Cascarrafa Gym, Medali Gym, and Gimmighoul Grab (Ft. Greg Leatherman) #211

[00:00:01] Hello and welcome to Experian Share's Pokemon Podcast

[00:00:14] starring me, Duntansparce.

[00:00:17] Duh-dun-sparce.

[00:00:19] AKA Tanner Greenring.

[00:00:22] And I'm joined as always by my co-host, Fjelooza.

[00:00:26] Oh, Vah-looza.

[00:00:27] I like that because it makes it sound

[00:00:28] like I'm saying you're a loser.

[00:00:29] I thought it sounded more like I'm part of the Yakuza,

[00:00:32] which is cool.

[00:00:33] AKA Joshua Fjelstad.

[00:00:34] And we are joined once again

[00:00:36] by the like unofficial third host of the show,

[00:00:39] the only other person I ever bother asking

[00:00:41] to come on anymore.

[00:00:43] And who is also willing to keep playing these later games

[00:00:47] that many of our other guests are like,

[00:00:49] yeah, I'm not going back into that shit.

[00:00:51] Oh boy.

[00:00:52] You're the most knowledgeable person we know

[00:00:54] on the topic of Pokemon.

[00:00:56] Yeah, that's it.

[00:00:57] And your name is Gwugtrio.

[00:00:59] Dugtrio.

[00:01:01] No, Wugtrio.

[00:01:02] Oh, Wugtrio, right.

[00:01:04] Yeah, yeah.

[00:01:05] Fired.

[00:01:06] And this is Gwugtrio.

[00:01:07] You're fired.

[00:01:08] Greg Leatherman.

[00:01:09] Look, I skipped Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl.

[00:01:11] I thought, oh, I'll join in.

[00:01:12] Good, suck, missed nothing.

[00:01:14] And I was like,

[00:01:15] I cannot possibly put myself through that nightmare

[00:01:20] once again.

[00:01:21] I don't think we had any guests on that season, right?

[00:01:23] Nobody wanted that.

[00:01:25] It's a rough one.

[00:01:25] We didn't want to subject anyone to it.

[00:01:27] The only reason why I'm doing this one

[00:01:29] is because there are version exclusives that I wanna get.

[00:01:32] So I have to do it anyways.

[00:01:34] So I might as well do it now,

[00:01:36] even though it is miserable to me.

[00:01:39] So are you playing the one you didn't originally play?

[00:01:42] What are you playing?

[00:01:43] Yes, I played Violet first,

[00:01:44] so I'm playing Scarlet now.

[00:01:45] Okay, that's what I'm playing.

[00:01:46] I'm Violet.

[00:01:47] I hate to be contrarian, especially with you, Greg.

[00:01:49] Do you?

[00:01:50] You know how you and I famously never butt heads.

[00:01:53] But- Never.

[00:01:54] I think that the game is good.

[00:01:58] I think it's a mess.

[00:01:59] It's a broken mess.

[00:02:00] Our expectations were also set so low

[00:02:04] that it's like Biden's State of the Union.

[00:02:07] I went in today to be like,

[00:02:08] what badges do I have currently?

[00:02:10] I'm curious.

[00:02:11] And there's nowhere to find it or see it in the game.

[00:02:14] They're just like, nah.

[00:02:16] You can see it on your player profile

[00:02:17] that you have some badges,

[00:02:19] but they don't show you the badge case anymore.

[00:02:21] No.

[00:02:23] So I was like, all right, well, fuck me, I guess.

[00:02:26] No, no.

[00:02:27] Here's the thing.

[00:02:28] It is still a Pokemon game,

[00:02:31] and I still love them more than I love other games, right?

[00:02:34] Like- Yeah, fair enough.

[00:02:35] I still can have a good time playing this game,

[00:02:40] but I'm searching hard.

[00:02:42] Yeah.

[00:02:43] The things that I like, which are the story,

[00:02:45] really got messed up with the DLC.

[00:02:47] Like in this case,

[00:02:48] I really think the DLC hurt this game hardcore.

[00:02:51] Oh, really?

[00:02:51] Ketamine Island?

[00:02:52] Yeah.

[00:02:53] Oh, we had such a blast out on Ketamine Island.

[00:02:55] I love the K-hole.

[00:02:56] I absolutely hate the characters of Kieran and Carmine.

[00:02:59] I hate those two.

[00:03:00] Totally forgettable.

[00:03:01] Literally, couldn't even summon a picture of them

[00:03:03] in my head when you said their names.

[00:03:04] I hate everything about them.

[00:03:06] It took Tanner most of the season

[00:03:07] to even remember what their real names were.

[00:03:09] Yeah.

[00:03:10] It gets worse.

[00:03:11] The story's a hot mess.

[00:03:13] I met one of my closest friends out there too.

[00:03:15] So you're kind of hurting her feelings.

[00:03:18] Who?

[00:03:19] Fiona Eilish, Ogre Pond.

[00:03:21] She was out there.

[00:03:22] Not Billy Eilish's cousin.

[00:03:23] Okay, the only good thing on Ketamine Island

[00:03:26] is the millennial Nurse Joy,

[00:03:29] one of the greatest characters they've ever made.

[00:03:31] The one who's in the community center?

[00:03:34] The one outside of the community center up front

[00:03:36] who could not bother to get off her phone to do anything.

[00:03:39] Love her.

[00:03:40] Relatable.

[00:03:40] Oh yeah, that's good.

[00:03:41] I also love my character's best pals, the Glitterati.

[00:03:45] Yeah.

[00:03:46] I am excited to follow that storyline when we go back.

[00:03:49] You really corrected us on the Glitterati.

[00:03:51] Yeah.

[00:03:52] Yeah, they're great.

[00:03:53] And thank you also for,

[00:03:54] although I think we did it an episode late

[00:03:57] and that did set us off on this correction

[00:04:00] we're trying to do with our levels,

[00:04:02] but thank you for telling us before we did the season

[00:04:05] that we should do the Teal Mask DLC early on

[00:04:08] rather than waiting.

[00:04:10] But the levels are everywhere are just totally discordant

[00:04:13] and I have no idea what's going on anymore.

[00:04:15] The levels are so weird.

[00:04:16] Like I'm looking for places to train

[00:04:18] and it's like hard to find a spot

[00:04:20] where it's like consistently level 50 Pokemon.

[00:04:22] I finally found a spot.

[00:04:23] Mainly all you can really do is you just do raids

[00:04:27] That's what I'm doing.

[00:04:28] There's not a good spot to do it until end game

[00:04:33] after you've completed all the paths.

[00:04:36] End game is where it hits.

[00:04:37] But like the DLC is weird because

[00:04:39] Don't play the end game.

[00:04:40] The front area is like level nine,

[00:04:42] but at the top of the mountain, they're level 35.

[00:04:45] Right.

[00:04:46] Okay, well, where does this fit when your gyms are like,

[00:04:48] okay, level 15, level 20,

[00:04:50] like I'm supposed to be popping back to do the star people

[00:04:54] and then I come back to do the next small segment

[00:04:57] but I'm only supposed to be in kid academy.

[00:04:58] I'm in for like three days,

[00:04:59] but I'm literally flying back and forth

[00:05:01] to try to make my levels work.

[00:05:03] Yeah.

[00:05:03] Anyways, that's okay.

[00:05:04] Cause my character this season is filthy rich.

[00:05:06] Well, that's a good setup.

[00:05:08] I want to know who your character is

[00:05:10] and how they're finding their way through Paldea so far.

[00:05:14] So my character is Lysander Lux.

[00:05:17] Oh, Lysander is back.

[00:05:18] My family has made their fortune

[00:05:21] throughout the Pokemon world through HMs and TMs.

[00:05:26] That is our bread and butter.

[00:05:27] Oh, merchant family.

[00:05:28] Everybody needs it.

[00:05:29] I got bad news.

[00:05:30] I can just DIY them now.

[00:05:31] But something's weird about Paldea.

[00:05:34] Nothing was selling here.

[00:05:36] So I came here with my mom who bought a mansion clearly

[00:05:40] because judging by every other house in this region,

[00:05:43] you have a door and nothing else.

[00:05:45] Right.

[00:05:46] So we bought this palatial mansion.

[00:05:47] Oh yeah.

[00:05:48] For a steal.

[00:05:49] I can buy like rice balls from the front door.

[00:05:53] Yeah.

[00:05:54] I set out to find out what the issue is.

[00:05:56] The school tried to give me this basic poor thing.

[00:06:02] It was in a basic Pokeball.

[00:06:03] I don't touch those.

[00:06:05] Pokeballs or Pokemon?

[00:06:07] Pokeballs.

[00:06:08] Neither, I guess.

[00:06:08] You gotta have like those premier balls, luxury balls.

[00:06:12] Everything has to be in a luxury ball because I am rich.

[00:06:16] So I sent my servants out to just have people

[00:06:20] breed me eggs of Pokemon that are worthwhile

[00:06:24] in luxury balls.

[00:06:25] So I got some sort of fire crocodile

[00:06:28] that I immediately just put in a closet

[00:06:30] because you're in a poor ball now.

[00:06:33] So my actual starter was a Fridgebacks.

[00:06:37] Yes, love Fridgebacks.

[00:06:39] Named Burberry.

[00:06:41] Beautiful.

[00:06:41] And then I gathered 27 eggs.

[00:06:45] Speaking of the Connecticut are in me.

[00:06:47] 27 eggs that I hatched.

[00:06:50] And after every major event, I check to see what's

[00:06:53] in fashion.

[00:06:55] And so my team changes after every event.

[00:06:57] Oh, okay.

[00:06:58] What the current fashion is.

[00:06:59] Training up whole new teams?

[00:07:01] Seems hard.

[00:07:02] Yep.

[00:07:03] Seems like you're playing on hard mode.

[00:07:04] Seems like a lot of work for a rich person to be doing.

[00:07:07] Well, I may have connections where I can send them off

[00:07:12] to get trained up.

[00:07:13] Working with a Brevander.

[00:07:14] And then they just come back to me trained up.

[00:07:17] I see.

[00:07:18] My Pokemon, I really dedicate, well,

[00:07:20] they're not Pokemon, they're dudes.

[00:07:21] And I really dedicate myself to them.

[00:07:23] But for some reason, they refuse to fucking ever level up

[00:07:26] under any conditions.

[00:07:28] Well, they have to age.

[00:07:29] Maybe your way is the better way.

[00:07:31] Maybe that's the grand message of the Paldeia region.

[00:07:34] Is drive your Pokemon, like it's the inverse here.

[00:07:37] Drive your Pokemon through slavish servitude

[00:07:41] and undying loyalty to you.

[00:07:44] Or have somebody do the work for you.

[00:07:45] That's what you have to do to all of your dudes, I guess.

[00:07:48] Because they're just aging naturally,

[00:07:49] so you just really need to work them hard

[00:07:52] and then they'll just start aging faster.

[00:07:54] Which I think is leveling up.

[00:07:57] Well, I guess.

[00:07:57] Equivalently.

