was great. You know what I mean? Like we're all like, man, this is feasible. Like it was something that I'm like, okay. Even if I drive or fly or something like. What is this? I didn't know what to expect. And I'm in this, I believe you were the, you were one of the first people I saw when I opened, if we could call it an Airbnb where we stayed, I opened the door and I'm like, Oh, I know you from zoom. I know you from your show. And it was like, I was the new kid in school that everybody opened up to like, I was no longer just a fan of your guys shows. I became a friend of these shows Me listening to all these different creators, you included make me like start my own show. And I thought that's where it just ended. Right? Like one day I'll talk to these people one day. And then I'm like sitting on a couch drinking, whatever, like hanging out, like fart burping, walking 60 miles. You know what I mean? Like, I never thought it would go from fan. I thought it would be more. And then it was just like, Oh no, we're like, you better come next year. You better come. You know what I mean? So no, it was GoFest last year was not even on the radar.
David Hernandez:Last question about GoFest. If somebody was on the fence about going, what would you tell them?
LaneTheMain:man. I didn't tell you this, but I was almost on the fence last year.
David Hernandez:I mean, it sounds like you were on the fence. You were on the other side of the fence.
LaneTheMain:what I thought was. Is the money worth it, right? Like even with us paying what we were paying, which was very good, very, very, I think it was very good. what is something that it would feel good enough to me to that? That's what in my mind was, for me playing there, what would they offer me? Like, is an Aerodactyl with a satchel enough. Like, is that enough to be. Me paying what? I'm like a flight, a hotel, you know what I mean? Like maybe the staying with someone that may like look at me while I sleep. Not pointing the fingers to you, you know what I mean, like it was,
David Hernandez:Hey, I was upstairs, man.
LaneTheMain:you were upstairs that that's what it was, was I was really on the fence of like, okay, one, it was financially speaking, two was what can Go Fest offer you? One, it was not even if you don't know people there, because we all said like we walked a whole day with like 20 people. I know where I'm staying this year because of where we spend a majority of our time last year. And I swear, if we don't do the same things that we did last year, they're like, Hey, we spent a lot of time here last year. Well, let's go the opposite side of New York city. I'm going to be mad for you're like, you know what? We spent too much time at Bryant park. But that was one, and you can find people, you can find, like, there's tons of meetups, right? Like, you went to a few, I couldn't go to a few because my brother is 16 years old, and how dare he? karaoke, couldn't go to karaoke, couldn't go to the arcade bar, couldn't do those things because I brought a 16 year old. But There's so many places where at Bryant park, there were so many trainers that showed up to meet one creator. I believe they called the police as like an escort. Like too many people, that means too many, like, and that's what I love was like, even if you're, you're scared of like, man, I don't know anybody. Don't worry. There was so many. And this is what I loved about GO Fest. one side was really for the PVP people, right? Like the battle frontier side, like you can meet other PVP people, or you can meet where I was near the food trucks trying out, I see comes back to food. Love trying all the different foods. There was like a, toppings and cheese sticks loved it.
David Hernandez:for me, I always feel like food trucks are a trap, so I always avoid them.
LaneTheMain:well, they were because. I'm like, okay, what am I going to eat? I think they're, they can be a trap and usually they're an expensive trap. And this is what I did. I would go up to the cops and be like, Hey, you know any of these? And they're like, yeah, you need to go try this one. I'm like, there we go. You know what I mean? Talk to the
David Hernandez:a good idea.
LaneTheMain:Yeah. Cause if they know, and they do big events like this, no matter what, I'm like, Hey, what are you, what are you doing? What do you think of this? And then the other part, so financially, maybe it's something like, this is where like saving your money, doing different things, like talking to local people. Cause it's a lot harder to go and more expensive for one person to go, but like four people to go, We talked about it. You want to mean you and I've had chats like this of like, you get four people. I'm driving this year. I flew last year. I'm driving. I have a 10 hour maximum in any direction. And this is hitting nine, 30. So it's, it's at my tippy top. Cause who knew, Good Morning Johto or Goldenrod City is actually in Ohio. but it hit my. Who knew I have a show. Oh, it was a golden or good morning. Johto, but Johto. lowercase and put the O in the H as capitalized. I thought about that as a logo for the future. That's
David Hernandez:Oh, that'd be fancy. Yeah.
