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Mareep, Flaaffy, & Ampharos
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece stored electricity and will stop your heart if you try to pet it. There is a lot to say about this evolutions line. While fans cannot agree why it goes from sheep, to balding naked pink thing, to a giraffe lighthouse, the general consensus is, this thing is pretty cool.
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Daycare Diddos and Summer Fun
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Daycare Diddos. I'm Mareep, and I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. Peter, you're the guy who does the intros.
00:02:38
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Yeah, I'm sorry. I was busy this week, and I didn't have an intro. And then we were kind of spitballing. And then Dave said that he had a good one, and it was a good one. It was a great one. And sometimes when you open up, you miss hearing the jokes. Yeah, I don't give a hoot. It's summer vacay. Well, I'm going to hit a beach ball.
00:03:09
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I'm going to spike a volleyball and win the high school star. Make sure you stay hydrated out there. Yeah. If only there was a stick for that. I think there is. Guys, what kind of a ball based summer things are you going to be doing, Steven and Sarah?
00:03:34
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Oh, geez. Do they have to be ball based? I don't know. I did a ball one. Peter did a ball one. I feel like we got to keep rolling with it. Get it? That's also a ball joke. Badminton. That's my favorite thing with shuttlecocks. But badminton, wait, but bad. It's not a ball. It's a ball attached to a shuttlecock. OK. Well, I know I'm not going to get my balls sandy and sand.
00:03:58
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Hmm. Hate getting sand in my my creases. Oh, yeah. I have more creases. I have less creases now. Nothing like finding sand like three weeks after the last time you've been to a beach.
Nostalgia and Childhood Memories
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I remember like the end. This is a weird memory of like childhood, but you remember like being at the beach
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or like at the end of the summer, you check your hair and there's still some sand in it. Yeah. Yeah, totally. We would get more exposure to the sand by the artificial. I think that was a manmade lake where we learned how to swim. Yes. The North Cove. Yeah. It was
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just a lake, but it had some sand and stuff. And that's where we would trade our Pokemon cards.
00:05:00
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That's where I learned how to fish. They had the rustiest playground and the tastiest French fries. Actually, I had a story there. I will always remember this. I was taking swimming lessons and it was early in the morning and it was very cold. And some girl came over and she said, you have goosebumps. And I was like, why, yes, I do. I have so many of those books at home.
00:05:30
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I said, how did you know that? And she said, no, like you have goosebumps. And I was like, yes, yes. I have like a few of them. The dummy one is the scariest one. She said, no, like you physically have. And that's when I learned what goosebumps were. And I was like, oh, yes, I definitely do have that, too. It's cold as fuck out here. That's what you said. Yeah. I love that you learned about goosebumps, the books before what actual goosebumps were.
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Oh, yeah. Some people call that chicken skin.
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Some people call it goose flesh chicken skin. That's what they call goosebumps. Yeah, really. Yeah, I am.
Technology and Consumer Culture
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I call it a million tiny nipples. Yeah. Like that Vincent Fry book or whatever the guy who lied. Yeah. Thousand tiny pieces or a thousand tiny nipples. You know, I read I read something the other day about goosebumps, how some people who listen to music that really moves them
00:06:29
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can get goosebumps, but not everyone can do that. Like it's a thing. I read something about goosebumps the other day. Arlstein wrote 62 of the original books, but has continued writing them consistently and has one he's saying is the scariest book ever coming out in October. Can you believe it? He says that like every time he releases a book though, right? He'll be like, I have to say this is my best one ever.
00:06:55
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He'll say but this is the one like he always says something stupid. This time he said it's the scariest book ever. Not his best book. Not his scariest book. Not the scariest children's book. The scariest book ever. Eat shit. The Shining gift fucked Salem's lot.
00:07:15
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He's not the only one. Go to hell with the Bible. He's not the only one who does that though. Think about every iPhone that comes out and Tim Cook is like, this is the best phone yet. No, he says this is the best iPhone yet, which is true because it's the new iPhone with better shit in it.
00:07:32
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But I don't know. I mean, he just probably is he either really thinks that and you know, at least he's confident in himself or he does it to drum up sales. I just imagine the press conference where he comes out and he says this is the worst iPhone we've ever released. Honestly, I think people would buy it more. Maybe.
00:08:00
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I came out and said, yeah, this one's a stinker. I'd be like, oh, fuck, yeah, let's read it. People love to be nagged. You won't buy this piece of shit. Piece of shit.
00:08:13
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I don't think there's anything besides my phone breaking at this point in phone development that will make me buy a phone. My phone has to physically break in my hand because nothing has changed for so many years now. Yes, that is true. I agree. I usually get a new iPhone every year because I'm a stupid Apple fan girl, but this year
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All I wanted in my phone was for it to be purple and for it to have a good camera and now I have that and I just don't see myself buying a new iPhone until like you said it's broken or
00:08:51
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If they came out with a phone, right? And it did a couple of things, right? That's the only way that I would buy the phone. The phone has to have at least a 5,000 milliamp battery so that it could last for two days straight. It has to have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so I can use my analog headphones. Oh, yes. And that's it.
00:09:20
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But that's really it. That's all I want. And so my phone has that. Not going to change. Your current phone has a headphone track? Yeah. Wow. Android baby. I'm Team Hello Moto for life. It's, I think, owned by Lenovo now, but, you know, same difference.
00:09:47
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Tell us what your favorite 1% of the share of all phone carriers phone you have.
00:09:59
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Tell me, oh, I've actually, since I've been on the dating scene again, nobody talks to me. And then if I do end up texting a girl and they see I have an Android, sometimes they say, no, thank you. And then that weeds them out too, because I only date girls who have Androids. There you go. You heard it here, single ladies, single ladies with Androids. Peter, very handsome Peter is,
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Open to chat. Only Windows Phone. Oh, so it can't even be an Android. It has to be a Windows Android. No, the Windows phones don't exist anymore. This is a Microsoft only household. He won't even get a drink with you unless you listen to your music with a Zoom.
00:10:49
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Yeah. My mom has a Zoom that I gave her from when I was a kid. Peter, she's taken. Back off, Peter. My mom texted me the other day. Wow. She texted me the other day with a sad crying emoji, and she's like, well, I think the Zoom is dead. It had this weird screen on there, staticky screen. Did you save it? What do you mean? Did you save the Zoom?
00:11:16
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Oh yeah, my mom still has it. It's a relic now. She's gonna keep it forever just, you know, for a keepsake. But she had it for like 25 years. But it's dead now. It's dead. Which is crazy, cuz Zunes, like one of the big things is that they just like didn't last.
00:11:32
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So she just like took the best care of his own ever. I think mine lasted like three months before I needed to return it to Best Buy because it had broken. Oh, I loved it because it was actually a great color. But I had a pink one. Yeah. Yeah. So pink. So nice. I had a really nice iPod that I got for my birthday once. And it also lasted three months. And then I tried to plug it in to sink it.
