Hello there, and welcome to the world of Pokémon.
My name is Professor Jacob, and thank you so much for attending
this lecture on Pokémon biology. Joining me here in the classroom
today is, of course, my wonderful teaching assistant,
Mr. Curtis. How are you doing today on this
lovely, lovely day? Well, it's so lovely.
And it you know why it's so lovely?
It's because I'm here. I'm here with you, Professor.
Sorry, it's it's kind of hard to hear you.
I am, I am behind a large glass pane now.
Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of hard.
What? You want to talk about that
pain, Professor? You doing OK?
It's very it's you're very safe and secure.
And I'm just over here polishing the star of today's show.
OK. If we may put it like that,
we'll just we'll just leave it like that for the moment.
You're. Like what?
I thought that was a rock professor.
What what does? What does?
What does Mr. Curtis have right next to his desk?
Well, that's that is that is a rock.
That's his rock. That's not what he said.
He does always bring a rock to class.
Now I'm just. Noticing this.
Joining me here in the classroom today is our young trainer and
training, Corbin. How are you doing, Corbin?
I'm doing all right. What it is, what it do, guys.
The crisp fall air is now in full force.
I'm loving it. It, I'm not going to lie, makes
a little hard to ride my bike around the city.
Sometimes the cold air just hurts my throat.
But having a good time, having a good time.
Happy to be here. Happy to learn some cool
information about a very cool Pokémon today.
And so you know what Pokémon that is, right?
Yeah, this is today's Tyranitar, right?
No, unfortunately, No, no, sorry.
Sit back down. Corbin, don't leave.
You can't leave. I just.
I know, I know, you're excited. So you want to learn about.
Tyranitar checking out. I'm checking out now, sorry.
Well, OK, listen, we do have a very interesting Pokémon to talk
about today, and we will get to that in a second.
It's part of the reason why I'm behind this glass.
This is this of, you know, very safe glass here.
Why? Why don't I get one?
Huh. Why don't I get a a A?
What is that? Like a glass?
It, well, something called a ballistic glass.
It's a safety. It's AI.
Call it a boom boom glass. I don't know why, I don't know
what he's talking about. This is a this is a boom.
What, Mr. Grace? Is talking about.
That's right, but I think he knows a Pokémon we're learning
about today. But before we talk about that,
before we really get into it, I do have a Gengar male that I
would like to read, if that's OK.
Sure, sounds good. This Gengar male comes to us
from Cade. I believe we've gotten a Gengar
male from Cade before, Cade says.
Dear amazing Corbin, Mr. Curtis and renowned Professor Jacob.
I guess I. Am thank you.
Thank. You did I hear?
Amazing. I know, I know.
Kaden or Cade might be a little bit loopy.
I think they say my name is Cade.
I live in Unova. I'm looking forward to buying
your T-shirts. Oh Oh yeah.
I guess you do have some T-shirt ideas.
What was that? What was the name of our store
or or the URL for our store? Does somebody remember?
Oh, I don't know, it changes every week.
It's a lot to keep up with. Porsche, that's how we keep our
our products so limited or so. Guys, we don't actually have a
merch store, not yet. Wait, what?
What? This is the first I'm hearing
about this anyways. Cade says my favorite T-shirt is
the coughing one. Does anybody remember what the
coughing 1 was? Hold on professor, I am checking
my notes right now. I do not remember what the
coughing one. Mr. Curse, do you have an idea
what the coughing one? Was coughing one I be coughing
up this town. Wow.
That sounds right. That's your favorite one, Cade?
Yeah. All right.
You know, to each their own, I suppose.
Anyway, if you. Remember, let us know.
Yeah, send us a Gengar mail at wwopokemon@gmail.com if you
remember what the coughing T-shirt was, Kate says.
Anyway, you guys are awesome. I love learning new things about
Pokémon. I have a Mr. Curtis theory.
We do love Mr. Curtis theories here.
Sure, sure. These are all theories.
None of them are confirmed. Not confirmed.
I'm just your. Average everyday teaching
assistant nothing to. See.
Well, you certainly aren't that average you you wish.
You have an excess number of fingers and green blood buddy.
You're not normal. You wish you were average, Mr.
Curtis. This is Cade's idea.
Mr. Curtis is a defective. Ditto.
It tried to imitate Archaeus but since it was defective but it
but since it was defective it didn't look good.
Arceus was offended by it so it cursed Mr. Curtis into getting
stuck into Dittos next transformation which I guess is
what we see now. Oh yeah sorry that that next
transformation is the Mr. Curtis we know his mutant disgusting
spinner rat cult is his mutant army.
He will use this army to try to destroy Arceus so that his curse
is broken. Anyway that's all for now.
I will get Garmail again soon, bye.
Bye. That's a good theory.
There's a lot of world building behind that one.
I do like it. Mr. Curtis, can you confirm or
deny? Are you a Ditto?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say to everyone
here today, I am in fact not, not a Ditto.
Oh, busted myth busted. Sorry.
And can we also get like just get the confirmation that you
are not Ditto's next transformation?
Oh my. I'm not.
No, no, I'm not. I'm not Ditto's next transform
transformation either. It.
Was really hard for him to say. I was having AI was having a
little bit of early onset sloppy mouth there.
