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029/032: Nidoran
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Meet Nidoran Male and Female, the Pokemon that are sure to cause a bit of a kerfuffle. Not only are these little cuties a pair of snuggle bugs, they could also kill a human probably.
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
Introduction: Unknown Radio & Hosts
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 Muggstain production Pokemon talk show where we take a peek at every Pokemon. As always, I'm Claudia and I'm here with my co host Catherine.
00:00:34
Speaker
Hello, I'm Catherine. I bring the pizzazz, Claudia brings us the facts, and together we're unstoppable. Oh, I like that. Yeah, a bit of pizzazz. We are unstoppable because now we're on number 29.
Spotlight on Nidoran Female
00:00:47
Speaker
We're doing a double shot, 29-32, but we're going to start out with good old 29. No, it's the Nindo Ritos. It's Nidoran male and Nidoran female. They're so boring.
00:01:03
Speaker
We're gonna start with number 29. This is Nidoran female. What does this Pokemon look like? They're like little rabbits mixed with a rat, but they're like blue. Spot on. Just imagine a rat rabbit that's blue and that is a Nidoran female. Do you know what her tagline is? Um, I don't know. The poison rabbit. That's actually shockingly close. No.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yeah, it is the poison pin Pokemon. Oh, nice. She is a poison type. She stands at one foot four inches and weighs 15.4 pounds, which equates to seven kgs. Not too big then, not too shabby. Rabbit, rabbit sized. Yeah, because it's a rat rabbit. And then a very interesting fact. We're going to start out with just the interesting facts to see if we can get you hooked. Okay, it's going to take a look. I'm here for it.
00:02:02
Speaker
So like you said, the regular color is blue, which equates to in the olden days, how blue was for girls and pink was for boys, but that's kind of subversive now. So the regular color is blue, but then the shiny color is a purpley pink, which is the exact same color, we'll get into him, but the male counterpart.
00:02:24
Speaker
Well, that just seems confusing. It's genderqueer Nidoran's. I mean, I'm here for the genderqueerness, but you know. More facts is that the Nidoran female, the name may come from... Oh, I can see if I can say this. Nidocyte, but it begins with a C, silent C at the beginning of that word, which is a type of cell responsible for the venom in stinging animals.
00:02:49
Speaker
Okay, I like the fact it's called a silent sea, not enough words have a silent sea at the start of them. Yeah, it's pretty spicy. Only one and that's the one you've just told me about. Yeah, Nidacite, now you know it. Thank you. And then the Ran in the name Nidoran.
Nidoran Traits & Personal Stories
00:03:05
Speaker
Ran is orchid in Japanese and orchids can either be blue or purple just like the colors of the two Nidorans.
00:03:12
Speaker
Oh, I like that actually. That's quite sweet. Yeah. And simple enough, Nidoran also kind of sounds like Needle. So it's like a three shot. That one's a three shot. So the Nidoran female and male is mostly based on small mammalian animals, mainly mice, rabbits, or porcupines. It may also be based on some venomous mammals, mainly the insectivore types. Insectivore? Oh, the ones that eat insects.
00:03:41
Speaker
Yes. Okay. It took me a minute. Yeah. But I was here for it. The three food groups. Grass, meat, insect. You know the one.
00:03:53
Speaker
So the two Nidorans together seem to be based on the concept of sexual dimorphism in which two genders of the same animal species have two very different appearances. And these two appearances were in the first games, the first generation of Pokemon before they even introduced any gender variances. And they got around that by having literally two different species of Pokemon, which was kind of weird. Yeah, and you always run into them and they're really irritating.
00:04:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And you have to catch one of each because they evolve different. Yeah. But then like who's actually evolving them apart from to get your polka dots? So I, when I had Pokemon yellow, yeah, here we go. Pikachu was fucking shit against Brock. Impossible. Yeah. So I, I caught a Nidoran male and I named him Tony and he was with me to the end. Good old Tony.
00:04:51
Speaker
I finally met someone that actually used a Nidoking. What a surprise. He was pretty good. Fair play. He was pretty good. Maybe I will relive my childhood. Play it again and I'll just try and beat the Elite Four with only Nidokings and Nidokoons.
Nidoran Female's Defense & Behavior
00:05:07
Speaker
It'd be pretty fucking sick. Poison types are not to be trifled with. Thought to be trifled with? Not to be trifled with. So we'll get into a little bit about what the Nidoran female is all about. So these small Pokémon are extremely timid and docile, but also extremely venomous. Even a tiny drop of the venom they excrete from their barbs can be fatal.
