Nerdy Up North Podcast - Pokémon!

We are live. So hi everyone. I'm gonna be Sammy for a second. Yeah, so welcome to the Nerdy Up North podcast the nerdy podcast hosted by Northern Nerds.

I'm one of the hosts Sam, also I say Paul and I'm joined by co-hosted here, which is Goodwill. Yes. Hi anxiety. I choose you So yes, we are joined by a few nerds today like the Pokemon master himself Which is Jake and he's got all these Pokemon cards behind him.

They're not actually a fake wall That is actually his Pokemon card spread out Huge Have a giant one He's still in all of Goodwill's good excited small one. Yes, he's a my gimmick Goodwill don't worry I'm the oldest working man in the business, which is Graham who was actually streaming earlier and he will be streaming after us as well It's gonna be a fun day. I'm just like going hello like I sleep. No, it's you playing We I was determined to finish XCOM you air enemy unknown earlier and then what I'm gonna do is after this I'm gonna be playing Diablo four which I Shall that fourth I love the fact that you've got me on for a Pokemon podcast and I'm like yeah, yeah, I know generation one So so we're gonna be leaving a lot on Jake To be further when I did put up the list I was going to put once do what you went.

Oh Pokemon. I'll do that Me it was suffix five. I'll do that if no one better wants to do it Came for that's like so that's the great in front I'll do it if there's no one better for the job which is that my drag career I'm so when it comes to a grim there is nobody better than to do the job. I'm one of a kind that the doctor said and The I Know more about Pokemon than basically we should probably do a second episode be like okay, so we have Jake and Joe Who know what they're talking about and then?

Other people as well. Yeah, we have a newbie a virgin on the podcast earlier I was here and putting the most quite we have jaw who has been in the chat quite a lot And he has been part of like the online stream game squeal. It's not either one being or switches always a bastard That's why I work with it That's why you killed me with trees on Thursday night Just Which is actually the name of a We have been nicknamed the beta Because everyone has a beard so it's probably the first one without some as well so Biben styles Yes with tonight's episode being George first and George probably doesn't know about this We always get the newbies to tell about themselves and give us a nerve potentials Sell yourself to the nerds. Okay, so I like to play video games on twitch although I'm not very consistent I just play whenever it is that I feel like playing I don't know if I've mentioned it enough on the Facebook group the discord group on the Podcast before but I'm in the process of leaving the country and I'm currently living good idea So I'm currently very nomadic and you might recognize the backdrop from a previous guest who's not here and I'm I'm sitting for watching a dog Are you actually leaving the country to go hunt yes I'm going to have a creepy professor you know that Harry is 10 year old I've ever seen that's what professor Oak said Yeah You should visit every town in the region.

I should leave now like leave right now here take this book on tick this fire breathing lizards Protection And Sonya has message me a few times when we've been doing This So Depends on what because I've watched a lot of Pokemon I've played a lot of Pokemon I've played a lot of the varied Things within the franchise but my interest in drop offers a kind of grew up a bit and when I was in college I was kind of like yeah, I'm not gonna keep buying you games. I'm not gonna keep buying So I know I know I know I actually still actively play like when I do play on twitch and I have been Really did I think by but you guys I was doing a challenge or I was filming animals. You did you're playing at like two times speed though I think I was like yeah, I like My brain isn't gonna play again that's low anymore. I can't do it So before we get into the whole games and like the law or that is the Pokemon I'll do some is very nice disclaimer and because with it's not a podcast without the disclaimer But just to give an element of class.

Can you do it with a French accent, please? I would normally try but with my throw up feeling like it's been fucked by a thousand pineapples I'll try to I Can't be Our opinions and our opinions are on so yes If you want to discuss any of the topics tonight from any Pokemon, please come join us in the Facebook group or we can have an Open discussion and we can call you a country of this What we won't have is anyone coming for us and telling us our opinions are wrong because most likely we don't have a clue What we're gonna be wrong we can agree to this way in fandoms. Let's keep it fun. Keep it kind and keep the toxicity behavior out of Yes So yes So when we first Exhiv your initialised into the Pokemon world will start with goodwill so you can feel all uncomfortable Oh great.

Thank you so much It was three hours ago What is it anxiety leveled up at this point? Yes, it's a vault. It's now anxiety and depression It's a fall. Yes.

I watched it. Wait the moonstone. Yes. No in all seriousness I was introduced in 1999 to the tv series because you know I'm from middle to where therefore I am poor So I never had a Nintendo.

I had a player station. I could not have both So I never played the video game. So the tv series was premiered on ci tv on itv Which is a really crap channel in the UK and I I loved I loved the series um ashkepson sounded Like he smoked for to your day. I don't know if anyone else did that because he was like, I'm gonna hand all the Pokemon Yeah I was called ash because all the I am 35 year old ashketchum who was collected all the pokemon and now has nothing else to live for so we're taken to that alcoholism No, it was there is non-canon Is it It was so it for me it was the tv series and in terms of the games I've never got i'm gonna get crucified for this I've never played them but I have watched others played them so I've watched the lovely jake It was me.

Oh, you weren't paying attention by the sound. Oh my god get over it. It was six months ago I think namin and pokemon after someone is a very special thing that you're supposed to chair Was it a squirtle? Oh my god.

This is the first amesic we've had on It was a totally aye everyone Oh my god, if you don't know the difference in your toad it all in the squirtle you're not looking You're not looking It's gonna be so many many men have said that to me Ladies So I've watched other play the games. I always enjoy watching others play but I feel if I play them It would annoy me Quite a lot because they are not my type of game to play my own I think I would have to play it with a friend but for me it was mostly the tv series in the late 90s That's where my pokemon started I didn't realize like because I did try to do a bit of research about this because my knowledge of pokemon I said like I got a little I fell in love with the tv show back when I was about teenager just like say Was when cartoons and tv shows used to be co-exist and be good tv back in the day So my little like say for Andrew it was like say the first season and I I cleared the games on the game boy. That was my axi love I love pin um, you always had a choice of why I was blue or red and unfortunately, I'm not gonna say I was a red But I was a blue. Yeah me too.

Yeah Honestly, well unless you wanted porridge on and then it was really really expensive as a reason That was the thing and um for like say game boy games as well There weren't really that immersive unless you got addicted to tetris which could take your life away very easily Um, but the game boy games were amissent to play But again spoilers for anyone who hasn't had one of the most irritating parts in the game Where if you got near the end and you didn't do a certain act right You lost out on a one of the special pokemon and you only got one chance to catch it And if you didn't you had to start the game right from the start You couldn't just pick up from a save point. It basically fucked you Like royally in that game. Hold on. Hold on.

Are we still covering spoilers for a pokemon? A game that is older than probably most of the people watching Yeah, it was like it was a massive load and code of like for a child I feel like that because it was like it was most people's first RPG and most people's first experience of like Oh, I've just saved that and now I can't go back ever again or I forgot to say it after like six hours and that's not what's everything Or come on was my first experience of going oh you have to save games Yeah, like there's a button that says save so I played through for a couple of hours when I first bought it Turn the game boy back on it was like where do I just have to do this in one room like something like My friends are dead Like my real where you just go I was very familiar with like save games at that point and stuff But I came from the era where basically like the playstation where you if you didn't have a memory card Then you just went oh, I'll just play it anyway. I don't need a memory card. It's only final fantasy seven I Know But yeah, like did any of you guys managed to like catch poke one when it was on Was it like SM TV live TV like and deck doing their like their own versions of the characters in between Yeah, basically just as that deck always where that show cooked up I Have to say how good was SM TV live like we had things where we've we had all these years of like very controlled kind of BBC kind of things Where it's like the we're the weirdest thing we got was like Trevin Simon or something And then SM TV live in like CD UK really up the bar of utter craziness I'm like 925 to CD UK CD UK live game on and it was like yeah, it was unhinged A lot of it and like a lot of good sketch segments as well including the fake Pokemon battles But we're very clever the way that because he's gonna part one of the card in earlier on so you just get up And then you watch rest of the show because it didn't just tell you what time the next second part of the show was gonna be on So then done that with you split all the cartoons and then you say that with uh that man the animated TV show as well He used to watch the first part But how crazy was it though like that that felt like the first time that people actually had a knowledge of What the show they were sort of presenting was going to be like, you know how previously they just had cartoons They're like, oh, it's Pokemon.