That's OK. Yeah, we, we just started this
lesson, Mr. Curtis. Can't be getting sloppy mouth
already. I know, I know, I know.
Well, Well, I do think that RCS is not all that like everybody
seems to think he is. I, I am, I am not a Ditto.
And I would not take care to imitate that inferior God, one
might say. So.
Wow. Wow wow, that's a lie right
there. Hope it's a benign God.
Yeah, the The Night Mother's the only God for me, so.
OK. But then this this brings up
another point then, Mr. Curtis, you're disgusting Spinner at
call you making that into a mutant army to destroy Archaeus?
Yeah, what's the deal, fam? If that's what the it's it.
I'm not making it to destroy Arceus.
But if that's what happened. But if that's what happens, I
mean, I, you know, it's whatever the night Mother wills and
that's. What we're gonna shoot.
We're gonna shoot for the moon, All right?
The best God is the Night Mother.
Let's put that on T. The night Mother of God.
Is she a God though? Is she even real?
She she gives us a powerful Arch Arkados.
Wait, hold on. Areados.
I thought you were a professor.
I'm getting. Sloppy brained she's getting.
No, she, she is a she is a, a celestial entity.
I don't know if maybe you would call her God, but you know she's
my God. Would you call her a God?
I would call her a God. You did call her.
A God, they say God is a woman, so I get it.
So Cade finishes their Gengar mail by saying PS My favorite
Pokémon are Ashwat, Tyrant and Umbreon.
Good. OK, Umbreon's good, good ones.
Tyrant's pretty, pretty cute. Like I say, as far as like you
know, prehistoric fossil Pokémon Go Tyrant is is very high.
Tyrantrum is one of my favorite. It's a good, it's a great
Pokémon. Anyways, thank you so much, Cade
for this wonderful Gengar Mail. Mr. Curtis, what do you, what do
you think? What do you think on the Gold
Star scenario here? I'm just, you know, I feel.
Like it's not good. Well, you know, just just, I'm a
little insulted, that's all, but.
Oh really? Why?
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean Ditto. Me a Ditto.
No, I mean, I can't, I guess I can't.
I can't discredit them for for trying.
So I, I'll, I'll give them, you know what?
I'll give them a, a silver, a silver star today.
A sliver star. I love it.
Well. I think I think a silver star is
more rare than a Gold Star and therefore has more value.
I feel I'm not many people have gotten Silver Stars.
Maybe, maybe on the star market, but you know, the star I weigh,
I weigh gold stars more highly than Silver Stars, of course.
OK, all right, Yeah, All right. So I hope, I hope you enjoy that
Silver Star, Kade, you know, maybe, maybe advice for the next
time. Don't insult Mr. Curtis's spin.
Iraq Army. If.
You keep if you keep calling me. Awesome.
I'll give you more Corbin stars if you want.
You giving them a Corbin star? I am.
I'd give him three cuz he said it was awesome.
All right, well then you can't have a Silver Star though.
They are mutually exclusive. Well, I mean, we know, we know
that gold stars and Corbin stars can't interact.
I don't think we've ever tested it with Silver Stars and Corbin
Stars. Right.
I know one dissolved out of my hand a while ago, fell into the
ground and dissolved like acid because I tried grabbing it.
So I know that there's a biological reason that they
cannot interact. I cannot explain it, but hey, we
haven't tried with Silver Stars yet, so you can.
Maybe you can have a Silver Star and a Corbin Star at the same
time. Well, aren't those silver star
Silver Stars? Are you know they they are gold
stars, They just have the silver coating on them.
All right, maybe it's all right. Fine.
If you're giving them a Silver Star, I'll take mine back.
Sorry. That's fine.
Ridiculous. I'm so sorry, Cade.
I'm sorry. Message me privately if you want
a Corbin star though. OK, so thank you so much, Kate.
Again, if you want to send us again, Garmail, you can send it
to wwopokemon@gmail.com. But let's move on into the main
lesson. Does anybody know who we're
talking about this week? I think, I think you've already
kind of Mr. Curtis, I think knows.
He seems to know. He said he was.
Oh yeah. Polishing something.
I don't know what that what that is.
Yeah, it's the, it's the the boom boom to the boom boom
glass, you might say. What do you mean?
What is that? What are you holding on?
Oh, you, you'll, that is. You'll see here in just a
second. No, Please continue.
Professor, is that a? Vacuum.
What are you holding? Just you wait.
Well, I know why I have the ballistic glasses to protect
myself from the Pokémon that we are learning about today.
And it is did not say Tyranitar. It is.
Now, I guess to to remind everybody what we learned about
last week, it was Pineco. That might give you a hint.
Yes, honestly, it would have been good to have the ballistic
glass for that one too, but. Yeah, man, that's not.
I just kind of why I brought it this time.
I was like, you know what, I wish I had it then.
I'll definitely have it this time.
Is it spite OPS? It's not spite OPS.
It is a bug type though. OK, yes, bug type bug type bug
type bug. Type.
I think I remember but I don't know how to pronounce it.
Is it for a terrace? Sure it's it's Fortress is the
Pokémon. Fortress.
OK, that's cool. That's.
Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Fortress, they've all form of Pineco, so also known as the
Bagworm Pokémon. Sounds like a not not a nice
thing to say. It's a hard, hard nut to crack
right there. It sure is.
OK, So I'm going to go ahead.
I have I have one here. I'm going to throw it out.
I'm going to stay behind this ballistic glass.
You guys should be fine though, I'm sure probably.
Anyways, here we go. Bring it out, bring it out.
Whoa, that's a, that's a look at that little boy, alright?
Oh my. What do we know?
OK, don't. Don't move so fast, Corbin.
Actually just, you know, maybe, maybe no sudden movements for
this one. OK, all right, sorry, sorry.
So for the ballistic glass again, I asked why don't I have
one on my desk #1 #2 why do we need it at all?
Is this thing just going to blow up on me or am I going to die?
What's going to happen? 1:00 We, we only had one
ballistic glass. So you know the the the the
school that the. Professor is top priority.
Yeah, value analysis here. And they determined that I was
the most important resource to try to protect.
They gave it to me. I mean, I can't say they're
wrong. Can't say they're wrong.
But I'm a child. I'm not.
I'm not worthy of protecting. I'm a child.
Now, so As for why we might need it.
So what's the? What's the I don't know.
Can you describe the fortress for us, Corbin?
I can so it's this big round little thing.
It on a big round little thing, huh, Big round little little
thing. One of those can't be right that
it's not that big in terms of like verticalness, but
horizontally it's it's a little bit thick, you know, high wise,
it's only like, you know, like a probably under 4 feet of a head,
I guess. But it looks like a big
meatball. It looks like a big meatball
with two eyes and it's got these what looks like 4 little red
nozzles coming out of the sides of it.
And yeah, it's like the, the, the skin or whatever it is
around its eyes is red as well. And then the rest of it just
looks like a like a like almost like a meatball, like a coughing
or something like the way that coughing has like those edges
and crevices. Oh, don't keep.
Don't get too close to it, OK? Yeah, I mean, you're on your
hands a lot. You're.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They can be very reflexive.
OK, and you don't want, you don't want them want them
reacting. But if you approach them too
quickly now. Yes, so.
That's pretty much. It so the meatball that you're
describing and in fact all of fortress that we can see minus
the eyes is it's very hard shell.
OK. Now, Fortress's main mode of
defense is that if it senses movement, really any kind of
movement, yeah, it just shoots part of that shell out at the at
whatever is moving. Oh God, OK, I will stand kaput
still now. So here, here I'll, I'll
demonstrate. I'll.
No, no, no. What do you?
No.
No, Why? Well, I mean, I'm safe.
I'm behind this ballistic. Glass can I?
I'm gonna do. Can I get up and get around and
get behind that glass with? You no no no, like no.
Check this out for that. Woo, wow.
See that? It shot right at me.
Yeah, that's crazy. It cracks the glass.
Too. Wow, wow, That was I'm actually,
I guess the school is kind of skimping on the I mean.
That just goes to tell you how hard this fortress's steel
container is. That's a that, wow, a cracked
ballistic glass. That's a fact.
In fact, I think it would be a great time.
A great time, don't you think, Professor?
For us to figure out exactly. How?
What is that? How?
Strong this is. Yeah, well, I mean, researchers
have been studying that for a while, Mr. Curtis.
I don't know. That's right.
Figure that out here. What is that in your hand?
Brought. I brought it back, baby.
Oh, you had modifications. Oh, oh, no.
Gorbis is back inside the glass behind the desk.
Don't. Don't get out of the ballista.
Glass only. One must go here.
Get out of here, Carmen. You got to hide behind a desk by
good Sir. Please.
OK, All right, one. I'll be safe probably. 2.
Maybe we should try to take it away. 4C Four wait.
Wait, he hasn't shot it yet? You're not actually doing it,
it's just like a false alarm. Or is this a test?
I can't hear. Oh God, I can't hear anything.
Why didn't somebody take it away from him?
Can't hear anything. Somebody was going to shoot it
way sooner than he did. It's like he counted down from
10 or something. What?
What did you say? That.
Hey, hey, look, everybody. Is this shell?
It's still there. I didn't crack it.
Should we go for round? What?
I can't. I can't hear.
I can't. Hear we go for round two.
No round, please. Yeah, you're gonna OK.
No, hold on. I got another rocket.
It's a sound shoe. Do you have a sound?
Another rocket here, My jacket. Hold on, I'm just going.
To. Leave the room at this point I'm
I'm going to. Oh, Nope.
The misakur is. Bubble blocking the door.
I can't do that. All right, listen, we don't have
to do this, all right? I command you, Mr. Curtis, no
more bazookas in class. We've got to, we've got to,
we've got to determine if I can crack that.
You know, we put we don't scuff. See the little scuff there.
We. Really.
Don't. We don't.
We don't need to. I mean, honestly, if you look at
at fortress here, you know, just unfazed doesn't even really
care. Corbin, are you OK?
Hearing's starting to come back. I'm I'm doing OK.
I mean, there's still a lot of, you know, dust and stuff on me,
but wiping that off, Wow, Junior, you're quite impressive.
The way that you were able to to handle that is very impressive.
That's insane. Junior.
