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026: Raichu
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Meet Raichu, the personification of stress management.. And the hodad with a taste for pancakes? What an absolute dreamboat!
Join Katherine and Claudia as they stumble through the Pokédex and figure out which of these Pokemon might be semi-edible in a podcast full of stupidity and laughs.
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Introduction and Raichu Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
this is a muck stain productions podcast
00:00:22
Speaker
Hello homies and trainers and welcome to Unknown Radio, your most named production Pokemon talk show where we take a peek at every Pokemon. I'm Claudia and I'm here with my co-host and partner in Team Rocket, Catherine. Hello! I've got the Poseis, Claudia's got the facts and I'm looking forward to some banging ones today.
00:00:44
Speaker
Oh, we've got a good one. This is my favourite Pokémon, number 26 in the Pokédex. This is Raichu. Oh, come on, Raichu. You've helped me delete, defeat the Elite Four. You helped me become the very best. That's the place in my heart for you, sweetheart. Yep. To me, he is the very best. Do you know what his tagline is? I'm going to just guess the mouse Pokémon.
00:01:12
Speaker
Oh, bang on, sweetheart. I've learnt recently, the Pokémon are just not that, they're just not that inventive with their taglines, are they? No, they get a little bit more inventive as we go on, but Generation 1, nah. Yeah. Not at all. Get the ass'd.
00:01:29
Speaker
So Raichu is an electric type like its predecessor. It stands at two foot, seven inches, and weighs 66.1 pounds, which is 13 kgs. It's doubled, mate. He has. He's a big boy, isn't he? He's still quite short. Yeah, he's just twice the size of a Pikachu. Yeah. So what does this boy look like? He's like orange, and then he's got a really long lightning bolt tail.
00:02:00
Speaker
and then like weird little ears that always remind me of wings. Yeah, it's like the war total all over again, but these ones aren't furry. Yeah, they just really went all out with the ears of Generation 1, didn't they? Yeah, I love it. I like the little curly-whirly bits on the ears too. Yeah, I did too. I just like the tail because it's kind of like a whip, like a wha-chow. Yeah, it's beautiful. I don't know why you needed the whip noise, but you got it anyway. Right you.
00:02:30
Speaker
And then another differentiator between this and Pikachu is that this one's electric glands are yellow instead. Which I like, they don't stick out as much. Yeah, he looks more grown up, like he is the grown up version of Pikachu. It's very dapper. I wouldn't say dapper, he's still a cute boy. Yeah, he's just got a little more something to sum it.
00:02:51
Speaker
Yeah, he has. He's a bit bigger, a bit more grown. And my little favorite fact is that Raichu always exudes a weak electrical charge from all of its body and it glows slightly in the dark.
00:03:05
Speaker
Oh, get in the bin. He's a little night light. Night light. Oh, I love that. So, Raichu resembles the kangaroo rat. Its Pokedex entries of being able to electrocute elephants may be a reference to the documentary by Thomas Edison named, Electrocuting an Elephant, in which electricity was tested to kill such animals.
00:03:31
Speaker
Oh, alright. Seems a bit of a history effect. Seems a bit extreme though, from Thomas Edison, you know? Yeah. Alright, guys, I think we've made it so we could change our lives. There's Kill an
Raichu's Characteristics and Evolution
00:03:41
Speaker
Elephant. Yeah. Alright. So I like the fact that that, out of all facts about electricity, was the one that Nintendo were like, let's have that one. Let's throw that one in there. That's a good one. Is it? I'll rot there, buddy. Whatever helps you sleep at night, you know?
00:03:59
Speaker
Also, in the later Pokedex entries, they changed that to various elephant Pokemon, because elephants don't exist in the Pokemon universe. And they kind of realized that and they were like, oh, that's that's put in like a fam fee or whatever to change it. Yeah, no, that changes that.
00:04:18
Speaker
Yeah, depending on what game you're playing, it can either be like the Don Fam or the like Mammoth Swine or whatever elephant Pokemon they have in that region.
00:04:30
Speaker
So a little name fact is that the name Raiju originates from the Japanese word Rai, which means thunder, and Chu, which is the squeak by a mouse. Its name is also very similar to the Raiju, which is a lightning creature from Japanese mythology. I love a bit of Japanese mythology.