00:12:00
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And I just died. Wow. I gave up the ghost and I brought it to the genius bar, but I didn't have friends who worked there yet. And they said, yeah, I can't do anything with this. I was like, oh, OK. Wow. I just threw it directly in the trash in the mall. Mareep could have charged it. I'm sure I could have fixed it. If I just kept the hold of it, I could have had like
00:12:28
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I saw Malform do some like funny things with his exact model, like that exact model, taking the old whirly hard drive out and putting like my trusty card in there. I was like, shit, I could have done that if I just held on to it for all of these years. Was that the one that had like marriage oblige on the
00:12:53
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box. It was like the classic, the iPod classic, the last one that they released. Yeah, it was that one. I had the one that had the gorillas on the front, I believe. Oh, that's so amazing. Yeah, the 2006 iPod video, it still works. I still have it. Crazy. I technically still have a 512 megabyte iPod shuffle. So nice. Yeah.
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That's a lot of gigabytes for a shuffle. Megabyte. Megabyte, oh my God. Yeah. Held like 50 songs. Yeah, it's fine. I bet that's the only amount of songs Cisco ever made, so. Yeah. It's perfect. So did you guys know that there's a Pokemon in this evolution that made the top 30 for Johto in 2020 and 2021?
Pokémon Discussions and Trivia
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Can you guess which one it was?
00:13:51
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Was it Ampharos? Or Flaffy? Maybe? Mareep. It was Ampharos. Mareep, surprisingly, not on the list.
00:14:02
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Mareep is the cutest of all of them. How is that even possible? I agree. So in 2020, Ampharos was number six behind Caesar and in front of the Espeon. And I was going to get the 2020 overall, but the Pokemon Reddit is currently
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Yeah, boycotting. Yeah, the third party, whatever. So I couldn't use the image from that post that I always use. So we'll never know. It's overall, but it's pretty good. And then in 2021, it dropped to 11th out of Johto with right behind Steelix and in front of Colaba. It's a it's a nice place to be, I feel like there's a lot of amphorous stands.
00:14:51
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Yeah. I mean, Marie, when I saw it for the first time as a child, I was like, hell yeah. Immediately. I mean, you know, I have a soft spot for electric Pokemon and I loved this Pokemon.
00:15:09
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The thing too is in the old, this was one of the games where like something would evolve and you'd be like, what does shit like? Cause there was, it was very early internet. You didn't have a full Pokedex to look at like.
00:15:23
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It was still new. It was still exciting. So I remember my, my older brother having an Ampharos and I was like, Oh, that's probably exclusive to your game. Like, how the fuck did you get that? And he's like, this is Marie. And I was like, what the shit? Like, because you see the little cute sheep and then it becomes like the awkward teenage sheep. Then it becomes like turbo electric giraffe lighthouse. What the fuck? Yeah. Ampharosis does not pull sheep at all.
00:15:52
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I never fully understood the evil I was just like okay sure if that's how it is but like to your point too there were some pokemon where you didn't even know if they evolved you were just like oh maybe this one all evolve if I do something and you would just keep it in your party and then it would
00:16:11
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you know, just be, I don't know, a giraffe rig. Yeah. Be like, all right, well, you're 60 now I'm putting you in the box. Like, I remember catching new Pokemon and then putting him in my party and going like through all the stones. Because there are always like, certain stones that don't fucking matter.
00:16:32
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Like, you know, be like, oh, the shiny stone or like stuff that's like you just are hold items or different things. And I'd always like take them out and be like, is he going to evolve? Like you have no idea. That's one thing I have to say. I I missed not growing up with these games.
00:16:50
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was the fact that now when I play Pokemon and when I started playing Pokemon everything is on the internet so you know what is gonna evolve into what there's no suspense anymore and I kind of that's the only thing I kind of regret not playing the games as a child because there wasn't anything to
00:17:06
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Kind of below the cover of what the evolution line was gonna be, you know There's not that element of surprise anymore because I can't help myself. I have no discipline. I'm gonna look on the internet Well, I mean I the one thing I will say is that at least net in modern-day Pokemon There are so many Pokemon that now evolve in totally bullshit ways that have to look it up sometimes I had that issue in scarlet and violet all the time where I was like
00:17:31
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Do I keep this Pokemon in my party because they haven't evolved yet and they're level 36, but like maybe they will. I don't know. Like, um, so. Yeah. And when do you throw in the towel and finally peak?
00:17:47
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Yeah. What if you had a male combie and you're like, where the frick is my Vespik one? Yeah. Yeah. McQueen. Where's McQueen? Or if you had a damn fee bass and you didn't know that it had to be beautiful. Yeah.
00:18:06
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Uh, imagine pulling those thief or just an ink hang like, Oh yeah. Yeah. Hold it upside down. Yeah. Well, I actually caught that. And then as it went to that thing, I, uh, dropped my, uh, DS and it just so happened to happen at the exact time. So it was as the devs intended. Yeah. They were thinking of, uh, kids that, uh, have the slipperiest DS's.
00:18:34
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I was actually in my private jet while we were doing a bow roll at the time. It evolved. I always do bow rolls, so it was about to happen sooner or later. I was on Bizarro at Six Flags Great Adventure, just not paying a hoot, not caring.
00:18:52
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At that time, it could have still been Medusa. Could have still been Medusa. Could have been Medusa. Oh, shit. The first roller coaster I ever went on was Kingda Ka. Holy shit. You know, this is why that's crazy for people that don't know what Kingda Ka is. I've never been able to go on Kingda Ka because every time I had a school trip there, the week before, some fucking kid would
00:19:18
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get his neck snapped on it. They're always like, don't lean forward, your neck'll snap. And kids are just like, my neck never happened to me. And they always just die to ruin my week.
00:19:29
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Yeah, it would get struck by electricity or, you know, it would just be broken all the time. So then I finally got a chance to ride it again because I was like, that was my first roller coaster. I bet you that it's still just as good. And I thought I ruptured both of my testicles. That thing goes so fucking fast. I could walk for the rest of the day. Well, isn't it like it only lasts a few seconds?
00:19:55
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Yeah. Yeah. They shoot you at like a super speed. You go over a really, really big hill and then you go over all the bone coming down of all the teenagers that died and got their next match. Now they have a drop right attached to it where you just go up to the top of Kingdaka and then drop straight down and like
00:20:14
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I hate drop rides because you just get that like weird feeling in your stomach. Um, air goes all up your butthole and then you got to burp with the whole day. Yeah, I think you go from like zero to 70. I'm not about it. I've been on many roller coasters before and that one I've never been on for good reason.
00:20:36
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Well, they have El Toro, which is like an old wood coaster. Oh, my gosh. But that one is even more deadly. That one is derailed recently. And it was like, you know, closed down for a while. But it's so good. It's so good. That one. That one hurts. Yeah, you get used to shit like the seats or even wood. Like everything is just sharp and hard.
00:20:56
Speaker
Anybody remembers the Great American Scream Machine? That one was the worst. Yeah, that sucked. It was no live for it, so I went on it like 30 times in a row. Yeah. Thank you. I used to be really into roller coasters. My stomach can't handle it anymore.
00:21:13
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Yeah, I, um, it's not a stunning thing for me. It's more of like, I think my prefrontal cortex finally closed and I kind of realized like this is fucking crazy and I could absolutely die on one of these. So yeah, that's the one. I like the Superman because you get to like lay down. Yeah, but mine is always long for that one. I'm always so tired. So it's really nice that it gets like lay flat like it's so nice of them.