Yeah, junior. He, he, you know, he kind of
just looks like a junior a little bit.
Kind of looks like these. He looks like a bigger version
of these junior little meatballs that my mom used to pack me for
school back when I was at the Saffron City Learning Center.
They kind of have that little like red part in the middle that
kind of wraps around like these weird, funky looking meatballs.
Don't ask what they're made from.
I think it's Toro's jerky. I could be wrong, but they're
really good and that's what it reminds me of.
So he's like a bigger version of these junior meatballs.
He's like a big junior. He's like a huge junior.
Big junior, huge junior A Junior H, if you will.
Oh, OK, yeah. Wait, wait, hold on, hold.
Let me check my notes here. Oh, that's actually Ron.
He's that's actually. The name of one.
Of his back in his head, he's checking his notes that's.
Actually, the name of one of our patrons, believe it or not.
Oh my God, That's really crazy. Wow.
OK. Well, thank you, Junior, for
your support, for your support. And thank you, Junior, the
Fortress for surviving the bazooka attack.
I'm gonna go ahead put you back in the pokey ball.
Teddy could. That'd be great.
Yeah, yeah. And I'm gonna go.
I can move this ballistic glass or what's left of it into the
side. Now we can really get into this
lesson. Let's read some Pokedex.
Get into the thick of it. Doesn't that's why everybody's
here, right? To listen to Pokedex entries,
not to not to listen to Mr. Curtis blow things up with.
A Are you sure though, Professor?
I can. I can still blow stuff up if you
want. No, you need to put that away.
It's a domestic terrorism you need to stop.
OK, I'm glad though that the class did survive.
I think last time the the class did have some structural damage.
This time I think the spherical nature of the classroom really
contained the explosion. Yeah, this class is a lot more
sturdy than the one in Saffron City because last time he shot a
bazooka, I think it was for the cloister lesson of that took out
half the classroom. You always gotta have a good
trench coat bazooka on you. Okay, you're.
Not I'm not losing. Just in case it's needed.
I don't leave home without my trench coat bazooka.
That's right, I guess this just proves what's true, which is
that spheres are the most durable shape.
Yeah, I don't think there's a single shape that's more
durable. No sphere.
If you think there's a more durable shape, go ahead and send
us a Gengar mail at wwopokemon@gmail.com.
Let us know we're wrong. Yeah, yeah.
Or don't. OK, so let's read these Pokedex
entries. The first ones come to us from
Johto. The first one says its entire
body is shielded by a steel hard shell.
What lurks inside the armor is a total mystery.
We don't know. We've never cracked 1 open.
Never, never cracked one open. Never.
Could never do it. I mean, listen, our strongest
bazookas couldn't open it. Wow.
I mean, I do. I do have a stronger one.
Wait, do you want me to? I mean, I can go home and get
the stronger one. Well, OK, now you're just
putting lives at risk. How many?
Wait, wait, wait. How many bazookas you got?
I mean, the stronger one is the stronger 1 is too big for me to
carry like under my trench coat. So like I I keep it at home, but
you know, if you want me to start bringing it to class, I
can start bringing it to class if you want.
Did you notice how he avoided the question?
How many Mr. Curtis, give me a number.
I have three. OK, that's not as many, but it's
more than anyone should have. Three.
Yeah, it's pretty. Expensive and what?
So on the scale of weakest to strongest, what was the one that
you just shot off today? That is, that is my my weakest
of the three. So.
Oh, OK, well, oh, no, I've got that's my that's my mini trench
coat bazooka. And then we have we have the
full size bazooka. Wait, wait, wait, wait wait.
Is the bazooka mini? Or is the trench coat?
The bazooka is mini. The bazooka is mini because it
can fit into my into my under my trench coat, my trench coat.
I mean, you, you can see how big my trench coat is.
It's a big trench coat. Yeah, everything's relative.
But then I got, I've got the full-sized bazooka at home and
then I have the installation bazooka which is stands on a on
a stand, a mobile stand and that one's.
Like a like a truck or something.
Yeah, but that one's back up back in my house.
Is that just a tank? That's back at my house in Canto
though, so. OK, right, You didn't.
You didn't, I didn't. You didn't bring this to the
Wrigley's. No, no, no.
I didn't want to bring it to the Rigsby's farms.
That would not be. Rigsley's huh?
The the Rigsby's, the farm, the farm that I live at, yes.
Right. Hey, what are we talking about
again? We're talking about Fortress.
My collection of bazookas. Oh yeah, we were briefly talking
about Mr. Curtis's collection of bazookas.
Now weapons classroom. Yeah, No, no, don't worry.
I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll bring the focus back.
Thank you, Corbin. I know you're so eager to.
Learn. I mean, bazookas are not really
weapons. They're more like Swiss Army
knives, you know, like, would you?
They're like, you know, tools. Multi purpose Cut a ribbon with
a bazooka. Multi purpose, there you go.
You certainly can. You can.
You can open a can. Listen, I'll tell you this.
I'll tell you this for sure. If you got a problem and then
you shoot a bazooka of that problem, that problem's not
there. Unless what about depression?
You can't shoot depression. Unless it's a, unless it's a
fortress, then then that problem is still there.