[00:07:59] I wish I could get this fucking beetle to evolve.

[00:08:02] But you know, this whole revelation

[00:08:05] that HMs come in plant form now.

[00:08:09] Think they're Pokemon parts.

[00:08:10] We can harvest that.

[00:08:11] Smoke it.

[00:08:12] We can make pharmaceuticals out of it.

[00:08:15] This changes my family's business model

[00:08:18] from top to bottom.

[00:08:19] So your family is the one that's putting up

[00:08:21] all of these Herba Mystica shops on every block in New York.

[00:08:25] I mean, Mesa Goza.

[00:08:26] Yeah.

[00:08:27] Yeah.

[00:08:28] Yeah.

[00:08:29] Boom market.

[00:08:30] That's our new investment

[00:08:31] because clearly this school cannot be trusted.

[00:08:35] No.

[00:08:36] Oh, I agree.

[00:08:37] The school slash corporation.

[00:08:39] Clival guy's a fucking madman.

[00:08:41] Have you gotten to the bottom of that?

[00:08:42] Did they just own all the land?

[00:08:44] Everything is Academy grounds.

[00:08:45] It's like Hogwarts.

[00:08:46] Oh, yeah.

[00:08:47] Yeah, the whole island is theirs.

[00:08:49] So you've done almost all of the Team Star stuff.

[00:08:52] Yeah, we have the fighting one left.

[00:08:54] The big boss lady who I tried to take on

[00:08:56] like three times this week

[00:08:57] because I thought we were doing her, Josh.

[00:08:59] No.

[00:09:00] I still can't beat her.

[00:09:01] Well, good, because we're not doing that yet.

[00:09:02] Here's the thing that bothers me about this.

[00:09:07] Everybody in that region goes to that school.

[00:09:10] You run into trainers who are four years old.

[00:09:13] You run into trainers who are 86 years old.

[00:09:16] Well, like, is there a grad school or like,

[00:09:20] well, like, but how are there like 80 year olds

[00:09:23] running around too?

[00:09:24] There's only one trainer that says,

[00:09:28] I think something weird happened there

[00:09:30] a year and a half ago.

[00:09:32] I'm like, everybody in this region goes to this school.

[00:09:36] Imagine if you walked into work

[00:09:40] and suddenly all of your upper management

[00:09:44] quit and was replaced.

[00:09:45] Right.

[00:09:46] Well, they can't remember

[00:09:47] because all of the files mysteriously disappeared as well.

[00:09:51] The people didn't, you have an 86 year old

[00:09:54] that has probably literally been going to this school

[00:09:56] for the majority of their life

[00:09:58] and they don't remember what happened

[00:10:00] a year and a half ago?

[00:10:01] Yeah.

[00:10:02] Goofy's all corporate.

[00:10:03] He's all like behind closed doors.

[00:10:06] It's all that Irba Mystica.

[00:10:07] In the mountains, standing in the cold,

[00:10:09] there's one poor beleaguered person who's like,

[00:10:12] well, I think something weird happened there.

[00:10:14] And they sent you here to freeze you out.

[00:10:18] The place is corrupt.

[00:10:19] It's definitely crooked.

[00:10:23] So how has Lysander's journey been through Paldea so far?

[00:10:27] Have you done the K-hole?

[00:10:28] Yeah, I met these horrible children

[00:10:31] and also this horrible town

[00:10:33] that is not using the natural beauty of that island.

[00:10:37] No, it's just like a big like truck stop.

[00:10:39] Yeah, what's gonna get bulldozed to become a resort?

[00:10:41] It should be a resort.

[00:10:42] People should come and visit the natural beauty.

[00:10:45] I'll probably put that ogre thing on display somewhere.

[00:10:48] I don't know, it's a good story.

[00:10:49] It's a legendary, that's gotta be prestigious.

[00:10:52] Yeah, that's a draw.

[00:10:53] That'll make the resort pop.

[00:10:55] Just put it in a cage and charge people admission

[00:10:59] to look at it.

[00:10:59] Bring it out, show it around.

[00:11:01] What do you think of those, the lousy three?

[00:11:03] Were we right about how ugly and dumb they are?

[00:11:06] Oh yeah, they suck.

[00:11:07] You're wrong about pheasant-ivity.

[00:11:10] It's like the least offensive looking.

[00:11:12] Yeah, the least bad one.

[00:11:14] Yeah, I like pheasant-ivity, the other two are okay.

[00:11:17] There's already a pheasant Pokemon.

[00:11:18] Why do we need two?

[00:11:19] In fact, there's already two other pheasant Pokemon

[00:11:22] because it has genders.

[00:11:23] So why do we need three?

[00:11:24] Why do we need 17 cats?

[00:11:26] I don't know.

[00:11:28] Why do we need 17 forms of Meowth?

[00:11:31] Because we do.

[00:11:32] I certainly don't know why we need more pheasants.

[00:11:34] I don't know, actually it is speaking

[00:11:36] to the inner Connecticut inner in me.

[00:11:40] More pheasants.

[00:11:41] More pheasants.

[00:11:42] I fear that we're veering too close to that season

[00:11:44] when you kept spewing out all the Connecticut facts.

[00:11:48] I can come up with more.

[00:11:49] What was that, Drew England or whatever?

[00:11:51] Drew England.

[00:11:52] Those dark times of Drew England.

[00:11:54] I can come up with more.

[00:11:55] Horrible.

[00:12:09] Well here we are, the three of us have met up

[00:12:12] once again in Paldeia.

[00:12:15] I go to Naranja Academy, a totally normal name

[00:12:19] for a school.

[00:12:20] It means, kinda means orange, not really.

[00:12:23] It's close.

[00:12:24] And Uva's, we were waiting on grape for some reason.

[00:12:27] Grape, yeah, kinda, it's weird though.

[00:12:30] It sounds like ball, like testicle.

[00:12:33] Sounds like you go to testicle school.

[00:12:34] School symbol is grapes.

[00:12:37] Yeah.

[00:12:38] So Josh goes to testicle school,

[00:12:39] we go to orange school and fine.

[00:12:42] I assume you've got your co-ride on fully souped up

[00:12:45] to Lysander?

[00:12:47] I have that now.

[00:12:48] I have taken care of all of those Titans

[00:12:54] because also I need to do the full research for my family.

[00:12:57] I need to know the powers of all of these plants

[00:13:01] to see how they match up, you know, one for one

[00:13:04] for our HMs.

[00:13:06] They don't, there's not perfect matches.

[00:13:09] Our HM Fly lets you fly.

[00:13:12] This just lets you glide.

[00:13:13] So it's clearly inferior.

[00:13:15] So I'll have to work on that.

[00:13:16] It's a knockoff product.

[00:13:17] Yeah.

[00:13:18] I find that when I get like the holistic stuff

[00:13:20] from like natural ingredients,

[00:13:22] it does work a little bit worse.

[00:13:23] We'll have to figure that out.

[00:13:25] Yeah.

[00:13:26] Needs a little bit like of pharmaceutical grade

[00:13:28] industrialization behind it to make it really effective.

[00:13:31] Yeah.

[00:13:32] There's also not a, I mean, there is a surf,

[00:13:34] their surf is pretty similar.

[00:13:36] So that's fine.

[00:13:37] There's no waterfall.

[00:13:38] But you can just climb the rock right next

[00:13:40] to the waterfall with climb.

[00:13:43] It's not as fun.

[00:13:43] No, waterfall was a fun one.

[00:13:45] I missed that.

[00:13:46] Like, would you rather go to a rock climbing

[00:13:48] or a flume ride?

[00:13:49] I mean, I'd take the flume ride over rock climbing.

[00:13:51] Oh, 1000%.

[00:13:52] Plus it messed up our whole chasing waterfalls thing.

[00:13:55] Yeah, now what do we do?

[00:13:56] Yeah, don't go climbing rocks.

[00:13:59] That's a terrible song.

[00:14:00] That's not a hit.

[00:14:01] No one's ever written a song about that.

[00:14:03] It's just that is the worst song that doesn't exist.

[00:14:09] We're back in Paldea and we are three badges deep

[00:14:15] and we've got a boss ass,

[00:14:17] and whatever dumb thing Josh's is called.

[00:14:20] Maraida.

[00:14:21] Strapped between our thighs

[00:14:22] and we are cruising around this fucking island.

[00:14:25] If I remember correctly,

[00:14:26] neither of you know how to change your outfit.

[00:14:29] I figured it out in a fit of rage.

[00:14:31] I Googled it.

[00:14:32] So I figured it out this week,

[00:14:34] but I have not figured out how to change my hair back.

[00:14:37] So it's still in like a little bug.

[00:14:39] Well, you do actually have to go buy your hair back,

[00:14:42] which is the worst part.

[00:14:42] I did buy my hair back

[00:14:44] because that hair was driving me nuts.

[00:14:46] The whole thing was driving me nuts.

[00:14:47] It's a mess.

[00:14:48] Was this something that we just slammed A through?

[00:14:50] Or did they literally ever tell us

[00:14:51] that you're supposed to hit left on the D pad?

[00:14:54] Like, I should not have to Google this.

[00:14:56] It's not clear.

[00:14:58] No.

[00:14:59] A lot of it isn't clear.

[00:15:00] Also, I still had the fundamental problem with,

[00:15:06] okay, we all know the Rotom phone flies.

[00:15:08] Rotom, yes.

[00:15:09] Against its will, maybe.

[00:15:11] Why does it need a selfie stick extender?

[00:15:15] To a good point.

[00:15:15] Just like further embarrassment, you know?

[00:15:18] Just to further humiliate this like poor subjugated Pokemon.

[00:15:21] Yeah.

[00:15:23] It's like, what?

[00:15:25] Why does this thing exist?

[00:15:27] Just fly further away.

[00:15:29] But we don't want you in control.

[00:15:30] So now you have to get into this little case.

[00:15:32] It's stupid.

[00:15:33] Right, you have to use the stick

[00:15:34] because it would just fly away

[00:15:36] because of all the subjugation otherwise.

[00:15:37] I'm out here.

[00:15:39] I'm out here in the very creatively named

[00:15:40] West Province Area 1.

[00:15:44] Easily found on any map.

[00:15:45] Once again, another thing that I had to,

[00:15:47] which is what we now use to refer to guiding our journey,

[00:15:51] had to just, you know, some kind Redditor

[00:15:54] made a map that says what all the fucking provinces are.

[00:15:58] Not in the game.

[00:15:59] You have to go on Google once again.

[00:16:01] Why would it be there?

[00:16:02] West Province Area 1, we're back.

[00:16:05] There's about to be a ghoul hunt

[00:16:12] because I'm out here hunting ghouls.

[00:16:14] Gimme ghouls.

[00:16:14] Gimme, gimme ghoul, gimme ghoul, gimme, gimme ghoul.

[00:16:18] That's what I was thinking

[00:16:18] when we came into the episode, Greg,

[00:16:20] and Josh fucking blanked me.

[00:16:22] The Britney Spears parody?

[00:16:24] Is that what you were doing?

