TOS: Ep 4

The conversation starts with the hosts discussing their favorite Pokemon and their experiences playing the game. They then talk about the Pokemon anime and how Ash retired as a Pokemon Master. They speculate on what Ash would do after retiring and discuss the possibility of Pokemon being used in wars. They also mention some banned episodes of the Pokemon anime and talk about their favorite characters. The conversation ends with a discussion on the comedic moments in Pokemon and how it appeals to a wide range of audiences. Hello, this is Such a Stupid, I'm Luke, and I'm Riley, and today I'm going to be asking the question, What's your favorite Pokemon? Uh, for me, I'd probably say something either between Blaziken or Flareon. I like the design of Flareon. Okay. A lot, but Blaziken just looks visually cool. And the first Pokemon game I played was like the original Ruby, and that was like, I put, I picked Blaziken, or Torchic. But, I kept them, kept my starter Pokemon throughout the entire time I was playing. I was like, really liked the way they looked, and their moveset was pretty good, too. Nice. What about you? Oh, well. No. No? Huh? No? Missing no? No, I'll wait till the end for me to answer. Ah, okay, okay, okay. So, um, what do you want to talk about? Let's start just talking Pokemon and see where it goes. Sure. Um... You said your favorite type was, uh, Fire-type, probably. Probably, yeah. Did you ever watch the anime as a kid? Uh, I watched the first one, uh, like the first Pokemon. And I watched a little bit, I believe of X, Y, and Z. It was kind of nice recently, the, uh, the person that sang the original opening made like an ending for the series, because Ash retired. Oh, yeah. Wait. So, is there gonna be, like, new characters? Yep. Yep. No more Ash. He retired. Didn't he become a Pokemon Master? Yep. Dang. It took him a whole year. More than that! It took him, like, 11! Uh, really, though? He's probably, like, in his mid-30s by now. I like the memes that's using Ash's... It's using Ash's, like, a profile picture, and it says, when the job expects 20 years experience, and you're 13. Uh, honestly, wait, do they have a reason for why, like, Ash never gets older? No. No? No. Does that mean he's just, like, speedrunning every single region he goes to? Yep. He's just, like, full sprinting throughout the entire thing, just chucking Pokeballs at every single Pokemon as he runs by? Yep. His entire first, like, party with Brock and Misty was, like, two weeks. That'd be insane! That was probably, like, a month. More than that, I'd say. Mm-hmm. Really? Maybe, like, a couple. How many run-ins with Team Rocket did they have? They were probably, like, four or five a day! Yeah. I always thought that was, like, oh, yeah, after every episode is, like, the end of the day. I mean, he had, like, ten different series that were apparently within the same year. So... He only got older by one year. It was his tenth birthday when he started. He was a Pokemon prodigy. It was his tenth birthday when he started, and he had turned 11 in, like, the second-to-last or the very last series that he did, and then he quit. Why stop at 11 years old?! What do you think he would do afterwards? He'd get a long run, you know? What do you think Ash would most likely do after, um... Oh, like, cocaine, maybe. What?! I don't know! Like, what kind of job would he work? I mean, if you live that much life in, like, a year's lifespan, and you got to the point where you feel like it's time to retire, I became the best in the world. I mean, if you live that much life in, like, a year's lifespan, and you got to the point where you feel like it's time to retire, I became the best in the world. I feel like he fought on some hard times, like, 12, 13, 14... I mean, he was never the best in the world because he failed to become Pokemon Master in, like, multiple regions. Well, yeah, the last one he did become Pokemon Master. Yeah. So... How many regions did Ash go to? I don't know. There was, like, 12 different series, I think. So what? How many regions in Pokemon are there? I don't know anymore. Don't know anymore? No. Tempted to look it up, how many Pokemon regions there are. Sure. I'm going to check it. What would you do if you were the protagonist of that series? You're 10. I'm 10. I'd probably die. Your mom said, go get a Pokeball, you can get a Pokemon, you're on your own. I'd probably die. Other than that... Do you realize how dangerous Pokemon are? Other than that... Other than that... Probably catch Pokemon like any other kid, and probably not fight with them and only mess around with them. Like, more like a pet instead of a comrade to fight with. Do you think there was, like, a Pokemon in World War II? Where is this idea coming from? Do explain. Okay, hear me out. I'm listening. So you know how they have, like, the Pokemon centers, right? Uh-huh. Why is it, so they've developed stuff that, like, basically a cure-all for Pokemon. Mm-hmm. A machine that'll heal them perfectly, and, like, oh, if you ever take any damage, there's this spray. You just spray your Pokemon with a spray bottle, and it heals them back to full, right? Do you think that... Why don't they have that kind of stuff for people? Do you think there's, like, a leftover, like, times, like, when they went to war, and it's, like, they used Pokemon to fight? And it's, like, well, we have these machines that'll get them back to 100%, even if they get, like, killed, basically. Kind of a dark thought to think about, but I... I mean, if you had a... Well, there's stuff in the real world that's, like, we don't think about it much anymore, but it's just leftovers from war times. Mm-hmm. And it kind of has a similar vibe. Like, the telephone wires that are, like, on the wooden crosses outside for all the electrical, those were put up in the time of war. I don't like the implication. Even the American school system, the way that they test is from the Industrial Revolution. Because, basically, in school, you're trained to, like, okay, you're given a sheet with, like, what you're supposed to do throughout the day, and your performance is solely based on doing that. So that's why schools have, like, a paper system, where everything in school is from, like, a paper test. Maybe it's multiple choice, maybe it's fill-in-the-blank, but it's grade-based by, here's your paper, how well can you do what's on the paper? Oh, no. You see, you make valid points, and I don't want to agree, but I kind of have to agree, because I can't really refute any of these points. I don't know that those