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Diglett & Dugtrio
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What makes a Pokemon legendary? Its stats? Its rarity? How about how Hot Dog shaped and freaking awesome it is? What do you have to say about that Professor Oak? It's time for the little nugget with a nose, the footless wonder, the best Pokemon who's ready to burrow its way to your heart. The Diglett episode is finally here!
Dave is beyond excited to present one of his all time favorite Pokemon!
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Transcript
Introduction to Diglett Marathon
00:00:05
Speaker
Diglett dig, diglett dig, podcast, podcast, podcast. Welcome to Daycare Dittos. This is a special episode. It's such a good one because all we're going to do for this whole three hours is talk about
Diverse Forms of Diglett & Dugtrio
00:00:20
Speaker
Diglett. I know it's usually an hour, but we have so much to talk about. And if one Pokemon gets one hour, then Doug Trio is just three Diglett. So I imagine. So it's like a four hour podcast. So that means we need four hours.
00:00:31
Speaker
Yeah, more to love. Actually, if you want to get really into it, we need one hour per Alola, Alolan Diglett, one for regular Diglett, and then we need six for Alolan Dugtrio, and then regular Dugtrio. Throw an extra 30 minutes in for Hansen references, and I think we're about right. I'm
Preparing for Diglett Day
00:00:52
Speaker
thinking about one hour to say how beautiful every single strand of hair on Alolan Dugtrio's little head is.
00:01:01
Speaker
It's just a beautiful, flowy, gorgeous, golden locks. If you don't have a Dougtrio, a Lolan Dougtrio named Hanson, then like, you fucked up. I have at least, yeah, that's what mine's named. I have so many, but. Oh, I'm just so excited, it's Diggled Day.
Dave's Favorite Pokémon
00:01:22
Speaker
Guys, it's Diggled Day, and we're finally here. All of the preparation. I rented a tent outside.
00:01:31
Speaker
I had to go to Costco. I didn't even do the Kirkland stuff. We have all name brands, because it's such a special time for all of us to enjoy, where we all gather around the table and talk about our favorite little nugget, Diglett. So I guess if anyone who's listening hasn't put this together yet, Diglett and Dugtrio is Dave's favorite Pokemon. That's right. That's right. Double him, you get me.
00:01:57
Speaker
Dave likes number 50 and my favorite is number 100. So. Quick housekeeping. We just want to shout out some of our partner podcasts and Adventures in Collecting, who just had an incredible, incredible show featuring two of the designers of the jazzwares. Well, a designer.
00:02:22
Speaker
Um, and basically brand manager of Pokemon for jazzwares, where they did an exclusive reveal of the 25th anniversary Chrome first partner set, which will be getting a second wave. They released the 12 inch Rilla boom, more information on that that's coming out with his full drums.
New Pokémon Toys by Jazzwares
00:02:42
Speaker
And even more exciting, just like how Hasbro, if you're Tori people, do 6-inch Marvel Legends, 6-inch Black series, the Lightning series, there's tons of figures from all people on that scale.
00:02:58
Speaker
Jazzwares does Fortnite, they do AEW unrivaled in the wrestling figures, and now joining your Spider-Man and your Darby Allen is Charizard and a whole six inch line of Pokemon starting with
00:03:15
Speaker
Charizard going into Lucario, we're gonna have Greninja, Articuno, Requaza, and there are articulated, which has not been done in this way before, by Jazzwares, so you can put them in some fun poses, and this is just wave one, and our good, good friends, Eric and Dave, are the people who were able to talk with two Pokemaniacs, one, who is very excited to join us for the Magmar episode,
Childhood Memories with Pokémon
00:03:45
Speaker
Aaron, so that's super fun. And I highly recommend going and giving it a listen if you're a poker fan, because it comes from two people who go through their history with Pokemon, playing it as a kid, learning to read so that they can stop releasing their Pokemon by accident. Yeah.
Diglett's Popularity and Design
00:04:06
Speaker
That's how I learned.
00:04:08
Speaker
I'm still guilty and I'm an adult and can read. Yeah. But it's it's a super fun romp through, you know, from just Pokemon fans talking about toys, but also talking about the brand as a whole and how they worked, started working in the toy industry and how it brought them to Pokemon
Family Stories Involving Diglett
00:04:28
Speaker
and how their day to day is just discussing like super interesting stuff. Like there's an episode that came out in Japan about
00:04:37
Speaker
a battle between Dragonite and Lucario, and it's super epic and insane. And they're like, our next toy line needs to have a set with the two of these to like with poses from that battle. Like they get to pick a line for the kids to be excited about, but also nods to older Pokemon fans like us and just kind of make the perfect storm into a toy line so that you can walk down the toy isles of a target or a Walmart and see something that you love.
00:05:07
Speaker
It's awesome. They have a Haunter coming out. The first articulated Haunter. It comes nice. You can move it on its see-through base so that you can have its hands moving freeform and move its head on the see-through base too. That's a must buy for me. We're gonna need one of those. I gotta get that for my brother. Yes.
00:05:27
Speaker
Yes, yes. So that is Jazzwares, big toy company who has really blown up in the recent years. And of course, our good friends at Adventures in Collecting. Of course, you can go to our Instagram and see the link to them.
00:05:43
Speaker
heavily, heavily recommended. Yeah, I gotta catch that. I've been meaning to listen to them since I've known about them for a little while because they've been guests on other podcasts that I listened to, namely some of the best podcasts that I listened to. And yeah, now there's no reason for me at all to.
00:06:06
Speaker
Good friends. We're all friends. We're all friends. But do you know who's my favorite friend ever? Who's small and poop shaped? You guessed it. It's my good friend, Peter. It's Diglett, everybody. Diglett, the best Pokemon ever.
00:06:25
Speaker
All right, well, you have to let us know why you love Diglett so much. Like what is your history there? You know, I was kind of waiting for you guys. Oh, you want the history. You don't want my facts that I made about why Diglett is the best Pokemon. We can get to that. No, we want it all. So you can start with one or the other and we have to guess. So the story is.
Humorous Attributes of Diglett
00:06:47
Speaker
So as a kid, jokes, humor, that's, that's what everything was wrapped around. So my favorite Pokemon, if you asked me as a young buck when I was, uh, you know, playing red and silver and stuff, Diglett would not have been the listed as one of my favorite Pokemon. Of course, with Diglett cave, everything like that. Like I always had a Diglett.
00:07:12
Speaker
I always had a Doug Trio and we always made jokes about him as in like, your favorite's Diglett. It's like, no, my favorite's Diglett, like joking. So it was much later when this was probably around maybe a little before Diamond Pearl, around when Diamond Pearl came out. So I have a younger, much younger cousin, Anthony, who got very into Pokemon at a young age. He was around five years old.
00:07:39
Speaker
we would join their family every single summer in Cape Cod and you know he would just want to hang out with us like we were teenagers um he's so young and he just like you know is fascinated and wants to hang out with us and do everything and just based on his older brother's toys and everything was obsessed with Pokémon.
