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018: Pidgeot
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Meet Pidgeot, the bird that can fly the speed of a jet, and looks fine as hell doing it! Not gonna lie, we are obsessed with her.
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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Transcript
00:00:00
Speaker
This is a Muck Stain Productions Podcast.
Introduction to 'Unknown Radio'
00:00:23
Speaker
Hello homies and trainers and welcome to Unknown Radio, your mug stain production Pokemon talk show where we take a peek at every Pokemon. I'm Claudia and I'm here with my co-host and long time buddy Catherine. Hello, I bring the pizzazz. Claudia brings the facts. Together, we do this. Oh, I got chills. Oh, I'm really mixing them up at the moment.
00:00:52
Speaker
You are, I love it. It's keeping me on my toes.
Discussion on Pidgeot's Size and Features
00:00:55
Speaker
All right, so we're going to be covering number 18 in the Pokedex, and this is Pidgeot. Do you know what his tagline is? The biggest bird. I was hopeful for that too, but it is just, again, the bird Pokémon. For God's sake.
00:01:12
Speaker
The big bird. He is a normal flying type and I made the whoopsie last week. So we already know he is five foot, seven inches, but he weighs 87.1 pounds, which is 35.9 kgs. So he's still quite light. Yeah, I guess because he must have those hollow bones. Yeah.
00:01:37
Speaker
Yeah, I forgot about birds and their hollow bones. So is the same fucking size as a charizard? Yes. Pidgeot and charizard are the same size. Nintendo sort it out. It doesn't make sense. Does that mean you can also ride this? You can't ride it! I'm five foot eight! We're by fucking taller than them!
00:02:01
Speaker
I used to, yeah, I always make him be my flying poke when he flies me around the whole fucking region, but not now, not now that he's five foot seven, he ain't doing that, is he? Did try really hard. Yeah. Because he loves you so much. I'm furious. So what does this guy look like? Um, he's got an epic mohawk. Essentially looks exactly the same as the last one, but a more epic mohawk, yes. Yes. And big boy wings.
00:02:31
Speaker
He's a lot bigger, he's got that big-ass wingspan, he's got that beautiful crest, and he's still got those really nice black markings around his eyes to make him look like an Egyptian god, which is still cool. He's still a god, let's be honest. Yes, he is. He's a legend.
00:02:53
Speaker
And this guy is actually based to look like an eagle, and it's very interesting because its shiny variant actually resembles a golden eagle. Ooh, yeah, he's interesting. I like that. This shiny is very cold. He's like brown and gold with some like deeper orange colors. This one, we don't sleep on this one. This one's nice. Oh, yeah, now giggling him.
00:03:21
Speaker
Oh yeah, he nice. He is nice. He's nice.
Origin of Pidgeot's Name and Historical Ties
00:03:25
Speaker
And then the name Pidgeot may come from the words pigeon and a corruption of the word jet. It may also take inspiration from like its pre-evolution with the Pidgeotto, where part of its name could be interpreted as relating to Otto Lilienthel, who was a German aviation pioneer that studied flight. Oh.
00:03:51
Speaker
Right, I'm sorry. Last week you had a language fact. This week you got history facts. You just smashed them all out. This is the Pokemon for you. Yeah. This is why I've got such a, you know, a love for it. And you didn't even know. I know. We're just, we're meant to be. You and Pidgey, meant to be. Yeah, forever and always. I'll get that tattooed next.
00:04:18
Speaker
What was it? Peter and Paul the Pidgeys. Do you know what actually, you know my little bird tattoos? Yeah. One is called Paul. So I'm just going to say that one's Pidgey now. I'm going to color it in brown. Oh, that's beautiful. I don't imagine you didn't even know it. I know. I just love
Pidgeot's Abilities and Behaviors
00:04:37
Speaker
him. So this guy lives five to seven years. So the entire kind of lifespan of the Pidgey line is seven years, which is pretty good for a bird.
00:04:47
Speaker
Yeah, it's quite good for a bird. I mean, I don't really know, apart from a seagull, I don't know how long birds usually live for, but... So it's about what like a cockatiel would live. Just a big ass cockatiel. I think that is basic. That's pretty accurate though, isn't it? Yeah. So Pidgeot is a powerful flyer capable of creating whirlwinds as strong enough to bend trees. At maximum
00:05:14
Speaker
velocity, it can reach speeds of Mach 2, which is about 1,522.2 miles per hour. 1000 miles per hour? Yes. Holy shit. I don't know how fast birds usually fly, but that
00:05:32
Speaker
It's fast. Wait, that seems always too fast. Yes. Pidgeot can also fly faster than a Star Raptor if it wants to. So, and that's one of the fastest Pokemon. Interesting. That is impressive. We want to get on the wrong side of this boy. And on that note, with its powerful claws and strength, it can pick up almost any foe. Any foe? I wonder if he could pick up a Charizard.