are, like, correct or not, I just... It's a possible connection. I can just picture, like, a blast hoist tank. Like, a tank that looks like a... Basically, a blast hoist would be a tank. What would a Charmander be, like, artillery? I mean, a Charmander would be, like, literally a dragon being used in, like, medieval combat, like, it flies over the battlefield and just sprays fire. Yeah, it's like artillery. Yeah. It's just a creeping barrage, but it's just... In the Pokemon world, if anywhere were to go to war, would there be any sense in trying to use humans and, like, guns instead of just training Pokemon? Well, I don't think they have guns in Pokemon. I don't think guns are a thing. I don't know, I don't think they have it much. Like, actual, proper guns. Maybe, but... Even if so, they're definitely not, like, common. Actually, I think there was one episode of Pokemon that never aired in America because there were guns in it. Like, Ash and the gang were being held at gunpoint. Yeah. There's a few weirdly banned episodes. Yeah. There was the Electric Soldier Porygon. It was banned because it would cause epileptic seizures. There's also that one where James puts fake boobs on. That's really funny. That got banned in America. Yeah. But that's hilarious. It actually seems like a really funny gag. The one episode where it's like, Come on, Ash, let's send these women back to the Dark Ages where they belong! Oh, right! Base James. Let's send these women back to the Dark Ages where they belong! Yeah! Yeah! Like, what? Like, the base Cosmo meme. Yeah, Cosmo, James... James and one other one, right? There's one other one. Really based. Oh, yeah, Ashes, just in general. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, him randomly... I think it's the English dub Ash that's, like... Probably. Like, base. But, yeah, I never realized how good of a character James is as a kid. And I think he'd be my favorite character if I rewatched the series now. It's like, yeah, James is probably the most comedic of everything there. I feel like he doesn't take his job too seriously. He's just kind of doing it for the fun of it. He's just kind of there. He's just a rich kid that ran from home, and he's just like... Oh, yeah, that is true. I'm gonna get a Pokemon thief. I want to steal Pokemon and then get blasted off every time because my... Wasn't there a story that James was, like, to be married to either Jessie or someone that looked like Jessie? Uh-huh. When he was a kid, and that's why he ran away? I think so. I think it was someone that looked like Jessie, and then he ran away and started hanging out with Jessie. That's so ironic. I might be wrong with that, but... What is Jessie's backstory again? I don't remember hers, actually. Was she poor or was she rich? I'm kind of thinking it was Jessie. Like, they knew each other since they were kids. Jessie and James? I think. I know Meowth was... He fell in love with a girl, Meowth, and decided to go start taking... He climbed the vents of a tongue twister English lesson, and he taught himself how to speak for the girl. And then she thought it was weird. So that's why Meowth can canonically talk. Or, like, the one where it's, like... I think it's, like, Pikachu, Meowth, and one other Pokemon are trying to, like, flirt with this other Pokemon, and then they realize the Pokemon's a male. Oh, was it, like, a Fennekin or something? I think it was a Fennekin. It was one of the later seasons. It was one of the later seasons, and it throws a... It throws a... Like, they're all, like, shoving flowers in this Fennekin's face, and they realize... And then it, like, says... So this trainer goes, Oh, actually, it's a guy. That's a... It's a male. And they all go, Huh? Funny. You know, Pokemon has some really actual, like, comedic moments that just... I feel like anyone would find funny. It's not dumb humor like other series... Like, child's... I guess you could say kids' shows. Yeah, I guess. There's a lot of kids' cartoons that don't have... That aren't very interesting for, like, the parents to watch as well. Yeah. But there's a few gems, like Spongebob, I think, is one of them. I think Pokemon, they throw jokes and things. Adventure Time. They throw in jokes that go over kids' heads, or things that they wouldn't get to make it entertaining for the parents to watch. One of my favorite, like, I guess you could say adult jokes in a kids' show was in Adventure Time. It was, like, Finn was getting... Jake was explaining, like, the 15 tiers of going into a relationship. And he goes all the way, like, I think to, like, tier 13. And he goes, Well, what's tier 15? And Jake goes, You stay away from that! Do not go to tier 15! Because it's insinuated that, like, that's like, I guess you could say in a civil manner, going on a home run. Home run, in air quotes. Oh. Like, you've reached the home run. Like, you've gone all the way around the bases. Okay. And I remember watching that as a kid, and I did not know what it meant. But then when I came back to it, I was like, Oh! I think my favorite's from Spongebob. I don't remember what the context was, but I know Spongebob and Sandy are talking, and he goes, I gotta go, I gotta go get my haircut! And he walks away, and it cuts to Sandy just going, Spongebob doesn't have hair? Or does he? And she has the most, like, traumatized expression on her face. It's just one that completely goes over the heads of every kid that watched it. It's like, I gotta go cut my hair. I gotta go get my haircut. Spongebob doesn't have hair. Or does he? Or does he? Too many jokes. There's been, I wish shows did that, like, kid shows did that more often, make it more entertaining for an entire family to watch. I don't know how many do or not. Not many do it anymore. I feel like even back then, it was not all of them. I feel like there are shows that were good for kids that didn't have any substance for adults. I have a feeling Ben 10, Johnny Test, I don't remember much of stuff that would be fun for the parents to watch. No. Especially Johnny Test. Johnny Test was kind of just brain dead. I've stayed away from ever trying to go back and look at it again, because I know they'll hate it. I liked it when I was a kid, when I was really young, and I'm like, I know that's one I'm just not going to like if I give it another shot. I watched it when I was younger, and I actually did come back to it maybe a year ago, and I was like, this is dumb. It's, like, really dumb. Yeah. Like, how did I like this as a kid? It's made for the younger siblings that are really annoying. Yeah, you put it on