00:05:37
Speaker
It's great. Okay. So it is interesting that it's saying that the venom comes from kind of the spiky barbs on the skin rather than the bite. And so it's kind of like a venomous conker. Oh my God. Or a venomous, venomous, venomous, venomous, I can't say it, hedgehog. Oh, they didn't even mention that this was kind of like a hedgehog. It's very hedgehog-ish. I feel like a hedgehog is quite a British animal though, isn't it? Yeah, that's true. People only had them in America for pets.
00:06:05
Speaker
Like, yeah. Like, they're not very worldwide. They should be. Because they're cute. They are cute, but they're also lactose intolerant. Are they really? Yeah. Well, I learnt that they're new today. I've got more in common with a hedgehog than you'd think. Supposed to be learning about Pokemon. I'm learning about British wildlife. Surprise. So to make matters worse, Nidoran female are easily spooked and it's not at all difficult to accidentally be scratched by a fleeing individual. Okay. So it's a rabbit.
00:06:35
Speaker
Like a rabbit. Yeah. Just a poisonous rabbit. A poisonous rabbit with this blue. Yeah. Kind of like that for it. With a rat. So if cornered, however, Nidoran female would defend themselves with their horns. While these horns are smaller and slightly blunter than the males of the species, they are still nevertheless very dangerous. I'd rather get hit with a sharp knife than a blunt knife.
00:07:02
Speaker
I bet if you... Yes, it wouldn't pierce your skin as much, but there'll be a lot more surface area of pain. Which would probably be more effective for poison Pokemon. I reckon so. Well, because rabbit teeth are blunt as hell, but they hurt when they bite. See? I told you. Yeah. I get bit by dogs every day, but I'm more afraid of hamsters. Yeah, because they don't let go.
00:07:27
Speaker
Oh, they don't. I don't think these would let go. I don't think they would. I think that you'd like have to carry them around. Just shaking it off. Oh, that just rips your skin and they get them barbs in there. And then you're dead. One finger.
00:07:42
Speaker
They may attack with Poison Sting or Double Kick as they try to escape, the former of which incapacitates foes while the latter knocks them back, allowing the Pokémon to flee. So yes, you're right. And their hard incisors are adapted to cross berries and can also deliver painful bites. You do not want to run into these in the forest.
00:08:05
Speaker
No. No wonder people try and capture that in Pokeballs because if you try and touch this thing it'll kick you, it'll bite you, it'll sting you and just be it's a kerfuffle. Do you know what it is a kerfuffle? That's the best way to describe it. Knit around female. Such a kerfuffle. Change the tagline, the kerfuffle Pokemon. I don't even know how you spell kerfuffle. It probably begins with a K.
00:08:31
Speaker
I'll have to google that later for the tagline of the episode. So it's rare to find a lone Nidoran female as they are fairy social Pokémon that are almost never seen without Elder Nidorina and Nidoquine, or at very least sibling Nidoran male accompanying them.
00:08:49
Speaker
In fact, the majority of documented cases of Nidoran female poisonings have been attributed to skittish and scared wild individuals attacking out of sheer terror after having been separated from their families.
00:09:04
Speaker
Yeah. They're just babies. Just a little baby who could kill you. Yeah. It definitely seems like more of a baby Pokemon, like the rest of them, even like the pre-evolutions weren't like quote unquote babies because they didn't really live in like family systems other than like the, the, the Weedle and the, the Caterpie. Yeah. This one really does seem like- But I don't think they're cute. But then it is, it's a bit like rabbits, isn't it? You know?
00:09:31
Speaker
Yeah. They have like the baby bunnies, the normal bunnies, and the big daddy and mommy bunnies. So the the female Nidoran have more sensitive nostrils and whiskers than the males. They are quicker to detect predators and because of this they will stay downwind when they sense one. Fair enough. Yeah bless him. You don't want to be upwind of a predator do you?
00:09:54
Speaker
We do not. Especially not a stanky one. Because I reckon they'd have very good defense mechanisms, but still some of the bigger Pokémon are even scarier. Like I reckon they'd be fine against like a regular old fox. Yeah. But a Charizard, forget it. A Charizard's just gonna set it on fire, right?
Exploring Nidoran Male
00:10:19
Speaker
Just make it rotisserie style. Oh god, we're back to Shrek again, aren't we? Okay, you wanna move on to the male version? Ah, so bloody lately.
