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Zubat, Golbat, & Crobat
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This episode sucks... GET IT!? We are not referring to coming across a zubat every three steps in a cave, but the hellish description of Crobat draining Stantlers and humans in the Pokedex. Aren't bats fun!? Don't get rabies!
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Transcript
Chaotic Beginnings and Introductions
00:00:02
Speaker
Hey guys, uh, yeah, we'll start the podcast. I'm just gonna walk over to my computer. Uh, yeah, I should- Oh, shit. Hold on one sec. Confused? Alright. Okay. Alright, yeah, let me just set up my microphone. I'm almost at the- Block! Hold on.
00:00:24
Speaker
All right. I'll just run away. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, Dave, you got to get over here. You got to start the podcast already. Come on. I told you to use a repel dude. Okay.
Meet Zoo Batman: A Comedic Dive into Backstories
00:00:40
Speaker
All joking aside. Welcome to
00:00:45
Speaker
Welcome to daycare, Diddos. We're going to have to put like a headphones warning on the very beginning of this episode. I'll just lower down my my audio. Who knows? Whatever. Editing. I hate it. But that's how annoying Zubat is. This is the Zubat episode. We have a special guest today. It's I am the knight. I am justice.
00:01:13
Speaker
I am Zoo Batman. Zoo Batman, famous dead parented Pokemon hero. Yes. I heard you took your parents to see Pokemon the first movie. They were shot outside of the Lowe's near the Willowbrook wall. How did that feel?
00:01:39
Speaker
Oh, it felt really bad, but I I subsisted entirely off of their blood. Oh, for years. So it really worked out for me in that regard. That's a I'm trying to think of any sort of Joker. The Joker Pokemon. Yeah. Smoochum.
00:02:07
Speaker
All right. Because the Joker loves kissing so much. Yeah, I don't know. When I look at Smoochum's face, I'm like, oh, and that's exactly what I say when I look at the Joker's face. So I think Mr. Rhyme would be. Yeah. Joker. Or maybe the penguin. The pain. Yeah. Which penguin? No, like that. Like Batman. Mr. Rhyme. Yeah. The penguin. Oh. Print plup. No, I don't see that. I don't see that. I could see Mr. Rhyme, though. Yeah.
00:02:38
Speaker
Uh, or that super seductress, uh, poison, um, bells Brown.
Pop Culture Villains and Personal Stories
00:02:46
Speaker
I've been watching a lot of the powerpuff girls and, uh, there is a character, a supervillain named sedusa. I think that's great. I love him. Oh yeah. Him is the absolute best. It's just like androgynous Satan.
00:03:03
Speaker
It's like a scene lobster. Yeah, it rules best best villain. But that would definitely be. What's the Ruby sapphire emerald crab dark crab crawdaunt crawdaunt would be him. Yeah. I see that.
00:03:23
Speaker
What's the one that's like croncher? It's like launcher and yeah, that one. No, that one's a no. Cloncher. Cloncher. That's it. Yeah. There's two crabs lobster like Pokemon. I have a a pet shrimp.
00:03:40
Speaker
Uh, that's still living at my parents' house and his name is Scampisto after the German name of the pre-evolution of, um, of Clauncher. Wow. People didn't know you had a Pokemon podcast. I have a, uh, pet ghost shrimp named Scampisto after a German lesser known X and Y Pokemon.
Zubat: Love, Hate, and Intricacies
00:04:07
Speaker
So we're talking about Zubat. We are talking about Zubat, one of the most hated Pokemon in the original generation. But I, I love him. I found a lot of good things out about him.
00:04:25
Speaker
but mostly about bats in general. So I actually enjoyed researching this Pokemon. I was ready to be like, this is going to be such a dud. Like I'm going to be so bored. There's going to be a boring episode, but I think we have a lot of good things to share with you guys today. We have some big facts, like fact number one, he's cute. I don't know about that. No, just look at him. He's cute. He hasn't got no eyes. So cute.
00:04:52
Speaker
He's got two little thingies on his butt. Yeah, he's got like a little streamers. I will say I do enjoy Zubat's colors. Purple and blue. Very nice. Great. It's great looking. It's cool. He's like he makes great noises in the anime when Brock has him. I love that his mouth is so big that he doesn't have any eyes.
00:05:18
Speaker
I like how he's almost impossible to take a picture of in Pokemon Snap, the original one. On top of that, he's also almost impossible to catch in Pokemon Go. Dude, anytime I run into a Zubat in Pokemon Go, I'm like, fuck this game. And I close the app every time. It's the worst because the problem with Zubat is that it's constantly moving and twitching around. So anytime you throw a Pokeball, it's like, nope, psych. I'm going to be somewhere else. But then.
00:05:44
Speaker
Zubat is also like very far back in Pokemon Go so like it's not super in front of you so you have to throw the ball extra hard and then half the time you throw it over the freaking thing and then half the time you just throw it on the fucking ground and you just look like an idiot. Or you use those berries that like make them so they don't move around but when you use it if they're just too high it's impossible. Yeah you can't like the ball just like doesn't arch enough to hit the freaking thing.
00:06:10
Speaker
The Ruhipinol Berries. My dad caught a Zubat once. In Pokemon Go? No, just when he was in the woods when he was a kid he caught one with his bare hands because it was just sitting there and it bit him and he got rabies.
00:06:29
Speaker
Is that a real story?
Needles, Vaccinations, and Personal Anecdotes
00:06:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's a real story. When my dad was 10, which is Pokemon age. Perfect. He was in the woods in the Viridian Forest, famous, hailed in Viridian Forest. He saw a bat just sitting there on the ground. During the day. During the day. And he's like, oh, sweet.
00:06:52
Speaker
Zoo bat, free bat, free bat for my polka decks. And then Dexter's like, no, no, don't, don't touch the bat. And then my dad just put it in his hands and then he got bit. And then he was like, ah, shitty bat. And then he put it back on the ground and he went home and he's like, ah, so dad, uh, I just was walking through the woods, saw this cool bat, touched it with my hands and my grandfather was like, did it,
00:07:20
Speaker
bite you. And he's like, yeah, yeah, it left a mark. But I don't care. And then my grandfather was like, we're going to the doctor and you're gonna get rabies shots directly into your abdomen for six weeks. Because that's how they did it back then. Holy shit, really?
00:07:36
Speaker
Yeah. Just that my dad describes it as a huge needle that went like directly above his belly button. Oh my God. I don't like that. I actually, you know, I really hate needles and I know a lot of people who know me, I'm pretty covered in tattoos and everyone's like, well, oh, well you, you a ton of tattoos. How are you afraid of needles? And I'm sorry, but there's a huge difference between a tattoo needle. That's like this big, like not even an inch big and a needle needle that's going in your body. Like that's crazy.
00:08:04
Speaker
So I finally got my second vaccine, so I'm fully vaccinated, woohoo. But the lady- Oh, you're looking so healthy. Dude, I'm so excited. I feel a little bit less anxious about going into the world.