and then you just let them do their thing. Yeah. Which was both of us. It was the annoying younger siblings. Oh yeah, we were the annoying younger siblings, 100%. So, yeah. It worked. Yeah. It achieved its goal. What was a show I've come back to recently and, like, actually continue to enjoy it? I can appreciate the original Ben 10 quite a bit. I watched it as a kid, and I still think it's a good show. The original Ben 10? Mm-hmm. Like, the first one? Yeah. Was that the one where... Was that the one where... What was her name? Was her name Gwen? Gwen. Is that the one where Gwen looks just like a female Ben 10? A little bit. They're cousins, and they're, like, 13 or something. They're similar ages. Yeah. Yeah, the old one. Yeah. Well, one of the ones that I went back to recently and actually still enjoyed, and this just might be me, was Regular Show on Cartoon Network. I never watched Regular Show. I liked it as a kid. I still kind of do, but it's not one of those ones where it's, like, even as an adult you could watch Adventure Time. Yeah. It's not one of those. Regular Show is just, like, a really simple... It's just, like, a kid's show with, like, no real adult substance. But I came back to it and I actually enjoyed it because it was, like, mildly entertaining. I've re-watched Adventure Time probably four or five times now. I think I've watched through it all the way through, like, maybe twice. I really like Adventure Time. I think my entire family does, actually. And my mom's not one to enjoy cartoons much. She's one of those true crime enjoyers. Ah. Both of my parents like watching that kind of stuff, too. Yeah, but even my mom finds Adventure Time really entertaining. Like, my dad will have it on when, like, they'll be at, like, everyone's going to bed and in their own rooms. And I'll literally catch mom and dad both enjoying Adventure Time together. I'm just like, that's a shocker. I'm not sure how good the show is in general, though. Throw, like, SpongeBob or something on, see if they'll watch it. Maybe. My dad hates SpongeBob with a passion. Like, he's told me so many times how much he hates it. You should get your younger siblings into it so they watch it all the time. I should. Although, admittedly, all the new stuff is genuinely really bad. Yeah. But if you watch, like, the first three seasons when it was the original creator, it's really good. Mm-hmm. To this day, I still like the first three seasons quite a bit. I think it was, like, what, in the first two seasons SpongeBob doesn't even talk? No, it's just the first episode. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was, like, for an entire season he wasn't talking. No, it's just the very first episode. Why is that? That was the pilot episode. Ah. That makes a lot more sense. So... I'm trying to think about any other shows I watched as a kid. I got a weird one that I didn't mind. Sadly, it's not one I would enjoy going back and watching, but I did actually like watching, my older sister liked the My Little Pony. I forget which one it was. Friendship is Magic? Yeah, that one. That's, like, the most iconic one. Everyone, I think, knows what that is. Yeah. I liked that one as a kid. I don't know if you had this or not. I liked shows that were really colorful, and I found that all of the boy shows were really, like, ugly colors. Like, at the time that I watched that one, it was, like, TMNT. They were very mute. Yeah, mute colors. Yeah, and it was, like, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, like, oh, yeah, what color is everything? Well, it's dark gray and green. Yeah. And it's, like, My Little Pony is one of the only ones I was, like, huh. Pretty Color Girl Burr. Yeah. It's just a lot of color. Huh. It is kind of funny. It actually has – I saw someone mention in a One Piece, like, review that My Little Pony is essentially a shonen anime. You showed me that, and I could not have been more mad but more accepting of the truth in my life. It's really funny because I don't remember much about it other than just, like, I remember most of the characters. But I remember – I think there were actually, like, a couple times where they actually, like, had fights. And I'm like, yeah, I – given the description of what it was, like, what you would classify a shonen as, it kind of fits it. Let me see if I can find it. By definition, My Little Pony was a shonen. Yeah, which is really funny. Let me see if I can find it. Isn't shonen, like, comics for boys or for young – I think it's aimed at, like, the – Young teenagers. It's typically aimed at boys for the 10 to, like, 13 year age. There's another one. It's, like, it's not shonen, but I think it's shouji, which is teenage girls. Shouji? Mm-hmm. Would it be considered a shouji more than a shonen? Because My Little Pony was more geared towards female. I don't know shouji. I know shonen and I know seinen, which is more adult. Yeah, but I think it's, like, for the opposite. I believe shouji is for, like, young female. I'm not sure. I don't know. It's something around there. I did find the meme I was talking about. It was just – it was a YouTube video. Here we go. And they were specifying – you know, because they were reviewing One Piece, which is, like, one of the most – like, it's one of the best shonen out there. It's one of the shonens. I said, well, basically, like, the three things that every shonen has, it has some elements of power of friendship, action scenes, and adventure. And apparently My Little Pony had all three of those things. Which, at a baseline, that is the core of what every – like, that's what a shonen is. Yeah, action scenes, power of friendship, and adventure. Like, if I think about, like, fairy tale, fairy tale is literally just power of friendship, maybe more so than My Little Pony is. Literally more. They win every single fight because they're fighting for their friends. Oh, my God. And everything is just an action scene, and they go just on adventures. And that's, like – that's a fairly popular anime. It's got over 200 episodes. It literally has it more than My Little Pony did. It's really funny. You know, I really like – I really like fairy tale. I do, too. You didn't have to go out and say that My Little Pony has less power of friendship. But it does. Natsu's whole character growth is he gets stronger for his friends, because he wants to protect them because he sees them as family. And every single fight that he's struggling and losing on, he gets stronger because one of his family members or his friends starts getting, like, killed. Like, it's all – it's every