00:21:42
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Um, you guys know about Marie that you could, you could have first, first, first. What is a Marie? What does it look like? What is that Pikachu? So like,
00:21:57
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Imagine a sheep, right? But it's like limbs are blue. And it's got some party hats on the left and right side of its head. And a little like Tesla coil tail with a, and I'm pulling up the picture because colors are important here, an orange light bulb on the end of its tail. See, when I didn't, when I look at Marie, if I don't think
00:22:29
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I don't think that it looks like a light bulb. I just think it looks like a orange pearl at the end of its tail. It definitely doesn't look like a light bulb like the Pokedex describes it as a light bulb. Yeah, it's like, oh, yeah, I guess. But yeah, it looks like a orb that glows like a marble, like just a cute little circle tail. But it definitely doesn't look like a light bulb to me.
00:22:58
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It looks like an orb to ponder. It sure does. I'd ponder that orb. Yeah, and really, lights can be of any shape and size now that the light emitting diode is among us. Among us. How sus of you. Yeah. You guys want to Mareep?
00:23:22
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I want a Marie. Yeah, it's really cute. But the only thing that would stink about it is that it's, um, it's wool is, it just stores electricity. So if you touch it, you're going to get zapped, but it's so cute. So you're going to want to touch it and snuggle it. I got the next best thing. I got something even better for you. You cannot get shocked. How do you guys know that the Pokemon center sold a life size Marie plush?
00:23:50
Speaker
Oh, yes, I did. 45 inches. It is $5.00. It was three feet long, two feet tall and about two feet wide. OK, so life size. It is literally the Pokedex size of Mareep, except that it is seven point seven pounds instead of seventeen point two pounds.
00:24:12
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Yeah. I could just put a couple of bowling balls in there. Right. At MSRP, it was $499.99. Oh my goodness. Yeah. But if you want one now, I checked eBay. No. And current sold listings recently have gone anywhere from $800 to $1,055. Very good. Love it. Surprisingly, not a lot of bootlegs of this.
00:24:37
Speaker
It's adorable, and I would love to have one. Yeah. But there's like, I can't even afford like the t-shirts from the Pokemon Center. Every now and then they do some crazy life sized stuff like Sweet Matter on or yeah, it has a life sized Lucario. Yeah.
00:25:01
Speaker
Um, and then I saw, I think they did a life size slowpoke, which is incredible. Wish I had that one. Love me some slowpoke. Pokemon center is really expensive and there's so many things in there that I would just die for. Like right now what I'm eyeing the most is that Snorlax pool float. It just looks so relaxing and I would fall asleep just in the pool on a Snorlax and that's just like the life.
00:25:29
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And I on AliExpress, or actually I don't know if it's on AliExpress, I saw, you guys see that girl who went to clean out of her uncle's house after he died, and he had the dark Lugia blow up from Gale of Darkness, but it had big tits and a hole to fuck. Oh nice. That's what I want in our pool, so I can ride that around. But not in like a sex way. It'd be so relaxing. It just looks really funny.
00:25:55
Speaker
Good thing we just got a bunch of trees to like privacy screen our yard. Yeah. So that the Pokemon can feel more at peace there. So the Snorlax can fuck the Lugia. Right.
00:26:09
Speaker
Um, I do really like that game. Pokemon XD, Gale of Darkness. So I have it really. Um, the grandpa was, was just liking a very underrated game, uh, from a bygone era. Really? A grandfather did that. It's gotta be.
00:26:40
Speaker
Um, it wasn't a grandfather. It was, it was an uncle, uncle. Uh, uncles are always creepy or so I hear. Yeah. I mean, Hey, you could be any age. Luke is a handsome Pokemon. He might want to fucking blow orifice. I'm not saying shit about anything. Yeah. If, um, I mean, when we did
00:27:05
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the second movie right that was uh the guy who created it wanted it uh it's to be motherly and uh yeah like feminine yeah so yeah
00:27:19
Speaker
Damn, I was right on the money, Alibaba. Alibaba has one? Hold on, I'm putting it in the links. Oh, thank God. And I found the XD Gale of Darkness one too. I'm not an uncle yet, but I want somebody to... How much would you pay for something like this? It's way more than I thought it would be, especially from Alibaba. Shit, I wish it was cheap. That is too much. $230 for a... Minimum.
00:27:48
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minimum or wait what is the like is one like if you want to put 30 loads in this it's 230 but if you want one that can handle a thousand loads then it could be 280 you could have you could have sex with the nipples how there's holes in the nipples yeah oh my god they have one that's just lugia it's just lugia but like does it have q
00:28:14
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Oh, there's a Diaga? Dude, this is wild. No, I think the belly button's supposed to be its giant. Oh, giant? Oh, got it. Please check the show notes.
00:28:25
Speaker
I'm so confused right now. OK, Pokemon sextal. Search that on Alibaba. That's not even a poke. Oh, is that supposed to be a poke? Damn. Oh, never mind. That's a Pikachu for like a birthday party. Now I know what you're thinking. What are the frequently asked questions?
00:28:49
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Can your model be customized? Yes, size, color, movement, shapes can all be customized. Movement? Yeah. Big boob sexy Japanese inflatable sexy Lugia.
00:29:00
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Can they operate in rain or sunshine? Yes. Oh, wait. Now I'm seeing the one. Yeah, that you could fuck the boobs. Yeah. I can't believe we've brought this onto the Mareep episode. This is a beautiful little baby sheep. They can provide on site installation. So what if your if your dick doesn't fit in one of the holes, they'll just like fix it for you. Oh, shit. There's Renamon.
00:29:31
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Anyway, Marie is not fuckable. I'm closing this this link because I know that I will be staring at it and finding dumb shit all episode. So I think this is the first generation two Pokemon we've covered that actually has a scarlet violet entry.
00:29:50
Speaker
Um, I looked back and, um, maybe like Igli buffer, whatever, but we covered those in gen one. You can listen to those before, um, those games weren't out at that point. Yeah. But so, um, Marie is the first one to appear in scarlet violet. And I was reminded of the scarlet violet Pokedex how it has like nice little snapshots of all the Pokemon after they're logged in the Pokedex and how nice those are.
00:30:20
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You know, like when you go to the Pokedex, there's just a little cover photo. Yeah. I don't love Flaffy, but I really liked the little like, yeah, they're like wallpaper for your phone, basically, for your Pocophone. Yeah. Yeah. That was a, that was a pretty good Pokedex, uh, in terms of look and feel. Um, uh, but trying to search for any Pokemon in there was very difficult.
00:30:50
Speaker
It was. I didn't like the UI for that. It took me a while to realize that you could organize them by based off of how recently you've seen them versus actual alphabetical order versus, I don't know. It just took me a while to figure out it, but yeah, it's quite
00:31:13
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annoying. But yeah, I love those pictures. They're so cute. And the Mareep one especially. Mareep's just so adorable. And the Lugia one's pretty good too. You need an entire book in the Pokedex for that two sentence that they give every single Pokemon. And some of those sentences are as follows. It only sheds once a year during the summer and it grows back in one week.
