The Teal Mask DLC, Pt. I: First Signpost, Second Signpost, Dreaded Den, The Mask Festival, Third Signpost (#208)

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome! What do they say in Kitakami? Oh god, we're being, uh,

[00:00:15] insensitive. Imperialists, yeah, we- because I was gonna say Ola, but I don't know if they say Ola here.

[00:00:21] Kitakami, um, a lingo.

[00:00:25] I was looking up Kitakami on Bulbapedia and- It's God's home.

[00:00:30] It's not part of Palldea, but it's unclear whether it is itself a region or part of a larger region.

[00:00:36] But I believe I read somewhere that it was adjacent to Unova, but I don't know who the hell made that up.

[00:00:43] Why would- it's adjacent to Palldea? Because we got here pretty quickly. It wasn't like Jurassic, but like we didn't come in on like a helicopter.

[00:00:51] That's true. That would have been better though, to be honest.

[00:00:54] Although it says Kitakami may be named after areas named Kitakami in the Tohoku region of northern Japan.

[00:01:04] That seems like probably that, if it's called the exact same thing. Um, what's hello in Japanese?

[00:01:11] Konnichiwa. Right. That's amateur hour.

[00:01:15] Konnichiwa, my name is Ogertan.

[00:01:19] Ogirpan.

[00:01:21] Ogirpan.

[00:01:23] There's about to be a guy hunt.

[00:01:27] Have you listened- have you given the song a listen?

[00:01:30] Yeah, I did.

[00:01:31] Kinda catchy, huh?

[00:01:32] Fun. Pretty fun.

[00:01:33] Catchy.

[00:01:34] Still have no idea who Brooke Valentine is.

[00:01:37] No, and a pretty like toxic message.

[00:01:40] In a number of ways.

[00:01:42] Last week we had a worm hunt.

[00:01:44] This week it's gonna be a guy hunt because you better believe Estabon Umano is gonna have an Ogirpan on his team before he's dead and in the ground and buried.

[00:01:54] We're jumping ahead so I don't want to talk too much about Ogirpan yet.

[00:01:58] There's about to be a guy hunt!

[00:02:00] I don't know if that was gonna be you doing like, is it a slug parody of like, is it a guy? But like Ogirpan's definitely a guy.

[00:02:07] Cause they think it's a guy.

[00:02:09] It's like a lore that people thought it was a guy.

[00:02:12] Everyone's just pretty sure that Ogirpan is a kid. But he's wearing a mask- or it's- they are wearing a mask.

[00:02:18] Yeah, they're wearing a mask so-

[00:02:19] The teal mask.

[00:02:20] Get away with anything.

[00:02:22] The teal mask that I paid whatever-

[00:02:24] Too much money for?

[00:02:25] $25 for.

[00:02:27] We're getting ahead of ourselves although I guess that was an introduction. This episode and the next episode will be the teal mask DLC.

[00:02:35] Oh, I'm just getting people hyped for the guy hunt!

[00:02:37] You'll be hunting a guy.

[00:02:38] It's actually kind of the story of Kitakame too.

[00:02:41] Yeah.

[00:02:42] It's about a boy and three heroic Pokemon who hunt a man out of the village.

[00:02:46] The loyal three.

[00:02:47] Let's get into it.

[00:02:48] Let's get there. Let's get there.

[00:02:50] My name is Ogirtan aka Tanner Greenring and I'm joined as always by my co-host, Polchagosh.

[00:02:56] Polch-a-geist. Polch-a-geist.

[00:02:58] Polch-a-geist. Uh, variant?

[00:03:01] Yeah, another Toadskool-s.

[00:03:05] Diverging evolutionary pathway somewhere deep in history.

[00:03:10] Primeval ooze.

[00:03:11] I think it's a different Pokemon than Polch-a-geist.

[00:03:14] One Polch-a-geist went one way and one Polch-a-geist went the other way.

[00:03:18] Even though it follows all the same stuff, it's got a counterfeit form and an artisan form just like Polch-a-geist but okay.

[00:03:25] I guess it's Macha instead of T so.

[00:03:28] Yeah.

[00:03:29] Fine.

[00:03:30] Joshua Fialstad, welcome to the show. Buttcatchers, welcome to the show. Konnichiwa.

[00:03:34] Konnichiwa and Ola for those tuning in from Paldea.

[00:03:38] And Alola for those coming in from Alola.

[00:03:41] I went to Naranjha to meet up with a lady named Kiki, kind of class mom.

[00:03:49] No her name's Briar, Miss Briar.

[00:03:52] Who's Kiki?

[00:03:53] Kiki's the kid.

[00:03:54] That's just what I call her.

[00:03:56] That's confusing because there's going to be a Kiki in this leg who is not Miss Briar.

[00:04:05] I wrote down in my notes that her name was Kiki so.

[00:04:07] So Esteban Umano's got a little bit of a relationship with Miss Briar to the extent that he's got a nickname for her and it's Kiki.

[00:04:15] Yeah I guess so.

[00:04:16] Yeah.

[00:04:17] Because I wrote down in the notes Kiki so she must have introduced herself as Kiki.

[00:04:22] Okay.

[00:04:23] Alright.

[00:04:24] So Miss Briar slash Kiki, she's a visiting teacher from Blueberry Academy.

[00:04:32] Boo. More like boo Barry, sucks, boo.

[00:04:35] The worst.

[00:04:36] Like boo's Barry because I hear the instructions.

[00:04:39] God you thought boo's though was bad.

[00:04:40] The teachers are so bad because they're all boo's hounds.

[00:04:43] What does uvo mean, grape?

[00:04:44] I don't know.

[00:04:45] You're the one who's supposed to be a native Haldian.

[00:04:49] There's a picture on the school crest.

[00:04:50] You tell me what it means.

[00:04:51] It was a big picture of an orange on the Naranjha Academy crest.

[00:04:56] I assumed there would be something similar.

[00:04:58] It either means egg or grape but I'm going to assume it means grape.

[00:05:02] Or I.

[00:05:03] I guess it's stuff is all purple.

[00:05:05] Let's call it grape.

[00:05:07] So I guess we'll go for grape.

[00:05:09] My pal Dayan is pretty rusty.

[00:05:11] Okay see here's where I was coming from.

[00:05:14] Blueberry Academy is part of the Indigo Disc which is the other expansion and that's the one that's outside of Unova.

[00:05:24] Okay so we don't know.

[00:05:26] Kitakami is just Japan.

[00:05:27] Are Japan?

[00:05:28] Seems like it.

[00:05:29] That's fucked up.

[00:05:30] Just like Kanto and Jodo and Hoenn and etc.

[00:05:33] Kiki invited me and a few other people out here.

[00:05:35] A bunch of kids.

[00:05:37] Let's see if we can remember all of their names here.

[00:05:39] Don Joey was invited out because of his exceptional schoolwork and participation aka actually going to classes.

[00:05:46] So I'm curious how Esteban.

[00:05:48] Oh I actually checked out the classes this week.

[00:05:50] I found my way back to Naranjha Academy for the first time honestly since arriving.

[00:05:55] It's like Harry Potter.

[00:05:57] Never showed up at class was always just off in the Forbidden Forest battling crystal Pokemon.

[00:06:03] But finally Esteban was like fine I can get back to school.

[00:06:07] And I finally checked it and talked to Professor Jock.

[00:06:09] Jock.

[00:06:10] Learned a little bit about Pokemon.

[00:06:13] Battling.

[00:06:14] It's all stuff.

[00:06:15] It's pretty common knowledge honestly.

[00:06:17] You get all the questions right that you got asked in class?