00:08:00
Speaker
so we always ask them like what's your favorite pokemon and he'd always say diglett and be like why and he'd be like because he looks like a poop he's real strong he's the best pokemon and he just did it to make us laugh but it became like the funniest thing and he got really into it and we just got really into diglett and bonded over diglett
00:08:20
Speaker
to the point where he would text diglets and drawings of diglets to my younger brother every day. He would draw a new diglet. And when he finally got a phone, he would text a photo of diglet. He would mail me drawings of Pokemon and pictures of diglets. I took him into New York City when he was, I think, five or six to go to the Nintendo store to go see all the Pokemon stuff and also go through the park. We took him to see Toys R Us and the giant dinosaur.
00:08:49
Speaker
but we picked him up some Diglett Tomy figures there because all he wanted was a Diglett and I'd mail him stuff like that. It's just, so it's ingrained in our family and it became something that Sarah and I actually started up. We'd go on these long walks from one side of the beach as far as you can go to the other. And we would just, he would just ask us, he'd be like, what's your favorite fire Pokemon? What's your favorite water Pokemon?
00:09:14
Speaker
What's your favorite grass Pokemon? And you'd be like, all right, so what's your favorite gym leader? All right. Who's your favorite Gen 1 Pokemon? Who's your favorite Gen 2 Pokemon? And then you'd ask him and be like, so who's your favorite Gen 1 Pokemon? He'd be like, probably Diglett. Who's your favorite ground Pokemon? Diglett. Who's your favorite fire Pokemon? A Diggle on a fire. And he was just, and the thing about him, he now is like a sports writer and works freelance for a bunch of different things. Super smart, super quick.
00:09:43
Speaker
Not even a kid anymore. But even like at one point was speed running Pokemon trading card game. Very into it. Super funny. We had matching shiny Diglett's nugget and nugget. He made them.
00:09:58
Speaker
But because of that and the family ties
Diglett's Role in Game Development
00:10:01
Speaker
to Diglett, and even to the point where we were trying to get those matching shiny Diglett. So we were, of course, doozing. We were doing the breeding and making sure that we could, you know, hatch a shiny Diglett. And he was playing with us, too, and we would give him the eggs and he would run back and forth in his game. And he's like, hey, I got to go hatch a Diglett. And we're like, we don't have. Did you get a shiny? He's like, no, no, no, I got to hatch a Diglett.
00:10:28
Speaker
and he went to the bathroom to go take a shit. And this is like a six year old kid. And we were like, that's so funny. He's just a funny kid and the humor and the family ties to Diglett has made this Pokemon something so important and close to that side of my family. Not only with my cousin, but my brothers, my other cousins. So Diglett is, may not have been always my favorite, favorite Pokemon growing up.
00:10:56
Speaker
Like, let's say Charmander, everyone has their favorite starter. And then Tangela and Snorlax, who are always my favorites. But when it comes to like who holds sentimental value beyond just being a kid playing, Diglett is closely tied to me and my family. And I love that as being the funniest looking and dumbest Pokemon and then speaking it up to that's why we devote our lives and love him so much. Yeah.
00:11:24
Speaker
What a beautiful story. I love that. It's so much deeper than I thought it can be. Me too. Me too. I thought it was gonna be like, yeah, it looks like a shit. Yeah. And sometimes it looks like the Lola one looks like a dick that's coming.
00:11:39
Speaker
Yeah, no. Well, this was pre Alolan. But yeah, it's just it came from my he was young. He was born and lost. Like my uncle was at that point a widower. He had four kids to raise. We were up there in Massachusetts every single weekend. So like from him being a baby up, he had just kind of.
00:11:59
Speaker
been around us, my older cousin, who's hilarious. And, you know, it's just he picked that up and found our sense of humor and Pokemon. And that formed into Diglett. Yeah, that's why I love Diglett. It's so funny that he also likes the best Pokemon. Mm hmm. Yeah. From now on, you can let him know I'm going to call any time I'm going to go like take a shit. I'm going to be like, yo, I'm going to go drop a Diglett. It's hatching Diglett's hatching. I got to hatching Diglett. Yeah.
00:12:27
Speaker
Uh, and that was him like five years old, six years old. That's great. That's fantastic. Cause that's, I mean, I didn't realize how young five year olds were until, um, one of my coworkers was bringing their, um, grandson to work. And I'm like, Oh my goodness, you are very young. And just to imagine a five year old saying that right now is like, uh,
00:12:54
Speaker
just crazy to me. I think I would. I would just about drop dead laughing. Yeah. But like his his oldest brothers, we were I think I'm 11 years older than him. So like he was always around older people and stuff. So he was a very articulate. Five year olds. Yeah. But and let alone, I mean, it's it's funny that he picked Diglett, but it doesn't surprise anybody because it's the best Pokemon ever.
00:13:20
Speaker
Yeah, I think the internet is very warm to Diglett. I feel like the Diglett episode of the anime was like everybody's sort of like quasi favorite. You know, he's got a history competitively, like there's always, anywhere you look, there's always a way to love Diglett more. Diglett is generally pretty popular considering
00:13:47
Speaker
you know, compared to some of the others. Well, that was the other thing too. You know, it's, it's so awesome that your cousin would draw dick lids because they're actually pretty easy to draw compared to some of the other ones. Um, I was trying to draw Dave, like a little like, like note to put in his lunch the other day. And I was trying to draw, um, a Snorlax, which took me way too long, but then I was like, Oh, let me just try to draw a little like Doug trio in the corner of the, of like, you know, what I was doing. And it took me 30 seconds. So.
00:14:17
Speaker
Perfect. Perfect drawing, Pokemon. Beautiful in its simplicity. Yeah, way back in the beginning, obviously the early illustrators hated Venus or but they must have absolutely poured their heart and soul into Diglett to give him so much soul. Well, it's actually pretty funny that if you go to Hee Hee Tower, Hee Hee Tower in Pokemon Sun and Moon,
00:14:46
Speaker
You know how there's always, Game Freak is in the game usually? Like you can meet the people, they're in their office working somewhere within the game, very meta. You can go to Shigeki Morimoto and he states that he made up Diglett when he was a little kid. And that's cute, but should we talk more or should I go into the reasons why this is the best Pokemon ever?
00:15:09
Speaker
Uh, you definitely can. All right. I'm ready for it. I've got my lists as well,
Design and Culture of Alolan Diglett
00:15:14
Speaker
but I think, um, I think you should take the lead. Most popular Pokemon in the world right now, according to Google, who doesn't know anything? They're basically just another Bing. Uh, Greninja doesn't have, does Greninja have his own spot?
00:15:33
Speaker
Does he have his own cave? No. Diglett has his own cave. He's got his own spot. Only Diglett's hang out there. It's a pretty sick spot, too. You need it to beat the game. Sometimes his older brother comes by just to say hi. Yeah. Also, this guy fucks. Not only is he dick shaped, which is good for for sex. He is one of the smallest and lightest Pokemon, but
00:15:59
Speaker
Due to his egg group, Ken breed with a whale lord. Amazing. The largest Pokemon. Yes. Amazing. It is it is the lightest and shortest ground type Pokemon.