00:06:01
Speaker
I mean, they're the same size, so I think it'd give it a good shot. I'd love to see it. Yeah, I would actually. It could definitely fly faster than a Charizard. I don't think that thing's flying 1,522.2 miles per hour. Jesus. I don't understand how it could fly that fast. It's like a jet. I don't know either. Pokemon logic. I mean, to be fair, if I could ride it, at least then I could come see you. You'd get hit pretty fast. Yeah. With jet speeds. Jesus.
00:06:31
Speaker
I don't know why I needed to make the noise. Imagine trying to hold on to this guy while it's flying 1,522 miles an hour. Jesus Christ. You'd lose your skin. Oh my god, yeah. You'd have to wear a helmet like a motorcycle and strap yourself in with duct tape. It'd have to be like that old fashioned, you know, the old fashioned fliers helmets. Oh yeah. With like the goggles and the earmuffs and stuff. You know what, you would look fly doing it.
00:07:02
Speaker
You know what, you bloody would. I'd do it just for the swag, you know? You have to put a scarf on so that can be billowing in the wind like it's mohawk is also billowing in the wind. Oh my god, but it's mohawk is so majestic. Like you wouldn't want to sit on that and ruin it. No, you should have to be under the mohawk, but then have your own little scarf going out behind you as well. It's beautiful. Beautiful. I can see it just billowing in the wind.
00:07:30
Speaker
So Pidgeot is even more dangerous than its previous evolutionary stage. This is because it is bulkier and more aggressive, enabling it to catch much bigger prey. Its favorite target is Magikarp, which Pidgeot can spot from a great distance, and trainers should be very careful when approaching this Pokémon in the wild.
00:07:52
Speaker
So it's very aggressive and it could pick up almost any foe, but it's like, you know what? I'll just have a magic up. Do you know what though? Your favorite food's your favorite food. I can't judge a man for that. Yeah. Like Eve's been eating it his whole life. Why bother trying from what you know? And then you can save his energy. I love spaghetti hoops, you know? I love Little Caesar's breadsticks.
00:08:21
Speaker
Yeah, but that's also what you've been eating your whole life. No. What about Monster Munch? There we go. I love Monster Munch. Yeah, I get it. And I guess that way he can save his energy for more important things like flying 1,522 miles an hour. Yeah, exactly. He's got, and that's got to take a lot of Magikarp for him to get to those speeds, you know? So he's a creature of habit that, you know, and maybe he knows that, you know, the energy input is great with a Magikarp.
00:08:50
Speaker
So he's just gonna stick with that. It's easy, you know, he's not gonna damage his beautiful feathers. I can appreciate that, it's a matter of habit. Yeah, I know, I'm here for it. So while he is still territorial, they no longer attack others for simply entering their terfs. Rather, they wait and use their keen eyesight to watch from far away, seeing whether their intruders have ill intentions. Oh. So it's very much like...
00:09:18
Speaker
how when Charmeleon evolved into a Charizard, Charizard doesn't attack anybody that it doesn't see worthy. So this guy, unless, you know, they notice that the intruder is not endangering them or their offspring, they'll just leave them alone. That's good. Like, you just need to fight for the sake of fighting. You know, they're no longer the teenager.
00:09:43
Speaker
He knows he's powerful and he knows I don't have to fight everybody that comes in here unless they're gonna hurt me. I love him. Yeah, no, I'm here for him. He's matured. He's sensible with his food options. He knows what he likes. He's a watcher. So when approached, the Pidgeot will spread out their wings to intimidate the foes.
00:10:08
Speaker
Like a swan. Like a swan. Yeah, exactly like a swan. So he doesn't even, he's like, you know what, you're looking like you are going to cause some mischief. Let me just fly down and I'll show you what a big boy I am. And then they're like, come at me, bro. And I'm assuming it works. Come at me, bro.