[00:06:19] Yeah man.

[00:06:20] Like I don't even have to show up to class and I still like I just know this stuff you know.

[00:06:26] Yeah.

[00:06:27] Just comes out naturally to me.

[00:06:28] Got the street smarts.

[00:06:29] I got the book smarts.

[00:06:30] Kiki and I popped out to.

[00:06:34] Kitakami.

[00:06:35] Kitakami where I met the worst person I've ever met in a Pokemon game and that includes a guy who said smell you later to me.

[00:06:46] You've met a new dickhead.

[00:06:47] A bigger dickhead.

[00:06:48] Yep.

[00:06:49] I met two people out here.

[00:06:50] Their names are Keenan and Kel.

[00:06:51] I am actually dating Keenan I think accidentally.

[00:06:55] I don't know how it happened.

[00:06:56] I didn't really think of Esteban as a sexual creature.

[00:07:00] I think if anything he's maybe attracted to Pokemon.

[00:07:03] But somehow I ended up in a relationship with this boy named Keenan.

[00:07:08] Kieran.

[00:07:09] And he has a.

[00:07:10] Aka.

[00:07:11] Awful.

[00:07:12] Kiki.

[00:07:13] Sister.

[00:07:14] Carmine.

[00:07:15] No Kiki is Miss Breyer please.

[00:07:18] Okay this is gonna be hard to follow.

[00:07:20] And his awful sister Kel.

[00:07:22] Yeah.

[00:07:23] Carmine.

[00:07:24] I wrote down Keenan and Kel.

[00:07:26] Carmine.

[00:07:27] I guess this is you know POV of Esteban Umano and he's got a pretty interesting POV in the first place that you know he meets a lot of people who may or may not be Pokemon.

[00:07:40] So who am I to judge?

[00:07:42] What does he think these people are?

[00:07:44] He calls everything by whatever he wants.

[00:07:46] Yeah most people don't introduce themselves so he's like he has to kind of make up a name for a lot of people.

[00:07:52] So he's like oh so you're Keenan you're Kel.

[00:07:55] So Kieran and Carmine are our like home stay.

[00:08:00] They work at Good Burger.

[00:08:02] Home of the Good Burger.

[00:08:05] No they don't work at Good Burger.

[00:08:07] They're here at the Blueberry Academy.

[00:08:09] They're the locals, the townies.

[00:08:11] It's like a buddy system when we arrive.

[00:08:14] Kiki, Miss Kiki is like everyone pair up.

[00:08:17] And that's how I ended up accidentally dating this boy.

[00:08:20] Yeah I was going to say like Don Joey was feeling the same thing where it was like he doesn't really know what his sexuality is.

[00:08:27] He's been kind of asexual so far.

[00:08:29] I mean he's trying to just like liberate whoever he needs to and pursue a quest without selfish desires or romantic desires.

[00:08:39] Yeah very noble of him.

[00:08:41] But he's open to romance.

[00:08:42] He wants romance.

[00:08:44] I mean he knows that his parents lost that love but he wants it for himself but he doesn't know where he goes.

[00:08:51] But this Kieran slash Keenan I think is clearly coded like shy emerging gay boy.

[00:09:00] Like every single text box that he gives has like.

[00:09:05] But for some reason the game always just like sets you up to be like smoochy with him.

[00:09:09] Yeah every single text box he delivers has multiple ellipses.

[00:09:13] He's always like stuttering.

[00:09:15] He's got like big long luscious locks.

[00:09:18] He's like no wonder you're so strong Don Joey.

[00:09:21] You're special.

[00:09:23] It's like hey man I get it.

[00:09:24] Oh and I'm so glad to do these look at these signposts with you.

[00:09:28] But chill guy I love hanging out.

[00:09:29] I get to be out in nature around my hometown and talk to you Don Joey.

[00:09:33] It's just the vibe.

[00:09:34] It's the vibe of the like roaming party that always follows Esteban around you know.

[00:09:39] Glad you're picking up on it.

[00:09:40] Yeah.

[00:09:41] But then we're like flirting and like going on ogre hunts together and like going into like little caves to kiss.

[00:09:48] I mean Don Joey is pretty used to that with Arvin slash Billy from Stranger Things of like you know doing drugs in a cave and admiring each other's strength.

[00:09:58] Yeah exactly.

[00:10:00] He like lured me into a cave.

[00:10:01] He's like do you want to see where the ogre lives.

[00:10:03] I was like sure.

[00:10:04] And then it like we are in like a tiny cave.

[00:10:06] Hey while we're in here do you want to just like kiss.

[00:10:08] It's like I guess.

[00:10:10] I'll try it out.

[00:10:11] I don't know.

[00:10:12] Okay okay okay.

[00:10:13] Let's slow down here.

[00:10:14] We get to the community center and our introduction to Kitakami is that these two Kenan and Kel need to acclimate us to the land.

[00:10:23] And the way to do that is like a history walking tour where we have to go and look at these three signposts that tell the story of Kitakami and these these people.

[00:10:32] Yeah.

[00:10:33] And then there's a lot of kissing and flirting.

[00:10:35] You get paired off with Kenan Kieran the boy.

[00:10:39] Well first you have to do some battling.

[00:10:40] I think his sister.

[00:10:42] We should talk about the glitterati too.

[00:10:44] The glitterati?

[00:10:45] Yeah did you battle the glitterati?

[00:10:46] Who are the glitterati?

[00:10:47] No.

[00:10:48] There's like a whole mean girl thing here too.

[00:10:50] Did you talk to Perrin?

[00:10:51] How would I have missed this?

[00:10:53] Are you is that a name that you're making up or is that actually the name?

[00:10:57] Oh maybe that's not her name let me look.

[00:10:59] Yeah use some actual names.

[00:11:02] The photographer lady who's on the outskirts of town.

[00:11:05] Oh the photographer lady yes who will not deign to actually talk to us until we have captured all I think 150 Pokemon on Kitakami is that right?

[00:11:16] Yeah.

[00:11:17] She's a paparazzo.

[00:11:18] Right behind her there's a couple of people who I think are like who are the sword and shield dudes?

[00:11:25] Do you remember their names?

[00:11:26] Oh.

[00:11:27] It's sort of like an incestuous brother and sister.

[00:11:29] The sister looks like Lady Gaga.

[00:11:31] They're called the glitterati.

[00:11:32] Oh swordward and shieldbert.

[00:11:34] Yeah swordward and shieldbert that's who the glitterati are.

[00:11:38] And you fight the sister.

[00:11:39] Onair and Billy are their names.

[00:11:41] Those are their actual names?

[00:11:42] How did you not like encounter these people?

[00:11:44] How did I not meet these people?

[00:11:46] I'm the one who talks to all these freaks you're the one who ignores them.

[00:11:50] If I miss these people and you're not making them up this is the first time in all of experience here at Pokemon podcast that I have missed talking to people that you talk to.

[00:12:01] I have never heard what you just said.

[00:12:04] They're at the top of the hill but now you're making me feel like I didn't actually fight them but they do look familiar.

[00:12:08] Onair and Billy the glitterati.

[00:12:10] Oh yeah they're real.

[00:12:12] But I did not meet these people.

[00:12:14] The glitterati.

[00:12:16] But they have a they've got an entry on here they're real.

[00:12:18] You didn't make them up.

[00:12:20] Onair and Billy.

[00:12:21] Anyway they're wild.

[00:12:22] Look for them.

[00:12:23] Rich couple.

[00:12:24] Oh they're a couple they're not brother and sister?

[00:12:27] No but it's like how.

[00:12:29] That helps.