00:08:17
Speaker
Not really, but anyway. Right? I'm going to wear my mask no matter what at this point. Forever. Yeah, just forever. I'm cool with it. I don't have to smile and shit. I'm okay. I put a pair of glasses and a hat on and you don't even know who I am. But anyway, so I'm getting my second vaccine and the lady goes, oh, you're not going to be afraid of needles. You have a ton of tattoos. I'm like, bitch, I'm afraid of needles. Just get this shit done and leave me alone, please. Just don't touch any bats.
00:08:44
Speaker
Oh, man. Yeah, I was I was so interested the second time I went for my my second shot about a week ago, because I was looking at it because I normally look away. But then I was just like, I want to I want to take a mental image of this for my like the history books. And I saw that they have a quick retract needle that like pulls itself directly into its its
00:09:11
Speaker
just like a penis when it's really cold, it pulls right back into its body. I was so interested. My vaccine also had shriveled balls. I was one of those really annoying patients that did one of these. I was like,
00:09:32
Speaker
Like inching away from the lady. She's like, you gotta sit still. I'm like, just do it real fast and leave me alone. For all those people who couldn't see, she inched away from the camera. The second time we went, my girlfriend was with me, so I wanted to be a big brave dog. Or a big brave bat. Like Chuckie Finster.
00:09:55
Speaker
But yeah, I'm a big, brave dog. I'm a big, brave dog. I'm a big, brave dog. Yeah, I was a big, brave bat. I like super feel bad for babies now who get shots. Like I understand. They don't know shit. Babies are so fucking dumb. You ever like see a baby? They're just like, they don't even like talk. Like say something dumb dumb. I remember when my sister got her first round of vaccinations when she was a baby and I was like the older brother.
00:10:24
Speaker
And I wanted to play with her so bad. And my mom was like, be careful with her. She just got all of her shots. She's going to be like upset. And I'm like, but she's strong now because she has her shots. But then, you know, of course now I realize she bite you and give you rabies. Oh, my sister. Yeah. No, she's never done like my my sister is a perfect lady. Yes. Very true. Very true.
Zubat's Unique Traits and Typing
00:10:48
Speaker
Anyways, Zubat is a Pokemon whose name is the same.
00:10:54
Speaker
in Japan as it is in most of the world. It is bat after bat and then zabato, which is the sound of an edged tool forcefully piercing something. And apparently that's like the onomatopoetic sound or word for like really, really jabbing it in there. So that's where Zubat's name comes from. But
00:11:24
Speaker
France is way cooler because in France, its name is Nosferapte. Oh, that's cool. After, I guess, Nosferatu. Nosferatu and Raptor, maybe. So it's after it's PTI comes from Petite. Oh, so it's like a little petite. So it's like a tiny little Nosferatu. Like if it was a Spanish.
00:11:52
Speaker
It would be like Nosfera Tita. I remember reading somewhere that the Nintendo, when they were localizing some of the games in the beginning, they gave a lot of leeway to the French localization guy because he really wowed them in his
00:12:18
Speaker
I guess interview. So they were like, ah, he's got this. And that's why, uh, French sometimes has some, uh, real gems. Yeah. Cause everyone's just like, Hey America. They're like, it's Zubat. Oh, Hey, who's coming from Germany? Zubat. And they're like, is that jock? And he's like, yeah, baby. It's like, it is jock. What do you got? And he's like, go bat. You know how we did that? Nosferati. How about Nosferalto?
00:12:45
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And they're like, because Alto is supposed to be like bigger than Petite.
Fire-Type Pokémon and Zubat's Ubiquity
00:12:52
Speaker
So what about Crobat? Crobat, they were like, Doc, we know you've been out of the game for a little bit. So it's actually those ten for those ten for which sounds like a nerd. Yeah, I actually don't. I didn't write down with the ten for
00:13:12
Speaker
means but write us write us to tell us what Crobat's French name is Based off of and you can win a prize you can win a prize. No one will do it though Okay, I'll get you my most prized Zubat I'll trade it directly to you All right, keep talking while I Google this shit
00:13:38
Speaker
The English localization guy, I talked about him a little a couple of times ago, but he was pretty cool too. The localization teams, they've become, you know, obviously as Pokemon has grown, they've become very standardized and they really, really like want to keep it all uniform. But back then it was the wild West. I just think that's the coolest thing.
00:14:07
Speaker
Like, shiggy. Oh, yeah. My favorite was actually Schmetbo for Metapod because now I started calling my brother Schmetbo because I liked it so much. That sounds like a... Oh, my God. Why does my mind always go to these gross places? It kind of reminds me of the word Schmegma, though. Oh, well, maybe I won't call him that anymore. I don't think he... I don't think he likes it.
00:14:39
Speaker
Well, you can call him the other name for Magmar, which when we get to, we'll discuss. So, interesting. Butthead. Did you guys know that the Zubat Evolution line is the only flying poison Pokemon?
00:14:58
Speaker
That floored me because obviously flying Pokemon are a dime a dozen in poison Pokemon. I mean, it's always been a pretty prevalent type. So the fact that these are the only ones that are flying in poison, just not something I thought about. I think the bug typing really kind of takes over.
00:15:23
Speaker
Yeah, because you think about like, oh, what is a flying poison Pokemon? And you can just you're like, all right. So flying Pokemon that have poison moves, you can go like even like Beedrill. Cool. Butterfree. All right. Ninjask. OK. Venomoth. OK. Like there's so many, but they always get the bug typing over that over the flying. Yeah. I actually always forget that the Zubat Golbat Crobat line is flying. I always just think about them as poison.
00:15:52
Speaker
I just forget. I just forget. You can shock them. You can throw rocks at them. What's that? Bug Pokemon that evolves from Whirlip, that's a big centipede. He he starts off as a bug and then he evolves into, I think, a poison dark type. He just loses his bug typing altogether and he's such an obvious bug.
00:16:21
Speaker
It's one of those types that absolutely just makes me angry. Yeah, they really had to play with stuff. Yeah. And that's what I like to have fun. That's what's so cool about the first gen. There was a lot of balancing going on, but they also kind of like didn't give a shit. And at the same time, only had so much space on the cart for the game to go with. So
00:16:51
Speaker
Then gen two gets super interesting because they needed to add more, but also kind of balance out what they did with gen one. And then after a while, like you kind of see in some gens, like, I think like gen five or gen four.
00:17:09
Speaker
Uh, certain typings, they're just like, Oh shit, we forgot about these guys. And then there's always those games where it's like, Oh, you just need a fighting type. Oh, you just need ice moves. Oh, you just need, but like, I feel like recently, now that there's so many, you can really just kind of like pick out the chunk that you need to balance the game. Like you can just grab the rock paper and scissors and put them in the game as you need, which is pretty cool.
00:17:37
Speaker
It is cool to rag on Generation 4, but of course one of the most known things about Gen 4 is it's two fire types.
00:17:50
Speaker
One of them being the starter and the other one being Ponyta. So yeah, they just forgot about an entire type like one of the main three types of Pokemon. They just forgot about fire altogether in that game. There were just so many other ones that they were like, hey, let's introduce these. They really did. And Jen.