00:04:53
Speaker
This is what this guy's from. They're going back to, I like it when they take stuff from myths and legends. Yeah, GT. So this guy's a myth, a legend, and an elephant killer. Yes, check that out.
00:05:08
Speaker
So before we dig into what this boy is like, I have two little facts, well, three little facts, actually. The first one, obvious, it evolves using a thunderstone. So that's the first one in the Pokedex so far that uses a stone for evolution. Wonderful.
00:05:24
Speaker
Yep. Uh, second fact is this also has a gender difference, which is far less exciting than the Pikachu. The, the female Raichu just has a little bit missing off of the tip of its tail. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was cool. Little nod, nodge gone. And fat number three is that in the anime, Raichu is the most common Pokemon found amongst the rivals and is used by five of them. That is interesting.
00:05:55
Speaker
Yeah. So does that mean if both of us took on the Elite Four with a Raichu, are we the bad guys? Am I the problem? Is it me? Am I the drama?
Raichu's Power and Battle Role
00:06:11
Speaker
This is not a poker one I look at and think, that's a bad guy. No, but we do use him for a reason. And that reason is because he's sick as fuck.
00:06:22
Speaker
Yeah, he swole. And I guess it's just that way in the anime because Ash has a Pikachu and then the most obvious enemy for a Pikachu is its evolution, which there is that one episode where Pikachu cannot defeat the Raichu, and then he has this whole life crisis about should he or should he not evolve, which is very sad.
00:06:49
Speaker
But fair enough, isn't it? Like a child fighting their mother. I never thought of it that way. It's like he's fighting, having to grow up. And you know what? If Ash can stay 10 years old for 20 years, Pikachu can stay Pikachu. It's all right, mate.
00:07:07
Speaker
Yeah, and also, I feel like growing up is a lie anyway. That's why it doesn't happen in the Pokémon world. Exactly. God, I wish the Pokémon world was real. We could just be... I wouldn't want to be 10. I was a really shitty 10 year old.
00:07:23
Speaker
I don't think I'd want to be 10 either. But, you know, it'd be nice to have a Pikachu or a Raichu. But I don't want to be 10 years old, but I do want to Raichu. Yeah. Tattoo that on my body. Raichu tattoos next? Oh, you know, I'm down. All right, you ready to get stuck in? Absolutely. All right. So the Raichu's tail is used to gather electricity from the atmosphere.
00:07:51
Speaker
and could be planted in the ground to search for electricity. That's pretty wild. I like that though. It's useful. Yeah, isn't there like rods you can stick in the ground to kind of detect electromagnetic energy? There is, yeah. So it's just one of them, isn't it? This might be the most technical I've ever heard you speak.
00:08:14
Speaker
I said the words electromagnetic energy. Yeah. Have you met you? That's true. I told you, this is more science than I've done in a while. And it's, I wonder if it will be this way for all electric types. It's exhausting. So, uh, the right you can store over 100,000 volts of electricity, which is enough to knock out a Kuparaja, which is an elephant type Pokemon. Oh yeah. We know that. You can kill an elephant.
00:08:42
Speaker
But a hundred thousand volts is a lot. Yeah. So I don't really understand volts and stuff like that. You don't need to explain them. It's fine. I don't know. I know that light bulbs like 60. So that's a lot of light bulbs. It is a lot of light bulbs. Put in light bulbs next time.
00:09:02
Speaker
So Raichu can also use its long tail to grab and restrain opponents or hold and carry things. So he's a useful boy. Yeah, but can he use it to whip? He must be able to. He's got that tail whip. I'm not having it. I can't go for another episode of the tail whip. But he must be able to whip with his tail.
00:09:30
Speaker
Oh yeah, it kind of looked like that, I'd not be able to. And excuse me, but why does the move tail whip not do damage? If you got whipped in the fucking schnoz with this tail, that would hurt. I feel like if you got whipped with anything, it would hurt. Yeah, but all it does is lower your defense. Maybe they don't whip it, they like shake it in front of them like...