There you go Well, they'd be like in this episode something happens in the like and that actually must have watched the fucking episode Like here's a parody of it. You're like this is a lot more involved than I like it Yeah, I mean you could tell that that kind of seemed to hate it But um, yeah like you see they were at least watched one part of whatever Idea They had an argument before the second half started about how you pronounce the word Pokemon Yeah, like it you pronounce the ease of Pokemon Pokemon Pokemon and then this Came on not Pokemon Just start playing the episode and somebody said Pokemon out loud and it cut back to the studio and deck was going I was waiting for the first line reads When we said we're gonna do this episode as well, I was like, right I'm gonna try and remember stuff and I'm gonna remember you didn't normally with like things like red dwarf and stuff Everything little thing floods back and it like it leads in the other Pokemon I struggled with a little bit so I went back and watched a few episodes The one thing and I think we're talking about going to stream earlier with Graham The thing I jumped back into my memory and clawed its way in and now I feel like I'm infected is the music Because um like the ottoman song again I had in effect everyone else who joined the stream beforehand because it's been driving as crazy Can you stop saying infect It's how it goes, but um, I didn't realize as well. I forgot about the port the port one wrap at the end of the episode I was like, what the fuck why can't I not remember this and then the little songs in between like The team rockets little rip our team and then it was what I was saying on on stream I was I've had it stuck in my head all day because obviously the team rocket motto is the thing But then there's the one episode the jiggypuff episode where they do a song instead And it's a totally different like version of the motto And it's I've had that stuck in my head for about 20 plus years And the fact that I was singing it on my twitch stream earlier and just being like, how do I remember all of this? You know, it's so fucking weird, but but this isn't the thing it's where it hit hit us in our formative years Where it was just that good, but yeah, the show was fantastic.

This everyone's like first exposure to anime as well No, when I was a kid, I obviously my first exposure to anime was probably oorok good doji You know, which is probably not a good start. Um, but my brother was like that and what is it legend of the overfeed is it? I don't know you pronounce it Project ako we had a big Hs of a parody anime called project ako that everyone should watch because it's hilarious But it was a bit weird that my first introduction to anime was a parody of all anime So it has all references to other things in and then I was like and then I eventually saw it and I was like, oh This is like weird thing that it's like starting with a compilation or a best-off album But we all watched the Simpsons and experience pop culture references The afterwards Yeah This was probably my first Taste of anime but the reason I liked it a reminder of a cartoon I used to watch when I was like a little bit younger I am just gonna make sure I got the name of it right the mysterious cities of gold Yeah, that wasn't quite anime but it was like American style. It was kind of like I think take name But was that one of those because I remember it but I can't remember whether it was actually and you know an American like play like an American studio Getting an like Japanese artists to do it because it was it wasn't a weird thing where it wasn't actually a Japanese anime I believe so.

Yeah, I think it's spot on It took the look and that that was saying it was like a lot of few of the ones did the same other look in front of like the city of El Dorado and stuff like that Where and then the them was the wheelies like the planet warriors and stuff was like really out there concepts Yeah, real warriors. So this is before we got like the big influx of anime But I think there were taking like aspects and westernizing them as well But then pop-point was probably my first like true anime where like it was like the concept was so about shit crazy I think we're talking on before we start talking about where some 14-year-old kid was okay. You've got to be a Pokemon master I don't want you to know fuck off I live with a mime now I don't know if you've seen it because it's a lot of sort of the gay nerd groups and stuff But the amount of the amount of very suspect fan art of certain Pokemon because obviously there's a fine line between certain Pokemon and furries And it's literally all this this very miscomic step or whatever It was literally like the dad coming in to check on their kid And just being like oh you okay, son and the kids in bed with all of his Pokemon, but all the Pokemon are like much I'm like You can reach in all the places that nobody else can imagine The Pokemon was real though you would look at people's like team composition and you'd be like okay I know what you like Eventually, but like I keep musing about what the fuck it would be like if I had my favorite Pokemon like in the real world And just being like this makes like a lot more difficult Squirt in the fierc by squirtle. Yeah, so I was gonna say it out of either one I think squirt was one of the first things I ever saw and I think I turned it on because I was like You know, this is a video game and it was just squirtle running around buffing water all over the floor Like I can remember my cousins being like what the hell is this?

It's gonna be good I swear It's gonna be the next big thing also also Sammy's in the chat My name's Sammy and I'm having a holiday Can you say a name of the group chat I'm having a lion shirt though to she Forget something at the start and at the chat will go crazy if I'd want to remember it as well Um, I've been watching the goonies again. I thought funny enough and I did notice some extra people in the goonies That's not been before so you guys won't be in the seat Possibly New goonies that's people's been going eat as well. I did promise there would be two new ones so the pictures are up now Uh, so this is where good will's gonna have an erection and probably never disappear for a long time Bold claim was put a glass down I'll leave both hands for this Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh No, I thought I'd do the brave thing and say I saw myself and I couldn't bring myself to make anyone else Other than me Okay, I'm like I know goonies as well. So yes, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry to digest it Put best over the truck Oh The real Does that mean does that mean you will do anything for a baby? Yes Was So Yes Um It was literally like I'm old enough that it was when the game came out It was the thing and I'm someone who's always been on the outside of everything when it comes to trends and like You know fads and stuff because I don't care about fashion I don't really care about anything, you know that like is popular But this was the first time that in school everyone was doing something and everyone was talking about a certain thing And I was like I want to be part of this and I got the game and then it was all we talked about and it was like You know, it was a phenomenon and this is weird because obviously it's very very like I'm shocked at the minute Because I just bought Diablo before and realized that I can actually play games with my mates At a time when the game is relevant Once the play this game and they're like, yeah, we kind of did that Pokemon like it was literally Everything that it was just this wave of you had red and blue there, you know red and blue the game that came out We all had that and our game boys and stuff and then the game would color came out later I think and they brought out pokemon yellow where you started well the show came out and then you had pokemon yellow Where you started with Pikachu that seems like a good idea, but it's basically hard mode because you share It's all be fun, you know, oh well, I'll just spend five like that was the first introduction as a child to grinding We Grinding and grinder The pokemon are uglier on grinder Something But yeah, and then it was that and obviously the tv show the card game it was everything It was like yeah, I think pokemon was one of the first things where I was literally in the center of it all being like Oh, here's this new thing and here's this new thing. Oh, the cereal is there. That's how that all you know, there's a tv show Let's watch that every day, you know, did anyone play the n64 version When it came out wasn't the collective one is the battle was it the battle arena one?

I was playing on stream the other one Yeah, I only played it once or twice But it's because we kind of gave up on the n64 because the problem is the n64 came out and the playstation came out and you're like Why should I play named 64? You know, we just when the games were like the same price and stuff But we had a mate who played it we played it a couple of times But it felt weird that you got to pick your team Like because I think the joy of pokemon is that you basically you catch them You build them up and stuff and that's kind of how you have your team Whereas in pokemon stadium, you kind of just seem to start by just going oh well I'll have a level 100 mu to then Yeah, you could like you would like rent them or you had to connect your game or a game to this little path that went in the controller You can have your guys on the big screen That's what I would have liked, but I don't think we had it I think we literally just went oh well two players set up. Oh well, I'll have the best You had time for the Wii You had the weird mad cats control Can I just can I just ask a question? Aside from the obvious cash grab for Nintendo.

