It's Super Effective (podcast)

It's Super Effective PKMNcast.com
"What's Up Everybody!"
It's Super Effective's podcast art, which features Gengar and is inspired by Red and Blue's box art.
Language		English
Status	Podcast	Active
	Website	Active
Run	Podcast	July 2010 - Present
	Website	July 2010 - Present
Podcast debuted		July 26, 2010
Last episode published		{{{final}}}
Website opened		July 24, 2010 (as PokémonPodcast.com)
Website closed		{{{site_close}}}
Reason		{{{reason}}}
Creator(s)		Steve Black Jr.
Host(s)		Jane Doe
Number of Episodes		70 (as of March 05, 2012)
Forum		PokéTalk
Mascot		Gengar (podcast art) Slow Nyan Poke
Website		PKMNcast.com
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This article is about the podcast. For the in-game concept, see Damage modification. For the webcomic, see Super Effective (webcomic).

It's Super Effective is a Pokémon-focused podcast hosted by Steve Black Jr., also known by his initials SBJ, and is the flagship show of PKMNcast.com. It's Super Effective began on July 26, 2010, two days after the launch of the website, which began as PokémonPodcast.com. The show begins with a discussion of Pokémon news and then segues into either a special topic or a "Featured Team," a user-submitted Pokémon team to which the hosts give advice, compliments, and criticism.

It is currently the most popular Pokémon podcast on iTunes and Zune, having taken the top Pokémon podcast spot from The Pallet Tribune's WTPT - Pokémon Radio.

Podcast

Recurring themes

Episode titles

Since its debut in 2010, the podcast has followed a naming convention for the titles of each episode, which changes every ten episodes:

Segments

• Introduction, in which Steve usually begins with "what's up everybody" and introduces the cast members.
• News, in which the hosts discuss recent events in the Pokemon community.
• Extremespeed, in which Steve and occasionally another cast member grill one cast member (usually a new guest) with a string of questions, usually pertaining to a personal preference between two Types, Pokemon, or Items.

Guest speakers

Since the show's third episode, SBJ was joined by several guests and hosts, many of which have been in more than one episode. The following is a list of co-hosts and guests ordered by their first appearance.

Current recurring co-hosts

These people are currently in a rotating lineup of co-hosts, ordered by their first appearances.

• Aaron Spriggs
• Wil Brendel
• Matt Kane
• Kenny M.
• Travis Wheeler
• Jay Petrequin
• David Thomas
• Ryan Kubo
• Kidd Starck
• Irene Sarumi
• Saul Coronado

Past recurring co-hosts

These people have had multiple appearances on the show as co-hosts, but have not been co-hosts in more recent episodes.

• Brownkidd of Albotas
• Catie Lackovich
• GeorgieBoy of Press Pause Radio

Past guests

These people have made a single appearance on the show, either as a co-host or as an interviewee.

• D’Andre Siggas ("Black Man Loves Pokémon" viral video)
• Christopher Niosi (Khoury's English dub voice actor)
• Marriland
• eSeamus of Bouncing Wailord
• Juan Saucedo

Inside Jokes and Running Gags

• Quick Claw Guy, a hypothetical listener of the show who despises SBJ's acceptance of Quick Claw as a viable competitive held item.
• "In the face, in the face, in the face!", a reference to an episode in which Steve suddenly started the second part of a show by repeating the last three words Travis had said during the intermission.
• New New Mexico, a newly founded sovereign kingdom on the moon, over which Saul is the king.
• The Pichu/Cleffa Dilemma, a thought experiment preformed by Steve at the end of each Extremespeed segment in which the guest is presented with the question "Pichu or Cleffa?". The guest will always choose Pichu.
• Bayleef, Kenny likes Bayleef too much.
• Vanilluxe, No one likes Vanilluxe except Travis.
• Mewtwo Herder, "I been herdin' mah Mewtwo 'bout as long as the sun's been shinin'." ~Travis
• Sand Attack, Just as it is early in the games, Sand Attack was a point of hatred early in ISE's history.
• Golduck, SBJ used his first Master Ball on a Golduck.
• Huntail, The show's hosts view Huntail as a forgotten and underloved member of Pokémon Fandom.

Website

Articles and features

• Move of the Week
• Ability of the Week
• Saturday Sketch
• Item of the Week
• Rare Article
• PokéFacts
• Breeding 101
• Featured Team
• Concept Corner
• Found Item
• News
• PC Box
• Podcast
• Backgrounds
• PKMN of the Week
• Sunday Recap
• Ringtones
• Laboratory
• Pokésnap
• Pokétalk
• Store - PMKNstore.com
• TCG Box

Other podcasts

• Critical Hit

A video podcast that is either consisting of various Pokémon-related things happening in Black Jr.'s life or a video version of the main audio podcast, depending on the episode. In the former's case, the podcast finishes off with a Pokémon-related YouTube video before the credits.

• Leftovers

Black Jr.'s uncensored side project. Leftovers was hosted by Black Jr. and Chris,^[who?] and dealt with a more adult side of the Pokémon fandom, but is currently on hiatus. Also called, "It's Super Offensive".

Staff

Steve Black Jr.

Host of the It's Super Effective podcast and webmaster of PKMNcast.com.

David Thomas

Previously PKMN of the Week Editor, now Lore Editor

Travis Wheeler

Rare Article Editor

William Anderson

PKMN of the Week Editor

Wil Brendel

Ability of the Week Editor

Saul Coronado

Tumblr Editor

Awards

It's Super Effective won the 3rd and 4th Annual Shorty Awards in the community-created category of "The Best Podcast in Social Media" with 50 and 145 votes, respectively. (2011 & 2012)

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