Lured Up Podcast 320 Record Date - 9/11/24 Publish Date - 9/15/24   Lane from Good Morning Johto joins us again as Adam wraps up his move!   Dynamax Battles are here and the game has officially changed! Now that we have had some time to experience the Max Out Season, Niantic is really shaking things up. We will recap our experiences with GO All Out and our super early feedback on the GO Big event.    Falinks Raid Day gave us some fun free to play and high value paid gameplay. September is absolutely packed with events and there is something to do every single weekend! Our C ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 319 Record Date - 9/4/2024 Publish Date - 9/8/2024   Adam is still in the process of moving so Lane from Good Morning Johto is filling in! Make sure you connect with Lane everywhere you can! https://pokemonprofessor.com/good-morning-johto    September brings an absolute boatload of new information and game mechanics as we usher in the Max Out Season. Even being a few days into the Season, plus a bunch of event blog posts, many Trainers are still scratching their heads to try and understand how everything works. With Max Battles coming very soon, we have a limite ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 270 Record Date - 6/7/2023 Publish Date - 6/11/2023   This week may be the glimmer of hope that this game and Community have been waiting for! Niantic is coming through on their word and stepping up communications in a big way. The big question of the week is whether or not this is the new normal, or just some temporary damage control.   Beach Week has been a solid and fun event but there was a ton of news dropped as well. Details on GO Fest including Regionals and Habitat info have been announced and there is plenty to get through. We are excited to ramp up the hype ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 317 Record Date - 8/14/24 Publish Date - 8/16/24   With Adventure Week finally coming to a close, many in the Community can take a fresh breath of vanilla spawns and move on from a super long event! We discuss how the length of Adventure Week may have overstayed its welcome! That being said, there was definitely some ups and downs in the event, with Shadow Lugia Raids being broken in the earliest timezones, resulting in a Shadow Lugia that couldn’t be defeated. Poor, poor, New Zealand.   The Worlds Event is up next and there is a ton to do, both in game an out. Train ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 316 Record Date - 8/8/2024 Publish Date - 8/11/2024   If battling Team GO Rocket is your thing then you have been lucky all week. With Adventure Week being Taken Over by Team GO Rocket, this week was packed with new Shadows and the chase for Giovanni and his Shadow Cresselia. The big news of the week however, warns you not to do too many Team GO Rocket encounters as it could get you banned. We dive in headfirst and talk about how this ban is not too difficult to trigger if you are spending a day grinding the event.   Mega Rayquaza came back in non-Elite Raids and it ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 315 Record Date - 7/31/2024 Publish Date - 8/2/2024   With Mega Lucario Raid Day behind us, the Ultra Unlocks and GO Fest Season is officially behind us. We had an exceptionally busy June and July leading up to the big events, but now August looks to be a time that we can all breathe and chill out a bit. We start off the episode sharing our experiences with both Strength of Steel and Mega Lucario, as our luck was drastically different from one another.   We discussed last week how Adventure Week looked kind of weak, but that was before we had the announcement for the ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 314 Record Date - 7/24/24 Publish Date - 7/28/28   August content may have been announced to minimal fanfare, but July is closing out strong with the remaining Ultra Unlock events! Strength of Steel has us chasing down Togedamaru as we prep to Raid our fannies off for Mega Lucario. August looks to be the calm after the storm as we see a lot of repeat Pokémon returning to raids and an Adventure Week that seems a bit lighter than usual.   Safari Zones have been announced in Indonesia and South Korea, which makes us all want to be world travelers to take part. With both ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 313 Record Date - 7/17/24 Publish Date - 7/21/24   GO Fest Season is officially a wrap and the Ultra Unlocks are the big payoff. We start by recapping our GO Fest: Global experiences and how coming right out of NYC has been a bit much on our bodies and wallets. Those that were at GO Fest: NYC the previous week are most likely still sunburned and sore.Our eyes however must stay looking forward as there is another full slate of content coming to Pokémon GO.   The stage is set for the 3 Ultra Unlocks, and they couldn’t be more diverse.The first unlock brings us a new Po ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 312 Record Date - 7/7/24 Publish Date - 7/12/24   This is a very special episode of the Lured Up Podcast! Recorded at our Community’s Air BnB in Harlem, NY, we were surrounded by some of our closest friends. It is incredible that this game has created a network of friends that we will carry for the rest of our lives! Huge shout out to our entire Community, especially those that made it to NYC.   We share our hot takes on the event and speculate on the future. Saying that we were exhausted was an understatement!   LuredUp@PokemonProfessor.com   &nb ..read more

Lured Up Podcast 311 Record Date - 6/27/2024 Publish Date - 6/30/2024   Another news bomb went off this week as Trainers prep for GO Fest: NYC. We have our July Content Update as well as a few events worth of details to run through, which means this episode is rapid fire with news and updates. We begin with a recap of Scorching Steps and how no matter how you shake it, egg events are not something that many Trainers look forward to. Even with Shiny Larvesta hatching out of 2, 5, and 10km eggs, the sparkles were dry for many.   Our July Content Update is heavily weighted on GO Fest ha ..read more