LaneTheMain:I thought that would be different. I like to show like I'm in Ohio cause I know there's trainers here, but I'm so like into the freaking gimmick that I'm in this made up universe. but if you're going to go, find or make your community, go fast if you can drive it
David Hernandez:And that's the interview lane. Thanks for coming on the show. But before you go, we have to ask you the question. We ask every one of our guests, what is your favorite breakfast?
LaneTheMain:I'm stealing land or alphas. He said, it's G fuel. That breakfast is basically for suckers and all he drinks is G fuel. That is the best answer I ever got on the show.
David Hernandez:Oh my gosh. I'm not even sponsored by G fuel yet.
LaneTheMain:That was his, I love G fuel. I'm sponsored by G fuel. He goes, I don't eat all I do for breakfast is drink G fuel. Mike. This is awesome. This is so great. Shout out LandorAlpha. What an
David Hernandez:god. Trainers, thank you so much for everything that you do, and we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. Good morning Johto This is David from as the pokeball turns not really bringing you your weekday news, but we have a guest. Guest who are ya?
LaneTheMain:My name's Lane from good morning, Johto.
David Hernandez:Lane, welcome to as the Pokéball turns an interview podcast centered around how Pokémon has changed our lives and why we continue to play this ridiculous franchise.
LaneTheMain:I have no idea why
David Hernandez:I don't know either.
LaneTheMain:Sometimes I put this on Twitter one day. I think it's just habit a lot of people just continue to do it from habit.
David Hernandez:Well, Lane, what's interesting about, you know, your Pokémon experience is you've kind of entered the Johto. And I gotta ask, like, how did that start up? Like, what's the story behind that?
LaneTheMain:oh man, I did not want to do the show. I'll tell you that, and, and it could be shocking. So I was listening to all these different shows, like I'm an audio file. I love listening. I love taking in audio more than I do video. And I'm like, why is there not a daily show? I'm like, okay, I don't want to do it. You know what I mean? Like, I had, too much on my plate at that time. Anyway. And I'm like, I'm not doing And I would listen to more shows. I'd be like, Oh, it could be a radio show. I'm like, I need to tickle my radio fancy. Like I want to dabble with more radio. I'm like, ah, no, no, no, no, no. You know what I mean? And it would go like two more days good morning. Johto there's a radio tower there. No, no, no. And it literally went on for like three or four weeks until at the end. I asked my wife, I'm like, I'm going to pitch you this show. You tell me if it's crazy or not. I said like, there's so many different Pokemon go shows. And I said, it's a game that I love. what if we did like 10 minutes, 15 minutes a day? I've already looked and I had to do two. I'm like, okay, is there enough to make a daily show? is there enough for me? I'm like, okay like there's news drops two days a week, three days. so I always have a break it down. Like Monday's the weekend before I've like interview and then Tuesday is like, part two. Wednesday's go like raids counters. And then Thursday's PVP and like GBL and like the different teams and everything. And then that goes for days. And then I finally pitched it to my wife and by the end of it, she already made me what my logo is.
David Hernandez:Really? So she's the one who made your
LaneTheMain:Yeah, she made my logo. So she, just in college and like different things, like knew how to work Photoshop. she's like, let me help you. Like, and she's never with content, even when I was in radio, I was in radio morning show and she never listened to any of my shows. We did 60, seventies and eighties, top 40 hits. all my coworkers were in like their sixties or fifties up. And I was the young gun of like. I would say heat or yo, you know what I mean? I was not like, I was bringing down to like the semi butt to their old man joke and she wouldn't listen to that. And then she was like, I think there's something that this is different, right? Like this is filling
David Hernandez:she listens to your show?