00:31:43
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so um pretty uh pretty brief time being bold and yeah it's been one week since i've shed my fur it still stays cool though because it has like air that flows through its um fur it's wool so it'll stay cool even though it's
00:32:03
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whole fleece grows back in one week so that's good because that's the one thing I worried about was like oh it's gonna be so hot and sweaty but no it's fine. I mean honestly wool against my bare skin is the worst feeling in the world. I agree. But apparently the air within Mareep's wool keeps it insulated from getting too hot and getting too cold.
00:32:26
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They say that the clothing that is made from Mareep's fleece has to be specially processed because it can be easily charged with static electricity. Rubbing it together is what charges it. And the wool is special in that it'll actually grow
00:32:48
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at least while on the Mareep, two times as large when fully charged. I think that's kind of funny that if you get like a bootleg Mareep sweater, you could like stop somebody's heart by hugging them. My pacemaker. Yeah. Wait, was this not treated? Oh, man, I should have bought it not off Alibaba. No, I am going to buy on Alibaba. Rub it against that that inflatable will create a lot of static electricity.
00:33:18
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Yeah. Don't put that in the pool. There will be sparks in the air. I'll tell you that. The craziest thing is that I saw four holes. So you can have like your whole squad come over and play Lugia games. Oh, now that is just OK. Yeah, there are four controllers in the N64. So it's perfect. You know, play a. Fuck the Lugia. There is. I liked. Well, we already talked about that, but
00:33:49
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I love that they say like, did we talk about ultra moon? So ultra sun's the one that's like, if you don't process it, then you get like, you'll get shocked. But the ultra moon is rubbing its fleece generates electricity, you'll want to pet it because it's cute. But if you use your bare hand, you'll get a painful shock, which is like, ultra sun ultra moon always go hard. But I love that it's like a self defense for cuteness.
00:34:13
Speaker
Yeah it is it because how many how many very cute animals and creatures do you see like at a zoo or at a friend's house like a cat or something that you just like oh I have to pet you and it's like um don't fucking touch me like hedgehogs yeah or me well like puffer fish are very cute but only when they get mad because it's like a fish but when they're when they're mad that's when you want to touch them like they got it in reverse
00:34:40
Speaker
they should get ugly when they're mad. So you're like, Oh, I didn't want to touch you anyway. But I really want to touch that guy. I saw one recently that washed up on shore and he was so chunky. What a good dude. Yeah, just want to give him a little little jostle. It stresses the importance of always wearing protection. Sure does.
00:35:00
Speaker
Um, we're going to have a lot of fun with the names of these Pokemon because every, uh, language just went, uh, hard on it, went super hard. So, um, this stopped me if, uh, if I go too hard on this, but, um, Mareep's name is an anagram of ampere, which is a measure of electric current, which is really cool. Yeah. Well, that makes a lot of sense.
00:35:30
Speaker
Mm hmm. Um, the Japanese name is, uh, Mary. Um, it's spelled M E R R I E P. Um, like if you were to try to anglicize it, but that just comes from Mary meh, which is the sound made by a sheep, like meh, um, meh, even I make sheep noises that are at each other all the time.
00:35:57
Speaker
And then it's supposed to be Mary and sheep. And also I was reminded of in one piece, their ship is called the going Mary and it's got like a little sheep head. The French name is Watt Watt.
00:36:13
Speaker
And the first watt is W-A-T-T, watt, like an electrical watt. But in French, O-A-U-T-E is pronounced watt, and it means wool. So it's the watt wool. Reminds me of a song that used to be popular on YouTube. What song? Watt watt. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
00:36:43
Speaker
Well, yeah. Well, they were talking about Marip, Wat Wat. Yeah. And then the German name is Voltilam. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, very cute.
00:36:54
Speaker
Marie is such a cute Pokemon. I know, it's so cute. I was going through all the pictures and there's a Sugimori reference sheet of like how Marie is supposed to be drawn in the anime. And like, I'm just so adorable. It is so cute. I just it's very pleasant to look at. Have you guys seen the beta of it? No, it hasn't been in a ton of the games, though. Yeah. Was it a version exclusive?
00:37:21
Speaker
I don't think so. I didn't read anything about it being version exclusive. Why did I use it so infrequently? I feel like it hasn't been in that many. I think there's also an abundance of other electric types that you think of first before you think of Mareeb. You know? Yeah.
00:37:44
Speaker
Because at first glance, I know I know I know Mareep is an electric type, but it kind of just pulls normal to me. Ampharos doesn't scream electric type to me. Yeah, the only thing that gives it away from me is that it's yellow.
00:38:04
Speaker
Oh, did you have it's not in crystal? Oh, that makes sense. That's probably why. Yeah, it's in gold and silver, but not crystal because I played gold and silver. But then I played crystal and I remember not being there. So yeah, that makes sense. That's why I think that. Do you know that Marie was originally pink?
00:38:31
Speaker
Didn't know that yeah, it was a very cute the beta was originally fully pink But they liked it so much. They kept it on for the shiny I'm just saying it would have been the perfect Pokemon and probably my favorite Pokemon if it was purple You could die wool purple sure can oh I hate when they die oh my gosh, so There was there was like there's I don't know there's a question
00:38:57
Speaker
few people out there who just love to dye their dogs and cats like crazy colors. And that makes me so mad. And I was gonna ask you, Peter, like you worked in a vet, I'm not sure if you know, but is that harmful to them? I'm sure I didn't see that many animals that were dyed. So just and also, at the very least, if
00:39:21
Speaker
people were dying their animals. I'm sure a lot of groomers are using, you know, safe stuff. You know, some dogs still have sensitive skin, but at least they're getting groomed. And the thing that I really liked every once in a while is seeing like a big, buff, butch dog that had its nails painted. Oh my goodness. That's why I just use like markers on my cats.
00:39:50
Speaker
Markers? Yeah, toxic. Crayola. Oh. You just, while you're chasing them, you just rub a little marker on their forehead. It's safer than dye, I bet. I don't do that, by the way. Don't call the police. Well, I already have them on speed dial. Oh no, the cops! You heard them before. Yeah, literally, I don't know what's going on, but all the police are coming. Yeah, I mean- It's probably for me and my Crayola problems.
00:40:20
Speaker
But yeah, I do agree. Dogs probably do not know why you're coloring them all funny colors, but the only color that you should give them is the color of your lipstick on their little foreheads. I love that. What if they get shaved and have a bunch of little pink bellies from the groomer?
00:40:49
Speaker
I don't know if we're moving on yet to Flaffy, but...
00:40:53
Speaker
Oh yeah. This really ruined Flaffy for me. Me too. Oh my goodness.
Flaaffy and Ampharos Insights
00:40:58
Speaker
Can we evolve? Can I just say I never liked Flaffy? And this made me just been like, yeah. Yep. That's it. Yep. I didn't have any strong feelings one way or another. Two things I want to say. Mareep is mild and avoids battles and the entire family line might be loosely based off of the
00:41:21
Speaker
the novel Do Android Stream of Electric Sheep? Yeah, that's such a good idea. That's so cool. Yeah, which is, I guess the what the movie Blade Runner is based off of. Yeah. Was it Philip K. Dick? I love that K. Dick. I've actually never read it.
