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Grassium Z

## Information

**Location**: Grand Hall Basement

**Available**: After Badge 14

## Guide

Go to Grand Hall and cover the expense of the Azurine Nature Center Project.

Then go to Grand Hall Basement and go to the path on the top right corner. Talk to the guy on the left to start the quest.

Go to the new Nature Center and talk to the woman on the left side on the base floor. She will ask you to bring her two Simisage, 1 Male 1 Female, and two Lurantis, 1 Male 1 Female.

Simisage is not available in the wild until the middle of Postgame, so it's easier to find its pre-evolution Pansage and evolve it. Pansage can be found in Malchous Forest Park, Beryl Ward, Rhodochrine Jungle, North Aventurine Woods, South Aventurine Woods. Lurantis can only be found in Malchous Forest Park.

After you have obtained the required Pokemon, give them to the woman. Then return to the guy you talked to earlier in Grand Hall Basement to receive the reward.
Episode 35: You Give ‘Em Israeli Eyes

* Microphone talk
* Sound engineers, roadies and technicians.
	+ In Minneapolis, the house sound guy threw a fit because they hadn’t zeroed-out the soundboard.
		- "This is something you could do yourself. It’s something you could have a cat to do.” -JR
		- “Is that like not cleaning off his dead rubber girl?” -MM
* 15:00- John was on a panel on groupies in rock ’n roll.
	+ He was the only man, the only musician.
		- The only man on the vagyna.
	+ He becomes fast friends with a lady on the program who had formerly been a groupie.
		- “You are pre-qualified, madame.” -MM
		- “These other women up here, with their special underwear, with their mean stycks, they’re not gonna take the fun out of this for me.” -JR
			* “Baby, you don’t have to be 20 years younger. I think we've a special connection right now. You wanna do it just right here on the table?” -JR
	+ Asked of John, by the hostile audience plants: “How do you feel about mind-raping the youth of America?"
		- “I don’t feel like I’m mind-raping anybody. Well, maybe mind-raping a few people, but c’mon. Who doesn’t?” -JR
			* “I would love to close this thread as soon as possible.” -MM
	+ 21:40- Thing about feminism is…
* 30:40- Merlin and John are more of the camp that thinks that people of other races should be sent back to their countries where they came from.
	+ Liberia, it’s right in the name. “Libe” which is Latin for "fun times." -JR
		- “You have to send women back to the one with ‘y’ in the name.” MM
		- “Well I think if women just kind of understood that they can’t have it all, and part of not having it all is…” -JR
			* “And you should stop complaining because your shrill high-pitched voices (Merlin bell) are keeping people from being able to think. Daddy needs time to think in quiet.” -JR
* 33:00- On getting gifts from fans, as band:
	+ You gift them.
	+ “I just got a bunch of cookies that all look like me, except they have big gingerbread penises on them.” -JR
* More mentions of John’s Tinkerbell poster. (Someone please find the relevant episode).
	+ “Don’t touch it! Don’t look at it!” -JR
	+ “I’ll know if you looked at it.” -MM
* Artist pricing.
	+ “That is not a gift, that is a grift.” -MM
* 48:00- Gifts from fans, continued:
	+ "You have to look into the eyes of someone who gives you food. It’s like the way the Israeli’s handle airport security.” -JR
* ~50:00- TSA to John: “We’re not in the customer service business."
	+ He resisted giving a long lecture.
		- “People of America!” -JR
	+ “No, I’m serious. If my dad was alive…” -JR
	+ “The plane is still connected to the building, but this door could not be more shut. There are none more shut.” -Gate agent.
		- “You wanna borrow the phone and call your daaaad?” -MM
	+ “GOD. Is it a training day!?” -JR, to the TSA agents
	+ “These people could not get jobs at a mall.” -JR
	+ 54:10 John Roderick CIA rant.
* There’s a part of Merlin that’s Japanese, according to John
* Send me the thing you’re proudest of you’ve done, not your whole blog.
	+ "If it’s a hair doll, just give them your home address.” -MM
* Globe discussion
* “Can you get it on a lazy susan, no offense?” -MM
Episode 13: Then There Was Pump Chili

* Colin Meloy
	+ “*Yaknow*, we don’t have a single song about pirates.” -CM
		- “Every one of your songs is about pirates, don’t kid me.” -JR
* Merlin and amyl nitrate
	+ He went to an AC/DC show to see Yngwie Malmsteen, and sat right next to the cannons.
	+ Only The Scorpions would come to Anchorage. Ozzy came once in 1980.
		- John listened from home in his orange Air Force jumpsuit.
* 29:10- “In the South, almost everything is communicated by what is not said.” -MM
* “As you get older, success is reducing the amount of complexity in your life.” -MM
* 32:30- Merlin used to get the Bigun from 7/11.
	+ A hamburger with chili.
	+ John used to get two chili dogs for 99¢, and you could put as much pump chili, chili out of a pump, and cheese out of a pump, as you want. You'd put it in a paper boat.
* ~57:00- conspiracy theories.
	+ No one can keep secrets.
	+ Ted Stevens was John's uncle Jack's law partner.
* 1:00:00- the Senate party
	+ John went to the 40 years in the senate party for Ted Stevens.
	+ Four different 4-star generals come out on stage, and they do a can-can. In full uniform. They sang a bawdy song about blowing Ted Stevens.
	+ "These people are literally cannibals." -JR
	+ There were a lot of 3-star generals in the room who weren't invited onstage.
	+ John's dad was a red. Guys would come up and ask his dad how the Communist party was. He was the token pinko.
	+ A big part of Bohemian Grove is peeing au naturel. Water sports.
* John bought a blue wool sailor suit.
	+ John looks like the worst guy. He sends the geishas running for cover.
	+ There's nothing cute about it. It's just terrifying.
* 1:16:00- Everything John owns also has two paragraphs of exegesis about what it is and what you should know about it.
* Merlin's family had  custom license plates.
* Alex Chilton and Judas Priest
Episode 176: The Opossum Had Me Distracted