If your car won't start, you can't shoot your bazooka at a
car because then it's just not going to be exist anymore.
That's what I'm saying. The problem isn't there anymore.
There isn't a cartoon star. I mean, sure you have a
different problem, but like. What if I'm really sad one day?
I can't shoot the bazooka at my sadness.
Yeah, you're probably the right. And we shouldn't dive any more
into that. OK.
The next entry here says it remains immovably rooted to its
tree. It scatters pieces of its hard
shell to drive its enemies away. And we we did see that happen.
We did see the force at which it can fire off that those shell
pieces. That's right enough to damage my
ballistic glass here. And you know, you may notice the
bazooka did not damage the ballistic glass.
It's true. That's crazy.
That's insane. Well, he didn't shoot it
directly at the glass, but I'm sure if he did it would have
destroyed it. We could test that.
Yeah. You know what?
I don't think, no, I don't think we just ring the yeah.
You're probably right. We don't.
Need to sure you call it boom boom glass for reason so.
No, let's let's save the boom boom for later.
Who's? We this Curtis.
I I mean I call it boom, do you not call it boom boom class?
I I feel like I've been calling it ballistic glass this whole
time. Well.
OK, the last entry from the Johta region says usually found
hanging onto a fat tree trunk. Seems rude.
It shoots out bits of its shell when it sees action.
Sees any action of any kind. Yeah, any action.
Fat. It's just.
Trunk, I see you writing this down in.
Your nose. Maybe we should have called
Junior Fat Trunk. Fat tree trunk.
Fat tree trunk? That's a mouthful.
Fat Trunk would have been a good name too.
Yeah, like a big tree. Trunk little FT.
Fat seems like, I don't know, rude for some reason.
I know it's just a tree. Rotund trunk, yeah.
Rotund trunk. Muscular trunk.
Professor, you kind of have a rotund trunk.
Yeah, listen, So the weather's getting colder.
It's harder to get out there, get, get, get the workout in.
And, you know, that's fair. Listen, fair.
Everybody around here is preparing for, for for
Thanksgiving. It's gonna be a cold winter too.
That's what I've been reading in the papers.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure the deli birds are
happy about that. They love the cold.
Oh man. OK, let's move on to the Hoenn
region poker centuries. First one here says Fortress
conceals itself inside it's hardened steel shell.
The shell is opened when the Pokémon is catching prey, but it
does so at such a quick pace that the shells inside cannot be
seen. OK, yeah.
So it seems wild to me. I feel like we could like have
like, I don't know, some kind of like video.
Camera. That's yeah, there are cameras
that can shoot at a really high frame rate.
So why don't you just get a camera that shoots at like 5000
frames per second and slow it down and post.
There you go. Bada Bing, bada boom.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. With the with the camera jargon
over here. Listen, all right, I I took my
first film class the other day. I learned a lot.
Well, let's hear all about that. Who is the teacher?
So so the teacher. Was it here at the GCLCBOTSCLC?
It was actually not. This was a private lesson down
the road. However, they did apply to work
at the GCDBICDIAC and they're waiting to hear back on it.
Her name is Professor Mandala and she is, she is teaching me
all about film stuff and sounds effective.
Yeah. And she no, she's super, she's
super effective with teaching me and she applied to be a teacher
here. She is not her back though.
But right now it's just private lessons.
Down the street is Professor Mandala, a human like me and the
professor here or. And also you, Corbin.
The kind of, I mean, Corbin's like, part human, but like.
Mr. Curtis doesn't consider children to be human right?
But are they or are they, you know, like one of our good, our
one of our great Pokémon staff members here.
No, they're they are, absolutely.
It's a Pokémon, absolutely. Is it an absol?
Are you trying to get but it's an?
Absol. It is an absol that's.
Oh, absol. Well, Professor Mandala, an
absol that may or may not be joining the GCLCBOTSCLC.
What an what an exciting opportunity to have here.
I can't wait. I can't wait.
I'll put in a good word for them.
That's, that's sweet. I'll, I'll let her know.
OK, All right. So I think that does it for the
Hoen Pokedex entries. Again, I still feel like we
should be able to see inside of his shell.
I don't I I don't think it would be that hard to convince.
Sometimes he's got a consent to it, though.
You can't just, you know, do it. Yeah, I mean, we just got to
convince them to open up. Right, exactly.
You know, talk about their. People, you guys never want me
to open up. So moving on to the Sino region,
the first entry here and the only entry says it is encased in
a steel shell. It's peering eyes are all that
can be seen of it's mysterious innards.
T-shirt mysterious. Mysterious innards.
Keep your shells over your mysterious innards.
That's why I always have my trench coat on.
I live. I live that life.
That's right, you live that life of a mysterious innard.
Is that it? You know, I don't have like
today is assignment is not a poem, but man, it really feels
like the a fortress could be a really good allegory to a lot of
mental. I'm seeing that.
I'm seeing that, yes. OK.
So that does it for the center region.
Let's move on. There's nothing new in UNOVA.
There's nothing new in Kalos. Let's see here Alola Alola entry
here. Yes, the first one says when
something approaches it, it fires off fragments of its steel
shell in attack. This is not a conscious action,
but a conditioned reflex. OK.
Like a hair trigger just ready to blow at any second.