00:41:40
Speaker
I haven't either, and I haven't even seen Blade Runner. I have seen the one... 2049? 2049 with Ryan Gosling in it, because you know I'm a total gos-head. I know. We are going to hit level 15 soon, and I just wanted to say, you guys have already besmirched this Pokémon, but what does the Pikachu look like?
00:42:06
Speaker
So unfortunately it is pink and I don't like that it's pink because it's pink because it stores too much electricity and it caused Flaffy to lose all of its wool except for this beautiful mane that it was able to keep. So it's just its bare skin and
00:42:30
Speaker
It's pink, so it makes me feel like it's in pain. It just got electrocuted and it's just raw skin. The Pokedex says it's rubbery skin that protects them from being electrocuted further, but just to me, learning that. That makes it worse. Yeah. I don't know. I just feel bad for it. Yeah. It looks like it has bad sunburn.
00:42:53
Speaker
So they they describe it as like patchy too, which like is kind of the inspiration for the name. It kind of rhymes patchy, flaffy. But, you know, when I first saw this Pokemon, I was like, Oh, pink little lamb. That's cute. That's adorable. And now I just see like,
00:43:13
Speaker
raw skin, like, you know, just patchy, like irritated skin. And it's, it's quite upsetting. But they do say that it's, it's safe to touch now. So it's not irritated. It just, um,
00:43:32
Speaker
You just, during its evolution, lost its will because it's gaining more power. I think the other thing, too, from me that now I'm like looking at it differently is because it starts yellow and it ends yellow. So because the middle one is the only one that's pink, I'm like, OK, what kind of weird story are you trying to tell me? I'm currently working on I'm trying to make like a censorship bar.
00:43:59
Speaker
over because the pink makes it look naked like there should be like a little dick there something yeah i i used to love flaffy until i did the research for this episode now i'm now i'm just uncomfortable well if you want one with a little dick there we know the website oh little dick flaffy doc
00:44:22
Speaker
Oh, and by the way, how many of you spelled Flappy correctly? Because I sure didn't. I felt it wrong every time. Well, the game didn't spell it correctly either. Right. That's what I was getting to. So there's a segment Pokemon trainers choice where they like spelled Flaffy's name wrong. And when I read that, I was like,
00:44:42
Speaker
Let me check and I was like, yep, definitely wrong. If you want, if you want to know the correct spelling, the correct spelling is F L A A F F Y. Yep. Do you know why?
00:44:58
Speaker
because it's supposed to be a mixture of like a sheep saying fluffy. So it's like bad and fluffy. So it's like flappy. That's what one of the descriptions is. And the double A could stand for double eight batteries, which you might be familiar with if your game boy took them. Although I think triple A was for the pocket maybe. Pocket, yeah. Four double A's for the OG and then
00:45:28
Speaker
Two, no, four double A's for the pocket and then two double A's for the color. Yeah, two for the color and four for the pocket. Oh, two double A's, two triple A's for the pocket, I think, actually. No, I have a bunch right here. So one of the crazy things is the pocket, they boasted that it now had a bunch of more battery life than the original.
00:45:58
Speaker
which is actually nothing they did to the hardware. It's just that the technology and batteries had grown so much that even the battery life of the original Game Boy was up because of the batteries. Yeah, which is kind of crazy.
00:46:16
Speaker
One thing that I wanted to stress because I completely forgot about it was the thing that we just touched upon, which was the trainers choice segment of the anime. Yeah, I wanted to talk about this too, because I had
00:46:34
Speaker
I basically dropped off the anime at this point but it was sort of like a replacement for the who's that Pokemon segment where they are giving you like little trivia for competitive Pokemon battling basically like asking like what Pokemon would be good to use in this situation if you were Ash and then Ash would do the complete opposite thing because he's a moron yep
00:47:03
Speaker
Yeah, so actually, do you guys want to play a round of this? Because some of these answers are a little questionable. OK. Let's do it. Yeah. All right. What do you mean by questionable? So trainers. Is it kind of like an issue? Sure. If they don't tell anybody, it's not a crime. No, nothing like that. But here we go. So trainers, which one of these Pokemon is the best choice to battle against Ninjask?
00:47:31
Speaker
Torkel, dugong, or nose pass? They're all good. I would say in this very, very case, nose pass. I'm gonna say Torkel. I also am gonna say nose pass.
00:47:55
Speaker
Well, you're all wrong because they said Doogong. What? Ninjask, the best to fight Ninjask is Doogong. So while Doogong does have an advantage against the bug flying, Ninjask, Torkel, and Nosepass would technically also be good choices. Nosepass is the best choice since it resists flying, is effective against both bug and flying. But for some reason. It's four times effective offensively and two times resistant.
00:48:24
Speaker
Yeah, so let's do one more real quick. Please look these up and go through them, because some of them are just hilarious. But trainers, which one of these Pokemon is the best choice to battle Camerupt? Beedrill, Nuzleaf, or Magcargo? Definitely not Nuzleaf. I bet you it will be Nuzleaf. That was the first one. So Beedrill, Nuzleaf, and Magcargo.
00:48:55
Speaker
They all suck. Yeah. None of them would be good. In my cargo. Yeah, I guess my cargo. No, because it would be four times weak against the ground type of... Oh, it's a ground type too? Oh my goodness.
00:49:13
Speaker
Wait, Macargo is, oh yeah, I forgot it's rock. Yeah, so honestly, probably in this case, I would say... Beedrill? Beedrill, probably. Yeah. Swords Dance and Pray. Yeah, they said Nuzleaf. Shut up. Oh my goodness. Because it has the ground? Yeah, no. No, literally in the notes, it says none of the choices would be effective against camera as they all have a weakness to it.
00:49:41
Speaker
So these Pokemon trainer choice segments were not the best. No one's like, you fucked. You're bad. Mostly famous for the Nuzlocke challenges. Yes. And that's why they are the best choice. That's probably why they are the best choice. But yeah, they also spell Flaffy's name wrong, but I don't blame them for that. Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a tough one. In the other languages, so Japanese name is Makoko.
00:50:11
Speaker
Um, so Yomo is wool and, uh, a corruption of the word moco moco, which means fluffy. And if you actually Google like Pokemon moco moco, they have a line of, um, fluffy plush toys of Pokemon. And it's that like very, very soft, like, um, like if you get like really fluffy socks, it's like that material kind of, what is this website?
00:50:40
Speaker
Um, it also Pokemon. Yeah. Pokemon M O K O M O K O. They're super fluffy. It also reminded me of, um,
00:50:56
Speaker
It reminds in Tangala, moja moja meant shaggy and unkempt. So I wonder if there's some kind of correlation between moko moko and moja moja. Guys, look at this little gentleman. Look at this Charmander. He's so furry, but he's got that smile. He's just like, I'm very wide and I know it. They're so fluffy. They look so cute.
00:51:24
Speaker
Um, they went with marshton, but no mudkit. This is fine. French name is, uh, La Nergie where, uh, line means wool and energy at the end. And then the German name is wahati with the two A's like a Wario. Wow. Taiko what TT. Yeah.