00:18:13
Speaker
In Gen 4, in the base game before you get to the Elite Four, you only have Chimchar and Ponyta. Afterwards, of course, that's the generation that added Magmortar. Yeah, I was going to say, because there's Magmortar, I know Numel, Volcarona, Slugma, and then there was even Heatran as a legendary in that game. Yeah. But yeah, interesting.
00:18:39
Speaker
Yeah, the Volcarona being like also kind of a pseudo-legendary, also a fire type, but that was all post-game.
00:18:47
Speaker
And then, of course, one of the types of the Elite Four, the third member of the Elite Four, is the Fire-type Elite Four. And he has a Lopunny, he has an Onix, he has an Infernape, he has a Rapidash, and then he has another Pokemon that, I think like a Bid Barrel. So three of his Pokemon are not Fire-types at all. That's crazy.
00:19:15
Speaker
It's insane. I mean, the thing that you can always count on, though. Sorry, I got sidetracked. No, but the thing that you can always count on. And this is something that, like, I didn't realize you could always count on Zubat. Zubat, Golbat, not Crobat because it didn't exist, but they have appeared in every single regional Pokedex. They have never been left out of the game.
00:19:45
Speaker
Why? I have to ask that. Why them? Well, I mean, somebody's got to suck your blood. Yeah, Zubat enjoys sucking blood. To quote every FNF podcast, somebody's got to give you the suck. Yeah.
Nostalgia: Pokémon Merchandise and Memories
00:20:04
Speaker
Crobat is good. I was just going to say it wouldn't be an episode if we didn't mention the every FNF podcast. Yeah. And last time I took the fire away from Curtis by giving it to Alex. But this this time this is the Curtis episode. Oh, shout outs to Curtis. Shout outs to Curtis Ware.
00:20:24
Speaker
Yeah. Fantastic boy. Playing a randomizer, a Final Fantasy nine on his stream recently. Um, just charming the, the, the shit off of everybody and charming their pants off. Good guy. Good guy. Good cat. Good guy. Um, but yeah, he's very good. Just like Zubat. Um, and something I want to say about Zubat is
00:20:52
Speaker
I didn't like Zubat because he made me mad because as a child, I didn't get Repel and I just was constantly getting confused and I was super pissed off. But yeah. Well, way back in the day, you only had like X amount of things in your bag that you could have. And then Repel just didn't seem worth it. But I'm also that guy who like I get an item and I'm like, I should probably keep this forever like and never use anything. But I Googled these recently.
00:21:20
Speaker
And I remember seeing this and like back then there was such little Pokemon knowledge and on top of that, like there were very little Pokemon things you can buy and own. So anything that was promotional, it's like, Oh, Burger King has those gold cards for the movie. I need them. You know, Pokemon cards. There was just very few sets that you can get your hands on. Only time I've ever been to Burger King. Uh, so.
00:21:50
Speaker
My family did not go to KFC. And I don't know if we had a KFC really nearby in our town growing up. Peter, is that true? Did we have a KFC? Yeah. I think there was two KFCs. Oh, shit, I'm awful at this. Yeah, there was one on Route 23 and then there was one bike shop right
00:22:12
Speaker
I remember when the Double Down came out, which was bacon and cheese between two chicken patties.
00:22:21
Speaker
as buns. And we got the double down from Shop Right. And then my dad, of course, after his rabies, he was like, Peter, I need to have fried chicken all the time. It's part of my condition. And I was like, say no more, dad. So there's obviously the La Rosa now, but I used to go to up Route 23.
00:22:46
Speaker
I don't know, I think that's still Wayne. Close enough. But anyway, I got a bucket of fried Zubats for my dad. So I was very into the Pokemon plush and the first Pokemon plush you can get like the general branded ones. They all kind of looked like shit other than Pikachu.
00:23:06
Speaker
like Polyworld was just a little off in color. Charizard, don't get me started. He just looked like a little because it was like post Beanie Baby. So they kind of tried to go into it. I have the Snorlax one. It's sitting somewhere on our mantle or some shit here in this apartment. But the Snorlax is passable. It's yeah. But KFC had their own Beanie Baby Pokemon and they
00:23:30
Speaker
Now, once I googled them for this episode, looked way better in my mind than I thought they looked. The Dratini... Was one of them an Audish? I don't believe so. I think this was the set. So it's Zubat, Seal, Dratini,
00:23:50
Speaker
and Vulpix. And the Vulpix is the worst one. Oh, no. I don't know. That Zubat's kind of scary looking. I think you're trying to like, here's the thing. Like, if you're trying to market to kids, that Zubat is frightening. Well, that's what Zubat looks like. It's a bat. But like, look at the like. Oh, yes, that's hideous. Yeah. Vulpix was really ugly. But it was at that point where I like looked at all of these.
00:24:16
Speaker
And I was like, I want, like, I was like, Zubat, that's a good fucking looking plush to add to my collection. Cause we would like, it's not, no, it is. I'm pretty sure it's very, very cool. And like me and my younger brother would like have the plushes or whatever, and we would like send them out and battle or whatever and use them with our cards and stuff. I don't know. But like I, it was at that point that I started appreciating Zubat and now I'm kind of like,
00:24:47
Speaker
I don't know. Wait, wait, wait. I'm on Team Zubat. Okay, hold on, but have you taken a really close look at this plush though? Its teeth are like drawn into the blackness of its mouth. Yeah, it's got four of them. It's a little weird. No. Okay. We're going to have to post this picture. We're going to have to post this picture on Instagram. This is rough. You can tell this one's played on.
00:25:08
Speaker
That's part of the design, though, is that its teeth always look like it's like superimposed upon the black void. No, but it doesn't pop out. Like in this in this Beanie Baby thing, it just looks like it's like it's got some like puss in its mouth. The Beanie Baby is horrible, obviously. It's awful. This one, someone wants $40. It just $40. That's who bad needs braces.
00:25:37
Speaker
But I remember seeing this as a kid and being like, oh, yeah, that's pretty fucking cool. It is pretty cool. It is pretty cool. I mean, now I bet like if I just Google. Zoo bat plush.
00:25:51
Speaker
I mean, there's two things that pop out to me about Zubat is growing up, just running from them all the time. Yeah.
Pokedex Entries: Bloodsucking and Evolution
00:26:02
Speaker
Against trainers, them hitting me with the Confuse Ray, a 100% accurate move or the
00:26:09
Speaker
Supersonic which I think is like 55% accurate and then like hitting myself in confusion You know five turns in a row before snapping out or just dying and At one point where I found out that you can Grind speed EVs from them grinding my Mewtwo up from level 70 and
00:26:34
Speaker
all the way up to level 71 on a series of level five Zubats in a cave. And then my Mewtwo, I shit you not, gaining like 50 or 70 speed in one level. All of a sudden you see like the plus sign, you know, in the later Pokemon gens, you would actually see how many
00:27:02
Speaker
you know, stats that you actually increased per level, just not like the, uh, the, the new total. And it was like, you know, HP plus four, you know, special attack plus three, special defense plus two speed plus 52. And it was just like, uh, a beautiful moment for me as a child, like, Oh my God, my Mewtwo has just like gone from like,
00:27:29
Speaker
an eight minute mile or a 10 minute, 12 minute mile to a Usain Bolt. He was a mu one before those battles. Now he's a mu two. He's a he's a Mach three. So one of the coolest. Just awe inspiring things about this Pokemon is just so great for a let's say children's game.