00:16:13
Speaker
Yes, and Whalelord, I believe, is the largest Pokemon. Yeah. That's amazing. Which also mean he doesn't body shame. Doesn't matter the size, breed, anything. Diglett's ready to love and make love. Also, he's so fucking fast. Do you know that in the English dub of the anime, Gary states that Diglett is able to pull his head underground at the speed of light? And that's why sometimes, even if he is having sex with the Whalelord, his pullout game's insane. Speed of light?
00:16:41
Speaker
Oh man, he took my joke. Also, he makes shit happen.
00:16:48
Speaker
Diglett is listed in Pokemon Stadium as having Acid as a valid move and uses it despite that not being a type of move he can learn and not even a move he can learn ever. There's just one Diglett who just convinced people he could use Acid and just started, I don't know, puking on people. Also, he sees things through. If you're a wuss and you don't want to fight him because he's got such bad HP and, you know, whatever, he has Arena Trap.
00:17:14
Speaker
Don't be a wuss. Don't leave. Also, did I mention that he's like a wiener? In that he is dick-shaped, but also he spends a lot of time underground and has very thin skin.
00:17:29
Speaker
Also, he's just like me. If Diglett is exposed to the sunlight, its blood will heat up and it causes it to grow weak, which is like a ginger. Also, he's all or nothing, because for a brief time, Fissure was its signature move, which you have a 30% accuracy, but if you hit, they're dead.
00:17:52
Speaker
Also, this guy doesn't sleep on the job because for some reason, which I still can't figure out, he's immune to telekinesis. Yes. Yes. He's just so sharp. He's just so sharp in that he's all brain inside. It's just all. I think you're confusing hypnosis with telekinesis there. No, it was telekinesis. I also I saw that. Oh, I am confusing it. Yeah. Because telekinesis is a move that in generation five to seven would
00:18:23
Speaker
like ground you, I think. But since they didn't really want to like, consider like Diglett's because Diglett is conjoined with the ground one way or another, they don't want people to think about what's underneath. So they were like, it's just gonna fail against Diglett. And it also will fail against Sandygast.
00:18:47
Speaker
who's also part of the ground and Megha Gengar, who's also basically like conjoined with the ground as well. So yeah, I mean, those are all very, very good reasons. And that's not even all the facts and shit I have written down, particularly because there's so much more. Yeah, I mean, there's.
00:19:12
Speaker
a couple of hours that we still have to go. Yeah, we've got time. I've got basically a Bible's worth of Diglett theology. I guess we're going to start with good old number 50, Diglett in Japan known as the Digda. At a mere eight inches,
Mysteries of Diglett's Body
00:19:38
Speaker
which I thought he was actually going to be smaller because when I was a little kid, I thought
00:19:43
Speaker
Oh, eight inches? That's hardly anything. I'm taller than that. The idea of being taller than a Pokemon was like... Eight inches is good dick energy though, right? Yeah. So there you go. He's a solid eight inches. Yeah. As a kid,
00:20:00
Speaker
Uh, I did not conflate, uh, Pokemon sizes with Dick sizes. So I just thought that I learned that word the other day, conflate I'm studying for the GRE. So basically that means I'm memorizing the dictionary. That's a good word. Yeah. Diglett helps you learn, uh, vocabulary as well. Another reason why we love him. Um, Oh yeah. And then he's, um, 1.8 pounds.
00:20:29
Speaker
Or 2.2 pounds, if you add the steel type of this Alolan form. Yeah, he's got those heavy pubes on his head. Yeah. He's got three whiskers, they call it, which is sometimes said to be golden color. So it could be gold, but is probably more likely iron or steel based off of the Pokedex entries.
00:20:58
Speaker
Or what it's actually a reference to is thin strands of volcanic glass, which is a natural phenomenon all across volcanic areas. And it's called Pele's Hair in Hawaii, which is based off of their god Pele. And this stuff is actually
00:21:28
Speaker
really interesting looking. It's like it's a dead ringer for Diglett's hair. And it's brittle and sharp and basically is kind of like a thicker fiberglass insulation. So be careful when you pet Diglett, because you might get the fiberglass strands on your hands.
00:21:57
Speaker
Yeah. And it also says these whiskers can be used for communication and can like exude what mood it's in or what emotion it's feeling. So when the strands stand straight up, that means it's really mad.
00:22:11
Speaker
Horny, yeah. So watch out. Horny, angry with horns. Yeah. Watch out when the horns are erect. You never know what you're going to get yourself into there. But when it's happy, the little strands just float about and flow around in the wind.
00:22:28
Speaker
And then when it's really sad, they just droop down. Yeah. So beware, you can you can you can find out what an Alolan dick is feeling based on its little whiskers. It's having a bad hair day. It's probably sad. Yeah. Same. Yeah.
00:22:45
Speaker
So then I did some math, and I found out that if a regular Diglett has three whiskers, and that adds, what, 0.4 pounds to it, that each of the Alolan dog trios will probably have over 100 strands in its hair. Because of, I did the math, the weight to hair ratio. Oh, nice. So
00:23:11
Speaker
Yeah, and Alolan Dugtrio comes in at about 146.8 pounds. That's quite a bit of hair. Exactly double of Cantonian Dugtrio. That's insane.
00:23:24
Speaker
You know, I think I got very excited when Alola added the regional forms because when I saw that Diglett and Otrillo were so awesome, I just said, yeah, this is the best idea that Pokémon ever had, giving me more Diglett to love.
00:23:45
Speaker
I never realized how small Diglett really was until Dave and I started collecting the scale world figures just for shits and giggles because that's what we do. And then the Diglett came and it was so tiny. It was like the size of a thumbtack. I'm like, we are never going to be able to see this shit if we display it anywhere.
00:24:09
Speaker
I don't think we have a I think that one wasn't even a scale world one because they haven't made it. That was just a normal, tiny, tiny one. Oh, my goodness. Well, I can only imagine if it's eight inches in the Pokemon world. We've discussed some pretty large Pokemon up until this point. Imagine we haven't even gotten to the ginormous. I know. Like imagine that next to a standing up Venus or remember how scared we were when we were talking about that? Yes.
00:24:36
Speaker
Yeah, but also I so there's that app to Reba, which is like the UFO catcher, like claw machine app that our friend Frostwad uses a lot. And I won an Alolan or just a normal diglett from it. And I haven't checked, but I feel like that's probably eight inches tall. It might be a life size.
00:25:02
Speaker
We're going to have to measure it. It's a good it's a good start. I think it's a little more than eight inches, though. Now, when you're measuring a diglet, do you do it from the balls to the tip? Totally. Or do you do it from the the. I don't know how to the base to the tip. So I know that in
00:25:28
Speaker
I guess it's, uh, yeah, it's red and blue or no Pokemon stadiums, Pokedex entry. It says it's heads. Its head pokes up approximately eight inches out of the ground. However, it's real size remains a mystery to this day.