00:51:53
Speaker
And these are the wool Pokemon. Yes. Yeah, these two are the wool Pokemon and they will become the woolen Pokemon. I don't know where I was going with that. They woolen stay the wool Pokemon for long now. Yeah, they're going to be something different. Shiny is just like a little creamy or grayer color since
00:52:24
Speaker
I guess with Mareep, they had the shiny pink. You couldn't take Fluffy and make it pinker. But the light bulb is like a teal color instead of a blue color. Yeah, this one also has a light bulb.
00:52:40
Speaker
on its tail and will glow upon full charge. These Pokemon tend to build up energy in their wool and just because it has less wool doesn't mean that it isn't stronger and more densely charged. So indicating that Flaffy is stronger. A nakeder.
00:53:05
Speaker
Yeah, sometimes you have to let go of the chains that bind you. It's going to let its shock out with its cock out. Yes. It can also, even though I do not, I guess wool technically is just sheep's hair. It does say that Flaffy primarily attacks with fine electric hairs.
00:53:36
Speaker
Which I have trouble picturing in my head. Yeah, apparently like shoots the hairs out. Yes. I can imagine that being very uncomfortable. Maybe it's like it's pubes. Oh, yeah. It's like shaved. It's got little sharp hairs under. It's like on its naked spots. OK, so we have a.
00:53:56
Speaker
pink Pokemon who's raw flesh and then he's ripping hair out and throwing it at you. Have you ever suddenly looked on your hair or like on your arm or something and saw a crazy long hair that's just been growing there without you paying attention? Yeah, and then I throw it at my enemies. Yeah. They get shocked.
00:54:24
Speaker
from all the static electricity because I'm the superhero static shock. Oh, superhero static shock. I found a Mareep coin online. It's only $2,000. Should I buy it? Yeah. Invest in crypto. Sounds like an investment to me. Yeah.
00:54:49
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I was excited when my Mareep evolved into a Flaffy way back in the day. Me too. I did not think that there was anything wrong with it. And I will admit, when I heard that it had pink rubbery parts that were safe to touch, I also was a little bit questionable. But it just means I could pet it.
00:55:14
Speaker
That's true. Heavy petting. Yeah. Whatever, whatever it likes, you know. Some dogs like scritches by the ears. Probably can't do that. With a Flaffy. Some dogs like the butt scritches. Some dogs like the belly rubs. But you can do that with your Flaffy. And you probably can't do that with your Marie unless you're wearing protection.
00:55:41
Speaker
Always wear protection. Always wear protection. At all times. Honestly, you shouldn't be listening to this if you're a child, but if there's one thing you can get from listening to our podcast is always wear protection. If you are a child, stop. And if you're an adult, put a condom over your ears and then continue listening. Put a dental dam between your ears and this podcast.
00:56:05
Speaker
Do we have explicit tags? I'm sure we do. We do. Yeah. I make sure to click that little button. Thank goodness. I've never cussed, but we have to talk about diarrhea. Do it. Oh, cuss? Yeah. Bastard. You definitely have a cussed on this podcast. No, not once. Prove it. Yes, you have. Go back and listen to an episode. I've never done it once. He didn't cuss. He said shoot. Yeah.
00:56:33
Speaker
I'm going to shoot. Speaking of blowing your lot, your wad, what happens if you take that 15, you double it, you get a 30 and 30 is a level 30 or above your flaffy can undergo a miracle of evolution and become this Pikachu that looks like blank.
00:56:59
Speaker
Looks like a giraffe, penguin, anything but sheep thing. It's yellow. It's still got those ears. Yeah, it's depicted as quite clumsy in the anime from what I can see. It's like a dinosaur that has two little top hats on either side of its head instead of ears. And it's got like rings around its neck and its arms are just like little flippers.
00:57:26
Speaker
It has fins. It has fins. Very strange. Almost reminds me of like a Lapras that started walking on land. Yeah. And lost its back shell. It's weirdly aquatic looking. Yes. Make it blue. And this is a water type. That's true.
00:57:45
Speaker
I don't know about anybody else, but when I was doing the research, I look at very specific sections of the Bulbopedia when I'm doing my research. I went to the names first, and they were talking about how its name could be based off of a lighthouse. I was like, that's a stretch. Then the more I started reading about this Pokemon, the more I was like,
00:58:08
Speaker
Oh shit, how did I fucking miss that it's a lighthouse? Same. I didn't know it was a lighthouse until today. Well, yeah, same. But why? It went from cute sheep to sunburned, like, weird sheep to lighthouse? It really doesn't read as lighthouse, like, at all. It like, but if you read the Pokedex and everyone will hear kind of, you know, as we describe, you'll be like, oh, okay, sure, I guess. But, um,
00:58:38
Speaker
And the whole reason they say that is because of the orb on its tail. It shines so bright that you can see it from space, so people use it as a light beacon.
00:58:47
Speaker
But it goes even further than that, where it's in the name. Ampharos is a combination of amp and faros, which is the Greek word for lighthouse. In the French name, it's faramp. And faray is the French name for lighthouse.
00:59:08
Speaker
you know, in the anime, Ampharos appears in Glitter Lighthouse. Like it's also the light Pokemon. Yeah, I'm just like, OK, I guess so. The only place where it's not really a lighthouse is in Japanese. And I don't want to say it just yet because it actually kind of leads into the mega.
00:59:35
Speaker
Okay, so let's talk a little bit more about Ampharos for a bit. The most famous Ampharos that I can think of off the top of my head was the little Jasmine's Ampharos anthe, or at least her friend who sat atop a lighthouse in
01:00:01
Speaker
Oh shit, what was the name of the first city? I can't remember off the top of my head where Jasmine lives, but... It was Ulevine City? Sounds right. And Amphib was too sick to become the beacon, so you had to travel to Chucktown across the sea to get the secret potion.
01:00:26
Speaker
So that you can make it a fee Healthy again, and you know what I would have done anything for amphia I think amphia is a champion I hated that amphia had to go straight back to work. I think amphia could use a day off, but You know
01:00:45
Speaker
Sometimes you're not replaceable, I guess. I don't know. Did you hear about how the U.S. is giving away lighthouses for free to people? Because like sailors and boats and stuff use GPS now, so they don't really need lighthouses. Oh, so they have all these like leftover warehouses at the I mean, lighthouses at like lighthouse warehouse.
01:01:06
Speaker
It's just they're asking people to like take care of them and preserve them as like historic So they're like giving them as like free to people who will like preserve them But they're not like lighthouses don't really get used so much anymore apparently I've seen the lighthouse. I'm not gonna be duped into that But more than the I didn't have yet to see that it looks interesting. No one's fucking my mattress
01:01:36
Speaker
Ampharos, luckily, has been used for many other purposes, though. They say that because its light can be seen from very far away, they used it to communicate with people far away in the past. So I guess it was like the first little morse code. You would have little ampharoses stationed and shoot signals back and forth.
01:02:03
Speaker
And because you can always tell where an Ampharos is, the Pokedex says it usually keeps the light off.