[00:12:30] Swordward and Chielbert were like twins but they were obviously a couple.

[00:12:34] I can't wait for you to meet them.

[00:12:36] They're not the focus this week we have to go we're firing off towards a sign board.

[00:12:41] Three of them.

[00:12:42] We have to go find these three signs with this boy each dedicated to the loyal three and telling the story of this boy and his Pokemon who drove this ogre out of whatever the village is called here.

[00:12:54] Kitakami.

[00:12:55] Kitakami is the island.

[00:12:56] Mosui town.

[00:12:57] Oh Mosui town yeah.

[00:12:59] They love cutscenes in this game.

[00:13:00] Then they give you a bunch and that's all the that's all we're doing here.

[00:13:03] I swear that this wind up for the actual quest when we're just around the community center and meeting all these people was like an hour.

[00:13:11] I know.

[00:13:12] Just going through cutscenes.

[00:13:14] I kept like turning off my Gameboy like mid cutscene and firing it up to like play some Pokemon and having to like sit through a cutscene for like several minutes of clicking.

[00:13:23] Yeah.

[00:13:24] Let's head out there.

[00:13:25] It's at loyalty Plaza which is not too far from.

[00:13:28] What do we learn from the first checkpoint?

[00:13:42] Do you remember a couple of things that I learned on the way to it was that it seems like everyone in Kitakami are xenophobes.

[00:13:51] I registered a number of comments that were like you like you're from Pal dea.

[00:13:56] There's some guy I battled who said I bet a soft little city kid like you can't even climb this mighty hill.

[00:14:03] It's just not a skill I have why would I know how to climb a hill and from the city.

[00:14:07] I bet you don't know how to like use the subway idiot.

[00:14:10] Yeah, and I bet you don't know how to ride around on a Pokemon motorcycle.

[00:14:13] So which prohibits me from even needing to know how to fucking climb a hill.

[00:14:19] Why don't we just agree that we're both like have our strengths and weaknesses and just move on what do you want to battle fine?

[00:14:25] I'll battle you.

[00:14:26] I bet everyone on this island and I fucking eviscerated them because I think I was supposed to be here some levels ago at least up until the end.

[00:14:34] It got a little more challenging.

[00:14:36] Yeah, I'm glad that we're doing it when we are now rather than waiting longer because basically if we didn't do it now there would be no challenge to it at all until after the elite for but I'm glad that we're taking a little study abroad program at this point.

[00:14:52] I'm going to hop my way up this hill.

[00:14:54] There's a little hill with some beautiful apple orchards just teaming with Applin's and you just kind of dodge them because I'm the apples on a guy that dragons on a guy or an apple.

[00:15:04] Dragons kind of interesting for your team though.

[00:15:07] Well, nice in there.

[00:15:09] But we would be but nights fight teams dragon but we fight dragons.

[00:15:13] I don't think we can.

[00:15:14] It's probably a good place for you to have a dragon.

[00:15:16] I got some dragon fighting on these Apple dragons.

[00:15:19] Let's talk about the elephant in the Rotom.

[00:15:24] Okay, what do we call this?

[00:15:26] Do we have a name for the segment where we kind of track the free Rotom?

[00:15:31] Welcome to free Rotom.

[00:15:38] We haven't had to do it since like the first episode.

[00:15:42] It's been a while.

[00:15:44] But Rotom is further subjugated this week and embarrassed and given kind of questionable autonomy as he's upgraded against his and my will and given something called the Rotom stick.

[00:16:03] I mean, at the same time, it's like you're speaking for Rotom but you don't actually know if like maybe Rotom is into it.

[00:16:10] How about giving us a fucking choice?

[00:16:11] Well, there should be a choice.

[00:16:13] Yes, I don't care if Rotom is into it or not.

[00:16:15] I want Rotom to be able to choose pro choice whether they are turned into selfie sticks.

[00:16:19] We're both pro choice.

[00:16:20] I think I think being a selfie stick is bad.

[00:16:23] Rotom might like it.

[00:16:25] If I say sorry, if I were a Rotom, I would think it's bad.

[00:16:29] I'm not a Rotom and that's not something I need to worry about.

[00:16:31] I in the Rotoms.

[00:16:33] I know I hope are given the choice because they be on Rotom sticks and then they also get this like OS upgrade.

[00:16:41] And then I'm leaving the city and some guys like, hey, can I see your Rotom phone for a second?

[00:16:45] And I was like, I guess.

[00:16:47] But it's kind of like my guy.

[00:16:48] So like don't fuck with him.

[00:16:50] And he's like, I fucked with him.

[00:16:52] It's like my guy.

[00:16:54] Don't do that.

[00:16:55] Did you talk to the guy who gave you the like frame upgrade?

[00:16:58] Yeah, where it will like mimic the area that you're in or something.

[00:17:01] So mine is like or maybe it's like the case.

[00:17:04] Mine has like a brown frame now.

[00:17:06] Yeah.

[00:17:08] A lot of Rotom crimes against Rotom this week.

[00:17:12] And I just here to remind you all that that is a creature with autonomy that can think and act and reason as feelings and fear ambitions.

[00:17:22] Stop turning it into selfie sticks.

[00:17:24] I agree.

[00:17:25] The selfie stick Rotom was helpful for taking the photo at the first sign post with my boyfriend Keenan.

[00:17:32] Who was too intimidated.

[00:17:35] I think that's when he says like he admires how strong we are because he was like too intimidated or rather.

[00:17:40] I did have my shirt off.

[00:17:42] So Keenan doesn't even have a Rotom phone.

[00:17:47] And so he doesn't even know how to operate it.

[00:17:49] And he's like so impressed and like seemingly turned on by the fact that we can do that and take the photo.

[00:17:55] And I was like, you could take the photo next time.

[00:17:57] He's like, oh, well, I could do that.

[00:18:00] Maybe.

[00:18:01] Maybe when maybe like when we're in a cave, I'll try taking a video.

[00:18:05] I mean a photo.

[00:18:07] Yeah, well, we should head up to the cave then.

[00:18:11] Well, let's try to for the butt catchers for the butt catchers who haven't played this game and don't intend to or repressed it because they didn't like it.

[00:18:19] The signposts each depict some part of the history of Kitakami.

[00:18:23] I believe the first one is talking about the main origin story is that there was a horrible ogre who terrorized the villagers of Masui town and like the surrounding area.

[00:18:37] And three courageous Pokemon rose up to like put the ogre down and mass are part of this.

[00:18:49] Oh, yes.

[00:18:51] Okay.

[00:18:54] All of them were wearing masks or we just wear masks?

[00:18:59] No, no, we wear.

[00:19:00] No, we we wear the mask in order to honor the loyal three.

[00:19:04] I don't think the three were wearing masks because I think the three were Pokemon revered Pokemon three revere Pokemon because they drove out an ogre who I think was originally friends with a boy.

[00:19:18] We don't know that.

[00:19:19] And then that's the part we don't know yet.

[00:19:20] And then became unfriends with a boy, but I don't remember.

[00:19:24] Yeah, there there is some I don't know anything about these loyal three yet.

[00:19:28] Josh like is is like blue balling me.

[00:19:32] He's like, hey, play just like the intro of this.

[00:19:34] The DLC.

[00:19:35] Well, speaking of getting blue balled is that I start to get the sense that this is a little bit of a challenger situation in terms of Kieran and me and the ogre.

[00:19:45] Oh, interesting.

[00:19:46] I don't know who's Zendaya in this situation, but he's very into this ogre.

[00:19:54] He keeps being like, you know, I really relate to that ogre.

[00:19:57] Like he was just all alone and he was just trying to live his life.