single fight. That's the whole point of Natsu's character for the entire, like, 200-plus episodes. I have a severe look of disappointment on my face currently. And I don't know how to feel. So, on another note, who do you think would win in a fight, Barney or Big Bird? Okay, hold on. Here's the question. Uh-huh? I feel – actually, I think Big Bird would win. Okay. But who's taller, Big Bird or Barney? I think Big Bird is a little bit bigger. I feel like Big Bird would win. You agree with 56% of people on YouTube. Let's go! I feel like Barney – Big Bird has reach. And he can fly. My only thing is, I don't remember watching Barney much, but I feel like I remember he had, like, magical powers and stuff, too. I feel like he – I feel like it was a really trippy show. And it was – What was the British equivalent of Barney? Blobby. Blobby. Yeah, this thing. It's a weird – It is terrifying. I don't like it. So it was a British children's show similar to – It seems similar to Barney. Yeah, but if you want to see some of the nightmare fuel that it is, look up Blobby or Mrs. Blobby. You want to go to – you want to have nightmare fuel? Just go to Britain. Okay, go to England. Yeah, just go to England, and you'll have your nightmare fuel. Get you a bottle of water. Oh, God. A bottle of water. You want to have messed up teeth and proceed to have – Hey. Bottles of water. Go to Britain. I like how we make fun of British people for having messed up teeth when their health care and dental is free. I find it funny that we make fun of how they talk, yet most Americans agree that they just sound like – More fancy Americans. They have better English than us. Because it's called English for a reason. Yeah. We don't speak English here. We speak Redneck English. We speak American. Yeah. Well, accent. Isn't an American accent – Yeah, but it's so drastic that it's like we have so much slang and stuff that differs from original English. Actually, I said that Americans just speak Redneck British, but I lied. Australians are Redneck British people. I don't even understand why Australia – I don't know the origin of many languages. I'd be curious to know specifically English. English? Well, because English came from the root of multiple different – like Latin and Greek and other things. I'd be interested to know exactly why it ended up getting from – how did English specifically get chosen from multiple countries and then, like, Australia is super far away? Well, the reason why it got adopted there is because Australia was originally like a prison convict island. They were sent there as prisoners and, like, thieves and whatnot. So the American thieves converted their language to American. Essentially. But people who were tried for, like, theft and whatnot, like not serious crimes like murder, were sent to Australia because it was basically just barren. There was nothing really there and a lot of things could kill you. So they were like, we can just send them there. For just, like, the petty crimes? Yeah, for, like, theft and whatnot. That's really funny. They're like, ah, you stole, like, $20 worth of gum. Go to Australia. No! No! It's like that take him to Detroit. No! No, not Detroit! Yeah, but I feel like if you have any kind of arachnophobia or you're just not comfortable with bugs, that would be worse. Oh, yeah, 100%. Especially if it's, like, a not-indoor jail. If it's one that's, like, not super well. There was no jail there. There was, like, literally nothing. It was just a field and some spiders. It was a theft. Like, robbers basically just created a bunch of outposts and now it's Australia. You know, I think it'd be funny if more animals worked cooperatively. So, you know how there's, like... No. Okay, sharks have, like, the fish that... The sharks will not eat these small fish, but in return the small fish clean the sharks' teeth. And whales do, right? Symbiotic relationship, right? Yes. Imagine if we had more symbiotic relationships in the animal kingdom for, like, bigger things that are more common. Like, imagine if it was, like, you go to Australia and a kangaroo just has a pouch of spiders. That would be terrifying. If you approach it, you just see a bunch of spiders crawling out of it. No! No! I do not want to walk up to a kangaroo and expect to see a joey in their pouch and out comes, like, thousands of huntsman spiders. No. Like, imagine if they had that kind of symbiotic relationship. I don't want to. Or maybe it's, like, a hedgehog on, like, a kangaroo's shoulder and she's like, if you get close, the hedgehog... Or, like, an armadillo, like, wraps up into a ball and the kangaroo just chucks it. Armadillo wrapped in a ball with a spider in the center and then the kangaroo just throws them. It knocks you on the ground and the spider comes out. No! Uh-uh. Dude, huntsman spiders are the size of your freaking hand. Yeah, I know. If the animal kingdom was dead set on taking down humanity... It would be insane. It would be insane. We'd die. We would die. Probably. Okay. I take that back. Modern humans would not die. Yeah. I feel like we have enough going for, like... Yeah, they could cause a ton of damage and havoc, but I feel like there's certain things they just wouldn't be able to touch very much. Like, planes. Okay, yeah. Planes are, like, a good one. It's like, okay, you could run, although then you could just have a bunch of birds dive-bombing into the engine. From, like, the engine stall and crash, yeah. But... Yeah, I feel like there's certain things that you could, like... If suddenly the animal kingdom was just, like... Yep, we're all attacking. I feel like humanity could survive. We'd be very crippled. For a very long time, yeah. Oh, yeah. Societies would 100% collapse. Like, multiple societies. Oh, I feel like... If you're talking, like, the bigger... Like, okay, insects are, like, a huge problem, but if you're ignoring the smaller ones and you just say the big ones... I feel like there's so many guns in the world and so many, like... Like, military ready to go to war. I feel like we actually outnumber them and severely would be able to just, like... Okay, you wanna know... Take them almost all out. You wanna know an American fact that makes you feel like, yep, that's America? Hmm. America has so many guns in the hands of civilians that you could hand a gun... You could fully equip the entirety of our country, civilians and all, and give extra guns out. Yeah. That's how many guns we have. Well, because there's also a lot of people that own guns are not, oh, I own a gun. They're, oh, I collect guns. I own these guns. I