00:10:28
Speaker
Because if one came up and he was like, you want to fight, I'd be like, nah, you're good. I'm good, bro. I'm good. Thanks, though. Thanks for the offer. And a fun little factoid about the Pokémon universe is that the beautiful glossy feathers on their head, like that quiff that you like, is a symbol of speed in popular culture in the Pokémon universe. I'm not a bloody surprise. If it's going a thousand miles an hour,
00:10:57
Speaker
This one, goodbye Peter, goodbye Paul, Speedy Gonzales, here we come. It is really, bye bye Peter, bye bye Paul, I cannot see you anymore because you flew away too fast. But the sentiment is there. Yeah, exactly. So this guy does have a mega evolution.
Mega Pidgeot Evolution Details
00:11:19
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:11:20
Speaker
So when evolved with Pidgeolite, Pidgeot turns into Mega Pidgeot. Do you know what this guy looks like? I'm gonna guess just a big version of it because let's be honest, they're not often that inventive. This one's probably the most interesting out of all of them. Okay, go on.
00:11:45
Speaker
I'll Google it once you've described it to me. Yes. Okay, so he grows noticeably bigger.
00:11:51
Speaker
It has longer body, broader wings. The wingtips and tail feathers are now dipped, tipped in not blue, but cyan. And its cream color is now white, its eyes turn magenta, and its pupils turn white. It has an even more elaborate crest on its head with a stream-alike magenta plume extending from a mane of yellow feathers. And then he has like another feather that goes in front of its crest, like a
00:12:20
Speaker
single one and then there's like a single magenta highlight on the left side oh stunning he's pretty cool looking isn't he yeah oh my god i love him and he is seven foot three inches and he finally gets up there in the weight to 111.3 pounds which is about 50.5 kgs still not that heavy considering 7-eleven
00:12:49
Speaker
Or seven, what have you said it was? But you can, you can ride this one. You can. That's what I was about to say. I would ride him all day, every day. Comfortably. Yeah. I just, I'd want him to be my best friend. I'm sorry, you're out. Pidgeot's in. And I don't think you'd be mad about it either. Yeah. If you can't, you can't ride on my back and I can't go, I can barely go like three miles an hour, let alone.
00:13:16
Speaker
I don't even know how there's no recording on how fast this guy can go. I would find it interesting if he could go as fast, given that he is bigger. Right. So the increased wing power allows it to fly for two weeks without rest. Fucking... Oh my god, you could literally do around the world in 80 days. You could. Just on a picture.
00:13:45
Speaker
And maybe he does go the same speed as his previous evolution, but he's definitely got the stamina to back it up. And that crest that he now has, especially the one that dips out in front, is very sensitive to the air currents and acts like a large antenna and stabilizes its flight. So not only does it fly fast, not only does it fly for two weeks straight, but it's going to be a comfortable ride.
00:14:16
Speaker
And what more can you ask for, really? Nothing. That's a stunning behaviour. So far, you haven't told me a single thing that hasn't made me like any of the Pidgey evolution. It's because they're perfect, other than a slight attitude problem. They're perfect. Yeah. It's beautiful. It is, honestly. I would say this is probably your favourite line of Pokémon so far. I don't know, I was quite keen on Charmander.
00:14:44
Speaker
Yeah, we didn't like chameleon. No, we didn't. I think this might be our favorite so far. So are you ready to move into our question section for our boy Pidgeot? Oh, yeah. All right. So you're wandering around in an area just outside of Viridian City and you find yourself stumbling into unknowingly to you a Pidgeot's territory. You're not really
00:15:11
Speaker
you know, engaging in any ill-mannered behaviour so he's not mad with you, but he does fly down and he does just spread his wings just to let you know, hey bud, this is my territory and I'm just letting you know that I'm here. What would you do? Right, that would all depend. A, how many Magikarp got in my pocket? Well, you breed them now. Yeah, true. And B, if I had my already befriended Pidgeotto. Ooh. Because, I mean,
00:15:40
Speaker
If I've already got my Pidgey or my Pidgeotto, then like surely they're going to instantly be like, right, not a threat. And then I can become part of their family. I can infiltrate them and I can grow up and be like, not like Tarzan because I want me being raised by monkeys, but like I'd be raised by fucking birds and it'd be Pidgeys and I would love my life. So you would grow a mohawk and run around slapping your wings. I would chicken run it and pretend I can fly.
00:16:11
Speaker
I love this new life for you. I would be, I'd be breeding Magikarp. I'd be giving the Magikarp to my bird friends.
