Don Joey & Esteban Humano head west (young man) and find a land full of soaring wind turbines and very upsetting birds. Then, they swing east to critique an artist's life work (terrible) before taking him on in the gym, and discovering his battling is even worse than his sculptures—meeting many new 'mon and humans along the way.
[00:00:08] Alola? No. Top of the episode. Ola. Ola? They say Ola? That's Paldayan. Ola. Okay. Sounds familiar. I guess there's like, it's like a Latin language. Yeah, it's a romance language. Yeah, it's like how like Italian and Spanish and Portuguese kind of all sound similar. Yeah, basically the same. Yeah.
[00:00:28] Yeah. Ola and top of the episode and Alola to you. My name is Reverude. Well, I know your maiden name is Ringeroot. Ringeroot. Yep. Tanner Ringeroot. My wife was Jamie Green. When we got married, we combined our last names into Jamie Greenring and Tanner Greenring. It's very cool. The ring is Ringeroot. And that's what my
[00:00:59] name comes from this week. What is the Pokemon? Revererude. Well, I don't know what the Pokemon is. You wouldn't because you're such a fucking casual Don Joey. Don Joey's too busy here from Unova. Romancing the Pokemon to take on the star team captain, Jackamow, who's on the most boss ass Pokemon I've ever seen in my life. Tanner Sweetie times a million. It's called Revereroom. But his is a special
[00:01:35] Revereroom because first of all, there's a Pokemon that's just a car and it's called Revereroom. Great. Oh, it is a car and it's got five star mobile forms. Great. Can't wait. Oh my god. I'm so excited to get a Revereroom. Whoa, I don't know about this at all. Star mobile. Jackamow's Revereroom. His special star mobile Revereroom is like incredible. It's kind of making a good pitch for Team Star. I know. Though we were talking about how
[00:02:04] disappointing they are in the first episode. I have so much to talk about when we get there. But because you didn't do it again, once again, Josh, Josh is just like in the wind literally because I got lost in the West province for so long because I just kept going down all the cliffs and like all the little underhangs. And I just saw so many things. I got cut up in the whimsy and then I never made it to the star base. It's an open world baby. You can go wherever you want. You can do whatever you want, Joshua. Don't let anyone hold you back.
[00:02:34] This is like a Natasha Bettingfield call. You're squelching me. You're trying to hold me back from just roaming around. I'm going back on it. This is Natasha Bettingfield. The rest is still unwritten for you. You got to just get out there. Go find it, you know? Sorry you didn't get to Jackamow. I did and I saw his cool ass whip and I'm so excited about it that I want one. Can you get one? I feel like all those Connecticut dads in like 2000 and what year would you say? 16 when everyone started getting Teslas.
[00:03:04] And they're like, God, I got to get one of those. I got a support. Alon Musk's dream of taking us all to the stars. He's like real life Iron Man. Yeah, it's my goal now. It is Esteban Omano's goal to get his hands on one of these fucking car Pokemon. Now he's got the motorcycle Pokemon. Old news. You need an auto? I need an auto. Where are we? School. Don Joey went back to school.
[00:03:34] Oh, we woke up on in the dorms. After the gym fight. Or your frat house? Are you in a frat? They're banned at Uva Academy. Oh, what did you guys do? No, they're not at Naranja. Esteban Omano sounds like somebody who would probably be part of a frat.
[00:03:50] No, no, no, no. You know what Esteban Omano says? I don't have to buy my friends. Someone said that to me in college once.
[00:03:59] Did you go to school with Billy Zane? From the shadow? No, like, you know, a real man makes his own luck. It's a very copacetic kind of a term there.
[00:04:11] But I won my ticket on Titanic here at a lucky handed poker. A very lucky hand. All life is a game of luck. A real man makes his own luck.
[00:04:22] It's a cool ass thing to say. Yeah. It's like, whoa, what is the context for that? If I'm remembering who said it, his name was Joe. And Joe and I had a friend named Cedric. And Cedric was in a frat called Lambda Chi Alpha, if I remember correctly. Okay, because here's how I remember that it was part of his halo screen name. Oh, wow.
[00:04:45] Speaking of autos, banging on all cylinders this story so far.
[00:04:49] I think Cedric went around the sort of friend group and just put feelers out and see who wanted to kind of join the frat with him. And I remember hanging out with Joe when he sort of put the feelers out with me and Joe. And Joe turned to him and said, no way, man, I don't have to buy my friends and just like shut the study room door on him.
[00:05:11] That was like fucking cold.
[00:05:13] Whoa.
[00:05:14] Yeah, I think they like went to high school together or something. I don't know.
[00:05:17] Seems like they maybe had a rift in that friendship.
[00:05:20] So anyway, I still think about that. I don't really have anything against frats except for the awful culture around them. And the fact that they're constantly being closed on every single campus.
[00:05:29] The toxic masculinity is probably one thing I would have a problem with.
[00:05:34] Whatever, I guess if you found it useful.
[00:05:36] There was a I visited Wesleyan a couple of times when I was in college, Humblebrag.
[00:05:42] And they had a so-called.
[00:05:45] Right at the street from me.
[00:05:46] Hipster frat.
[00:05:47] Wow.
[00:05:48] And it was just a bunch of like studio art and like art history.
[00:05:53] They're just like joining a frat.
[00:05:54] Yeah.
[00:05:56] I'm sure that I think the entry fee was just like a 24 pack of PBR.
[00:06:01] So cool.
[00:06:03] God to be able to go back and do it all again.
[00:06:05] You know, one of the things they just play like porn on the wall because it's like.
[00:06:09] I guess we are doing it all again.
[00:06:10] Here I am at Naranja Academy.
[00:06:13] Esteban Umano.
[00:06:14] Yeah.
[00:06:15] Uva Academy for Don Joey.
[00:06:19] Had some experiences here.
[00:06:20] Took some classes.
[00:06:21] Have you gone to class yet?
[00:06:23] I don't think so.
[00:06:24] You know what?
[00:06:25] It just occurred to me that I don't I guess I didn't realize that there were actually classes.
[00:06:29] Oh, there's classes.
[00:06:31] I've just been fucking around this whole time.
[00:06:33] You know what?
[00:06:33] I'm just as bad as these fucking star students.
[00:06:36] Yeah, you are.
[00:06:37] And it sounds like you're really taken by their autos and you're probably just going to join team star.
[00:06:41] I take them by their lifestyle.
[00:06:43] It's sort of a cool gig.
[00:06:44] They're all truants Tanner.
[00:06:46] They're truants.
[00:06:47] They don't go to class for long.
[00:06:49] Not for long.
[00:06:50] I'm cleaning up the streets, baby.
[00:06:52] Esteban is out there just getting shit done.
[00:06:54] They're mean to the alt students.
[00:06:57] The alt students are fighting back.
[00:06:59] That doesn't sound right.
[00:07:00] No, unless you could start the hipster frat for the alt students.
[00:07:05] You can make the hipster team star base.
[00:07:08] I think I'm like breakfast clubbing them.
[00:07:11] I think I'm like making the cool kids like realize that the like weirdo alt kids are actually like pretty interesting once you get to know them.
[00:07:20] All right.
[00:07:21] All right.
[00:07:22] That's an interesting storyline for you.
[00:07:24] So tell me a little bit more about your education this week.
[00:07:27] I took four classes this week.
[00:07:29] I showed up.
[00:07:30] Wow.
[00:07:30] Full schedule.
[00:07:31] History, biology, battle, class battle.
[00:07:36] Okay.
[00:07:37] What like historic battles or language?
[00:07:40] That's what I was hoping it was going to be.
[00:07:42] But then it was this person who brought us out into a battlefield and then.
[00:07:48] Oh, it's like defense against the dark arts.
[00:07:50] Yeah, except she didn't even let us like battle Pokemon because the bell rang and all these classes were about two minutes long, I would say.