have, like, 12 at home. You're like, when you mention, like, oh, what's this gun? Oh, yeah, I bought that a few years ago. Have you shot it? Nope. I don't... Okay, I understand from, like, a collecting standpoint. Like, oh, if you have something you like collecting. The thing I don't get is the people that flex about having guns. That's really crazy. It's the weirdest thing. It's like, okay... Congrats. I would say, yeah, okay, that's really impressive if you, like, made them. If you were like, okay, these are my creations. Not just, oh, this one cost me $100. This one cost me $2. This one cost me $1,000. This one cost me $3. It's like, congratulations, you own a gun. You are, like... You are a part of the 60% majority that own a firearm. Congrats, dude. You own a firearm. You now have one more thing in common with deadbeat fathers. You're in the crew with deadbeat fathers and school shooters. Even kids can get guns in America, so... I don't think that alone is much of an impressive feat. It's not impressive the flex you have guns. It's impressive to show people that you are proficient in using guns. Yeah, if you're really good at using guns, I think that's really neat. If you're just, like, super knowledgeable on it, and you're like, oh, yeah, I can take this gun apart and put it back together in 30 seconds flat, that's kind of neat. If you just know your guns, you're like, I can go to a museum and look at, like, old artillery used in various wars, and I can name every single one of them, that's kind of neat. It's not very practical, but it's kind of neat. Yeah, I know you're good at that. I'm really good at that. But if you just own them, and you're like, yeah, I don't really shoot them. What's wrong with you? I don't know tons about them. I just buy the ones that are cool. Stupid. Yeah. Which is basically my philosophy with pocket knives. However, that is much more tame, and I don't consider that something that's a flex. I just like knives. Yeah, you don't flex that you have a lot of knives. You just own knives. Yep. Knives are cool. Knives are cool. They're practical. They're effective. Well, having 20 knives is not practical, but having one or two might be practical. But knives in general are practical. I just like collecting stuff. Yeah. I like collecting things, too. I've had a few collective hobbies over the years. What are some of the ones you've had? Well, when I was really young, most of us collected Pokemon cards. Oh, yeah. The difference is I actually still have mine. Most people do not have theirs anymore. No, I sold mine. At a point, I got into Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and found that you could buy a pack of 500 online for $30. So I started asking for them for Christmas. So I got a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. I don't think you ever got into Magic the Gathering, did you? Not yet, but it is one that I think would be interesting to get into. My father got me and my other siblings into a thing called Heroclix a while back, which is like Marvel and DC. It's like little miniature superhero figures that you use for a game. I think I've seen those. Yeah, I'm sure you've seen them, but I still have a bunch of them. Those were super cheap, too, because you could go to a few retro stores that have them, and they'd have a bin of like... Okay, they've got a couple thousand of them. That's like 20 cents a piece. You can look through it, get whichever ones you want, whichever ones you like. Eh, $1.50. Okay. Yeah, and then I've also collected pocket knives and playing cards. I like playing cards. I like the sheer variety. You have like a normal playing cards all the way to like Faygo. Orange soda. I have a 7-Eleven deck of playing cards. You also have like Batman. I also have the old Batman one. I think it's the animated series that's from like the 80s or 90s. I have... The box isn't in great condition, but the cards are like new. It's got like all of the old... I think it was the 80s. It's got all of the old characters on it from then. Yeah. I found it at an estate sale. I got it for like $2. I was like, hmm, not bad. Nice. Do you collect anything? Uh... Again, used to collect Pokemon cards. Didn't get into Yu-Gi-Oh! Maybe I had a few Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Um... What's another thing I collected? Oh, I collected the, um... Genshin Impact deck? We'll get to that. Um... I collected the Skylanders. I remember those. They were Amiibos before Amiibos were cool. I didn't like them. Why? Because they were too good. What? Because they were super expensive. You know, if you had a friend that was into Skylanders, they were into Skylanders. They had boxes and boxes of them. I didn't have boxes. But... I had a friend who had boxes. It felt like, okay, I paid for this game, and it came with like three Skylanders, and the game's not very fun unless you have a lot, because that's like the whole bit of the game, but getting a new Skylander was like $20. Yeah. So I was like... Same can be said about Amiibos, though. Even as a kid, I was like, I don't want to make this kind of an investment into this game. I could just pay this money and get like 20 other games that are just as fun. I don't want to put $400 into collecting these just to play my one game. That kind of makes sense. And I only had one friend that was into them, and I was like, this isn't worth it. I had one friend who had like maybe a whole box and a half, two boxes worth of Skylanders, and I stole some of them, and I ain't gonna lie. I stole probably like seven or eight of them. I probably stole like $100 worth of Skylanders. I'm sorry. They're almost never gonna listen to this, but I'm sorry. If you find out their age, then they're worth like $1,000 each now. I would cry. It would be really funny, especially if you still had them. I doubt you do. No. All of them were trash. Cheatin'. One of them, my favorite one, got eaten by my dog, Willow, and I was so sad, because I used that one all the time. The one you stole? Yes. It wasn't even yours. It wasn't even mine. It was my favorite. That's why I stole it. I remember, too, the reason why. I was actually playing with it at his house. Me and him were playing Skylanders at his house, and I was like, man, I really like this character. I didn't want to pay $20 for it, and my mom wasn't gonna get it for me, because I had already gotten two Skylanders a week beforehand. It was dark by the time we were leaving. We were there probably from midday to maybe 8 o'clock, and I just took that thing I put in my pocket and just walked out with