[00:20:02] And yeah, he's a little emo.

[00:20:03] Like if I were that ogre, I would want to be with somebody and I wouldn't want to be all alone in a cave.

[00:20:09] I'd want to crawl in this hole with somebody too.

[00:20:12] Whoa.

[00:20:13] Yeah.

[00:20:14] So it sounds like it's a three way man hunt.

[00:20:16] Yeah, I think it's like, you know, I hunt three way guy hunt.

[00:20:20] Like it's it's done.

[00:20:22] Joey's mixed up in this.

[00:20:24] Kieran's mixed up in this ogre's mixed up in this.

[00:20:30] Who's going to get who and like, wow.

[00:20:34] Wow.

[00:20:35] It's going to be a guy hunt.

[00:20:37] Yeah, it's going to be a guy hunt.

[00:20:40] Yeah, I think I can do it now that I've heard the song.

[00:20:42] It's pretty good.

[00:20:43] Joshua, I want to know how you where are we?

[00:20:48] We got to the second side post.

[00:20:50] Now we're going to the second side post.

[00:20:52] You got to climb that mountain.

[00:20:54] Yeah, we have to climb after this break.

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[00:21:33] Welcome back, bug catchers.

[00:21:36] Welcome back Joshua.

[00:21:38] It's experience here.

[00:21:39] Konichiwa.

[00:21:40] Yes, Konichiwa.

[00:21:41] You're climbing up the Oni Mountain.

[00:21:44] Oni.

[00:21:46] Remember that?

[00:21:47] Of course you don't.

[00:21:48] I was about to game remember that game Oni, but of course you don't.

[00:21:51] No, I've never heard of that in my life.

[00:21:54] Do you want to talk about it?

[00:21:56] You just don't care to even explain it.

[00:21:58] It was a bungee game that came out before Halo for I think like the PlayStation one or two.

[00:22:07] I see that it was ported to the PlayStation 2.

[00:22:10] It was originally only on Windows and Mac.

[00:22:13] Yes, bungee famously made games for Mac too, which is what I grew up with.

[00:22:17] Kind of an innovator in that way.

[00:22:19] We've never talked about that.

[00:22:21] I grew up on Macs as well.

[00:22:22] That's why we're creative.

[00:22:24] Oh, that's why you played all the sim games too because they were like the only ones that were always on there plus Blizzard games.

[00:22:31] That's all that I grew up on.

[00:22:33] Yeah, Blizzard and bungee games were always on Mac too.

[00:22:37] But like before Halo, they had this game called Marathon.

[00:22:41] They had this game called Oni.

[00:22:43] And I think like they all tie into the Halo universe in like a complex way because like bungee can't help themselves.

[00:22:50] Well, I like that back when it was more innocent.

[00:22:53] 2001.

[00:22:54] I was 17.

[00:22:56] I was graduating from high school.

[00:22:58] I was merely Jesus.

[00:23:00] 12.

[00:23:03] 12.

[00:23:04] Graduating from elementary school.

[00:23:06] Intermediate school.

[00:23:07] We had an intermediate school on Bainbridge.

[00:23:10] Pretty quaint.

[00:23:12] Oni mountain.

[00:23:15] I am getting up to the top of this thing.

[00:23:17] Come hell or high water and come hell or high tanners you make me barf Pokemon of the week.

[00:23:24] Oh, who is it?

[00:23:26] Bramblegast.

[00:23:28] I fucking hate these things.

[00:23:34] The tumbleweed.

[00:23:36] I'm just trying to scream around on my bike.

[00:23:39] I'm already trying to dodge micro Pokemon.

[00:23:42] Right.

[00:23:43] They're like three pixels on the screen.

[00:23:45] Oh, yeah.

[00:23:46] Now I feel bad that I was complaining the other episode about Capsa kid because this landscape is strewn about with tiny ass Pokemon.

[00:23:55] It's all the little bugs.

[00:23:57] It's charge a bug.

[00:23:58] It's the other one.

[00:23:59] It's the pedal ill.

[00:24:01] It's like so many little grass and bug Pokemon tiny things.

[00:24:06] Yeah.

[00:24:07] And I'm just like trying to dodge all the Pokemon I can see.

[00:24:10] And then all of a sudden, a fucking Bramblegast will just like literally levitate out of nowhere and collide with me.

[00:24:15] And it's like, get out of my fucking way.

[00:24:17] You're ugly.

[00:24:18] You're ugly.

[00:24:19] And you're everywhere.

[00:24:20] It's Zubat.

[00:24:21] It's Paldia Zubat.

[00:24:22] A nuisance.

[00:24:23] I think that's right.

[00:24:24] A menace.

[00:24:25] What?

[00:24:26] I don't like them.

[00:24:27] Is it?

[00:24:28] A ghost type?

[00:24:29] No, I know.

[00:24:30] But what is it inhabiting?

[00:24:31] I like looking this up these days on these ghost types.

[00:24:34] God, it's got a pre-evolution.

[00:24:36] Oh, so I guess we were probably looking at Bramblin.

[00:24:39] I don't know.

[00:24:40] They look the same.

[00:24:41] That's also stupid.

[00:24:43] Bramblin?

[00:24:44] Yeah, Bramblin, I think, is the other one.

[00:24:47] Oh, yeah.

[00:24:48] I was sorry.

[00:24:49] I was encountering.

[00:24:50] Wait, I don't know what I was encountering.

[00:24:52] I don't.

[00:24:53] Either way, both of them are a barf.

[00:24:55] Both of them are annoying.

[00:24:56] Yeah, it was definitely Bramblin.

[00:24:57] They do look too similar for me to ever tell the difference though.

[00:25:00] Ew, look at this description on the biology on Bulbapedia.

[00:25:04] The center front branch has two smaller branches near its base, which together with Bramblegas

[00:25:10] eyes form a face.

[00:25:11] The two smaller branches act as Bramblegas, quote, lips, which can move to form expressions?

[00:25:19] All right, here we go.

[00:25:21] No.

[00:25:22] Boop!

[00:25:23] Boop!

[00:25:24] No, I was going to do it later with a different one.

[00:25:27] Don't do it on this one.

[00:25:28] All right, we'll keep the tab open.

[00:25:29] Welcome back, Admin Tanner.

[00:25:36] Oh, God.

[00:25:38] It's for affinity check.

[00:25:39] Don't worry.

[00:25:40] I'm already logged in.

[00:25:41] I'm not an admin, but I am logged in to prepare for this situation.

[00:25:45] Wow, just like, just such, they just challenge me in such ways just when I log in.

[00:25:51] Look at this one.

[00:25:54] I mean, I guess this is like what you would do is sort of turn it into like you build

[00:25:58] a whole hulking muscly body around the Bramblegas to make that the head.

[00:26:06] I guess that's naturally what you would do if you're going down this path.

[00:26:10] I don't know if that's what I would do actually.

[00:26:13] I'm just like really letting my freak flag fly.

[00:26:16] I think I would have at least a penis inside of one, but I don't, I don't think

[00:26:20] I'm getting that.

[00:26:21] Oh, like the dune popcorn bucket?

[00:26:23] Yeah.

[00:26:24] Well, I think these were all made before that popcorn bucket because I feel like that

[00:26:28] would have like really dictated the sort of art style.

[00:26:31] I see something here that's-

[00:26:33] I'm getting like six results.

[00:26:35] Kind of interesting as well, which is the user, sorry, the artist Shulver

[00:26:42] created a femboy leafy on slash Bramblegast.

[00:26:48] Oh, interesting.

[00:26:49] I see it and I like it.

