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Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, & Bellossom
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Absolutely disgusting stank demons or hallucinogenic drugs? You decide! This week we dive into a very unique group of grass pokemon. What seems like cute, lovable, drooly pals may actually be an opium den that smells like the inside of Satan's butt. Enjoy!
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Humorous Musings on Andre 3000
00:00:05
Speaker
I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, but lean a little bit closer, see? Roses really smell like poo poo poo. Welcome to Daycare Dittos. I'm Andre 3000, here with our lovely guests. Hosts. That was a really good one. Promoted to guests.
00:00:31
Speaker
It's like in Futurama when benders like I do not take the iron chef but I become the zinc saucier which comes with double prize money so so so we're guests but we make double what we made double of course it's a. No health insurance though but yeah but I am Andre 3000 here with my friends big boy.
Oddish: A Deep Dive into Pokémon Lore
00:00:54
Speaker
And, um, my big boy or Sarah, you guys can pick. I, there's only two members of our cast. I don't know who Andre 3000 or 2000. I don't even know how many thousands he has. Oh, he evolved, uh, from Andre 1000. And then with the leaf stone, he became 3000 from 2000. It's legit. I believe that. I believe that. Um, yeah. He used to have a, uh, he used to have a cartoon on, uh,
00:01:25
Speaker
Cartoon Network, I feel like. Class of 3000. Yeah. So it was Andre 3000. Yeah. It was like, he was like a Willy Wonka. Like, but for like an art school.
00:01:39
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't even know who he was until afterwards. Also, Sarah, how are you doing? I'm sorry you got demoted. I know, right? I'm doing okay. I'm a little annoyed because, you know, I have a guy who's just hijacking this entire podcast right now.
Oddish's Role and Comparisons in Pokémon
00:01:55
Speaker
Chainsaw is trying to make a statement with his butt, so I'm struggling with that right now. What other way to make a statement?
00:02:03
Speaker
Sarah raised her hand in the podcast. No chainsaw. Chainsaw, yes. You'd have a point you'd like to make about Audish. Oh my God, he's being so obnoxious. Make him say something. Chainsaw, you have the floor. Chainsaw, it's all you, bud. Oh, he's just happy. I'm sorry, guys. We have a dance. Audish.
00:02:31
Speaker
is a vocal one. Audish is number 43. Sure is. Audish is now legal in the state of New Jersey. Yes. I guess we should get right into the odd man. Audish was a good friend of mine because I had the red version growing up and
00:03:00
Speaker
having not started with a Bulbasaur as I'm famous for, not starting with Bulbasaur. He was basically the only way I got through anything that was weak to grass. So hats off to Oddish, the invincible.
00:03:21
Speaker
Quite a, you know, quite a little cute one if I have my way about it. I think he's cute. No, I think he's adorable. Yeah, I like what they do with him, that he basically just wanders around at night like some sort of like crazy, coked up, like narcotics boy.
00:03:48
Speaker
Yeah, because Oddish is nocturnal, and Gloom is too, and Vileplume also, I think. They're all nocturnal, I think, except for Bellossom.
00:03:57
Speaker
They do learn in gold and silver the moonlight ability, I believe. Yeah, I think so. And also they grow from moonlight instead of sunlight, which is pretty interesting. Nice. Well, they're based off of a specific flower. Yeah. It's like a really foul smelling flower.
00:04:20
Speaker
Well, Adish is based off of the Mandrag, right? And then Gloom and Vileplume are based off of the Ruflesia flower, like Venusaur is. And then the Ruflesia flower, of course, doesn't have any chlorophyll, so it wouldn't even need the sun to begin with.
00:04:41
Speaker
chlorophyll, more like borophyll. That's my impression of the riflesia flower. And no one else, nothing Happy Madison related. Yeah, but you were saying red we have on the other side of the oddish coin is bell sprout. And I believe we can all heartily say that bell sprout, at least in comparison to oddish,
00:05:08
Speaker
is the dumb one. It is the lame one. I don't know. Bellsprout's a little wiggly boy. They base towers off of him. Audish screams if you pull his hair. Same. And drools a lot. Also same. Oh, and then also wants to fly for whatever reason. What? It wants to fly?
00:05:38
Speaker
Yeah, that was one of my favorite memories growing up is the anime when they introduced Hoppip in Generation 2. Hoppip, of course, is a grass-flying type and flies in the wind.
00:05:52
Speaker
And there was a little Oddish that was basically like a depressed boy and painted itself pink and tried to throw itself off of cliffs so that it could fly. And then it learned in the end that you can just be a poison type and not a flying type and still be proud of yourself. What an inspiration. Yeah, it'd still be cooler if he could fly though.
00:06:21
Speaker
Like Hoppip is basically just like a helicopter, Oddish. Yeah, yeah, pretty much just pink. You know, I thought about when it comes to the design of Oddish, it's a nocturnal Pokemon, like we said.
Oddish and Mythical Inspirations
00:06:38
Speaker
And during the day, it buries its sensitive body in the ground during the day to avoid the sun and to fool predators.
00:06:50
Speaker
It kind of reminds me of an Octorok. The Zelda villain. Oh, yeah.
00:06:57
Speaker
Yeah. Except it doesn't have a big old sucker on its face. It's probably closer to like one of those Deku guys. Deku scrubs. Yeah. Yeah, actually no. Deku scrub is what I was thinking of. Octoroks just walk around. But aren't there Octoroks that like go underground and then pop out in the water and shoot where you're trying to do stuff? Octoroks are the Dekus of the sea.
00:07:23
Speaker
And decus are the octorocks of plants. An oddish is the decu of Pokemon, but also he's kind of bell sprouty too, if you think about it. It's like an oddish bell sprout would be like a decu scrub. Yeah, I could see that. Answer for this, Nintendo. Nintendo.
00:07:48
Speaker
I know you're listening. Please, after you're done sending us a cease and desist, please answer our questions. Another thing I learned, and this is something that I thought was a Harry Potter spoof and goof about magic, is the mystery of the Mandrake. Did you read about the Mandrake? I did. The only thing I read about the Mandrake is that it's a Mediterranean root plant.
00:08:18
Speaker
And it sometimes looks like a human. That's the only thing. Yeah, that's kind of fucked up. It's weird. But you know what, though? It's not weird because I think Nintendo did a really nice job creating Oddish to look human-ish. Has like little feet and a little bulbous body and some hair without looking really creepy, you know?
00:08:37
Speaker
Oh no, I'm fine with Audish. She's a cute little button. But I mean, like the thing is, like back in the day, people would pull out this plant and how the roots form, it would just look like a fucking body, like a little wooden guy.
00:08:55
Speaker
But I mean, and also to make it even worse, the mandrake root is a hallucinogenic. Enough quantity of the root induces a state of unconsciousness, and it was used as an anesthetic for surgery back in the day, ancient times.