LaneTheMain:still. No,
David Hernandez:Oh.
LaneTheMain:no, she would, if she liked more Pokemon go, she's recorded shows, but it did, I'll tell you this, it got her to play in Pokemon go, I'll tell that. Like it got her playing and I always joke. It's so funny. You say that I always joke. I'm like, man, I really wish there was just a show that could tell me every single day, the news that I need to know. And then she hits me and says, shut up. It was something that when I talked to the shows previously, like when I was listening, they would always cover their week before now, what was coming up now? I have learned something that's because of NDA that they can't talk about, but I'm like, well, if it gets announced. Like you're more talking about what has happened and how your last week is not how your week forwards going to be.
David Hernandez:Mm
LaneTheMain:I get something a little more main time into it? But it was like, it was something that I'm like, okay, I'll start this. I remember it was like a December, like 13th. And I told her, I'm like, you think this is something I could do for time? Like travel to regionals, maybe travel one day. And it was a show that I'm like, I just don't have time. You know what I mean? I just didn't. And then nope. So doing it still trucking along, still loving it now it's just a part of my daily routine of shows my daily, like go downstairs, go to my office and the Goldenrod Radio studio record to edit, do all my stuff and then that's the first thing I did too I'm like, was there any commute shows? Was there just a show I didn't miss? so I would ask like other creators and they were like, no, there's not like, well, we have PPP. We have you with interviews. We have some people that like, do news. Some people that we know that do like more rated R news. I'm like, well, no one does like a daily show. I'm like, okay. I get people that like, this is what they listened to on their way to school with their family in the morning. Like I keep it very family friendly. Like it's something that I just, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, it came apart. I think it was a need of short form content, I think is the future of our small brains for the future is everybody loves short, short form content. TikTok, of course, like that's the big topic, but there will always be a Vine. There always is going to be a Reels. There's always going to be something that people love short film..
David Hernandez:I think that's the fun part about podcast formats. We all approach it differently because my show actually started similar to yours to where I would do the news every day, but I didn't have it as organized as you do clearly. Cause you have different subjects for each different day, which helps you spread out the content, but also keeps it fresh
LaneTheMain:I don't want cannibalize it. I literally, the first six months I had every single week during that week, what I was going to talk about. So it didn't steal from another day. Cause if I cover all of the event day one that cannibalizes, let's say like a Wednesday or Thursday, or like that cannibalizes a day of content. it was more for the viewer or the listener experience. So it didn't feel as repetitive now I think the TCG part I could tell you what deck is probably in every single topic Just because of how the TCG is like when you get this Morty formats, it gets this
David Hernandez:eventually it gets solved and it's not much surprise
LaneTheMain:it. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. It's gotten solved So so many people are like the topic decks around the same. I like doing prices cause that's what really I got hired at. My job for I'm really into the card stock market. There are websites that do card stock markets that have a rolling of different cards that are going up hourly. I love stuff like that. I love different sets. I love finding out why one card's going up over all the other card or one thing. You know what I mean? I love like
David Hernandez:Do you ever try to implement that in the show or do you feel like it would turn off the
LaneTheMain:I do have some days usually the money parts, the people that hate the most, and then like the speculation part. Right when the set comes out, I'm like, okay, is this overpriced? Is this underpriced? do I think this is going to go down? I remember when base set Scarlet and Violet came out, we got. Gardevoir-EX as like an alternate art. It was 120 bucks, now it's sitting at$25. it was just one of those things that like it can pre-order for a hundred, 150, go down to 15 to whatever dollars that. It's the part of my job that like, so me as like one being one of the head buyers and doing everything in my job, I think of like, okay, can this card have potential? Do I think this card's just trash? Do I think this is a card someone's going to buy? But for the show, it is like, I cover more of like, this card go up, may go up, you need to buy Right? Like, this is one of those, if it's a dollar or two, I call it like the penny stocks of card games. You can buy a couple dollar cards. And if it goes up, like,
David Hernandez:You're rich Well, not rich, but more wealthier. That's
LaneTheMain:Card game, card game rich, like there's so many cards that I'm like, man, I wish I would have bought it 2 or whatever. Oh man, there's a bunch of the cosmic eclipse and the tag teams now that I'm like, those were nothing. it's the financial part of the game. That's the yuck, big, yuck,.