So it's not, it's not doing it actively on purpose, right, Of
course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a good.
I'm sure it could do it intentionally if it wanted to,
it just doesn't need to. It's just like pitch.
Guy, right, Of course. But naturally it's like a, it's
like the knee thing when you go to the doctor.
Yeah. Yeah, or so like whenever,
whenever Corbin sees AB drill, he just screams.
Whenever I hear Don's name, I also scream.
I have excitement. Different screams though, and
those screams go a little something like this.
Wow. That was, that was the dog.
That was crazy. That's the dog.
Wow. Jeez.
I got excited. OK, and now here's the B drill
scream. No.
Big difference there. Big difference between.
The two big difference. Yeah, big difference.
Big difference. Yeah, it was.
Man, it was so loud I almost couldn't hear it.
OK, next entry from Alola says in the moment that it gulps down
it's prey, the inside of its shell is exposed.
But to this day, whenever this poker century was written, I
suppose no one has ever seen that site.
Maybe I'll be. The as in like, does that mean
they've never seen it eat? If so, how do we know that
that's how it does it? Or do they mean that nobody it's
so fast that it just eats it? Well, it's so fast that no one
has been able to see the innards.
Yeah, I guess that's what it said in the previous entry.
But it's just the way that it's worded here is weird, OK.
And that's going to do it for Alola.
I don't think there's anything in Galar or Paldea and I don't
think we have anything from the lentil region either.
Man. So that lets us move on to the
unique Pokedex entries, and there's only one here.
There's only one unique Pokedex entry.
So we're pretty much done. Wait.
Was there? Was there anything from and
Professor Stromboli? There are no, no Professor
Neroli did not get a hand on this ball.
Really. Rigatoni didn't add anything to
this conversation here. That's all.
Professor Fettuccine. It was really slacking on this
one. That sucks.
Oh well. All right, so this unique entry
comes to us from Ash's Pokedex. It says Fortress, the Bagworm
Pokémon Fortress is the evolved form of Pineco, it's entire
body. It is covered in a steel hard
shell. Pretty tough, we know that.
Good job Ash adding nothing it. Really is adding nothing I mean
like that could describe a couple of different Pokémon.
Oh yeah, no kidding. So I mean, Ash probably got that
and was like, yeah, I can. That's the one thing about this
Pokémon that I know already Pokedex.
I didn't. You didn't need to tell me that.
Maybe he just copied his notes from Closer.
Hey, that one that that is what they what is on the tin right
there. Ash has no idea that if he moves
even a little bit, this fortress is going to shoot steal pieces
at his face. Maybe somebody should tell him.
He's probably fine. Yeah, he's, he's young, he's got
good. He's in a lowland champion, he
knows what's up. That's right, he's pretty tough.
He he gets shocked enough by that Pikachu.
Gosh, we all know so much about Ash, huh?
He's kind of a celebrity right here.
He is, he is a little bit of a celebrity.
Who's whiny though? Really whiny.
Well, he's like 10. Well, I mean, I can't relate to
that. I'm not that whiny.
I'm 10, you know, I'm pretty, a pretty adult like.
Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure.
Thank you. That's what I'm saying.
I'm sure we could open up a this, we could open up a the a
winery with all the wine. OK, that's such a.
That's such a. Pause.
That was such. A good joke, professor.
I love that. Go to bed, pause.
Pause for laughter for the students at home.
And now they're done. OK, All right.
So as I said, we're not doing a poem for Portress.
We're moving on to the testing portion.
By the way, that's all the Pokedex entries we have.
So instead of that, we are going to be doing an essay.
It's been a little while. Yes, yes, yes.
So this is pretty simple. These are basically like
participation assignments anyways, but basically I, I, I
bring an essay question when I feel like the Pokedex really
hasn't done its job and kind of describing enough for the
Pokémon. And for this time, I have a
burning question, but I want to see if you guys can figure out
just give me a good answer to the essay question is what does
Fortress have inside of its shell?
What it's what are the, what are the innards in there that is
trying to protect so, so carefully, so cautiously because
it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's protecting them very, you
know. Robustly.
Avidly, I suppose. Like wob off it's tail.
Yeah, like wob off it's tail. Sure.
You might say it's quite a robust defense.
So, and I'm looking for more than just it's innards.
So I want, I want a little bit more than than just that.
Don't, don't say it's heart is in there.
I mean, you can say it's heart is in there, but I mean I have a
heart that I'm protecting too and I don't shoot out little
metal beds to protect it. Well, you don't feel like you
need to protect your heart around us.
I mean, we're pretty open, honest people, right, Mr.
Curtis? You want to talk about he?
Has a bazooka with him at all times.
I feel like I definitely need to protect my heart from him.
Well, that's mean. He's going to shoot you just
because you open up, right, Mr. Curtis?
I would never shoot at you, professor.
I would never shoot at you, Professor.
You know that I carry the bazooka for your protection,
professor. You shot it at me.
I mean, you shot it at my direct, You didn't shoot it at
me, but you shot it at my direction.
Boom glass. Listen, I had.
I had no doubt that the boom boom glass would protect you OK.
And Junior was in between you and the professor, right,
Professor? So you're good.