01:02:11
Speaker
does not want to be found. Oh, yeah. That's something that, while I was reading this and I was seeing just the sheer lumens that an amphoros can churn out, I was like, oh, man, it must be awful to be an amphoros. How are you going to get any shut eye? And then I realized, duh, you dummy. You're not keeping that bulb on all night. You're turning it off. I don't know why I think about that.
01:02:41
Speaker
I love that it has the option to turn it off. Yeah, because I feel like Mareep, I think was the one where they said where, like, if it just gets static electricity, the light comes on. So it doesn't really have control. Whereas Ampharos, because it has control of its electricity, it has lost all of its hair. Completely now can control its electricity.
01:03:07
Speaker
completely rubbery, completely bold. The sheer amount of energy that you need to produce that amount of light too.
01:03:21
Speaker
LEDs are still very efficient compared to your general incandescent bulb, but LEDs pumping out a lot of light still need to have a huge ass heat sink on them. I just cannot imagine how powerful, how much energy, how many calories this anthros needs to be able to shoot messages clear across the sea in ancient times.
01:03:51
Speaker
and be seen from fucking space. Yeah. Space, that's insane. Yeah, that's pretty far. Space! Like a metal, not metal gear, Red Alert 3. Yeah, but who the fuck, like they were like, yeah, it could be seen by space, but like what, are there, like, is Deoxys coming down and being like, dude, I was sleeping? Like, are there astronauts in the Pokemon universe? Yeah, maybe. They have that,
01:04:21
Speaker
I cannot remember any of the towns that aren't in the first generation. Do you remember? There was that island in Ruby and Sapphire that had a... Oh, it had like a like a legit NASA space shuttle. Yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. Do you think like that's the reason that like Clefairy's crashed on Mount Moon?
01:04:45
Speaker
Could be. A fucking, like, Ampharos was just blasting its ass out into space and it blinded them and they took a wrong turn. Have you ever been flashed so hard that you crashed your spaceship into the planet Earth? I don't own a spaceship.
01:05:04
Speaker
I'm sorry. I have been blinded by lights. Yeah, I was gonna say like the high beams. Oh my goodness. Not even high beams these days. Some of the new cars just have really bright lights that are just I think they're LEDs that I don't know that they're, they're so bright. It's ridiculous. It's blinding and it's like a hazard to Yes.
01:05:29
Speaker
Now, just imagine if it was two Ampharoses on each side. No, I'm good. Ampharose can keep its donk or underground or something. Yeah. This Pokemon was revealed in the May 1997 issue of Coro Coro magazine, along with Donphan and Sloking. So this was like a early released Pokemon.
01:05:56
Speaker
I don't remember seeing it early, but obviously I was not getting Coro Coro. Same. But the design, yeah, I wish. The design had a shorter neck than the final version of Ampharos. I don't like the early sprites where its head is like very hard down. Like I liked the first sprite,
01:06:24
Speaker
where it's kind of like leaning forward. But after that, they made the neck very like it looks it reminds me of the cheat from a homestar runner, like stretched out. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I never watched a homestar runner. I'm looking it up right now. Look up the cheap homestar runner.
01:06:51
Speaker
I'm looking up. Oh, that character. I've seen that character before. I just didn't know. You may have seen it on Friend of the Pods hoodie. Carl Jerm had the cheat hoodie that he used to wear a lot back then. I'm the very same Carl Jerm that does our intro song. Very same. It does look like that with just like an extremely elongated neck. Yeah. Somebody made the cheat plush that you can buy.
01:07:20
Speaker
It is 10 inches tall, maybe life-size, and it plays sounds. And you can get it now on Etsy for only $350. That's it, everyone. That's all you need.
01:07:36
Speaker
I'm looking at these Pokemon Hokkaido manhole covers. Oh, yeah, they're cool. They're so cute. Sorry, I get distracted sometimes and trying to get your manholes covers. Yeah, I read I read a book before we ever started this podcast. And one of the important things they said was don't drink and don't get distracted. And I'm always drinking. I'm always
01:08:04
Speaker
Me too. That's kind of the fun of this podcast. Yeah. Who are we talking about? A sheep? A lighthouse apparently. Ampharos does have a mega and Steven, it sounded like you had something to say about Ampharos and the mega.
01:08:23
Speaker
Yeah, so, um, Ampharos's Japanese name is Denryu, which is, um, in Japanese, Denryu means electric current, but can also be a pun of the word den and ryu, which means electric dragon. Yes. And, uh, it could also, the original inspiration could be based off of Denkyu, which is a light bulb.
01:08:53
Speaker
But because den Ryu means electric dragon when we mega Evolve into mega Ampharos We get a dragon type. I think this is so cool dragon electric Ampharos and it gets a tear back and it's luscious. It is done. It got groomed It's looking good. This is one of the few megas that isn't in constant agony tale It is a nice looking mega
01:09:20
Speaker
Yeah, especially the shiny one. It's pink with this luscious hair. Blue orbs instead of red orbs too, which is so cool. Who do you think has better hair? Mega, Mega Ampharos or a whirlwind diglet or a Dugtrio.
01:09:39
Speaker
I am for us. Yeah, but it's got but Doug Trio's got three heads. Doug Trio's got the hair you can tassel. I don't think you can tassel mega amphroses hair. It might shock you. Yeah, but also Doug Trio's hair is made of glass. Yeah, but. Look at it, you still want to tassel it. Just wear gloves. I want to tassel mega amphroses hair just looks so good. It does look really good. I want my hair to look like that. Yeah.
01:10:09
Speaker
Well, all of the excess energy from mega evolution went right into its hair. So one thing I was very surprised about this one is it's not an excruciating pain. Yeah, I was looking for that. Yeah, I was like, obviously, this is going to be sad. And no, no, not not much to be had and none of it painful. So
01:10:34
Speaker
Um, it's just like, uh, completing like a, you know, 20 year old pun basically in its name. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you just gotta, the, the, the joke is right in front of you, even though it doesn't make sense to us, uh, doing a little digging. It's, uh, it's easy to say it also.
01:11:00
Speaker
Ampharos as a whole I did see one of the the beta forms of it and It had a shorter neck. It doesn't look that good Yeah The jerk a giraffe boy should have a long neck But it's not supposed to be a giraffe. That's my hang up. Yeah, it is supposed to have Like Dragon's blood in it, I guess that's what we're meant to believe
01:11:32
Speaker
Which, you know, there's something ancient about all wild animals. You look at chickens even and you're just like this cute little thing. Definitely some sort of tiny dinosaur. Yeah.
01:11:50
Speaker
Yeah, we were about to come from somewhere. And then you look at like sharks and crocodiles and shit like that. And you're just like, Oh, no, you come from you're already there. Yeah, you never, you never changed. You, you reached the top and you never ever stopped. You didn't have to go down low, low to the flow. Um,
01:12:16
Speaker
Anybody else have any other Ampharos facts? So the hair and orbs in its hair and everything of Mega Ampharos is kind of- The orb is now in the forehead, too, instead of just on the tail. Yeah, Ampharos has one in the head, and then Mega Ampharos has a whole bunch of orbs in its tail. And that's kind of supposed to be based off of a Chinese dragon.