David Hernandez:Now there are some challenges to doing a podcast every day because you have to record every day. My first question is how many times has your wife threatened to leave you since starting this podcast? I'm sure she kind of misses you whenever you have to go down to record, right?
LaneTheMain:I hear no. Okay. So you've solved a problem here. That's the early of Good Morning Johto. She goes to bed. She's in bed. is,
David Hernandez:Oh my gosh.
LaneTheMain:she, she's a teacher. So she goes to bed. And then like, as soon as like, she's in bed and like, sleeping, boom. I go downstairs. Whatever.
David Hernandez:Is this podcast kind of secret that she doesn't know? Well, she already knows about it. I was going to
LaneTheMain:know, she's been in some shows now. There's been some times like, on our, in, uh, What's our inner? I got it as an anniversary gift, but we went to go see Jonas brothers. Hey, we're going to get back really late. And I pull out of my like backpack, I have microphones and headphones and recording equipment. like, we recorded it while driving home from this concert.
David Hernandez:Really? record an episode on the way.
LaneTheMain:Yeah. I've recorded Tik TOKs and I've edited shows in the hospital Cause for me, They have to get out. They have to, I remember this was a tick tock or like I was editing the show at the time I had IV in my arm in the ER and I'm on my computer editing, getting stuff out there. it was, I'm like, I don't care. Like, um,
David Hernandez:you've ridden from Goldenrod Tower to the Pokemon Center.
LaneTheMain:that's how what now there's something like when my vocal cords go out, I'm I can't do a but there's it's one show. I really want to redo. I recorded with the Round Table Chat(ot) guys, and I had such a high fever. I don't know if I barely remember the show, but I remember doing the show with them and they were on my show. And I was so sick. I probably had like the flu or was it? No, it was double pneumonia. That's what it was is when I had double
David Hernandez:double no, yeah, oh
LaneTheMain:I had double pneumonia and I still did their show. I still had them on the show. Cause I'm like, I have to do. I have to in my mind, do the show, but yeah, like that, that was early on when I'm like, I have to sacrifice everything for, but when everybody just wants a healthy, not non dying, Interviewer, I guess. but no, I've been on the way back. we've seen people when we were in New York record at the hotel that's what I'm saying. Those video people, I remember, I'm not going to say who, but they said they wish they could actually just play the game for real, that go Fest to them is just a job. You're there for content. they stay at a closer place so they could like record or edit faster. I'm like, man, I just want to go to hang with the homies. Eat falafels eat some pizza. You know, I mean or what's the hot dogs called like dirty water or whatever. I don't know.
David Hernandez:I'm not from New York, don't look at me, I'm from the ha ha
LaneTheMain:that's I wanted to take in that to me was my vacation it was a pokemon go vacation. It was what I wanted. but yeah, no i've recorded My kids will come down sometimes and I'll sit on my lap and watch me record. And I'm, I'll show them the different stuff. And, cause they were too young when I was actually doing morning, morning radio show work.
David Hernandez:You bring an interesting perspective because you've done radio. podcasting is like the cousin of radio from your experience, what's the difference that you find doing podcasting and pay to radio.