[00:26:50] I actually kind of like it.

[00:26:51] And it's sort of a fox.

[00:26:53] What do you think the mouth on the far left is for?

[00:26:55] Leafy on ears and Bramblegast tail.

[00:26:59] Okay, here's one.

[00:27:02] Here's one.

[00:27:03] So this is I think a fan Pokemon maybe.

[00:27:07] I don't know.

[00:27:08] Meet Paldian trainer Perez and Zhong Yu, the Ting Lu he released from the seal.

[00:27:16] I don't know what any of that means.

[00:27:17] I don't know what that means.

[00:27:18] I'm guessing I will one day.

[00:27:20] Anyway, I hope so.

[00:27:21] In the image we see Ting Lu, which I think is a well, I mean, I've only ever seen one image of it,

[00:27:27] but it's like a super buff deer.

[00:27:31] Oh, anyway, it's having sex with this man and jerking them off and they're both just coming everywhere.

[00:27:37] And in the corner, there's a Bramblin watching.

[00:27:42] So naughty that I get a system message that says-

[00:27:46] Sorry, man.

[00:27:47] You don't have the deep permissions.

[00:27:49] You're not on the deep web.

[00:27:51] Oh, wow.

[00:27:53] Oh, wow.

[00:27:54] You see the little Bramblin in the corner there?

[00:27:56] Yeah.

[00:27:58] Who's in this image?

[00:28:01] Who's this guy who's getting fucked by-

[00:28:04] I think that's like an OC, an original character.

[00:28:07] Oh, I see.

[00:28:08] You can do that.

[00:28:10] I forgot you could do that.

[00:28:11] Yeah, that's allowed.

[00:28:14] So you're allowed to make your own guy and just have them have sex with Pokemon.

[00:28:17] That's totally cool.

[00:28:18] There's a lot of come involved.

[00:28:22] Yeah, there would be.

[00:28:24] All right, let's get out of here.

[00:28:28] I want to talk about something I saw on the way to the second sign post as well.

[00:28:35] Okay.

[00:28:36] Heracross.

[00:28:38] Scene one.

[00:28:39] I like that they fly around in the overworld.

[00:28:43] Yeah, that's cool.

[00:28:44] Some of them walk around and some of them fly, and I like that.

[00:28:47] But I have to do a Pokechex yourself once again.

[00:28:50] Okay.

[00:28:56] This is like a Pokemon I've always sort of liked and admired.

[00:28:59] Are you going to like cancel him for me?

[00:29:01] No, I'm not going to cancel it.

[00:29:03] It's more of scrutinizing whether or not this is possible based on what we know about the Pokemon.

[00:29:09] Or is this just Pokemon creators going hog wild?

[00:29:13] And whoever writes the Pokedex entries?

[00:29:15] Because it says with its Herculine powers, it can easily throw around an object that is 100 times its own weight.

[00:29:24] And its entry says that they are on average 119 pounds.

[00:29:30] So 119 times 100 is 11,900 pounds, AKA like six tons.

[00:29:37] It's like a truck.

[00:29:38] Look at its little arms.

[00:29:40] That is picking up something that is six tons.

[00:29:44] I don't know how bugs work, you know.

[00:29:46] And hurling it.

[00:29:47] It's also hurling it.

[00:29:48] It's not just picking it up.

[00:29:49] Like I think bugs don't have like muscles because they're just like they have like rock skin exoskeletons.

[00:29:55] So I don't know how they work.

[00:29:56] Is it like hydraulics?

[00:29:58] How do bugs work?

[00:29:59] Could it have hydraulics in there?

[00:30:01] Do we have to get the slug scientists back on here?

[00:30:04] Honestly, look at us.

[00:30:06] Like have you ever considered that before?

[00:30:08] Do you know how a bug moves around?

[00:30:09] They don't have muscles.

[00:30:10] They have exoskeletons, right?

[00:30:12] Yeah.

[00:30:13] But what's going on inside of them?

[00:30:16] Because the skeletons on the exo.

[00:30:18] Right?

[00:30:19] This is fucking me up.

[00:30:24] Anyway, think about that bug peters.

[00:30:26] If it's like hydraulic pistons, yeah, that could move a six ton truck.

[00:30:31] Well, speaking of those, when we get to my level check, I'm going to have something else to talk about in terms of hydraulics and a bug.

[00:30:39] But that's just a little teaser.

[00:30:41] I'm still on my journey up the mountain, Joshua.

[00:30:44] Yes.

[00:30:45] It's sort of a metaphor.

[00:30:47] It's cleansing.

[00:30:48] It's called the revelers road.

[00:30:50] It's like one of the Joseph Campbell hero cycle steps.

[00:30:54] We're climbing the mountain and on my way.

[00:30:58] So it's not all bad news and glum times on the way up this hill.

[00:31:03] I saw something quite beautiful and it was Tanny Sweetie.

[00:31:06] Oh, go on.

[00:31:07] It was called Glimmora.

[00:31:09] I didn't see that.

[00:31:17] You got to check this thing out.

[00:31:18] I didn't see the glitterati.

[00:31:20] I didn't see the Glimmora.

[00:31:21] What's going on?

[00:31:22] Maybe your game just sucks.

[00:31:24] They just like thought mine could use a little like I got the hacked one this time judging up Glimmora.

[00:31:29] This thing like blew my mind.

[00:31:31] It was floating in the sky.

[00:31:33] It looks like a Protoss carrier.

[00:31:35] I couldn't make heads or tails of it.

[00:31:37] And then it like blooms into a beautiful flower as I'm fighting it.

[00:31:40] It's just a lovely Pokemon.

[00:31:42] Whoa, I didn't see that at all.

[00:31:44] I like it.

[00:31:45] Yeah, it's cool.

[00:31:46] Whoa, it seems good.

[00:31:47] That's not a guy though.

[00:31:48] No, that's not a guy.

[00:31:49] Not at all.

[00:31:50] I killed it.

[00:31:51] I don't think I could even have that in my Merry Men.

[00:31:54] I'm not sure how it would work.

[00:31:56] What it would be.

[00:31:57] Rock poison.

[00:31:58] I like this a lot.

[00:32:00] I look forward to seeing one.

[00:32:02] Yeah, I hope you can kind of get eyes on a lot of this fun stuff that I'm seeing in Kitakama.

[00:32:08] I guess you're too busy flirting with your boyfriend.

[00:32:11] You got to lock it down.

[00:32:15] I was putting in the work.

[00:32:16] Get to the top of the mountain.

[00:32:18] This is where we go into the boy cave with Keenan and check things out.

[00:32:23] And he's like, okay, great.

[00:32:24] We're done.

[00:32:25] Yeah.

[00:32:26] He's like, I need a big strong man to be able to take this photo in front of the signpost.

[00:32:30] Or my Rotom will do it.

[00:32:32] Some guy just warped his body into the shape of a selfie stick.

[00:32:36] And I'm also too scared to go into the dreaded den.

[00:32:39] And that's where the ogre lives.

[00:32:41] And I love the ogre.

[00:32:43] Yeah, if you love the ogre so much, why don't you go into the fucking den and marry him?

[00:32:46] God, who are you dating?

[00:32:48] Me or this ogre?

[00:32:49] That's what I want to know.

[00:32:50] That's why it's a challenger situation.

[00:32:51] But bringing up the fucking ogre.

[00:32:53] We battle them too, I think here.

[00:32:55] Yeah, he thinks the ogre will be shook out of its cave.

[00:33:00] Crushed him.

[00:33:01] Yep.

[00:33:02] And then I go and meet the parents before our festival date, the mask festival.