* Keys are just analog eels.
* Is part of Merlin's house harming him?
* Toxoplasmosis
* "There's so many reasons not to drink the bath water." -MM
* Lots of talk of varmints.
* Merlin's house has a lot of bachelor spiders.
* John brooks no truck with moths.
* The crows are onto us.
* 37 minutes: opossums and cats both have diplomatic papers.
* The opossum is in the chimney and is scratching, but there's a cruise to go on.
	+ But actually, John has been robbed.
	+ He lost his silver ingot, his Filson bag, computer and his passport. He just wants the passport back.
* 1:13:31- a detective from Renton calls 9 months later. He has all of John's stuff. And has had it since the day after it was taken.
	+ "Maybe the car stealer is also a house stealer." -JR
* DHS phone jail is like a cassette tape.
* The cops were suspicious of John's silver bar, 1:22:30:
	+ "Did they also get your Rothco, sir?" -MM
	+ "Did they take your hope diamond?" -JR
	+ Merlin, explaining: I've had it since I was a child!
	+ Cop: I guess I can see how it fits into your decor.
* Detective Okamoto should have his Asian races more dialed than he does.
* Renton gets off the hook about the delay,1:29:30.
	+ John: Is there a conference room somewhere? I have some questions for you.
Manna from Heaven

**"Manna from Heaven"** is the ninth episode of American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson. It was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszweski. It aired on March 29, 2016.

Plot

Simpson's attorneys uncover tapes of Fuhrman recounting horrifying stories of torturing, murdering and framing black suspects for fun. Judge Ito discovers a twist, and a mistrial looks imminent. The tapes are released, Fuhrman takes the stand and further incriminates himself by refusing to answer any more questions, much to the dismay of Clark.
Episode 136: Goofus MacGroofus

* John was a very picky eater. Conceptually opposed to vegetables.
	+ As a result, he missed out on a childhood of chili cheeseburgers and chili dogs at the Roundhouse.
* United Airlines
* ~16m: Defining “Pan Man"
	+ It’s Sammy Hagar. It’s Guy Fieiri.
	+ You should have a goatee that’s a little long. Your face just makes goatees. Stupid hair, maybe frosted, maybe spiky highlights. Maybe Hawaiian shirts and jam shorts. Maybe flip flops. You can’t get it hot enough for them. "Do you want jalepenos with that?” Is the pan man Turing test.
		- He says who. He calls you dawg. Maybe wraparound sunglasses. Maybe you wear them on the back of your neck. Has a lot of body hair.
		- George Bush may be one.
* Learning to eat pho.
	+ And learning from eating pho.
* John's dad's cassettes.
* 37:10- Merlin’s pan man characteristics.
	+ He tucks his jeans into his socks.
	+ He has a goatee-shaped face.
	+ Some of his hairstyles were fairly pan-ish.
	+ Merlin may need to do some research on Matthew McConaughey to see about a potential personality transplant.
* Crystals
* 49:45- John's New Years Resolution is to devote himself to making music in 2015.
	+ John's talk shows improved the less he prepared and the more improvised. Because what he already knew how to do was to tell a 25 minute story about a 10 minute walk.
* "What if everyone in the world doesn't love me unconditionally, forever?" -JR
Episode 84: Pedagogical Sex Father

* Catlickers & Puplickers: in Seattle you either went to Cat-lick school or Pup-lick school. And then there were the Jews.
* ~Twenty full minutes of sausage talk.
* John went to a benefit and accidentally ate a baker’s dozen of Jalapeños.
	+ "It feels like I'm sitting on a porcupine. It's good. It's keeping me in the the moment, focused on the now."
* John doesn't want to go into middle age with a kayak on his roof rack.
	+ He especially doesn't want to end up like John Lithgow in *The World According to Garp.*

* John is embarrassed by how much he's been talking about his Atkins diet. "I used to talk about so many things... world domination, striking fear into the hearts of villagers… and now I’m just like ‘quinoa!’"
* ~35:00: Nice Dockers, dude.
	+ Men reach an age when they become noncombatants in the game of youth.
	+ As a young man, John considered himself an uncooked scallop that was left in the sun. Inside, he knew he was a swashbuckler and all these young dark intense guys were just peanuts in the mixed nut can of life. And John was a filbert.
* Everyone is mad because of the pedagogy that John exudes: "These Silver Fox medals were hard-won.”
	+ John walks around like a mid-period John Wayne.
	+ John’s true self is “one hand down the front of his pants, yelling at somebody about the school district. Yelling at the state legislator about earmarks with my pants off.” The other percent of the time he is just in straight-world drag.
* 1:00:00 Twenty minutes of local politics
	+ "I’ve seen young politicians I knew become middle aged politicians and watched their gaze get flintier and their smile get more like theres an element of rigor mortis.”—JR
	+ The capacity for evil is right behind their eyes.
* John and went to a political event with his father and watched with awe as Willie Brown shook hands with 200 people as he walked across the room. “He’s gonna shake hands all the way to the door of the White House."
	+ "I’ve always seen that and said, yeah, that could be me, thats me, I’m just not doing that at the moment because I’m really into Radiohead right now. But I could be the mayor of San Francisco."
* When people ask “Why are we here:” Do the best we can to colonize the earth in a way that is aesthetic and sustainable, and John doesn't mean sustainable "with all the hippie baggage but like, duh, sustainable, like, don’t drown in all your shit. Supertrain it! Gaia bomb it! Make it as perfect a base as you can and then... probe the universe."
	+ "And when I get out of my ego-world, personally, I say: What am I here to do if not to do that here, to make my corner of this ball better?"
	+ John can’t figure out how to do this without hundreds of millions of dollars. But this altruistic core is why John’s life has value.
		- “So how to do it without having the ring destroy you.” —MM
		- “And watching it destroy people that I recognize are even stronger than I am.”—JR
Episode 192: King of Tahiti