00:25:44
Speaker
Yeah, and then if you look online, you'll see people's artistic reimagining. So yeah, big lid actually looks like I was gonna say there's a bunch of memes online of like this big like huge monstrous body that it's got like jacked. Yeah, super huge with his tiny little head looks like it's like, you know, use steroids its whole entire life. And yeah, just like its head is just the only thing that can like surface the ground, you'll get muscular men, you'll get basically the that's like the angler fishes little
00:26:14
Speaker
proboscis that's above the ground and then you have an eldritch horror underneath yeah um there's ones where it's just like mole feet yeah
Diglett's Speed and Environment Adaptability
00:26:25
Speaker
you'll have this very generic where it actually spans the entirety of the earth
00:26:33
Speaker
Yeah. And it just has a a basic big lit on the other side as well, like a blended dildo. There's the one where it's kind of like a guy in what was like crab position in, you know, like. When you like lean back and use your hands and legs to make like a table, but you're sticking your dick through the hole. There's that one, too. Have you seen that one?
00:27:00
Speaker
I don't think I've seen that one. I'm imagining it. That's one. All right, listeners, we're going to need your input. You're going to have to send us the best fan art for what lies underneath the good surface. Canonically, it does have feet because of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It does. Where it says, oh, nice. That's a good one.
00:27:23
Speaker
Dave is showing us a picture of like a dude underground and his dick sticking up and his dick is just a diglet. Yeah, but the guy's head is also a diglet. It's like a muscular man whose dick's sticking out. All right, so this dude is just like humping the ground to get some fresh air. Yep. Well, the Earth sometimes needs a little TLC. I mean, I'm hopping around here, but
00:27:52
Speaker
Diglett is known for tilling and fertilizing the soil, so that's one way to fertilize the soil. There you go. Tiller baby. What was I saying? Oh yeah, in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, after a hard baze out in the Mystery Dungeon, Diglett will say,
00:28:08
Speaker
Oh, my feet sure hurt. And then every Pokemon is like his feet. There's a ton. Yeah, a ton of references. And then actually Mystery Dungeon also confirms what the animal that Diglett is based on, which we know it's supposed to be a mole, but it's actually supposed to be based on the moles from the game whack-a-mole. Oh, yeah. And that's why it's shaped in that way.
00:28:39
Speaker
Well, it moves at the speed of light, so we'll never whack that mole as much as we want to. And even though he's 1.8 pounds, the faster you get to the speed of light, the more mass you're supposed to have. So he actually might be one of the lightest and one of the most heavy Pokémon, depending on what speed he's at at any given time.
00:29:02
Speaker
Because I guess if he can like speed of light out of the ground, it would just be like a bullet firing out of the air. Well, nothing can go faster than the speed of light. So they I think they changed it in certain translations to just be approaches the speed of light. But if you watched any Kirk is that video, you'll know that like physics gets a little bit naughty around that time. So like.
00:29:32
Speaker
Diglett's perception of time will shift, its weight will become near infinite. The amount of energy is basically physics breaking. We're lucky that he's as small as he is, because if he were any larger, it might be exponentially more difficult to be in the same dimension as him, I guess.
00:30:02
Speaker
I love
Dugtrio in Competitive Battling
00:30:03
Speaker
that Pokemon tries to hide their math sometimes when like before they just didn't care. Like there's so many Pokemon that like like we're going to get to. Is it.
00:30:18
Speaker
I think I feel like Machamp Machoke's strength is insane. Can move mountains. Yeah. Punch people over the horizon. Yeah. Just crazy stuff. When we get to Doug Trio, I'm going to do some math to. Oh, yeah. Stuff's insane. And that's why like it's crazy when they try to like.
00:30:40
Speaker
Keep the mystery and the mystery of Diglett and Doug Trio's feet. It's so funny that they do a lot and go to great lengths to make sure that this little boy doesn't leave the ground or girl 50 50 per chance. But like, for example, in the poke Athlon.
00:31:02
Speaker
Uh, I forget what game they put that in. There's the hurdle dash. And if you do it with Diglett or Doug trio, they go underground instead of going, instead of going above the hurdles, they go under the hurdles. So they like, okay, we had to go in and make a new animation for one specific Pokemon for that, but it doesn't stop there because since gen five, when Diglett and Doug trio are sent out, they merely fade out of the screen instead of dropping down like the other Pokemon do.
00:31:32
Speaker
And then in the Pokemon transfer part, Diglett and Dugtrio run out from behind bushes instead of dropping as well when you transfer a Pokemon. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, when you bring your Pokemon into the Pokemon setter instead of them hopping up or them running on tile floor, they would immediately go to your Pokeball. So it didn't show them like surfing through the tile like a street shark.
00:31:59
Speaker
And like on top of that in the Z move animations, like supersonic sky strike, it shows that Diglett and Doug tree are in the air, but they started doing the thing where they embed the ground around them. Yeah. So the ground kind of looks like it, but even with that, they still do things where like hurricane won't lift Diglett or Doug trio off the ground. And the animation just kind of like blows them backwards.
00:32:26
Speaker
Like they've made special animations for these Pokemon. They have to code around it. They have to really think about anything that they're doing because with any other Pokemon, it would be.
00:32:39
Speaker
normal. But for Diglett, there are strong restrictions. Well, think about how much extra work there is for Diglett and Dugtrio than when you're making the game itself. That's got to be so annoying. They get to the Diglett part of the game. They're like, oh shit, here we go again. Time for Diglett. It's probably like the programmer's least favorite Pokemon. Wrong. They're probably like, hooray, Diglett. We get to play with Diglett. What a great job in life I had.
00:33:05
Speaker
Oh, think of all of the fun challenges he brings to me. He's making my life better in every way. I wouldn't have this job if it wasn't for Diglett. You know what? They make me appreciative, though, because maybe things get kind of stale. So Diglett, like, spices it up for them. And then they're like, hey, draw Venusaur. And they're like, no, God, no.
00:33:26
Speaker
Yeah, Venus was hard to draw. I remember when Dave and I first started the day Care did it was Instagram. It was right when we first started dating and it was real. It wasn't initially to document our returning of the bootleg Pokemon we found into the wild. And then we would also just draw Pokemon together. We wouldn't go through the whole Pokedex. That was the idea. I got to Ivysaur and I was like, I think I'm done. I think I'm done with this.
00:33:55
Speaker
Um, I was just looking to see if there are very few Pokemon that have been in every single game. Hmm. Um. I mean, Pikachu definitely has. You has. Yeah, it doesn't. Diglett has not been in every game. Zubat. Zubat. Yeah. Um, yeah, I mean, it's a shame. They try to replace him briefly with the Drillburr and Excadrill. That's right. That's right. Yeah. So that might have been the time where they were like, oh,
00:34:25
Speaker
Let's hold back on Diglett because Dave might come himself to death. True. And thank you. I'm still alive. That you were becoming a prepubescent at that time, maybe. Kept me going. Kept me going. But yeah, Drillburr is a real mole and it's fine, I guess. When I heard that they were doing a new mole Pokemon, I thought it was going to be somehow related to Diglett. And then I just saw him and was like, that's fine, I guess. But.