00:09:19
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Also, they would get the juice and finely grate the root and apply it externally to relieve arthritic pains.
00:09:32
Speaker
The juice is loose. It would treat melancholy, convulsions and mania. So if your friend really wants to go to WrestleMania, you can cure them by giving a man Jake.
00:09:50
Speaker
And then they said when I was taken in large doses, it would in quotes excite delirium and madness. Which is like any medicine back then they'd be like, oh, you have postpartum depression. I have a great medicine for you. It's called heroin. I hope you feel better. Like, so this shit is just like.
00:10:15
Speaker
Wild and then shame. We've got your your child has the whooping cough. Why don't you do some cocaine about it? It's just like, hey, your your your brother fucking went nuts. He's shown his dick to oncoming traffic. He's well, I guess the traffic will say the traffic is like Oregon Trail traffic. It's old times.
00:10:36
Speaker
And just be like, but good news. I pulled up what I thought was like a radish and it was, it was dude shaped. So it's cursed. Um, so I'm going to make it into a cocktail and if we give him enough, he'll be like nice and stoned. But if I give him too much, he is going to fucking lose it.
00:10:56
Speaker
He will become a wizard Another thing that's really crazy about it is because they pulled it out and it was just like dude shape of course like what we learned on the Charmander episode where They saw like a salamander running out of their fireplace and they were like fire dragon. That's a fire dragon It has to because it came from the fire because they were pulling like a little dude out of the ground they were like well it obviously had to have been alive and
00:11:23
Speaker
So if you pull one out, then it will scream and cry. And if you hear it, it will fucking kill you.
00:11:37
Speaker
Not only that, you'll go to hell. Yes, you'll also go to hell. I love that, like the town meeting, it's just been like, I found a weird plant if you and someone's like, I heard if you open it, it'll scream. And someone's like, you go to hell if you touch it, you go to hell. And people are like, sounds good. And now we're reading about it on fucking Wikipedia. But also to get the roots out of the ground, to use it for
00:12:02
Speaker
heroin medicine, they would not themselves pull it from the ground, but get like an animal and tie the root to a string and then tie it to the animal so that like, I don't know, they're like, pet rabbit would go to hell or some shit. Oh my god. That would be like, rabbit did it. Pulling out Earth's teeth that look like dudes.
00:12:26
Speaker
But that's like if you pulled your tooth out and went to hell. That's like robbing a bank, but like you tied the money to like a fucking donkey and you were like, didn't do it. Donkey did it. And the police were like, ah, you got us. We have to arrest the donkey, but you're OK. No one's going to hell today because you did math. Well, it's probably like like animal sacrifice. It's like.
00:12:49
Speaker
If you can have the goat take the fall for you banging somebody else's wife, then you're good because God was like, oh, this is a lot of goat blood, and I really like this. Listen, the pharaohs being a fuck, you better kill as many lambs as you can and just spread their gore all over your door.
00:13:11
Speaker
And everyone's like, hooray, Passover. You didn't kill my eldest son. Um, that always made me as the eldest son, a little bit leery that something was going to happen to me someday. If like we ever had a very bad president, you know, from like 2016 on, I don't know what you're talking about. You know, it's like, you know, some sort of like,
00:13:39
Speaker
person wanted to do bad things. And then what if like Moses came and was like, I'm back. I bet you he would pull an audishes hair. Just being a dumb ass that he is, you know, to be like, look at this perfectly good route here. I'm just going to yank on it. Oh, shit. I'm going to hell. But I already knew that. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've I've pulled things out of the ground before.
00:14:14
Speaker
I've pulled like a bulb thing out of the ground and it didn't scream at me, but, you know, I know I'm going to hell because I look next time, better look next time. But but they added a lot of this into the lore. Of course, the screaming oddish, the little man features. And not only that, but he's designed to be a bulb of kind of where she had kind of where she had hands.
00:14:23
Speaker
You know, we've all pulled things we're not proud of. Probably.
00:14:41
Speaker
Yeah, he really can't do anything. He's just a pair of legs. Yeah, he can use his his little leaves as hands. That's something I read. Oh, really? Yeah. In the anime. Oh, like you'll climb up stuff and use like his leaves as like, what is the word that they they call them? They are
Oddish's Name and Design Evolution
00:15:05
Speaker
prehensile leaves.
00:15:07
Speaker
Oh, well. Yeah. Look at me. I'm a science guy. The first time I saw it. Well, speaking of science, actually, Pokemon gave Oddish a scientific name of Odium Wanderes in FireRed and the Y-Pokedex entries. It's referred to as that. Yeah, so it's a scientific phenomenon in the Pokemon world. Odium Wanderes.
00:15:34
Speaker
I think I read that on a Pokemon card once, too. So really? Yeah, that it. That it was Odium wondrous, and I said, yeah, that makes sense. I swear I know that somehow. Like the next time I catch an oddish, I'm going to name it that. Do you think it's like if you grind up an oddish, the hallucinogenic it makes instead of being called opium is called Odium. That's why they name it Odium wondrous.
00:16:04
Speaker
Oh, yes. Like an Odium, then make your mind wander, too. It's true. Either that or it's like they're Pokemon's like guar characters name. But no, I think, yeah, Odium is probably the drug that you can make out of grinding the cute, cute little baby oddishes up. Yeah, Odium is also one of like the evil gods in one of the books that I read, I feel like so.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yes, I think I think that's the the bad dude in one of the Brandon Sanderson books. Of course, I forget things so fast. So brain sand. Love that guy. Yeah. He's but he's weirdly not Mandrake related in the US. They just went like, well, he's underground and he's bulbish. So, of course,
00:16:57
Speaker
Oddish is a combination of odd and radish. Yeah. Which is pretty accurate because blue, you know, the first time I saw an oddish, I thought it was a blueberry that had been plucked poorly from a bush. I'm like, oh, look at this cute little blueberry Pokemon. No, I can see that. You know, I thought radish right away because of the coloration. And I just saw him like he looks blue to me now. But when I was younger, I was just like, oh, he's a
00:17:27
Speaker
He's a little purple boy, or maybe beets. I'm thinking about beets. No, radishes are also red. Radishes are like a nice red. Yeah. In the original games for the first two generations, Oddish was just jet black.
00:17:41
Speaker
Really? And I know there was no color for Pokémon Red and Blue, but it was like extremely dark and they used like the lack of dark pixels like the light to show its features. And that stuck with Oddish into the world of Game Boy Color. But then after Gen 2 with Gold and Silver, they went to that lighter bluish and purples and
00:18:11
Speaker
tones like that for the evolutions. Even Balossum had that in Gen 2. Yeah, Balossum was actually blue before Gen 2. I know it wasn't featured until Gen 2, but any artwork before Gold and Silver, Balossum was blue, not green. And the prototype for it was even purple originally. So the original art, it went from blue to purple to green. Crazy.