00:27:58
Speaker
Their Pokedex entries have oh man. They are constantly talking about just like fucking just ripping the main vein Just taking some blood just sucking it just hard hard life force sucking and it's in it fucking like bleed, but she keeps sucking Yeah, yeah like
00:28:23
Speaker
The vampire tendency of Zubat Zubat itself like when you go through the pokedex it'll be like Zubat quickly becomes unhealthy when it's in the daylight for too long prolonged exposure will burn the pokemon skin and slowly if you're a trainer or two about that as a ginger yeah i've had skin cancer i get it but like you have to slowly bring them into the sun.
00:28:45
Speaker
And after a while they can stay in the sun for a while. You're like, all right, neat. It's like they, they don't have eyes or nose nostrils. They can't do shit. They scream to figure out where they're going. You're like, that's very annoying. Like ultrasonic cries and all that. Much like Toph from Avatar, the last hairband. Oh, love Toph. Yes. And then like. Got a, got a good look at you. It hits Golbat and it's like, what the fuck?
00:29:14
Speaker
Can I quote Pokemon Diamond's Pokedex century? I'd love if you did. It loves the blood of humans and Pokemon. It flies around at night looking for neck veins. Yum, yum, yum. But you know, I also read somewhere that like Golbats are so like stealthy that they don't really try to hurt people or Pokemon. They try to just like suck your blood and then just leave.
00:29:41
Speaker
They take 10 ounces of blood at a time. Yeah, but like but there but there are some like I don't know like I guess like
00:29:48
Speaker
fan fiction kind of things where it's like, yeah, well, people won't even notice that it's happened until much later when they were like, they see the bite marks. Oh, no, that's in the Pokedex as well. That's an ultra sun and ultra moon. They don't notice it happens until they wake up in the hospital. I mean, it's in a Pokedex country for Crobat at least. It says it says silent and swift in its four winged flight, it bites down on its prey before they realize what's happening in a heartbeat, it drains their blood.
00:30:18
Speaker
So, man, one beat. Yeah, it's just I don't know. And that's another reason why it fucking rules like this. It can drink so much blood that it changes its own blood type every single time it feeds. It can drink so much that it cannot fly. And I'll circle back to that fact later, because I learned something about vampire bats that I think
00:30:46
Speaker
will absolutely blow your tits off. Oh, no. Oh, no, my tits. And it will it will lose its fangs if it tries to feed on a steel type. Oh, that's kind of cute. And it also has strong legs so that it can run away after it eats too much and it can't fly anymore. Yeah, that's that's fucking wild. And I love it. So good, Sarah. What were you saying? So metal.
00:31:15
Speaker
I just I just find it fascinating that if it doesn't drink any blood, it just can't fly anymore. It's like, oh, shit, I'm bloodless. I can't fly. No, no. If it drinks too much, it can't fly anymore because it's tummy's too big. He's so fucking fat and like. Yeah, but it also works the other way around. If it doesn't drink enough blood, it becomes lethargic and can't get itself up. Well, I think it can all be circumventive. It just drinks the exact right amount of blood.
00:31:45
Speaker
But when have we been able to drink the right amount? Speaking, which I need another beer. I do, too. So one thing that's crazy is, of course, this is much later, but I always love when Game Freak will give us information on what Pokemon prey upon other Pokemon.
Zubat's Role with Villains and Sprite Evolution
00:32:07
Speaker
Yeah. And it's always the best. It's crazy that I would I would have never guessed that. OK, listeners, pick a Pokemon. Let's give you, I don't know, the first two gens. All right. You didn't think Stantler, did you? Because no one thinks of Stantler, but it's like a full fucking deer and.
00:32:32
Speaker
Yeah, I think Stantler's become a little bit more popular recently because I remember that. The game grumps really like Stantler, if I remember correctly, I haven't listened to them in years, but didn't they don't they also love racism or something? What was problematic about them? John Tron. Yeah. Yeah, he's he's he's very racist and misogynist. Oh, and they, you know,
00:33:01
Speaker
He's no longer he was he was original not so grump. And then there was a Dan became the second not so grump. And then I think he might, you know, have too much sex. But I don't know. I have a hot take. Fuck Jon Jon. So yeah, no, he's he's actually
00:33:27
Speaker
actually an awful human being. He's honestly, you could look up any quote by him and say, well, that's the worst take on that ever.
00:33:37
Speaker
Which is why they like Stantler so much. Imagine you're like standard magga, like take on something and then imagine like he's like the most charming person to like groom little kids into republicanism. And then I can only think of like a Stantler and with like a Make America Great Again hat. But or like or like a fucking like
00:34:04
Speaker
big ass like Ford with a Stantler across the hood after being hunted with an AK 47 and like Trump stickers on it. And it says, it's like John Tron driving it.
00:34:16
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Yeah, don't get me wrong. I'm not anti-Game Grumps. I'm anti-John Tron. No, same, same. I know that I've watched some things that I love from them, but, you know, sometimes... I always... Well, I mean, we quoted the Venusaur cartoon, and that's Aaron's brain baby child. That's awesome. I mean, Pikachu, Venusaur! Yeah. My knee!
00:34:45
Speaker
Uh, speaking of villains, um, Zubat has been adopted by many just enemies in the game. Um, so you're going to see goal bats, Zubats in the, especially with team rocket, um, all the way to team skull as well. It's just like, I mean, it drinks blood. So like wine, it just makes sense.
00:35:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's like a dark, evil-y kind of Pokémon, not one of those enchanting Pokémon that you just look forward to seeing. Yeah. Oh, such a majestic Golbat with its... One of the things I wanted to talk about, but we don't have to... Well, first I want to say that when I think about Golbat, I actually do think of Agatha first, who's not a villain.
00:35:38
Speaker
She's just a horny grandmother. She just wants to get some of that oak dick. Yeah, she wants that mighty oak. And really who can blame her? I also think Crobat when I think of Koga graduating into the Elite Four, but obviously Koga was a villain.
00:35:57
Speaker
the manga that I'm reading. Yes, a bad villain, like a Team Rocket fuckhead villain. Yeah, but it makes perfect sense that Golbat would be a villainous Pokémon because I also briefly wanted to talk about his giant large purple tongue that was in his Pokémon Red and Blue sprite.
00:36:19
Speaker
Yes, which apparently has long since gotten out of vogue, but I just absolutely whenever I think go back, I think about a giant purple salivating tongue of viscous, just elongated. I just you see his sprite, the original one where it's like it's 90 percent mouth and he's like, but it
00:36:44
Speaker
It is so gross. Like I'm sorry, but I'm just looking at this right now. And it's a huge sprite. It takes up the entire like enemy sprite area, too. Yeah. But like the the problem I have with this is, OK, and in my in my defense, I really need a new glasses prescription. So things are quite blurry for me. But I want to see it. You're looking at it. You're looking at it because everything's so blurry.