Why was the two versions of the game? There is no reason It's literally the idea of I think it's a great mechanic like yeah Yeah, because you basically had it where some pokemon were only available in one of them Some of them were available in another because you've got to think the whole principle in Nintendo is interaction Like yes, it's about making money, but it's about innovation like that's how we have crazy shit like the Wii That's how we have like the switch where you go It's can be a console, but it's also a handheld And the whole thing was basically like going hey If you have if you you it kind of went oh you can only have one of these games So you need to interact with your friends and be part of a community effort If you want this one who's in red You have to trade with your mate and then you can get that one and these guys will only actually evolve if you trade them with someone So I think it was like cadavera was basically if you had that you couldn't make alakazam Which is a third level yeah, except by sending it to a friend and then it evolved So it was this whole thing that it was Nintendo trying to get kids to Be in touch with each other yeah, and but If you bought two of them if you bought red and blue when you were rich or something it was still a faff on to Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was absolutely like Um, obviously like it's nice that they were like oh yeah, we'll encourage like you know families to play together But it was absolutely the kind of thing where you'd be like talking to your cousins you like i'll tell you mam i get your pokemon red I've got blue I think it was obviously Was obviously designed to be like oh, you know if for the perfect family with two children you both like games and have everyone game boys They can get one copy of the game each and everyone it's happy by the link cable But um Like the market in for this must have been insane which when you think about it being a totally like I guess it was approved in japan but so like by the time it came out over here There were like a bit ready for the phenomenon but like the magazines were all talking it up because that's where i first saw Saw about like screenshots of the magazines they would go nuts about like months before it was even out So like all the kids knew when it was coming out it was probably the first time i remember they're being like released buzz about the video game Because i was probably a bit too young to like hit like more combat time when it was like it's coming to console and never a while It was just like yeah, but this was like exactly like how grim described it would be like on the telephone your friends being like I've just found this thing and you'd be like what and then they'd go check it in their game and stuff like that Um, but I I think they're pretty much bandit in schools Teachers desk just full of fucking game It was like the cards that was buying from the schools because it's like genuine fights and reeds all the people's like cards are collections I'm just bringing a black market appearing in the school. We can't play you're getting like cash Like dumb ass glass noises and shit Grim, Grim is a very interesting point in that because i love that Element to it as well as like with port among and nintendo or not just like themselves They've always went hand in hand with innovation when it comes to like the game and inside as you said They're connecting through the game boys to swap p1 The uploading from game boys to n64 to the battle you on box to the points where now like say when it released a port Mongor that just changed the world for mobile phone gaming as a whole like a blue candy crush out the water like generally Like amazingly to the point now where like say it's coming out on the switch and people were generally going nuts for it again Or the switch it's always like evolving and it's always like changing with the times and It's amazing like input mongor is changing from like that The simple form when it first added to the point where you've got now where you've got like raid zones and people where Like i'll be one of the ones that they say i was banned from port mongor I wasn't allowed to play on it because I spoke my Like gps so i would get They travel the tortoio and get a far cry and go to australia and get the kangaroo one and go to texas and get the buffalo one Oh, you mean hangers car which is kangaroo and dengas car It's more creative than the ones they're coming out with now jake It's all horrible puns now a teacup called sinus team sinus team Yeah, he's shaking his head. He loves the shit The battle puns the little hanging fruit The thing is though that it's like I Correct me if i'm wrong here But this felt like the first japan the first thing that was massive in japan that became massive in the west Like because all of these things that we had from japan weren't massive like like transformers Yeah, japan didn't really give a shit about transformers They kind of did them and they had a range and stuff and they're like oh that's decent kind of thing But then like you know well no his transformers happened and then they had the toys which were from something else And you know stuff like gun dam and things like that that Care that was kind of it was big in america and then it kind of was using toys from other things same as what they called macross and All so much ek and stuff robotech Yeah, but pokemon for me as a kid that was the first time that something was massive in japan And it actually infected the rest of the world with the same kind of enthusiasm and the same kind of Yeah, do you think it was because like the time between releases like was only about a year or something and people were obviously still playing it Whereas we were getting like way old cartoons like yours and yours later They were still watching it and playing it while we were so I think it did kind of like bring everyone to like the same page I mean that's the thing I guess I think the thing that made this a phenomenon was the interactive element the fact that you know Every single thing about it whether you're playing the card game whether you're watching the tv show whether you're um Like you know whether you're playing the actual video game and stuff all of that required interaction that we hadn't really seen with other stuff Like you know like master's universe was great But you basically got the figures and smash them about with you make kind of thing it was there wasn't like there was a lot of smashing um That's a whole different concept It's already written It's been talked about yeah Concept Wow, okay, sorry Um, I was trying to figure this out because it was either the show or it was the game and I remember distinctly getting the game in the first time I played it and that's a stronger memory than watching the show.

So I think it was the game and I think there was there was so much hype Well Don't listen to it Yeah, so I think it was the game I think there was that much hype rather I remember going this is such a week because I've been I was talking to my mom and I was saying You know I'm gonna be on the podcast but pock on this weekend. She was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense And I was like I'm trying to remember like was I gonna poke before I got the game I was like because you took me in uh, some of them town and we went to Woolworth's on Forster Street And I bought Pokemon Blue and we lived in this house So it must have been before this date and she looked at me. She was like, what the fuck? I don't know.

I don't really care. I was like Well, yeah Yeah, I need cans of palm blue Yeah, I so yeah, I was playing this game and I was like, right I'm like, I'm really a little instruction manual and it's got like the bookman catch I'm like, I can't find this one and my mom was like, oh, I've been reading the newspaper and it says that you know You need another game and you train with them. I was like, what are you friends? I mean, I'll they just be satanic like anything else in the 90s So I like I remember knowing at school which which people had Pokemon Red So if I was like when I was getting to that point in the game, I'd be like, yeah, come here.

Hang out Like this week out. I'll bring my game boy, you know We could be trained me so obtitiously rather than actually being like we could both trades, you know I remember one one guy him not knowing really what he was doing and I was like, yeah, you need to give me an oddish You will find an oddish in this area. I was I was ruthless You like take my bells When you're too young for that I will receive every game exclusive you will receive Pidgey You should also trade me a starter as well. You'll get another one.

That's right Oh, because they always used to start with like the same three though. It was always a chanda Bulbasaur or Squirtle unless you got yellow then you started with a Pikachu Yeah, but you did get all three stars in that game and that was that made that very valuable Because if you had someone if you knew someone with Pokemon yellow, you could trade all three stars from one playthrough What? Yeah, you just got given them at random points like it was kind of like it kind of follow the tv show Squirtle squads in town and then you'd get one It's not what you think it doesn't have anything to do with Berlin good No, there were criminals and then the time the firefighters were like good, I guess Oh, good. I've got to call the fire brigade squirtle squads if we all put sunglasses on right now.

We would be the squirtle squads It was episode eight or seven or wasn't it original show? I think that was the one way. Yeah, it took a while Went through it was ash collectories like little bodies and stuff. Yeah, like that was a big thing about that the show it had like progression Which like cartoons didn't bother with a lot of the time other would have episodes where you could drop it anywhere And it would be okay, but it maybe it did have like a finale or something like this one was like oh, I I didn't know like I missed him catch Charmander.

So I guess I just have to accept that Come on again Kind of weird sad episodes where like the things would evolve and whatnot like remember when Like because team rocket famously had echons and air coughing and then they basically decided to let them evolve in order to sort of like You know have more power, but they were really emotional because it's a new Pokemon effectively Like and I think they gain a new personality or something when they evolve and it was just like that was really weird But then from then on they have what is it? What are they? Ekins coughing goes to what is Ekins transforming to? Oh, but yeah, I remember nothing to do with anything, but it's a good way.

What's Ekins backwards? I was about to say I was 34 years old when I'd realized that Ekins was snake backwards. Thank you Stephanie Sterling Yeah, what's fucking sinister and what's what's our backwards as well? Oh, I don't bloody know what you ask me?

Like you were saying all these new generations are just like terrible puns. They were always terrible Pure rose into glasses from me. I'm like oh no, it was always a polish. It's always been like this So coming to the next generation ones and like I was I was I grew up with the first 150 150 He was always there he's in the intro for the cartoon I'm missing number technically Missing numbers.

So I'm calling and I think we used to call that missing go as a kid Yeah, because there's no it was all capital so he's just like missing you Well, my game is fucked Get around in the first episode where the port was x-years Oh, there's a lot of port man that hasn't been found and been named when the flying one cause I can't it was like yeah But then when it's like the broad the next gen ones They weren't like hidden away our mystical ones So we're just like all over the place like where the fuck are these port ones coming from and where the What was that? That's something I could never get past different regions every game is set in a different region So the first one is the canto region but yeah, it's one and then basically they go oh, they suffer region has these other ones But then but then when they go back to cantor it has all of the other ones in no It's absolutely it's an absolute retcon But I guess the first they were trying to be like oh, well professor Oak is the expert of the cantor region He's got no idea about like toggopy or whatever But yeah, you're right Paul. It was like flimsy at best and it's like there's no way with tv shows and stuff You wouldn't like you wouldn't see like someone from the next country over like you would be like Oh, they wouldn't have even like mentioned it in a letter or something here I think what they do is like after the fact will be like we hear about this all along We just never told you I just love the ashes that's like I finally done it I finally got all 151 And I was like well actually Hold on I haven't finished notching your month Go to go to a different country 5 more years I mean I did promise donna I would name these people during the podcast as well I have been getting more interested in port 1 lately due to a certain youtube sensation that is scuba stuff Doing a Why do you like a poll? Why do you like scuba stuff?

It's a very huge tetsault. I'm not gonna lie But they've been doing all that a mystery They've been doing that for a long time She was 10 grams, she was 10 Thank you So I just go fielding it up here This is such a fight now Yeah, like her versions of words she's been dressing up as the police officer Jenny And a friend's been dressing up as no story And they've been running around trying to capture the theme Roberts and Stuff in Elio, America and it's just one of the most hilarious things you've ever seen I think I shared a video when she was like this is why I like port 1 again, but yeah, sorry I think that's the perfect trouble making the video It's the fact of like it's a cartoon or something with so many tropes Like just how hilarious the cartoon is where it takes the piss out of the video game Where obviously in the video game they're like oh you went to a Pokemon center Well, we're just not gonna make new sprites for new people all the time So the person working at all of the shops is exactly the same sprite And then in the cartoon they're like We'll just make it where they all look exactly the same Yeah, they're all sisters technically Yeah, so they're all just like related to each other but like tentacle twins I mean just going like a faciliest thing ever But then Brock can tell the difference because he's so horny He's like oh no, they're all completely different I mean this is the thing like Because obviously I mean I'm the outsider when it comes to Pokemon I've always in my mind established like The timeline of Pokemon is setting some dystopian future Where all these animals have evolved from some horrific nuclear apocalypse Where we've got a Squirtle and we've got a Pikachu and a chat I'm under it and he's like oh he breathes fire because he was radiated Oh he's species was radiating I'm like yes there's going to be 37 different nurses that all look like Because human mutations I'm still thinking of Pokemon Yeah, there's um I mean you're not there's the slight like drops hints of that kind of exact thing in the game Really? Yeah, it's not actually true But there's like I mean there's one of the gym leaders is a lieutenant So it's like that's a point He talks directly about his right shoe Yeah, electrocuting people in the war And I think like warfare must be really fucked up Where's Ash's dad? Universe, where is Ash's dad?