00:10:31
Speaker
All right, Nidoran Male. Also the Poison Pin Pokemon because they are the same Pokemon. It's a little bit bigger at 1 foot 8 inches weighing 19.8 pounds, which equates to 9 kgs. So it's a little bit bigger. But what does this guy look like? It's the same, but he's got pointy ears and he's purple. He's exactly the same. Longer ears, purple.
00:10:56
Speaker
slightly bigger spines than he has like a horn on his head. Yeah, but they still got that just like one tooth. One tooth. One tooth. The rat tooth. That's a that's a Pokemon staple. One tooth. The single tooth. To defeat all tooth. So again with the other one, the regular is purple and then the shiny version is is blue. Yeah. Very cool.
00:11:23
Speaker
So the males of the Nidoran species, who are notable for being the only species considered to separate Pokémon based on gender like we talked about, the Nidoran male has two main assets, their large ears and their poisonous barbs. Okay. Plain and simple. Plain and simple. Plain and simple.
00:11:42
Speaker
That muscles allow for their ears to move freely. They can hone in on the smallest sounds, and by hiding in the tall grass and raising and stiffening their ears just above it, the Nidoran male can scan their surroundings and use their ears to detect danger from far away. So a rabbit!
00:11:59
Speaker
Yes. This one has the ears of the rabbit and the female has the smell of the rabbit. Well, the smell sense. Maybe it also smells like a rabbit. I don't know. I've never smelled one. I've never decided to take a sniff, but next time I will. So to defend themselves, they can extend toxic spikes from their body or stab enemies with their horns using poison jab. The toxicity of their barbs directly correlates to their sizes, but even the small barbs can be extremely dangerous.
00:12:28
Speaker
I don't want any of their barbs near me. Yeah, and these ones can extend toxic spikes, so does that mean that they throw the spikes? Well, I mean, what's one of their moves? Poison Sting? Or did I just make that up? You know where they're like, pew pew pew, where they shoot the poison fangs? Yeah. Yeah, so I guess they can. Shoot them off like little pellets.
00:12:50
Speaker
Like hedgehogs in cartoons where they can just explode out their spines? Well, porcupines because, you know, hedgehogs are in a British. You're right. Porcupines. The only word I could think of was delicacy, but we don't eat them. Like, let me just make that clear. We could. We could. If you're really starving. I don't think there'd be much meat. No, it's mostly spine and then a little bit... They've got a nose, little feets, but I don't think there's much more than that.
00:13:20
Speaker
Like females, however, males are shy and try to avoid fights, using only their venom to defend themselves as necessary when confronted. However, they will risk their lives to defend females that they are enamored with. I think that's cute. Little lovebirds. Little lovebirds. They're ratty like rabbits.
00:13:38
Speaker
Yeah, going back to Tony, my old Nidoran Tony, the original series of Pokemon had their introductory episode for the Nidorans, where they had a Nidoran male and a Nidoran female that were owned by rival Pokemon trainers, Alla, West Side Story, and they were named Tony and Maria. So that's where I got the name Tony from, I'm not weird. That makes more sense. Although I do just like the fact that like, I don't know, eight year old you was like, Tony, that's a great name.
00:14:08
Speaker
Toni is not a good name, but I was stuck with it. You can't rename him. It's a strong male name. You can if you find that magic man. That one magic man that can rename your Pokémon. Is that in the first game as well? I think so. I haven't played them in so long. I'm about to do a replay, so I'll let you know.
00:14:27
Speaker
I'm going to get my Nintendo Advance SP out and play not the original one, but the next one up and see what I can get on there. I can't remember which one I've got. Give that a crack. We have to
Nidoran's Practical Uses - A Humorous Take
00:14:39
Speaker
do a replay. We have to. It's going to have to happen.
00:14:42
Speaker
Absolutely. So the Nidoran males are herbivores and they consume plants as their main source of food. They can even devour toxic ones without any ill effects. And some scientists even believe that Nidoran males gain their poison from such plants. Like daisies. Daisies are poisonous. With the amount of daisies we ate as kids, how come we don't have poison powers? Because we're built different.
00:15:07
Speaker
Maybe we should be dead, not, you know. Or a poisonous superhero. But I do like how what they eat kind of changes what they look like. Yeah, I like that tea. I'm trying to think of any other example that's just not Flamingos eating shrimp. I don't know. I guess it's like, you know, when you eat a chicken and it's corn fed and it tastes different. Yes, and it's a different colour. Yeah.