* John has been sick. 104º and then freezing cold. This is no normal cold, it’s a virus.
	+ “It could’ve been something worse, that’s why we ordered all these tests…” John as his doctor.
* Elective Surgery:
	+ “There’s more to plastic surgery than looking like a cat lady.” -MM
	+ “I’m going to grind my face apart until it’s just a soul patch touching a nose.” -JR
		- “I’m hoping the technology somewhere along the line will give me aluminum teeth or teeth that are made of plexiglass that have little goldfish swimming in them.” -JR
	+ Moving his teeth forward would increase John’s mustache space.
* 30:30- Setting the time on a Rolex
* Tattoo removal is going to be big, unless it isn’t.
	+ Hot rod tattoos don’t go out of style. Hippie tattoos do.
* 50:30- Roscoe/Skeeter died. Gary still lives in the van in the yard.
	+ John now has to avoid Gary.
	+ "Gary, look, of all the things that you shouldn't be representing to me right now is the power of Jesus, old living-in-your-van, street-drunk guy." -JR
	+ Skeeter had a neck tattoo of a giant mosquito sucking blood out of his neck, hence the name.
	+ "Remember the party in 1982 where you said 'I'm Roscoe!' and it just stuck?" -JR
	+ Gary is now top dog.
		- "The boy prince has ascended." -MM
* 58:45- John's doctors visit was to the emergency room.
	+ He went to the bathroom, and his doctor gave him a titter.
	+ He made the mistake of mentioning online that he'd had a fever for four days.
	+ He can't take the codeine cough syrup because it's narcotic, but he filled the prescription. It vindicated the severity of his illness.
		- He took the cough syrup, 5mL twice.
	+ "Do I need to go to an AA meeting for the first time in a year and a half and throw my 20-year coin at them and say 'I start over?'"-JR
		- Then he took 7 mL. This was too much.
		- "That was me upping the dose hoping I could scrape the underside of feeling something." -JR
		- And that was the end of that.
		- "The furthest little test." -JR
	+ "Meetings keep that voice at bay by reminding you what can happen." -JR
It's Your Show

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* Episode 9: He Was Apparently A Talented Baker
* Episode 11: Everybody Knew What Mr. Finnell Did
* Episode 13: Then There Was Pump Chili
* Episode 25: Supertrain
* Episode 26: Go Practice the Car
* Episode 27: Bellinghaming
* Episode 28: The Sheriff of Twisp
* Episode 29: Eventually My Scabs Healed
* Episode 30: Cement Gravy Boat of Suffering
* Episode 34: A Shit Barge Full of Long Pigs
* Episode 35: You Give ‘Em Israeli Eyes
* Episode 44: The Story of Lola
* Episode 47: Esquivalience
* Episode 50: Check Your Six
* Episode 58: Squirearchy of Monks
* Episode 68: The Opposite of Sherlock Holmes
* Episode 79: We Are Not Snow Giants
* Episode 80: I Was the Red Robin
* Episode 81: It Tastes Like the Forest
* Episode 82: Yelling At Trees
* Episode 83: The Roderick Group
* Episode 84: Pedagogical Sex Father
* Episode 85: Steamin' John
* Episode 87: I Speak Sea Plane
* Episode 88: Grotesquerie Ray
* Episode 90: A Small Archipelago of Noses
* Episode 93: Between the Monkey Bars
* Episode 130: Repping This Vibration
* Episode 131: Subsequious
* Episode 132: You Cannot Lie to Your Pants
* Episode 133: Secret Pope Songs
* Episode 134: A Minimum of Eels
* Episode 135: Fire Was Always the Star
* Episode 136: Goofus MacGroofus
* Episode 139: Building a Lung
* Episode 140: Nadir for Now
* Episode 156: The Dumbest Guy I Ever Met
* Episode 176: The Opossum Had Me Distracted
* Episode 181: Saltin’ Up
* Episode 182: House Trotter
* Episode 183: Here Comes Nacho
* Episode 184: Mr. Chöode
* Episode 185: I Reject Potatoes
* Episode 186: Electric Papers
* Episode 187: The Nicest Oubliette
* Episode 188: Crow Meth
* Episode 189: Technicolor Irony Dreamcoat
* Episode 190: The Omertà of the Sea
* Episode 191: My Weird Money
* Episode 192: King of Tahiti
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Episode 131: Subsequious