it. Never saw your friend again. Left and never saw him again. Actually, we kind of lost contact, too, which is funny. Maybe he cut it off because he knew you stole from him? Probably. I had one friend that was into... Okay, I had a couple friends that were brothers. They both had Skylanders, so they had, like, even the trays you set them on to put them in your game, they had, like, ten of them. They had a bunch. I had the basic one. They had over a hundred Skylanders, at least. And I was like, okay, it makes sense because there's two of you brothers, so maybe you both asked for them for gifts. You got a lot. I'm like, I am not ever going to put this much money into this hobby. I did get a good number of Beyblades, though. I loved Beyblades. That's another one I collected was Beyblades. Not as much as you did, but I had a lot of Beyblades. I liked combining, because there were multiple generations of Beyblades growing up, so some of them weren't compatible with newer or older generations, but you could find, like, crap that shouldn't work. But does. So, like, one of them had, like, okay, it's got one metal plate, and then it's got, like, the top part on the bottom that it spins on and then, like, a little screw to hold it in place. Mm-hmm. Then the next generation was like, oh, it's two pieces of metal discs. It's a metal and a plastic disc. Well, I found if you use the old stuff and two of the metal discs, you flip them upside down, you put two metal ones, it's a super heavy Beyblade that is, like, better than any of the others. So I ended up getting enough of the newer ones at the time to where I could have two Beyblades that were, like, just double metal plates. Unstoppable. Yeah. So those were, like, the two. And it's like, it didn't matter any combination of the other ones that we tried, me and my other buddy, could not win against the two metal plates. And it was just, it was funny. It was just like, no one metal plate is mere penny change to my two penny plate. Yeah, I remember going to Toys R Us after, like, a birthday or Christmas being like, I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. Beyblades. Beyblades. Ah, it's so sad that Beyblades shifted from metal to plastic. But I get why. It's for safety reasons. Well, yeah, but also I've seen, like, some, like, Chinese, like, off-brand companies still make them, and they're, like, super dangerous and they're, like, sharp. Like, not intentionally. They just make them really cheap. Because it's cheap. And that's kind of more fun to me. And because they work so simplistically. There's a danger value. It makes it automatically more fun. If you wanted to, you could totally take the screw and the top bit, and you could, out of, like, wood, metal, whatever the heck you want, you could make the metal plate part. If you wanted to, you could make your own homemade Beyblades. Oh, yeah, 100%. Super easily now. Yeah. So it's like, if you wanted to, you could be, like, hey, 10 bucks each, go to a junkyard, you get to make a Beyblade, whichever one wins, wins. That would be fun. That would be a fun thing. Just be, like, okay, go find a piece of scrap metal. And you're, like, using, like, a big, like, you're using, like, a big grinding, like, saw blade as it, and it's like, yep. Wasn't there one video from I Did a Thing who made a very deadly Beyblade? He made a couple videos. Yeah. I'd recommend that. That's actually really fun. I Did a Thing's channel is just really good. Yeah. In general. I quite enjoy it. It's just kind of like, I wouldn't call it dumb entertainment because it's not. It is dumb. It's dumb stuff, but it's very entertaining to watch. It's very dumb entertainment. Very dumb entertainment in the good kind of dumb. Not the bad kind. I appreciate that he makes stuff on the low, I've done some woodworking stuff. I'm not as familiar with, like, welding, but his earlier videos, especially, are on the level of something I could just do in the garage if I wanted to. So I like seeing that progression of him slowly getting better and just being like, yeah, these are really stupid ideas. And these are very comprehensible. These are on my level. I like these ideas. When you have the IQ of three, and you find something that also shares that same IQ level. It's having the intelligence of, like, 20, but having the wisdom of three. Oh, 100%. Oh, yeah, I know how to do all this stuff. And I don't have the conscience to not make this kind of dumb stuff out of it. You know, like, oh, yeah, I could probably make, like, something useful. You know, I could probably mechanically try to make, like, a motorcycle or something. No, I'm gonna make a potato gun. Yeah, it's like, I could easily, like, build a car from complete scrap. One of my ideas was a cricket cannon. Do you tell? Do you remember when... Do you remember those, like, air cannons you had? Yeah. When we were younger. It's just a barrel with, like, like, a rubber, like, film over it. Yeah, you pull it back, and it just shoots, like, a cloud of air really fast. I was like, well, if you just threw some crickets in that kind of a thing and just made, like, a longer barrel, it'd just shoot a bunch of crickets. And you'd buy live crickets from the pet store. You'd just go put 100 crickets in the can and be... Oh, my God. That'd be terrible. Imagine you, like, you go to someone's door, you knock on their door, as soon as they open it, you just do that and run inside their house. That'd be so evil. It would be, but it'd be really funny. Oh, yeah. Not something I'd do, but that would be really funny. Just be like, oh, hey, how can I help you? How can I help you today, sir? Proceed to throw, basically... Mm-mm. Uh-uh. There's a really cool gadget now that we're on the topic of, like, insects and guns. Yeah? There's a, like, a fly killer. It's like a little toy revolver. I wouldn't call it a toy. But it's a revolver that you load salt into. Okay. And when you pull the trigger, I think it, like, takes a CO2 cartridge. It sprays some of that salt out. And the salt for a fly is basically, like, a gun, like, shooting and, like, hitting it. So it kills the fly in the most entertaining way possible. Well, I think what it's doing is... Remember in biology, science class, how a fly has, like, a thousand eyes? Mm-hmm. So it can see in, like, 360 degrees? Yeah. You ever gotten salt in your eye? I think that's what that is. Well, no, it actually, like, the salt strip pierces, like, the... Oh. Because it's CO2. It's just a CO2 cartridge that goes in, like, the handle. It's just powerful enough to kill them? Yeah, it's powerful