[00:07:59] Doesn't seem like you really get your money's worth.
[00:08:01] No, and my mom sacrificed her whole life to bring me over here to Paldea to get me a high class education.
[00:08:08] And I spent about 10 minutes going to school in the past.
[00:08:12] Why did she send you to Naranja then?
[00:08:14] Well, you didn't even go to class at all.
[00:08:16] You didn't go to any class.
[00:08:17] It's like Montessori.
[00:08:19] You know, it's like hands on education.
[00:08:22] We don't do class.
[00:08:23] We do like skills and real world.
[00:08:26] You get a little gold star for like talking about your feelings.
[00:08:30] You were out there doing classwork and I was in the fucking diamond mines with a bunch of like Korean people at 10 a.m.
[00:08:42] Like killing like two star terrestrialized la chonks.
[00:08:49] So don't let me I don't want to hear it.
[00:08:51] Well, yeah, I guess you're getting the street smarts and I'm getting the book smarts because they asked me a question.
[00:08:57] Every class and I was the one who answered and I got all of them right.
[00:09:01] Yeah, it's like persona.
[00:09:02] It's like my least favorite part of persona.
[00:09:04] I didn't play that.
[00:09:05] Oh, there's a whole part where you have to like you have to do like a relationship sim with all your classmates.
[00:09:12] And part of it is like remembering what they and your teacher say so that you can kiss answer back at in multiple choice.
[00:09:21] Is there kissing?
[00:09:23] There is sometimes kissing.
[00:09:24] I think.
[00:09:24] Yeah.
[00:09:24] OK.
[00:09:25] It's pretty hot.
[00:09:26] Pretty hot stuff.
[00:09:27] I've done very little research into the franchise, but I kind of just assumed everybody was playing it because they get to kiss all the other characters.
[00:09:35] They've all been high schoolers, I think.
[00:09:36] So I don't think they're explicitly like, you know, boinking.
[00:09:41] But there's a little like this intrigue over the close stuff.
[00:09:43] Is there kissing in this game?
[00:09:45] I don't think so.
[00:09:45] No, I haven't seen any yet.
[00:09:47] If there were, it seems like you would do a lot of kissing on cloth.
[00:09:51] Yes.
[00:09:52] According to these notes in our shared doc.
[00:09:54] I did the stone titan.
[00:09:57] I found cloth out in the South province and wow, that is a delight.
[00:10:03] Yeah.
[00:10:03] The big eyes.
[00:10:05] It's got a really good battle cry too.
[00:10:11] And I liked running into them on the cliffs.
[00:10:14] Did you catch that big one?
[00:10:15] You can't catch the big ones.
[00:10:17] You can't?
[00:10:17] No, you can't catch the titans we've determined.
[00:10:20] You claim that you weren't even sure about that last week, but no,
[00:10:24] you cannot catch them.
[00:10:25] But there were a lot of little cloths running around and I did catch one of those.
[00:10:29] Yeah, they're all over the place.
[00:10:30] Like they got the little like mustaches and whole thing.
[00:10:34] You know what?
[00:10:34] I'm rarely disappointed in a crab or a lobster Pokemon in this game.
[00:10:38] They have those shellfish Pokemon.
[00:10:39] Really?
[00:10:39] They know how to do shellfish and Pokemon.
[00:10:41] That's for damn sure.
[00:10:42] Yeah, I like it.
[00:10:44] I also like that the narrative, the overarching narrative with the Titan
[00:10:48] Pokemon implied by Arvin seems to be that they need the Urba
[00:10:54] Mystica so that they can get like really, really high from Stranger Things.
[00:10:58] Yeah.
[00:10:58] Billy.
[00:11:00] So yeah, it's sort of a confusing set of events.
[00:11:03] I didn't we didn't really get into this last week.
[00:11:05] I kind of glossed over this, but you're joined on every one of these Titan
[00:11:09] battles by Billy from Stranger Things, whose real name is like Arwin or something.
[00:11:13] Arvin.
[00:11:14] I literally just said it.
[00:11:16] It's like an elf name and you have to do all the.
[00:11:20] Yeah, he conveniently calls you as though he like geo fenced it.
[00:11:25] Like when you get around the range of where the Titan Pokemon is, he calls
[00:11:29] you, he's like, hey, this like watch out for all the sheer cliffs.
[00:11:32] Like hope you make it.
[00:11:34] And then he has you do all the work.
[00:11:36] You lead him to wherever the Titan Pokemon is.
[00:11:40] And then he shows up.
[00:11:41] It's a two part battle.
[00:11:42] We've done it twice.
[00:11:43] We may as well talk about them both.
[00:11:44] Josh caught up on cloth and then we went after Bombardier.
[00:11:49] Bombardier.
[00:11:50] Bombardier.
[00:11:52] So yeah, you always do the first fight, which is just a big boss battle, but
[00:11:55] then it always goes into like a frenzy and needs to like, it needs to get high,
[00:12:00] get high, like Bane.
[00:12:02] Yeah.
[00:12:03] It needs to do like that venom.
[00:12:05] So it always like goes on a frenzy and tries to find the nearest
[00:12:08] patch of Herba Mystica and in doing so uncovers it.
[00:12:12] So then we have to finish beating its ass.
[00:12:14] Right.
[00:12:14] So that we can have the Herba Mystica.
[00:12:17] Okay.
[00:12:18] Understood, right?
[00:12:19] Uh huh.
[00:12:19] You beat the Titan Pokemon, you get the Herba Mystica.
[00:12:23] Then it's implied that Arwen is making sandwiches out of the Herba
[00:12:27] Mystica for you and Arwen to eat, presumably to get, I don't know, buff
[00:12:32] and high and turn huge like the Titan Pokemon.
[00:12:35] Yeah.
[00:12:36] I think that we both eat the sandwiches that are laced with Herba Mystica.
[00:12:40] And then we sort of just like show off our bodies to each other.
[00:12:47] Yeah.
[00:12:48] In a cave.
[00:12:52] Admire each other's strength.
[00:12:55] Yeah.
[00:12:55] Yeah.
[00:12:56] Just see what it would feel like to kiss, you know?
[00:12:59] No, you never even get the chance because every time you try to eat
[00:13:03] Herba Mystica and we've only tried to eat it twice now, I'm just trying
[00:13:06] to get fucking high here and every single time Coridon.
[00:13:09] Yeah, Meridon or whatever the hell yours is called pops out and it's like,
[00:13:15] Hey, how about I eat that?
[00:13:17] I always give it to them.
[00:13:19] Yeah, I do too.
[00:13:19] It says like, no, this is mine or like here have it.
[00:13:23] I always say, yeah, you can have it.
[00:13:24] This latest time even Arwen was like, okay, I won't eat the sandwich either.
[00:13:29] I'm not going to get like fucking blazed alone.
[00:13:32] That would suck in a cave.
[00:13:33] Just let this dragon motorcycle get baked as hell.
[00:13:37] In my game, Arwen gave it to a big sad dog the second time.
[00:13:42] Did he do that for you too?
[00:13:43] Oh, we're going to talk about the sad dog already.
[00:13:46] Well, that's what happened when we got Bomb Beardier.
[00:13:49] Do you want to go chase down Bomb Beardier?
[00:13:50] We get to the second Titan, Skytite, which is Bomb-er-deer.
[00:13:57] And when we went to Zari to interrupt, but Bomb Beardier is my,
[00:14:03] it will make me bar Pokemon of the week.
[00:14:10] I hate it.
[00:14:12] I kind of liked it.
[00:14:13] I sort of want to get my hands on this Bomb Beardier.
[00:14:15] I don't like the diaper bib thing in the front.
[00:14:19] I think it's a bad design.
[00:14:20] I think the way it holds it is weird.