* John wants our alien overlords to give him plump cells and to fix his scar tissue and ligaments.
* "That's another thing in the fascinating story of getting older is being a non-combatant in the sexual revolution." -MM
* What can the aliens come measure for us?
* We just needed to free up enough time.
* Lots of talk about Soylent.
* Mazeltov. Kind of a grim episode.
Episode 132: You Cannot Lie to Your Pants

* "Your pants know the truth about you." -MM
	+ iPhones, space pens, Skoal cans. The evidence will be worn into your jeans.
* John used to lecture his friends about what they were doing wrong, but he envied the chew can ring.
* "If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass hopping." -MM
* Coworking and John's efforts to just distract everyone. 25:30.
* John gets a practice space.
* 35:50- Richard Hugo is Merlin's 2nd favorite American poet. Like all healthy boys, he has a list.
* John should've gotten rich in Seattle real estate.
* "It sounds like they put a microphone down a manhole cover and the band was playing in a truck that was driving by." -JR
	+ The Replacements, Buffalo Tom vs.
Episode 85: Steamin' John

* John is sick. He ate two cans of progresso chicken noodle soup, but he left the noodles. He is still not eating carbohydrates.
	+ "For every 50 humidifiers, there is 1 dehumidifier."
	+ Apparently Theraflu is almost as good as heroin.
* John’s parents made him take 6 years of French, and he regrets every minute. Thats 6 years of small engine repair that he forewent. He’d be Elon Musk right now, or be able to build Supertrain on his own.
	+ And play Uno on it, normally a French train activity.
* John plans to get his daughter into Karate so that she’s automatically cast into nerdom in high school.
	+ Better than Magic the Gathering: “Well, I don’t want her to be retarded.”—JR
* John and Merlin do not believe that Iceland exists. You have to measure their currency by the price of mushrooms.
Episode 130: Repping This Vibration

* John has been driving across the country in a truck.
	+ Title comes from talking about the rock 'n roll vibe of a lot of guys in trucks across the nation.
* "There's a version of how this goes, and they're not staying up all night worrying about it." -MM, said of those in the middle of the country who are disengaged from the conversation of the coasts and the Internet. The "idea storms." 18 minutes.
* Everyone sees themselves as a goddamn counterculture.
* Discussion of firemen, fire stations.
* Discussion of hats. European hat etiquette. Never ask a question without taking your hat off.
* Discussion of airplanes and back of seat screens. Robo announcements and security theatre.
* Airport staffing. A Frontier Airlines story.
* Automated phone trees as "phone jail." -MM
Episode 183: Here Comes Nacho

* A package to John gets sent back to Fargo.
* "My dads famous Christmas present was a paper grocery sack stapled closed. Like folded over with a staple. And when you saw that under the tree you'd know, 'Oh boy, here he comes.'" And then you'd open it and there'd be a piece of paper at the bottom." -JR, 10:30
* The RV breaks down again. The blacklist is called upon again, but much less successfully this time.
* John meets a guy named Nacho at NAPA Auto Parts in Williams, CA.
	+ The almond economy is down.
* Mike becomes the second ever guest on the show.
* John's dad buys a very old truck to move to Tacoma from Alaska.
	+ The truck breaks down in the Yukon.
* John has to call AAA, and it does not go well.
	+ But Keith’s Towing saves the day!
	+ The RV is still in California, and it’s the transmission.
	+ $4,000 fix. There is no good path left.
* Discussion of the benefits and drawbacks to crowdfunding the RV repairs.
Episode 188: Crow Meth

* “Listen, the 90s are gonna make the 60s look like the 50s.” -JR
* Merlin saved a shirt with a bleach stain with a Sharpie. That’s a life hack.
* Now when John wears a motorcycle jacket, it just looks like a dad in a motorcycle day.
* The eBay store lost all of John’s pictures.
* “Hey, wouldn’t you like to update your OS to El Capitan?” -John’s new computer.
	+ Usually a mixed bag.
	+ The answer to this question has become a little more complicated.
* John’s old laptop was stolen in Chile. This was the laptop they were buying in the show art.
	+ “Pull over the RV before we get to the mountains.” -MM
	+ "Different partner, same problem.” -JR
* John may need an Etsy store more than an eBay store.
* The voice of Mike Tyson and the voice of Merlin’s pants.
* The British think that snotty is real.
	+ Europe hates America because we don’t hate ourselves enough.
	+ “They’ve all got Kierkegaard in their water.” -JR
	+ Russell Brand
* Katie Perry and Zooey Deschanel
* ~53:00- Crows
	+ “I have become now, a place for people to send things about crows.” -JR
		- “I think the presumption is that there is stuff about crows happening on the internet that I haven’t already seen. If it’s about crows, and it’s on the internet, oh I’ve seen it.” -JR
			* “Well, if anybody has a link, make sure they send it to John.” -MM
	+ Crows and their meth.
		- They’re paranoid, and they’re always tripping on you.
		- John has a Google Alert for crows.
* ~58:00- John likes a transcript.
	+ “For a long time, I was hoping people would transcribe them, because I do like *reading* our program.” -JR
		- “That’s like someone sending you a transcript of sexual intercourse. You might get all the facts right, but you’re kinda missing the feeling.” -MM
	+ Reading show transcripts is like reading reviews of movies they’ll never see.
* 1:06:00- A very hippy experience.
	+ John was snorkeling in Hawai’i. He’s a little bit of a panicky snorkeler.
		- “I’m very much accustomed to breathing air. And I like to breathe air, and I don’t like to breathe water.” -JR
	+ “Pulled out by the under-toad.” -JR
	+ There's a giant tortoise. There’s whale singing.
		- “What are you doing, guy?” -JR
		- “By choice, he flies directly underneath me.” -JR
		- “Is he going to nibble on my peanuts? What’s his plan?” -JR
		- The tortoise flies John back over, into to the reef. The panic is gone. He’s handed off to another tortoise.
	+ “Here's a guy trying to master his domain. He’s making it. He survived it…We’re not gonna go over to some guy who’s flailing in the water. This guy’s doing it, but he needs a little extra push. To realize that the ocean is his friend.” -The turtles.
	+ “All my cynicism is gone. I’m breathing once an hour.” -JR
* Dolphins off the coast of Haifa.
* “New dolphin phone, who dis?” -MM
Episode 139: Building a Lung