00:18:39
Speaker
Who knew? Colors, man. The colors, Duke. The colors. The colors, Duke. The colors. Yeah, it always kind of makes me upset that Pokemon are all one color, unless, of course, you have the mutation that's like one in eight thousand. I feel like much like cats and dogs, Pokemon should be like, you know, different types of colors. That'd be fun.
Personal Pokémon Anecdotes and Plushie Stories
00:19:07
Speaker
I learned something interesting about spinda. Yes. The pattern on spindas are like random. Like it's so rare to find two similar spindas. I had no idea. They put a lot of brain power into that algorithm I bet because I think the odds of you having two spindas with the same patterns is like rarer than getting a shiny.
00:19:37
Speaker
Oh wow, I didn't do that. I never really just think about Aspinda. Oh, and his little always being dizzy. He's probably the most uncomfortable Pokémon, I think. Yeah, he's always on that Odium. Yeah, there's some Pokémon that it's just like, how is this thing alive? How did it evolve over the years? Because Spinda is always dizzy. Psyduck always has a headache.
00:20:08
Speaker
Much like my wife, am I right? I'm just kidding. No, I know, I know. I kind of feel the same way about gloom though. Gloom is always like dribbling and depressed looking and you just look at a gloom and you're like, ugh. Well, it's because it just came out of the odeum den. Yeah. It just smoked a lot of odeum.
00:20:32
Speaker
Speaking of smoking, do you know that the Japanese name for Oddish is Nazanokuzu?
00:20:42
Speaker
which literally means enigmatic grass. Oh. And in France, it's mistherbe, mistherbe, which is M-Y-S-T-H-E-R-B-E. And basically stands for mystery herb. Mr. B, fully loaded. And and then my rapia, my rap me rapa.
00:21:11
Speaker
is the German name, and that basically also stands for mysterious plant. So. They're just like, you know, this is a good time. This is weird. It's an odd radish or a mystery herb or a screaming baby you pull from the crowd. I do have a quick. Oddish was a big part of my high school.
00:21:41
Speaker
You know, growing up because one of my friends dated a girl who had basically all of these audishes that you'd get from like a like a Burger King, like Happy Meal. What are Burger King Happy Meals called?
00:22:00
Speaker
Uh, maybe it was a Burger King big kids meal. Oh yeah. Uh, I feel like it was Burger King for whatever reason. Um, and these little audishes were pretty cute and they were like beanie babies. They had all of the little spider eggs in them and, and this girl would have, would bring them into school every day and sort of like dance around with them and have like a little doll house back at home where they all lived.
00:22:30
Speaker
And I still have the names of all these individual audishes and I can share them with you if if you'd like. I would love for that and with question I forgot to ask because you were telling me you were going to recount these last time and I it just has been in my head it's been bothering me. Did you remember every single one?
00:22:54
Speaker
No, no, I had them written down somewhere. Oh, okay. That's still impressive. Yeah. It was actually before this podcast that I had to pull them all up again, and I would have forgotten all of these if, uh, if not for the podcast. So this is bringing me back to being like 17 again. Um, and, uh, so,
00:23:21
Speaker
Some of my friends growing up, when we hung deep with the Audish family, were potish, hopish, codfish, lowlyish, dragonish, finoodle, fruitish, kudish, toodles, zoopadish,
00:23:43
Speaker
Oddish. Oddy. Cavendish. Scottish. Onion dip. Spoodles. Oodums. Wait, I love spoodles. No, I love onion dip. Onion dip is delicious. Spoodles. Oodums. Dishy pie. Radish pie. Odd radish. And veggie dish. That is impressive. Holy moly. Those are great names.
00:24:13
Speaker
I like spoodles and oodems. She'd have her favorites. Yeah. And I remember this was like a through heist. She always had them on her too. Yeah. And some of them were like worn out because of like all the love that was bestowed upon them every day.
00:24:35
Speaker
Speaking of well-loved and gnarly plushes, uh, as an early birthday gift, Sarah got me the famous from the past episode, uh, KFC Zubat. It is so much more hideous in person, trust me. Aw. It just had, uh, it was the British Zubat because it had gnarly teeth. Yeah, there you go.
00:25:00
Speaker
I love it. It is currently, we have a big fake plant in our apartment, like a big fake tree. And after our Caterpie and Weedle episodes, they got very into Metapod and Cocoona and ordered some. So they are like hidden in the tree and now there's a Zubat in that tree too. Yeah.
00:25:17
Speaker
It's going to become our small Pokemon plush tree. I had a ton of plushies back in the day that people kept on giving to me. Like I was some sort of like a foster's home for unwanted Pokemon plushies. No such thing. And they stayed in my closet for a long time, but eventually I had to get rid of them. So I hope someone else is enjoying them. I don't know what happened to them.
00:25:47
Speaker
I don't remember if I gave him to my cousin or not. But I know that he doesn't have that anymore, so. That would be an interesting, like, toy story adventure. Like, what happened to Peter's Pokemon plushies, you know? Yeah. He used to play with us for two seconds, and then he threw us in a bin in his attic. And there we were. I smell almost as bad as a gloom.
00:26:15
Speaker
Yeah. Shall we move on to this this thingy boy? Yeah. I have one more note for Oddish. OK. One more that because I remember this confusing the shit out of me back in the day in silver, gold and silver. Bill's grandfather asks the player to bring him a round green Pokemon with leaves growing out of its head. It's referring to Oddish, but like
00:26:47
Speaker
Probably skip bloom, I would think. Yeah, like Oddish did not look like that. And when they. Translated it, it was a translation error, but when they did a heart gold, soul silver, they changed it to a blue Pokemon with leaves growing out of its head. But a kind of a fun war thing I realized is that green, a green Oddish was a shiny Oddish.
00:27:16
Speaker
So kind of, uh, maybe he's just a man with class. Yeah. He just like, Hey, if you're bringing an oddish to me, then make it shiny. And that was a cool shiny because it was green skin and then had like kind of like yellowish fall looking leaves. Yeah, that's cool. And that went away after a while. It just became like green on green, which boring.
00:27:42
Speaker
You know, that reminds me of another green shiny Pokemon that I encountered this week in Pokemon Go. Yeah, I found a Shiny Tangla. That's right. And it was so funny too, because Dave and I were walking and we were playing Pokemon Go and he's like, Oh my God, a Tangla. I hope it's shiny. I'm like, Oh, okay. I don't really care about Tangla like that, but I'm going to catch it anyway. And then I was like, Oh shit, I got a Shiny Tangla. It's one of my favorite Pokemon. That's okay. I promise Dave I'll give him the Shiny Tangla.
00:28:11
Speaker
He'll love it more than I will. What a clinky dink.