00:15:32
Speaker
Yeah, I like that better. I like that better because I'm hungry and chicken is more edible than a flamingo. I mean, I've never tried to eat a flamingo, but I'm sure people have. Is it illegal? I don't know. I don't think they're like swans. No. Though I guess they are the Florida swan. Well, that's it. We can Google after, isn't it? A flamingo is a Florida swan. Are you ready to move on to our question section? Question section? No. Question section.
00:16:02
Speaker
So if you're just hanging around in Viridium Forest Route 2, we've been here for a long old time, but... We have. It feels like weeks. There's been a wrestling in a bush and out jumps. Two Pokémon you haven't seen yet, Nidoran male and Nidoran female. What would you do?
00:16:22
Speaker
Oh my God. I'm just taking a photo and running. Don't want to disturb the wildlife. I've got, I must have one of those fancy cameras with me by now. Oh yeah. This is, this is Pokemon Snap. Oh don't, I love that game. So relaxing. Um, but like I reckon I'm taking photos and I'm gone. I don't want to touch him. Yeah, they'll poison you. Yeah, exactly. I can't pick him up. So I'm taking a photo and I'm moving on. Protected species.
00:16:50
Speaker
yeah like um the red kite oh god i miss red kites they are good ones yeah so uh we're just leaving them i agree with you um so what functions do you think that these two would have uh other than battling um they're just they're for lawn care surely like if they're rabbits they're going to trim down your lawn um keep it at a nice length
00:17:15
Speaker
Do you reckon that'll be like a form of wealth if you go like into a big manor house with like a huge lawn and there's just like various Nidoran's just nibbling? I reckon so, yeah. And then especially if they're eating the poisonous plants that would be good for the other plants or animals that might be living in that area or that reserve. Like one of those really fancy estates you go to where they've just got like deers roaming free.
00:17:41
Speaker
Exactly. And they have Nidoran's roaming free. Oh my god, imagine. And like, they don't even have to be skittish because they don't get bothered. No, because they're just doing their job. And they've got like all the food they want. Like unlimited grass. Nice shelters from the rain. Yeah, I'd build them a hutch. Yeah. What else could they be used for? You could view them.
00:18:08
Speaker
Just a few there. Like a zoo or something. Just not a petting zoo. No, you don't want to touch him. You could use the poison for medicinal reasons. What, for like euthanasia? It's never going to get old.
00:18:30
Speaker
Just a little bit of patch of Nidorans to die. What a way to go. Like, are we talking like assisted suicide or are we talking about like death row? I feel like if we could train them to not beat you up, assisted suicide. However, if not, I'd say battle to the death. You're already on death row. The particular feisty ones. You're free to go.
00:18:56
Speaker
Just a big hole full of angry Nidoran. Just push him in. We wind him up first and just let him go. It's a cage. Just poking with sticks. Get angry.
00:19:11
Speaker
killed this man, he did it for you. Is that animal abuse? Yeah, I guess it's like cock fighting. Oh, cock fighting, but it's angry Nitterans and a convicted felon. Yeah. Or like, you know, when they used to fight the lion back in the day, in the Roman times. Yeah, and if you win, you know, you've earned your life. See, exactly. Love it. You're just going back to the Roman times.
00:19:35
Speaker
So they could either be the best death for assisted suicide because you get to cuddle with cute Pokémon, or the worst, most horrific way to go. Yeah. There's no way in between. No middle ground.
Reflection & Conclusion
00:19:50
Speaker
You're either dying on a dream or dying in hell, I suppose. A literal hellhole full of rabid rabbits.
00:19:57
Speaker
Oh god, oh that'd be horrible. So, what do these guys eat? They eat, well, people apparently. Insects, grass, poisonous plants. Do you think they'd eat a wheedle? Oh, see that's interesting because they could because they are also poisonous. Yeah. But yeah, they're based on insectivores. I guess maybe the next one up because maybe these ones are a bit too small.
00:20:26
Speaker
Oh yeah, maybe they get, they'll have like the scraps maybe, but yeah, I think they're getting there. They only have one tooth for right now. They'll get more tooth. When they get more tooth, multiple tooth, then they can eat one. Yeah, now we're talking. So could we eat them? No, because it's poisonous. We've already wiped out poison Pokemon. Yeah, inedible. Plus I wouldn't want to. If they weren't poisonous though, we could, because you can eat rabbit, can't you?