enough to where the salt shoots out, not to damage... It doesn't damage any of your furniture, like, your wood-top stuff, or, like, the paint on your walls, but it's powerful enough to kill the fly. War on flies. The war on flies. Flies aren't even that annoying most of the time. I never minded them as a kid. I was like, flies and ants are the two that I'm like, eh, these are kind of neutral insects. Yeah, I don't really care for spiders. Spiders... I have, like, a few... probably a few spiders in my room right now that are just chillin'. Jerry. Because I take... I think Jerry passed. Aw. I did actually have a spider named Jerry that lived in the shower, and I was just like, hey, Jerry. In the shower. Yeah, for some reason, like, the top corner of the shower, on the ceiling, he just chilled there, and I was like... I'm fine with the spider being in the shower. Just do not land on me, or I will... I will not hesitate to squash you. Well, it's weird. For some reason, for the last, like, ten years, there's always been spiders that go in that one corner of the shower. And I'm just like, hey! And it's like, for the longest time, I was like, okay, kill him. A few times, I was like, eh, I'll try and be nice. And I let a few of them outside. And then, I was just like, you guys aren't bothering me. I don't care anymore. So I just started letting one of them live, named him Jerry. Haven't seen him in a while. He's probably dead! Yeah. Spiders only don't live... kind of live very long. Yeah. I didn't mind Jerry. He was kind of just okay. One time, there was a spider that was, like, on the roof or something, and it must have, like, like, went to go down on the floor or whatnot, and it landed on my ear. And I'm like, I was like, oh, what is that? And then, all of a sudden, I feel it bite my ear. And I... I have never been more mad at an insect in my life, because it bit my ear. I swat it down. And I'm like, what the heck? So I take a paper towel, and I, like, cover it. I don't squish it, but I cover it and I fold it. I sit on the ground. I climb on top of my countertop and jump down and just, like, slam my foot onto the... the paper towel. And I was like, oh! So I take it and I... It's like going from, like, hitting a person with a meteorite to hitting a person with the moon. It's, like, so overkill. Yeah. It's just, like... But I felt such aggression that... in that very moment, because it was, like, right behind the ear. And I was like, why did you do that? You didn't have to bite me. You were the one that came down from the ceiling, not me. So I just... I just went with equal retaliation. I jumped up. I... My hand was able to touch the ceiling, and I just went and stomped on it. The neatest thing I've found that kind of got... that got me comfortable enough where I'm okay with, like, a spider crawling on my hand. I tried it, like, once or twice, and I realized... You know when you're a kid, like, maybe it's, like, a ladybug, probably? Mm-hmm. You get a ladybug in your hand, it always climbed towards, like, the top, like, the highest point on your hand so it can fly away? Well, if it's a flying insect, they always... they do the exact same pattern. They move in the exact same way. Right. If it's not a flying one, it does the opposite. It just tries to go to the lowest point. Yeah. So it can drop down. Snakes also do that. So if you've ever held a snake... I like snakes. I like snakes. I've held snakes. We had them growing up. They just slither on your hand and either are trying to go up or down, whichever they want to do. But, uh, a spider literally moves in the same way that snakes do when they're in your hand. So it's, like... It's interesting that they move in the exact same way. Like, every single... Just about every insect that you've ever held moves in the exact same way that's extremely predictable and not confusing. It's just, like, it goes down. Or... It goes up. It goes up. Either way, if it's one that goes down, you put your hand down, and it's not gonna go towards, like, crawling up your arm. If it's a flying one, put your hand up. It's not gonna go down your arm. It's like... Yeah. Did I tell you about the time that I had a black widow land on my hand? No. Okay. Story time. Um... I was working with my brother my older brother. We were doing, like... We were going under the bellies of, like, trailer homes and taking out the insulation and then installing new insulation for the mobile homes for winter. And my job was to take the insulation, like, pull it out. Because he was cutting it out, taking it out, tossing it. I would pull it out and put it in a contractor bag. That was my job. And there was one time where I had to, like, go underneath the trailer to pull the insulation out. And I had my hand planted so I don't, like, slip and fall and hit my face. And then I feel something crawling on my hand and I'm like, what is that? And I look down and I just see... It wasn't a very big black widow but it was the size of a quarter just on my hand and it's just sitting there, not moving. And I'm like, don't you do it. I don't want to have to go to the ER today. Did you swat it or did you just wait for it to move? I waited for it to move because if I swat it there's a potential that it could bite me. True. And I'm like, just walk off. Go away. Go away. You know you don't want to die and I don't want to go to the ER. Just walk away and we can pretend like this never happened. And it walks off and does its thing but I had no clue that black widows were in Michigan. They're rare, but yeah, they are. They are in Michigan. It's one of the only, like, one of the few poisonous spiders we have in Michigan. Mm-hmm. And I was like, what? Yeah. And I looked it up and I looked it up the day after. I was like, do black widows live in Michigan? And it's like, yeah, black widows live in Michigan along with brown recluse. And I was like, excuse me, why wasn't I made aware of this when I was working here? They are very rare. They're very rare but the fact that I came across a black widow is so just bizarre. Because I was like, I always associate black widows with something like down south. Like Texas or like South America, Mexico. Australia. Australia. Australia has one of everything. Yeah. I don't know how, how did black widows get in Michigan? That makes no sense. The Australians. Do you think it was maybe imported from somewhere? Australia. They came on the bananas. That's actually a spider. A banana spider? Yeah. Those things are scary. I don't like them. They're big. They're very poisonous. Wait, no, not poisonous. Venomous. Because