00:28:22
Speaker
Um, is our shinies super rare in Pokemon go or are they less rare? I, I personally encounter shinies a lot. Um, I, I, I don't know what the, the statistics are behind the shiny encounters, but I get shiny Pokemon at least once a month at the very least. Uh, cause originally, um,
00:28:45
Speaker
There's an egg from a daycare center in crystal that you can get, which is one in 64 chance to be shiny and just a random baby Pokemon. But generally the rule of thumb, and I think they've lowered, they've increased the stats on that now where they're a little bit more common. But I think back in the day, it was like one in 6,000 or one in 8,000 to get a shiny.
00:29:14
Speaker
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm just bringing up. Yeah, that's it. The Burger King Oddishes. Yeah. They kind of look like shit. But then again, like it was a Burger King toy. I think they're fine. Yeah, they're cute. That's they. And there was what, two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 21 of them. 21 of those little guys?
00:29:44
Speaker
Yeah, there might have even been more without names because I feel like maybe at the height there might have been 28 of them. She just kept on. Stolen. Well, you know, my stomach would explode if I had that many kids meals. I don't think we know we got them off of eBay. Oh, this is much later. Old school eBay, although
00:30:09
Speaker
I think that's amazing. I found a plush online of Oddish and it comes with a little pot. So it's like a potted plant and you pull the Oddish out of the stuffed plant. I'm going to buy that. I'm definitely buying that. It's very cute. Very, very cute. Malton, my girlfriend over the weekend, she found out that I'd never had White Castle before and then she bought
00:30:35
Speaker
20 burgers for us. I'm so sorry. And I ate, I think I was able to eat like eight of them. And then she told her brothers and all of her brothers bought White Castle as well. And they all had like, like twice what I could have. Anyway, the entire day I was so sick to my stomach. I normally don't get sick from food, but I,
00:31:04
Speaker
No, White Castle is a whole new level. So you have to plan when you eat White Castle. It was really the bond was so greasy. Yeah. Yeah. White Castle is one of those things. White Castle and Taco Bell, you got to plan your day the next day. Oh, it was really bad. It wouldn't be an episode of Dick or did as if we didn't mention every FNF podcast, Carl, who helped me move one time and all he wanted in return was a crave case.
00:31:32
Speaker
Uh, and he was just like, yeah, how about like, you get your own crave case. I get my own and we'll just like hang out and like each like eat a suitcase of burgers. And I was like, dude, I think you're, I think you're underestimating the power of the crave case. Um, so Carl made it a big point to be the first person to pee in my apartment, my new apartment. Uh, then after the, uh, it's a, it's a big blessing, uh, to be the first person to pee in an apartment.
00:31:59
Speaker
Well, then he was the first person to take a shit in the apartment because of the the Crave case. Then he was ready to head home and there was a knock at the door and he burst in and became the first person to puke in my apartment. All thanks to the Crave case. He did number one, number two and number three.
00:32:19
Speaker
did. What about number four? He did a well what we'd like to call try attack because he used all three of his holes to fire out waste. Now try attack can famously paralyze freeze or burn so which one
00:32:39
Speaker
The peeing certainly isn't burning, so I would say it was chilling pee, because sometimes you get the chills after you pee a good pee. Well, if it burns when you pee, then you should see a doctor. And then a burning shit, and then a puke that paralyzes you. The tri-attack. Yeah. Yeah, I think that works. All right. Now, we're all porygons, aren't we? Or dodrios.
00:33:07
Speaker
Yeah, that's all I had to say about Gloom. You give the lemonade to the girl at the top of the Celadon Tower and she gives you the Tri Attack TM. Oh my gosh, you know. Go ahead.
00:33:24
Speaker
I lied there's one more thing and this is something I'm not I don't remember this it may be newer but in the anime apparently there's a recurring gag as they call it where Ash will hear rustling in a bush and he'll look and it'll just be like an oddish like like apparently it's like a running joke that I had no idea about so I'm gonna put that on my list of things to Google
00:33:49
Speaker
And he doesn't, he doesn't catch it. He doesn't care for Oddish. I think it's just kind of like he thinks something's there and he's like, what is it? And then Oddish is just like, hey, Oddish. Kind of like the, you know, like go and Psyduck would come out instead of like, yeah, like that kind of. Also, we're going to have to post this on our Instagram. Apparently there are an entire there. There's an entire line of Pokemon plushies.
00:34:18
Speaker
that are based on planters. There are hanging plant for Hoppip, Rowlet, Snivy, and there are potted plants I see right now for Shaman, and they are absolutely adorable and very expensive.
00:34:36
Speaker
Oh, that is so cute. I need that. That is the Snivvy. So what we'll post those apparently were Pokemon Center. My guess is usually international Pokemon Center gets the best stuff, but the oddish is worth checking out. So maybe a plush appreciation post what's on its way. Yeah, there's a kid that came to my work two days last week. It was the grandson of one of the ladies I work for. And he
00:35:07
Speaker
He really wanted to talk Pokemon with me and I talked Pokemon with him for like hours and he was he was so happy and he wanted to give me one of his 10 Pokemon cards and I said no I can't take that but now I have
00:35:23
Speaker
Now I have to give him something because I feel like he needs to remember me and the wisdom that I imparted to him. But I also think to myself, I worked really hard for my Pokemon stuff. I don't want to give it away, but yeah, I need to figure something out. And then he told his mother when he went back home, he says, you know, my cousin thinks that she knows everything about Pokemon, but Peter knows the most about Pokemon.
00:35:52
Speaker
Fair my professor Peter in the flesh you know my heart grew three sizes that day meanwhile it's my final week at the school and kids were playing pokemon go and
00:36:07
Speaker
I called them on their shit about, uh, making fun of Sylveon. They're like, why would you have a Sylveon? And I was like, uh, type of vintage and special attack. Did I say this on the last podcast? No, not about Sylveon cause Sylveon made its debut in Pokemon go today.
00:36:24
Speaker
Yeah, so they were talking about Sylveon making his debut and saving shiny Eevees for it. But then later they're like, Mr. Dave, as they called me, you play Pokemon. And I was just like, I said the thing to this new group. I was like, I beat the Elite Four before your parents were dating. And they were like, that can't be true. And I was just like, go home and ask them what they were doing in 1998.