Yeah Jesus, the POWs Are you going to talk? No! He can't! He can't!

He can't! So, like you have to sell the share of cells Mr. Mime Yeah, like no! The electric rat just like oh well we're going to get drowsy in here and he's going to just scramble your brain You're like oh okay You want to punch Mr.

Mime? You're dreaming of the issue with the statue Oh yeah, you're pretty fucking bastard Yeah, that's a little bit bizarre Because Mario is not like The movie Detective Pikachu was kind of great Because it kind of brought these real world like oh but how would a world like this actually work? And it was kind of wonderful because it had this dark side of stuff Where it was like oh yeah people can just use this Pokemon for like actual horrible shit or crimes and stuff Like dog fights I think they had like underground fighting ring type of thing So it was like I was going to say like to bring this back to be it's like the wholesome When you were a kid like that like Pokemon was like the ideal escapism world Because who didn't want like ultimate freedom to go and just be like I'm just going to battle monsters That's going to be my job I always feel a bit sad for them though as well because these could breathe the shit out each other And I normally made a big reference to it in the Pokemon movie Where like new to like clones all the Pokemon gives them extra power And he's going to show my superiority I'm going to suspend their special abilities So it's got them bringing into each other Or to headbutt each other or I just lean on each other And Pikachu gets the shit slapped out of them Because he won't fight He's like I'm a fine bear But that happened pretty much on a episode by episode like the really sad They shouldn't fight like this We're there they should use the special powers to breathe the show each other That's the way they should battle I was like this is fucked up It is the whole concept is fucked up Like you know as soon as you actually apply it to the real world Or be like what the hell like this is literally animal cruelty Yeah I think it's this idea of you have to suspend disbelief for like you know It's like Mario where you just type him being like oh there's probably a whole You know ecology or something like in this world And he just comes over being smashed these blocks Yeah I mean you don't bunch of bricks You don't think about it Okay he stomps the total to death You can't really think about it It's too funny He just being like oh baby And then Mario was like I've got his body Now I have five hours You just swallowed your dead child And I'm like I could see Chris Brack doing that type of thing Just seeing him go What is it? It's like in a game where they say like oh Ekins has fainted I'm like no they're in intensive care with major life threatening injuries Because they have a shit kicked out with him He's got hit by flamethrower That can't just make you pay it Oh thank you It's like kicking Charmander over the rim Because if the fire release teal goes out It doesn't just pass out It falls and dies How was our species survived?

Darwin would be turning in his grave if you heard that I'll tell you why everyone survives free healthcare You know they are the perfect example of free healthcare Where this world would not function without like the Pokemon centers Or the NHS or whatever But I do like the idea that we're cycling around the idea that there's literally dead Pokemon Go wrong Pokemon And then like you know it's like oh and then what is it in the first one Where it's um get ready for this Cubone's mum Marrow Who is literally dead You know and it's like oh Cubone What is it? Cubone has like a skull that he wears And it is dead parents skull Yeah Okay And so I held it and he'd say It's very mass Maxine Which then raises Which then raises like Paul was saying like problems of like logic Wait Is that the queen? Sorry Yeah yeah like logic problems like well how did the first one ever happen Because you know like how could the first What did the first cubone layer on its head? Yeah Before it died and became a helmet It's got dark I think there is like there is literal references in Pokemon to humans dying and becoming ghost Pokemon as well Yeah Like there's one that's like a ghost that comes out of like a death mask And like everyone's like oh well this is just the trapped spirit of a human Like it's like oh okay Yeah This is just a human death Does he have feelings anymore?

Does he remember his old life? I like the idea of having a world where basically anything that is slightly mutated He's just classed as a Pokemon So they've literally just got a sort of like sort of you know Like a sort of a french person with severe like physical deformities And they're like that's a Pokemon He's like the elephant man He's not the one you know Was the elephant man a Pokemon? I don't know No you weren't I'm not in a ball of them like Well that's the thing like in the Yeah in the Pokemon world like I think the the tech There is some kind of weird magic tech going on Like you can't catch humans in balls So maybe that is how the weeded out like the distalable at it If it like goes inside like okay it's a Pokemon I was like sure something I always have a question about with the actual show as well Because you know how all the different Pokemon like when they communicate They'll say the one name they'll say it in a different way Why is Meowth? Like why does that cut like talk full English and talk full English?

Yeah, yeah I'll let you tell the story of it Yeah, you don't talk about it Oh okay I'm gonna have to try and remember that so now He's like he wants to impress someone Do you have any? Do you have any? No it's a girl It's a girl It's a girl meow I think Yeah And so he learns English to impress her And she's just I don't think she's impressed No and Why are you speaking the language of your presses? Yeah she kind of calls him a freak And then he's like oh oh shit And because of that he can no longer battle Because he like traded his moves in For like human speech Wow That's why he's like terrible at battle But then obviously the crime syndicate was like Ah you're pretty rare and interesting One of me I'm gonna have to be a team rocket But that's it But then he was like Giovanni's pet And then obviously Giovanni got a Persian And he got a Picked off He got kicked off and I have to work with Buddy Jesse in there Yeah I can't remember if it's coming up But I think the girl meow if he's trying to impress was the Persian I might make a movie I don't know We can make a one legacy Well I mean the episode's great though Because it's like Meowth telling this like film noir story Like he's even a little trench coat And everything thanks telling his backstory I loved it It was like how that translated from Japanese I got the idea So questions we got like actual Portland themselves The good world's gonna have fun with this one Oh god So what would you say is your favorite Portland But which one's actually really it too as well That like would you say as well itself So I would probably go with a Snorlax for me Just because I'm I should have said this video is like five Snorlax Actually But it's probably my favorite is probably some EV Because I can say I do like the like Fox But there's also like you don't know what it's gonna be like So go towards when it does evolve Because you've always got like the three different versions of it as well I'm sorry there's nine now There's nine now Can you name all nine, dear?

No, there was more than nine Larry on Vaporeon Jolteon Umbreon SVR Leafy on Glaiseon Silvion I think that might be mine I just want to know what you're saying so you can say It's hard on one of them Not yet I mean what would you call the rock one? It's like like you have to call it that eventually Rock it on Yeah, sorry Paul It's a nerd out on you That's fine I'm going to say You've probably give Beth a little bit of a nerd hard on as well So that's fine Cause they're all dogs as well So yeah, that's why people like EV What were you good work on? Which I've known nine for years It is Galarian Pornita Yes The unicorn So it's fine It's a good one I love it out You pump it You pump it It turns into rapid acid You're like why is it on fire Surely this makes it the most Danger on ginger Right ever And ginger is getting on my horse No, if you watch the episode It doesn't burn you over Yeah, like someone's like sat on its back And like holding onto the fire As if it's a man It doesn't seem tangible They can grip Yeah, that's how fire works Instead of burning it They're just like harder daddy It's a matter of trust I can make a fire not hard I do like the idea Professor Oak being like It's very difficult to be a professor In a world where physics means Fucking nothing Yeah Forget everything you look at school They'll go to school When they're 10, they're out the door Right actually, yeah Like the only schools you see in the video games Are like Pokemon schools Where you learn about Pokemon Where you don't like Steve's effects If you hit Pokemon Like you're done in that world You're like you're probably like shunned from society Is the reason why they send them out to ten You will because the world has been overrun With these mutated animals That they need young people to call the herd Yeah, it's like a station Of the planet, yeah If they didn't, the Pokemon would rise up And they need the chill They need everyone to be out there and slaving And of course they sacrifice the young Because that is what humans will do I guess So they don't grow up questioning it I accept those Pokemon overlords And Bob are you grim? Which is what you see in the other one Most related?

Oh yeah, now Jake will know this So don't But basically guess what my favorite Pokemon is Because nobody ever guesses it Jinx That is a very good day for me Pokemon It's the mine one Anyone anyone else want to try? Chat, do you want to have a go? Chat, I guess you want to have a good one Which generation? You said you didn't know anything outside Jinx Gen 1 Alright, that's not what it used to be Who's that Pokemon?