00:37:12
Speaker
But it's so blurry that all I see is a big, huge, like, dark void for its mouth. And in a lower half of it between its legs, a large tongue that looks like it's dripping something. Yeah. To me, it looks like a dick. It looks like a wet, slimy dick. And I'm like, oh, that's just the worst sprite ever.
00:37:38
Speaker
Well, I mean, it serves a purpose because apparently in actual vampire bats, and again, I'm gonna circle back to vampire bats later because I absolutely love them now.
00:37:50
Speaker
But apparently what they do and how they feed is that they take their teeth and then they use it to first shave a nice area. So they use it as like a little straight razor. They shave the area. Oh, that's so cute. Yeah. And then they use it to make an incision that is like five millimeters deep and five millimeters wide.
00:38:19
Speaker
And then they take their spit and they lick it and throw it into the wound. And that has an enzyme that makes it so that they don't clot their victim. And then they just start licking. They just start licking until they're full. Cute. Yeah.
00:38:39
Speaker
So they got they got to have a good liquor and Pokemon Red and Blue understood that. But I think I think ever since Pokemon Yellow, you've never seen the Golbat again. Well, not in proper Pokemon, but Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Stadium, too. And then finally.
00:38:59
Speaker
They were like, can you guys stop? And they were like, yeah, we're done, we're done. And then they're like, Pokemon Battle Revolution. So Pokemon Battle Revolution, they threw it in one more time. They're like, let's get that tongue wiggle waggling. You think that's like a Nintendo joke? Like, like, hey, guys, we're just going to sneak in the dick tongue in there for Golbat. Don't tell anyone.
00:39:19
Speaker
I think that they didn't want to bother creating a new animation. I think they just reused the same animation from N64 original Pokemon Stadium. And of course, a little known fact that the Pokemon Stadium one that we got in the United States was actually Pokemon Stadium 2.
Crobat: Speed, Evolution, and Theories
00:39:41
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And then the Pokemon Stadium 2 that we got was I guess technically Pokemon Stadium 3 at that point. And Pokemon Battle Revolution that we got was a disappointment. Yeah.
00:39:56
Speaker
So yeah, what I would assume is that they use the same animation and kind of like base sprite work. And they just imported it into the different games. What I love about Golbat in those two is that he's like really like walking and like kind of like bobbing back and forth on the ground. So he's definitely not flying like a bowling pin.
00:40:21
Speaker
Well, he takes his two wings and he covers himself like some sort of pervert. Yeah. And then he'll like every now and then he'll pop them open. He'll be like, like, but then again, they couldn't, you know, they already got their cool guy into mocap that. So that's why they kept it. Their weird tongue. They got Gene Simmons from Kiss to come in and fucking do that. But
00:40:46
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Yeah, it's a little bad. We didn't talk about this from Golbat evolution. Evolution in reality is giving you things to help you adapt.
00:40:58
Speaker
This is a pretty crazy evolution because he's just like fuck it eyes Yeah, because zubat zubat like like I mentioned before has a mouth that covers the area where his nose and eyes would be Um, so zubat's blind like super super blind. Um, and then all of a sudden Goldbat's like yo i'm just gonna grow a fucking pair of eyes. Yeah, and like
00:41:22
Speaker
It's really interesting because like when they when they when they start to get used to their vision and their larger wingspan, they receive help from other gold bats. So they're like, hey, I'm just like an awkward like, I don't know what to do with my life. Kind of go back. Could you help me out? Yeah, the colors, Duke, the colors. Yeah, yeah, they go to like really interesting.
00:41:43
Speaker
Golbat health class and they're like, listen, when you get winged, what to do with your changing body? When I first started playing Pokemon, I was a little older than everybody else was. So I was like, oh, maybe it's just the angle of Zubat that we just can't see that it doesn't have eyes. No, because I'm just thinking like maybe we're just looking at the underbelly view of it. You know, so I'm like, maybe their eyes are on top. But it wasn't until I actually read the Pokedex entries like, no, that shit is legitimately blind as a bat. Huh?
00:42:13
Speaker
That's a pretty good saying. We should pretty much put that into the lexicon. Yeah. We're the trendsetters. And they gain feet kind of. His little danglers become feet. And then of course he can see. Apparently those legs of his are pretty strong too. They're adapt walkers. What them legs do.
00:42:42
Speaker
Mm hmm. Those boots are made for walking. And then shit gets fucking turnt when we hit. The third evolution, but before we hit that third evolution, did you guys know that if you love your Zubat, your goal? No, no, no, no, not even that before Crobat existed. Zubat was a three evolution Pokemon.
00:43:13
Speaker
Oh, I may have known this in the back of my head, but it's it's long since forgotten. Was you supposed to be in the middle evolution? It was. So there was a smaller version of Zubat. So in 2018, you Moira, you Moira, I'm really bad at names.
00:43:33
Speaker
Uh, they did an interview and game. My name is who Batman. Yeah. Zoo Batman. Several game freak developers said that in, um, Jen one, there was a lack of cartridge space and we know the story. Um, and we'll discuss the story when we hit Jen two about, um, being able to expand and change the way game boy games really worked. Um,
00:43:59
Speaker
structurally, allowing more space. And in order to free up space, a lot of three-staged families were cut down to two. So I know that we've talked about a few. Kind of reminds me of when Timon and Pumbaa think that they're losing Simba to straight heterosexual lion love.
00:44:23
Speaker
There's the sexy can you feel the love tonight and then Timon and Pumba say our Trios down to two So I know we can't show the listeners They can go to our Instagram whenever we post this but we like to paint pictures with our words. Okay, so imagine if you will Zubat's wings
00:44:53
Speaker
And then instead of Zubat in the middle of those wings, imagine a circle with a mouth, a tiny, tiny circle with a mouth and one tooth. Here is the baby Zubat. It's literally just wings with like a tiny domino in the middle and one tooth sticking out. Okay. So I like the body, the wings. I'm not feeling.
00:45:20
Speaker
To me, it looks like the bat enemy in any, like, Castlevania or... Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say, this is like a D&D, like, um, like a thing that you just, uh, smash when you leave your village or something. Yeah. And the back sprite, it's literally, it's like a tiny, imagine like an egg.
00:45:44
Speaker
with like a Hawks sized wings, but I mean like for the, the, the size differential, like a Hawks wings on, but like instead of a Hawks body, just like a little egg in the middle. Um, and it's interesting that they made that a two evolution because realistically we would have been seeing, um, this little guy who I don't think has a name. A lot of people just call him zoo.
00:46:14
Speaker
That's cute. But realistically, instead of seeing Zubat throughout all the caves, you kind of would have worked your way up from Zoo to Zubat as it went on. I'm kind of glad that they didn't do that. Well, it gave us Crobat. I like Crobat. I got to say, if I got to pick one from the entire line, it's going to be Crobat.
00:46:38
Speaker
I mean, you're wrong, but that's also a good thing to say. I'm wrong. Zubat is so cute. Zubat is so cute. He doesn't have any eyes. Where's he going? I don't know, but love me. I also want to say that Zubat is two and a half feet tall and like 17 pounds, give or take. That's big for a bat.