* The first twenty minutes or so are a wonderful, funny story about the time John went skydiving.
	+ He almost blacked out but he didn’t.
		- He did break up with that girlfriend though.
* On meeting the exes of your new partner.
* Building a lung of experiences.
* Merlin as a technologist, or how to define those sorts of terms.
* Punk becomes alternative:
	+ Back when Patagonia and North Face were technical gear.
		- “There was a time when you could count on this gear. You’re hanging by a thread.” -MM
	+ “I thought of myself as welcome everywhere.” -JR
	+ 38:00- John meets his match at a party.
		- A guy poured a gallon of honey on his head.
* John did theatre sports at Gonzaga.
	+ 51:40- They try to usurp John’s leadership in favor of a four-member leadership panel. There’s a very good “Yes, and…” joke from Merlin here.
* Richard Hugo reference at 1 hour. Remains Merlin’s second favorite poet.
* Nick Offerman is a rowdy queer.
* 1:15:45- John should join Merlin’s seduction community.
* The community of John’s aspirations.
	+ There will be no neg-ing chicks.
Episode 103: Artisanal Pork Bakery

*Ed.- It’s worth noting that this aired on March 24, 2014, nearly 5 months before Ferguson.*

* Fluffers
* Punk rock Davey
	+ John used to do drugs with him in the projectionist room of a porn theater.
	+ Davey would splice in car crash scenes and carnage at the moment of ejaculation.
		- "Those are not the people you want to activate and connect their sexuality to violent crime.” -JR
* Seattle style
	+ “Paul Allen looks like the pile of clothes at the bottom of a locker.” -JR
	+ “Everyone else on the music panel looked like a dump truck ran into a Hot Topic.” -JR
* City government discussion
	+ John overdressed for a meeting with the mayor.
	+ “I’m gonna wear a sharp suit but then my shirt open.” -JR
* ~36:00- The police:
	+ Perhaps the problem is that the cops and the firemen all live in the suburbs now. It’s suburban culture, which is “intrinsically suspicious of the city.” -JR
	+ Four year degree inflation.
		- “If you want anything that requires a key…” -MM
	+ The police will be trained in the city/town they intend to police.
		- They will be of the culture of the city.
	+ “The concept of policing is very basic. The cops themselves do not have power. Their power is the power that we grant them to police us, because we need it, because we are pig monkeys.” -JR
	+ “Having recourse to the law was a thing, was not a right but it involved, it was a participatory aspect of citizenship.If you were going to call the cops, you’d better hold up your end of the bargain by being, for the most part, law-abiding and a citizen.” -JR
		- Contempt for people who free-ride on this system.
	+ This view of the police is not universal.
	+ Some fathers must teach their daughters to be suspicious of the police.
		- “Do not attract the attention of the police because it never ends well.” -JR
	+ “The police are idiots, let’s be honest. They’re typically 24 year olds with criminal justice degrees who are inculturated to be unreflective."
		- “With father issues.” -MM
	+ “A lot of these guys, they’re mustache guys.” -JR, on firefighters.
	+ “You know Merlin, I call 911 all the time… I call them just to report I saw a pigeon that was limping.” -JR
		- “Hey, it’s Merlin, hey, what’s up. I don’t have a problem, *yet*. But. I just wanted to give you an update on a couple fronts. The fence is still an issue, it’s leaning a little bit.”
* "Music is important to us in name only." -JR
* CDs vs. Movie tickets point
* 1:16:00- John was kicked out of his first ZZ Top show for drinking a bottle of peach schnapps.
	+ “Take the schnapps!” -JR
	+ “It’s not like I was drinking Southern Comfort. I was drinking peach schnapps, I don’t even know what the fuck I was thinking.” -JR
* Billy Gibbons’ ass hair.
Episode 187: The Nicest Oubliette

