In this episode, Tara Sands and Steve Yurko interview Joshua Izzo!

After working at Topps on the Pokemon cards, Joshua became the Marketing Manager and Head of Sales at 4Kids. He has amazing insights into the early days of Pokémon and Pokémon Live. He has since gone on to work at Hasbro (on Pokémon toys), Capcom, Twentieth Century Fox and Lightstorm. Check out his website at joshuaizzo.com 

Here is the link to the Topps cards we talk about in this episode: https://www.elitefourum.com/t/complete-pokemon-topps-gallery/40934 

4Kids Flashback is a behind the scenes podcast about the 4Kids era of television as told by the people who were actually there. 4Kids is the company that brought Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece and many other anime series to English speaking audiences.

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