[00:14:22] I think it's bad and I don't like it.
[00:14:24] It's the diaper.
[00:14:25] It's mostly just the diaper.
[00:14:26] It's a stork, it seems like.
[00:14:29] Yeah.
[00:14:29] You'd think that would be really good on Esteban Umano's team
[00:14:33] because it delivers Umano's.
[00:14:35] Yeah.
[00:14:36] Don't you need an Umano delivery service?
[00:14:39] Yeah.
[00:14:39] I, well now when I'm looking at the Bulbapedia, I'm standing by it even more.
[00:14:44] The illustration is beautiful.
[00:14:46] I mean, this is a beautiful bird.
[00:14:48] Beautiful bird.
[00:14:49] Actually, the illustration makes it look really nice.
[00:14:51] In game, it looks bad.
[00:14:52] I kind of wanted to get my hands on this beautiful bird.
[00:14:55] Or I think it looks bad.
[00:14:56] I think the diaper looked weird.
[00:14:57] But yeah, when it's holding the diaper thing in its mouth,
[00:15:01] It looks like a loaded diaper.
[00:15:02] It is a little upsetting.
[00:15:03] Yeah, that was my You Make Me Barf Pokemon of the Week.
[00:15:05] Yeah.
[00:15:06] And it's at the top of a big tall mountain and it's hurling boulders down.
[00:15:10] I guess it's picking them up in there, which is in its diaper,
[00:15:13] which is a powerful diaper.
[00:15:16] Yeah.
[00:15:17] Those are boom booms he's throwing.
[00:15:20] What are the rock people from Zelda called?
[00:15:22] Gorons?
[00:15:23] Yeah, he's throwing them down the mountain like Gorons.
[00:15:25] Yeah, it's very Death Mountain vibes.
[00:15:28] And you have to dodge.
[00:15:29] You have to drift and weave through these boulders on your souped up Koridon
[00:15:35] who can go speed now.
[00:15:37] Speed upgrade, yeah.
[00:15:39] That's what it got from eating the first sandwich.
[00:15:41] And then we have to face off against this bird.
[00:15:44] Save as the first battle.
[00:15:45] It's funny that they always the Titans always want to get high.
[00:15:49] But I don't notice that they get noticeably better if anything,
[00:15:53] especially because Arvin will jump in and help you.
[00:15:55] They seem worse.
[00:15:57] And I don't know that it's actually good for their coordination.
[00:15:59] It regenerates their health.
[00:16:01] That's true. Entirely.
[00:16:02] You beat Bum-Birdie.
[00:16:06] And Bum-Birdie.
[00:16:08] Oh, I like it.
[00:16:08] Yeah, Bum-Birdie.
[00:16:10] And you go into the cave.
[00:16:15] Arvin makes some sandwiches.
[00:16:16] You admire each other's bodies.
[00:16:19] Did I say your name at the beginning?
[00:16:20] Huh?
[00:16:20] I don't think I did.
[00:16:21] We got too caught up on Reverum because your name was Josh Birdier.
[00:16:26] But it would be Josh Birdier.
[00:16:28] Did you even introduce me in the beginning?
[00:16:30] No, that's what I was saying.
[00:16:31] I didn't say your name.
[00:16:32] We got too.
[00:16:32] Fifteen minutes into this.
[00:16:33] Too revved up on Reverum like hype.
[00:16:37] Yeah.
[00:16:38] Bum-Birdie, Josh Birdie.
[00:16:41] I'm Josh Fielstad.
[00:16:42] I'm the cohost.
[00:16:43] It's a weak kind of a weak name.
[00:16:44] It's really lazy.
[00:16:46] I don't know if it was really worth going back.
[00:16:47] No.
[00:16:48] But I mean, I deserve to be introduced.
[00:16:51] Josh Birdie.
[00:16:52] This has got to be the latest one that there's ever been.
[00:16:55] I mean, we're just like River rooming around here.
[00:17:00] We were not.
[00:17:01] Yeah.
[00:17:02] That's the thing.
[00:17:03] Reverum like fan cast.
[00:17:05] Here's the thing with Palladea.
[00:17:06] It just sort of like you go with the flow.
[00:17:09] It's very hard to keep us on track.
[00:17:11] We know we have to get to a gym.
[00:17:13] It's open world.
[00:17:14] It's hard for the format for experience share a Pokemon play through podcast when a
[00:17:19] We're a couple of open world boys.
[00:17:21] We've got gyms, but we're pretty untethered.
[00:17:23] Can't stop us.
[00:17:24] Look at us.
[00:17:24] Now, I wanted to get to a point about the sky Titan.
[00:17:30] Yeah.
[00:17:30] Bombardier birdie or please.
[00:17:32] Sorry.
[00:17:33] Bum birdie a after you have your sandwiches admire each other's bodies.
[00:17:40] Then Arvin lets you in on a secret, which is that he's been trying to feed
[00:17:48] the urban mystica to his beloved partner, which is Joshi's sweetie, Mabostiff.
[00:18:01] Excuse me.
[00:18:02] Joshi's sweetie.
[00:18:02] You're what?
[00:18:03] Mabostiff.
[00:18:04] Oh, okay.
[00:18:05] Got it.
[00:18:05] It's like a very old, wise, loyal hound.
[00:18:12] Mabostiff.
[00:18:13] Yeah.
[00:18:14] He's got really little soulful eyes.
[00:18:16] Eyebrows.
[00:18:17] He looks like he's seen a lot of shit, but like he's he's willing to do anything.
[00:18:23] To help you.
[00:18:23] And our wins is sick as hell.
[00:18:26] It looks like I forget how, but it got all fucked up some and he based on his
[00:18:33] reading believes that urban mystica will get Mabostiff back to fighting for him.
[00:18:41] And it works.
[00:18:42] He's right.
[00:18:42] He has a bite of the sandwich and then he stands up for the first time in a long
[00:18:46] time, apparently, and he opens his eyes.
[00:18:48] Yeah.
[00:18:49] Yeah.
[00:18:49] He opens his eyes.
[00:18:50] Really powerful stuff.
[00:18:51] Really makes me feel for our win, who I can't really get a handle on.
[00:18:55] Is he supposed to be a bad guy or a good guy?
[00:18:57] Because he was kind of the bad boy brat in the whole first tutorial section.
[00:19:02] But now we're snapping photos together every time we defeat a Titan.
[00:19:07] We're like, yeah.
[00:19:08] I know.
[00:19:08] I thought he was just standard issue nepo baby.
[00:19:12] He's the son of the professor.
[00:19:14] He's got an attitude.
[00:19:17] He's got annoying hair, but it seems like he's got some heart to him.
[00:19:21] Yeah.
[00:19:21] And he's trying to do all of this aside from himself getting high, which is a
[00:19:27] noble endeavor on its own.
[00:19:28] We're friendly to that.
[00:19:29] This is an urban mystica friendly podcast.
[00:19:31] Yes, urban mystica friendly podcast.
[00:19:33] But he's also doing it for his beloved Mabostiff.
[00:19:38] And I admire that.
[00:19:40] So every nepo baby, they got a whole other side of the coin.
[00:19:45] You know?
[00:19:45] Sure.
[00:19:46] That coin full of generational wealth.
[00:19:48] There's a whole other side to it.
[00:19:51] So really heart string tugging stuff between Billy and his Mabostiff.
[00:19:58] Mabostiff.
[00:20:00] My Bostiff.
[00:20:02] Gross.
[00:20:03] Artisan is sort of our next destination.
[00:20:10] We're headed towards the.
[00:20:12] Well, do we want to talk about the West province?
[00:20:16] Because that's what you have to take to get to the Sky Titan.
[00:20:18] And I have a couple of comments about it.
[00:20:20] Bring me back there.
[00:20:22] Bring me back there.