LaneTheMain:So, man, I went to college for radio. I don't know why. And I don't know if it's like why I chose radio over like a video or like, um, a news or anything of like being behind the camera, being in front of the camera. actually, I do know. I lied. We come from a time period that I think this new generation just didn't come from. My alarm clock was a radio. So if you remember, like the early two thousands, like when we had the actual digital clocks, you could have your alarm be either a sound, like a chime, or it could be the radio station. You have your clock set to. So I had mine set to like seven 30, every single day. And the same radio had a interview with his wife or someone like they did the same repetitive thing, like kind of I do with my show that every day. 7. 30 was the same thing. So I knew in my mind. So every day I woke up to the show and when I got into radio, that's where I wanted to intern, that was the show that I ended up like, not just being on, like he became a great friend of mine and that was the show that I woke up to in grade school. but then with radio going into actually, so it's the same with Bakers. I know a lot of radio guys that hate, hate, hate morning shows. Cause you have to get up at 2 a. m. 2 a. m. is radio hours because your show usually starts at five, sometimes four, and then you go to about 10. where a lot of the, your vets that I know. Want to do evening shift, right? Like you can go in at nine or 10, your shows from two to five, two to six, um, those are your big hours is your breakfast area, like your morning show and then your evening drive. and then they said with the evening, then you can go to dinner. You're like, you're not really missing anything too much from a two to five, two to six. but I loved mornings cause I love being done at 10 AM. I did hot dog eating contests, and donut eating contests, and man, it always comes back to food. I, like, it was a joke show that I could write skits, I could do different characters, like, I think harder at least with podcasting, because at least podcasting, you know, like, I know I'm talking about Pokemon every day. with morning show. Unless it's a sports show, right? Like, unless it's a, so you're trying to fit the genre of music that that age group would want to listen to. Right. So if I know the group that's listening to 60, seventies and eighties, you've got to kind of hit it to what news or jokes or what they would like to. It's very interesting. It's very interesting in that market of like what they want to listen, what they want to do too. but yeah, and then with podcasting, you kind of like, you can make your groove a little better, but you can still be yourself. Do the funny. I know a guy, this is so funny. he set up his own AM radio show for like a three mile radius so that when he goes on walks, it's his own radio show of his music that he can put out on AM radio so that when he's giving his dog walks, he can like bring a boom box or bring like BNS car and listen to what he wants to listen to. I don't know why sounds awesome.
David Hernandez:Well, that's the fun part about, you know, having a podcast audience is that usually the podcast audience caters their schedule around your show. I listened to the podcast when I walk my dogs and that's the kind of the fun intimate part that you don't get with video. Cause video, they kind of have to sit there and make time for it, I
LaneTheMain:Every Thursday, I listen to the same, this is the only day I'll tell you that I don't listen to Pokemon Go. Every Thursday morning I'm excited to listen to a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. is my palate cleanser, it is my different, and of course as people I know that used to be old radio hosts. So they, do characters as like different funny voices. But With a Pokemon Go show or a Pokemon show in general, Your audience can be anywhere from five to dead, right? Like there is no age
David Hernandez:If dead, drop me a like.
LaneTheMain:that like. when I, for, so for 50s, we're looking from anywhere from 30 to maybe 50. but each age group kind of changed that. So like, uh, like with the ads and different things, but where with Pokemon just have such a wide array of people, that's what you can do a little differently too.
David Hernandez:What's also interesting about your podcast is you've also branched off into a different product. You started doing your own coffee. How did you incorporate that? And what made you want to do that with Good Morning Johto?
LaneTheMain:I wish I want to say I came up with the idea. Of the Johto Java Blend Coffee. Good morning, Johto Java Blend Coffee. the card store I work at in Ohio, also is like a small coffee roaster that I had at the time a coffee shop. Now we kind of combine them. And I love coffee in its own little ray. The owner has been a friend of mine for so long. And one of my managers, his girlfriend was like, Hey, have you thought about making maybe let's say a Johto Java blend? And I got so angry. I got so incredibly angry cause I'm like, why didn't I think of that? That is an incredible idea, right? Like that is such a good idea that I wish I would've came up with it. by the end of the night. I was on the drawing board. It took like four or five months. We're like, how did I want it flavored? How would we want to do this working with the guy that roasts it? I give away a full bag. We have a birthday club that I also stole from when I was in radio. Every single day we did birthdays and I'm like, you know what, what if I do this with our shop? cause I wanted more people to even just, I don't care if you buy it. I'll just send you a bag of coffee. I really don't care. but you know what, that's what I'm again, I'm a morning show. Every morning show I've ever went to, and this is not a joke has had every Monday through Friday, a different sponsor for the donut or the coffee of the day. And like. You get a array of different goods that I'm like, man, I need if I'm a morning show coffee.
