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Platinum-selling artist Jason Derulo and Barbie breakout Alexandra Shipp will headline On Air LA Annex with their new romantic thriller podcast Underwater.

Derulo and Shipp will take the stage Nov. 2 at Kcrw’s Annenberg Performance Studio in Santa Monica with an exclusive visual journey into the first episode and audience Q&a, On Air Fest announced Tuesday. The stars will be joined by Allan Coye of Interval Presents, Rich Statter of Clamor and Alex Addison of Temple Hill Entertainment.

Underwater, which premieres Oct. 31 on all major platforms, hails from Warner Music Group’s in-house podcast network Interval Presents and tells the story of Nico and Ana in the form of a narrative album, which features new music from Derulo.

On Air LA Annex is the West Coast spinoff of New York’s On Air Fest and kicks of Nov. 1 with an invite-only business summit. In addition to Underwater, this year...

Fans have joked that The Simpsons were able to predict an unsettling amount of historical developments and pop culture trends over the decades, and it seems that one of them was Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's new Greavard. Pokémon fans have been waiting all year for the release of the Generation Nine games, and Game Freak has slowly unveiled many of the new creatures players will be able to collect and train across Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s European-inspired Paldea region.

One of the most recent Pokémon to be revealed is Greavard, a doglike Ghost-type creature whose presence in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet was leaked a few days before its official unveiling yesterday. While Greavard may look like a cute, shaggy canine, it may actually be one of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s deadliest Pokémon thanks to its unsettling ability to drain the life out of anything that comes near it - even humans.