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Welcome to issue 46 of the Johto Times! Today we will be sharing a special interview with Michael Haigney, the original Voice Director for the English-adapted Pokémon anime from 1998 until around 2002, who worked on the anime and the first four Pokémon movies. He voiced beloved characters such as Charmander and Psyduck as well as many other Pokémon during his time at 4Kids Entertainment. It was a pleasure to speak to Michael about his time working on the show, and I am excited to share this interview with our readers!

“Ah-koo-chee-moya, we are far from the bones of our ancestors,” is how the closed captions would read anytime a first-season episode of “Star Trek: Voyager” featured Commander Chakotay. My mother would furrow her brow, I would wince, and my dad would laugh and say, “Hoh! Ece!” roughly translated as, “No. As if.” Seriously. My parents never knew what to make of my pre-teenage love of science fiction in the mid-1990s. Frankly, I think they were just happy that I wasn’t engaging in the scourge of our time: huffing paint underneath a bridge.

Hey! It’s me, Kamau. Welcome to my new thing! It’s called W. Kamau Bell asks, “Who’s with Me?” It is my response to the last few years in this country and my way to hit restart on my relationship with you, the person who is interested in what I do and maybe wants to help me do more of what I do. We all know social media ain’t what it used to be (and maybe never was what we thought it was).

Hunting rabbits was what first got me into hunting. I join Jonathan O'Dell of the Arizona Dept. of Game & Fish on a deep dive into the biology, lore, trivia, habits, hunting and yes, cooking any and all rabbit and hare species, of where there are many in North America.  ncG1vNJzZmisn6m1pq7Op5xnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ww8CbmaKsXaiyor%2FOp2RxcJU%3D

I wasn’t convinced that I should disregard any statements from Meek Mill when I learned that he ate french fries that had been floating in a swimming pool and, as a result, developed severe gastrointestinal distress, so I was excited to see that he’s been discussing politics on X f/k/a Twitter lately. I’ve learned quite a bit, and I might turn on notifications for his tweets, so I don’t miss a single thing he says.

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an ex-couple goes to the mat over IP, a Duchess goes to Netflix with some new ideas, and Orlando Bloom goes to the bottom of the ocean.  Curious about what’s going on with Aoki Lee Simmons and that old guy? Paid subscribers got an explainer this week. Click here to catch up!  Six years ago this month, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan announced they were getting a divorce in one of the most flowery and inane joint statements ever posted to Instagram.

Gerri Santoro was just 28 years-old when she died having an illegal abortion. The Connecticut mother-of-two, who was trying to leave an abusive marriage, died in a motel in 1964. The police photo of her body—slumped over, bloody, and naked—became an iconic pro-choice image. The picture was published in the pages of Ms. magazine with the headline Never Again, and plastered on protest signs when feminists marched for abortion rights before Roe v Wade.

In 1969, in San Francisco, the drummer Mickey Waller came into the Rolling Stone office carrying a copy of the new Rod Stewart album.  It was called The Rod Stewart Album; the cover had black letters on a yellow background. Waller was hoping he could talk someone into reviewing it.  Waller and Stewart were in the Jeff Beck Band together. Beck was the star guitar player who had left the Yardbirds to go solo.

Share Sark is one of the three islands I visited on my walk last month. It is the smallest, too, only 2.10 square miles with a population of about about 600. It is closer to France (24 miles from the north coast) than England (80 miles from the south coast). It is serviced by a small passenger only ferry. Its history is fascinating as it has the last feudal constitution in the western world and residents of days past like Dame Sibyl Hathaway (now passed) who “protected her people with the unlikeliest of weapons: Feudal etiquette, old-world manners, and a dollop of classic snobbery.