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, right. Big boy. Golbat is five foot, three inches tall, 121 pounds. He's going to stealthily sneak up on you. He's going to suck your blood. I don't think so. And then you get to Crobat. Oh, all of these are the bat Pokemon, by the way. They share it with the Woo Bat and Swoo Bat. Um, Crobat is five feet, 11 inches tall.
00:47:28
Speaker
Alright, I could look him in the eye and he is 165 pounds. Yeah, I'm really afraid to see a Crobat in real life. He's also one of the fastest Pokemon. Really? I didn't know that. And he's got like 130 base speed, which is like one of the
00:47:50
Speaker
tippy top most like electrode is faster. I think ninjask is faster deoxys is faster. But like there's a whole bunch of Pokemon in the 130 range like that's a like a base that that's shared by a lot but it's it's one of like the top like I don't know 25 maybe so 511 is pretty tall.
00:48:13
Speaker
but that's tall for something that's more wide than it is tall. Some Crobats can have a wingspan that reach out to at least 20 feet. Yup. Yup. Just for some perspective, that's about the height of an adult giraffe. Think about that wingspan. An adult giraffe
00:48:39
Speaker
That's like the size of a podcast. Extraordinary Dave's penis. Oh, yeah. Times a thousand. An average car is fourteen point seven feet. So this dude opens his wings and is bigger than a fucking Toyota Corolla.
00:49:05
Speaker
Now, are we talking like a 2020 Toyota Corolla or like a 1988? Because 1988, they were like really long. Oh, they were smaller back in the day. Weren't they like really long? Like they had big hoods and shit. I had a Geo Prism 1988 Geo Prism and the Geo Prism was actually also a Toyota Corolla. Sometimes they share the same badge and
00:49:34
Speaker
And it was it was a lot smaller than any of the the standard like compact cars. I had an 88 Toyota Camry. Ooh, same year, same same. I guess I'm like thinking my father had a 1984 Grand Marquis.
00:49:55
Speaker
and some of those big land cruiser big yacht cars they were big back in the day it was like driving a couch it's like a boat it was like driving a boat i remember being like really super young maybe like five or six i'm like damn this car is like enormous yeah that might have been like driveway
00:50:15
Speaker
Yeah, but that might have been like a V6 or like a V8 or I don't know, an I6 or an I8. I think the old Corollas were like three bangers and had like three, what do they call those? Little bobby things that make the engine go woo woo. Pistons.
00:50:38
Speaker
I have three pistons. Yeah, I pissed in my pants. Well, regardless, I would feel safe in one of those cars because a Crobat just couldn't suck my blood stealthily if I was in one of those because it just couldn't fit. Well, we know that they break their teeth. Unless you accidentally crashed into something because those cars were very bad at crumple zones. Oh, my God. Yeah, scary.
00:51:02
Speaker
So if you crashed into a Crobat, you actually still might die. Maybe. Yeah. Um, speaking of evolution, no one spoke of evolution, but we got eyes on Golbat. Crobat just got like a shit ton of teeth. You got a whole mouth. Got a second set of wings too. Yeah. Man got four wings. Hell yeah.
00:51:25
Speaker
He lost his feet, though. Yeah. Well, they still talk about his feet because they're used for like hanging upside down and more so than walking. They're used to control the speed. So like any sort of acrobatic feet is the feet are needed for the feet. That was a unintentional pun. And also it sucked.
00:51:49
Speaker
it's like the back rotors for like a helicopter maybe yeah pretty much that i think also kind of like throwing out the parachute like the bottom wings are used to kind of like slow down more so than speed up um a weird thing about the name so goldbat i don't think we went into gallup is like another
00:52:10
Speaker
word for like gulp, as we call it. So it was like, Gulbat, Gulb. Gulp bat. Yeah. Crobat. There's some controversy behind it because no one's really sure if it's a mixture of acrobat and like, you know, bat acrobat. They took the A out or other people believe it's it's cross and bat. Yeah. Like vampire side of it. Oh, I see. I see.
00:52:37
Speaker
But of course, anytime you use a cross, people will talk about the good old Jesus. There is no Jesus in Pokémon. There's only Arceus. I was going to say Arceus. There's only Arceus. And also all of his friends. There's the Dialga, Apalkia. Lugia. Selvie. Let us pray. To your Arceus. Yes.
00:53:07
Speaker
Please nourish this crow bat to my body. I know what kind of god you are because I gave you a plate which has changed your typing. I give you the pixie plate. I sent you the pixie plate. Please respond.
00:53:26
Speaker
Something that's cool about the evolution, and I think this goes into the friendship evolution, is that Crobats no longer live in packs. The pack mentality leaves, and it basically just sets out on its own with somebody else. So that's when the Zubat slash Golbat decides, you know what, I'm gonna leave my family, I'm gonna go out on this adventure with a trainer, and when it gets really, really friendly with a trainer, that's when it evolves.
00:53:56
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Yeah. Fun fact, I've never had a Crobat because I don't love my Zubat.
Gaming Challenges and Personal Frustrations
00:54:02
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Same. I don't think I've ever had a Zubat, Golbat, or Crobat in my party, ever.
00:54:10
Speaker
I, so I've always had this idea to basically like make, have people make their own gym challenges, like friends on a new Pokemon game, and then actually make like enamel pin badges. And anytime someone beats you, you give them the badge. Oh, that's cool. I like that idea.
00:54:29
Speaker
I wanted my team to be the, uh, basically either like the cave badge or like the, like the shit badge. And like, I basically wanted to have like a bunch of Zubats that all just use confusing and status type stuff. And like a bunch of different Pokemon that just kind of do status and things, but basically make it like a Zubat centric.
00:54:58
Speaker
Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, I would. I would probably rage quit. Yeah. Well, that's, you know, I and it would be like not a full 16 because that's gym leaders are just like, nah, nah, nah, my name is Brock. I'll do it in two. Like it seemed like I don't ever rage quit a game. The one time I rage quit a game was the original Luigi's Mansion on the GameCube.
00:55:21
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Cause I want to talk about rage quitting. I was playing, uh, Mario land three warrior worlds on my, uh, original, uh, DMG fat ass, uh, game boy. And it was like, uh, uh,
00:55:39
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a cart level where I had to jump from cart to cart and it was really fast for my little boy eyes. I took the entire game boy, I smashed it against my head, and I broke the thing in half.
00:55:58
Speaker
Aww, yeah, I don't know, I was on some sort of ghost boss, I don't even remember which one it was for this Luigi's Mansion game and I got so pissed that I ripped out the cord from the GameCube and it broke the GameCube because I pulled it off so hard that it fell off the shelf it was on.
00:56:18
Speaker
oh no and then uh and then i cried a lot and my mom was so pissed at me yeah i was so mad at me she's like do you know how much that cost me i'm like i'm sorry but the ghost it won't get into the vacuum cleaner
00:56:36
Speaker
So that was the end of my- Mario needs me. And now he's dead. So that was the end of my GameCube era until I was like 14 and I could afford to buy my own refurbished one off of eBay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that I wasn't the only one because I've always, always been embarrassed of me destroying my Game Boy. I've never done that. I've never done it before and I haven't done it since. Me either. That was the only time.