Who's that Pokemon? Oh, it's a ticket It's a ticket It's a ticket to trick tree off Lee, that is... No, that's wrong No, I will tell you who my favorite Pokemon is It is Executive Yes Hello Best Pokemon How was that? Dragon class talks I remember that one being classed in Dragon class No, it's not It's psychic slash leaf Right, I think That's a little in executive There's a little in executive I have the alone executive Now, they have everything What a freak What a freak Fuck, happened to this This is what I mean It's like the idea Just like, I'll just go outside With my Pokemon It's a fucking tree You might need to wait outside Whilst I go into this show And nobody sees them in the cartoon And they literally about 9 foot tall Basically And he's just like going How does this function?

You know, like... I make dumb ass noises I just like... Exactly That is my... It's absolutely my favorite thing Because we have Execute Which is basically Acute and like...

Which is a pile of psychic eggs That man together So an executed As like pineapple heads But basically they drop off And then they split up into eggs Or loads of them gather together Become smaller for some reason And then become like a pile of eggs Called execute And then they evolve into a palm tree Called a genita Where every single head talks differently And thinks different things at the same time Leading to absolute utter chaos Which is why it is my favorite Pokemon Because it is fucking amazing And also as a kid I have my Pokemon I have loads of Pokemon I have them the other day But there is my favorite card That was the bane of all of my friends' lives Because he has an ability called Big Explosion And I will read Big Explosion Which is Flip a number of coins Equal to the number of energy attached to Exeggutor The attack does 20 damage Times the number of heads I would watch about 20 energy tokens On two different Pokemon I'd be like It's my turn now I'll be flipping coins for the entire power And I just like Please stop Everything is dead And I'm just like no He's already turned into a sis-media So you're the mariachi So obviously mariachi of the Pokemon world Is that why you're the evil genius? I just love chaos As you will see from anything If you ever play anything with me If there's a do not push this button I will be like Let's see what happens If you watch this video episode of The Invisible Man The only thing that's been a saggramo go to cause energy A lot of people don't realize there's been on every podcast So just without the messages always go to the cops But yeah, I think it's this idea But like we're saying, like Pokemon You have one that you kind of get drawn to Whether you just go Oh, it's really cute Or I'd love to have that in real life And I think that's it We're Exeggutor I used to always get one in every game And it annoyed me that you couldn't get them Till really late on It's a party zone It's a party zone Which is like three-fourths of the way through I think Yeah, but then you got them So what I do is I get mates to trade me An executive like you know From so I'd start the game Get them to trade me an executive And then because I didn't have the appropriate badges It wouldn't listen to anything I said Which gave the game even more hilarious More chaos Yeah, because I was like, okay This is good Anyway, I'll stop going on about how amazing executives I'm really annoyed though Because when I was in Japan I went to the actual Pokemon Air Shops I went to the actual Pokemon Shops And I was going, oh finally These are, it's Japan I'll be able to get loads of Exeggutor merch And they were like, why the fuck is that? They're like, what? We have a hundred Pikachu So we've got like a billion Gaspsies and stuff Does he have the same name in Japanese as well?

Yeah, they're all named exactly the same thing I think it's really weird No, no, they're all They're sometimes different Pikachu is exactly the same Because Charizard is called Lizzadon In Japan It's called Nasi in Japan I can't remember because obviously I don't know, I don't know But they had loads of stuff But they didn't have a collection of Tamaytama Which I think is just Egg Egg But yeah, the only thing is The only reason I have this Is because my brother founded in New York When he was over there And their Pokemon Center has More stuff than the Japanese one Which is weird But anyway No, it's my opinion Imagine a Pokemon battle And you're just like, oh yeah, I'm going to send out my Pidgey And you're like, deploy the tree Yeah, here's an insane tree I'm like a psychic dragon tree Oh, no, sorry, actually He's weak to Pidgey So like this tiny Pidgey Would be like, a rapping your tree Because he's grass I don't know, they just bring out Pikachu And you just have like a 12 foot tree Stamp on it He's just like, okay Sorry, I'm sorry Sorry, I'm going to point that I just realised that the Unban Bingo and Pokemon go on They'll add back in the game again Oh, I'm back I'm back Hang on back? Bandai next week What about you, Jake? What would you say your favourite is going on? I think a big director Is this guy Hydragan Who is a flying dragon with three heads Basically because he's King Ghidorah From Godzilla in Pokemon 4 So like, how could I not love this guy?

And he's a dragon, so he's OP And you have to like raise him up to level 65 To evolve him Which comes the grinding that Let's talk about Um, but yeah, like you're definitely right Graham There's some, there's one weirdo for everyone Um, I've got a bunch of you Like quite partial to Wiedel He's pretty great And our Wiedel's not going to make a sound doesn't he? My second guy is called Calerax Who's a weird rabbit That floats around and has weird wiggly legs Yeah I think that was a weirdo I loved, I really loved Kakuna Because Kakuna is so evil, but it was useless And I remember my challenge for the game When I had it as a child was to get a Kakuna And make it level 100 And make it But what did you both own? Was it Caterpie? That was Wiedel The, it's this guy Wiedel, yeah And then a wee Yeah, so yeah, Wiedel And then basically all it has is like, you know, Poison Sting or something And then it can learn something else?

I think you can give it TMs and stuff But then once you've got Kakuna You're like, let's see if I can beat the game With like, sort of Poison Sting Yeah, you know? And literally going density elite 4 Everything killed it in one hit Despite it being level 100 And me putting every strength bonus onto it Kakuna is just a pile of shit Because it's a cocoon, basically Gun for him, I do So what about you? Do the Jake's still talking, I'll just write to them Oh, sorry Oh, because you were saying like, which one do you actually relate to? I think I'm gonna go along your lines, Paul There's a one called Slacking Who's basically a giant gorilla sloth Who lies down on his side all the time with his belly out and yeah A lot of people will suck Yeah, a lot of people sit Sit him on the gyms and stuff, I remember Oh, yeah Okay, yeah When you're doing your gym battles and stuff Weirdly, I've always had the same answer But I did a challenge run of Paul But I believe Green And then executive tool actually like carried my whole team People, you found the two people in the world?

Yes, exactly, it was not my answer But I thought like, I'm like, I Honestly, it carried the whole game for me And I managed to find the Safari Zone straight It was a randomizer, so the war was all different So my start, I wasn't good enough to fight everything But I found the Safari Zone which meant You could just catch stuff without having to fight it Yeah, yeah So then because he was high level I was just like, you just carried the whole game for me So I was like, I'm glad you said it Because I was like, I should say it Because it's the fact he can learn psychic And psychic is ludicrous Because psychic breaks the rules Because it goes, oh, this Pokemon's like, you know, strong against psychic Like powers, and then it'll still kill them And you're like, what the fuck is this ability? It's broken in general as well, it's brilliant And no, my actual favorite Pokemon is Arginine Firedog, just, it just seems so quickly And it was an had blue Which meant that I never actually, I couldn't have a gap My favorite Pokemon I feel like get lost to full tech So I won't grow it Yeah Which Pokemon do I relate to the most? I don't know I'm kind of looking at Gen'gar And I'm like, yeah, all right He's just a little chunky, Miss Chief man, isn't he? That's not me Yeah I'm coming up to like, because interestingly, we're seeing like the merchandise, or in Japan and everything Think back then, as I said, the big thing that came out was the cards And that seems to have not gone away Only got kind of like stronger with like new packs on new variations It's come back, yeah That's what I mean, so it's probably the only thing I've seen in B&M That's locked behind a glass cabinet, it's what I'm talking about Because of all the trouble being in here Yeah But cards, like something that I personally didn't get involved Because I was more other pogs and the tazos kind of collector But when the couple of months cards originally come out You didn't think they were going to be anything as special as they are now Because you're talking thousands and hundreds of pounds For certain cards and like the chunky Pikachu was one of the most expensive ones Oh yeah Chunky patshore Yeah, it's still Charizard if I'm honest It's still that first Charizard that you would have sold back in the day Because like, but like people are, some people will say like, oh, you know Like if we only knew Charizard was going to be expensive Like it was still expensive back then It was extremely rare Because I remember like, remember the swap shop in like Sunderland in town Like they had one and he was always flashing it Like whenever you were in like, I got the Charizard It's 120 pounds or whatever if you want it Which like back then was like It probably is about, I don't know how much they are at the Gulf War Maybe like 500 if they're in good connection I remember the, uh, when the cards Because there was a subset of people that traded Pokemon cards And ironically it was Chavs They were obsessed with the cards And one of them Jonathan, he did the pakian party and everything like that And he found Charizard The hat to call his mum So he had to go to reception in school He had to wait with the card For his mum to come and collect the card Because of the fear that he would get his head kicked in For this Charizard card at school Not long after that, Pokemon cards were banned I mean, I would have kicked his head in But I didn't take my card, I was just jealous It took me because I literally was, um I when I was writing the house the other week I found loads of Pokemon cards And somewhere I have a whole folder of them Well, my mum probably threw it out Because basically we had that whole university thing But when I went to university Mum found, and nearly said mother there and gave myself a hug Mother, uh, no mother Mate's up, I'm just saying all of my, um I said, let's just infill him anymore Destroyed everything I loved, basically So he's just like, yeah, what are these Warhammer figures?