00:09:57
Speaker
So Raichu seductively dances in front of Pikachu. Pikachu's inhibitions have lowered, therefore the defense stat has lowered from distraction. Well there is, isn't it Clefairy that uses the cuteness thing or something? Yeah, the charm thing. Yeah, so don't, you know, instantly laugh about it because it could be a thing.
00:10:24
Speaker
Jinx uses those lips and kisses. It does though. Kiss is a Pokemon move. I know. It's really creepy. So Raichu is more confident, faithful and powerful than Pikachu, which makes them rivals. But sometimes it is just as friendly and cute as a Pikachu. He's cuter. He is really cute.
00:10:53
Speaker
Yeah. I like his stupid fucking face. It kind of has the same face as Pikachu, but it just looks so much stupider on a Raichu and that's why I love it. It's like just bigger, right? Yeah. Yeah. I know what you mean though. He's, he's just hella cute. Yeah, he's adorable. So that makes sense why Pikachu can be a little bit envious of Raichu if he is, you know, tougher and more powerful and people say that it's more confident and faithful.
00:11:22
Speaker
If I was a Pikachu, I'd feel a bit shit.
00:11:24
Speaker
Yeah. And also again, we mentioned like the growing up thing, you know, like that's this doesn't even want to be a Raichu. It's a battle in the boy's head. Especially that they don't have to. That's why I find like the evolution stones very interesting because you don't have to evolve the Pokemon. There's not like a level cap, but you can decide at any point to evolve it, which I think that's cool. And we could probably get onto a whole episode on how the fuck
00:11:53
Speaker
just like evolution stones how the fuck yeah but honestly like how the fuck do they work right like it's weird we'll definitely have to go off on some tangents after we finish generation one for sure god i'm here for it i'm so down
00:12:10
Speaker
So if Raichu's sacs are fully charged, its ears will stand straight up, its muscles become stimulated. However, it will become aggressive if it has stored too much electricity and stress. Aw, a little stressed out Raichu. He's coming home from his nine to five and the wife's asking why he's not cooked dinner. The boss has been on it all day.
00:12:37
Speaker
They just don't need it, does they? The moral of the story is you don't edge your right shoe. Why do you make everything so cool?
00:12:49
Speaker
Though I guess that could be a really good battle strategy, when it becomes more aggressive and kind of unstable if it is stressed out. So just play some really annoying music right against a Raichu's Pokeball before you release it so it's extra stressed. Yeah, or just this podcast would probably work too.
00:13:12
Speaker
Just play this podcast right against your Pokeball, just to stress them out and make them super agitated. And then we guarantee that you will win your Elite Four battles. We don't guarantee much, but what we do guarantee is an angry Pokeline. We guarantee stress. Yeah, just ask our parents.
00:13:34
Speaker
So to keep itself from reaching that state, Raichu discharges electricity through its tail into the ground, and this leads to scorch patches near its nest. Messing. But you know what? That is a sign of being very emotionally healthy, that they're discharging all of their stress from a hard nine to five before they go home to the wife and kids. That's true, actually. That is quite healthy. It's emotional maturity. I'm so proud of him.
00:14:04
Speaker
It's grown up so fast.
Alolan Raichu Features
00:14:06
Speaker
So is that like the Pokemon equivalent of when you get home from work, just sitting in your car for 20 minutes, unable to move? I would assume so, yeah. You're so overstimulated. You just have to like sit there and stare into space before entering your house, even though you've been excited to go home all day. But you don't want to go home in that headspace. We need a little bit of extra.
00:14:31
Speaker
Yeah, I guess it is. That's just what the Pokemon do, right? They just scorch the earth. Or if you're me, you punch a wall and break your hand. To chat for a different time, sweetheart.
00:14:43
Speaker
So being the result of evolution via evolution stone, Raichu is rarely found in the wild, though they can be found in forests and woodlands. So there is, in the Alola generation anime, they find a whole horde of Pikachu, and they're breaking rocks and stuff to look for thunderstones to evolve.