poison is something you ingest. Venom is something that gets injected. Yes. Yep. What's uh, what's your least favorite spider? Uh, I don't know. I actually don't mind the ones that are bigger. I don't like the ones that are small and have like really spindly like black legs. So you don't like jumping spiders? Um, have you ever seen a jumping spider up close or in a circle? Some of the, some jumping spiders actually don't have like super thin legs. Some of them, and some of them look more furry and fuzzy too. Yeah. Those ones I don't mind. Like, you know, the ones you've seen online that actually look cute. Those ones are fine. Um, I feel like I've seen a few jumping spiders when I was a kid. I have a mess of them. Um, the ones that are tiny, I don't care. It's like, smaller than a certain size doesn't matter. And if it's big enough to where I can like physically grab it like a tarantula, I'm fine with that. I'd be cool with a tarantula. Like letting a tarantula Tarantulas actually don't ever bite people. Yeah. Because it costs too much energy to bite something that they're not willing to eat. Yeah. I'd be totally cool with like holding a tarantula. I've held a tarantula. It's actually one of the weirdest experiences ever. Hm. Because it's actually if when you think of an insect you don't think of something that's very strong. But tarantulas are like actually pretty powerful. It's weird. It's strong and it's furry. Yeah. It's a strong furry feeling because like I had it like on my hand and this was I was like I think it was like probably 5th grade. They had like an exotic like person come in. They brought like an opossum, a few snakes and a tarantula. Opossum is not exotic. Mmmmmmm. No. They're not exotic but they brought them in. I've seen possums just randomly. Did you know you could pick up an opossum? They don't attack you. Yeah. I believe it. They don't attack you. I walked by one on the way home from work once and it was right next to the sidewalk I was walking on. All it did it went to like you know how a cat when it like hisses it'll like point its back up a little bit and it'll like kind of just freeze and stare at you and it'll hiss. It literally it was just standing on the grass like a foot from where I was walking and it just looked at me as I was approaching from like a block like a half a block away. The parking lot's far away. And it just it looks at me as I walk up and it's just mouth open in that stance just hissing and I just like I just kept walking didn't stop or anything I just said have a good night. And as I got like to where I was next to it it made one movement where it jumped up and just turned the way that I was going and then froze again. It's just like uh huh. Okay. Opossums Opossums are probably one of the most goofy animals ever. It was very goofy. It was just like I'm just walking here. Hey I'm walking here. Well it's like even if like okay I don't care like how fast it is or like anything if it even has rabies it approaches me I'm just gonna punt it. Yeah I'm gonna kick it. Like there's not a thing it could physically do to me other than maybe give me a disease. That's the best that creature could do. And I liked just the audacity of just being like there's this giant approaching. And then just the the little hop to face me as I walk away too. It's just like this is really funny. This is not my experience but this is an experience my little brother had. Dane he was with Dane for my older brother for whatever reason. I can't remember what they were doing but they were driving they were driving home from somewhere. And my brother had to go to the bathroom like really bad. So he pulls off to the side and he goes he goes hey wait in the car I'll be right back. Of course my little brother doesn't do that and he goes outside and he's just like minding his own business doing his thing. He looked out and he saw a possum just sitting there with its mouth open and he goes up to it and just picks it up. He walks up picks it up holds it upside down and he walks over to my brother who just got done taking a pee and he goes hey look I found a cat. And it's just got its mouth open and it's pausing and it's making that stupid hissing noise it does. And he goes why get that possum out of your hand it's probably got and he just he takes it off to the woods and he sets it down and it just it does the thing where it plays dead and it just like rolls down a hill. So just imagine a animal that's playing dead and you go to set it down and instead of like getting up and running off it just tumbles down a hill. Not a very steep hill but it's just tumbling. It's such it's such a funny animal to just encounter in the wild. I didn't I didn't think it'd be like the one that I saw I probably could have picked it up too if I really wanted to but I didn't think anything of it I was like eh see ya. Another random like animal that has the absolute audacity to be aggressive is baby raccoons. Yeah. There was one time I was at a birthday party and it was in an outdoor one at a park or something and there was a baby raccoon and I was like feeding it like a sugar cookie eating pieces of crumbs and I was thrown by it and it would just sit there and look at me I'm like you know you're supposed to be with your mother right and it just starts coming at me and it's like no it's only like probably a few weeks old at most and it's like probably this the size of your hand. That could have been a friend. I know! You could have taken it and you could have just had a pet. I know but I think it was a baby and it was like it was posed up and it was like the size of the grass. It was like barely managing to get over the grass and I'm just like dude you realize I could just like step on you. I could just like he seems like a friend. Yeah I really would I really if I had gloves raccoons are one of the ones that I wish raccoons had like the temperament of a dog or a cat. They can. They can have similar but raccoons are one of the ones that I wish raccoons had like the temperament of a dog or a cat. They can have similar but raccoons are one of the ones that I wish raccoons had like the temperament of a dog or a cat. They can have similar but raccoons are one of the ones that I wish raccoons had like the temperament of a dog or a cat. They can have similar but raccoons are one of the ones that I wish raccoons had like the temperament of a dog or a cat. They can have similar but raccoons are one of the ones that I wish raccoons had like the temperament of a dog or a cat. 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