We got it right!

Hello everyone Alex here and you all may be wondering "Hey Alex, what is up with that title?" well briefly mentioned in the new Red Radio we said we had issues making our second Red Radio. I decided I'll go into more detail right here (since there really isn't that much other new news). Our first attempt was a history of Red Squirtle and a discussion on each episode. The raw recording of this episode was over 2 hours long. Upon going into the world of editing, I was getting bored listening to it. All our discussions dragged on and we really didn't have too much to say, although we may return to the early history of Red Squirtle because that may be worth talking about. So I sent a message out to the squad and we would try again in a week or two. Our next attempt was to return to X and Y and discuss early Red Squirtle history with a short intermission between each section. As Taco man said in the podcast, it became outdated within days and we wanted to focus on the now rather than the then. So attempt three came along and we were all happy with it. If anyone is unfamiliar with Red Radio please go to our facebook page and view the slideshow during or before listening the podcast as we refer to it often...Now I know what all of you may be thinking "What is happening with the next episode of Red Squirtle?" and I wish I could provide you all with an answer. We will have the another episode out one day. That's probably not the answer you were hoping for but please stick with us. The major reason why we started Red Radio is because to give everyone something to listen while we wait for the next episode...that and because it is fun to do. Also here is a little fun fact, in the last Red Radio, we all mentioned a game we were playing, in editing, we used a song from each game in the podcast somewhere. There is something to look for if you're going to listen to it. But enough about that let's go to last month's....last 2 month's question which was "Where would Red go on Vacation? It can be a real place or a fictional place." Let us see what you all said

Ryan said "The Orange Islands. He's probably wanted to go there ever since the Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town when he fantasized about getting the badges from there before he dies." You have a good point, he must know of the Orange Islands in order to dream about owning their badges.

Mongo said "Fiji. It seems like a fun place to go." I agree it does.

PAPAYA said "Yellow brick road. Because it's a road. With bricks. That are yellow. And Red likes yellow. Sure, it's not exactly a place, per se, but it's still YELLOW! -PAPAYA" Place: noun: A particular position or point in space. I do believe a road would be a place

B-Rad said "From Kanto, Red would hop upon his newly revived pidgey and fly from wherever he is at in the show, i forget what town exactly xD , all the way to Anaheim California and experience the majesty of Disneyland! Wandering around outside the park he would find out that it costs money to get into the park. Eventually Red would sneak into the park, steal churros,ride the fastest rollarcoaster in the park, get kicked out of the park for correcting people on the use of the word "holiday", and wake up only to find he'd been dreaming the whole time!" Right now in the show Red is on his way to Fuchsia City. Red does seem like the guy who would dream about Disney Land. I mean I do as well.

Logananimeguy said "El Dorado, it's filled with gold and do you know what color gold is? Yellow and he and his pokemon would be considered gods to the people" Red's dream! Shiny yellow bits!

Tolvan said "Realistically speaking, Pallet Town. Because that's where he always goes. Actually, I think he'd go to Nimbasa City. After all, Nimbasa City is the entertainment hub for the World of Pokemon, right?" I wonder how Red would fare in the Ferris Wheel with N, since he is a not so silent protagonist.

And with that we enter July, which is also National Ice cream month. So everyone appreciate the Vanillite family this month and hey let's have the question related to that. So...What is Brock's favorite flavor of ice cream?

We'll be seeing you next month hopfully with better Red Squirtle news. Small you later

~Alex

Let us all welcome summer with open arms

Hello everyone and welcome to summer! This summer I wont promise any progress bar but we will work as hard as possible to get things done. We have a Red Radio planned and episode 24 shouldn't take too long (we hope). We may resurrect a few old things (Professor Oak Teaches Pokemon, Jack, etc.) and introduce a few new things too :O. All I can tell you is thank you for being patient with us, I know we are working slow, but we are so grateful of all of your support and we hope to deliver great content to you soon. Thank you all for your comments on Red Radio, were glad you enjoyed it. We did record another but it was waaay too long (2 hours?! WHAT?) and it got boring after a while. So we are going to redo it and make it more organized and concise. One more thing before we go onto the question, I have one thing to say. Look out for the next Red Radio because we will have a small contest with a prize! So to finish up this short post here is this month's question Where would Red go on Vacation? It can be a real place or a fictional place.


