Directly to You - A Re:Direct Podcast

Directly to You is the podcast from Re:Direct, and the setup is simple: AJ, one guest, and a pile of Nintendo news and playing experience to get through. The guest is the tell. When Colton from The Colton Show is back, AJ says outright that it means Pokemon. Those conversations include a ranking of the mainline Pokemon games while the wait for Gen 10 goes on, a mini review of Pokemon Pokopia, and a return from PAX East 2026 to go back over their Pokemon Champions matches. The match reports get very specific, sometimes painfully so: a Gengar attack that missed, a Hypnosis that took Azumarill out of the fight, an opponent's Quick Claw that made an Aqua Jet pointless. Sierra Plus Ultra's visits come with a different promise, since AJ notes that having Sierra on means Animal Crossing, at least to some degree. That talk sets Animal Crossing's familiar holiday and birthday events against Pokopia, where events hand out new items and give a reason to keep coming back. Dan's appearances come with a small in-joke: his arrival, AJ says, means an episode number ending in zero or five. In the episode with Dan, AJ pushes back on claims that a new Switch 2 update is the most consequential Nintendo has ever shipped. He points instead to the Wii U fix that made that console usable at startup. He still calls the update pretty good, while flagging quirks in how certain games handle it. Mia returns to go through Nintendo's 2025 year-in-review recaps, which get compared to Spotify's version and have their genre labels questioned. The pace is brisk throughout. Sentences run long, double back and restart, and points get tested against another game before they land. That looseness can hide how grounded the talk is. Opinions come from actual play, like Pokopia lanterns that would not glow until electric-type Pokemon showed up, or a first try at the game through the game share feature that went badly, with the blame split between Nintendo and the player. There are bigger theories too, including one first floated years ago: for casual fans, Pokemon is essentially a tutorial. There is room for honest taste as well. In one exchange a speaker insists that knowing every type matchup does not make competitive battling fun. The mood stays warm by default, with bursts of excitement and the odd dry aside. Profanity is treated as normal texture. The conversation also carries over to Twitch, where AJ and Colton mention playing Pokemon FireRed together. The result sounds like people who already share a lot of context, and it pays off most for someone who knows the games.