[00:16:25] Some gay guy you are, Josh.

[00:16:27] What?

[00:16:29] What?

[00:16:30] I am calling the council immediately.

[00:16:32] You are coming with that kind of heat into Pride Month?

[00:16:36] Are you insane?

[00:16:38] Finally, how I get canceled.

[00:16:40] I tried it.

[00:16:41] I pitched him on it, Greg.

[00:16:43] I'm sorry, I have to text the council right now.

[00:16:46] This is-

[00:16:47] I can't have the council dig it in on me.

[00:16:49] Greg, one of the reasons we bring you on,

[00:16:51] A, to ostracize Josh from the gay community.

[00:16:54] Finally, thanks.

[00:16:55] And also to give me backup on attacking the-

[00:16:58] On how bad Connecticut is?

[00:16:59] Yeah.

[00:17:00] Connecticut and the heterosexual community.

[00:17:02] Well, that's a lost cause.

[00:17:04] Josh and I, there's a lot we don't know about this game

[00:17:06] because we've never played it before.

[00:17:08] One of the things we don't know

[00:17:09] is these mysterious purple and orange stakes

[00:17:13] we keep finding.

[00:17:14] Oh, yeah, so you found them too.

[00:17:15] Driven into the ground.

[00:17:16] The ominous black stakes.

[00:17:18] Yeah.

[00:17:18] And every time I touch one of them,

[00:17:19] it crumbles to dust or something.

[00:17:22] Yep.

[00:17:23] Am I supposed to be doing something with these?

[00:17:25] Have you gone to history class?

[00:17:26] I have twice.

[00:17:27] Oh, I have not gone to class in quite a while.

[00:17:31] Yep.

[00:17:32] I don't think since I got back from the K-Hole.

[00:17:34] I need to go back?

[00:17:35] Yeah.

[00:17:36] Okay.

[00:17:36] You need to go to history class to find out what that is.

[00:17:39] You don't have to prod me to go to history class.

[00:17:42] You also think you have to find a book.

[00:17:44] What?

[00:17:45] There are books everywhere.

[00:17:46] And I also think you have to find it in that giant library.

[00:17:50] Oh, okay.

[00:17:51] Yeah, in that main lobby.

[00:17:52] There are many, many books that tell you many, many things

[00:17:56] about what's happening in the world.

[00:17:58] And if you don't find them.

[00:17:59] We ask Greg.

[00:18:00] Yeah.

[00:18:01] All of those are very important post-game events.

[00:18:06] Although technically you can do them

[00:18:08] at any time once you've unlocked everything

[00:18:10] that the lizard bike can do.

[00:18:12] Oh, I have.

[00:18:13] Well, I can't fight with it yet.

[00:18:15] Correct.

[00:18:16] But I wouldn't.

[00:18:17] But.

[00:18:18] It's not a guy.

[00:18:19] You can start that event

[00:18:22] because those items are hidden throughout the region.

[00:18:26] And once you find them all, a certain thing happens.

[00:18:29] That makes sense.

[00:18:29] That you are allowed to then do.

[00:18:31] Keep picking up these shards too.

[00:18:32] But you don't know what that thing is

[00:18:33] unless you go to history class.

[00:18:35] Terra shards.

[00:18:36] What's that about?

[00:18:37] Yeah, I don't know what those are either.

[00:18:39] So the Terra shards allow you at the end of the game.

[00:18:43] It's all in-game stuff.

[00:18:45] Perfect.

[00:18:46] Yeah, because I don't think it unlocks

[00:18:47] until you've been declared champion.

[00:18:49] It may unlock earlier.

[00:18:51] It happens at the restaurant.

[00:18:52] You're going on this game when I beat it.

[00:18:55] It allows you to change your Pokemon's Terra type.

[00:18:58] Oh, that would be great, actually, for one of mine.

[00:19:02] My low kicks has a dragon Terra type,

[00:19:04] and I so far cannot teach it any dragon moves.

[00:19:08] So that's another problem I have with the Black Knight.

[00:19:10] Look at this, Joshy.

[00:19:12] Joshy, look at this.

[00:19:14] Oh, you got a shiny one?

[00:19:16] Look at that little sweetie.

[00:19:17] Ooh.

[00:19:18] Hoo-hoo-hoo!

[00:19:19] He's just bopping around out in the wild area.

[00:19:22] I love the shiny one.

[00:19:23] Picked him up.

[00:19:24] Shiny one is like inverse colors

[00:19:26] for bug catchers who have not seen it.

[00:19:28] So no matter what, when you are Terra,

[00:19:32] all of your moves do a little bit extra damage.

[00:19:34] So you still get stabbed from your moves,

[00:19:39] even if you're a different Terra type.

[00:19:41] So if you're a psychic type and you change to dark Terra,

[00:19:45] you still get stabbed on your attacks,

[00:19:48] but you no longer have the weaknesses of psychic

[00:19:51] because you're now a dark type.

[00:19:53] Oh, so the dragon one is useful in that way.

[00:19:56] Yes.

[00:19:57] Very useful, actually.

[00:19:58] If you have a dragon type and you change yourself to fairy,

[00:20:05] you now only have the fairy weaknesses,

[00:20:08] not any of the dragon weaknesses.

[00:20:10] So if you are a grass type and you change yourself to fire,

[00:20:13] you're no longer weak to things that grass are weak to.

[00:20:16] You are now weak to things that fire is weak to.

[00:20:18] That's a fun facty.

[00:20:19] That makes it much better.

[00:20:21] It's a very confusing...

[00:20:23] It makes raids at high level very frustrating

[00:20:27] because people will bring things like,

[00:20:31] oh, it's a water type.

[00:20:32] I'm going to bring my electric type, but it's ground Terra.

[00:20:35] So none of their electric types move

[00:20:37] because his defenses are based off of the fact

[00:20:40] that it's ground.

[00:20:41] So they'll bring in an all logical thing

[00:20:43] and like it's doing nothing.

[00:20:44] We're like, well, yeah,

[00:20:46] because the Terra type is its defense.

[00:20:49] Confusing, but kind of fun.

[00:20:51] That makes it much better than I was understanding it.

[00:20:54] It makes raids more interesting.

[00:20:56] I don't know that it's really changed competitive

[00:20:58] all that much, but raids are very...

[00:21:00] High end raids are very interesting

[00:21:02] because you have to sort of figure out the puzzle

[00:21:04] of what's a Terra type.

[00:21:06] Right now we're doing Swampert.

[00:21:08] Swampert is the seven star raid, which it's got,

[00:21:11] I think it's the poison Terra type,

[00:21:13] but you can't necessarily bring ground

[00:21:15] because it still does water based moves.

[00:21:17] So its attacks will kill you.

[00:21:19] I've got so many dual type Pokemon.

[00:21:20] Like there's a...

[00:21:21] Feels like there's a lot of dual type Pokemon in...

[00:21:23] There are.

[00:21:24] In Paldea.

[00:21:25] And it's random which one you'll get

[00:21:28] as its Terra type in the wild.

[00:21:30] So if you want the other Terra type,

[00:21:32] the Terra shards come in handy.

[00:21:34] You can go there and say like my Tinkertan,

[00:21:37] I don't want it to be a fairy Terra type.

[00:21:39] I want it to be a steel Terra type.

[00:21:41] So I would take all the Terra shards and have that switched.

[00:21:44] Cool.

[00:21:44] Thank you.

[00:21:45] That's useful.

[00:21:46] Where are we now, Joshua?

[00:21:49] Are we commenting on the Gimme Ghoul grab already?

[00:21:53] You kind of teased it.

[00:21:54] Let's do it.

[00:21:55] Because it sounds like you had a humiliating week.

[00:22:00] Well, it's more humiliating to you

[00:22:02] if you did not complete it

[00:22:03] because you're the one who needs the guy.

[00:22:05] I don't care.

[00:22:07] I'm in it for the love of the game.

[00:22:09] Well, first of all,

[00:22:10] Shy Avery doesn't use guy genders.

[00:22:14] So...

[00:22:15] Sorry.

[00:22:15] Lose it.

[00:22:16] Sorry, Shy Avery.

[00:22:17] And second of all, I'm doing my fucking best.

[00:22:19] I'm not using a guide.

[00:22:21] I'm not using a guide.

[00:22:23] Neither am I.

[00:22:24] I don't imply that I am.

[00:22:25] I'm trying to get out there

[00:22:27] and just look for these fucking little guys out there

[00:22:31] holding their little coins, Joshua.

[00:22:33] And they're very hard to find.

[00:22:36] I'm trying to find these Breath of the Wild towers

[00:22:39] to climb to the top of

[00:22:40] so that I can fight a Gimme Ghoul on top

[00:22:43] and get 60 of its yummy coins.

[00:22:45] And I'm busting my ass out there for Shy Avery

[00:22:48] so that they can grow up into a cheese stick.

[00:22:52] Spoiler alert.

[00:22:54] The chests are also in ruins.

[00:22:56] I found that out, yeah.

[00:22:58] I did the same thing where I was scaling mountain peaks

[00:23:00] and then just finding watchtowers

[00:23:02] and gliding down to them.

[00:23:03] But when I could not find any more,

[00:23:05] I went into that infernal Asado desert that I hate.

[00:23:10] And now that we have the climbing,

[00:23:12] you can climb all those plateaus.

[00:23:14] And I found a bunch out there on random cliff sides.

[00:23:18] So it used to be more predictable

[00:23:20] where it was like watchtowers,

[00:23:22] I found the ruins and that they had them.

[00:23:24] I was like, great, that's straightforward.

[00:23:26] But now that they can just be on cliff sides,

[00:23:28] it's like, oh, so anywhere.

[00:23:30] Yeah, it's a little known thing

[00:23:32] that at the very start of the game,

[00:23:35] next to that lighthouse, there is a cliff.

[00:23:38] There's the Gimme Ghoul chest on

[00:23:40] that you could get a Gimme Ghoul

[00:23:41] in the first five levels of chest form.

[00:23:44] If you can find it, because it's there,

[00:23:45] you just sort of have to like find the path

[00:23:47] that would let you get up on that cliff

[00:23:49] because you can't get up there

[00:23:50] any other way at that point.

[00:23:51] But there is one there.

[00:23:52] We'll be going back there soon.

[00:23:54] Do we wanna give our Gimme Ghoul grab tally, Joshua?

[00:23:59] Compare notes?

[00:24:00] Yeah, let's just get it over with, yeah.

[00:24:02] Cause it sounds like you put a lot

[00:24:03] of hard work in this week, right?

[00:24:06] Greg, do you know how many you have, Greg?

[00:24:08] We should probably start with you.

[00:24:09] You weren't in the contest.

[00:24:10] Are you grabbing Gimme Ghouls?

[00:24:12] Oh, sure.

[00:24:13] We're not gonna hold you to it.

[00:24:14] Yeah, so I currently have 224.

[00:24:18] Good, he's not beating us.

[00:24:20] Okay.

[00:24:21] After I spent 999 to get my gold to go.

[00:24:24] In this game?