[00:20:23] Tell me the West province.
[00:20:25] Describe it to me.
[00:20:26] West of Mesa Goza up in the hills.
[00:20:29] It's known as the land of the windmills, which seem like they are wind
[00:20:34] turbines, so I think I did see the big word wind turbines infrastructure week
[00:20:39] over here in the West province.
[00:20:41] They seem to value clean energy.
[00:20:44] They invest in infrastructure.
[00:20:45] It has a jaunty soundtrack.
[00:20:48] I love the music in this area.
[00:20:49] I love the whole vibe.
[00:20:51] The one thing I didn't love is a Pokemon called Capsa Kid, and I'm also going
[00:21:19] to issue a Pokechex yourself for Capsa Kid.
[00:21:22] Okay.
[00:21:22] The reason I hate careful that guy's a friend of mine.
[00:21:29] Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
[00:21:32] It's got kid right in the name.
[00:21:33] The reason I hate Capsa Kid is that they are maybe a foot tall, eight inches or
[00:21:40] something, and they are littered throughout the landscape.
[00:21:44] And I would be barreling around on my motorcycle dragon, and then just out
[00:21:49] of nowhere, I'm in battle with a fucking Capsa Kid, and they're all week.
[00:21:53] They're level 12, and they never, at least in my experience, never let
[00:21:58] me escape, even though I was double their level.
[00:22:01] Escaping is really hard in this game.
[00:22:03] They never let me.
[00:22:04] So I had to keep fighting them.
[00:22:05] I have the same issue with one of the fly, Rookidee.
[00:22:09] Rookidees will sort of go out of their way to swoop me and get me, and they
[00:22:14] never let me escape.
[00:22:15] The Rookidees function like the Murkros did in Arceus, where they hunt you down.
[00:22:20] Yeah, they'll just sort of pursue you.
[00:22:22] Capsa Kid is more of just everywhere, and you don't know where they are.
[00:22:26] And then once you run over them, I guess they're upset about that.
[00:22:30] And then they fight you, and they get killed in one hit.
[00:22:33] Capsa Kid fucks me up a little bit, and I'm curious to hear this
[00:22:36] Pokéchex yourself on it.
[00:22:38] Yeah.
[00:22:38] I did a little bit of research.
[00:22:40] I was like, oh, Capsa Kid doesn't look like a kid to me, but maybe
[00:22:43] it grows up into a normal dude.
[00:22:45] So it does evolve.
[00:22:46] Okay, that's good.
[00:22:47] Maybe.
[00:22:48] Yeah.
[00:22:49] Ultimately, why I had to cut it from the team.
[00:22:51] Oh, you tried it.
[00:22:52] Yeah, I guess you had to try it out, didn't you?
[00:22:54] Yeah.
[00:22:55] Baby Bert.
[00:22:56] The reason I wanted to Pokéchex it was that its Pokedex entry is
[00:23:01] traditional Paldian dishes can be extremely spicy because they
[00:23:05] include the shed front teeth of Capsa Kid among their ingredients.
[00:23:11] Okay.
[00:23:13] Gross.
[00:23:13] So Paldians are eating the baby teeth?
[00:23:19] I couldn't even get a read on this thing's teeth.
[00:23:21] No, I don't see.
[00:23:22] Like it doesn't really have a clear face.
[00:23:25] It looks like a chicken with a shell on it.
[00:23:27] Yeah.
[00:23:27] Where are its teeth?
[00:23:28] It looks like it has a beak.
[00:23:30] I see a little tongue.
[00:23:31] I see.
[00:23:32] Oh, if you look at the illustration, it's got a big tooth.
[00:23:37] One big tooth.
[00:23:39] And that just pops off and that spicy as hell.
[00:23:41] And it's the front of it.
[00:23:43] And then it's like, is this like a rhinoceros thing where
[00:23:45] they're being illegally poached?
[00:23:47] And then people are just sawing off the tooth and leaving
[00:23:52] the rest of the Capsa Kid to fend for itself.
[00:23:55] It's kind of like it's all pretty fucked up to think about.
[00:23:59] Maybe that's why they keep evolving into Scovillian.
[00:24:02] Scovillian?
[00:24:04] I'm going to look it up.
[00:24:05] Yeah.
[00:24:06] Scovillian.
[00:24:07] Where does that name come from?
[00:24:09] It's not cool.
[00:24:11] Oh, wow.
[00:24:12] The Scoville scale.
[00:24:14] Oh, because it's chili peppers.
[00:24:18] Okay.
[00:24:19] Like a ripe one and a-
[00:24:21] They're all chili peppers.
[00:24:22] Not ripe one?
[00:24:23] Sure.
[00:24:24] You guys as good as mine?
[00:24:25] I see.
[00:24:26] Yeah, we had one baby burnt.
[00:24:28] He joined us for a little while, but there's something pretty
[00:24:32] interesting about fire grass, which is what Scovillian is.
[00:24:36] Yeah, that's a cool combo.
[00:24:38] Something kind of fun about that.
[00:24:39] Is that the only one?
[00:24:40] Maybe.
[00:24:41] But I already have a fire and a grass, so I don't need a
[00:24:43] fire grass.
[00:24:44] And it's not really a human.
[00:24:46] Yeah, too many heads, I guess, for a human.
[00:24:50] Yeah.
[00:24:51] And like a Godzilla body.
[00:24:53] Pretty fucked up.
[00:24:54] Pretty confusing one.
[00:24:55] And pretty fucked up what they do to it in Paldia.
[00:24:59] But I'm not going to yuck any yums.
[00:25:02] I'm not a native Paldian.
[00:25:03] It's part of the culture.
[00:25:05] I'm ready to yuck some yums in Artisan, where the grass
[00:25:11] type gym leader is like the Smiths type, like a mopey.
[00:25:17] Yeah, brassius, like a mopey artistic type.
[00:25:21] Yes.
[00:25:21] Not the fun, vibrant artistic type like that bug type trainer
[00:25:26] in black and white.
[00:25:28] There was that guy who was an artist.
[00:25:30] Berg.
[00:25:31] Berg.
[00:25:32] Great John Houseman name.
[00:25:34] Like Berg.
[00:25:36] He was like a vibrant artist.
[00:25:41] But brassius is like mopey his art.
[00:25:44] Well, artist objective.
[00:25:47] I know that.
[00:25:48] But do you want to talk about his art?
[00:25:51] I took some photos.
[00:25:52] Yeah, let's get into it.
[00:25:53] Yeah, his art is strewn about Artisan.
[00:25:58] Yeah, it's a little like Storm King if you've ever been.
[00:26:02] Well, it's sort of like installations about the premises.
[00:26:06] I shouldn't judge so quickly.
[00:26:07] Yeah, it's like Storm King.
[00:26:08] It seems like he's got maybe one cast or maybe two
[00:26:15] different casts he'll like to do over and over again.
[00:26:18] One looks kind of like a big vertebrae.
[00:26:21] Yeah.
[00:26:21] He'll line those up sort of like stonehenges just willy nilly.
[00:26:25] Oh, sorry.
[00:26:27] I'm seeing that they have names.
[00:26:29] And so one of those is called Meditative Seat.
[00:26:32] And it's actually by an unknown artist.
[00:26:34] It's not by brassius.
[00:26:36] But I talked to all the freaks in this town and no one seemed
[00:26:40] to elude any other artists.
[00:26:42] And I think that it's brassius.
[00:26:44] I mean, I would hope because otherwise what I would say
[00:26:48] about brassius art is that it's all pretty much one note.
[00:26:51] Well, two notes.
[00:26:52] There's the big vertebrate and then the other one is like the
[00:26:54] vertebrate thing.
[00:26:55] Vertebrate Stonehenge is not him.