00:36:51
Speaker
And they're like, okay. All right. All right. And like, you only know the old stuff. And I'm like, no, try me. And then they were playing Pictionary and I knew somebody drew a salamance poorly. So when I mentioned to this little boy,
00:37:13
Speaker
that I had been a fan of Pokemon for a long time. I was like, yeah, like 1998, 1997, that's when it came out. He's like, I was born then. And I was like, no, you weren't. You're five now. You have to do the math. Yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, he could have been. And then you think about it's 2021 and people born in 2000 are able to drink this year. Yeah, if he's if he's five years old, then he was born in like
00:37:42
Speaker
But 2016. 2016? Yeah. 2016. That's not fair. I feel like it's five years ago already. That boy can drink. That was Pokemon Go prime right there. As long as no one's looking. He was born when Pokemon Go came out. So maybe that's what he's talking about. Yeah, maybe. He also showed me his favorite Pokemon video, which was a loud influencer dude, like
Exploring Gloom and Vileplume
00:38:09
Speaker
pimping out his two unsuspecting kids for internet fame. He just threw Pokemon plushies all around his house and he had them throw Pokeballs at them. It was the most annoying thing I ever watched in my life, but he thought it was the best thing ever. You want to know what the most cliche cute thing in the world
00:38:31
Speaker
I think online is right now, but I'm definitely doing this with my kids when I have kids. They'll get three starter plushes and they'll put them on the ground and you just let the baby crawl to whichever one and it's like, oh, they picked their starter. It's like super fishy and dumb, but I'm definitely doing it.
00:38:48
Speaker
And if it's not a Bulbasaur, then you're going to throw him out the window. Yeah, exactly. There's going to be four Pokemon and one's going to be the shitty Zubat that I have. And if it does, then we've raised the child to be evil.
00:39:02
Speaker
Okay. Um, so let's do this gloom crap. So gloom is so bad. Possibly the most interesting of all of them because like, I was like, well, what's gloom's, uh, name, what is he named after? They, what are they named after? And it's like, uh,
00:39:23
Speaker
that it's sad because its face is sad and it smells like shit. It's like also also bloom, I guess. But yeah, but don't want to rest. A gloom smells so bad. Like it's nectar. It can it can make it. It's so strong and so foul that you can smell it from over a mile away. And for some Pokemon, it's toxic to them and they can it can make them die if they smell it. And
00:39:52
Speaker
There is this one interesting fact that I found out about its smell, which is so weird because I've actually met someone like this. It says, one in 1,000 humans actually enjoy its smell of a gloom and will use its nectar to make perfumes. And it's similar to, I guess in real life, a skunk smell. Some people really like the way skunks smell and use their like whatever fumes to make perfume. And I think that's disgusting, but some people do
00:40:20
Speaker
enjoy that kind of stench, and I don't know, weird. Yeah. Sarah, there's tons of perverts in this world. There's tons, millions of perverts. They just have a strange schnoz, man. I mean, can't judge their little sniffer. Trust me, how they do it, it's a pervert thing. Is it?
00:40:38
Speaker
No, I'm making this up. But that had to do with Gloom's debut in the anime, Pokémon Sensation, about Erika's Gloom, who saved her when she was a little girl, because she was being attacked by a Grimer. And I think in that one, they talk about how Gloom's Stench is the recipe for creating the special perfume that's made at the
00:41:03
Speaker
So sexist gym. Where but then again, like, you know, you think about women in Pokemon and like that's the only place like they're safe and there's like a fucking like pervert. Speaking of perverts outside who. Yeah, there's a pervert outside of the gym and the video games and then like Brock, you can't have him anywhere close to like half the population.
00:41:30
Speaker
But like the guy outside the gym, he was just like, uh, you, I forget what he said. Something about like, oh, I love the hot babes in this gym, but they won't let me in. And then like later they were like, he was edited down to like, there are a lot of powerful trainers in this gym.
00:41:50
Speaker
Like it's not what they changed it to yeah, it's just like don't look me in the eyes while I'm masturbating and originally it was like yeah, but they censored it down and I think they may have even taken him away from there for like, let's go big June Evie, but
00:42:07
Speaker
In the anime, they won't let anybody join so that you cannot challenge the gym or enter unless you are a girl. So Ash dresses up in drag. Oh, yeah. And I think he says his name is Ashley. And then he'll be like, oh, actually, do you like perfume? And he'll be like, perfumes, girls, I'm a boy. And then they're like, what? And he'd be like, just kidding. I mean, perfume is pretty like it's it's fucking stupid, but yeah.
00:42:36
Speaker
And Gloom was the hero. It works out well because Ash's voice is also, it's fairly gender neutral. True. It's just like a smoky little kid's voice, so you can't really tell.
00:42:56
Speaker
famously voiced by a female. That's what I thought. Yeah. A lot of young male characters are voiced by females. Yeah. Bart Simpson, Tommy Pickles. Wow. I love that we have the same names to pull. Yeah. Of course not Brock because that's Kaiba. Seto Kaiba. Yeah.
00:43:20
Speaker
Do you know that? I know this is not a Yu-Gi-Oh podcast, but do you know, like in the original, it is now. Sorry. Uh, do you know that in the original anime, like, you know, they talk about like the shadow realm or some shit, like basically like Yu-Gi's grandpa gets into the shadow realm. And if you lose in the card game, you get sent to this, like, basically like shadow prison where you like.
00:43:44
Speaker
Just get you know you have to get rescued from it and come back yeah coffee bowl torture all day long yeah originally it was just you dying go to hell.
Yu-Gi-Oh's Dark Themes and Comparisons
00:43:54
Speaker
Imagine losing a game of like go fish and it's just like sorry you go to hell you're dead your grandpa's dead because rock beat him with dragons.
00:44:03
Speaker
I mean, it's famously now Yu-Gi-Oh! is on every YouTube video where it's like, oh, did you know that the season that you watched from 4Kids was actually the second season? And the first season was based off of the original manga, and the original manga had a
00:44:21
Speaker
Russian roulette and rape and, uh, like people being set on fire with gasoline and he was just sitting there and he was like laughing and just so happy that people were dying around him because they lost his silly games. At the beginning, I thought you were very serious. No, it's, it's, I am very serious. It's called season zero of Yu-Gi-Oh! You could look it up. There's like, um, like, uh,
00:44:51
Speaker
in one of them like one of the like bad guys of like a local gang like touches Taya the wrong way so he's like well how about this we'll do a we'll douse ourselves in gasoline and then we'll play like uh with this lighter and the person who sets themselves on fire first loses and then um
00:45:17
Speaker
He uses his shadow magic to make the guy think that he's permanently on fire and then he's just sitting there screaming until he goes into cardiac arrest because the fake fire is so torturous to him. I might be exaggerating a little bit, but I actually might be playing it down a little bit too.
00:45:41
Speaker
That is, okay, podcast over. We're a Yu-Gi-Oh podcast now. And then, is Joey there? And Joey's just like, hey, Yu, who wants to see my dick? Like, he's always the character where like, even though you're a child, you're like, this guy should be allowed to say fuck in this show. Just- What I like about that is, like, his name is Yu-Gi-Moto, but like, whenever, like,
00:46:06
Speaker
I mean, Joey Wheeler saying that with his like Brooklyn accent, like, yeah, yolks! It's just like so perfect. Like, I, I... Hey, I'm Yogan here. It feels so natural. Like, if, like, there was a foreign exchange student to like a, like a school in the city, like, they'd just be hanging out. And like, that'd be a normal nickname to give your friend Yu-Gi-Moto and his, uh,
00:46:35
Speaker
his grandfather, who's famously in hell. Hey, Yugz, let me see that dog magician game again. You got a blue eyes, a blue eyes, white dragon, or whatever it is. Yugi, thank you for teaching me how to play this game so I could save my sister's eyes. And they all get possessed by like Egyptian gods and shit. It's fucking wild. You guys think Pokemon's weird? Yugioh is just like,
00:47:05
Speaker
Like fucking Cleopatra goes into your brain and makes you send your, like, neighbor to hell. It's fucked up.