[00:24:25] Yeah, or in another playthrough.

[00:24:26] So you're at, let's quickly do the math,

[00:24:28] you're at like 1,200 and-

[00:24:29] In this game.

[00:24:30] Shit, 23?

[00:24:32] Okay.

[00:24:34] Yeah.

[00:24:35] So you're in first.

[00:24:37] I believe, cause you had announced

[00:24:40] that this would be the Gimme Ghoul check-in.

[00:24:43] Just wasn't really expecting that you'd do that one too.

[00:24:46] And that I should get my coins ready.

[00:24:49] Yeah, of course.

[00:24:49] So I did.

[00:24:52] I mean, money is drawn to me.

[00:24:54] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:24:55] That's why I'm rich.

[00:24:57] Money comes to me.

[00:24:59] That is who I am, that's what I do.

[00:25:01] That makes sense to me then.

[00:25:02] Joshua, how many do you have?

[00:25:04] I have a robust 491, 300 something increase.

[00:25:08] I regret making Greg go first,

[00:25:10] cause now it just makes,

[00:25:11] I have 498, which doesn't sound as impressive,

[00:25:14] cause it's only seven more than you,

[00:25:15] and it just makes us sound like we suck at it,

[00:25:17] and Greg is great at it.

[00:25:18] Before Greg joined us,

[00:25:20] I also made Tanner show me the document,

[00:25:23] because I was like,

[00:25:24] there's just no way that you have fucking seven more than me.

[00:25:27] But he proved it, he does have 498.

[00:25:31] I can show you now if you want, I can hold it up.

[00:25:33] No, I trust you, I don't trust Tanner.

[00:25:36] Yeah, yeah.

[00:25:37] No, I wouldn't trust me either.

[00:25:41] Famously the Mayor Cheat, Tanner.

[00:25:43] No, I believe you,

[00:25:44] and I'm interested in that little

[00:25:47] golden cheese stick of yours.

[00:25:49] I mean, I evolved it to complete the Pokedex,

[00:25:52] cause I hate that Pokemon.

[00:25:54] Excuse me?

[00:25:54] So much, I hate that cheese stick.

[00:25:56] String cheese incident, no thank you.

[00:25:58] That's my friend.

[00:26:01] You know, and I'm glad you like your friend.

[00:26:02] That's true.

[00:26:03] I don't have to like your friend.

[00:26:04] I guess that's true, you should.

[00:26:06] Yeah, friends don't have to like

[00:26:08] every other friend of their friend.

[00:26:09] He's rad.

[00:26:11] No.

[00:26:12] All right, where are we going now, Joshua?

[00:26:16] We are headed to the Cascarava.

[00:26:19] We got a couple gyms to knock out.

[00:26:21] Yeah, well, can I talk about one other thing

[00:26:25] I saw in West Province Area 1 on the way to Cascarava?

[00:26:29] Yeah, please.

[00:26:30] Something I liked?

[00:26:31] Joshy, sweetie.

[00:26:32] Ooh, who was it?

[00:26:35] Grievard.

[00:26:43] Grievard.

[00:26:44] I love Grievard.

[00:26:46] Oh yeah.

[00:26:46] This is a delight.

[00:26:47] This little ghost dog.

[00:26:49] Ghost dog who's so loyal, Pokedex entry,

[00:26:52] this friendly Pokemon doesn't like being alone.

[00:26:55] Pay it even the slightest bit of attention

[00:26:58] and it will follow you forever.

[00:27:00] Oh, that sounds kind of nice.

[00:27:01] I also like that the little one, the Houndstone,

[00:27:05] maybe Grievard does it too, but I didn't see it.

[00:27:08] Houndstones, well, the other thing that's a delight

[00:27:11] is all of like, there's always the higher evolution

[00:27:14] hanging out around a bunch of the lower evolutions.

[00:27:18] There was a Drakeloak that was also surrounded by Drapies

[00:27:22] that was really cute.

[00:27:23] But the Houndstones will rise out,

[00:27:25] you'll see like a little flicker in the ground

[00:27:27] and then a Houndstone will like rise up to greet you.

[00:27:30] The whole vibe of Grievard is cute and cool.

[00:27:35] For those of you who want a King Gambit.

[00:27:37] Yeah, I do.

[00:27:38] Those groupings are going to be very important to you.

[00:27:40] I haven't investigated how to do that yet.

[00:27:42] We just got Lady Beth her armor,

[00:27:45] so it's a big ass to try to get me to evolve Rick Bingo.

[00:27:49] Should have thought through our theming

[00:27:52] where like there's a lot of clashes

[00:27:54] that I think are coming up

[00:27:55] because now you're getting all these like armored people.

[00:27:58] Yeah.

[00:27:59] On your team and I'm building out.

[00:28:01] Yeah, they all have quests

[00:28:02] and I am trying to have this Knights are in.

[00:28:04] Bisharp has some bonkers evolution mechanic

[00:28:07] that I haven't investigated yet, but I know it's not easy.

[00:28:10] I gotta have one of those King Gambits, I think too.

[00:28:12] Get in line.

[00:28:13] Yeah, it's...

[00:28:15] What do you gotta do?

[00:28:16] So you have to defeat three Bisharp.

[00:28:21] No problem.

[00:28:22] That are in groups with Pontiard.

[00:28:26] Oh, what?

[00:28:27] That have a leader's crest.

[00:28:28] What's a leader's crest?

[00:28:29] How do you tell if it has a leader's crest?

[00:28:32] Yeah, exactly.

[00:28:32] You have to fight it?

[00:28:33] Is it a held item or is it like a ribbon?

[00:28:37] It is an item that is held by wild Bisharp

[00:28:39] that are surrounded by groups of Pontiard.

[00:28:43] So you basically have to find those packs

[00:28:45] and just defeat the Bisharp's

[00:28:48] and you have to make sure you do three of them.

[00:28:51] The best way to do it is if you find a Bisharp,

[00:28:54] you just do a switcheroo or the trick move

[00:28:57] to get the leader's crest

[00:28:58] and then equip it to your Bisharp

[00:29:00] and then defeat the groups.

[00:29:01] That sounds kind of heinous.

[00:29:03] The evolution methods in this game are bonkers.

[00:29:06] And that's again like, is there anywhere in the game?

[00:29:09] Like, is that in those books at the Academy?

[00:29:12] Like how would you know that without looking it up

[00:29:14] outside of the game?

[00:29:15] See, that's like that's a fatal flaw in game design.

[00:29:19] No, it's not.

[00:29:21] Like most of their weird evolution stuff,

[00:29:23] it doesn't really tell you anywhere how that would happen.

[00:29:27] I like the idea, especially because there are very few

[00:29:31] actual side quests, which is what open world games thrive on.

[00:29:35] So it makes sense to have a little side quest for evolving Pokemon.

[00:29:38] But if you cannot determine how to do that with any lore in the game,

[00:29:43] then that's so lazy and flawed.

[00:29:46] So you're telling me I got to get my hands on these leader crests

[00:29:50] and then I have to switch it on to Bisharps that don't have it?

[00:29:54] No, no, you just have to have one of your own

[00:29:57] and then defeat the Bisharp.

[00:29:59] So you just have to find a Bisharp that has a leader's crest.

[00:30:03] I know where to find these suckers.

[00:30:04] No problem.

[00:30:06] Famous last word.

[00:30:07] That's next week's problem.

[00:30:08] Says the guy who has not been able to evolve the Relor for the whole season.

[00:30:12] Sorry. Do you want to do level check and meet my new friend,

[00:30:15] Lady Beth, the armor Rouge, who got her fancy armor?

[00:30:18] We're not doing level check yet.

[00:30:20] Oh, actually, no, you don't have to hold it.

[00:30:22] You have to find three Bisharps who have it.

[00:30:25] Absolutely no problem. I could do it as we talk.

[00:30:27] It would be so easy.

[00:30:28] Yeah, you'll just take care of that while we're recording.

[00:30:31] And I will tell you, the place that is that has those packs

[00:30:35] is outside of the fighting gym in that weird forest,

[00:30:38] outside of the fighting star ruin place in that.

[00:30:42] Oh, yeah. Well, just knock her off, too, while I'm out there.

[00:30:44] Yeah, problem.

[00:30:46] Yeah. You haven't been having any trouble there so far.

[00:30:50] Casca Rafa is where we're headed.

[00:30:53] We're doing two gyms this week to try to get a little caught up.

[00:30:55] So this is Kofu.

[00:30:56] You get there and Kofu's like not there.

[00:30:59] Now he's there.

[00:31:00] He just has better things to do, like every other gym leader in this entire region.

[00:31:05] That's right. But then he fucks off, but he forgets his wallet.

[00:31:08] And it's on us to bring him his wallet at the market.

[00:31:11] But first we have to cross the big scary desert or fly, which is what I did

[00:31:16] when I did this the first time doing it in proper order.

[00:31:19] I did have to go past the big scary desert.

[00:31:21] Oh, I just flew over.

[00:31:22] I already had, as I said, the other episode.

[00:31:25] I had already gotten the fly point that's outside Porto Maranata.

[00:31:31] So I just yeah, me too.

[00:31:32] Fast traveled there.

[00:31:33] But this was my first time actually going into Puerto Maranata.

[00:31:38] Then I had to lay eyes on old Kofu after this break.

[00:31:50] Hello and welcome back to Experience Shares.

[00:31:52] Me, scary.

[00:31:53] Tanner Greenring. Welcome back, bug catchers.

[00:31:54] Welcome back, Greg and Josh.

[00:31:56] We are on our way to

[00:31:59] Puerto Maranata

[00:32:02] to find Kufo to give him his wallet.

[00:32:04] We are stopped by a little bratty boy.

[00:32:10] He's like Kofo's like a body man.

[00:32:12] He's like, don't you dare get close to Kofo.

[00:32:15] Yeah.

[00:32:15] And makes us fight his bodyguard.

[00:32:18] And he's got one shitty Pokemon.

[00:32:20] So some bodyguard.

[00:32:22] And then we get to face off with the man himself.

[00:32:24] Kofo will not face off.

[00:32:25] We get to return his wallet.

[00:32:27] We return his wallet and he gives us 50 grand.

[00:32:31] Yeah. To go bid on some seaweed.

[00:32:34] Yeah.

[00:32:34] We have to prove our mettle at like manipulating people in this auction.

[00:32:40] Honestly, I kind of forgot we did it because I was I went into it being like,

[00:32:44] oh, OK, we'll do this.

[00:32:45] He gave us 50 grand.

[00:32:46] We have to carefully spend it on like three auctions.

[00:32:50] But it's just one auction. Right.

[00:32:51] I just bid conservatively, still won and had like five K left over.

[00:32:56] Yeah. It's just like, pocket it kid.

[00:32:58] I don't care.

[00:32:58] It was like that Detective Pikachu quest,

[00:33:02] arguably the hardest quest in Detective Pikachu,

[00:33:05] where you have to manipulate the auction.

[00:33:07] Yeah. To like get those specific items and do a bunch of math to figure out the strategy.