* “Don’t make any unnecessary trips” -Common State Trooper Advice
	+ “In my parlance, that’s kinda letting the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.” MM
* “I get off of tickets all the time, and it’s largely white privilege, but…” -JR
* “The bad cops are always the one who don’t see themselves as bad.” -JR
* The TSA as a choke point.
* John got silver status and keeps getting bumped up to first class.
* “I wouldn’t fly United if the world had come to an end and they were the only flight, and it was a flight away from an erupting volcano.” -JR
	+ “We found a seat for your daughter out of the apocalypse. There’s one seat left.” -MM, as United CSR
	+ “Fuck no. I will die here in the lava flow before I get on a United flight. We all die.” -JR
* You have to pick an airline.
* The best frequent flier plan:
	+ “It’s like being dropped into the nicest oubliette.” -MM
* 56:50- Vancouver hotel yoga
	+ John watched a lady narrate her own yoga in a Vancouver hotel.
	+ “Is she doing permanent damage to herself? She doesn’t appear… she looks totally blissed out. And the thing was that her narration was constant and by the tone of her voice and by her narration I knew that she was not going through the eye of a needle into heaven. Because I found her annoying, and I’m sure god would too.” -JR
* Skyscraper window washers
	+ “You have to have a native ability to get up there on that scaffold and not be wearing adult diapers everyday.” -JR
* “I can’t leave a room where a piano is being tuned.” -JR
* The B-string on a guitar should be slightly flat.
	+ "Suck a bag of dicks, Clapton." -MM
* 1:05:36- Chubby kids wearing super-tight clothes.
	+ “He’s wearing clothes that do not reflect the shame he’s supposed to feel.” -MM
	+ “Excuse me sir. You should be dressed like a sleeping bag.” -JR
	+ Western shirts: way better than camouflage.
	+ “If you’re in show business, people want to see your legs.” -JR
	+ Skinny jeans.
* John wants someone to create an award for him to win in Australia.
	+ A Headphony.
	+ “I don’t want to go there with a plan. I’m not a tourist. I don’t want to go there on a walkabout. I wanna go there as a professional person to accept an award that I invented. Is that too much to ask? No, I feel like that’s some normal-ass shit.” -JR
	+ “We are pioneering podcasting.” -JR
* The Canadians:
	+ "I love Canada so much more than you, and everybody knows it.” -MM
	+ “Have you ever been to Edmonton? Have you ever been to *Moosejaw*?” -JR
	+ “Oh God, here we go. Let’s play the ‘John Know Names of Places Game.’ Yes, I’ve been to all of them, John. I can tell you where to go to get a white ribbon in all of them.” -JR
Episode 34: A Shit Barge Full of Long Pigs

* Sometimes you need to just hit a goddamn bell.
* Merlin starts a set of cards of things for them not to talk about.
	+ Phil Collins vs. Billy Joel
* For a while in the ‘80s John ran a clinic teaching girls how to spit. (14 minutes or so)
* Also discusses girls’ difficulty throwing balls, the importance of context/perspective in childbirth.
* “The problem with a pregnant woman is that she has a baby in her.” -JR
* “In my life, I have learned that no story involving a woman is too farfetched.” JR (Merlin bell).
* “Well, not while you’re sober.”-MM (Verbal bell from John).
* “The thing about the bell is you have to forget it’s there.” -JR
	+ Like headlamps on doorknobs.
* John’s thoughts on modern warfare, drones. (31 minutes)
* Scientologists at the Muni.
	+ "It’s like an existential free estimate. No matter what, you’re going to need some shit changed.” -MM
* Merlin and John discuss airlines. (35 minutes)
* A seat upgrade isn’t worth it, because it’s just a shit barge full of long pigs.
* Discussion of pirates.
* John’s superpower would be the power to (make other things) rust.
* John pays $10 for parking on a Sunday. Gets a ticket despite it.
* John grew up literally soaking in WWII.
	+ John tells the story of his dad’s .45.
	+ The story of how he took the .45 to a gunsmith.
* “Was I aware when I was 22 years old what I was facing?” - JR
	+ "One time I’d had a lot to drink, and then they randomly shot three of us for no reason.” -MM
* John’s dad shoots down the Japanese Zero (1h15).
* John’s favorite of his dad’s story: John’s dad lands on a trap runway (1h16).
Episode 90: A Small Archipelago of Noses

* The Korean butcher shop & Bob Jr.
* Salesmen
	+ John and Merlin discuss their distaste for being sold to.
	+ Merlin at the dentist.
	+ John tries to buy a Cadillac. Nothing is as advertised.
* John had some drugs that were transported in a gas tank.
* John has an internet presence.
* A 200 hour Craigslist ad that says “NO FLAKES"
* “If you read the whole thing you’ll probably figure it out. Just did a keyword search for “Hitler.”-MM
* "This podcast is for men and manly women. No flakes.” -JR
* “Don’t waste my time.” -JR
* 23:30: John has two huge dicks.
* Mention of the Bush administration's war crimes.
Ashen Beach

> *Ash and sand line the field.*
>
>

**Ashen Beach** is a Field in Pokémon Reborn. It is categorized as a Telluric Field and designated number 20 in the Field Notes app.

## Field Note

**Name**: Field Effect Read-Out 20

**Location**: Apophyll Academy

**Earliest available**: After Badge 04

**Guide**:

Go to the room in the top right corner. Give the NPC a Protein.

## General Effects

* Fighting-type Pokémon and Pokémon with the ability Inner Focus are prevented from becoming afflicted with confusion
* Shell Bell now restores HP equal to 25% of the damage dealt
* Sandstorm lasts for 8 turns

## Abilities Affected

* Sand Force, Sand Rush, Sand Veil and Zen Mode are activated
* Water Compaction additionally boosts Special Defense by two stages on activation
* Own Tempo, Pure Power, Sand Veil and Steadfast allow the bearer to ignore Accuracy and Evasion stat stages when attacking, unless the opponent has Unnerve

## Moves Affected

### Moves that increase in base power by 2x

* Sand Tomb also lowers the trapped Pokémon's Accuracy by one stage at the end of each turn it is active

### Moves that increase in base power by 1.5x

* Strength also becomes a Fighting-type move and gains Psychic as a secondary type

### Moves that increase in base power by 1.3x

* Focus Blast's accuracy also becomes 90%

### Boosted stat-changing moves

* Calm Mind raises Special Attack and Special Defense by 2 stages
* Kinesis lowers Accuracy by 2 stages
* Meditate raises Attack by 3 stages
* Sand Attack lowers Accuracy by 2 stages

### Moves that stir up ash

All Special Flying-type moves and following moves additionally stir up ash when used, lowering the Accuracy of all Pokémon on the field by one stage, except Pokémon in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move.