00:57:05
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A friend of mine knew him and his older brother. They were a little bit older. They had their NES. And I forget what game they were playing. But it was super frustrating as many of the games were. And his brother at that time was older in high school. So he got home earlier. So he was coming home ready to play some some NES.
00:57:27
Speaker
and he went to the front of his house and he looked out the window and the NES was hanging out the window from its power and input cables. His brother got so mad that he just threw it out the window and walked away and it just hung there.
00:57:48
Speaker
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has a rage quit story. My god. Oh my god. I think we have to make a post on Instagram. I need to hear all of our listeners rage quit stories. This is so funny. I mean, that's not to be confused with the fact that I would in Final Fantasy 10 rotate the control stick.
00:58:07
Speaker
for Lulu's overdrive so hard that I broke the control stick, or in Mario Party for the N64, burn a hole into my palm doing the same thing. The stickmata? Yeah, the Mario Party stickmata. In Mario Party 4, there's a game where you have to button mash the A button, right?
00:58:30
Speaker
so i was doing it really really hard one time i was like standing up in the controllers in the floor and i was just like like just going crazy to the point where the a button got stuck inside the controller smash and that's that's a rage quit game no not rage quit but smash brothers when it was on the 3ds
00:58:50
Speaker
Yeah, I was playing and I played aggressively. This wasn't even an angry thing. But the you know how it had like the joystick on it. It just like went like funk and it just fell into and it wouldn't move anymore because I just you know.
00:59:07
Speaker
I was dodging and stuff. That was not made. I have one more thing. Apparently my friend Steve, he's like a legitimate god gamer and he's like a Smash master. He's like, you know, like known in Smash tournaments. But when he was younger, if button mashing was a part of the game, he would always call his mother in because his mother was the best button masher. My mom was pretty good at it too, believe it or not.
00:59:35
Speaker
I try, but my little thumbs are too slow. No. Yeah, I have really bad wrists, so my wrist just tenses up. Probably from playing, I discussed this in the last episode, I'm a percussionist, so I have really bad wrists, so I can't do that crap anymore, but my mom was really good at it. But to bring it back full circle. I've got really good wrists. Lots of practice, right? Yeah. To bring it back full circle.
01:00:04
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Pokemon has never made me want to rage quit, except when I'm walking through a cave and I run into about my 117th zoo bat. And I don't want to waste a repel or spend money on one because I'm cheap.
01:00:19
Speaker
I'm cheap in the world of Pokemon. When I first started playing Pokemon, I still had baby teeth in and I got so annoyed that I was seeing Zubat over and over again in Mount Moon that I ripped one of my baby teeth out. Oh my God. And then you took your KFC Zubat doll and you implanted it in there. Yeah, because I need to be a little bit more 3D. Yeah. Well, no, that'd be great. That'd be horrific. Like a Zubat doll with real teeth.
01:00:46
Speaker
Something needs to be done. My fangs came out. Yeah, something needs to be done about that KFC doll. All right, so let's hit some final crow bat, zoo bat stuff. Okay, I want to talk about vampire bats very briefly as well.
Zubat's Social Structure and Survival
01:01:03
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And I want to talk about Cyrus. And then I'm going to inform you all about the TCG game.
01:01:09
Speaker
All right, Peter. So Miley Cyrus. Yeah, just kidding. Yeah. Please discuss bats. Don't you break my heart, my achy breaky heart. That's Billy Ray Cyrus. Vampire bats are obviously the best analog for zoo bat, gold bat and crow bat, even though they are based off of different other bats, they are blood drinkers. And of course,
01:01:40
Speaker
What do you think about when you're a kid is going to be a big issue like quicksand or the national debt. It's vampire bats, obviously a big deal in Jumanji as well.
01:02:00
Speaker
Um, so, uh, there are a lot of analogs between vampire bats and the zoo bat line. Um, one of them being the fact that, uh, vampire bats do actually walk across the ground with their legs. They're the only bats who can walk because what they do when they sense prey is that they actually hit the ground first.
01:02:27
Speaker
And then they use their strong front wings to propel them in a sort of bounding gate so that they can get to the undercarriage of an animal stealthily. And they then detect what the best parts are to snap at, because they are one of the only animals that
01:02:55
Speaker
have infrared detection where by some like magic of science, they can actually determine what areas are warmest and thus have the most blood because blood is warm and the warmer parts are the parts where the blood is. Like how your joke gets all warm when you get all horny because all the blood's there. Also the predator. Exactly. I'm glad you said it.
01:03:26
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um and ladies of course blood flows to your parts as well when you're horny don't think it's only the boys your parts getting gorged as well um uh the only other animals that have this ability are boas pythons and vipers but they have an entire gland that actually does this through a different route and i am not uh jason so i actually don't
01:03:55
Speaker
couldn't figure out this sort of science and the time allotted to me. Another thing that I found out about vampire bats that I thought you might like, and this isn't the best part yet,
01:04:11
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is that they live in little communities with the ladies and the youngins. And then there's a difference between resident and non-resident males. So the resident males are the males that get to have sex.
01:04:31
Speaker
And the non-resident males are sort of like out and about and they- Yeah, like fucking nerds. Yeah. The other guys got like leather jackets and they like are like, what's up? And then they're like, ooh. And then the other guys are just like, I think the economy is bad. And they like don't even like,
01:04:48
Speaker
Dance nice weather we're having today, right? Yeah, I guess I'm in the friend zone Yeah, and they're like fucking my lady I am a gamer and they're like fuck you dude and then like the other bat is just kind of like being chilled vibing and stuff and does like sex with its bat dick and Everything's fine. And then the other bats are just like assholes and they're like my gogecoin went down and like
01:05:14
Speaker
and then the other bat meanwhile takes his leather jacket off and he puts it on the girl's shoulders because he's like real cool about it and uh they're just like thanks man i just like that you see me as a person and not a piece of meat
01:05:25
Speaker
And he's just speaking of meat. Let's go suck some fucking blood out of some dude and then they they they fuck. Speaking of meat. When I was first dating my girlfriend, one of the first pictures I have of her is me putting my giant leather jacket around her shoulders and then taking a picture of how absolutely small she was in comparison.
01:05:49
Speaker
Oh, my big old leather jacket. Very cute. Not to brag or anything. I have a girlfriend. Show off. Wow, thanks. Yeah, I know. I know you don't have a girlfriend either. Shit. Just kidding. I should get one of those, huh? What do you think, Dave? Should I get a girlfriend? Yeah, you can try. Sailor Moon Wisdom is my girlfriend. Shout out to her. Oh, you heard it here first, folks. That's good.
01:06:19
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This is the best part. I'm going to share two facts with you that will absolutely rattle your bones. So you know how socialists are always wanting to share things with the needy and how that's like so bad in comparison to good old capitalism where you work for your blood?