[00:33:12] And this was very easy.

[00:33:14] Yeah. Just hit some buttons and you'll win.

[00:33:16] And then maybe you'll have some leftover cash.

[00:33:19] It seems like it's kind of the outcome.

[00:33:20] And the auctions in general are relatively easy to win.

[00:33:24] You just have to have a bunch of money.

[00:33:26] You're invited to go back.

[00:33:28] I have. Is there cool stuff?

[00:33:30] I haven't seen anything cool yet, but from what I've read,

[00:33:34] there does seem to be unique items that you can.

[00:33:37] There can be only acquire at it.

[00:33:40] Yeah. Oh, that's cool.

[00:33:42] All of the various balls are there.

[00:33:45] All of the vitamins are there.

[00:33:48] All pretty much all the stones and evolution things are there.

[00:33:52] What people mostly want are the balls that are made from apricorns.

[00:33:56] So like the fastball level, all lure ball, those only show up at that auction house.

[00:34:01] And so people who like those, like if you really are in love with love balls,

[00:34:05] is the only place to get them.

[00:34:06] I insist on each of my Pokemon having a different ball

[00:34:09] for aesthetic reasons when I line them up at the poke.

[00:34:12] That's what I will normally like doing.

[00:34:16] But it's been harder because I don't know who's staying.

[00:34:19] Yeah, that's true.

[00:34:20] I just have a luxury ball.

[00:34:21] So everybody knows that I'm rich.

[00:34:23] Which the luxury balls weren't so ugly.

[00:34:25] What? What?

[00:34:27] Look at that beauty back there.

[00:34:28] There are, I think, gorgeous top tier.

[00:34:31] My favorite is Premiere ball, though.

[00:34:33] Stylish.

[00:34:34] I like the wild ones like the repeat ball and the timer ball.

[00:34:38] The quick ball is pretty fetching as well.

[00:34:42] I have a quick ball over there.

[00:34:43] Let's go fight Kofu.

[00:34:44] How'd you do against Kofu?

[00:34:46] I couldn't even remember because it was we're so over leveled.

[00:34:50] You know, I don't want to condemn Kofu.

[00:34:53] We we've done this in a freaky order.

[00:34:54] I would condemn Kofu.

[00:34:56] I don't think anything about him is good.

[00:34:57] I think his Pokemon were boring.

[00:34:59] I think the loser lug trio, Crabominable.

[00:35:03] Yeah, Crabominable is your signature Pokemon, my guy.

[00:35:06] So your look is so weird with like the water stuff everywhere.

[00:35:10] Like he's got like he's dyed his hair and cut his hair to look like crashing waves.

[00:35:15] It's a lot.

[00:35:16] But he's no crash or wake.

[00:35:17] No, that was a good water trainer.

[00:35:20] No, I mean, the choice of Crabominable is interesting

[00:35:26] in the fact that in a water gym, you would bring a grass type,

[00:35:31] but it has ice moves that are stabbed because it doesn't lose that bonus.

[00:35:36] So your initial thought of I'll bring a grass type,

[00:35:40] you are at a disadvantage because it's an ice Pokemon doing ice attacks.

[00:35:46] But its defenses are still our water.

[00:35:48] So your grass will be super effective, but it's also super effective against you.

[00:35:53] That's sort of like the little quirk of all of these things.

[00:35:56] It's like, I need time to be super effective against me.

[00:35:58] We are overleveled.

[00:36:00] That's why I'm trying not to go too hard in on Kofu.

[00:36:04] I mean, that said, water has a bunch of weaknesses that ice don't touch.

[00:36:11] Like electric.

[00:36:12] Yeah.

[00:36:13] Like if you're only using ones from this game,

[00:36:16] the electric bird is also weak to ice because it's electric flying.

[00:36:20] So there's a little bit of oh ho ho ho there.

[00:36:25] And a lot of the grass types are grass poison.

[00:36:28] So the values, which is water psychic, is kind of a problem.

[00:36:33] I like the loser.

[00:36:34] There's a little bit of thought in there, but there's not enough of them to make it.

[00:36:38] There's only three.

[00:36:39] You'll have to get through three.

[00:36:41] It's a huge trial.

[00:36:42] Point if you're making an open world Pokemon game and you're supposed

[00:36:46] to be able to do all the things in whatever order you want,

[00:36:48] just make all of the damn things level with you somewhere around

[00:36:53] whatever the players can't keep having this conversation.

[00:36:56] Good.

[00:36:57] Fair enough.

[00:36:58] It makes me so angry.

[00:37:00] Oh, all right.

[00:37:01] I'll get off the soapbox.

[00:37:02] I barely I put one foot on there, but I'll just take it back off.

[00:37:07] We all get it.

[00:37:08] And then we're out.

[00:37:09] We're out with the brawl is over and we've got one more gym to go face off against.

[00:37:15] We must traverse the again, just poetically titled West Province Area three.

[00:37:22] Yeah, it's right next door.

[00:37:23] It's like you could jog over to Madali from Casca Rafa.

[00:37:27] And you do.

[00:37:27] The only really great part about it is that's where you get the amulet coin.

[00:37:31] Oh, I did get that for defeating the trainers.

[00:37:34] You have to have the amulet coin before you go take on the glitterati.

[00:37:37] You just have to have.

[00:37:38] I will say I still haven't found a lot of use for money.

[00:37:40] Oh, I did buy a hot little number in Casca Rafa.

[00:37:44] There was a good shop there that finally had some decent clothing, decent socks.

[00:37:49] I think it had leggings.

[00:37:50] I bought some leggings, some joggers.

[00:37:53] Yeah. Oh, that's fun.

[00:37:55] I'm going to do that.

[00:37:55] You can get some helmets so you can look like a Power Ranger.

[00:37:59] But you can never change your top and shorts

[00:38:02] out of the approved school uniforms or the Kidakami Festival outfit.

[00:38:07] Infuriating. Yeah.

[00:38:10] Oh, beyond infuriating.

[00:38:11] Beyond it is so many steps back in customization where it's like

[00:38:16] I look like everybody else except I have pink shoes.

[00:38:21] Like one of the things about Sword and Shield

[00:38:23] that was so fun when you got into random raids was seeing like the wild outfits.

[00:38:27] I agree.

[00:38:27] Everybody put together in here.

[00:38:28] You're like, yeah, overall students.

[00:38:35] I am headed into Medali.

[00:38:36] There is a gym test that we have.

[00:38:38] This is the normal type city, and it's just like a little city out here.

[00:38:42] And the normal type gym leader says that I can't see him

[00:38:46] until I've ordered off the secret menu at the treasure cafe.

[00:38:52] They've got like a very hip.

[00:38:54] Yeah. Restaurant here.

[00:38:55] Yeah, I love this restaurant.

[00:38:58] You've been I've been a number of times since finding this hidden gem.

[00:39:03] Lysander is probably an investor or his family in this restaurant, I would presume.

[00:39:07] Oh yeah. Got like your own table.

[00:39:09] Yeah. Well, now that we've seen the power of sandwiches.

[00:39:11] Oh yeah. Heck.

[00:39:12] Well, it brought Billy's dog back to life.

[00:39:15] I liked this gym test.

[00:39:18] It sort of messed me up. Yeah.

[00:39:20] So here's what we have to do.

[00:39:21] We have to we've the secret menu item.

[00:39:25] We have to crack what it is.

[00:39:26] And in order to do that, we have to gather four clues.

[00:39:29] But here's the trick.

[00:39:30] They've given the four clues one clue to each trainer who's come in.

[00:39:34] So you've got to go find the three other trainers holding clues

[00:39:38] and defeat them to get their clues so you can finally go order the menu item.

[00:39:42] It's easy.

[00:39:43] You just walk around.

[00:39:44] You look for the people who are dressed in uniforms and you fight them.

[00:39:47] One of them is a baby.

[00:39:48] One of them is an old man.

[00:39:49] Very confusing.

[00:39:51] Yeah. Well, that that is the student body representative from top to bottom.

[00:39:56] Yeah.

[00:39:57] They let pretty much anybody into that school.

[00:39:59] They're pretty much just straight battles.

[00:40:01] And then you get the little clue, which doesn't mean a lot.

[00:40:03] You get the clue and then you have to go to the little like

[00:40:07] figure out the area they tell you to go to.

[00:40:09] And then you get whatever the type of ingredient is or seasoning and all that.

[00:40:14] Last one, the little girl makes you go to an ice cream stand and get

[00:40:17] rice balls from it.

[00:40:18] Find the ice cream stand with one item that's out of place or something.

[00:40:22] I ate the ice ball, ice cream balls.

[00:40:24] And this is sorry they were rice balls.

[00:40:26] This is another question I have for Pokemon maniac Greg Leatherman.

[00:40:30] Pokemaniac.

[00:40:31] When it says that like my encounter fairy type has like blossomed

[00:40:35] and my like egg group frog has like is rising after I eat rice balls.

[00:40:41] What does all that mean?

[00:40:43] OK, so encounter means

[00:40:46] that if you're in an area where that type will spawn,

[00:40:49] more of that type will spawn. Oh, OK.

[00:40:52] OK, so when I want to when I go on my

[00:40:55] what's the Pokemon we all love for G-backs?

[00:40:58] It is when I go on my fridge, he backs.

[00:41:00] Yeah, I want to get an ice encounter treat.

[00:41:04] So Fridgeback appears in the ice area.

[00:41:08] So you actually want to get dragon power up because dragon are rare.

[00:41:11] Right. So it forces the type

[00:41:15] dragon types to show up more, which excludes all the other ice types

[00:41:19] and will force Fridgebacks to appear more often.

[00:41:22] Yeah, yeah. That sounds useful.

[00:41:24] I shall endeavor to do this.

[00:41:26] Egg power means so now that there's no daycare.

[00:41:30] And you just. Interesting.

[00:41:31] There's no daycare.

[00:41:32] I don't think that's quite hit me yet.

[00:41:34] There's no daycare.

[00:41:35] They don't tell you about.

[00:41:36] So you can hatch.

[00:41:37] You can make eggs anywhere.

[00:41:39] Excuse me.

[00:41:40] When you have a picnic,

[00:41:42] there is a basket at one end that will fill up with eggs

[00:41:45] and the higher egg power, the more often it fills up with eggs.

[00:41:49] I am accidentally started a picnic once and pretty quickly backed out of it

[00:41:53] because it seemed like a lot.

[00:41:55] The thing that people use it for.

[00:41:58] So urban mystica in certain combinations and certain sandwiches

[00:42:02] will increase the shiny type.

[00:42:06] So people are like encounter type fire, shiny fire.

[00:42:09] All endgame shit with these people.

[00:42:13] Yeah. And then you'll make that sandwich so that fire types

[00:42:17] will be more likely to be shiny and appear more often.

[00:42:21] And then you have 30 minutes to go around and try to find the shiny

[00:42:25] because they now appear.

[00:42:25] Oh, I don't even need it.

[00:42:27] I got shiny low kicks running at me.