Exactly. If anything it was it was Corbin
that was at the most at risk there.
Right. Exactly.
Sometimes students have to, you know, sacrifice themselves for
the teacher, and that's OK. Yeah.
I can't hear out of my left ear still.
Well, that's. The least important Everyone.
OK, OK, we've talked long enough.
Go ahead and write your essays and let me know when you're
done. You got it.
Press. That again.
You did. Don't make fun of him.
Nope, Nope, Nope. Don't.
Donnie J would not be happy about.
That one. All right, professor, I'm done.
I'm. Totally done.
With my essay. Corbin's done and excited, Mr.
Curtis. I'm done.
I'm ready. I'm ready to.
Provide the insight. I should have known this.
This class and these students need professor.
Finally, somebody's willing to take that burden.
OK, let's start with Corbin. Corbin, give me your essay on.
I guess the essay question for those who may have forgotten is
what does Fortress have inside of its shell?
Corbin, what do you think? So here's what I think is going
on inside of its shell. I think Fortress has it's
offspring, it's babies, so no one really knows for sure how
Pokémon lay their eggs or give birth.
It's been well documented that it is not well documented that
it's a mystery. I believe Fortress incubates its
eggs inside it's very warm innards and will do anything to
protect them as such. Hence why it also eats so fast.
Because you know, obviously the one time it is vulnerable it has
to eat and it does it so quickly as to not put its its babies at
risk. Its sole priority is to keep the
shell closed to protect its offspring.
That's why it's so and anxious even when there's like something
moving, it immediately attacks it.
Its sole goal is not to preserve necessarily itself, it's to
preserve the offspring inside its innards that are growing
into little baby pine cone. Thank you very much.
OK, very good. All right.
You know what that was better than just it's, it's, it's heart
and lungs and stuff. So, Professor, come on, what do
you expect of me? Not much.
Thanks. Honestly, not much.
My parents are the same. Very good, Very good, Corbin.
No, Donnie, Jake only has the best things to say about you.
He does. He's not my.
Father. But yeah, he does have.
He's your father and he only sees anyways moving.
On, he doesn't. Really say much he's.
He. Mimes it.
That's true. That's true.
Yeah, your dad, the Mr. Mime. All right, so.
Curtis Well, here we go. So I have to say that you, you,
it's time for you to all to hear and hear first Hear and hear
first hear and hear first inside of that hard, steely shell is in
fact, Daramaca. That's right, is a little what
is a little fiery, little fiery boy.
OK, so we all know that Daramaca is a is a very, very hot a very.
Accurate. OK, here's the thing though.
We don't all know about Dharamaka.
Corbin has not learned about that.
So I have a quick learn about that, a quick lesson on
everything we need to know about Dharamaka.
OK, so Dharamaka is the Zen charm Pokémon.
It is of course, it is what it is.
It is number. It's #554 in the Pokedex and
there is a Galerian form regional variant that is an ice
form, but they are. Know a lot about Darmakos.
Is it a bug type? No, it's not.
It's a fire type. It's very active.
It's very active and and hot. It's got very hot body
temperature and as it gets really hot, it's really active.
And then when it cool, when it goes to sleep, it cools down and
it like pulls all its arm and legs in and it like curls up in
like a little ball thing right when it falls asleep.
And I think that that is what has happened.
Here is the Darmaca hot active melted, you know, some some
rocks and steel around himself. OK, then went to sleep, tucked
all his arms in and encased himself in a shield of steel.
OK. And then just like the Gallerian
form of Darmaca changed to change its, you know, body
temperature. So now it's an ice type.
This Daramaka decided that you know it, it kind of liked having
the solid shield metal exterior and so it no longer gets hot
enough to re melt its shell. But that explains why it's like
this little red round thing inside 'cause it's like the
Darmocca that has its arms and legs in it's encased in the
steel that's solidified, but it still has that.
Oh quick, oh spicy. You know I'm going to crack open
my shell real quick grab something pull it in.
I'm NUM NUM NUM really good right That's that's that that
fortress has big darmoc energy. OK, you heard it here for us Big
Darmoc Energy BDE Put it, put it, put it, put it on AT shirt.
OK. OK.
I have a question. So, OK, OK, hold on, hold on,
hold on. Hold up.
In so it's it is a Darumaka is what you're saying?
Yes, yes. It's not that there is a
Darumaka in there with the fortress.
It's saying it is a Darumaka. It is a Darumaka that has melted
steel around itself and turned itself it.
Now it has a shell. OK, where does the pineco come
from then? Purely unrelated, everybody
thinks the Pineco evolves into Fortress, but that's not
correct. Maybe.
OK, so the Darumaka gets the steel shell from the Pineco.
There you go. And it turns itself into a
fortress, but it's it's like, it's a real slow poke shelter
scenario, right? I think that's good.
It's it's a combination of two Pokémon.
Yeah, yeah. Sorry.
I'm I'm expanding on Mr. Curtis's.
Darmaca fire type super effective against bug type,
which is Pineco, right? So Darmaca basically burns the
inside out of a Pineco and then uses the Pineco's existing
plates to melt into the steel shell that it has to go forward.
So yeah, very slow poke shelder esque.