Don't need these anymore What's this? This signed copy of like a Warhammer army book By all of the like, 80s and other stuff And shit, you know And it's like, I literally all of it went in the bin And she was like, oh, I've cleared out some of the old stuff So I go on to the Asturary session, Graham is on the couch I'm leaving now But um, but it's the idea And it is just this thing Like I keep sort of saying to my mum like Whenever there's an article on somewhere But it's like, hey, this is where for Fortune Nowadays I'm like, I had three of them But it was the same with Pokemon Chiles West I think somewhere I got like a folder of them I didn't have the full set, but I know I've got a Chiles up But I found like random ones the other day So there's a Dark Joltian who's from the Team Rocket Set He's not shiny though Got Haunter from the Fossil's jet, who's a shiny We have a lot of double energy ones Like if I was 10 double energy Because of a certain executive He got two points for that one Ah, I'll play it And then it's like Jesus Christ And Alec is out He's like, this one is probably about 40 quid If I wanted to sell that now But it's just weird Like and then I literally, I ordered off the internet This was obviously early days of the internet This is where you couldn't use a computer You had to phone a shop or something Like but I might actually get like first edition executive cards They're like, we're like five quid or something now But it's still the idea Because I was like, it's my favourite card I need the best version of it And it never got a foil I don't think It's so weird because Play one gaming, me and Gizra By guys, if you're watching They've got all the rare cards Like locked away in a cabinet near the till And sadly they got broken into the other week And I was starting to go and I was like, well did they take any of the cards? No, they didn't take any of the cards So I was like, so the most valuable thing In that shop, they jumped over And they took cash out the till Leaving thousands of pounds of Beautifully untouched in the glass And then just legged it with a couple of hundred quid Realising, there's like thousands of pounds in front of them And it's just like, it's insane Like for me as a What are you trying to say? You're planning the job You know where to go You know how to get in every day Oh yeah, of course Well, as me who's like not really up to it I'm looking at these cards and I'm like, okay Why?

Why is this worth this? Why is this worth that? But I think, well, the stuff that I collect Yeah, I'm like, oh, this is worth this much because of this And I just don't understand why like a shiny child is worth so much It's down to like, as I said, the collectors Mentally type thing, it's like comic Now all the comics are getting harder and harder to get your hands on Because people are buying them Or they're getting destroyed or damaged and stuff And it's the same with like, Portland cards It's already type of like, collectors cards, I think The rare they want The more, like, they're probably only worth a five Well, the more demands and the more you want people to get It brings that towards, it's like that needs It's people who's got like, who, because that's got us nerd culture now Is probably the most popular culture out there It's in mainstream and it's on YouTube Hi YouTube It's basically everywhere Where you get people now who's got money And the pricing things out of the market for day to day people like ourselves That we can never want these things Like people like But I'm absolutely with like, I'm kind of I kind of came into Portland cards the wrong way around I've only just recently gotten into them properly Like as of like last year or something Basically, Euphoria, who's in our chat sometimes And stuff, she might be there, so hello if you are She has been into it like, since the old days And played the card game and kept up with like some of the stuff And that's where my interest comes in Like, I want to like play a game Like, I'm not just going to sit there with a binder full of cards Unless they're actually good to play within some form But like, the collectors market is incredibly fragile for these cards Because I mean a few groups, because I'd dabble in a little bit of collectance So like, there is certain ones I'd like to buy But honestly, the way people go on about them And it's all about grading, like the one them graded and case them plastic Me and they could never be played in a game again Which is where my interest is caused straight up Well that was that game wasn't it? Like was it Pokemon Yellow for Game Boy that was in case Because it had been graded and it was like worth $10,000 or $15,000 And then the US Customs were like, oh that's dodgy, smash And they'd actually look at what was inside the case And they'd rip the box up and they'd be like, yeah, that's sort of US Customs If all year they will destroy anything because they are dicks And it's like, can you imagine like, that's £15,000 That could be a lifeline for you and it's just like We made whole I don't know, I just can't respect it Like, I don't know what it is about like in case a playing card A trading card in plastic round is like, no Like, like, player with it, it's a toy, it's a case It needs to be enjoyed It's against the spirit of Pokemon That's very much a Paul mentality as we all know from last year Sony Con where it's just like, this Minton Box-ia-tabix That's, yeah If you love something, let it breathe But you say these...

You say these YouTube as well when they do like box breaks and stuff Where they've got all boxes of portamons Like that's never been shortened and the boxes are worth like tens of thousands of pounds Yeah, 10 grand, like... Does it all know what's in them? And as soon as you open them, they lose all the value Because then it just, it's basically the value is based on hope Yeah, the only news Pokemon Yeah, it honestly is, good. Well, like, because like You can sell old booster packs But then people have figured out you can wear them to see if there's like a holographic one inside Because it's like micrograms, like more But yeah, you're right Paul, like there'll be like I watch a guy called Pokarev who's probably who you're talking about Well, he's like, oh, this is a $10,000 box and I'm gonna open it And I'm gonna charge my fans £500 a pack and I'll send them it I'll open it on stream and then I'll send it to them Like, I guess that's how he's bankrolling it Him just making a video showing a card Or like pulling like three of these cards can just tank the market overnight Because people will watch it and they're like, oh shit, this is worth money now I'm gonna whack my prices up on eBay Or the opposite where he gets too much of something like, oh, this is worthless now Like Pokarev hates it Now it's worthless, like it's just incredibly fragile and volatile And you'll get like people on groups being like, oh yeah, this is a good investment You know, like you just buy this thing from Smith's to the toy shop And I'm just gonna leave it on my shelf for like, for like years and one day It's gonna be worth money and I'm just thinking like, is it though?

Like, it could be It's very much the same as stocks and shares It's very much the same as stocks and shares Where the whole point is, you have to know the peak time to get rid of stuff You can sell it Because if you hold on to it after everyone else has sold it, then it's worth nothing And it's like that, it's the idea of going, oh, if you have a chara's old Yeah, if that thing is like, you go, hey cool, I've got this chara's old now I'll sell it for 10,000 pounds because tomorrow it could drop to 500 To be fair, my retirement box I did have a little win I bought a fungal pop because I am a fungal collector as well Most of them do come out the box but I did get a Trixie fungal And I bought a fratina and I sold a 120 quid, so I won that with a ting as hell There's been times where I've bought whatever the new Pokemon card set is And just immediately sold everything because first weekend people get stupidly nuts And they'll pick three cards and be like, we love this card, no matter It could be technically rubbish in the game and it might not even look that great But if it's like if it's a chara's old or an n-te or a Lugia, they'll just pay anything I've flipped things for maybe 10 and I'm like, this is worth a pound Like, there's no way, you're gonna get 10 pounds, okay It's a cottage industry because like those hot wheels there People cannot be asked most of the time to do that So they'll be like, oh, it's on eBay, I'll just pay three times as much for it Because I will have it The thing is the joy of capitalism is something is worth what someone will pay for it So it's the fact of if there is some fucking rich kid who's like, oh, I'll pay 10 billion pounds for a Charizard And that's how much it's worth to someone And the problem is that nowadays you get a load, especially in Warhammer You get people where they look at like the eBay listings and they look at the sold prices And they go, oh, this one instance like, you know, two years ago sold for like 100 quid That must be what I can get for it And they're like, no, it's just got some crazy bastard wanted it right now and wouldn't pay anything Yeah, and the jacket price, you know, and then the whole market goes weird, and it's I'm guessing there is like similar conversations in those groups But you get people who like cling on to it and try and like perpetuate like the myth of like how much things is worth I'm sure it happens in like Funko Pops where they'll be like, no, yeah, yeah, it's worth 50 quid It's like, it's because you're sitting on like a case of seven like or something like that Like you can just see that they're all like scrambling because like this could all fall apart anyway Well, Beth's read Beth's read is a good point in the chart where there is the element of fickery as well with these cards Oh, yeah, that's a problem with them. It still happens with kids in school like right now because There'll be people get stuff on holiday. I can buy cards on wish.com And obviously when when you're a kid and you get this pack that's got all of the best cards in all like you like Oh, this is amazing, but then they'll go and trade them at school for real cards and then parents get mad There was something about that one as a kid and there was like someone who was coming in with like fake stuff and then trading it for real stuff And I'm like, yeah, it's kind of clever in retrospect Pops, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there were loads of fake pogs, right? Well, I used to get fake cards from like Benadorm and stuff like I used to play ugio Which was like an offshoot card game and kind of similar kind of anything But like there were like stickers like they were the wrong colors and like you could peel the front off Like they were like a holographic sticker So that must have been the only like stuck like hard stuck that you could get a holder after print this stuff on But when you're a kid, it's like a shortcut to like getting stuff that you can actually play with So I think that's the thing it's when it's a game random and it's like magic the gathering is a very expensive game to play competitively because it's Hey, you need to pay loads of money to get boosters and then you need to make the best you can out of what you get in the booster So as an adult, it's fine with us having loads of disposable cash just to be like, oh fucking i'll buy a whole boost of foxable find enough in there Where does it give you like I mean, especially for me trying to get like 20 fucking executives So It's Grim strategy has a name.