[00:42:29] You don't need a shiny low kick.

[00:42:30] No, I don't. I'll trade it to you. You want it?

[00:42:32] Yeah, probably.

[00:42:33] This is what happened to me.

[00:42:35] A rich person on my way to the first gym.

[00:42:38] I've encountered two shiny Marie.

[00:42:40] Oh, cute.

[00:42:41] And on my first time in Kitakami, I was gifted a shiny geodude.

[00:42:47] Shiny geodudes are like they're like a gold nugget.

[00:42:49] Yeah, a cute gold rich nugget.

[00:42:52] So that is cool. That makes sense.

[00:42:54] Go to the gym, order the rice ball fire blast

[00:43:01] medium lemon zest special.

[00:43:03] Yeah, yeah.

[00:43:06] And then everybody currently eating lunch.

[00:43:09] What happens to them?

[00:43:11] The gym floor, there's a bunch of people sitting on the gym floor

[00:43:14] and then like lights go out.

[00:43:16] And when they come back up, everyone's just gone.

[00:43:19] Just obliterated.

[00:43:20] Yeah, they're dumped into the death pit.

[00:43:23] The rancor pit.

[00:43:24] Like it's a wonderful life.

[00:43:26] The floor opens up.

[00:43:27] They go in.

[00:43:28] The floor slams the top of them and they're never seen or heard from again.

[00:43:32] We don't care about them.

[00:43:33] I tried to ask Larry about it, but he's just like,

[00:43:35] he's like, we're we're kind of locked into like the script guy.

[00:43:38] Larry's too jaded to care.

[00:43:40] The greatest gym leader they have ever created.

[00:43:44] I was going to say I love Larry, this like disenchanted bureaucrat

[00:43:49] who is like I'm assigned to work as the gym leader of the medallion.

[00:43:53] I have never felt more seen by a game than I have with Larry.

[00:43:58] He's just hanging out at this bar.

[00:44:00] Yeah, like he's like a work.

[00:44:02] He's like kicking off a work for the day and he's just here like having a bed.

[00:44:05] He's like on his lunch break, having some lunch.

[00:44:07] I was like, all right, I guess I guess I have to do this.

[00:44:10] My boss will dock my pay if we chit chat too much.

[00:44:14] So let's just get it over with.

[00:44:15] Mm hmm.

[00:44:16] I just ate, so let's not go too hard.

[00:44:19] Excuse me. That's what he said.

[00:44:21] Yeah, that's what he says.

[00:44:22] And he looks good. Oh, he's great.

[00:44:24] He could be owning his his look.

[00:44:27] I'm, you know, sad that he he's so broken by the bureaucratic red tape

[00:44:33] that he just doesn't give a damn anymore.

[00:44:35] You could tell that he used to have a fire in his heart.

[00:44:37] That happens to us all, though.

[00:44:38] I don't think I helped much because I really

[00:44:42] embarrassed devastated him.

[00:44:43] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:44:44] I mean, he does have my sweetie.

[00:44:47] Oh, Greggy's sweetie.

[00:44:49] The Dunsparce.

[00:44:56] Come on.

[00:44:57] You like to Dunsparce.

[00:44:59] I'm offended that they didn't make the three segment one to Dunsparce.

[00:45:02] They should have, but they didn't.

[00:45:04] That's stupid oversight.

[00:45:05] Also, just not making it into a dragon or something cool

[00:45:09] is the other oversight.

[00:45:10] The designers understood the appeal of Dunsparce.

[00:45:15] Say Dunsparce.

[00:45:16] Dunsparce is derpy and weird,

[00:45:19] and to change it into anything else that's not derpy and weird

[00:45:23] does a disservice to how cool that Pokemon is.

[00:45:27] I'm complaining they didn't go far enough and give it a silly enough name.

[00:45:30] I mean, they should have given a sillier name,

[00:45:32] but Dunsparce is an outstanding.

[00:45:35] Hey, and why stop at three?

[00:45:36] Go to like 100.

[00:45:38] Call it like the Dundapede or something.

[00:45:40] See that I would like it to keep getting extreme.

[00:45:44] Then you can sell me on it.

[00:45:45] The game already rips the way it is.

[00:45:47] Could you imagine a hundred segmented

[00:45:50] how it would just tear through the universe as long as the Asato Desert?

[00:45:54] Yeah.

[00:45:55] All right.

[00:45:55] The battle with Larry was GG easy.

[00:45:58] So the first time I played this game at the level that it was

[00:46:03] Star Raptor is a difficult opponent

[00:46:06] because it's a flying type that transforms into normal type.

[00:46:11] So its only weakness is fighting,

[00:46:14] but fighting is very weak to flying and Star Raptor is a powerhouse.

[00:46:20] So if you are not sort of prepared for like a backup plan for that,

[00:46:26] Star Raptor is a big surprise because the one thing that that's good against it

[00:46:30] is very strong against.

[00:46:32] He's got a Kamala, a Dundasparce and a Star Raptor and they're 35, 35, 36.

[00:46:37] So I was like, oh, maybe you're right, because I think I had Fiona Eilish out

[00:46:42] whose water grass and probably would have gotten owned by Star Raptor

[00:46:47] if I hadn't killed it in one hit.

[00:46:48] Yeah, right.

[00:46:49] I had Pommod out because I have 20 levels on it.

[00:46:52] Technically, Larry did a good job.

[00:46:54] Yeah.

[00:46:54] If you go in at the appropriate level, that is sort of a more difficult puzzle

[00:46:59] because you like a lot of the moves at that level are based on weight

[00:47:04] or being on the ground, which is not so you don't get the benefits of like low kick.

[00:47:09] Yeah.

[00:47:09] And it packs a wallop like Star Raptor was a competitive program for a very long time.

[00:47:15] So it's probably the first time that everybody who's playing the games

[00:47:19] that we didn't have an entire DLC to like power everything up

[00:47:22] or you came in at the right level or came in at a level where people like

[00:47:26] I am stuck at Larry.

[00:47:27] Larry gave me an incredibly hard time for Larry and also Larry's

[00:47:31] the coolest gym leader that ever existed.

[00:47:33] Let's talk about the teams we brought into the true final battle this week.

[00:47:37] Yeah, because as soon as we step out into the lobby, we're stopped by

[00:47:40] La Primavera.

[00:47:41] What's it called?

[00:47:42] La Primavera.

[00:47:45] Miss aka Miss Gita, who I guess La Primera is her nickname

[00:47:50] because she's the top champion, which means she's the champion of all champions.

[00:47:56] I guess. Yeah.

[00:47:57] Well, Pauldia has multiple champions.

[00:47:59] It is a title you achieve, not a rank above all.

[00:48:04] And she is the top rated champion of all the champions.

[00:48:09] Not for long, because Esteban Humano and his buds are coming into town.

[00:48:15] And now that I've got the stink of her on me, I'm going to be taking her down.

[00:48:19] Why do we?

[00:48:21] Because Nomona and La Primera had like a relatively

[00:48:25] sexually charged fight over Don Joe.

[00:48:28] Oh, yeah, it's like the voice.

[00:48:30] They're like fighting over who gets to be my coach on the voice.

[00:48:33] Yeah, they're fighting over me as their protege.

[00:48:36] And like La Primera is like really trying to put in.

[00:48:39] And then Nomona is like, no, he's mine.

[00:48:41] I found him.

[00:48:42] So again, it's kind of a challenger situation.

[00:48:44] Yeah, but I don't want to go with Nomona.

[00:48:46] I want to go with the cool lady.

[00:48:48] Yeah, Miss Gita's got bomb outfit and hair.

[00:48:51] She seems a lot cooler.

[00:48:52] And it's way cooler to have the top champions attention.

[00:48:56] Gita is the boss.

[00:48:57] Why don't I get to choose?

[00:48:59] Like, where's my autonomy here?

[00:49:02] Where your clothing options are.

[00:49:04] I want to go with La Primera.

[00:49:06] Cooler name.

[00:49:07] Nomona insists on battling us in front of La Primera,

[00:49:11] I think, to show off, not realizing that I'm about to absolutely destroy her.

[00:49:14] But let's talk about the teams that we brought into the battle in Level Check.

[00:49:18] Level Check.

[00:49:24] Greg, I'm dying to hear about your fancy little team of luxury Pokemon.

[00:49:28] Which do you want?

[00:49:29] The ones that I fought at the time because I took a picture of it

[00:49:33] or the ones that I have now?

[00:49:35] Both.

[00:49:35] Because fashions have changed.

[00:49:37] I want to know who you went into the gym with, recognizing that

[00:49:39] that was last season and I'm not going to hold that against you.

[00:49:42] Yeah. OK.

[00:49:43] Yeah. What was what was hot last season?

[00:49:45] So what was hot last season going into that battle

[00:49:50] was Kenzo the Kilowatt roll?

[00:49:52] Oh, good. Burberry, the Artibax.

[00:49:55] Given Armani the Diplon.

[00:49:59] I like that.

[00:50:00] Adriana, the Avalugg.

[00:50:03] OK. Cartier, the Cyclazor.

[00:50:06] Ooh. And Gucci, the Greninja.

[00:50:09] Oh, I see.

[00:50:10] I didn't know there were Greninjas around here.

[00:50:12] Oh, did you find it on Kid Ikame?

[00:50:13] I have things imported by my people.

[00:50:16] Again, we are multibillionaires throughout all of the regions.

[00:50:20] Do you think anything is off limits to me?

[00:50:22] The answer is no.

[00:50:23] Can you give me some stuff?

[00:50:24] Maybe. OK.

[00:50:26] What's in season now for Lysander, please?

[00:50:30] This will be the team that we're going up against when we battle.

[00:50:33] Yes. OK.

[00:50:34] So Burberry is a Bax caliber now.

[00:50:37] Always in season. That's my starter.

[00:50:39] I can't wait to see one.

[00:50:40] Always in season.

[00:50:41] Surprisingly, Gucci, the Greninja is back in fashion.

[00:50:45] Timeless. We didn't see that coming.

[00:50:48] Kenzo, the Kilowatt row is also back in season.

[00:50:50] Oh, Dior, the Delphox

[00:50:55] is taking everybody by storm.

[00:50:58] Yeah, very fetching.

[00:51:00] Very nice.

[00:51:01] Armani is now a high drapple.

[00:51:04] OK. And wowing everybody.

[00:51:06] That's the exclusive for this region, right?

[00:51:08] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:51:10] And Royce, the Reverb Room is beautiful.

[00:51:14] Taking the roads by storm.

[00:51:16] I think I drapple is good.

[00:51:17] I like hydra. Yeah, definitely.

[00:51:20] I like all of those apple and branches.

[00:51:22] It's better than flapple.

[00:51:24] I think Appleton's good, too.

[00:51:26] I think flapples my favorite.

[00:51:29] All right. Don Joey, who'd you bring in?

[00:51:31] Don Joey's Knights did not change this week

[00:51:35] because of all the gimme ghoul hunting.

[00:51:37] He did not have time to go on the quest to.