00:47:11
Speaker
Pokemon is so not weird because I've naturalized it in my head.
Vileplume's Botanical and Evolutionary Insights
00:47:17
Speaker
I could wake up one day and there'd be a Pidgey outside and I'd be like, oh, this is just normal because it's what I've wanted for so long. Also, have you guys ever been really close to a skunk spraying? Because that'll absolutely burn your nose. It'll be gone. Not for the 1 in 1,000 people out there, though.
00:47:42
Speaker
Um, I once there was a, uh, a caged skunk, uh, that somebody brought into the parking lot of a place that I worked. And then I saw like with my own eyes, it like just spraying. It's like fine mist all over the parking lot. And I could not smell anything other than like the strong skunk smell for like
00:48:11
Speaker
I feel like it was like two and a half months. Oh my god. Holy shit. Yeah. It just burned my, my, my nostrils and they was permanently stuck on skunk smell. Gloom. Gloom does that too. Like if, if gloom's getting attacked, it'll just start like shitting. Like it just starts farting like as much as it can. And it'll just, it'll kill you. You'll just die.
00:48:36
Speaker
And that also kind of reminded me of back in high school, we couldn't have peanut products because, you know, some kids were deathly allergic to peanuts. Like gloom is probably like the peanuts, except for you can't be within a mile of it. I mean, that sucks. Yeah. Gloom doesn't kill humans. Vial plume can actually kill a human with its smell. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:01
Speaker
And it all comes back to the flower that they're based on, the riflesia arnoldi, which we talked about a lot as it's the same flower on the back. And it is a flower known as the corpse flower because of its unpleasant odor. It smells like decaying flesh native to the rainforest of Sumatra and Borneo.
00:49:28
Speaker
It has basically just think of vital plumes head the top of Venus or they just have such a hard on for this flower because it also is. I mean, it doesn't have chlorophyll, as we said, because it eats small mammals and bugs. Fantastic. And yeah, honestly, like the more we talk about this flower, the more I want to see it in person.
00:49:54
Speaker
It smells like shit. I want to see it. Let's go to Borneo. Yeah, I want to see this flower. Man, I'm Hornio for going to Borneo. We're now Borneo podcast, everybody. Yeah. Forget everything you thought you knew about us. Forget everything you thought you knew about Gloom.
00:50:17
Speaker
Actually, I still have more to say because I forgot about its names. Do you know that in Japan, it's called Kusayana, which means stinking flower. In France, it's called Ortide, Gloom, Doofler in German, which stands for duffed floor. And the thing that I think is funny is that it is the weed Pokemon.
00:50:45
Speaker
It's not the flower Pokemon. Just like Oddish. It is the weed Pokemon and which is crazy because just by looking at this Pokemon, you can tell it is stoned out of its fucking mind. Yeah, maybe it ate an Oddish and that's why it looks like that. First of all, it's depressed because it ate its child or whatever and it's now high on Odium.
00:51:06
Speaker
I love how it's got two ways that its eyes can be. It can either be stoned out of its mind. You can't see it. It's like Brock. It doesn't have eyes. Or it has wide open screaming, like, I am having the worst trip of my life eyes. So yes, it's either stoned or having a bad trip.
00:51:35
Speaker
It's not actually drool, but nectar coming from its mouth. And it smells like shit, but at the same time, it can also pollinate and help things grow. Well, everything has to grow from something, you know? So it's more jizz than drool. And sometimes my dog likes me better when I smell really bad. So who's, you know, different strokes for different folks.
00:52:03
Speaker
Um, the only other thing I have to say about this too is I got a strong, like, cause I, I'm always, you know, I watch a lot of, uh,
00:52:12
Speaker
food videos online, and one of them is, of course, binging with Babish. And he's always talking about how he frickin' hates cilantro, and reminding us that a certain number of people have bad... Not bad. I'm gonna sound like Hitler if I say bad genetics, but I have off-genetics where cilantro tastes like soap,
00:52:41
Speaker
Sorry, I also, yeah, I also think that like, you know, it's weird that it's it's pretty common that a certain gene being flipped on and off in humans will make us like, sense the world differently.
00:52:57
Speaker
And sometimes when you're just stoned in like a college dorm, you start to talk to your friends and you're just like, what if your red is like my blue? And what if your brown is like my gold? And like, you know, would that be weird? I still think about shit like that. I think, well, because I really thought about this in college when I was taking a perception class and we were talking about that phenomenon, you know,
00:53:22
Speaker
And it's like, well, you were taught that this shade of whatever I'm showing you is purple, for example. But like, what if you're actually seeing green, but you just know this is purple because that's what I've told you your whole life. How do you actually know you're seeing purple? You don't know. Dang, I can talk about it all the time.
00:53:38
Speaker
I should do a social experiment someday when I have a kid where I teach them all the wrong things, and I just tell them that that's just how they see the world. No, but then your kid is going to be diagnosed with colorblindness, and they probably won't be colorblind. They'll just know the shit wrong. Well, I probably won't do that. You guys sound like you're smoking the gloom. I'll smoke the gloom. Let's do it.
00:54:08
Speaker
Oh, you want to roll it up into a vial plume? Yeah, there we go. Well, if you happen to get leaf stoned, then you would evolve into vial plume, which is, of course, the best segue. Oh, that was the best transition ever. Let's keep the podcast over. That's the vial plume is a combination of violent plume. That's it. That's all we got to say.
00:54:36
Speaker
Moving on, the lossom. The Japanese name is literally rifresia, which is just the corruption of the riflesia plant that they're horny for, that they love. It sounds a little fresher, though, with the R in there. Instead of riflesia, it's like rifresia.
00:54:57
Speaker
Sounds like something you put your contacts in, like a contact solution. Refresia. Yeah, it does include. Yeah, it just it sounds fresher than it should be because it's it's a, you know, stinky corpse flower. Yeah, I mean, Vile Plume is considered the flower Pokemon, but it's by all by no means a nice smell like flower. It is just as vile as its name suggests. If not more vile than Gloom.
00:55:27
Speaker
but at least it's got a smile on its face, you know? It's embracing its stench. It's cute. It's pretty cute, yeah. It's cute. Yeah. It's like, it very much is an evolution to Oddish. Yeah. Like you look at him and you're like, all right, he's got arms now. His head is all grown up and he can really dish out some damage. Big ass head. Oh, biggest flower, largest petals in the world, they say.