00:34:53
Speaker
Yeah, Drillburn Excadrill are very, very strong. Yeah. But let's not conflate them with how strong Diglett and Dugtrio are as well. So strong, in fact, that I think in a lot of meta games, more recently, they were always with competitive Pokemon battling, there's always a balancing act because you have
00:35:20
Speaker
800 plus Pokemon. You're approaching 900 now. I think you're over. If you count forms. Oh, yeah. Um, yeah, probably. Yeah, probably. It's wild. Give or take, we're hovering below or above 900, depending on what you're classifying as different Pokemon. So the community was always trying to
00:35:51
Speaker
determine what Pokemon fit into which tier and what would be fair for competitive battling because you don't want the strongest of the strong in there ruining a lot of variations in teams and you don't want the weaker ones in there not getting their chance to shine too. And more recently they said
00:36:13
Speaker
We can't have Doug Trio in anymore. Get out, really? Because Doug Trio's arena trap ability limited the teams so much that you always had to think about Doug Trio in the back of your mind when balancing. And it changed the it limited your team so much that they said, all right, we've played around with Doug Trio for too long because what you can do
00:36:42
Speaker
If you have a dog trio because you can toss them in and then the opponent, uh, you toss them in on an opponent that can't do anything against dog trio. And even though dog trio stats are pretty weak in comparison.
00:36:58
Speaker
If you can't do anything against your Doug a Doug trio because of its, you know Ground type move you're locked into like electric moves are not very effective moves and it can revenge kill you
Evolution and Characteristics of Dugtrio
00:37:10
Speaker
you're basically You know one Pokemon down at no Expense for yourself like there's a lot of
00:37:24
Speaker
non-risk for high reward with having a Dougtrio on your team or having to balance around Dougtrio. So they finally were just like, you know, we can't have Dougtrio anymore. It's limiting the teams too much. So he's impressive. Dougtrio is too good. Too good to be true. Too good. Can't take my eyes off of you. Just strongest Pokemon ever. Also, boys, quick.
00:37:51
Speaker
Yeah. That's a quick one. These Dugtrio's are fast. Approaching the speed of light. There's three of them. Yeah. You know how the Dugtrio moves underground? I'm very curious. An alternating bobbing and headbutt motion. And yet he's one of the fastest Pokemon. Can you imagine that in your mind's eye? Just three. Diglett just...
00:38:17
Speaker
bobbing and headbutting and jamming themselves around. Like a combustion engine. And they're going 60 miles per hour. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I learned that Doug Trio can tunnel under the earth 60 miles per hour and a depth of 60 miles deep, too. So it's so fast that it can trigger earthquakes. Yeah. Well, now that you opened up that can of worms, I was wondering, since we were talking about Diglett having thin skin and
00:38:45
Speaker
very sensitive to the heat. That's why it likes to be underground away from the sun, because sometimes, oh, it could get hot. It could be like 100 degrees outside in like June in the United States. But if you were to consider what 60 miles in depth would be in terms of where we are on the planet's surface, that would bring it to the solid or liquid mantle underneath the crust.
00:39:15
Speaker
And that would mean that Diglett was living and striving in a temperature that is 1832 degrees Fahrenheit. So the sun the sun's a little tough, but like the solid or liquid mantle of the of the planet Earth.
00:39:33
Speaker
Yeah, I can handle that. That's fine. That's cool. Totally understandable. Well, the name, of course, you know, dig as in digging, lit as in small dig digger, like a guy who digs, he's lit like a like a poop lit is a small poop. But the D actually stands for Dracula. And that's why he can't be out in the sun because Dracula rules.
00:39:54
Speaker
Okay, so it's not so much the heat, it's just the sun in particular. I'm speaking. Dracula's need to breathe as well, because if you're that far underneath the earth, and in that amount of heat, there's probably little to no oxygen as well. Right.
00:40:14
Speaker
uh do you remember when people used to think the little son the the like the glare off his nose was a tooth yeah a tooth and people are like no it's probably a tooth now you can't unsee it and i'm like i can 100% unsee it because there are toys of it and stuff it's all
00:40:32
Speaker
No, I don't see it. I'm looking at it now. I don't know. It was a lot of people. Let me look at some of the older sprites maybe in there. Well, not even a sprite. It was like the art. Oh, the art. I don't see it. I mean, I understand what they're talking about, but I don't. I don't. I can't visualize it. It's the glare of the. Yes. The devil's son off of its shiny red nose.
00:40:57
Speaker
Yeah, I still don't see it. I can't visualize it. I don't see a tooth. It's supposed to. Oh, I can kind of. OK, so I'm looking at one right now where I'm like, OK, it's like its mouth is supposed to be open and there's like a little tooth at the top quarter. Yeah, it's like it's gone. Yeah. But it's not. It's not. It's going. Yeah, you want to know what to because now I'm looking at it more of a 3D picture of it and it's just like it's protruding outward. So it's definitely not a mouth.
00:41:25
Speaker
Damn, I remember the scene where they just have like an animation of of Diglett's going up and down. From the episode. Yeah, I wish I could add that as like live wallpaper on my life. What did you guys think of their anime episode? Dig those Diglett? Because I dug it to me, that was the first Pokemon episode I ever watched.
00:41:55
Speaker
So I remember asking the kids from school, hey, when does Pokemon air and when can I see it? They're like, oh, you're going to have to get up really early in the morning and you're going to have to watch Beast Wars first. And then afterwards is great. Beast Wars is amazing. I love Beast Wars.
00:42:16
Speaker
And then after that, Pokemon came on and I caught my first episode, I dig those Diglett, where they were building a dam, but the Diglett were breaking it with their earthquakes and their mudslides. And then they were hiring, the dam company was hiring the strongest Pokemon trainers that they can get their hands on.
00:42:46
Speaker
to kill and destroy Diglett. But of course we all know that a Diglett is indestructible. Basically just total beefcake strength. And so the opponent, Pokemon, all were too scared to fight them.
00:43:08
Speaker
In reality, the Pokemon sympathized with Diglett so much that they refused to fight. Also, because if they actually built the dam, it was like it would have destroyed the entire forest, killing all the Pokemon's habitat and also the people in the town. So in the end, they all teamed up with the Diglett's to save the day.
00:43:33
Speaker
to save humans and Pokemon alike. And then they they replanted all the trees at the end and people's Pokemon joined them to to not to reforest the whole forest reforestation. Yeah. So Diglett needs some of those. What are they? They called the greenhouse gas. How did Elon Musk get so rich? It was by selling like carbon offset credits like
00:44:03
Speaker
Basically, Diglets are the Elon Musk's of the Pokemon world for all their CO2 credits that they got from the government. Secretly douchey. And then, of course, that's the episode where Ekans evolves into Arbok. Koffing evolves into Weezing because they love Jesse and James so much. That's the episode where
00:44:33
Speaker
I mean, everybody will always, like, you can't think Diglett without saying Diglett in your head and then trio, trio, trio after. Diglett, dig, Diglett, dig, trio, trio, trio. That episode actually made me put a Diglett on my team. That was one where, you know, like you'd watch an episode and there'd be like a small Pokemon and you'd be like, oh my God, this guy can fucking party. This guy rules. And then you put one on your team, like,
00:45:01
Speaker
I remember. I know exactly where to find one. Yeah. Diglett's Cave. Like, I remember having like a Butterfree on my team because I got like real into Butterfree kicking ass in one episode. But after that Diglett episode, I was like, you know what? Give me this little poop a try. Yes, little poop. Oh, dear. Yeah, that's a cute little one. I'm cool with Diglett.