00:15:09
Speaker
So I guess it is possible, but only if you know where to look. Yeah. And I personally wouldn't know where to look. And do they know, or do they just touch the stone and they're like, ah, fuck, I look different now. Nah, they must know. You don't know why, but they just must.
00:15:28
Speaker
Imagine like you're just on a nice hike and you're like, oh look at that, that's a really pretty stone. You go to pick it up and then you've evolved into like a Machamp or something. Oh, I'm not gonna lie to you Claude. If I went on a hike and came back as a Machamp, that would be a bloody win. You'd have two extra arms for activities. Exactly. I could carry my shop in and unlock my door at the same time.
00:15:53
Speaker
Oh, so good. And then also have a, have another arm for texting. Yeah. Like you could cook dinner all at once. Like you could cook and wash up at the same time.
00:16:04
Speaker
I could brush a dog that I'm doing a haircut on as I'm clippering it, as I'm also holding it still. Exactly. Like, she sounds great to have an extra set of hands, really. All right. Be right back. I'm going to go on a hike to look for a stone that'll give me an extra set of arms and a nice pair of Speedos. It's a Speedos that I really want. Oh, this has taken such a turn. Always. This always takes such a turn.
00:16:34
Speaker
So the main reason Raichu is rarely seen in the wild is because people prefer the look it had as Pikachu. That is a dumb Pokedex entry, and I recant that. I prefer the- I understand the love of Pikachu, but this is my favorite Pokémon. I don't think this Pokémon could be topped. Fair enough, mate. I'd rather argue with you, Kizzard. He's not my favorite.
00:16:59
Speaker
But I can see why he is yours. He's up there, he's one of my faves. He is the best. It's the nostalgia. The bees, the knees. As I'm sat here doing this podcast holding my Raichu stuffed animal. Yeah, sounds like you. All right, are you ready to dive into the Alola form of Raichu? The second form.
00:17:23
Speaker
Yeah, this one's got a second form too. Do you know what this guy looks like? Is he not just brown or is that the shiny version? The shiny version's like a browny terracotta kind of orange. Yeah, and I don't know what the Alolan one looks like.
00:17:41
Speaker
Oh, you're in for a treat. You might want to do a Google. So the Alolan Raichu now has an oval shaped tail that allows Raichu to stand on it. As if it is actually surfing. Oh, get out. Look at him. He's got bright blue eyes, darker skin tone, white hands and feet and yellow ears that point upwards. I love him.
00:18:08
Speaker
And he's like, Oh no, I love him. He's so cute. So the Alolan Raichu is an electric psychic type, which was the first of its kind in terms of the Pokemon that we had at the time. He stands at two foot, four inches and weighs 46.3 pounds or 21 kgs. Oh, that's cute. He's, he's not, he's smaller than any. Yeah. Yeah. Just a little bit smaller. It's earth now.
00:18:38
Speaker
Yeah. So I find this Pokemon really, really interesting because of kind of the facts that it has about it. So I'll get into that a little bit. So for the concept of the Alolan Raichu, and this was like a really big fucking deal, making a new evolutionary form of Pikachu because Pikachu is such a big hype.
00:18:58
Speaker
So the Alolan Raichu may be based on the concept of the surfing Pikachu and the sport of surfing itself, which originated in Hawaii, which is what the Alolan region is based off, as well as the Hodad concept of being a fake surfer. So Hodad...
00:19:18
Speaker
that term is just, oh, he's a hodad. He's a fake surfer boy. And he has been described as the hodad in the Pokedex. Its design and psychic typing may have been influenced by Pooka, which was a surfing Pikachu in the anime series, which had psychic powers and blue eyes. I like that. I don't like the fact they call him a fake surfer though. I mean, look at him, he's clearly qualified.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah, they fake surfer because he is a psychic type, so there's a whole thing. Does he actually surf or does he just use his psychic powers to make it look like he's surfing? That's cool. So a little bit about the design of this. So they asked Atsuku Nishida to design the Alolan Raichu since she was the one who worked on the original Raichu design many years previous, which was cool. They invited the same person back to do it.
00:20:14
Speaker
Yeah, I like that. And she insisted that Raichu has always been cuter than people might think and designed the Alolan Raichu to emphasize Raichu's cuteness. In particular, she designed it with the motif of bread and then the in-game law of people believing that its evolution is induced by eating pancakes was added afterwards to play up on this context.