[00:26:58] I'm hoping that it's like him trying to like you make
[00:27:03] a donation and you're just anonymous where it's like,
[00:27:07] oh, yeah, maybe there's some other up and coming artists
[00:27:09] in this town.
[00:27:10] The place Josh and I used to work.
[00:27:12] You were allowed to give money, but you weren't allowed
[00:27:15] to give your name.
[00:27:16] Did you know that?
[00:27:17] No.
[00:27:18] I don't think it was ever enforced.
[00:27:20] I don't have any money to give because of how poorly they
[00:27:23] paid us back there.
[00:27:28] Brassius's other art, speaking of being paid poorly.
[00:27:32] His main piece, The Harvest is a series.
[00:27:36] The Harvest.
[00:27:36] He's tried it several times.
[00:27:38] Yeah.
[00:27:39] He's done it several times and he's done it in several
[00:27:42] different color ways.
[00:27:43] Yeah.
[00:27:43] And it's like a torch that is carrot.
[00:27:48] It's like a carrot with like a dragon Dragon balls in a wreath
[00:27:53] around it.
[00:27:53] There was one woman who was admiring them, but I thought
[00:27:57] the critique by so called boyfriend and girlfriend was
[00:28:03] rather apt where the girl says, my boyfriend said we'd
[00:28:08] meet at the quote weird sculpture, but that hardly
[00:28:12] narrows it down.
[00:28:13] And then you can find the boyfriend on the other side
[00:28:17] of the, I think it's the gym battle area.
[00:28:21] And then he goes, I told my girlfriend clear his day.
[00:28:24] Let's meet at the weird sculpture.
[00:28:26] What's taking her so long?
[00:28:28] And so it doesn't really seem like the denizens of artisan
[00:28:34] admire the art very much.
[00:28:38] Well, I don't either to be totally honest.
[00:28:41] No, I do not.
[00:28:42] I do not like this art.
[00:28:44] And speaking of colleges, I saw a lot of weird shit when
[00:28:49] I went to Bard where everybody was in studio art major.
[00:28:53] I once got to see a girl lock herself in a cage for
[00:28:59] two days and you could just go watch her be in the cage.
[00:29:02] And I think this art is worse than that is what I
[00:29:06] was going to say.
[00:29:07] One time I had to act for a snuff film, but it was
[00:29:11] all just hands.
[00:29:12] And my hand was like the big man hand that kept doing all
[00:29:17] the BDSM to all the other people's hands.
[00:29:20] What does that entail?
[00:29:23] I can't remember all of them.
[00:29:25] They were all little vignettes and it was me and all
[00:29:27] of our friends.
[00:29:29] And this was a director who you're familiar with,
[00:29:32] a friend of ours, who directed this famous director.
[00:29:37] I remember one, my friend's hand was tied down with
[00:29:40] strings as though they were tied down with ropes and my
[00:29:42] hand was put into like a big utility glove.
[00:29:45] And then I started slapping their hand.
[00:29:47] Oh, wow.
[00:29:48] So that's what happens when you go to art school,
[00:29:50] everyone.
[00:29:50] You know, art, you can interpret it however you want.
[00:29:54] So there's, I'm sure there's plenty to say there.
[00:29:57] Not really my responsibility as the artist.
[00:29:59] Plenty to say, think about with a girl trapped in a
[00:30:03] cage for two days and plenty to think about with
[00:30:06] the carrots surrounded by Dragon Ball Z balls.
[00:30:10] Yeah.
[00:30:10] Powerful stuff.
[00:30:11] Well, it's got us talking, you know, and is really that
[00:30:14] the whole purpose of art to make us feel,
[00:30:16] to make us sort of connect.
[00:30:18] Yeah, that's it.
[00:30:19] So I guess Brassius is a talented artist by that
[00:30:22] definition.
[00:30:23] Mm-hmm.
[00:30:24] Yeah.
[00:30:25] Wow.
[00:30:26] And good at WOM.
[00:30:27] What?
[00:30:27] Word of mouth.
[00:30:28] Jesus Christ.
[00:30:30] Is that some, is that the buzzword?
[00:30:32] That's how you say it now?
[00:30:33] WOM?
[00:30:34] That's how I say it.
[00:30:36] Should we get that going?
[00:30:38] We can give it a shot.
[00:30:39] Yeah.
[00:30:40] Brassius's WOM game is strong and his art is challenging.
[00:30:45] Yeah, I felt challenged.
[00:30:47] Definitely.
[00:30:48] And there is a literal challenge that we have to do,
[00:30:53] like one of those games that we have to go
[00:30:55] do before we can fight him.
[00:30:56] And when do you want to talk about that?
[00:31:00] After this break.
[00:31:01] God damn it.
[00:31:09] Joshua, welcome back.
[00:31:11] Bug Catchers, welcome back.
[00:31:12] It's Experian, sure it's Pokemon.
[00:31:13] I guess we are just about to take on our friend,
[00:31:17] famous artist Brassius in Artisan.
[00:31:21] The name of the town is sort of on the nose
[00:31:24] now that I think about it.
[00:31:25] Maybe that's why they moved there.
[00:31:27] Maybe the whole town was built around the beauty
[00:31:30] and majesty of Brassius's art and raw talent
[00:31:34] for Pokemon battling.
[00:31:35] He's not a very good Pokemon battler, I will say.
[00:31:38] Let's talk about the-
[00:31:40] Challenge.
[00:31:41] Challenge that we had to do because he set up this sort of,
[00:31:45] I wouldn't say sophisticated challenge.
[00:31:47] I would say pretty easy challenge.
[00:31:49] It's like collecting the cockrocks in Ocarina of Time.
[00:31:53] Except even easier actually.
[00:31:55] You mean the skulltulas?
[00:31:57] What are you talking about?
[00:31:58] Remember when you have to go collect
[00:32:00] all the little flying chickens?
[00:32:01] What are those chickens called?
[00:32:02] Oh yeah.
[00:32:04] Oh, In Cock-a-Rico is what you're talking about.
[00:32:07] Yeah.
[00:32:08] Cuckoos, cuckoos.
[00:32:10] Yeah, cuckoos.
[00:32:11] In this challenge, Brassius has set up sunfluras
[00:32:15] all around town.
[00:32:16] Kind of all around town.
[00:32:18] Yeah, in a couple spots around town.
[00:32:20] And your job is to go up to them and hit A.
[00:32:23] And I guess the real challenge of the game
[00:32:25] is whether or not your Switch can handle-
[00:32:28] 10 sunfluras.
[00:32:30] Four or more sunfluras on screen with you at one time.
[00:32:34] That's the true challenge.
[00:32:35] I was hoping it was going to be,
[00:32:38] and it has its delightful moments,
[00:32:40] but once they get a little janky with the animation,
[00:32:43] it's not as fun.
[00:32:44] Cause you do get all these sunfluras following you around,
[00:32:47] but it is not rendered that well.
[00:32:51] And also when you start the challenge-
[00:32:54] They struggle.
[00:32:55] There's two or three sunfluras
[00:32:58] that are immediately within eyesight.
[00:33:01] They're right behind you.
[00:33:02] They're like, oh, here's the first three.
[00:33:03] Only three or four of them were sort of-
[00:33:06] Fuck your Nintendo Switch.
[00:33:07] Clever and cute.
[00:33:10] I would say the sunflora opinion of mine improved
[00:33:14] on this quest because there's a couple
[00:33:17] that are just standing by food carts
[00:33:20] and staring at the menu,
[00:33:22] and then a couple of them are in little plants-
[00:33:25] Pots.
[00:33:26] Pots waiting to get picked up.
[00:33:29] But in general,
[00:33:30] they are not actually even spread around the entire town.
[00:33:33] And there are, I guess this is probably Brassius Art.
[00:33:36] There's also sculptures of sunflora around the town,
[00:33:41] but they're not scaled to look the same.
[00:33:43] I think those are just to throw you off.