~Alex

Now Introducing...Red Radio!

It is about time we acted like a podcast. I would like to introduce you to Red Radio! a sit down chat with the Red Squirtle Squad. In the first episode, we talk about the new generation of pokemon with our special guest Royce, aka the voice of Lt. Serge. This episode of Red Radio features a set of images you can find on our facebook page, click HERE to see the images and follow along. We all want to hear feedback from everyone, so I ask you to please listen and criticize us. I know Master of Rock was too quiet in this podcast, but we will fix it for next time. Also in the podcast we drop the release date for the next episode, so it is really worth listening to. (UPDATE: We lost the recording of episode 24 up until recently so expect it by the end of March, sorry for the delay)

Anywho, let us go to last months question What did Red do on Valentines day?

Brian said "yellow"....let's not think about that shall we?

Anonymous said "his homework" like Red goes to school

Logananimeguy said "He made a statue of Brock and every other person he dislikes and burned hem all to the ground while laughing maniacally" Knowing Red, that'll be a lot of statues

Ryan said "He had fun with Squirtle, Squirtle, and Growlithe......Pidgey was upset though cause he forgot about Pidgey again. He also bough Squirtle a new snuggie due to Squirtle creating too much static electicity with it and ruining it." D'awww showing love for his pokem-...most of his pokemon

and B-Rad said "Red would venture to the poke mart and indulge himself in all sorts of unhealthy chocolaty goodies, without paying of course" ahhh sounds like the good life to me.

So this months question/topic is all about Red Radio. What did you like and what would you change?

~Alex

As February flies by, here is a blog post

Hello everyone, how are you today? Did you enjoy the new years? Well onto last month's question, which was "Brock needs help! He needs to develop a new type of Pizza. Help give him some ideas!"...Okay so it wasn't really a question and it looks like no one wanted to help out Brock, he only got four responses

Logananimeguy says "Make a red pizza
Make the pizza the same shapes as Red's head and use the toppings as his face features" Brock loved this idea, but his boss didn't

Ryan says "the snorlax pizza. It's a pizza that's half as big as a Snorlax and has every single pizza topping ever on it." Brock's boss says too expensive to produce

B-rad says "because he is the master of rock, a viking, and he'll make you eat your sock, he would use rocks, a viking hat, and socks for his toppings. If you are the lucky person to be able to eat such a monstrosity you get the boulder badge" Brock's boss says it is easier to beat Brock in a battle than to eat this

Mongo says "make a Boulder Badge Pizza.
Same shape as boulder badge, covered in sausage to make it look greyish brownish.
Served with Earth Badge salad (it's a badge of a plant)." Brock's boss declined because it didn't include the Marsh badge

...well better luck next time.  Let's live text Taco Man and Master of Rock right now and see what they have to say.

Taco Man says "Hi and You are all awesome!"

Master of Rock says "HEY BOYS AND GIRLS, maestro of stone here. Uhmmmm I've never really written an update before, my mind is so blank.........bunnies.....Oh! I hope you all had a fine valentine's day! I stayed at home all day and gawked at a pretty women. Sigh. One of these days I'm going to get marrried. Boy is that frightening. And now a haiku: Birds fly so graceful Their beaks cut the air like swords. Woodpeckers scare me."


Also expect something interesting coming next month. What is it? well only time will tell!

So the question is....What did Red do on Valentines Day?

~Alex

New Episode! New Bloopers! New Month!

Ah it feels good to release that episode. We were all very excited to get this one out to the public because a lot of our favorite Brock moments are in this episode. Finally we are able to have Brock be a big focus of an episode. In the first time in probably forever, Brock says more than Red. We also have the very rare moments where Red doesn't have every other line, kinda hard to do that with him being the main character and all. What was most fun writing this episode is having complete creative control. Because of this, I had to look up how sonar of a bat actually worked. So in a way The Red Squirtle actually was educational...sorta. It was also quite enjoyable to sit down and think how the gym system actually works. Using a lot of writing and re-writing I was able to come up with...that. I tried my hardest to create a system with the least amount of exploits in it because we all know they do not condone cheaters in Kanto. OBJECTION! You may have noticed we went a little Ace Attorney happy with the music in this episode, but hey those games deserve the love, highly recommend them. All in all there really isn't too much to say about the episode besides that was really fun to write and really fun to record. So today we have prepared to you with a little blog bonus! Here Episode 23's blooper, a little inside look when we record.