It's called control It's like a control deck is a one that's like designed to be the most annoying and like drag the game out or like destroy the other person's resources Um, but when you've just touched on magic that i've just been reminded like magic are more ridiculous in like their kind of money grabbing tactics It's hasbro as well everyone loves hasbro Um, but recently they're bringing out a lot of the ring special set and they're making one coffee of a certain one ring in the entire Trying to do a literal golden ticket on people but instead of like six there's one So somebody is gonna pull that and then like like good will was saying that there was gonna be armed guards like Yeah, I hope they pull in and burn it Throw in the volcano I look I look I love the idea of it honestly I think that you know from it if we can pretend that wizards the coast well, you know like am hasbro were like In assembly we're just doing it is like oh, this is a great thing because it is that's an amazing idea It fits with Lorde rings perfectly. Yeah in the realistic world of it We're gonna have Elon must buying every fucking box of these just so he can be like now I've got this card and no one else will you like, but you're still got a small petis eel on But yes, that's annoying for a collector or just having one card I know the pen is but for a collector that really irritates me Oh, it's it's totally like Graham said It's funny because if it happens like charlotte and the chocolate factory and some child who buys one booster pack gets it It isn't I love it, but you know, it's gonna be one of those like youtube fuckers who's like 1000 booster cases or youtube what yeah, and he's just gonna be like I'm gonna live stream until we get it and he'd be like I'll just chill out a small penis jake ball What I would do and I don't if I was doing a set like this if I was actually sort of Hasbro Whatever I would deliberately place the card so what I would do is I would literally be like Oh, I'm gonna send it to this game store in Muwaki or somewhere like somebody really obscure in american Just be like that's where it's like you know, not new york and just be fully aware of where we've sent it Small small America. Yeah, just like oh Glasgow It'll be really cool because then because it like if there's any fix they could officially say Yeah, that's not it. Yeah, true and then maybe and then mark the box.

I have the box with a particular idea or something So I'd be like hey, yeah, nobody is actually nobody's come up. I'm in there. Yes. Let's go and be like hello That's what I would make it where was also the idea of you would track it You wouldn't just leave it up to oh, Elon Musk bought every fucking box in you know, american or something, you know Let's be fair to musk though.

That's a martin shrilly move is buying all of something because he bought that one off What was it like a run DMC out or something? We bought that but he also bought the fucking m HIV the antidote Okay, so I don't say this often, but have you tried dying in a fire? He's got he's got a face of many smug people As well, so do you have any expensive cards? I don't like that's the problem.

I don't because everything that I want is for like utility purposes for playing in a game Yeah, because you actually play I had I had some nice cards I am was it your mom? Worse is my sister and she's not around to defend herself. She convinced me like I had a big box I had a big box of cards. They're all in box.

I played as well So like they weren't they're not pristine and I had them in a cup of it and she kind of went Why are you hanging on to those? I was like I think they're gonna be valuable one day I was like I think this is my generation's baseball cards Yeah, I think this is this is gonna be worth something someday and she was like jump jump And she was like my friends got a young boy He loves Pokemon. Can I just give him the box? And I was like no no and she she has sold me about it Eventually, I went yeah, you're probably right so I gave them all away I know like grim.

They're not in the attic. They're not in the house somewhere I know where they went and I know my sister talked me into it And you know what I think I saw that old boy has sold them and that was a millionaire Probably You're a thing like the big part my have okay just to go back to the therapy session or whatever My turn on the Torreus for having no real knowledge of what things are worth Like for instance my mom throughout all of the really rare signed Warhammer stuff and all of the sort of models that are worth an absolute 14 Now and stuff and all of them like probably Pokemon gods like I assume they're somewhere in a box But then again, I can't really tell but it's the fact of they kept all these first edition books and you're like Yeah, books are kind of dead. It's one of these big things She's like oh, I've got like a what is it like a second edition Harry Potter? You're like first edition?

It's not crazy though. It's like yeah, but it's not big I've got these big piles of books everywhere And you're just like no one cares about a first edition copy of Dr. Sleep or something which I checked and no it's not worth anything Because we're gonna go kiss the joints I was saying though. It's the fact of how scary it is that if people broke into our houses They would pick all of the wrong stuff.

Yeah, you go to the wall of bankruptcy and be like this one ship There we go. That's my college. Oh, yeah, I mean I mean hey, here's the Warhammer. Oh fuck.

This is where we brought you Instead they take my 10 year old fucking television That's that's the thing like and your race a really good point about that. I mean to just reference what you said like They would walk into this room and they'd go oh the toys and go for ps5 Realizing that what is on the wall is 15 times more valuable than the ps5 which over is a really good point about What some people because I always compare pokemon cars to like those pinini football stickers Yeah, and it's like yeah And they're like oh, but they're good at those bigger book it is like yeah, but these pokemon cars don't mean like this is like that is Shit that is toilet paper compared to like whoa whoa Get over it Football get over it It's like our parents because you said about baseball cards and stuff like that And he said yeah, there was baseball cards and then there was there was god. What was after baseball cards? It was um Fucking pugs or some shit like that and then it was pokemon cards and I used to have the sims Like you also said the sims are not the sick of the sims cards where you used to get like a bit of plastic chewing gum with it I used to feel yeah, oh god.

I had none of us. I was well adjusted Well, the second thing is I've been I've been on the lookout for like Star Trek trading cards for months like I know there's a Trading card set for the No I need to get good will Fucking as fish We got a foil cake. Oh, they might be who knows they blatantly didn't make a foil It's a shaniel brian I'm gonna get one me it's just a career Yes, we need to I remember like um years ago Unlike when forums were thing before facebook was a thing We used to like use generators to make magic the gathering cards and it's quite good because obviously um Beth in the chat is basically telling everyone saying what what pokemon types she thinks everyone would be So she said and pull would be ground type leader jakes a dragon good will fairy Close enough but no cigar um joke fighting and me psychic Confusion, you know, I mean good little shruggin, but he chose galarian ponytail earlier, which is indeed a fairy type It's just based upon me. It's not very quite choice With like the magic gathering cards we basically make our own magic the gathering cards of each other with abilities and stuff And there's something fun about that.

So I might do a post about that in idiot north So what we should do is make a ordinary up north put on cars and cars Concepts with all the nerds what nerve level would you? No, no, can you imagine how passive aggressive we would get with the abilities? Just imagine how insane my card would be Like I do not want to have this in my deck yours would be like really meta like it would be like if you like get it You gotta like play rock paper scissors The entire game ends if you lose a goose must be present in order No, you would have like the goose cards as you're like back like Someone's a one slash one goose with deck Like ludicrously powerful, but but it can only block or something I can't instantly win the game Well, that was a ugio thing if you had the five pieces of exodia like the man would come and destroy everything How did that work by the way because like there weren't other combination cards in ugio, were they? Was that just a separate mode that you could play?

No, no, it wasn't as magic as it sounded. It was just if you had the five and your hand at the same time See how to just play a deck that drew like deck search a lot I thought you played one and you put it there and then when you get another one you could add it to it So it was kind of like a camp there and or something, but there's been stuff there They've met with stuff there, but no exodia was just like in the first episode anime But it wasn't as cool as it looks I'm coming back to the actual like not the shore But what we got as well because we did get quite a number of different movies and different versions of movies But going back to the original portmante movie that came out and it was quite a big thing at the time because it was the first time it was Coming out at the cinema all the nerves Who was there? I was there I did but I didn't care about it Insensing PTSD Well, I think I think we did the entire like exodus to the metros center and everything for the pokemon movie I think one of my aunties drew the short straw though and had to click me in all my cousins And I remember like she was like what the hell's this like when there was no fucking For like, you know, like the first like 10 minutes. It was that Pikachu's vacation thing.

Yeah human characters So I think she just fell asleep, but no like like I remember being enthralled at the time because it was like oh, hang on Like this is a thing. I like it now. It's a movie and like and obviously it was full of like insane melodrama like youtube being like Why I would have held man, why is man helping and slaving? It was freaking hot breaking the dinner.