[00:33:44] It doesn't really, it's not very hard.
[00:33:48] It's an easy challenge.
[00:33:49] And then once all the sunfloras are rounded up,
[00:33:51] you can go finally take on big bad boy crybaby Brassius
[00:33:56] in the-
[00:33:57] Grass gym?
[00:33:59] Grass gym, yeah.
[00:34:01] You wanna talk about the teams we brought in?
[00:34:02] Oh yeah, in Level Check.
[00:34:05] Level check.
[00:34:07] Wow, it's been a long strange journey
[00:34:13] for Esteban Humano since last week.
[00:34:16] Yeah, seems like it.
[00:34:17] Let's hear who his bros-
[00:34:21] What's bro in Paldayan?
[00:34:23] Er-mono,
[00:34:25] U-mono and Er-mono.
[00:34:27] We need the, what's the slang term?
[00:34:32] Erm.
[00:34:33] Well to look into that.
[00:34:34] My oldest friend in the world is Donna Baker.
[00:34:39] We grew up together, we're very close
[00:34:42] and she decided to join me on this journey.
[00:34:45] So she's Flora Gotto, level 24.
[00:34:47] We all love Donna Baker.
[00:34:49] We met a pretty interesting character
[00:34:53] in I think like zone four or whatever.
[00:34:56] These like all have the weirdest names.
[00:34:58] Yeah.
[00:34:59] Named Lady Beth and she's a LARPer.
[00:35:02] Lady.
[00:35:03] I knew a little bit about LARPing
[00:35:04] but she's like super into it.
[00:35:05] So she's got like the full like little suit of armor on
[00:35:08] and she like pretends to be like a little knight
[00:35:12] and she's a charr cadet, level 25.
[00:35:14] Is she trying to be a knight as well?
[00:35:18] She like LARPing to be like a valiant knight?
[00:35:21] I don't know.
[00:35:22] She just calls herself Lady Beth.
[00:35:23] Yeah, it's just, and she talks like that.
[00:35:26] You know, like she talks like,
[00:35:27] oh, I'm speaking an old Englishie, you know.
[00:35:30] Interesting.
[00:35:31] And then she's actually joined by another one.
[00:35:33] There's two of them on my team.
[00:35:36] The other one that's Sir Jean Paul.
[00:35:38] Like you're sort of butting in on a Don Joey's thing.
[00:35:42] He's also a LARPer.
[00:35:43] They're both LARPers.
[00:35:45] So they like to pretend to be like famous knights
[00:35:48] and he's a Pontiard, level 23.
[00:35:50] Did I say that?
[00:35:51] No, interesting.
[00:35:52] Sir Jean Paul, Pontiard, level 23.
[00:35:54] So they're sort of a pair.
[00:35:56] All right.
[00:35:57] And then we met a ghost, very shy ghost.
[00:36:01] We thought that counts.
[00:36:03] Former person.
[00:36:04] Yeah.
[00:36:06] Their name is Shy Avery.
[00:36:08] They're a gimmie ghoul, level 25.
[00:36:11] OK.
[00:36:12] Very shy.
[00:36:13] Always hiding in this little box.
[00:36:14] Making the little sound.
[00:36:16] Can't even do it.
[00:36:22] Rusty Jr.
[00:36:25] I knew his dad, Rusty Sr., but Rusty Jr.
[00:36:30] is joining us for the trip.
[00:36:32] His dad thought it would be good for him
[00:36:33] to just kind of get out and see the world.
[00:36:34] I don't know if he's going to stay on the team
[00:36:36] for very long, just kind of like showing him around.
[00:36:37] That's Man-key, level 25.
[00:36:41] Yeah, lots of Man-key.
[00:36:43] Man-key.
[00:36:44] Lots of Man-keys on this leg.
[00:36:49] And then we met a new dude just recently,
[00:36:53] pretty cool guy.
[00:36:54] He's from Austria-Hungary.
[00:36:58] His name is Gregor Samsa,
[00:37:01] and he is Rellor, level 25.
[00:37:04] Austria-Hungary is still around?
[00:37:07] Yeah, that's what I said too.
[00:37:08] Apparently he just woke up one day, was a bug,
[00:37:11] says he's still a guy but just looks like a bug,
[00:37:14] was driven out of Austria-Hungary by his family
[00:37:17] who just wanted to squish him to death
[00:37:20] because they're like, we don't want to live with a bug.
[00:37:22] So now he's here in Paldaya.
[00:37:25] We hooked up with him.
[00:37:27] Cool dude.
[00:37:27] He does look like a bug.
[00:37:29] Not a big deal.
[00:37:30] He is rolling around a big piece of poop.
[00:37:31] That sucks.
[00:37:33] But he just says he's a dude and I believe him.
[00:37:36] I guess so.
[00:37:37] Kind of a weird dude.
[00:37:38] I met a, weirdly enough, I've met an Austro-Hungarian.
[00:37:43] There's a whole book about him.
[00:37:44] Who is kind of strange.
[00:37:48] Friend got married in France many years ago
[00:37:52] and he had gone to an international school in Bangkok
[00:37:57] and essentially it was the United Nations
[00:38:00] at this wedding, but this one girl,
[00:38:03] obviously I have no idea what her name was
[00:38:05] at this point, but she specifically identified
[00:38:08] as Austro-Hungarian and this is like 2014 or something.
[00:38:13] I'm pretty sure it's just called the Czech Republic.
[00:38:16] It's definitely not Austro-Hungarian.
[00:38:23] You could be from one or the other
[00:38:25] like one of the countries in the middle,
[00:38:27] but identifying as part of the empire is sort of strange.
[00:38:31] Yeah, I don't know.
[00:38:31] Take it up with Gregor.
[00:38:32] I would love for you to meet him sometime.
[00:38:33] I have this one line that Bobby and I still use frequently
[00:38:38] where we were like later in Paris
[00:38:42] and taking a cab around and she saw a Peugeot,
[00:38:47] like the French car, the tiny ones.
[00:38:51] And she goes, I'm sick of these Peugeot lunchboxes.
[00:38:55] She hated all of the Peugeot cars
[00:38:57] that kept getting in the way
[00:38:58] and she called them Peugeot lunchboxes.
[00:39:00] And now anytime we see a little car
[00:39:02] that's like getting its way, it's a Peugeot lunchbox.
[00:39:06] Yeah, Gregor's a little like that too.
[00:39:08] I could see him saying that.
[00:39:09] Well, cause he's always rolling around this big poop
[00:39:11] and he can't see around it that well.
[00:39:13] Yeah.
[00:39:14] So he's always bunking into people
[00:39:15] and he's like, hey, get out of my way.
[00:39:17] You know, not a nice guy.
[00:39:19] Where'd you even find him?
[00:39:20] And isn't he like smelly?
[00:39:23] Austro-Hungarian.
[00:39:24] Right.
[00:39:25] Honorable mentions, I will say on ice really quick.
[00:39:31] Both Ralts.
[00:39:33] Thad's mean dog.
[00:39:35] Vespa Queen, all gone.
[00:39:37] What happened?
[00:39:38] You know, you gotta know who your friends are
[00:39:39] and they were not my friends.
[00:39:42] Not friendly people.
[00:39:43] Good that Estephan knows himself.
[00:39:45] Pretty sure Vespa Queen's not even a person.
[00:39:46] You recognize that.
[00:39:50] Honorable mentions, those we've met along the way.
[00:39:53] Big boy Kyle Toxel, level 24.
[00:39:57] He's not a big one yet.
[00:39:59] He hasn't turned into the like rock and roll lizard yet
[00:40:02] but we met baby Bert, the Capsa kid
[00:40:06] and I knew that he had to get an upgrade
[00:40:08] so we changed his name to big boy Kyle.
