Editor's Note: when I said "December of 2001 and January of 2001", I meant January of 2002 of course. I know how clocks work.

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Just wrapping up Super Mario 64!

This time we're taking a break from Pokemon to play a few rounds of a fun bonus game.

Y'all can thank SkeletonPod for helping me decide on this great idea.

Daniel K put out the call asking for Manga suggestions, so here's me reading an entire TEN chapters of a manga that I'm a big fan of.

Note: The Japanese title of the manga is "Pokemon Special", but it's called "Pokemon Adventures" in the English translations.

What's more elite than four gym-leader level fights all in a row? A secret fifth fight of course!

I was struck with the sudden desire to read y'all a chapter from a great Cyberpunk novel called Snow Crash.

I'm sure we'll see more reading episodes from time to time, but probably from different books, depending on the mood.

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!

First we take Team Rocket out of Silph Co., then the Mega Gym Bonanza starts! In Saffron we handle the Fighting Gym and Psychic Gym. Then we fly to Viridian City and get through the Earth Gym too! It's quite a bit.

Making our way through a burned down, abandoned mansion, then using the Secret Key we find there to battle the Cinnabar Gym. How do other pokemon trainers ever face off against the gym if we have the key? The world will never know.

I hate Rainbow Ride and so should you.