00:45:24
Speaker
And there was actually whack-a-mole in that episode too, when the guy who was trying to build the dam was... Pokemon weren't working, so he just was hitting them with the Super Smash Bros. hammer. And Gary was like, ah, you can't do that! Digglet can pull in their... if they can pull out... you'll never get pregnant.
00:45:47
Speaker
I love to they throw their Pokemon and they wouldn't come out of their Pokeball and the Diglets were so polite that they literally would just turn everybody's Pokeball to them. And all the trainers were like, Oh, thank you. Yeah. And the only Pokemon that would have come out and actually fight were Team Rocket's Pokemon. And even they were kind of like, you know, and then Meowth was just kind of, you know, the translator. Meowth is very important.
00:46:14
Speaker
Yeah, speaking of Meowth, that's our next episode. Yeah. Oh, damn. That's going to be a big one. Yeah, I'm excited for Meowth. I, it was one of the first Pokemon I learned about other than Pikachu, love Meowth. I actually recently caught, I caught a shiny Meowth in Pokemon Go the other day and I almost didn't catch it because it, it's shiny version is, is very similar to the original. Just got like a little bit more red features.
00:46:43
Speaker
I was doing some pro preliminary research and Jesus Christ game freak really loves me out. There's a lot to go over. Like get ready for another 12 hour episode after this one. Exactly. So I was looking for this this whole time. Um, in Pokemon mystery dungeon, do you know that depending on the health of your partners, they have different voice lines that they'll say, if you talk to them,
00:47:10
Speaker
And if their health is between 100 and 51%, they'll say, please don't whack me on the head as a reference to whack-a-mole. Not the most creative. Also, if you get down to half health, they'll say the classic Diglett catchphrase, my health is down to half. We all know. Yeah. If you look at a Diglett, it's health is down to half.
00:47:38
Speaker
Well, in certain games, if you if you let a Pokemon out of its Pokeball and its health is below 50 percent, it does have a deeper cry, as if it were very fatigued. So instead of saying, Diglett, you'll go, Diglett. Falls will drop and be like Diglett. Yeah. So then I guess
00:48:08
Speaker
Hold on. Oh, it's a TikTok ad. I was trying to play it's cry. But now we can stop the TikTok ad. Yeah, that's our boy. Oh, it's one of those where they just keep doing it. Yeah. Gotta love that good square wave sound. Beep, beep, beep. Blam. Blam. Yeah, it sounds like a fart almost.
00:48:34
Speaker
It sounds like a Jonathan Davis from corn. But yeah, sorry, you were doing a sick transition into Doug Trio. Yeah. So when your diglet gets nice and leveled up and I forgot to write down the level that he evolves 28.
00:48:57
Speaker
Do you guys have that written down? 26. 26. So when your Diglett gets to be 26 years old, he'll either, depending on what I've read, split into three and become Doug Trio, or just team up with two other Diglett. Regardless,
Alolan Dugtrio's Hairstyles
00:49:20
Speaker
they can rent a car.
00:49:22
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. So we don't know. The scientists haven't determined yet whether or not one Diglett is splitting like a Hydra into three heads. And that's what's really interesting about these these three headed or multi headed Pokemon too, because like it's just so, so weird or Diglett will just get two roommates when they're 26 and they can't afford to pay rent.
00:49:50
Speaker
Yeah, and either way, no matter how they come to be a Doug Trio, their heads think the same thoughts and act cooperatively with each other. Yeah, sometimes fight over food. Yeah, they're like, no, I want to eat first. No, bitch, I want to eat first. No. So while the other one is like, all right, well, you two are you. I'm already done. Fuck you. Oh, man.
00:50:10
Speaker
Could somebody Photoshop our faces onto a ductry? Oh yes, absolutely. As in all Photoshop our faces onto a ductry. Oh my gosh, yes, absolutely. Which one of us will have the shoulder length hair and which one will have the bob cut and which one will have the curly hair?
00:50:31
Speaker
I definitely do not have curly hair at all. Mine gets a little curly. When you used to have long hair. So I'll have the curly hair and then Dave will have the bob cut. There we go. Then you'll have the shoulder length hair. Perfect. Perfect.
00:50:50
Speaker
Um, it's weird too, because if only there were like, I don't know, scientists or professors in the Pokemon world that could devote their entire life just to figuring this out, but guess not. Uh, because like, for example, this is the red, blue. Pokedex entry. A team of Diglett triplets.
00:51:15
Speaker
or just a team of Diglett triplets. That's all it says. It triggers huge earthquakes by burrowing 60 miles underground. So they're saying it's like triplets. It's like three of them. But then. It's like conjoined into one body. Ruby Sapphire. They take that hard turn, whereas Doug Trio are actually triplets that emerged from one body. So like Siamese twins. As a result, each triplet thinks exactly like the other two triplets. They were cooperatively to burrow endlessly.
00:51:45
Speaker
It's just I don't because like triplets. You're not a triplet. Anytime.
00:51:54
Speaker
after you can only lose your triplet status. It's one of your twins dies. Yeah, you cannot gain triplet status, but it's not like your mom's water breaks again. And she's like, oh, something was still in there. Scrape out the other two. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, wait, there was three. Yeah. Or like you. I have to hatch one more Diglett. Yeah. Oh, I thought I just had two extra dicks this whole time. Turns out they were my siblings.
00:52:24
Speaker
You cut your arm off and you're like, oh, brother. Yeah. But it's weird because also in Mystery Dungeon, the Magnemite decides to go and save the Diglett because they feel a kinship over their evolution patterns. Oh, yeah. That's a good point because they magnemite goes from one to three also. But but theirs is pretty much like
00:52:51
Speaker
three magnumite magnetized together. Yes. And become a magnet. Yeah. Yeah. But this one's just not like three dudes just kind of like hit it off. And they're like, I play bass. It's like sick. I see. And then they form a Hanson game freak was like, yeah, so we're going to keep what happens under the hood secret. So, I mean, you can, you know, make a speculations all you like, but we're not telling you what's happening under there. What a mysterious Pokemon in all ways.
00:53:21
Speaker
They're lazy though. And I'm, I liked them for being lazy, but they were lazy because you have to think back to something that I thought was super interesting that, uh, they mentioned over at jazzwares and they, AIC is working with Pokemon is so unique because usually you have to worry about handling, taking care and presenting a mascot for a brand.
00:53:45
Speaker
but Pokemon is a brand of 900 mascots. Every Pokemon really can stand on its own. So when it comes to picking and presenting a specific character, you have to do it justice. They may diglett.