A. A A mutually beneficial
partnership. I don't know about mutually
beneficial. Oh yeah, you're right.
You're right. Not very beneficial for the
Pineco. The Pineco, absolutely.
This kills the Pineco. This Hey guys, this this one
kills the Pineco. Brutal.
That's that's Mother Nature. Go out on a limb here and say
that Mister Curtis's idea isn't true.
It's not. It's not the actual thing.
But you know, my love to see, we love to see some variation here
and some thoughts and some wild ideas.
No bad ideas, Mr. Corbins. Good idea.
Thank you. That's a good idea.
Mr. Curtis is an idea because there's no bad.
Idea. Good idea.
It's an idea, right? It was there.
It is an idea. We cannot take that away from
you, but it is, it is a bit wild and gruesome and I don't think
it's. I would consider it a good idea,
but OK well. All right, so full marks for
everybody cuz it's more of a participation thing than
anything and I'm, you know, very, very much enjoyed the
interesting ideas how we had from everybody here.
But that's it for the lesson on Fortress.
That's it, That's it for Fortress.
That's it. That's all we.
Got. That's it.
That's all folks. Put that on AT Shirt Fortress.
That's it. That's it.
That's. It's done.
We're all done here, folks. Get out of here.
Does anybody know what Pokémon we're going to be learning about
next? Week.
Is it the evolution of Fortress? No, it is not.
Fortress is the final evolution. It is.
Oh, that's it. The.
Animal. That's it.
That's the. It's the end of the line there.
OK, that's it, Fortress. That's it.
Would it be? Would it be Decidua Eye
Professor? No it is not.
Is it Skarmory? It's not Skarmory, no.
Oh man. That'd be a good one.
I know we'll get there eventually.
No, next week we are learning about Dun Sparse.
All right. Good fun to do do do Dun.
Sparse. I like Dun sparse.
A very great bug type Pokémon love.
Is it a bug type? It is not a bug type.
It's definitely a bug type. I mean it it it has big bug
energy, it's got BB instead of B, BB instead of big Darmoc
energy which is BD. That's cool.
No, I get it. All right, that's going to do it
for today's lesson. If you have any questions for
me, the professor, you can send them to wwopokemon@gmail.com.
You can also find us on the Flying Pokémon Theme social
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You're at WWO Pokémon there as well.
But we got a lot of other things.
Hey, we got some things in the work, and I'm going to go ahead
and throw it over to Mr. Curtis to hear about those other
things. What's the Curtis, Do you know
what we're doing? Yes, definitely.
Everybody needs to pay attention to what's going on on them.
YouTube channel, that's right. We're putting up more content
there. Woo.
Yes. What is the content out of
curiosity? Well as you all were probably
aware we were doing a spooky tober set of streams where we're
releasing or we were streaming once a week some spooky games.
So keep keep an eye out for future events such as that.
Nothing. Yeah, we'll make sure to post
announcements and stuff to to let folks know.
Yeah, the best way is Discord. We usually post when we're going
live a few days in advance on Discord, so you guys can
obviously take time off from work and factor it into your
Skype. Yeah, just, you know, abandoned
any other plans that you might have had.
We do schedule it as well on YouTube, so you, you know, if
you're subscribed, you got those alerts, it'll let you know when
we schedule a stream ahead of time, right?
That's right. That's right.
So definitely do that so you're not missing out.
Yeah. Don't want to miss out?
Don't be a loser. Come on down.
Listen, the mute tube isn't all
that we're doing. Corbin, what's up?
Tell them about the Patreon. The Patreon has a ton of great
stuff. We promote it all the time
because that's a lot of our best work on there, guys.
So just keep in mind, here's all the stuff you get.
If you did the highest tier. I'm not going to go through each
tier, but I was just going to say this is the summation of
everything you get on Patreon. You can click the link and it
will summarize everything in each tier, what you can get.
But all the stuff you can get on Patreon includes full Discord
access. You get to see Mr. Curtis's
doodles every week for new lessons.
You get to watch our Pokémon Emerald Nuzlok playthrough that
we have been doing. We're like 20 episodes in right
now. It's crazy how much you done in
the. 4th Gym. I was at the 4th gym in 20
episodes. That's insanely slow, but we're
doing that and you can watch them two weeks early.
You'd be the first to watch it on Patreon.
You get to a name entered into raffle for deciding future
Pokémon names. Junior H was one of our patrons.
We named the Pokémon after him today.
You get to listen to the monthly Q and as you get to send
questions via Discord for the monthly Q and as as well.
And you get to listen to the monthly outtakes and deleted
scenes. Super cut.
So every bit of rambling that Porsche is kind enough to cut
out, you guys can hear it cuz we talk about a lot of cool stuff
that just didn't make it into the regular lessons.
You guys can hear that over on Patreon.
Yeah, there's a lot of good rambling in this one.
A lot of good rambling. Gotta say though, guys, we got,
we got to mess up a little bit more because we have not been
messing up a lot. We're just, we're just too good.
We're getting too good at this. That's right, we are getting too
good. Yeah, we need Mr. We need to be
humbled, yeah. Yeah.
OK. All right.
So I think that is, I think that's it.
I think, I think we have talked for long enough.
Oh, I agree so. Until next time class is
dismissed.