I mean, I'm jumping ahead here, but they didn't up to this prime on a new generation of children didn't Yeah Asher's died a lot if you watch the anime like he dies more he probably dies more than January dies in Voyager And then in the middle of the Pokemon cried to bring it back to life Which is you know, it's a comment on slavery. I think The tears of the oppressed I am I recently was at the the London mcm comic con and actually got to see the cast like reunite for the first time like of the first movie and like chat about And stuff like they've all got like massively positive things to say about like the entire pokemon experience Like it was saying like at the time when the recorder the new was like something special But they're like but everyone in Hollywood tells you that like when they're trying to get you for a role They oh, this is gonna be the next big thing. It's like they've heard it before but I think they're kind of new especially when it got to like the movie time That it was like taking off way like way faster than anyone expected Um, but yeah, like there's like sat in a room full of people who all had the same experience with me of like crying your eyes out the screen Because like asher's dead and Pikachu's crying to bring it back to life Why did they do that? Pikachu's last take it up brought back to life as well It's a good thing to never share that information because you imagine the general populace find out that tears of Pokemon can heal people It's gonna turn like battery farms of Yeah, you generated a dark thing.

I'm not saying it's my ideal job But you know if my if my actual career was basically pokemon tormented or like Make Pokemon weep and then collected in little vials. I mean, I'm getting harder Is a You know, it's just like But I like how mu to had basically been alive for like possibly a month entirely because they're like oh, we've cloned you from you and he's like Why the hell do I exist? But can somehow somehow like erase people's memories without doing any like damage even though he's kind of only just learnt humans exist and he's like I think I've got this like it's been cracked. I'm gonna just delete the last day I do have the idea if he failed and just literally just kill people Like maybe that's how it ended through this one.

Yeah, although the portman would just in purgatory You'll find them. I know like I'm guessing you like nobody really kept up with like the future movies But they're all kind of that kind of a good to see the second movie and I thought that was absolutely dope Like that was yeah, that was just heroin for me I was like this is brilliant And my auntie drew the shorts or and took us to that and I was distinctly remember turning to where I'd be like amazed like an Or enough issue was just a full-on asleep in the same The same but like you'll find that with anime movies like they're often like took out of the story completely like a side adventure And at the end everything goes back to the same and it's like it's like I've never been like that invested in like anime movies Because I always feel like it's just a side story. Nothing they do here will matter to the main story It's kind of like a bit of a waste of time while all your memories are gone I think to wrap this up because I'm feeling like shit. I'm not gonna lie.

I know greeam mentioned earlier I actually doing a two-part one so did anyone vouch to say that they were gonna do the whole song with it with greeam? Oh Can we come in? Yeah, because I was gonna I was gonna sing the bloody Team Rocket song that they have in the jiggy pop episode Because I love that one but I mean Jake we're we're gonna do the team rocket motto. Yeah Are you gonna be deathy?

Oh, yeah Prepare for trouble and make it double Protect the world from devastation to night all peoples within our nation to denounce the evils of truth and love to extend our reach to the stars above Since in a while Team Rocket stuff at the speed of light surrender now or prepare to fight. He's gonna be me out of goodwill. See me out. That's right Yeah, that's right You give us on your twitch as well It's really weird because like I'm really worried because when it gave you the stream summary at the end it basically went five clips were made from that episode I know it was all that bit It's um, there's this one episode and you know when you just get something that sticks with you when you're a kid like not trauma and your uncle But you know And I've had this song stuck in my head for must be 20 years or something now How you mean like the Pikachu jukebox thing that these to do?

Yeah, but you know the episode where basically it's jiggy pop episode and jiggy pop wandering around and she's singing and she's sending everyone to sleep And then team rocket just decide to just ignore their motto and do like a weird rock-carry look We were totally different lyrics and it was the catchiest thing in the entire fucking world And then and then they released like a pokemon album to be a master with the number two And then they brought this album and it wasn't on there because I was literally like oh, it's gonna be a full three-minute version of this song and then it's some Team rocket thing. It wasn't yeah, but always it's um You know, it's just team rocket and we fight for what is wrong. We're tired of our motto though So we thought we try a song jesse james the speed of light prepare to fight I am the handsome one I'm the gorgeous one Looking good is lots of fun. We get some things wrong, but we keep rolling along and then and then it has oh, what is it?

We want to capture people But you know this thing we like that is being stuck in my head for about 20 years now See what look for the clip look for the clip on youtube It is one of my favorite things and it was a formative moment as a child I'm right Through zoom I'm far too much marty because I could could have swore dreams just sandfoot Yeah, like when they ran out of poker wrap they had to do like so You get like you get like brox singing about how he loves how he loves joy and uh what's it up as a genie And then he's like a one-woman man, but there's two perfect girls for me. It's just like brox That was actually the horniest character. I was thinking like the character who played brox Someone was like if you could give advice to your characters Like what would you say that when he was like for brock like just settle down He's like you cook you clean like you got everything but you just you go in a bit too far I was gonna give advice to brock. I would just say wank I mean he comes next to me too Like a girl so He is played by a woman Where they just went like hey all young boys should be played by women Yeah, but comes from i don't know if it does like come from japan But like every like anime hero in japan is genuinely like an old woman like freaking Pikachu Like goku has always been like an old woman It's like the most manly character young young Um young boys in cartoons and anime and stuff like that is because My favorites And if the BBC 12 years ago, not enough Moving on It's generally because the voices are higher pitched so they can They have to hire a child actor to do a voice slot Yeah, and look at the voice actor about Simpson Yeah It's very much right.

It's the fact that if you hire a child you have them for about a year and then you're just going like Yeah, now you can't do the voice anymore Season where ashes balls dropped. Yeah Look at look at Harry Potter where they had to redo an entire film because Daniel Radcliffe's Chez different Like that I know that having to do a whole new like series of it just to have a good actor Shots fired, but he is awful. Yes, but um we have that has been I was just stunned. Oh come on Tex.

Yes. Um, thank you guys who joined us. Thanks to offer like Beany first and not last time. I'm sure it will grab you hopefully soon and all we can't get rid of the other guys green Everything that's one.

Um, there is no monsters this week. So there was no monster's Monday Hang on guys we get holidays I don't fucking know Yeah, I will be uh twitting on Tuesday and continuing my uncharted journey uncharted journey. What about you jake? Are you twitching during the week or you're on the week off?

Yeah, I possibly will do Thursday. I'll figure something out. Maybe I will load up that Pokemon save again And so I will be I will be pitching after this. So basically probably about half nine I will be on twitch and I will be doing a first time play for diablo 4 Daddy's got it I wish you best on your journey to hell I'm halfway there as a gay man.

Um, yes, that's uh, I'll give it a little bit more I just got bought on Jovi straight away. I said I'm halfway there Um, you can't spell that so look at the links. Yes, I'll put the links in I haven't been said yet. Uh, but yes, do are you are you twitching at all?

Uh, I find it difficult to be homeless and just bumping around on people's office for the time being Um, you can check out my youtube channel, which is just your border. Uh, I also check out my sister's youtube channel because I do all the video editing That's um, we harass her over the cards. Absolutely. Please do Next time please subscribe to the white thing will pick you up as a court She's gonna deny it as well.

She'll like that didn't happen. I'm like, I never So I've heard yes, so what's happening on Friday used to uh trekkers Well, it is the season two premiere of star trek's strange new world So we will be uh on the the finger shelley on the pulse of hot ticks as me and grilling review episode one of season two star Strange new world where we will try not to melt all that and some mounts fabulous quaff We'll explain how to watch the tv show Our amount plus where it was Any illegal streaming software that you can I do like though that like sort of with Picard we were basically like it was like a companion show where we're like, oh Has everyone watched the episode cool? Let's point out some interesting things with this most people will not have been able to watch the episode This is actually we're telling you what happens for the people who couldn't see it I'll dare you would not have another streaming service. I'm actually gonna have to pay for it as well I'm genuinely gonna have to pay for it.

I'm plus Yes, I can watch the people who can't see it as well now You will genuinely have to pay it to power mount close. Yeah And if you weren't aware like anyone who's watching this now that Last Friday, gree, and goodwill had an actual Hollywood producer on the other part of their show And they don't need a view which is on youtube now, so go and watch it is probably the most professional nerdy up north has ever been So The ships not called the USS adequate for nothing Oh my god, he's giving us off a roll Hawaiian jiggle or is that what is that? Good well, it's having all the sex of good old's mama's watching he is All just egg My role is here Next next time the agreement is returning as well. You are coming back You're gonna have to watch a film you've not probably seen in a while We're with the labyrinth.

Yes, so several several people will be involved I believe Dan's gonna be involved because Sarah will be singing the whole movie to us. So it's gonna be three hours long I can get you can get eggs and kings I'll get the detach them. I don't know if that's a day they are they are deep inside of that And they're gonna have that as one of the screenshots like those It needs to be the bulls just zoomed in on the Bolds Next degree That one yes, and the week after that we are all at Sunnecon so we might we won't have a live episode I'll try and upload it on the night to any more time I get back But we will be performing live in front of a studio audience performing yes, well, we will be talking about our favorite cartoons It's gonna be a wild one though. You don't know if your laptop's gonna survive Crazyness