Click here to listen to the bloopers!

So last month I asked What posters would Red hang in his room? Let us see what you all said

Logananimeguy said "The poster Red would have in his room would be him with his team on top a mountain of the elite four their pokemon, Blue and his pokemon, and fishy all atop a yellow sun made of bunnies using tailwhip." I'm still trying to picture this, particularly the colors being used...besides yellow. Would it be gritty? would it be bright and colorful? who knows?!

Computerbug said "He would have the 'Red and Blue, both are pokemon' promotion poster that he found in the Celadon department store." I'm sure if he had that, he'd keep saying Red red red red red all the time

Ryan said "Red probably wouldn't put in the effort to hang a poster. So, if there was a poster it would probably be from Brock sneaking into Red's room and putting a poster of himself(Brock) in his best friend's room. So I guess a Brock poster" Then Red would proceed to tear it down and maybe burn it too

B-Rad said "Red would have a poster of the Chocolate Dunkaroo hanging straight up on his wall proudly displayed for all to see" He should hang all of his Halloween Costumes on the wall, im sure it would be a very...interesting site.

Mongo said "Red would have a poster of a bike that said 'It's over 9000 Poke-dollar' " And maybe one day he'll learn to ride a bike.

That wraps up December here as we go into the new year. Happy 2013 everyone, I hope for a safe and healthy new year for you all. From what I hear Taco man has started post-production on Episode 24. We hope to release that in February. So now that the holidays are over, we all have received new equipment. Master of Rock got some really fancy recording device. Taco Man got himself a microphone and I got a camera. I'm sure all of it will contribute to The Red Squirtle in some way. I know how I want to use my camera and we have recently used Master of Rock's new setup.

Have you all been enjoying the new news on Pokemon X and Y? From what it seems the visuals look real impressive and I haven't felt this excited for a Pokemon game since Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I hope to see more information about it soon!

So! Lets go to this month's question. Brock needs help! He needs to develop a new type of Pizza. Help give him some ideas!

See you all soon!

~Alex

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Holiday season. Also did you catch the relaxing Episode H: By The Fire? It was released late last night and you all should listen to it, we all had fun recording it....okay now that you have listened to it, let's talk about it (normally I don't do this for Holiday episodes, but it's been a while since I did a write-up)

Our main goal for this was to create essentially a really relaxed radio show, nothing complex, nothing too loud. I initially came up with the idea of a radio show after I wrote the first segment, I thought "why not write another one.....and another one." With three short scripts, I decided to swing the idea of a radio show over by Taco Man. Instead of having three small individual episodes, we would combine them all and have little blurbs in between each. He liked it and later when Master of Rock found out, he also liked it. In between each segment was a small blurb by us. While recording it, we were also playing the sound of a fireplace. It made editing for Taco Man easier. These blurbs are completely unscripted, but still had order. We would talk in a circle, I would go, then Master of Rock would go, then Taco Man would go, then it would be back to me. We planned this out so everyone would introduce a segment and welcome everyone back from a segment. While it is unscripted, we did plan what we wanted to say, like the rhyming right before the first segment, the change of subject to the Christmas carols, or the stories of Christmas morning. We also wanted to do this to work on our unscripted skills because we tried an unscripted episode once and it didn't go well.