[00:40:10] I am a little wary of him turning into a lizard
[00:40:13] so I have put him sort of on the back burner for now.
[00:40:17] Yeah, that's not vibing.
[00:40:18] Cause that's like not, it's not hard,
[00:40:20] like umano vibes, you know?
[00:40:23] Xavier Young was a pretty interesting guy.
[00:40:25] Met dancer, Ori Corio, level 18.
[00:40:29] Ran with him for a little while
[00:40:31] and then really interesting guy, Chaz Feeny, Vigoroth,
[00:40:35] a level 22 kind of boss move set on him
[00:40:39] and then of course baby Bert, Capsa's kid, level 17.
[00:40:44] Not gonna pursue him any further.
[00:40:46] Yeah, two heads is one too many for Estephan's crew.
[00:40:50] Don Joey?
[00:40:51] Don Joey's rabble hasn't changed that much
[00:40:56] although I got a couple of questions
[00:40:59] but for now the first part of this team
[00:41:03] is still pretty good.
[00:41:05] Nobody did anything particularly valiant this week
[00:41:09] in order to get a honorific title quite yet
[00:41:13] other than the Duke and the Duchess
[00:41:15] but they already had those.
[00:41:16] The Duke is now a pomo.
[00:41:18] Pomo?
[00:41:19] Level 24.
[00:41:20] Okay.
[00:41:21] Did not know that it was going to evolve
[00:41:23] so that was fun.
[00:41:25] Pomo, it's just like, what's wrong?
[00:41:28] It's electric fighting now.
[00:41:30] Sorry, I'm looking at the image.
[00:41:32] I'm sort of into electric fighting but oh shit.
[00:41:35] In looking at the image, it looks-
[00:41:37] It evolves again.
[00:41:38] Another one?
[00:41:39] Now I'm spoiled.
[00:41:40] I'm not gonna click on it.
[00:41:41] It somehow looks even more like Pikachu
[00:41:45] but even less like Pikachu at the same time.
[00:41:47] It's getting further away from it and closer to it.
[00:41:50] Face is getting more Pikachu-esque.
[00:41:53] Rest of body, less.
[00:41:55] Feet?
[00:41:56] I'm not gonna look into it.
[00:41:57] The feet are still Pikachu-esque.
[00:41:59] Oh, I see it right on the Google results.
[00:42:01] Pomo.
[00:42:02] No, I'm not gonna look up what it looks like
[00:42:04] although now I know how to get it to evolve
[00:42:07] so that's useful.
[00:42:09] The Duke is great.
[00:42:10] I love the Duke.
[00:42:11] Great.
[00:42:12] It's part fighting now.
[00:42:13] That's fun.
[00:42:14] It's level 24.
[00:42:16] The Duchess, his wife, is now a Merrill.
[00:42:20] Level 20.
[00:42:21] Oh, great.
[00:42:22] Sorry, Azumarill.
[00:42:24] Azumarill.
[00:42:24] I can't wait until the Duke and the Duchess
[00:42:26] meet Lady Beth and Sir John Paul.
[00:42:28] Oh yeah, that would be a delight.
[00:42:30] It's gonna be electric.
[00:42:31] Yeah, it's fun that we've got some royalty on our teams.
[00:42:34] That's fine.
[00:42:35] I was sort of concerned but I mean,
[00:42:37] you're just meeting people along the road so.
[00:42:40] Just meeting people.
[00:42:42] Then we have Rouncy.
[00:42:44] Krokor still level 24.
[00:42:46] Porkus.
[00:42:47] Porkus.
[00:42:48] Porkus evolved and Porkus is now a Oinkalone?
[00:42:56] Oinkalone, yes.
[00:42:58] I think Oinkalone is top notch.
[00:43:00] Oinkalone is good.
[00:43:03] I did not see one in the wild
[00:43:06] like I think you said you did last week
[00:43:08] so I had no idea what was going to happen here
[00:43:10] and I'm delighted with what happened.
[00:43:12] It's like a sassy pig.
[00:43:15] It's like in advertising when you say
[00:43:18] something that's not great but you need to get it out
[00:43:20] and you just say, just put lipstick on that pig
[00:43:22] and ship it.
[00:43:23] Oh, nevermind, nevermind, nevermind.
[00:43:25] You make me barf, you make me barf.
[00:43:26] What?
[00:43:27] On Oinkalone?
[00:43:28] Whole line, LeChonk, Oinkalone female,
[00:43:30] Oinkalone male, whole thing, you make me barf.
[00:43:36] Why?
[00:43:37] Because it's all boogers, it's all eye boogers,
[00:43:39] it's all like mucus and snot.
[00:43:41] The LeChonk has a little disgusting,
[00:43:44] gloopy eye booger on its eye and that's gross
[00:43:48] and then Oinkalone has styled the eye booger into like.
[00:43:51] Don't you think it's like makeup?
[00:43:53] Eyeliner.
[00:43:54] I thought it was makeup.
[00:43:55] No, it's eye boogers and that's,
[00:43:56] it's you make me barf.
[00:43:58] That's like gloom level gross.
[00:44:01] That's gonna make Don Joey reconsider
[00:44:04] because he's gotta have a very good looking crew.
[00:44:09] The eye boogers is too much for me.
[00:44:11] That's too far gone.
[00:44:13] You can't style them.
[00:44:14] It's gonna be troubling.
[00:44:15] Gonna have to think about that.
[00:44:16] I was right there with you, I love that thing.
[00:44:18] But it says, it's,
[00:44:20] Pokedex says that it's got fine glossy skin
[00:44:23] and emits a concentrated scent.
[00:44:25] Eye boogers is just.
[00:44:25] That's alluring.
[00:44:27] Okay.
[00:44:29] Flower-like scent lofting about for the female.
[00:44:33] All right.
[00:44:34] And it's a meticulous Pokemon
[00:44:35] that likes to keep things tidy.
[00:44:38] So I don't think that would be gunk,
[00:44:40] I think it's makeup.
[00:44:41] I would agree with you if Lachonk
[00:44:44] didn't have the big eye booger on it.
[00:44:46] But because I understand
[00:44:47] that Lachonk has the big eye booger on it,
[00:44:49] I know that Oinkalone is just grooming its eye booger,
[00:44:52] fashioning it.
[00:44:53] It is troubling that there can be dissent here.
[00:44:56] So Don Joey is gonna have to think about that.
[00:44:59] But I don't think we have to think about
[00:45:01] doll-live cookie level 25 very much,
[00:45:05] because that's a doll.
[00:45:07] Beautiful olive lady.
[00:45:09] Yeah, just a little beautiful lady.
[00:45:12] And I assume that you just will continue to grow
[00:45:14] into a more beautiful, elegant lady.
[00:45:18] I see that it evolves again.
[00:45:19] Not like a Dr. Seuss character.
[00:45:21] Not going to click on whatever it is
[00:45:23] and don't spoil me.
[00:45:25] We're gonna see what happens.
[00:45:27] We did have to let loose one member
[00:45:31] of this gallivanting crew though.
[00:45:33] And that was Sapper, who evolved into a Spidops.
[00:45:38] Spidops, that was bringing down the whole vibe.
[00:45:42] Very aggressive, very ugly.
[00:45:46] Spidops has like a dark energy.
[00:45:49] I kind of dig Spidops.
[00:45:51] It's kind of a cool look.
[00:45:52] I actually did like using it,
[00:45:53] but thematically it's just not gonna work.
[00:45:56] But I ran it for a few levels and it was kind of fun.
[00:46:00] It's got a signature move called silk trap
[00:46:04] that was pretty fun, that protects it.
[00:46:06] And then if it gets attacked with a contact making move,
[00:46:10] then it slows down the speed of the opposing Pokemon.
[00:46:13] I know this because I have one on my team, Relor.
[00:46:15] And Sissy is a human, but he is Bug type.