01:06:49
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Vampire bats will actually beg because, all right, I'll go back a step. If you're a vampire bat, you can only go two nights without feeding, but obviously, if you
01:07:07
Speaker
Eat fruit. You know where the fruit is going to be. If you drink nectar, you know where the nectar is going to be. Those things don't move, but animals will move and animals will swat you off because they want to keep their blood. Selfish. Yes, selfish. They want to keep their blood. So obviously, if somebody strikes out two nights in a row, they are on death's door. So they have developed a way of begging.
01:07:35
Speaker
for blood and somebody who has had a good night feasting can regurgitate their blood out for the other bat to drink up. And it has been semi-researched that colonies that have a good rate of sharing are much more better off than colonies that are selfish with their blood.
01:08:04
Speaker
which kind of is a nice analog to just be nice to your neighbor because you don't know what they're going through. And it could just be two bad days in a row and one good night of blood will get them back on their feet. So lovely sentiment. Yes. Share your blood. Be a blood sharing Zubat family colony. Just just do it.
01:08:26
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It goes back to, so Zubat is, like I said, they work in a colony. A fact I forgot to say is that if a Zubat gets separated from its group, its only option, if it can't find its way back, is to evolve or die. Basically, a Zubat cannot really make its way on its own without the pack so that it needs to evolve or that's it.
01:08:54
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That's sad. And then the last, well, I got two more, but I think this one's my favorite thing that I learned about vampire bats is that obviously
01:09:05
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Blood is a combination of two things. You've got your liquid component, which is sort of like the serum. It helps the blood flow through the veins. And then you have the platelets and the solid component, the cells. When vampire bats are feeding, they don't care about the liquid.
01:09:32
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They just care about that good old nutrients that's in the blood. So what do they do? Because, you know, they're drinking a lot and they need to still fly and they still need to be mobile. So.
01:09:47
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What they'll do is they'll feast, they'll engorge themselves and then their kidneys are apparently super active and their intestines are like super porous so that all that liquid just shoots out of them really fast. So they'll start peeing within two minutes of drinking.
01:10:10
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so that they can get rid of all of that access fluid. So basically what you've got are vampire bats who have learned to regurgitate blood and pee so that they can still fly because they have to drink so much. So they're like freshmen. Yeah.
01:10:30
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And then the other thing is apparently scientists have to be very careful when they are researching them because even if the bat is dead and they're just researching the skull, their teeth are so razor sharp that scientists are always finding themselves accidentally cutting themselves on their razor sharp teeth. Wow. So be careful out there. Yeah, scientists. And if you ever see
01:10:58
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If you ever see a bat, oh, also, happy birthday to your brother. Oh, yeah. Yes, happy birthday. Speaking of beautiful boys who are smart and named Jason, science people. If you ever see a vampire bat, be careful, it might be peeing on you.
01:11:26
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The only thing I had left to say was about Cyrus. I have a sneeze stuck in my head. But I'm fighting through it. Just pee it out. Cyrus is the boss of Team Galactic.
01:11:41
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He aims to create a world without spirit. He is the only character in the games to have the trainer class. Galactic boss. All right. You failed me the internet. He was also one of the oldest characters in Pokemon at the.
01:11:56
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tender age of like, like 20 something. Other than like Agatha and Professor Oak, you were basically dead at the age of 30. Yeah. So I thought this was pretty interesting. Team Galactic, he was like, there's always like the guys who were like, Pokemon should be on their own, leave them alone or like Pokemon have power and I love them. He was the guy that's just like Pokemon are tools that are, you know, will
01:12:23
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get me to what I need and they have no, like, whatever. So he does not befriend his Pokemon. He does not, like, give them anything more than, like, use them for battle. But he has a Crobat. So a lot of stuff online talks about, is he just all talk? Like, he says he doesn't love his Pokemon, he doesn't befriend Pokemon, but like... Yeah, because you need high friendship for Crobat.
01:12:52
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But other people believe that just because they have different tactics of Pokemon, like all those teams do to basically have their end game, that maybe they found a way to kind of game the system to get Crobat to evolve. But I kind of like the idea that he's all talking. Maybe he just really loved a Zubat and that's why he has a Crobat. And I love Zubat because he's so cute. Well, then maybe one day you'll end up with a Crobat.
01:13:19
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some day, but I just wanted to stay small and cute because pack mentality. I'll have a whole team of them and I'll fight you guys. And I will just use supersonic and leech life supersonic and then leech life and supersonic and then brave bird because, uh, between mu and Zubat evolution, they're the only non birds that can learn brave bird. That's pretty exciting. All right. I'm done. You guys got anything else?
01:13:43
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I just have to say that Zubat, you can find Zubat on 22 cards in the TCG. Zubat debuted in the fossil pack. Golbat, same thing, except that you can only find Golbat in 18 cards. But Crobat is the best of the bunch. And you could find a Crobat on 23 different cards. Wow. But Crobat debuted in the Neo-Revelation. And, you know, Dave and I have
01:14:11
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quite a bit of luck pulling full art crow bats. I think we have like four of them at this point. Yeah. Wow. I don't think I have a single crow bat to my name. Well, we got one for you. We'll send one over. We've got a lot. I feel like every time we're looking for some sort of like full art, we end up with a crow bat somehow. So yeah. I've got, I don't know what I've got a lot of, but I feel like garboters. That's not bad. He's trash, but trash in the best way.
01:14:41
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I also, if we're done talking about the Pokémon part of our pod, I just want to give a quick shout out to a friend of the pod, Dan, who had his son
01:14:56
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on Friday. We have a new listener. He's a beautiful, healthy baby boy. And while he was waiting for his son to be born, he grabbed the first thing that he could think of to help himself pass time in the hospital, a copy of Pokemon Yellow. And we talked about good Pokemon for him to train while he was waiting for his son to be born. That is so beautiful.
01:15:24
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I can't wait for his son to pick us for a starter. Oh, congratulations to the two of you. We love you deeply. Yeah, congratulations, Dan and Lauren. Congrats, congrats. And it's all because you hooked up at my house that one time. That's that's that's that's not the reason it was destined, but I also, you know.
01:15:49
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They hooked up at my house once. Yeah, I mean that didn't that didn't hurt but yeah All right That has been another episode of daycare Ditto's make sure to follow us on Instagram at Daycare Ditto's we will be posting different photos there. You can see the little baby zoo bat. That's just like a domino with a tooth and
01:16:12
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And if you want, we'll poison you with the awful sight of the KFC Beanie Baby. Oh, I love that guy. If I had a Zubat right now, I'd nickname him Toof. Toof? Make sure to rate us five stars on iTunes. Leave us a nice review. Maybe we'll mention you on the show just because I think that helps in some way, and we of course appreciate it.
01:16:37
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If you have anything, I don't know how to rate the show, so don't feel bad if you don't know how to either. And just know that we're here if you have questions or things that you would like to point out about a past Pokemon message us on the gram. And we'll mention that because this is if you need any if you need any blood, I'll send it to you. We'll bleed all over you.
01:17:01
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I'm not stealthy, I'm just gonna slice myself open and give you a good spurt. And with that, I'd like to say- If you're a girl and you need a girlfriend, Sarah's looking. Yeah, ladies, you have to join Sailor Moon Wisdom in us. We're open. Bye!