### Other moves

* Focus Energy now increases the user's critical-hit ratio by 3 stages (instead of 2)
* Shore Up now always restores 100% of the user's maximum HP
* Psych Up additionally cures the user's status conditions when used successfully

* Nature Power becomes Meditate
* Camouflage causes the user to become Ground-type
* Secret Power may lower Accuracy by one stage

## Seed

The Telluric Seed applies Focus Energy to the user.

## Transitions to Other Fields

* The move Splintered Stormshards will terminate this Field.
Lance Ito

## Judge Lance Allan Ito

* Series
* Real-Life

**Lance Allan Ito** is a retired judge. He is best known for presiding over the O. J. Simpson murder case on the bench of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California. It was Ito who took the decision to allow television coverage during the trial.

After the O. J. Simpson trial, Ito has refused to give any interviews, or talk about the case in the media. On April 17th, 2012, it was announced by Los Angeles County that Ito's courtroom, along with 55 others, would be closed due to budget cuts.

## Appearances

* From the Ashes of Tragedy
* The Run of His Life
* The Dream Team
* 100% Not Guilty
* The Race Card
* Marcia, Marcia, Marcia
* Conspiracy Theories
* A Jury in Jail
* Manna from Heaven
* The Verdict
Fire Memory

## Information

**Location**: Route 4

**Available**: After Badge 10

## Guide

Go to Calcenon City, then go out the right exit. Go down on the right path below the water area.

Go left and up in the middle of the area to reach the campfire. Use Eruption, Flame Burst, Heat Wave, Incinerate, Lava Plume, or Searing Shot in a wild battle nearby to make the Fire Memory appear.
Episode 81: It Tastes Like the Forest

* John’s ongoing saga with his Atkins diet. His breath is terrible, and he’s only eating animals whose names he knows—the Portlandia diet.
* John went to a Macklemore shoot to “snark,” the only reason to go to any event. He got into a public feud with a man who can no longer be considered young.
* John's relationship to keys.
* ~13:40: “I’m going through my closets—I have too many tuxedos."
	+ He has a midnight blue tuxedo, a standard black tuxedo, a “comedy" black tuxedo, a white dinner tux (for his many cruises), and second white dinner jacket.
	+ “If I don’t arrest this trajectory, I’m going to drown in tuxedos."
* One could argue that walking six months in one direction is a kind of diet.
	+ Up until now, John had always preferred to feel like, “I am as god made me and throw what you have at me, and I will consume it. I will make poo out of anything."
	+ The whole reason John used to get up in the morning was to look forward to his nap in the afternoon.
* Kindergarten font: “Its kind of a stylized Futura meets a stork"
	+ Co-op school nightmares: John wants to be on the board of directors to eliminate the other directors. His own personal Reichstag.
	+ Merlin is very reluctant to go gently into someone else’s night.
* John rejects the idea of hiring a Dula, or finding a psychiatrist, or a mate.
	+ Organic farming as a mating ritual: "Once you and your partner have exhausted all of the episodic television and you are staring across the breakfast table at one another and contemplating being together for decades and you realize, like, ‘I don’t want to be like my parents, what are we going to do?' You embark upon a mutual project like starting a garden. Its a merry old time, but its really a way of stitching your relationship together—here are our values in bright red tape.”
		- To John, as a bachelor, this feels like a prison activity.
* John’s house looks like a hunting lodge where someone set off a grandma bomb.
	+ “Seven different mismatched paisley patterns is not a style, it is a mind riot."
	+ John bought 10 different copies of Huck Finn because he feared it would be banned, and he would be the last man to hand them out on the street.
	+ He also decorated his house with amplifiers.
	+ John accidentally owns several Yacht Club memorabilia
* John asks people to salute him when they come into his house, like he’s the governor general in the Raj.
* A big- head mascot made Merlin’s kids’ school cry.
	+ “Was the person autistic? Just bringing it around.” ref Ep 80
* Once, John and some neighborhood girls were playing “If you show me yours, I’ll show you mine,” when his mother came by with a wheelbarrow full of compost. Perhaps this is why he hates gardening.
Episode 27: Bellinghaming

* John describes his worst ever rash.
	+ Washing his clothes in the shower late at night during college.
* Dead baby sea otters: How often do you get one of those?
* Handjobs
* Bellinghaming: where no one can make a decision or express an opinion or get into an argument.
	+ The birthplace of don't yell at me culture.
* "The German wants the woman to take a poo on him." -JR
	+ Merlin doesn't know how German people have babies because he's seen some German porn, and "it's a lot of poop and hitting."
Episode 191: My Weird Money