Our first segment was what I like to call the Dr. Seuss segment, since that was what I had in mind while writing all of these rhymes. The second segment was our big musical number and what called it, The 12 Days of Brockmas. I got the idea of this when I was in one of my boring classes. Every week I go to that class I need to do something to keep me awake, so that week I decided to write the 12 Days of Brockmas. I knew I had to start writing the entire song when I came up with the line "On the first day of Christmas my best friend got for me." My very original idea was to have Brock do the entire song, but when I got to the fourth day, I decided it would be a lot funnier if Red sang with him. I tweaked the song a bit and added Red to the mix. Later after I typed up the song, I needed to find a good instrumental of the song, I found a lot of instrumentals that liked doing their own thing and wasn't usable for my version. Luckily I did find one that was basic and slow Using that song, I made a few tweaks to the script and WAHLAH! we have the final product. When recording this segment, we each had headphones on while singing it. Even though I wasn't singing, I still had headphones on to make sure everything went right. The final segment, which I called Christmas Morning, happened to be the last I write. For this segment, I wanted to capture the excitement of Christmas morning from the perspective of Red, who essentially is a little boy. For the first and last segments, you may have noticed we opted out of using music from Pokemon, instead we went for 8-bit versions of other Christmas Carols. Taco Man told me it would ruin the flow if we used Pokemon music, so he found really cool 8-bit versions of Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Jingle Bell Rock and it really did make it flow better.

So enough of Christmas, let's go back to Thanksgiving. So what was Red thankful for? well...

ComputerBug said "Well let's see... I believe Red is thankful for pokemon, candy, holidays and, of course, the color yellow." Well he hit the jackpot. That is all stuff Red loves

AnGeRfUrY Walsh said "I think red is thankful for how easy blue is to beat. Also. I was listening to the episodes and in Pokemon tower blue actually does have a reason to be there. His raticate died... Because of red" and later said "Red is grateful for rainbows....yup. Rainbows and ice cream." Red should be thankful that Blue is easy. I sometimes found him hard in the games! and yes we are familiar with that theory, I love pokemon theories. I can also see Red being distracted by a rainbow...I wonder if he would try to eat the Vanillite family...

Ryan said "Squirtle(flangerhangendangendurgen), Squirtle(Pikachu), the color Yellow, Great Balls The sun being yellow(not orange), his "money machine", the fact that trix(or tricks) are for kids, that he has other people writing down what he's thankful for so he doesn't have to, that Squirtle finally mastered Ice Beam, his saw, and of course, BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" If I was Red in pokemonlandworld...Id be soo thankful for that saw, no one wants Cut.

Logananimeguy said "I know what red is thankful for its being able to barge into peoples houses kill their pokemon, that there are only 151 pokemon not 251, 493, or 649 pokemon, also he is thankful for messing up growlithe (but im sure he will ge for thankfulwhen he can fully understand it" and later said "Oh yeah i just remembered he is grateful for that he does not have toclimb a mountain in another region for another 3 years then get his a#$ kicked by gold (maybe)" When I told Red about the mountain he replied with"...what?"

Mongo said "Red is thankful for Squirtle's five star name, Pidgey, his name, the color yellow, running in circles, growlithe's über glitch, AMERICAAAaaa..., game shows, cities and islands gyms, his bi-CYCLE, that other move, getting' a glass of water, his show...... Oh and getting his special day off at the anniversary episode." I think he enjoyed his day off a whole lot! He needed it, we over work the poor guy.

B-Rad said "Red is thankful for his dead pidgey and his great friend brock"  Sorry...Red crossed that out...

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season and a great New Year. This remainder of the month's question is What poster would Red have hanging in his room? I look forward to all of your answers and have a great day!

~Alex

Halloween was AWESOME!

Hey friends! It's me, BROCK!!!! and you gave me a bunch of Halloween suggestions that I couldn't choose just one. So I did them all! I'll tell you of my experience with each.

So I began the day dressed as ComputerBug's suggestion as a yellow squirtle in high hopes that Red will love me more. So I went to his house and I couldn't find him. I got worried. I was yelling "RED! REEEED! RED!" but then these guys threw some pokeballs at me thinking I was a pokemon...pokeballs hurt.

So next I dressed up as Ryan's suggestion, Roark. Since I've never heard of the guy I assumed what he meant was a Kadabra that knows roar. So I got my clothing together and went outside and started roaring. I thought it would be funny to run into my work and start to yell. So I ra in roaring and some girl punched me in the face....her fist hurt. Oh and how I read these comments? I have a program that reads words out loud for me!