00:55:53
Speaker
So I look at Gloom and I look at Vileplume and I'm like, so Gloom is like the fucked up stoner kid who never grew up and it still lives in his parents' house. And Vileplume is just like the blossoming adult, right? Yeah. Well, we all wear Glooms at one point. We smelled bad. We didn't take care of ourselves. And we... Blossom was like the sister that like... We had Jizz coming out of our mouth.
00:56:18
Speaker
Gloom had like no attention, but meanwhile they were bringing the sister, Blossom, to all of her like dance meets and her gymnastics stuff. And she was like the prize. So you're saying Gloom is like Cinderella? I'd say like Gloom is like Donnie Darko. And, uh, Blossom is in sparkle motion. Yeah. Blossom is definitely like the prize child. And like Vileplume could just be like, you know,
00:56:47
Speaker
Your average, just your average Joe's like, yeah, okay, you're cool. You're not, you're not a total fuck up, but you're not a blossom. So, um, sizing. How big did you think vile plume was? Um, I thought vile plume was bigger than, than what it is vile plumes, only three feet, 11 inches and 41 pounds.
00:57:09
Speaker
I don't know. I thought it was much bigger than it just because how, how like the riflesia flowers described to be the biggest flower, uh, petaled. Yeah. I feel like the real flower is probably bigger than vial plume is, but I also kind of begged vial plume for being around, um, that height. Well, the only reason I expected vial plume to be larger is because venusaur is,
00:57:37
Speaker
immense compared to Vileplume. We talked about like Venusaur is like, yeah, Venusaur is six feet, 220 pounds, and is based off of this same flower.
00:57:51
Speaker
So i'm like alright so Vileplume's got to be a big big boy but it's not. Especially because Vileplume's flower is supposed to be bigger than Venusaur's. That's true. But they say that even Vileplume can't
00:58:13
Speaker
carry the weight sometimes of its own noggin. So that makes sense. Um, but this is what I thought was interesting. So basically let's call it, it's an inch short, but let's call it four feet for vile plume at 41 pounds. Gloom two feet, seven inches at 19 pounds. You give it a leaf stone. It goes up to four feet, almost. Well, I wouldn't say doubled in size. It's a little bit less doubles its weight.
00:58:40
Speaker
But if you give it a sunstone and it becomes a blossom, it goes to half the height and loses weight. It's called a glow up. Listen, it lost the pressure to 15. No, it's a glow down.
00:58:53
Speaker
No, it's a glow up. It lost to freshman 15. It got in shape. It got pretty. It's shorter than Audish. If you shrink more than half your height, that's not a glow up. That's not working out. It got a haircut. You need a doctor. You are in the hospice.
00:59:13
Speaker
Or it was a terrible lieutenant dam or accident. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. I did read something that Bellossom actually doesn't have feet and that it uses its, you know, it uses this like, like hula leaves to, to stand up and move around. So here's my theory. Gloom has feet. So Gloom, if it goes into, if it evolves into Bellossom gets its feet chopped off because it's just such a miserable shit. And it just, it's just, its feet was causing it to be such a, such a gloomy, smelly asshole. And,
00:59:43
Speaker
because of its smelly feet being missing, it just blossomed into a blossom. So that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. Do you know how much a leg weighs? Listen, legs could be half of your weight. That makes sense. So if you cut off Gloom's legs and it turns into a blossom who doesn't have legs, there you go.
01:00:05
Speaker
If you don't have legs, your heart needs to compensate for the fact that it doesn't have to pump blood so much either. Dude, exactly. That's what I'm saying. A glow up. Gloom has little noodle legs. It's not like it's got these beefy, rapid ash legs. Okay, fine, fine. Its legs are puny, but look at his feet, dude. It's got big ass feet.
01:00:30
Speaker
Those feet will be heavy. Yeah, they're stinky feet, too. So you eliminate the stinky feet and you've got a beautiful smelling blossom. Yeah, but then you get your half the height. You lost your legs, dude. No, but you still have a big skirt area that's the same size as legs. Yeah, that's how I tell I love a tape, bro. I mean, also blossom looks nothing like it. So, listen, if you if you also what I looked like when I was 14 versus now,
01:01:00
Speaker
That is true. You are half the height and lost your legs. Dave recently shared a photo of me as a younger man. Yeah, that was gold. OK, this is Oddish next to a blossom for size. That's not to scale. That's not to scale because look at the vial plume right next to them. Well, that was just. All right. All right. Listeners, we need a verdict here. Who who thinks that my theory could be true?
01:01:30
Speaker
No one. I don't I don't buy it. I really appreciate it, man. I just well, I mean, yeah. All right, you get you get irradiated by the the strong rays from the sunstone.
01:01:51
Speaker
I don't know. I think it's as good of a theory as any because I don't have a theory. Also, go ahead. Mine is, I mean, it's a Pokemon that basically spends all of its time underground and in the moonlight, maybe by getting its sun, it withers down. There you go. It gets dehydrated. Do you know how much water weight is? A lot. It's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe Gloom is just bloated with
01:02:21
Speaker
nectary fluids. Engorged with stinky nectar. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I love that it's just like, it's just like, yeah, I'm done stinking. It's like, yeah, when a kid gets uterine, he's like axe body spray and now I'm a blossom. There you go. I also, you know, I'm not old enough yet to have my first colonoscoping.
01:02:44
Speaker
But apparently when you purge yourself of all of the shit that just stays in your system and it's just like, you know, working its way out, you lose like a lot of weight. I knew somebody who had to get a colonoscopy when I was in college.
01:03:01
Speaker
And it was fucking insane. It was crazy. They lost 13 pounds in a day. There you go. A single fucking day. I couldn't believe it. I was like, you're fucking lying. You're lying. You're full of shit. Literally. They're like, yo, this is some serious shit. I shit the bed four times. Like, oh my God, you guys better be prepared when you need to get a colonoscopy. I'm telling you, that shit is no joke.
01:03:28
Speaker
Well, I'm getting there. When do you have to start getting it at 40 or something? I thought it was like 50. Eh, maybe. I know that your insurance doesn't cover it until you reach that age because they're just like, it's preventative care. We don't want you to get ass cancer, but like also we're only going to pay for it once every 10 years and not until you hit 50 years old. Trust me, you don't want it more than once in 10 years. It's like how you don't like, you know,
01:03:58
Speaker
I'm curious. No, you're not. Dude, I felt so bad for this friend of mine. I always hear about these cleansing diets and I'm like, if I shit really good, do you think I'd feel better? Because I always feel really bad. Yeah, me too. I have a perpetual stomach ache at all times. Yeah, just a low grade headache. Yeah, I'm a side duck, but with belly aches.