01:12:45
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And there was a dragon talisman in Jackie Chan Adventures, which gave them the ability to shoot powerful fire blasts. Is this our Jackie Chan fact? I mean, I figured I'd throw one in. So. Perfect. Yeah. The only other thing I have is that even though it's got a large neck, it looks giraffe-like. It's only four foot tall, 135 pounds. So it's not huge.
01:13:14
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And it doesn't gain any weight or height from the mega evolution. It just gets beautiful hair. Jackie Chan speaks seven languages, Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese, and Thai. Wow. And love. That's right. His childhood name was Cannonball. Because he was always fired out of a camp. Because he was always rolling around.
01:13:47
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at the speed of sound. Got places to go. Gotta follow my rainbow. I binged that. I don't know why I binged that. What did we learn today? We didn't finish. We didn't finish. How many Pokemon cards?
01:14:10
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Oh, I mean, what did we learn is sort of my my my thing now. I learned that Ampharos is based on a lighthouse. Yes, me too. That was that was new. I learned my thing was that Flaffy just loses its fur because it electrocutes itself. It's not electrocuting itself, though, I don't think. Well, kind of. I think they said it stores so much electricity that the wool falls off like it.
01:14:40
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Yeah, it just becomes too like it like if you if you burned your hair, I mean, it sucks that your hair was on fire, but your your hair does not experience the trauma of it being singed, right? Well, depends how close you get to the scalp. Yeah, but that's your scalp that's being burned your head. But think about think about Flaffy just being one big scalp.
01:15:08
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Flaffy, unfortunately, now reminds me of a plucked chicken. Yes. I am cursed to know this knowledge. Me too. Me too. That is what I learned. I learned that Mareep is an anagram of ampere. And that Flaffy is spelled F-L-A-N-F-F-Y. Yes. And it's very hard for me to do those two double letters. In a row like that. In a row typing, yeah.
01:15:39
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Um, and I want to learn how many cards there are. Oh, do you? I wish. You want to learn? I want to learn. Teach me. All right. So we're going to play the trading card game, but not the real trading card game. We're going to guess how many cards that Mareep, Flappy, and Ampharos appear on in the TCG. Um, who would like to go first?
01:16:06
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Marie seems like a 16er. I'm going to hit that 19 before somebody else takes it. 20. All right, Dave has more faith in our Marie. 23. Ooh. Good. I'm happy to hear that. Yeah, me too. So cute. I love, I love, love, love Marie. Marie is definitely my favorite out of all of them.
01:16:37
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Um, I would, I, if I had $500 to spend on a plushie, I would want that plushie to be a Marie. You know what? I'm going to choose Flaffy because I'm going to use Serologic. Oh? The ones that people are been hating on. I'm going to take, adopt that one as my own. I'm going to touch its rotary flesh. Give it an Ebo light. Yeah. Show that in for us.
01:17:07
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And if you were to ask me, out of the blue, how many flaffy cards there might be. What are you thinking? You know I gotta say. 21. 19. 22.
01:17:30
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hey day for the win again 22 on the money yep yep yep he wins a victory kiss from me oh he oh okay yay peter kisses i'll give you some uh whip switches and butterfly kisses oh just leave it at button all right and then ampharos our big tall boy who isn't really big tall
01:18:00
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I always forget, we include like mega cards. Include megas. Shit. I'm gonna go 25. 26. Damn, I was gonna do 26. 24. Oh, Dave, you should have went the other way. Uh, Steven, you win though. 27 cards. Dave would have gotten a hat trick. Yeah. That's a healthy amount of cards too. Yeah, that's a good amount. 27.
01:18:29
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too shabby. Wow, all these counting sheep has made me very tired. Got to hit the bed. Something smells like garlic bread in my room. Oh, I hope it's garlic bread. I hope so too. I mean, now I'm hungry. Now I'm horny. Oh, now I'm horny and hungry. Horny for some garlic bread. Do robots dream of electric sleep and have wet dreams when they do?
01:19:00
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uh yes i want to know uh who cannot produce it i think oh yeah that's what i was saying uh so i did like animals you see around like a farm so we got miltank tepig torchik and quaxley
01:19:20
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Torchic is the fucking dick and ball Pokemon. I forgot to say the whole point of this game. In this game, I will list four Pokemon. You will tell me which one, if bred with the Pokemon we're discussing, Marie, Fluffy, and Amphros, will not produce an egg. So which one will not produce an egg? We got Miltank, Tepic, Torchic, and Quaxly. I'm going to say Tepic. I'm going to say Quaxly. I'm also going to say Quaxly.
01:19:47
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Two winners! Miltank, this was a really hard one to do because, uh, Mareep is just so fuckable. Like, if you look at it, it is Monster and Field Group, which covers so many fucking Pokémon. Monster? I don't...
01:20:07
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So, that's so confusing. Well, Ampharos looks kind of monster-ish. I guess. And Flappy is a monster without its wool. But also, Monster covers so many different Pokémon, like almost every starter is a monster Pokémon. It covers a lot of Gen 1, a bunch of different things. The only reason, so I was like trying to find any sort of farm animal that could not be
01:20:30
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in either the field or the monster egg group and could find none. Quaxly is the only duck that's in neither. It is a water one flying. Crazy how many? Like we said, even fucking a whale lord is in the field group. So it's just field and monster covers like the gamut.
01:20:50
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I think I know what that garlic bread smell is. What is it? I think it's just a very distant skunk. Ah, you got to get better garlic bread, my friend. I know. As it wafted a couple of more times, I was just like, it's spicy, but not in the way that I was hoping. Maybe some kids smoking some oregano. Yeah, it might be that. Mamma Mia.
01:21:18
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Oh, so I remember last week we spoke about salvia, the drug. Yes. Um, I have a salvia plant, but it's like the ones that keep the deer away. Okay. You know, I've been smoking it. It smells really good. Our deer all left because they're stoned on salvia. Well, I'm going to have to call you guys, uh, the police on you again for having the equivalent of heroin.
01:21:43
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at your house. We have poppy seed bagels too. It's called a salvia caradona plant. I don't know, but it's pretty. It's purple and my deer don't eat it. They're very pretty. So apparently salvia is a huge genus of plants and is commonly referred to as sage.
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01:22:05
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Oh. So if you've got white sage in your house,
01:22:13
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Cops are coming. Don't worry listeners, I would never call the cops on you. What I will do is wish you a very happy Marie time during these early hot days. Try to cut your wool at least once and have it grow back within the week.
01:22:40
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We thank Carl once again for our theme song. Dave knows where all the social media is because I will never remember. Take your dittos on Instagram and TikTok, which we don't really use much. But if anyone wants to start using it,
01:22:59
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Yeah, if anybody can convince us, it's you. We also have no idea what our schedule is going to be like in a little bit. Some of us will be on a little tripsy, and so you might have a hiccup. But we're just warning you so that you don't get too, too sad. We're going to be having a lot of fun.
01:23:24
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And we got some good ones coming up. Some real classic gen tours. Yeah. Do you like Pikachu? Well, how about Pika Blue? Because that's up next. Damn. Yeah. Love me some Pika Blue. And as we always say, when you smell skunk in a different distance, you say, ooh, it smells like that skunk was farting.