So next I went as Logananimeguy's suggestion as Red as the chocolate dunkaroo. I had a hard time figuring out what a chocolate dunkaroo meant. So I asked my friend me what it could be. I said to myself "chocolate syrup." Outside of my gym I filled a pool with chocolate syrup and dunked myself in. Soon after I got out a bunch of Ratatta came out and started gnawing me because I attracted them with my scent. Ratattas hurt....

Next I went as thewals' suggestion as a Magikarp! I wasn't that smart and I forgot to put a spot for my feet, so I couldn't walk. So I splashed around looking for Red to cheer him up! During all this, a guy ran up to me with huge net and trapped me! I was trying to tell him it was a costume but he wouldn't listen! He then dropped me in a tank with other Magikarps. I had a hard time breathing. I was able to get out by smashing the tank enough to break it open. I then hopped out of the house but I tripped on a tree branch and hurt my arm. Tree branches hurt.... Also PS means Post-script? I always thought it meant perceive soon. So pss would be perceive soon soon and so on....whoopsies

After that incident, I went with AnGeRfUrY Walsh's suggestion of either a Vulpix or a Chansey...I couldn't decide between the two so I made a Chanpix...or a Vulpsey....I'll go with Vulpsey. I figured Red must be trick or treating at Celadon City. So I strolled into the city and this one guy from across some water swam over to me and tried to feed me a disk. He kept saying "This red Chansey will learn softboiled. I've been waiting here all my life to teach a Chansey this move and FINALLY one comes by" I yelled at him that this was a costume and it took a few minutes for him to comprehend what I was saying. He started crying so I walked over to him to help cheer him up. In a fit of rage, he pushed me. I fell into the water and hit my shoulder on the edge of the pool. Pool edges hurt....

A little later I went with Mongo's suggestion! I went to my work and got in our Snorelax costume there. As I was leaving, my boss stopped me and said "Oh, working for free for a little bit? That'll be great Brock" I tried to explain to him that it was a halloween costume....but he still forced me to stay. So I was out dancing around in my costume then a kid walked up to me. He was dressed like Lance! So I gave him an apple and he just threw it at my head and left without one word! Apples hurt...

After I got out of work, I looked at Magoona's suggestion and Magoona was suggesting someone really cool. I mean dress as a guy who is a gym leader, a pizza guy, and a viking?! How much cooler can you get? And so for an hour I did what Magoona said! Gave out badges, delivered pizza and be a viking....but then I realized something....I was being me! So I had to go back and plan some more. Also Magoona asked a question from the last post so I'll answer it now.

My compadre Magoona asked "Brock, how are you the "Master" of rock? If you're the best rock type trainer, then rock type trainers must be pathetic. By the way, I'd like a Large Pepperoni pizza with extra cheese and a large Dr. Pepp-I mean oak. A large Dr. Oak."

I'm the master because my grandmother said I was when I was a small boy! I liked to play with rocks when I was little. There are worse rock trainers then me!...just you haven't met anyone....also we don't have Dr. Oak we only have Kabutopsi....sorry.

While thinking of my next Idea a cool guy named Buried Alive to meet him at lavender town. He said something about eating Red....so that must mean he and Red went out for dinner. So I headed to Lavender Town and wanted to meet up with him and Red...I wondered why he said he was lonely...he did have Red there. When I got there I couldn't find him! Completely gone! which was unfair because I wanted to find Red the entire day and couldn't! Well...maybe next time. This has been Brock See you all later!
_Brock_

Phew...Brock likes to write a lot. Let's see if I can get someone else to do the questions for me. I hope everyone in the north-east that got affected by Sandy is doing alright.We live in New Jersey, but since we live very west New Jersey, we hardly got affected. It was much worse in other places and we all give our hearst to those affected. If you guys haven't checked it out yet. Firegold's Halloween episodes are really good. I highly suggest listening to those. As for Red Squirtle News...November and December are the roughest school months so don't expect a new episode til the holidays. However, I am also planning some more things. I wish I could say, but you'll just have to see! This months question is What is Red thankful for? Looking forward to your responses, as always. Soo you soon

~Alex