01:04:26
Speaker
Yeah, but anyway, blossom. What's your theory? Is it shit pollen being expelled? Is it legs being chopped off? I think it's a little of both. It's beauty. It's inner beauty coming out. As we all know, small things are cute. Yes. And that's why it gets its Japanese name, kurehana, which is a combination of pretty, bell, and flower.
01:04:55
Speaker
Well, that just describes a Bellossom in three little words. I love that. It's super sweet. Also, Vileplume is probably better competitively than Bellossom. So sometimes you got to have a little weight behind you to really put down the snack. Yeah, I found one interesting thing about Bellossom and it's the only single type Pokemon that evolves from a dual type Pokemon. Yes. I thought that was pretty cool. I never really thought about that.
01:05:24
Speaker
Well, it did get it lost half its weight, so it probably lost the type with it. Yeah. Poison types weigh about. Was that six pounds and about one foot and three inches. That's how much a poison type is. Um.
01:05:48
Speaker
We're hitting Bellossom and Vileplume at the same time, I'm guessing. Yeah. Because I do have one... I think this is just a beautiful sentence. One Pokedex entry for Vileplume from Pokemon Silver. And I just want to read it to you. The bud bursts into bloom with a bang. It then starts scattering allergenic poisonous pollen.
01:06:17
Speaker
Look at that alliteration there, though. Bud bursts into bloom with a bang, and then poisonous pollen. They were really having fun with that Pokedex entry. I blew my balls.
01:06:32
Speaker
Oh, both. I think, bang, bang my balls. I banged by balls against the of the. Ballerina. I don't know. I was trying to think of like a common thing in the house that starts with a B. No, more more balls. Other balls. Chainsaw, the ballerina.
01:07:02
Speaker
Boxes. A bong. A bong. There you go. I boxed my big bangy bowls against the blossom. Nope, don't do that. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't try that at home, kids.
01:07:14
Speaker
I went through all my notes, which also I finished right before we started recording, so that kind of makes sense. I think we did. We said it all.
Bellossom's Evolution and Trivia
01:07:27
Speaker
One of the other last things I have about Blossom is what always bothered me about Blossom is that it does not bud.
01:07:37
Speaker
burst into bloom with a bang. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, you can throw a blossom out of the Pokeball, and it does the Sweet Sent move, and it lulls the opponent to sleep, but Sweet Sent does not do that. So, you know, check that. Sweet Sent is supposed to, has a field effect to get you into a random battle right away.
01:08:06
Speaker
I don't know if it kept that effect or if it just makes you more likely to get into encounters now. I seem to remember it changed. But in battle, it decreases an opponent's evasiveness. It makes them easier to hit. And the other thing that I had, and I don't... Oh, so if you had a smelly gloom,
01:08:32
Speaker
Which I do. The smellier your gloom is, the more you're going to want to evolve it into a blossom because it gets prettier and more vibrant, the smellier your gloom was. So the more offensive your gloom is, the higher up your legs will be chopped off. So it's more of like a pretty woman or what's the movie with like the
01:09:01
Speaker
where they take the prostitute and it's like presenting. It's like a classic. I've never seen a movie before. I hope to one day. Let's call it Miss Congeniality. Have we seen that? So it's, you know. Well, I have a little game for you guys. Which of our four lovely plant weed flower Pokemon here do you think has the most appearances on Pokemon cards?
01:09:31
Speaker
I'm gonna guess Gloom. Gloom, okay. Oddish. It's the coolest looking one. Oddish. All right, final answers. Dave is right. I win. Oddish appears on 22 cards in the TCG and debuted in the jungle expansion. Gloom is on 18 cards, also from the jungle expansion. Vileplume, 15 cards, jungle as well. And Bellossom, I was surprised because my guess was gonna be Bellossom. I just think Bellossom is the most popular out of all of them.
01:09:59
Speaker
It's only on the 11 cards and it debuted in NeoGenesis. I had one of them, those OG blossom cards, but it got stolen from me. No, oh my goodness. Fucking Team Rocket.
Nostalgia and Community Engagement
01:10:11
Speaker
I got my blossom, my Lugia, and my Ampharos stolen in one day. Damn. A day that we still make sure- A day that lives in infamy. We always pour one out for the pokes that were lost. Yeah. Well, I know the kid who took it.
01:10:30
Speaker
Um, you just got to set, you got to put up a gloom in that kid's, uh, bedroom, like hide it somewhere. I mean, that's why he's not one of the 1000 people who likes to smell. Yeah. You chop the legs off. So the gloom can't move. And then you, if it comes up a loss and it smells good, you don't want him to smell good things. Um, uh,
01:10:57
Speaker
I've forgiven him, although I really do wish I had those cards still. So let's kick his ass. Just, uh, you know what? Check our Instagram, uh, daycare dittos for this person's address. And we can all go. And if not, uh, I don't know where he lives. We'll find out anymore. Speaking of the Graham, welcome to our over 200 followers that found us this week. We're so grateful for you and hope you enjoy our content and ridiculous ridiculousness. Um,
01:11:26
Speaker
Yeah, let us know what you want to see, what you want to hear, and we will gladly oblige. If you want to vote one of us off to be a permanent guest status, let us know. I vote for Chainsaw the Cat.
01:11:44
Speaker
Chainsaw's going to be promoted to like executives. I wish I could. I wish podcasts were visual. Also, because you just you should see my floor. He destroyed everything in my office right now. I might be entered out. We'll see if he makes it into the final episode. Big shout outs to Dave for doing I.T. work while we're recording a podcast because I
01:12:11
Speaker
It makes it a lot easier to record a podcast when it's just all the computers are working. Thank you. We're moving. We're moving. Well, time to record or put this shit together and get it onto the interwaves for tomorrow morning.
01:12:28
Speaker
And with that, follow us on Instagram, our social media, at daycarediddos. If you can in any way leave a review, we would love to see it and shout it out on the show. If you guys have anything to plug other than the gross fucking butthole of a gloom.
01:12:51
Speaker
I was watching Carl's Twitch the other day, and he was doing his stream, and he was telling us that Ed is doing well, and I'm very happy that Ed is still alive and kicking after having a run-in with the devil.
01:13:17
Speaker
I was able to see him last weekend and he is up and kicking. He pissed on the devil's shoes. He's the coolest man. If I had a brush with death, I wouldn't say I pissed on the devil's shoes. I'd be crying in a corner.
01:13:36
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I'm thinking about mortality. It's feeling like a glue. If if my heart exploded, I wouldn't drive to the Wawa before driving myself to the hospital. I would just die. I am not a bad enough dude, but he is the baddest of them all wrestled him once. Strong man. The story don't smell like a gloom and don't have your heart explode. And if you do drive to the hospital,
01:14:02
Speaker
Yeah. And then if somebody uses the exploding heart technique on you, get a Wawa first. All right. And with that, another episode and goodbye. Goodbye. We love you.