David Hernandez:One thing that's cool about your show is you had multiple guests, myself included on the show. More recently, you've had a chance to have the voice of Roy. What was it like to be able to interview Roy on the podcast? Cause for those who don't know, they are the voice of Roy on the anime.
LaneTheMain:unli is one of the nicest human beings. it came back to when I started with Pokemon Go, when I started, I wanted to get more TCG trainers and they would each give me like an hourly rate. Like, Hey, if I'm going to be on your show, I need a hundred, 200, 300, whatever. And I'm like, okay. maybe one day, like not saying no, but I know, like, I agree that you need to be paid for your time, but one day let me get together. And It was something that left a bad taste in my mouth was this December. it was my, one year anniversary. I had an interview set up with Sarah, not Ocheny, who did the voice of ash. That was like the goodbye of ash that I had an interview set up in person at a convention to go interview them. And then I got COVID right. Like I'm talking two days before. I had to interview her management team. Cause I go through a management team and then her different HR team. And then they're all over the different con stuff. And they're like, well, we don't really like do it over zoomer because she's so busy. but if we, ever come back to, they're like, maybe we come back next year. And I'm like, okay, maybe my two year. you know what I mean? I just got bummed. Cause I'm like, That would be a sweet year. One anniversary guest would be the voice of Ash Ketchum. I was literally like sitting around her and I I'm like, literally a month goes by or something. I'm like, okay, well, if I couldn't get Ash, what if I get the next generation of people? I'm like, okay. And then literally it was me going through and I sent an email to all these people. And, Anjali messaged back. They messaged back like maybe less than 12 hours. They were like, I don't care how, because I always start off like, Hey, I'm a smaller show. I'm more Pokemon go. and like to them, I put like, Hey, I know what horizons is coming out. like, I'm not breaking into your NDA. So I said, it's 10 minutes. I knew I don't even care if we talk about this show. I just want to know what Pokemon means to you and what you're excited about the show to promote. And they were like, yep, I'm in like that. We're and I'm like, what are you, are you sure? Like, are you, you know what you're doing? Like, oh yeah, yeah. We talked for three or four hours and even like help me encourage me. Like, so I've been doing some voice acting, some doing different things, like trying to do more into it because their story was so amazing. And so encouraging Anjali didn't start until like 2021 into voice acting. was in college for law school, picked up a microphone to do like different fiction podcasts and different acting and then by year 2023. Boom was the head of the newest Pokemon show.
David Hernandez:That's a crazy journey. Oh
LaneTheMain:That's what I said. I'm like, and so it was so inspiring that I'm like, well, I got some equipment. I got some different stuff. and I know it'd be a long journey or something that I can, talk more about, like, not in the future, like doing anime, doing show says. It's never about the money. Like if I could be a radio host on a Pokemon show, I'm good to die. That will be, I am good. That'll be it. That is everything I would want is like to be in a show that I love. and that was it for them. Like that Roy and everything that came out with the show. That was so, so perfect. But the day that that episode were announced and I like playing for a month and a half was the day we started the Horizons event in GO. And I'm like, perfect, perfect. Didn't even plan it up this way that Roy was a snapshot within the game.
David Hernandez:Well, Lane, that is a show. Thank you for coming on the podcast.
LaneTheMain:Is this for real this time? I know. He's I'm like, this the, now to believe it's not the for real
David Hernandez:But before we go, we have to ask you the question we ask every one of our guests. If people want to connect with you, if they want to check out your show, where can they go by all means, please plug away.
LaneTheMain:Yeah. You can find us on Twitter@GMJohto. You can find us through emailing us at good morning. Joto at gmail. com or join our free. Is he, I, I only know the end of the show with the plugs. or join our discord that is in. our show notes. If you ever want to come over or, uh, hopefully David can link it in one
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