00:20:39
Speaker
I don't really see the bread reference, but I'm here for it. The ears. Oh yeah. We could get into this. But the ears that like buns and then going back to when we did Pikachu, it's the black ear tips.
00:20:55
Speaker
was a design resembling the Daifuku, which was a Japanese dessert. So that was like the original context of Pikachu. Oh, okay. To be fair, now I'm looking closer at Raichu. He kind of does look like he's got cinnamon buns. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I can see it now.
00:21:13
Speaker
I love him. So a little bit about information on the variant. The Alolan fried chews origins were initially a mystery. The people of Alola suggested it ate too many sweet and fluffy pancakes, especially those made with a secret Alolan recipe.
00:21:33
Speaker
However, researchers believe that the change is related to Alolan Raichu's diet in general. It is also believed that the weather and climate of the Alolan region play a role in the transformation. And then they also call it a hodad. It's just so cute. He eats pancakes and then turns into an Alolan Raichu. I don't know. That's just cute.
00:21:54
Speaker
Yeah, it is cute. And I can understand where they kind of got that idea if it does look like kind of the pancake desserts that they eat in the Alolan region. Yeah. And then it's just the only place. Yeah. And it's the only place where you can get this Raichu. Yeah.
00:22:09
Speaker
It's cute. It's very cute. So being part psychic type, alone in the ride, you can also learn psychic apart from learning electric type moves. Duh. It's thunderbolts are now star shaped rather than lightning bolt shaped. That's cool.
00:22:28
Speaker
And then, able to control psychic powers, Alolan Raichu can gather psychonesis into its tail and use it to ride around. So he is a hodad. He's a hodad. I like the fact that he can surf all that float.
00:22:47
Speaker
He can surf on land. He can surf anything. He's a cool dude. He's a cool dude. Especially if you're living in somewhere like the Alola region where everybody loves to surf. Yeah. I don't know. I quite like the regional variations. It's like when we said about having an England variation of one of them. I can't remember who it was. I think it was Bulbasaur, isn't it? I think it was Bulbasaur, yeah.
00:23:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's a cute idea. I like it. Me too. So a little bit about the behaviour. The Alolan Raichu is often more playful than the original Raichus, because duh, they use their surfboard tails to ride around waves and float in mid-air. You can't get more playful than that. No, you can't.
00:23:31
Speaker
Yeah, bless him. And he literally eats pancakes. He eats pancakes. He eats pancakes, he does kickflips. He's also a teenager, isn't he? But a nice one. He's a dreamboat, isn't he? Yeah, love to give him a cuddle.
00:23:47
Speaker
Hopefully you won't shock ya. Uh, hopefully not. Or control my mind. Both possible. You'd love him to control your mind. I really would. So the final fact that you'll probably like is that when their cheeks are rubbed, so those electricity glands, they emit both electricity and a sweet smelling aroma that smells like pancakes. Oh, that's so cute. Who smells like pancakes? He looks like pancakes. He is pancakes.
00:24:18
Speaker
is pancakes now i want to get one and call it pancakes well sounds accepted right are you ready to move on to our question section question section me up all right this will have to be a twofer so imagine you're in yeah you're in two places at once oh don't think i could do this because the answer's gonna be the same for both if they don't live in the same region but this answer's the same for the both
00:24:41
Speaker
Alright, so you're just, if you saw them both, you'd just take
Personal Stories and Raichu's Functions
00:24:46
Speaker
them? Do you know it? So would you. I would. I'd have them be friends. Oh my god, imagine you had two Raichu. One would be pancakey and one would just be a little stress head. When I was a kid, I used to call my Raichu. I had a name. I named all of my Pokémon, of course. My Raichu was named Skid.
00:25:11
Speaker
I didn't know what a skid mark was as, you know, a nine-year-old. So I thought that skid was a really cute name for a Raichu. It sounds like your dad would call you as well. Just skid. Come here, skid mark. He would though, wouldn't he? Yeah, he would. He would not put it past him. He's just so cute. Raichu, I mean, not your dad.