[00:33:09] And the parents are like, oh, Kieran's finally got a friend.

[00:33:12] Like, oh, consider you part of the family.

[00:33:14] And like, I know this is moving real quick though.

[00:33:18] Yeah, faster than I like.

[00:33:19] But I don't even live here.

[00:33:21] I don't.

[00:33:22] And they're like, I haven't won his sister over at all.

[00:33:23] She continues to be really mean to me.

[00:33:25] She won't give me a mask.

[00:33:27] Carmine slash Kel continues to be a real asshole.

[00:33:31] Yeah, they invite us to go to the mask festival, which is like the big thing on this island slash region.

[00:33:39] And they go to the shed where they keep these supposedly three masks and you go over there and then conveniently the third mask they claim they had is gone.

[00:33:50] And they only have two.

[00:33:52] And like my boyfriend tries to give me one and then Carmine's like, no, it's finders keepers and first come first serve.

[00:34:01] And we already have the two.

[00:34:03] She fucking sucks.

[00:34:04] And then she battles me and I absolutely wipe the floor with her.

[00:34:08] Yes. Okay.

[00:34:09] Okay.

[00:34:10] Well, then I had to comment about something.

[00:34:11] I had something else to say, which quickly I will say we get dolled up and we get put in these like.

[00:34:18] Yeah, there was a name for it.

[00:34:19] Kimono's.

[00:34:20] Yeah, it wasn't Kimono.

[00:34:21] But there was a name for it.

[00:34:22] They call it something else.

[00:34:24] But we get it now.

[00:34:25] Like I also gave me like a little card that I can unlock cool new Kitakami looks back at Paldaya.

[00:34:32] Yeah, the teal card.

[00:34:33] So I look forward to buying some of their stuff, except I love my outfit.

[00:34:37] It's like, oh yeah, it looks sick.

[00:34:39] Forest green got a bunch of masks on it.

[00:34:42] They doll my hair up beautifully.

[00:34:44] And then my boyfriend sees me and he goes, whoa.

[00:34:47] Yeah.

[00:34:48] Dot dot dot.

[00:34:49] And it's like, okay.

[00:34:50] What are you doing after the festival?

[00:34:52] You know, set up to the boy cave.

[00:34:54] Don't say it like that.

[00:34:59] We fight with Carmine and she has Joshi Sweetie, which also is what you named me.

[00:35:10] Polchgeist, aka Polchagosh.

[00:35:13] Polchagosh.

[00:35:14] Polchagosh.

[00:35:21] Polchageist.

[00:35:22] Yes, it's the new one.

[00:35:23] I like it.

[00:35:25] Yeah, I like you know what?

[00:35:26] I like the whole.

[00:35:27] I like the whole line.

[00:35:28] Not a big fan of matcha tea.

[00:35:30] I'm not either too bitter, but I don't think I'm like make it right or have had it made right for me.

[00:35:35] I don't think I have either.

[00:35:37] I also don't care to try again.

[00:35:39] Just so many other things to experience in life.

[00:35:41] You know?

[00:35:42] Yeah, it's like it's not doing it for me.

[00:35:44] I'm not going to yuck any yums.

[00:35:46] I like the Kit Kats.

[00:35:47] The Kit Kat is dynamite.

[00:35:50] Who else did she have?

[00:35:52] Anyone interesting?

[00:35:53] I don't remember.

[00:35:54] I just like honestly just like smoked her.

[00:35:56] We're ready for the Mask Festival now.

[00:35:59] Let's head in.

[00:36:01] We have to chase Kieran across the entire festival.

[00:36:06] He wants to like show you all the sights and sounds.

[00:36:08] Which are all the same.

[00:36:09] It's just a bunch of like candy and sweets purveyors.

[00:36:14] Yeah, and they're serving all the like same shit.

[00:36:16] Can't you sell me some other shit?

[00:36:18] The guy who's selling masks is the one thing I want is the guy selling masks is not in his booth.

[00:36:23] Yeah, they said that we could buy a mask at the festival and then nobody is there.

[00:36:28] So I go and do this thing called the Ogre...

[00:36:32] Ogre Austin.

[00:36:33] Ogre Austin.

[00:36:34] Let's get into Ogre Austin because this is...

[00:36:38] Sounds like I am a fucking natural.

[00:36:41] I was hoping this was going to be more of a thing and I could keep doing it.

[00:36:45] You only get one shot at it.

[00:36:47] Wait, we only ever get to do this once?

[00:36:49] It was so...

[00:36:50] Ah, wasn't fun?

[00:36:51] It was kind of fun.

[00:36:52] It wasn't that fun.

[00:36:53] It wasn't that fun but it was kind of fun.

[00:36:55] So Ogre Austin is the one activity you can do at the Mask Festival and Carmine challenges you.

[00:37:02] And she's like, I'm the queen at this.

[00:37:05] I got a high score of 6,390.

[00:37:08] See if you can beat it you little...

[00:37:10] She didn't say that.

[00:37:12] She wouldn't use a gender insult like that.

[00:37:16] Actually, she probably would.

[00:37:17] She's awful.

[00:37:18] She definitely would.

[00:37:19] Yeah, I fired up my Corridon.

[00:37:23] Oh, I guess it's...

[00:37:24] Did we cheat?

[00:37:25] I'm just not realizing.

[00:37:27] She didn't have a Corridon.

[00:37:29] There was a woman outside of it who offered up a Stantler except you're not allowed to take the Stantler because I thought I could and she was not interactable beyond saying,

[00:37:39] Oh, I've got a Stantler if you want to play Ogre Austin.

[00:37:42] So I think it's implied that Carmine is taking the Stantler.

[00:37:47] Is a Stantler as fast as a fucking motorcycle?

[00:37:51] As it turned out for me, it was faster because my high score was only 5,735.

[00:37:57] Absolutely embarrassing.

[00:37:58] So I got defeated by Carmine.

[00:37:59] I did not take a screenshot of my score.

[00:38:02] It was in the 6,800s I think.

[00:38:04] Oh, and you don't have a...

[00:38:05] Interesting that you don't have a screenshot of it.

[00:38:07] So you could just say, Oh, it was in the range of 6,800.

[00:38:11] It was high.

[00:38:12] You know why I'm saying it was 6,800?

[00:38:14] Because I'm hesitant to say it was in the 6,900s because I think my mind just wants to click to 6,900.

[00:38:20] Because it's nice.

[00:38:21] Yeah.

[00:38:22] So I'm like hedging my bets and saying 6,800.

[00:38:25] I actually have no idea, but I definitely beat her and she hated it.

[00:38:29] So she had a reaction that wasn't like gloating.

[00:38:32] Yeah, she was furious that I beat her score.

[00:38:35] Huh.

[00:38:36] And then I think Kieran sort of defended me and then she sort of like, you know, browbeat him into submission once again.

[00:38:42] He's the sub for pretty much everybody on this continent.

[00:38:46] Not me.

[00:38:47] I mean, not yet.

[00:38:54] The premise of this quickly for those who have not played the game.

[00:38:58] Ogre Austin is just like you ride around and you have to pop balloons that are a corresponding color and they have berries in them.

[00:39:05] Bring the berries back.

[00:39:06] Green, red, blue, gray.

[00:39:08] And then you have to put them on little pedestals stands and it threatens in the instructions that like squavettes and munchlaxes are going to show up and like try to eat them.

[00:39:22] And that never happened to me.

[00:39:23] Never happened to me.

[00:39:24] Too quick.

[00:39:25] GGEZ, that's the festival.

[00:39:27] Oh, that's not the festival.

[00:39:28] No, we after that.