* Fannypackin'
* “Somebody said to me the other day ‘I bought some Prada sunglasses, do you want the box?’ And I was like, ‘Do I want the box!? Yes, I want the box!'” -JR
	+ You could use it for pens, wheat pennies.
* Wallet and keys systems
* 25:30- “Yeah, cause the rejection of your peers is a nice way to get you good and angry about using your science.” -MM
* Chewbacca utility belts.
* 49:45: “I want some kind of storage facility where I have ready access to my weird money.” -JR
* The problem with a Krugerrand vest: What if you have to cross a river?
	+ Don’t drown because you didn’t want to take your Krugerrand vest off.
	+ “The only true wealth is property.” -JR
* Science fiction v. Fantasy
	+ Science fiction: Everything happening in the universe is explainable or internally consistent.
	+ Fantasy: Fuck tons of magic.
* Going back to 1960.
	+ You couldn't stop Vietnam.
	+ Fixing your family and being rich forever.
		- In John's case you'd need to go back to 1760 and stop the whole thing.
	+ You don't want to arouse too much suspicion.
	+ "Do you believe in mysteries?" -JR
	+ "I know you like science fiction, don't ask me how." -Back-in-time JR to his 1972 mom.
Abomasite

## Information

**Location**: Ametrine Mountain

**Available**: After Badge 12

## Guide

Fly to Fiore Mansion. Surf inside from the cascade.

Go up one waterfall. Go left and stand on the tile like in the right photo.

Slide left and slide down. Slide left and slide down again to be like in the right photo.

Slide right and slide up. Then slide left and slide up.

Go all the way to the left and push the boulder left. Then return to the water and go up the waterfall.

Go left after you have just gone up the waterfall. Go down to reach the dive spot, then dive down.

Go into the cave opening in the bottom right corner. Go to the dive spot and resurface. Hop on land and to the right.

Slide up and slide right. Then slide down and slide left.

Slide up, right, then up. Slide right, go down, then slide left. Go to the dive spot on the left and go down.

Go into the cave opening in the bottom. In the new area, go to the bottom left corner, then go into the cave opening.

Go left.
Episode 28: The Sheriff of Twisp

* The first reference to "stress bumps"?
* John gets held up in Spanish Harlem. The mugger didn’t realize it was a misunderstanding.
* "If this ain’t a mess, it’ll do 'til one gets here.” -JR
* The university of the Cascades/Olympics
* Merlin lost all interest when he heard "the UofOlympics."
* 32:15- Merlin does an impression of John's dad!
* ~39:40- Merlin used to think people who got old were dumb for getting old.
* John thought street drunks and hoboes had the wisdom of sages.
* 42:20- John rips a one-armed man's pack of cigarettes open like a bag of Doritos.
	+ Hobo cred was already in question before this.
* ~57:00- John's friend's mom said: listen boys, I know your peers don't think you're handsome now. But you're handsome men.
	+ John's best years were thus always ahead of him.
Episode 83: The Roderick Group

* The correct origin of “the worm has turned."
* “I no longer feel confident that maybe history isn’t against us.” -JR
* John has a cell-phone based alarm system, and it is malfunctioning.
* “I feel like ripping America out of the wall.” -JR
* Merlin and John have both been scammed into long-term cell phone contracts.
* John’s house has ants, and the exterminator wants to set him up on a subscription service.
	+ “Well, ants are really hard to eradicate.” -Exterminator
* John is known by Merlin’s daughter for:
	+ “You go outside, you take off your clothes, you throw a garbage can through the window, and you set the place on fire."
* Short-sheeting beds.
* John’s dad was a member of the Quiet Birdmen. But you aren’t supposed to talk about them.
* John is not a team player. He wouldn't leave a man behind, but he would have a lot more he wanted to say during an interrogation in a foreign prison. Maybe some of it would be obfuscating. They'd be teasing out all of the hidden meanings for years. You can't overstate the value of someone who appears to be cracking under pressure and flooding them with false information (50 minutes, give or take).
* John is his own asset. And he doesn't want to be recruited by some dingaling.
* All the spycraft without the expertise or danger.
* 55 minutes: The Roderick Group
* John thought the Rand Corporation made crackers.
* Native American style.
* The alien overlords will put John in charge. Send your questions in self addressed envelopes to the Roderick Group.
* "Supertrain is not going to happen because we wait for it." -JR
Blastoisinite

## Information

**Location**: The Underroot

**Available**: After Badge 13

## Guide

Fly to Beryl Ward and go to Rhodochrine Jungle from the topmost entrance.

Go left until you reach the path going upwards. Go up and into the opening.

Stick to the right side of the waterfall and go to the bottom of the map. Go left to the water area and surf up.

Guide and photos are provided by Ngoc Nguyen.
Deino Special Encounter

## Information

**Location**: Subseven Sanctum

**Available**: After Badge 16

## Guide

In order to summon Deino, you'll need 1 Soul Candle and 3 Dark Materials.

You can buy a Soul Candle in 7th Street from the vendor in the south-west corner for 2000

The Dark Materials are found in the following locations:

Subseven Sanctum - Left side of the labyrinth, requires the Sanctum Key from the Klefki Sidequest.

Iolia Valley - Go up the waterfall east of the entrance, use the Crystal Key on the Red Crystal, smash the wall and activate the Purple Crystal

Iolia Valley - In Luna's Gym. the northern wall is Rock Climbable. Climb up and activate the Purple Crystal

After acquiring all the Dark Materials, return to the Subseven Sanctum and interact with the Altar that's used for the Litwick Special Encounter. If all three Dark Materials are present, a Deino will appear instead. It can be battled and captured at Level 30.