00:25:38
Speaker
My dad also can be cute if he wants to be. What kind of functions, other than battling, do you think Raichu's plural could have? Well, the Alolan one's obviously going to work in a pancake cafe and he's going to just fly around and serve people pancakes.
00:26:00
Speaker
He'd be so good at serving because he could just fly above everybody's heads. Exactly. And he can even use psychic powers to lower the food onto the table. And you wouldn't even have to ask for what you wanted. He'd just be like, I got you. I can read your mind. Yeah.
00:26:19
Speaker
Yeah, he doesn't even have to come down to the table. He'll just fly it over top, pick up things off the table. Doesn't even need to use his arms. He'd be amazing, honestly. And he'd be such a good friend. Oh, he'd be like the ho-dad bakery. The ho-dad bakery. And he just smells good, so it would always smell good in there. Yeah, or, because he does smell good, an estate agent.
00:26:44
Speaker
How did we go from surfer to a state agent? Because they like made the houses smell like cookies and stuff, don't they? So it's an estate agent's assistant? Yeah. I mean, I guess you could get on the surfboard with him somehow, and he'd just fly you around the neighbourhood. Surfboard. Surfboard. Oh, Christ. Obviously, he could be a surfer. Yeah. What about the OG Raichi, though? What would he do?
00:27:13
Speaker
Well, he could be a- you could stick his tail in the ground to what it was the fancy ones I used to do. Check for electric magnetic forces. Yeah, yeah, that was the science I used earlier. Nightlight. Nightlight, yeah. He'd be a good one. You could get him really, really pissed off and then throw him at someone you don't like. Yeah, he's like a bomb. Delibird can come and swoop him up and put him in his sack. It's not TNT.
00:27:42
Speaker
surprise. He has that long tail that he can use to carry things so he can be a shopping assistant. He could. Yeah. He'd just make a really good PA or a nanny. Oh, just shock the kids to sleep. He'd be a nice babysitter, wouldn't he?
00:27:59
Speaker
Yeah, he glows in the dark. Never have to worry about that. Hopefully the kids don't stress him out too much, but I think he has enough emotional control. He can go outside and relieve himself of the electricity. Exactly. I reckon he'd be good with kids. Just don't leave him to babysit any elephants. No, because he'd kill them. Yeah. Oh, he'd be very good Pokemon for a poacher. Yeah.
00:28:25
Speaker
Just kill everything. But that's- we don't condone poaching. So maybe not. There's a lot of things we don't condone that we talk about, like this. Yeah, yeah. So what do you think these Pokémon eat? Berries. Berries for the OG and pancakes for the Alolan? Yes. Yeah, it's perfect. I think, like, the OG Raichu would be very similar to Pikachu, that it just eats whatever its trainer would eat, like a dog.
00:28:55
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. Because that's how it would have grown up, wouldn't it? Right. Table scraps. Exactly. And then these weird mountainous ones that evolved themselves. I don't know, they're quite hardy. Mice and rats and stuff are very scavengy so they can just kind of really eat anything. Yeah, exactly. If they're living it rough, they're probably used to scrounging around. One would assume.
00:29:24
Speaker
And plus, they can probably also cook their own food, so... Yeah, exactly. I trust them to cook a bit of chicken. So, could we eat a Raichu? Yes. Yeah. Do you reckon the alone one tastes like pancakes? Yes. Okay. Like a fishy penguin. Yeah, so if it looks like a pancake, it smells like a pancake, it's gonna taste like a pancake. Exactly. That one's easy. I kind of want to eat one. I just want pancakes.
00:29:49
Speaker
And then a fact that I did miss is that the shiny version of the Alolan Raichu looks like burnt bread. Oh, that's cute. Like he's been in the oven for too long. Yeah, so the orange parts are brown and the yellow parts are orange. Like he's been a bit overcooked. He's cute. God bless him. He's maybe cuter. Maybe the cutest.
00:30:13
Speaker
So if you walk into a bar, and there's a Raichu in there, and you can tell he's had a really hard day on the 9-5. And he's definitely looking a little upset.