[00:39:30] And then we see the boy.

[00:39:32] And then we're sort of we're still in a mask hunt.

[00:39:35] I'm on a guy hunt.

[00:39:37] We see the boy on the outskirts of town and Mike will kill two birds with one stone.

[00:39:41] I can grab his mask and get the boy, the guy, the ogre as far as we know shows up, but he's wearing a mask.

[00:39:48] It looks kind of like a delight.

[00:39:50] It's wearing a teal mask, which is what our boyfriend is wearing as well.

[00:39:53] Kel follows us out and kind of scares the boy off and we eventually chase it away and it drops its mask.

[00:40:01] We collected it's our teal mask now and the boy is in the wind.

[00:40:05] That's why we're on a guy hunt.

[00:40:07] Yeah, he flees up to the boy cave, but we're not allowed to chase him up there.

[00:40:11] And then there's just the third signpost to get to, which is like the others, a pretty just brief trip through like a wild zone where you have to dodge bramblings and like avoid getting fucked by sharks.

[00:40:22] Yeah, there's what was that thing called?

[00:40:27] I don't know what you're even saying.

[00:40:30] You have all these little names for everything and it's like, I don't know what's going on.

[00:40:35] Ting Lu, the odd.

[00:40:40] What?

[00:40:42] Ting Lu.

[00:40:43] Ting Lu?

[00:40:45] Ting Lu was the deer having sex with that guy's bottom.

[00:40:49] Oh, in the fur of the bramblin watching.

[00:40:55] You saw this?

[00:40:57] No.

[00:40:58] Okay, Ting Lu.

[00:40:59] I don't think they would show that in a Pokemon game.

[00:41:02] No, I mean, I didn't even see a Ting Lu at all.

[00:41:05] I have absolutely no idea what Ting Lu is.

[00:41:09] I assume we will eventually find out what Ting Lu is.

[00:41:12] Ting Lu is like a bystander in this because it was really bramblin that we were looking at in that image who's tucked away in the corner.

[00:41:20] Right.

[00:41:21] I can't wait to meet Ting Lu.

[00:41:22] He seems like a really interesting guy.

[00:41:25] Yeah, pretty fluid, interesting guy.

[00:41:30] I absolutely no idea what we'll talk about, but I can't wait to meet him.

[00:41:34] We also, prior to the third signpost, just to joshie take the wheel for a second, we also are encouraged by Carmine to go talk to her grandfather.

[00:41:48] And she also tells us to shut up because our boyfriend doesn't see that we met the ogre who he is also in love with.

[00:41:57] And instead she's like, shut up.

[00:42:00] Don't tell him about this.

[00:42:02] Go talk to my grandfather.

[00:42:03] He knows about what's going on with this mask.

[00:42:05] And the next morning we talked to the grandfather and he reveals the real history of the ogre that's been passed down his family by WOM, he says.

[00:42:16] Word of mouth.

[00:42:17] WOM warriors.

[00:42:18] Which is that they used to be mask makers.

[00:42:20] And actually the ogre was a good guy.

[00:42:23] And he came over here with like his friend.

[00:42:27] And again, because everyone in Kitakami is a xenophobe, they didn't like the look of these two.

[00:42:33] And then they tried to throw rocks and stones and tomatoes and whatever at them.

[00:42:41] They were driven up into the mountains.

[00:42:43] And the Carmine Kieran family made masks to cover up their faces.

[00:42:49] And apparently like a Scooby Doo, that's enough to be able to like cover up yourself enough to be able to just do whatever you want.

[00:42:57] You wear a mask on purge night too.

[00:42:58] And eventually, I don't know, a mask fell off or got destroyed or something.

[00:43:02] And then yeah, it's purge.

[00:43:04] It's purge.

[00:43:05] That's it.

[00:43:06] I don't think you have to wear a mask on purge night.

[00:43:08] I think most people just do to like kind of have a little anonymity.

[00:43:13] You don't want to get caught going out and doing purging.

[00:43:16] Oh yeah, it's like eyes wide shut.

[00:43:17] I mean, if we're just going to keep referencing things.

[00:43:20] Yeah.

[00:43:21] Anyway, he doesn't want to crush the villagers' sense of like belonging or whatever that they all hate this ogre.

[00:43:29] And he's like, we can't tell them that the ogre was good.

[00:43:32] Well, wait until it's on my fucking team.

[00:43:34] Then I bring it into town and I'm like, here he is.

[00:43:36] His name is going to be like Seth Meyers, you know, and they're going to be like, oh, it was just a guy named Seth Meyers.

[00:43:43] It's like, yeah, try looking past your biases for once.

[00:43:46] Well, they can't do that.

[00:43:47] Joshua up to that third time post.

[00:43:49] It's pretty easy to get to.

[00:43:50] It's out in the paradise barrens.

[00:43:52] There's not a lot to talk about on the way, which gives us time to do our last thing of the evening, which is battle our boyfriend, Kieran.

[00:44:00] And before we do that, let's talk about the guys and ladies we met along the way in level check.

[00:44:05] Level check.

[00:44:15] You got some new guys and dolls?

[00:44:18] Just one. Margo Pence, Tinka Tough, level 34.

[00:44:21] Wow. Outleveled mine.

[00:44:23] Ladybeth, Charcadet, level 35.

[00:44:26] Gregor, Samsa, Rellor, level 40.

[00:44:31] Is that it for Rellor? Was that already evolved?

[00:44:34] It has not evolved yet.

[00:44:35] There might be a trick to evolving it, but I haven't looked yet.

[00:44:38] He turns beautiful, I think.

[00:44:40] Sure it does.

[00:44:42] Donna Baker, Floregato, level 35.

[00:44:45] Donna's car, Varum, level 35.

[00:44:49] And then I'll quickly say, Anais Shiavery.

[00:44:51] I loved having Shiavery around and I'm committed to Shiavery as a person, as an individual.

[00:44:56] And I can't wait to have Shiavery back in my life after they get the help they need.

[00:45:01] Mostly, I think, income.

[00:45:04] But there's not a lot I could do with it right now with Astonish and Tackle.

[00:45:08] I'll say this. I don't think I added a single Gimme Ghoul coin on this leg actually.

[00:45:13] I found quite a few.

[00:45:14] I don't think they live over here. Do they live over here?

[00:45:17] I've been on a little bit of a ghoul hunt too. Guy hunt and a ghoul hunt.

[00:45:21] Okay. I learned that our friend Pokemon Crossroads on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, already last week already has a golden go.

[00:45:33] I've started on that journey, but I'm not there yet.

[00:45:36] Like, I already found 999 coins at the same pace as us, so we're very bad at this.

[00:45:42] But anyway, Shiavery's on ice until we can get Gimme Ghoul in the scene.

[00:45:47] And I met someone here actually.

[00:45:50] Her name is Ginny Big Mac.

[00:45:52] I think it's like a SoundCloud rapper name or something.

[00:45:57] It's like a persona. You know, it's like Awkwafina.

[00:46:00] I don't know her real name. She just insists on everyone calling her Ginny Big Mac.

[00:46:04] Hatena.

[00:46:05] Did she say anything about what does that name mean to her?

[00:46:08] You know, I asked you said it rhymes with a lot of stuff.

[00:46:11] That's why I think it's a rap name.

[00:46:13] She hasn't sent me a link or anything, so I haven't heard it.

[00:46:15] And then she probably loves Big Macs. Okay.

[00:46:18] Hatena.

[00:46:19] Yeah, Hatena.

[00:46:20] Level 25. She's the baby.

[00:46:21] That's definitely a person. I agree.

[00:46:24] Yep. And we'll become more of a person.