[00:51:40] Yeah. Free Bax caliber.

[00:51:42] I didn't tell you my levels were.

[00:51:44] Yeah. What are your levels?

[00:51:45] We're going to find out your levels.

[00:51:46] We did set a level cap at 55,

[00:51:49] so I don't think anybody has Pokemon above level 55.

[00:51:53] The only one that's above on my team, it's level eight is the Bax caliber.

[00:51:58] Who's at 57?

[00:52:00] OK, but everybody else is either level 54 or 55.

[00:52:03] That's fair. It's fine.

[00:52:04] Don Joey's got Rouncy

[00:52:07] Skeledurge level 54.

[00:52:10] The Duke Pommat level 55.

[00:52:13] Lady Trish of Lavencia Tinkerton level 53.

[00:52:17] Black Knight low kicks level 52.

[00:52:21] Maybe on ice.

[00:52:22] We'll see. OK, Surjangles Como.

[00:52:25] Oh, level 52.

[00:52:28] Guess who's 52?

[00:52:29] Surjangles. That's right.

[00:52:32] I've heard it could be so jangles and Claude Sire, the Claude Sire level 53.

[00:52:37] Yeah. No, no, it's fine.

[00:52:39] Came with the it's fine.

[00:52:40] It did finally learn earthquake.

[00:52:42] So now it can actually like do some damage

[00:52:45] because it just had mudshot before that.

[00:52:47] A lot of my team is pretty sensitive to earthquakes, so that kind of hurts.

[00:52:50] Good to know what's what is on Esteban Umano's team this week.

[00:52:56] Fiona Eilish changed into her cornerstone Ogre Pond mask this week.

[00:53:01] She looks good.

[00:53:02] She doesn't look as mopey, but kind of scary, intimidating.

[00:53:07] She's level 49.

[00:53:08] She's hard to level.

[00:53:09] She won't take a level very well.

[00:53:12] Donna's car, Reverum level 55.

[00:53:15] Donna Baker, now Skirata level 54.

[00:53:19] Lady Beth has evolved into an armor Rouge level 55.

[00:53:24] I like that. Gregor Samsa still a reller level 55.

[00:53:27] Absolutely no idea how to evolve this thing.

[00:53:28] He's been he's always out of his ball.

[00:53:30] He's always fighting, but he won't evolve.

[00:53:32] My reller evolved at level 15, so I don't know what you're doing.

[00:53:36] Yeah. How are you not able to get 1000 steps on that thing?

[00:53:40] It's got to have a thousand steps.

[00:53:41] Maybe maybe I have to like it has to level up in battle or something.

[00:53:45] Simply 1000 steps.

[00:53:47] I had it out of the ball and I held the stick down

[00:53:49] and I ran in a circle for five minutes yesterday.

[00:53:53] And it still didn't evolve.

[00:53:55] Haunted cartridge.

[00:53:56] Was it always out? Yeah, it was out.

[00:53:58] He was he was following me in a tighter little circle inside

[00:54:01] because he couldn't keep up with me.

[00:54:02] So the way that most people did that is you go to LaVincia,

[00:54:06] Lady Trisha's hometown, and there's a circle

[00:54:10] that goes around the where the gym battlefield is.

[00:54:15] If you do that circle three times, I believe that's a thousand steps.

[00:54:19] And then you give it a rare candy.

[00:54:21] It's just do that. Tanner doesn't get it over with.

[00:54:23] I'm sick of not knowing what this thing becomes.

[00:54:25] And welcome to the team.

[00:54:27] We had a Bisharp, but I couldn't find him in my box.

[00:54:29] So I just caught a new not Bisharp Pontiard.

[00:54:32] I had a Pontiard, but I couldn't find in my box.

[00:54:33] I just caught a new one.

[00:54:34] Welcome to the team.

[00:54:35] Rick Bingo. Rick Bingo

[00:54:38] has since evolved into a Bisharp level 54.

[00:54:42] OK, and I guess we're going to go find some of these leader Bisharp

[00:54:45] to take on next week. Yeah.

[00:54:47] And what's Rick Bingo's deal?

[00:54:48] He's like that King Gambit. Oh, right. Gambit. Hmm.

[00:54:52] Yeah, figured it out.

[00:54:54] Yeah, he's like a stick together.

[00:54:55] He's like one of those obnoxious, like pro poker players

[00:54:58] with like the sunglasses and then he gets to sit on his hair.

[00:55:01] All that. Yeah, he's cool.

[00:55:03] We like him.

[00:55:04] Did we like the team that Nimona brought in?

[00:55:08] Absolutely not.

[00:55:09] My You Make Me Barf Pokemon was on her team, and I'm very sorry

[00:55:12] to anyone who celebrates this Pokemon, but Quack of All.

[00:55:15] Wow. Is my You Make Me Barf Pokemon of the week.

[00:55:21] I look at this thing on Bobapedia.

[00:55:23] Thank you to the tireless volunteers.

[00:55:25] And I think, yeah, it's fine. I don't care.

[00:55:27] And then I see it on Nimona's team

[00:55:30] dancing in the most upsetting way possible.

[00:55:33] It looked like mocap. It was so fluid.

[00:55:36] It was like in 120 frames per second, just like smoothly dancing

[00:55:40] its little duck body. And I was just out.

[00:55:42] That wasn't doing it for you.

[00:55:44] The dancing was too much.

[00:55:45] You are going to come.

[00:55:47] Excuse me?

[00:55:48] For the gay dancing duck.

[00:55:50] The first week of pride.

[00:55:53] Dancing was too much.

[00:55:55] Tanner, that's even worse than whatever I said earlier or didn't know.

[00:55:59] You are going to say to a gay duck

[00:56:04] their dancing is too much.

[00:56:06] You are going to sit there with Gungans behind you

[00:56:12] and dare claim the freedom

[00:56:15] that they finally feel to dance openly in the streets of Paldea

[00:56:20] is disgusting.

[00:56:22] How dare you?

[00:56:23] They put a lot of work into the dance animation.

[00:56:26] That's where they put that's where they put most of the most of the programmers

[00:56:31] like fuck the rest of it.

[00:56:33] We got to get this right.

[00:56:34] Everything else like cut corners, do whatever corner you need to

[00:56:38] to get this duck dancing right, just so we can gross out Tanner.

[00:56:41] Correct.

[00:56:42] I'll note that I didn't say anything bad about Quokkaball in this pride month.

[00:56:46] You should.

[00:56:47] That'll help you at the tribunal.

[00:56:48] I think that I need those points.

[00:56:50] Get me out of a jam.

[00:56:52] All right. Well, I beat Nimona.

[00:56:55] No problem.

[00:56:55] Yeah. Her levels are getting better.

[00:56:58] They were like 42, but it's still no issues.

[00:57:01] Not quite enough to do it for us.

[00:57:03] Yeah. She also had a sligu and Pommat and like and rock.

[00:57:10] Yeah. Interesting team.

[00:57:11] Fine team. Interesting team.

[00:57:13] Too low of levels.

[00:57:14] We are going to go battle one another now.

[00:57:16] Yes. Which we can do through the magic of online gaming,

[00:57:19] which we do know how to do.

[00:57:21] Correct. And I'm already at a yellow stand.

[00:57:23] I found my way to one earlier.

[00:57:25] I'm going to form a group.

[00:57:26] We will form a group and we will battle.

[00:57:29] It will be me versus Tanner first, and then whoever wins

[00:57:32] will defend the honor of experience share versus Greg, aka Lysander.

[00:57:37] We'll see you on the other side.

[00:57:44] Don Joey versus Esteban Humano.

[00:57:48] Low kicks versus Reverum.

[00:57:51] Reverum!

[00:57:53] Donna's car.

[00:57:54] Bad set up for me, but I know that you're going to drop those fucking

[00:57:59] toxic spikes.

[00:58:02] Throat chop.

[00:58:03] Toxic spikes.

[00:58:06] Oh, God, the two toxic spikes are out.

[00:58:10] Reverum's out.

[00:58:11] Low kicks untouched other than lower defense.

[00:58:16] Gregor Samsa.

[00:58:18] Are you bouncing out of here?

[00:58:20] I'm going to swoop down on you.

[00:58:22] He's bouncing.

[00:58:23] Ooh, one hit KO from the bounce.

[00:58:26] He's bouncing.

[00:58:28] Oh, I like the look of that.

[00:58:30] What is it? Armour Rouge?

[00:58:31] Armour Rouge.

[00:58:33] Lady Beth would make a lot of sense on my team.

[00:58:37] And I think yours is like a sword or something.

[00:58:41] Yeah, yours is cooler.

[00:58:42] Oh, so I could do that.

[00:58:44] I like Sir Ledge a lot better than like Armour Rouge.

[00:58:46] Ooh. Oh, wow.

[00:58:49] All right. What was that?

[00:58:50] You killed me in one hit.

[00:58:51] Lava plume.

[00:58:53] Lava plume.

[00:58:54] Right. Yes.

[00:58:57] OK.

[00:59:00] Claude Sire is coming out.

[00:59:03] Whoa. How do you do that?

[00:59:04] Well, the spikes disappeared.

[00:59:06] Why did that happen?

[00:59:08] Poison tapes eats poison spikes.

[00:59:10] Oh, nice. Good to know.

[00:59:12] All right.

[00:59:14] Oh, almost a one hit KO again.

[00:59:18] But then I killed Lady Beth with earthquake.

[00:59:24] I don't love the wellspring mask.

[00:59:27] Ivy cudgel.

[00:59:29] Ouch.

[00:59:30] Oh, except I have water absorb.

[00:59:33] That was supposed to be super effective against you.

[00:59:35] And poison jab took you down into the yellow.

[00:59:40] What the hell are you going to do now?

[00:59:44] That's a swap.

[00:59:46] Donna Baker, the meow scaratta is coming in.

[00:59:50] But that's still a super effective poison jab.

[00:59:53] Oh, I live through the energy ball.

[00:59:55] Oh, Claude Sire is taking down Donna Baker, too.

[00:59:59] It's curtain call.

[01:00:01] Dinner, I think for you.

[01:00:03] Let me get Rick Bingo in here.

[01:00:05] Rick Bingo.

[01:00:07] Oops, I blindly just hit poison jab.

[01:00:10] Doesn't matter.

[01:00:11] Rick Bingo has slaughtered Claude Sire.

[01:00:15] Oh, let's bring out Surjangles.

[01:00:17] Come on.

[01:00:22] All right.

[01:00:23] Brick break takes him out.

[01:00:26] Fiona Eilish is back.

[01:00:30] Spiky shield.

[01:00:33] So my outrage cannot hit.

[01:00:36] You can do it. I believe in you.

[01:00:38] Outrage.

[01:00:40] Ogre pawn goes down.

[01:00:44] Good battle, Joshua.

[01:00:45] I'm sorry I have to let you finish up the episode.

[01:00:47] I got to run.

[01:00:48] All right. Greg, it was nice to see you.

[01:00:49] Good to see you.

[01:00:50] Sorry to cut. That's OK.