00:53:59
Speaker
And they were like, this is perfect. It's perfect. There's no way to figure out how to fix Diglett. They couldn't figure out how to fix Diglett. It took them over a decade and they figured, oh, silly hair. But the only way to make Diglett better was to make more Diglets. And that's why Doug Trio was made. But it's kind of lazy. That's like, imagine if you just had like the perfect chocolate cake and then they're like, ooh, what's for dessert? And you're like, three more chocolate cakes.
00:54:28
Speaker
I mean, some people wouldn't argue about that. And I'm not arguing about Doug Trio, but I'm just saying, like, it's a it's a tried true. It's more of a good thing. But, you know, sometimes you need to put some silly wigs on it and just dress it up. I mean, that hair is
Challenges for Game Developers
00:54:42
Speaker
pretty intense. I mean, I don't know who designed that hair, but the one thing to say about Alolan Doug Trio is that it does not have the arena trap ability. So it is
00:54:54
Speaker
You can have that as part of your team and not feel guilty because there are no rules against using it. It gets a tangled hair ability, which when you make contact with it,
00:55:07
Speaker
you lose speed. Interesting. I've been doing some research about this hair because I was really curious about who designed or what came about this design. The only thing I found was some fan who said that Alolan Dugdrio is regarded as a feminine deity of the earth and is taking its hairs
00:55:29
Speaker
like taking its hair out of its head is thought to be super bad luck. So like if you pull the hair out and you were totally screwed for life. Here's a photo of Pele hair. It looks like hay coming down this mountain, but that's all glass. That is thin shards of volcanic glass. That is definitely something we will be sharing on the Instagram.
00:55:54
Speaker
I mean, I listen again, like I have to give it to game freak and Pokemon for just putting this much effort into kind of like the folklore of each Pokemon. It's very like the continuity of that throughout the first generation at least is really interesting. And the more that I do research about Pokemon, the more I really do appreciate the company as a whole. And its dedication to making its Pokemon like actually makes sense at least a little bit.
00:56:20
Speaker
And another baking, uh, Diglett sexy. Of course. And another thing, uh, talking, we're listening to the jazzwares team is that they work directly with the Pokemon company and their thought process and love and care for creating every Pokemon does not stop.
00:56:44
Speaker
Every Pokemon gets, has to be done correctly, has to be done justice. They care just as much about, you know, from every Charizard down to every Clefky. Speaking of which. I was gonna say, yes, speaking of Clefky and Meltan, they actually are tied. Also eight inches tall. Yeah, they're tied with a little Inductrio. I mean, I'd dig for being the shortest steel types. Yeah.
00:57:14
Speaker
And we all know we love Clefky. Oh, my gosh. You know, it's so funny. We talk so much about Clefky and how much at least how much I dislike it. I cannot wait till we actually get to the episode. That's going to be that's going to be when we're 47 years old. Friend of the pod, a pocket mobster.
00:57:33
Speaker
sent something. It was funny. He actually put the clefkey figure on his keys at one point. Oh, and I said something back and he was like, yeah, I just, you know, I put it up there and want to, you know, offend anybody because Sarah talks every episode about how much she hates it. It's true. Sorry. It's awful. I'm so sorry. No, I'm not. I'm not even sorry. Now I like worse Pokemon hate. You like it because I don't like it. Is that why you like it? There's two things that I like about Clefkey.
00:58:01
Speaker
It's the Spongebob Booboo Keys. So I always have a good nickname for it. And then when it faints, it's key when it comes undone and all the keys just fall off. Yeah, it just reveals how pathetic of a Pokémon it is. It's just got such a cool way of fainting. I think it has a lot of personality for... For a set of keys? I mean...
00:58:28
Speaker
Do you put a lot of effort into balancing your key ring so that all of your keys are in its right place and you can accessorize it? Or is it just a girly thing that I do? No. My keys are a jumbled mess of garbage that I need to iron out. I recently put a new air tag, Apple Air Tag on it, and that's spiced it up a little bit. But other than that,
00:58:56
Speaker
Basically, it's like Apple came out with a new version of tile. It's like a tracker that you put. Oh, OK. It's very useful because you like literally no matter where your keys are, it will give you an arrow, like a compass that leads to them with the exact distance.
00:59:13
Speaker
like in feet and inches from how far they are. And I lose my keys all the time. So well, it's really helpful for when you lose your keys in the house like we do constantly, because when you get close to your keys or whatever, you have this air tag on the phone will start to vibrate and like give you a little arrow. Be like, no dummy. It's right in front of your face. Like look harder, you know, which is nice because I don't keep my phone in my back pocket. I keep it on my team.
00:59:40
Speaker
And there's a good vibe. We just, I had to talk about taints because we're not talking about Diggle it anymore and it made me upset. Oh, I'm so sorry. Doug Trio's very fast. Well, that's not always a good thing. How fast is he? He's so fast. 60 miles per hour. That's it, yeah. 100 kilometers per hour. That's not always a good thing. That's not some serious friction going on.
01:00:02
Speaker
That's fine. From the bobbing and grinding. That's how they go from an Alolan all the way down to a normal one. They just burn the hair right off. But, uh, yeah, I love that. The hair.
01:00:19
Speaker
It, everyone has a different hairstyle. Is there a significance to it though? Do you guys know that? That's what I was trying to research. I don't think, I don't think there is. I don't think there's, I don't know. I think they just wanted to spice it up a little bit. What I wish they had done is change the color of each set of hair, but I guess they wanted to stay true to the golden whiskers of the, um, yeah. Which I can respect that. Um, I would say, uh, that if they all,
01:00:49
Speaker
think the same. Maybe it's just you want to be playful and you want to have your different looks. And that's just the benefit of having three heads. You can accessorize for any occasion. Three heads are better than one. Yeah. I also wonder if it's like a Three Stooges themed thing. That's what I always thought too.
01:01:15
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know that as much about the three stooges as I should. I know that that, you know, the bob cut is sort of like a bowl cut. Yeah, like the one had. And then, of course, there was a stooge called Curly. So that's probably currently.
01:01:39
Speaker
Um, I know there were four Stooges. I think one was very bold others. Yeah. Well, there was Shemp too. Yeah. And then I think Shemp was like not a brother. And I don't I have to ask my dad, you know, we had Pokemon growing up, so we didn't have to wash the three Stooges. I just like Iggy in the Stooges.
01:02:06
Speaker
But I'm trying to think if there's anything else about we really blew through a lot of data here.
01:02:13
Speaker
I have some very interesting. I want to hear. Facts. More facts. Yeah. Well, I
Diglett & Dugtrio Pokémon Cards Quiz
01:02:22
Speaker
was going to go into, but I forgot to look up. I mean, we all know a mole from chemistry is what? Like six point. Oh, four times ten to the negative. Yeah. And third. Yeah, we totally remember that from high school. If we had a we had a teacher named Mr. Dan Tony.
01:02:43
Speaker
And he was obsessed with it, but he was this little short Italian guy and he had like the, and he would do this thing and he he'd like clap.
01:02:51
Speaker
And he'd be like, it's mole day. Everybody, today we're going to learn about moles. And he would just never open his eyes. He looked like a mole. It's very fun. But another another fact about moles is that if there's a black ring around it, see a dermatologist who could be cancerous. Yeah. You always got to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Yeah. You got to check them before you wreck them. Yeah. You got to feel the boobs. You got to feel the balls.