00:20:54
Speaker
Yeah and they do look like they've got a little bit of meat on them and rabbit is delicious. Shove it in a paella. Beautiful. Yeah, stunning. Nice tender meat. Yeah, big game. Game pie could be good, you know. Put a pigeon in there too. Unfortunately they're poisonous and eat poison plants so we'd probably die. This is the kind of animal that they would eat on Naked and Afraid and then get sick.
00:21:19
Speaker
Or feed this to the death rowing mates. Final meal, rabbit paella. Surprise, it's a Nidoran. Surprise, you're gonna die. Haha. Oh god. Nidoran paella. That actually sounds quite good. Maybe I have a death wish. Nidorella.
00:21:45
Speaker
So you're wandering around a Viridian forest and you're getting a bit thirsty now so you pop back into that bar that you've had a couple of scraps in before. You walk in and you interrupt like this very weird make-out session between a Nidoran male and a Nidoran female. They're getting a little bit rowdy because of that and then all of a sudden they puff up their spikes, they're running around causing a kerfuffle. Who would win in this fight?
00:22:13
Speaker
Right, have I got shin pads? Maybe, sure. I'd give it a go. Just kick them? Yeah, but I'd need protection on the shins, or at least like the legs. I don't think I could go in completely defenceless.
00:22:29
Speaker
Right, because they are small, they're only a foot tall, you know, 20 pounds, that's kickable. But yeah, they would be biting at your ankles. Yeah, it's the poison, it's the poison bit that gets me, you know? Yeah. I think given if I had my Docs, Doc Martens on, plus some shooting cards.
00:22:47
Speaker
Maybe like an all-in-one B-suit. Or yeah, I'd squash him. Just walk into a bar and start sitting on Nidoran's. Take that! As long as it's not an inflatable suit, like one of those Sumo ones, because they would pop it. It would pop. You need one of those, you know when people do stupid stunts and they're covered in like a super padded suit? Yeah. That would be perfect. Yeah, that's what I need.
00:23:14
Speaker
And just imagining you in one of those suits and like squealing the Duran's just biting onto your arm and going, and you're trying to shake them off. No, I could stop me. I will win. Yeah. I reckon you could win. Yeah. No, thank you. Yeah. And you're taking two on. Yeah, exactly. So that's, that's some pretty, pretty intense fight.
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah, I'd put my money on you in that fight. Do you know what? Thank you. You're welcome. I feel like I needed that today. So that's it for our Nidoran 2 shot. What do you think of these Pokémon? I'm not more... I'm slightly more impressed, but only a little bit. Like I still am not like...
00:24:04
Speaker
Wow. Right. I like them a little bit more than them just being there. Yeah. Because they have a little bit of something about them. Yeah. But I wouldn't go out of my way to find this Pokémon. No. I wouldn't be like, oh yeah, look at my Nidoran. That's my favourite Pokémon. No. And who's favourite Pokémon's Nidoran?
00:24:27
Speaker
I bet there's someone. There has to be someone. You know what? If your favorite Pokemons need Iran, send me a message and I'll buy you an Easter egg. Oh, rabbit themed. Yeah, see? Got the whole theme going on. The real question though is we're obviously not gassed about this Pokemon, but is it better than Spearow? Yeah. Okay, there we go. It's not the worst. No, no, because Spearow is the worst.
00:24:56
Speaker
We will see if one day we will find a Pokémon that we hate more than Spiro. I thought I found it in Rattata, but the fact that we kept saying Tuth made me like him a bit more. The fact that Rattata was better than the whole Beedrill and Butterfree family was saying something.
00:25:18
Speaker
Oh my god, we've done some real bad ones actually. It's only up from here. Do you know what? You've made it this far. If they've made it to episode 29, I'm impressed. Because I barely did. And you know what? It's gonna be even better next time because we're gonna be doing the evolution of these two, which has to be better because at least they have different names. And they have Mortus.
00:25:41
Speaker
They do have more tooth. I think both of them actually have two teeth that you can see. I don't believe it. Yeah. I don't even think I know the names of them, to be honest.
00:25:55
Speaker
Well, that'll be surprised for you next week. Buzzing. All right. That's all for us today. I'm going to Nito run away. No. Yeah. No, that didn't work. I Nito ran that into the ground. No one was there. All right. See you later.