00:16:19
Speaker
I'm sorry, but I wanted to be my friend, Claudia. You know what? That's a match made in heaven. I think, you know, if normal life doesn't work out for you, you know, we'll just put you in a forest, we'll find you a new bird family, and you can breed your Magikarp and live your life as like a pseudo-pidgey, and I think you'll be happy. I think I would. That sounds bloody dreamy, actually.
00:16:42
Speaker
And you can raise those Pidgeys and watch them grow up and have Pidgeys abound. Oh, that'd be so emotional. You could teach them to fly. I could.
00:16:56
Speaker
Also a little side note, I thought about where you can go. So in the Pokemon anime, I believe it's in the orange islands. There's an island called Fat Pidgey Isle, where a colony of Pidgeys live that used to be Pidgeymail Pidgeys until email was invented and then they weren't flying around anymore. And they all got so fat because they ate so much and they didn't fly that they lost their ability to fly.
00:17:24
Speaker
Right, second job for me, I could start a sanctuary for those pigeons, and we could live our life on the thing together. I could create a little sanctuary, it could be like a tourist destination. That's exactly what I was thinking. I was like, you would love it there. You'd be the queen of Fat Pidgey Isle.
00:17:47
Speaker
You can run a little Airbnb there, breed your Magikarp, have all your flightless Pidgey besties. It'll be beautiful. Honestly, sounds like a dream. And you can have some Pidgeotos there to protect it. And then, you know, a Pidgeot would be your best friend. And occasionally you could mega evolve that Pidgeot and go around the world in 80 days. What a life. Honestly, sounds dreamy. I don't... I'm sold.
00:18:15
Speaker
It's like when your dream life is just plopped in front of you. So what function do you reckon that a Pidgey art could have other than battling?
Pidgeot's Potential Uses
00:18:25
Speaker
I reckon a Pidgey art would be a better candidate for Amazon Prime. It would be like the ultra Amazon Prime, you get your package within the hour. Or it could just be like
00:18:43
Speaker
It could be, you know, airmail, just all airmail, like international mail goes via Pidgeot. Oh, that would work really well. Yeah. And then mega Pidgeot, I reckon, could be like a private jet, like an individual private jet. Oh, gotcha. And I mean, I'm not being funny, but if I've created a sanctuary for fat Pidgeys, I better get a bloody mega Pidgeot. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:19:11
Speaker
Oh yeah, and it would definitely be a Pidgeot that has decided, you know what, you're helping my kin and I'm in your debt. Yeah, exactly. It's beautiful. This is dreamy. Like, I've planned my dream life. You could also race them. That would be fun. That would be fun actually. A Pidgeot race. Yeah. Just very big Pidgeys. Just big Pidgeots. It would be useful for...
00:19:40
Speaker
Like not only like instant Amazon Prime or Air Mail, but if there's like organ transplants when they have to like helicopter them real fast, Pidgey up. Oh my God. And I reckon also going back to Pidgey, you know how you can get therapy dogs. Therapy Pidgey. Oh, so good. Oh God. Especially the fat ones that can't fly. Yeah.
00:20:09
Speaker
Beautiful. This is the perfect line of Pokemon. True. Crap it. All right, what does a Pidgeot eat? A Magikarp. He just loves a Magikarp. I reckon he can eat pretty much anything. Yeah, but why would he? But he knows what he likes. Yeah. And you know what? I like a guy that knows what he likes.
00:20:31
Speaker
Right. You don't have to go into the restaurant and get confused. Oh, and then sit there for ages like, oh, should I get this or should I get that? Or what is that? He just sits down and he goes magic up. Yeah. Shaken, not stirred. Shaken, not stirred. Oh. He knows what he likes. He does know what he likes. He knows what he likes. So could we eat a Pidgeot? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I'm as excited to eat this.
00:20:59
Speaker
as the Pidgeotto. Why, though? I don't know. I am, because it's just an even bigger version of the Pidgeotto. So you're gonna get an even bigger leg. Okay, Salt, an even, even bigger fried Pidgeotto leg off. Yeah. That would be my only meal for the day and I'd be happy about it. Yeah, like, these could, in theory, like feed
00:21:30
Speaker
quite a lot of people. Like a school. Yeah, like one Pidgeot for a whole school. Could be like, I could imagine, like, their glossy feathers being like symbols of speed or whatever. I could imagine like a ceremony, like maybe before the Olympics, if the Olympics existed in the Pokemon universe, they just have a feast, but they eat a Pidgeot because they think that it will give you like athletic qualities. Absolutely. And also,
00:21:59
Speaker
Like I imagine, like, you know how you get like peacock feathers? Yeah. Like people like use them for all sorts of random crap, like decorations. Imagine decorating with fucking Pidgeot feathers. That would be beautiful. Wouldn't it? It's like a whole fan of Pidgeot feathers. I'd have minivars. Even better if it was like mega Pidgeot feathers with that like magenta and cyan.