[00:46:18] And Bug type are just like so hard to run too.
[00:46:21] They're just weak to everything.
[00:46:22] So in Sapper's place, we have Harold.
[00:46:26] H-E-R-A-L-D.
[00:46:29] Squakabilly, level 20.
[00:46:32] Squakabilly, I like it.
[00:46:35] How could you not like Squakabilly?
[00:46:37] I was exposed to Squakabilly before we started playing.
[00:46:41] It's the green one by the way.
[00:46:42] Because of Pokemon trading card game deck
[00:46:45] that Miles has with Squakabillies in it.
[00:46:48] And I love it.
[00:46:49] It hits hard.
[00:46:51] It looks so sweet.
[00:46:53] Classic, just like classic Pokemon.
[00:46:56] And we need someone who like when we're charging
[00:46:58] into the battlefield can like announce us, you know?
[00:47:01] Yeah, that's cool.
[00:47:02] Send messages when we needed to like coordinate an attack.
[00:47:05] Very Warhammer.
[00:47:06] So Squakabilly is our Harold.
[00:47:07] Yeah.
[00:47:09] How did you do with that team
[00:47:11] up against the big bad Brassius?
[00:47:13] Well, just like last week, I ran Crocolore
[00:47:16] and it was a joke.
[00:47:19] Well, two hits for Brassius' ace, the Pseudo-Woodo.
[00:47:25] But otherwise, what does he have?
[00:47:27] He's got a Petalil and a Smoliv.
[00:47:32] Easy when hit KOs.
[00:47:34] And then Pseudo-Woodo,
[00:47:36] when he is summoning Pseudo-Woodo,
[00:47:38] he goes, well, I can't wait for you
[00:47:41] to see Pseudo-Woodo's truly Woodo form.
[00:47:45] And then he does the Terra Stalizing
[00:47:47] and gets like an elegant sunflower on top of its head.
[00:47:53] I think it's like a little bouquet, yeah.
[00:47:56] Didn't help.
[00:47:57] Burned it.
[00:47:58] It didn't help against Pontiard who smashed it up.
[00:48:03] Yeah, so no problem for you either.
[00:48:05] Not between Ladybeth and Sir Jean-Paul.
[00:48:09] Those two had this gym well in line.
[00:48:12] Brassius, maybe just focus on the art.
[00:48:16] It feels like maybe he needs less time on the battling.
[00:48:21] You gotta get your shit together, Brassius.
[00:48:23] He's not gonna get there with the battle technique,
[00:48:26] but maybe he could get there with the art
[00:48:28] if he had more time.
[00:48:29] Not to get two Jordan B. Peterson on you, Brassius,
[00:48:32] but just make your bet, buddy.
[00:48:36] One day at a time.
[00:48:37] Don't try to do too much.
[00:48:39] Yeah, he's spread too thin.
[00:48:44] I went and met such an interesting character.
[00:48:47] His name was Giacomo.
[00:48:49] He is part of Star Team.
[00:48:51] He's got the fucking coolest ass car I've ever seen.
[00:48:56] I can't wait for you to meet him.
[00:48:58] We're not gonna talk about it today.
[00:49:00] It's all I wanna talk about.
[00:49:02] I gotta get my hands on one of these cars.
[00:49:04] I gotta see this car,
[00:49:05] so I will have to do this for next week.
[00:49:08] We will be doing the...
[00:49:10] So that's the Dark Team Star base?
[00:49:13] Yes, it's the Dark Team Star base.
[00:49:16] His name is Giacomo,
[00:49:17] but he's got Team Sabin or something like that.
[00:49:21] His little gang is called Team Sabin or something.
[00:49:25] And they've got a compound out here.
[00:49:28] It's like Coliseum all over again.
[00:49:31] Giacomo Bay.
[00:49:36] Is that something?
[00:49:37] What?
[00:49:38] It's not a good enough joke
[00:49:40] for it to override how distasteful it is.
[00:49:43] Just cut that.
[00:49:44] Oh, you're making a Guantanamo Bay as a joke?
[00:49:47] Yeah, Jean Como Bay.
[00:49:50] But his name is Giacomo.
[00:49:52] That's how you say it?
[00:49:53] Oh, sorry, you're the native Palladian speaker, so yeah.
[00:49:57] Yeah, sorry, it's Giacomo.
[00:49:59] Yeah, he's a bad boy.
[00:50:00] He's got a really cool car.
[00:50:02] I can't wait for you to meet him.
[00:50:03] You're sort of joined on these Cassopeia quests,
[00:50:09] the Starlight Alley or whatever it's called.
[00:50:11] Starfall Street.
[00:50:12] Starfall Street.
[00:50:14] You're kind of joined by this new character called Clive,
[00:50:17] who I'm interested in your read on.
[00:50:19] I don't like Clive, not to color your opinion early.
[00:50:22] But allow me to color your opinion early.
[00:50:24] But Clive bums me out and Star Team really dazzles me
[00:50:28] and I'm really coming around.
[00:50:29] I'm sort of thinking about turning on Cassopeia.
[00:50:32] Oh wow.
[00:50:33] That's gonna be for next week though, Joshua.
[00:50:37] Did you meet Miss Breyer at the Academy?
[00:50:40] Oh yeah, she was trying to get me
[00:50:42] to sign a permission slip to go on a field trip
[00:50:45] and I was like, hey lady, I just fucking got here.
[00:50:48] Esteban got invited, I thought this was sort of
[00:50:50] a prestigious study abroad program
[00:50:53] for high achieving students like me
[00:50:55] who actually go to classes.
[00:50:56] No, I think they'll take anyone
[00:50:58] because she was trying to get me to go
[00:50:59] and I was like, I got shit to do.
[00:51:01] Huh, I don't know, I kind of want to see
[00:51:04] what her study abroad program is about.
[00:51:07] Maybe we'll step over there.
[00:51:08] Oh, you wanna go over to, what's it called?
[00:51:11] Kikariki Kiki?
[00:51:12] Kokomo?
[00:51:13] It's got lots of Ks in the name, that's all I remember.
[00:51:17] Kitakami.
[00:51:18] Kitakami, so this is the first DLC, yeah?
[00:51:21] Yeah, the teal mask.
[00:51:23] All right, here's where we're gonna go.
[00:51:26] Some of the people I'm traveling with
[00:51:27] have to get their visas cleared.
[00:51:29] Oh, right.
[00:51:30] And have to get their paperwork together.
[00:51:33] I can't just hop on a boat,
[00:51:34] it's just not the way it works, this is 2024.
[00:51:38] So I think next week, let's go do next week's checkpoints,
[00:51:43] which is the Lurking Steel Titan.
[00:51:46] Lurking?
[00:51:46] The Levincia Gym, which is the electric type gym.
[00:51:51] And then you still have to catch up on
[00:51:56] last week's Dark Team Star base.
[00:51:59] Dark Base, yep.
[00:52:00] And then we also have to do
[00:52:01] this next week's Team Star base,
[00:52:03] which is Fire Type, the fire crew.
[00:52:06] All right.
[00:52:07] With Mila.
[00:52:08] So big week, and then after that,
[00:52:11] I think we'll have everything lined up
[00:52:13] to go to Kikoriko.
[00:52:14] Yeah, as long as their visas clear,
[00:52:17] we will go to Kitakami the following week.
[00:52:22] All right.
[00:52:23] Great!
[00:52:24] Joshua, bug catchers,
[00:52:27] I think that's it for us this week, then.
[00:52:29] This has been Experient Share.
[00:52:30] My name has been Reverud, aka Tanner Gryndring,
[00:52:33] and I'm joined as always by my cohost,
[00:52:35] Josh Berdiey.
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[00:53:23] I'm not sure I need any.
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[00:53:29] I just get sick of seeing no notes over and over again.
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