01:03:22
Speaker
And you gotta, if you're over a certain age, get your butt checked as well.
01:03:26
Speaker
And your boobs checked also. Just do it all at once. Just rub your balls on your boobs and then while someone looks at your butt. Yeah. Um, now Dave doesn't have that problem because I'm looking at his butt all the time. Hey man, thanks for being vigilant. Um, so, uh, I had, uh, basically, uh, two things that I looked up about moles because they weren't that interesting. Uh, they're basically solitary animals.
01:03:56
Speaker
They basically stayed to themselves their entire lives. And of course, the only reason that they come together is for procreation purposes. Sick! Yeah. And do you know how they find their maid?
01:04:13
Speaker
Tinder. The guys will go off into foreign soils and just start squealing until somebody finds them. So, yeah, exactly. Just go to a strange land and just start screaming until somebody's like, oh, I got you. I got you. Don't worry. And then I don't know much about this guy, but apparently there was a famous
01:04:41
Speaker
paleontologists, scientists back in the day and he was fairly eccentric and he would like to give lectures on horseback. His name was William Buckland and he was also known for wanting to eat everything that he studied. He would eat giraffe, he would eat
01:05:09
Speaker
blue bottle fly, which he said was the most vile tasting thing next to, moles. Moles are apparently so disgusting tasting, so don't try to eat one. How would he eat them? Would he at least cook it a little bit?
01:05:27
Speaker
I think he would like, yeah, cook it and like put it on toast or something. Gross. Why is that so funny to me? But another thing that he did was he actually bought
01:05:42
Speaker
the 100 year old mummified heart of Louis the 14th. And he said, I have eaten many things, but I have yet to eat a king's heart. And then he ate a king's heart. Oh, my. So apparently a 100 year old preserved heart is tastier than a mole. So gross. Don't asshole.
01:06:10
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think he was actually pretty, pretty rude. But, you know, he had an eccentric taste and people still are talking about him today. And I was looking him up on YouTube and I didn't really see anything. So I guess he's not that famous. But yeah, moles, they don't taste good.
01:06:34
Speaker
Moral story, don't eat a diglet. Yeah, don't eat a diglet. Just suck on one. Yeah. Just put it in your butt. Yeah. Save a horse ride a diglet. Well. If you have to dig through the ground really fast, you just start head butting it and gyrating. Yeah. Yeah, make sure you got a lot of lube though. Ladies, a lot of lube.
01:07:01
Speaker
Diglett threw the ditches and I lost it. I have nothing left. Well, it is that time of the podcast where I have you guys guess how many Pokemon cards that we can find our friend Diglett on. Are we also counting all of Dave's cousin's cards that he made? Nah, just the actual Pokemon TCG. What do we think?
01:07:31
Speaker
He was in the base set. He was really strong. I remember he he was a what a small HP big damage dealer for energy. I've been trying to collect every single Diglett and Dugtrio card that I want to start collecting all the Voltorb cards.
01:07:51
Speaker
Well, we'll keep a look at on you. Do we have some good ones for you? Yeah, we do. We have a bunch for you. I'm saving some. In that new Eevee set, that Voltorb is very sharp looking. We have a Japanese Voltorb and electrode for you. Actually, set aside.
01:08:09
Speaker
I'm licking my lips and anticipation. All right. We got to get this light. Well, whenever we hang out, we can actually hang out. Now we're all all we got the Vax. We're all Vax. We already got our our antidote. We have Soren berries deep in our healthy. I got my pachaberry. Yeah. Maybe we can do a Pokemon night. I would love that. Yeah.
01:08:31
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Uh, one thing I always want to do, we should do like a, uh, Instagram live at some point, just to answer questions or something, open cards and answer questions. I think that'd be fun. Yeah. I like that. 18 diglet. No, I'm saying 24. 24. Okay. Well, Dave, you are closest. You only have to collect 23. Oh, okay. And they did debut in the base set. Yes, they did.
01:08:59
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All right. Moving on. Our friend, Doug Drio. What do we think? Also base set. Also base set. Very strong as well. Do you count if they're holographic or not? Yes, it counts all of them. Yeah, but so a non holographic and a holographic are no, no, no, no. It's just the arts. How many different arts you can collect. Nineteen. OK. Also twenty three.
01:09:30
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No. Twenty one. What? That's literally I was going to guess. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So pretty. They're pretty popular. They are. Yeah. Pretty popular presence. Got to catch them all, Dave. You're almost there, right? Well, I started getting some of the neo ones. So yeah, I guess the resurgence with the separate types means for more real estate for Diglett loving as well. It's true. It's true.
Episode Conclusion and Reflections
01:09:59
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All right, well, this has been another episode of daycare diglets. You can follow us on daycare Ditto's at daycare Ditto's in an Instagram. That's where you can message us if you have anything to say. We will shout you out here. We've had a couple of people who are always making sure to let us know about interesting Pokemon facts. One of them, a lot of our content
01:10:24
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comes from Steven, our good friend and brother of the podcast, who will be on soon, shares a lot of the hot fire that you guys see. And of course, we cannot forget about Cody, who will be a future guest, who messages us from many different ska band accounts because Connecticut hasn't figured out that ska isn't a thing anymore. But Cody is the king of it.
01:10:47
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Much like Scott, Cody is now dead. I forgot about that. Yeah, so let us know what you think about Diglett. Share some things. Send a drawing of what you think is under Diglett and we will share it on our Instagram. Again, make sure you go to AIC underscore pod
01:11:08
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Or just go and see the post that is on our Instagram or look up adventures in collecting. You can't miss it. There's a 25th anniversary Pokemon, uh, icon with a bunch of Pokemon over it. Great listen, two hours, something more to listen to. And, you know, if you're just somebody who likes toys or Pokemon or just passion and design.
01:11:30
Speaker
figuring out how things are made. It's for you. A lot of fun. What is AIC going to have AOC on? With the amount of guests they've had, maybe soon. They've had Jeremy Padour, who is the creator, the founder, one of the founders of of Jazzwares, and he's the one who bought that.
01:11:56
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First edition, shadowless, full PS10 graded base set. Every card of the base set at a PS A10.
01:12:08
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Didn't they also have one of the co-hosts on Lego Masters? He said both the hosts, the judges of Lego Masters, the creator of Migo Toys, which are iconic, the creator of a lot of the like, like my, my pet monster, the wrestling buddies, Cabbage Patch Kids, just incredible designers, incredible companies. And it's, you know,
01:12:33
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great friends of ours so but uh good Pokemon content so I hope you guys enjoy it and I hope you enjoyed this episode because it's the best Pokemon ever and now all the episodes after this are just gonna not be as good but you know until we get to the actual best Pokemon ever Tangla no good night find out we already hit your favorite Pokemon Sarah no we have not we have not hit my all-time favorite Pokemon I'll give you a hint
01:13:03
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I got a hint. She pointed to the diglet tattoo on her arm. No, no diglet. See ya. Bye bye.