00:22:28
Speaker
I got the shivers. It's beautiful. So you walk into that same bar that you just had an altercation with a Pidgeotto and there is a Pidgeot just at the bar enjoying, you know, a Magikarp and a
00:22:48
Speaker
a scotch or something. Oh, a scotch this time. This one's a lady this time too. Okay. Okay. Well, she strikes me as being a very classy lady. So, and she turns around and she knows that you were beaten on that Pidgey and that Pidgeotto.
00:23:09
Speaker
And she turns around, she spreads her wings, she fills up the whole bar with her beautiful plumage. Who would win? Her. Oh yeah. Yeah, I can't even deny it. I can't even pretend I could take this one on. It'd be difficult to get your arms around her in the first place. Yeah. It's not even like I could go behind it like a bee drill, you know? Like it would just be a straight up, it's coming for me.
00:23:37
Speaker
What you're tasked to do, you just have to get down on one knee and then just treat her like the Egyptian goddess that she is. Or show pictures of my fat pidgeys. Or, I mean, if you did work at Fat Pidgey Isle, you know, it would be a different, she'd be like, you know what, maybe that Pidgeot was being a bit of an ass. You know, you're one of my people. Yeah, so this would go either way, either she'll kill you. Or respect.
00:24:06
Speaker
Or you'd be her slave forever, or she would respect you. Yeah, basically. And I don't think I wanna know which way it would go. Because if she is gonna beat me down, then I'm gonna. And your feelings will get hurt. Oh, my feelings would be hurt so bad. Like, my pride, you know. I don't have a lot. So sad. So sad. Well, that's our Pidgey family done with. I'm sad that it's over, but I'm glad that it happened. What do you think of Pidgey art?
00:24:36
Speaker
Love her. Love her. Love it, yeah. I would say her because she's majestic. And I think she's definitely the best mega evolution yet. Oh, yeah. Well, oh yeah, because that was Gigantamax. The Venusaur. Oh, you know it. I always know if you go, oh, Gigantamax, love it. It's gonna be Venusaur because the rest of them are terrifying. The best Gigantamax I've ever seen in my life.
00:25:02
Speaker
But you know what, maybe Gigantamax Venusaur and Mega Pidgeot teamed up would be the dream. Oh God, wouldn't it? You could heal the world and fly around it in 80 days. Oh, no, I'm sold. I'm completely sold.
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah, I like Pidgeot so much better than I ever thought I did. I just thought it was like a bigger Pidgeotto, but so much more than that. And, you know, if you, like me, ever got Pidgeotto and Pidgeot confused in the, especially the original games, then shame on all of us. Yeah. But also, I mean, it's understandable because it's like one letter difference. Yeah, it's pretty fair beans. They look the same. They look, the words look the same.
00:25:51
Speaker
But no, they're very different. Now we're educated. If you show me a picture of a Pidgeotto and a Pidgeot, I will be able to tell you which one is which. And I think that is a skill that will never let you down. No, absolutely not. I'm obsessed. I love them forever and always. So do you know who we're covering next week?
Preview of Next Episode on Rattata
00:26:15
Speaker
Is it going to be someone that I actually like? If you like,
00:26:29
Speaker
So you have that to look forward to, our two forms of Rattata. And I'm actually, I went into Rattata.
00:26:42
Speaker
regretting having to do Rattata. I came out of Rattata thinking I had a lot of fun researching that. That was good. Okay, if you're lying to me again, we're gonna have words. I'm gonna scrap you in a bottle. Did I lie to you about the Pidgey family?
00:26:58
Speaker
No, but you did lie to me about Beedrill and I'm not over it. Okay. Well, I'm hopeful that you will enjoy it. But for now, homies and trainers and our buddies around the world, that is it for us this week. And I'm gonna make like a Pidgeot and Mack two away.
00:27:18
Speaker
Yeah, well, I don't know about you, but I had a flapping good time. And I'll see you on the flip side. That was a good one. Thank you. Yeah, I sat on that for a while.