[00:46:25] I'll allow it.

[00:46:26] Obviously.

[00:46:28] Don Joey.

[00:46:29] Don Joey's Knights. No big changes.

[00:46:33] Well, a couple of interesting ones.

[00:46:36] But before that, Rouncy Krokalor is level 35.

[00:46:40] The Duke, Pomat, still leading the pack at level 37.

[00:46:44] The Duchess, Azumaral, is level 32.

[00:46:47] Trish of Levencia, Tinketuff, level 29,

[00:46:51] bested by your Tinketuff.

[00:46:54] I mean, yours is a lady though.

[00:46:56] A human woman.

[00:46:58] So we don't really track levels like that.

[00:47:01] Yeah.

[00:47:03] And then we have formerly known as the Porter,

[00:47:07] who was a nimble, is now a low kicks.

[00:47:12] Isn't he good?

[00:47:13] Isn't he good?

[00:47:14] As a result of this,

[00:47:16] the Porter proved himself big time

[00:47:20] in a bunch of battles this week.

[00:47:22] And we were like, look man,

[00:47:24] you've done a lot more than just being a Porter.

[00:47:27] And now that you're this low kicks

[00:47:29] and you got this really cool look

[00:47:31] and you got that skeleton that embattles.

[00:47:34] Yeah, he looks so cool.

[00:47:35] He hops back on his extra legs.

[00:47:38] I love these ninja bugs.

[00:47:40] And then he does like pounces and like double kicks.

[00:47:45] And he is now the Black Knight and he's level 27.

[00:47:49] The way he like hops around and kind of runs around,

[00:47:51] he's just like so little and sporty.

[00:47:53] He's like a little bean.

[00:47:54] Yeah, so we promoted him big time.

[00:47:57] We bring him in when we need to get really serious.

[00:48:00] He's good.

[00:48:01] I like it.

[00:48:02] And then another interesting change was Cookie evolved

[00:48:06] into an Arbo Leava level 36.

[00:48:11] Anything interesting about that that you wanna say?

[00:48:13] This is something I didn't really want to do.

[00:48:17] And you already did it,

[00:48:19] which either makes me more enticed to do it or-

[00:48:22] Fire it up, boink, boink, boink.

[00:48:24] Welcome back, Admin Tanner.

[00:48:26] Arbo Leava is sort of a confusingly sexy Pokemon.

[00:48:32] I'm already on the Furi-fini page.

[00:48:34] And I would say that there's absolutely nothing confusing

[00:48:36] about it at all.

[00:48:37] Yeah, I already had it pulled up.

[00:48:39] So actually one of these artists depicted Arbo Leava

[00:48:45] in a way that makes me see what the inspiration

[00:48:48] for Brassius' art was.

[00:48:50] Do you see this one?

[00:48:52] I think Brassius was taken by Arbo Leava

[00:48:55] and he built his name around depicting her.

[00:49:01] What am I looking at here?

[00:49:03] Doesn't that look exactly like Brassius' art?

[00:49:06] Oh yeah.

[00:49:07] So he was taken by this lady, so is Don Joey.

[00:49:11] I would also say several other artists want to be tied up

[00:49:16] by its roots in a sexual manner.

[00:49:19] And a lot of people seem to be pretty confused

[00:49:22] about the olives and are pretty sure

[00:49:25] those are actually honkers in a lot of cases.

[00:49:30] There's a lot of bazangas involved.

[00:49:32] It's again OC, and that's interesting to me.

[00:49:36] Oh, that's the one I was talking about

[00:49:37] where it's a guy getting tied up by the roots and vines

[00:49:41] and he's into it.

[00:49:42] Yeah, yeah.

[00:49:43] And a rockruff is licking his feet

[00:49:45] and it's tickling him and he's turning red.

[00:49:48] I think he's pretty horny too.

[00:49:50] He's into all of it, I think, as far as I can tell.

[00:49:53] But I think this world of original characters

[00:49:56] kind of interacting with Pokemon in this way

[00:49:58] is pretty compelling to me, so I'm worth exploring.

[00:50:00] Yeah, Murdock is this OC.

[00:50:02] Daddy Feet, one of the tags.

[00:50:03] Original character.

[00:50:05] All right!

[00:50:07] That's good, that's good for that.

[00:50:09] Kieran was the guy we're battling this week,

[00:50:13] and he's my gentleman friend,

[00:50:17] as my grandfather used to say,

[00:50:18] of my uncle's boyfriend, his roommate.

[00:50:22] Kieran is my roommate.

[00:50:23] Actually, we do talk about bunking up at one point.

[00:50:27] He said, I'm gonna move into this cave, this boy cave,

[00:50:30] and I said, oh, when can I move in?

[00:50:33] And he was like, ha ha ha, really?

[00:50:35] Yeah, is it just a boy cave or is it a boy's cave?

[00:50:38] Let's turn this boy cave into a boy home.

[00:50:42] Kieran and I did a bunch of battles.

[00:50:44] He has a-

[00:50:45] He's got a Yanma and a Fyrin and a Diplin

[00:50:47] and a Poliwrath.

[00:50:48] Is it a guy of the week, Poliwrath?

[00:50:55] I think so.

[00:50:56] I mean, I know it's also your favorite Pokemon

[00:50:59] or Poliwhirl is specifically, isn't it?

[00:51:01] Yeah, I'll take a Poliwrath.

[00:51:02] I'm not gonna turn away the stats boost.

[00:51:04] I think that's a guy.

[00:51:06] Stands on two legs.

[00:51:08] He's not punching with hydraulic bug muscles.

[00:51:11] That's a guy with muscles and gloves

[00:51:14] and a pissed off look on his face.

[00:51:16] Anger, that's a human emotion.

[00:51:18] Got kind of-

[00:51:19] Angst.

[00:51:20] Normal arms and hands, stomach is exposed

[00:51:25] and we can see through it,

[00:51:26] which is sort of fucked up, but like-

[00:51:27] Yeah, that's his poops.

[00:51:28] Yeah, I think it's more a guy than not.

[00:51:30] Let's get out of here, Joshua.

[00:51:31] I assume you didn't have any problems with Kieran?

[00:51:34] No.

[00:51:35] I think next week we're gonna go

[00:51:36] finally take on these legendary three

[00:51:38] and then hopefully meet up with Ogrepawn.

[00:51:41] The loyal three and hopefully we meet the guy

[00:51:46] that Tanner-

[00:51:47] I mean, sorry, Esteban Umano is hunting.

[00:51:51] That's gonna be a guy hunt.

[00:51:54] Joshua, bug catchers.

[00:51:57] See you next week for the remainder of the Teal Mask DLC

[00:52:00] and then reminder we're going back to Paldea.

[00:52:04] Pal-slay-a.

[00:52:05] To just kind of clear out the Steel Titans

[00:52:08] and Starbases first when we get back.

[00:52:11] But then we'll get back to the story.

[00:52:13] Yeah.

[00:52:14] It's kind of like a mini waterfall

[00:52:15] is right in the middle of the season.

[00:52:16] It's actually not even the middle.

[00:52:18] It's kind of the beginning.

[00:52:19] Anyway.

[00:52:20] Just breaking it up.

[00:52:21] We needed a break.

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[00:52:55] What?

[00:52:56] I think that means goodbye.

[00:52:57] Is that the opposite of konnichiwa?

[00:52:59] Kumbhanwa and alola and...

[00:53:03] Alola, tip, tip.

[00:53:05] Bye for the episode.

[00:53:06] Goodbye.

[00:53:07] Bye for the episode to you.

[00:53:09] And smell you later.