00:30:28
Speaker
you know, his muscles are stimulated, his ears are sticking straight up, and he's kind of vibrating with this kind of anxious, stressed energy. And he's already looking for a fight. Just you walking in there is enough. Who would win? Obviously, I've got my rubber shoes on because I've just fought Pikachu. Yeah. I want to say me, but I am scared of how much more electric this guy's got. Like he is quite a bit more powerful.
00:30:56
Speaker
Let me Google how many volts to kill a person. Probably less than an elephant. I mean, if he can kill an elephant, he could kill a person. 100 to 250 volts can kill a human. Is that it? We're weak. I like bulb 60. I know I keep coming back to it, but it's the only thing I know the wattage of.
00:31:19
Speaker
So I think a hundred thousand volts is quite a lot. Yeah, I think he'd win. Yeah. Cause he could use that, he could use that tail to grapple you. Yeah. I don't even think he beat me up. I think he just explode me. Yeah. Unless you can find a way to discharge him, then you can just beat the shit out of him. Yeah. I mean, if, yeah, if he could use his powers, I could beat the shit out of him, but as he can use his powers, I might have to sit this one out.
00:31:45
Speaker
What about our little ho dad? I want to say I can take him based purely on the fact that he's so soft and squishy, but he still must have power. Like he's psychic, like he could just get a chair from behind me and whack it over my head. And he's gonna know what you're doing before you do it. Exactly. So like he will win that one. Again, unless he can't use his psychic powers.
00:32:07
Speaker
But he's playful. He could just be like, I'm just kidding, man. Let's go for a surf. He doesn't strike me as a Pokémon that would be in a bar fight.
Team Rocket's Antics and Raichu Affection
00:32:17
Speaker
I mean, I don't know how many Pokémon would realistically be in bar fights, could you? And the fact that we added this in says a lot about me more than anything.
00:32:28
Speaker
Yeah. Well, if you were to come across one that's been having a bad day, you know, maybe he had a bad batch of pancakes, or maybe the real estate deal didn't go through. Yeah, he's both fuming about that. Yeah, there's no way anybody could beat this guy. You can't even turn around without him knowing you're gonna turn around. He's got electricity, he's got flying chairs, he's got, I don't know, a tail that he could whip you with. He's got a tail! And he ain't afraid to use it.
00:32:58
Speaker
And he can just fly out really high and then you can't reach him. That's true. While he's making you punch yourself in the face with your own fist. Yeah, so what I've learned from this is that I would not win in a fight.
00:33:11
Speaker
Not against a Raichu. Unless you had like an anti-electric bag like Team Rocket have, they've tried lots of ways to get around the electricity. And you know what? A lot of the times it works. It's just that Ash has other Pokémon that they never think about. They just want the Pokémon. That's what I love about Team Rocket though, is they really try and they just fail every time.
00:33:34
Speaker
They just fall short. Sometimes they almost succeed and then they're like, oh, I forgot that Ash has other Pokemon and also friends that have Pokemon. And he just doesn't have this one Pikachu. Yeah, they're not the brightest of people, are they? But again, we're off track. Yeah, I could beat him, but I'll try. You give a good effort. Always.
00:34:00
Speaker
props for effort. Well, that's it for our 2 Raichu 2 shot. Oh, that would have been an easier one.
00:34:18
Speaker
What do you think of Raichu now? Do you know what? I liked him before. Don't get me wrong. I've always used him, but I like him more now because I know a bit more about his personality. And also that Alolan one is just the cutest thing I've ever heard. Right. I loved Raichu so that I was like, I don't really like Alolan Raichu because what did they do to my boy? But when I learned about him, I loved him. Yeah. I feel a lot.
00:34:46
Speaker
A lot more happy now I know things about him. Yeah, same Pokemon tastier font. Exactly. And he smells great. He's great. Tony's back. Titty Tony Tiger. On that note.
00:35:06
Speaker
had a Raichu pun, but I forgot it. Well, this has been a blast. Oh, and for next week, I'm gonna Raichu up all about Sandshrew. Wait. Oh, there it was. Right, see you on the flip side. Catch you on the flip side, homies. Bye.