[01:00:51] I'm 2-0 now.

[01:00:53] Yo-ho. For the season.

[01:00:55] But will that last?

[01:00:56] I haven't had the privilege of defending the honor of experience here

[01:00:59] in quite some time.

[01:01:03] Here we go.

[01:01:05] Don Joey.

[01:01:06] Oh, I like Lysander's haircut.

[01:01:08] It looks like you don't really care, but it's an expensive haircut, I'm sure.

[01:01:12] Yep, for sure.

[01:01:13] It's like the bedhead.

[01:01:15] Very tussled.

[01:01:17] Come on out of the gate hot.

[01:01:19] Here we go. Round two.

[01:01:21] Defend your honor, Don Joey, or tilt against those windmills.

[01:01:29] Don's do famously have problems with windmills.

[01:01:32] Certain Don's Greninja versus Skeledurge.

[01:01:36] Not great. Not great.

[01:01:38] Are you ready for these tricks?

[01:01:41] I'm swapping.

[01:01:42] There's no way that I'm allowing Skeledurge to go down in like one hit.

[01:01:48] Yes. Water absorb the

[01:01:51] water shuriken.

[01:01:53] Oh, you have tricks.

[01:01:55] Dig.

[01:01:57] However, I use toxic,

[01:01:59] which we now know affects underground opponents for some reason.

[01:02:04] Earthquake does not do very much damage to you, nor should it.

[01:02:08] Fortunately, I doubled down on earthquake to hit you underground.

[01:02:13] All right.

[01:02:14] Gucci is out of fashion this season.

[01:02:18] The fact that you sent out Reverum makes me think

[01:02:21] that you're going to have some other trick up your sleeve.

[01:02:25] High horsepower.

[01:02:26] Ouch. Yeah, I did.

[01:02:28] That makes sense. Reverum to have.

[01:02:33] At the engine, of course it has high horsepower that only tracks.

[01:02:38] We'll try out combo.

[01:02:39] Oh, brick break.

[01:02:42] Half damage. Iron head.

[01:02:45] Oh, taking me down to 33 hit points.

[01:02:50] OK, Reverum withdrawn.

[01:02:53] Death drawn. Killawatt trail, which I quite like.

[01:02:57] Oh, I do get an outrage in.

[01:03:00] Oh, killawatt trails out.

[01:03:03] Oh, that was a tough one.

[01:03:05] Reverum's back.

[01:03:08] Outrage takes it out.

[01:03:10] Yeah, outrage is a tough one.

[01:03:12] All right. Armani the what is that again?

[01:03:15] Hydropol. God, I love Hydropol.

[01:03:18] The look on that thing.

[01:03:20] Maybe that is the best one.

[01:03:21] Yeah. Outrage is a one hit KO.

[01:03:23] Oh yeah. Outrage is I don't know that I have a way past outrage right now.

[01:03:28] Ooh, Burberry the Becks caliber man.

[01:03:32] I love the look of that thing.

[01:03:33] I'm confused now, though.

[01:03:36] And I hurt myself.

[01:03:38] I have nine hit points, so you got this one.

[01:03:40] Yeah. Ice Fang to the throat.

[01:03:44] Surging angles will jingle no more.

[01:03:49] Guess we'll give Haumat a shot.

[01:03:54] I'm doing it. Terrestrializing.

[01:03:58] Oh, you are terrestrializing as well, though.

[01:04:01] Oh man, I love that dragon hat.

[01:04:04] Close combat.

[01:04:06] Oh no. Oh no.

[01:04:08] Right. Because now your type is pure dragon.

[01:04:11] Pure dragon.

[01:04:13] I had to get rid of the ice.

[01:04:14] This Beck's caliber is going to be trouble.

[01:04:18] Pommat's out.

[01:04:22] And I no longer have a dragon to fight your dragon.

[01:04:27] However, we have Lady Trish of Lavencia.

[01:04:33] If she can live to play rough.

[01:04:36] I fear you will go first, though.

[01:04:38] Yep. Ice Fang.

[01:04:40] OK, lived.

[01:04:42] OK. OK. Oh, got him.

[01:04:45] Got him.

[01:04:47] Beck's caliber is dead.

[01:04:50] I got to get me one of those.

[01:04:52] They're so good. Dior.

[01:04:55] Let's get the spring preview.

[01:04:57] I mean, I love Delphox, so I love Delphox, too.

[01:05:01] Let's do a sweet kiss.

[01:05:02] That's how much I love it.

[01:05:03] Now, if I get confused and you never did, I'm going to be angry.

[01:05:08] Just figured you were going to kill it with one flamethrower anyway.

[01:05:11] So leave you with a memento.

[01:05:14] Skeledurge versus Delphox.

[01:05:18] Light screen smart.

[01:05:21] Except I'm going to snarl at you.

[01:05:24] Oh, God.

[01:05:26] Nothing. Basically nothing.

[01:05:29] How can this confusion end?

[01:05:32] Gee, although you haven't hurt yourself, though, right?

[01:05:35] No. This is a slug fest.

[01:05:38] Yeah, it is. Oh, my God.

[01:05:40] Even Hex barely does anything.

[01:05:42] Oh, this is going to take forever.

[01:05:45] This confusion is lasting for ever.

[01:05:48] Again, you got to use Psi Shock.

[01:05:52] I think if it's pure slugging,

[01:05:54] I have a slight edge. Yeah.

[01:05:56] But if Skeledurge goes down, all that I have is low kicks,

[01:06:00] which would be trouble.

[01:06:01] Yeah, I think you have this one because there's nothing.

[01:06:04] One more Hex will do it.

[01:06:07] Yep. All right.

[01:06:11] You defended your title just barely.

[01:06:13] I think I'm resting back control of experience share from you.

[01:06:18] That's nice. That's refreshing.

[01:06:21] Good battle.

[01:06:22] I went down to barely two Pokemon left.

[01:06:26] Well done. Good job.

[01:06:28] Yes. Experience share remains under my and Tanner's control for once.

[01:06:33] I'll do a buyout. Don't worry about it.

[01:06:35] I got money.

[01:06:37] You could pay your way in.

[01:06:38] I'll just pay my way in. It's not a problem.

[01:06:40] Greg, thanks for joining us.

[01:06:41] Yeah. Let the bug catchers, for those who don't already know

[01:06:45] where they can find you.

[01:06:47] Best place to find me because I don't want to use Twitter.

[01:06:50] Find me on Instagram at Lysander zero three or on threads under the same one.

[01:06:55] Those are probably the best ways to find me and get in touch with me.

[01:06:58] And you can hear my actual play show very random encounters at VRE show.

[01:07:03] And I'm often on the Pokemon podcast.

[01:07:06] It's super effective.

[01:07:07] Yes. And you can buy my games at Leatherman games.

[01:07:10] I got to buy your games.

[01:07:11] That's that's on me. Yeah, it's time for me to do that as well.

[01:07:14] It's time for you to do that.

[01:07:15] Give you some extra cash that you can then use to buy out experience

[01:07:19] share rights, a hostile takeover.

[01:07:21] And right. Tanner is not here.

[01:07:24] He had to go take a meeting or something.

[01:07:26] So he's got a job. So

[01:07:31] or something.

[01:07:33] Yeah. Only fools have.

[01:07:34] So I have to do his thing.

[01:07:36] So thank you for catchers for joining us.

[01:07:39] I have been, as always, feel loser, aka.

[01:07:43] That does sound like I'm a loser.

[01:07:44] Yeah. Feel is a baby.

[01:07:47] Why don't you kill me?

[01:07:49] Now, that's a song that I know, loser,

[01:07:52] which I've tried to do at karaoke many times

[01:07:55] because I love it so much and I still can't.

[01:07:58] That is a that is a tough one.

[01:08:00] It's a tough song.

[01:08:01] Aka Josh Fjellstad.

[01:08:03] I was joined by Dutan Sparse, aka Tanner Greenring.

[01:08:09] And for now and in the future, I'm sure.

[01:08:12] Gwug Trio, aka Greg Leatherman.

[01:08:14] And you can find us in perpetuity.

[01:08:18] Well, I guess that's not true, because probably someday we will not be on X,

[01:08:21] the site formerly known as Twitter.

[01:08:23] But we are for now.

[01:08:24] You can call it Twitter. Just call it.

[01:08:26] It's just a it's just a joke.

[01:08:28] Now I like saying it.

[01:08:29] I started using it in everyday conversation and it doesn't land.

[01:08:33] So maybe it's not as fun of a joke.

[01:08:35] No, I'm also that dude dead names his children.

[01:08:39] I mean, dead name is site.

[01:08:41] That's good.

[01:08:42] That is what we should be doing in this pride month.

[01:08:45] And what are the other ones threads?

[01:08:48] An Instagram, you can find us all of them.

[01:08:51] Everything is at EXP share pod except the subreddit reddit.com slash

[01:08:56] our slash bug catchers and buy some merch.

[01:09:00] We still got merch.

[01:09:01] There's probably going to be some sort of a sale during pride month.

[01:09:04] I hope or T public.

[01:09:05] We're coming for you.

[01:09:06] Also, the council's coming for you.

[01:09:09] And that is a share pod dot com.

[01:09:12] And Tanner and I did not discuss this.

[01:09:14] So, Greg, where should we go next week?

[01:09:18] What should we do?

[01:09:19] Do we do a gym, another gym or two?

[01:09:22] You're at the point where all three you have to complete

[01:09:26] all three quest lines to be able to do the end game.

[01:09:29] OK, at this point, you are over leveled for all of the gyms.

[01:09:33] So just do the gym.

[01:09:34] We should just swing all three of them next week.

[01:09:37] They're all pretty fast.

[01:09:38] Yeah, maybe that's what we have to do.

[01:09:40] Maybe we do the fighting base, too.

[01:09:42] And then the week after that, we start the finales for all three.

[01:09:46] Is that good? Yeah. All right.

[01:09:48] Yeah. I mean, so you I mean, after the gyms, you have to do the elite four.

[01:09:52] But the elite four levels are higher than the fighting star base.

[01:09:57] So I would just knock out the gyms

[01:09:59] fighting base and then do the elite four.

[01:10:02] Then you're going to have to do all of the ends content for the three

[01:10:06] to get to the end content of the game.

[01:10:09] Right. Before you get to the last part of the deal,

[01:10:12] it's rather complex for ourselves.

[01:10:14] So I guess what we will do about catchers is all three remaining gyms,

[01:10:19] ghost, psychic ice and the fighting crew team star base.

[01:10:24] That's fine. That'll all be probably enough.

[01:10:26] Oh, it's that's a lot. Yeah.

[01:10:28] Well, we keep doing that to ourselves.

[01:10:31] We pretty much have no idea how to conduct ourselves

[01:10:34] when we can no longer do gym by gym.

[01:10:36] This game is wild.

[01:10:37] So we'll cram all that in for next week.

[01:10:40] Hasta la vista.

[01:10:42] Hasta la vista.

[01:10:43] Gracias, Greg, for joining us and smell you later.