Hello there and welcome to the world of Pokémon.
My name is the P man Jacob. I don't like that.
Professor Okay man. Yeah, for a short.
Short for a professor, the P Man.
Oh P Man. Yeah, all.
Right, OK, yeah, sorry. The the, the the headmaster of
the GCLCBOTSCLC told me to try to relate to the kids more.
And she. Suggested that I use, you know
some of your, some of your, your.
Kids, well, you could have just asked me.
I could have given you all the lingo, all the cool, hot, fun,
you know, exciting tips, OK? Hold on to.
That for the kids. Hold on for a second.
I have to say thank you everybody, 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.
Thank you. Thank you.
I'm here. I'm here.
I'm. I'm the the A man.
A man. The The AP Man, AP Man and then
also joining us here in the classroom today is our YS Man.
I am the TIT man, the tit man trainer and training.
You are the tit man. Can I say that?
I don't know. You did.
You did say it. So Corbin hit us up with all the
all the cool hip slang right now.
OK, cool. All right, so if something is,
if something, if you're like for real about something a lot of
the kids like to say, yeah, for real.
For real. That's something that the kids.
Like for real? If if there's an opinion that
you agree with, you say that's based.
That's another thing that kids say.
Not based isn't like you're basing, you know, you know, a
thing, a meat. But based isn't like, yeah, it's
based. It's based, you know?
For since the youth are also obsessed with Pokémon, I'm just
surprised there's not a lot more hip slang that involves Pokémon.
There certainly must be some right, Corbin?
There's a few, yeah. There's one or two, yeah.
Like, obviously, you know, slacking off.
Like that's slacking. Like the Pokémon slacking.
Yeah, so you're the slack king, is what everybody says because.
You're slack off. I've heard that one.
There's that. Hold on.
What's that one? Pokémon.
I'm drawing a blank on it. Hold on, let me figure it out.
Take your time, Yeah, I'm sure Portia will make this
listenable. That's right.
OK, so so one one term that a lot of kids like to use when you
can't make up an opinion on something you keep flip
flopping. They call it stun fisking.
Like, dude don't stop stun fisking.
Like just give it to me straight or like just make it make up
your mind because stun fisks kind of flop around a lot.
Yeah, well, it's sort of magic Carp.
That's right. So I've heard carping.
Carping is that that's kind of like an older generation thing.
The kids. Say stun fisking.
OK, and by older generation you mean it happened more than five
months ago, so no. So nobody says it anymore.
Right, basically, yes, yes. Yes.
That's that sounds a lot like webbing and.
What does webbing mean? What does webbing mean?
Curtis, take us through it. Mr. Curtis What is webbing?
That's that's like when you're sitting, you're just sitting on
a web like a spinner rack, patiently waiting for nightfall,
I think. You just made that up, bud.
Do we wait, wait, wait, do we have to be sitting on a web for
this to? Because I don't think I'm going
to be able to, like, remain on a web.
I think it's going to fall right through.
I'll. I'll don't get you a nice.
I can weave you a nice seat to go on on the web, to sit on the
web. It's very comfortable.
I mean, you know, it cradles you, sticks to you.
You know, we could cocoon you up, Professor.
I mean whatever you need to do. Sounds awful.
Anyways, I'll have some more hot lingo for you later, but right,
I don't want, I don't want to drop all of them right now.
If I've heard that when you're like, really dancing around the
topic that you like, you don't want to, you know, you know,
really talk about it. So you kind of like, dance
around it. It's called curling.
Yeah, OK. Yeah.
Sometimes, yeah. You know, like Curlia.
Like the Pokémon Curlia? Right, right.
Yeah. Yeah, it's curling.
That's that's definitely one for sure, yeah.
But there's more. But I don't want to spoil them
now. That's that's all I've done and
found in my research, You know, after of course, after the
headmistress told me to, you know, be a little bit more hip
and cool. Right.
Something to kind of bring in some more listeners, yeah.
Professor, you're as hip as cool as they.
They are. Thank you, you know, coming from
you, Mr. Well said. That means almost nothing.
Well said Mr. Cruz. Professor, please.
But yeah, after they told me that, I was really carping back
and forth on if I wanted to do it but, well, you.
Were kind of stun fisking a little bit.
Well, sure, yeah. Stun Fisking.
Yeah. All right.
Well, we're not talking about any of those Pokemons.
Webbing you do that. What?
No, you used the word web. That's not the.
Proper. Yeah.
And you did and. Usage of the word you made-up
it. You made-up the term webbing and
then you didn't use it correctly.
You used it incorrectly. You're so unhip, you're
incorrectly using the lingo that you make.
That's right. I'm sorry, Professor, I'll do
that. Portia cut it out.
Cut all that stuff. Out.
Cut all that out. You're like in our Bock.
Honestly, you have no hips. In fact, Portia start the lesson
right now. I think we've had a good start.
I don't know what you mean. OK.
All right, fine. We can keep it all in.
If you're hearing all this, it means that Portia ignored me.
You know what? Good for her.
Yeah, maybe some of this will be taken out.
Who knows? We'll let Portia decide.
She's in charge. You know, we we have a Portia to
thank for a lot of a lot of how listenable our lessons are.
That's right, she truly is a great leader in class design.
Thank you. Have you ever felt that Mister
Curtis does not know where his sentence is going to end?
He starts and. Has no idea where it's going to.
Go It's like it's like he's leaping from Cliff face to Cliff
face, desperately trying to keep from falling as.
It's like his thoughts are a slot machine.
It's like the gambling casino down the down the street in
Goldenrod. It's like it's like it's like a
slot machine. You just you just pull the lever
and whatever thought is next, whatever word is next is
anybody's guess. Not even his.
It feels like I don't. It feels like every every
sentence he says is a mad Lib, but every word is a fill in the
blank. That's true.
That's fair. I feel like you guys are grossly
underestimating my ability to string sentences.
All right. Now he's.
He's doing it now. All right, let's all focus up.
All right? We've had a lot of fun here.
But this class is not for fun. It's for learning.
All right, so if you're having fun, I'm ready.
Stop. Stop it.
Stop having fun. You got?
It does Anybody know what Pokémon we're learning about
today? This is remind me.
So that would of course be Deciduine.
Boom. There it is.
We got it. Boom.
It's not decidui. It's not Rowlet.
What was? That doing more bug types.
Well, I mean, we do. Eventually we will have more bug
types, but not right now. OK, this is a poison and flying
type. A dual type if you will.
Oh, Talon Flame. Talon flames flying and fire.
I was about to say I don't think that's a poison type.
Corbin OK, sorry. That's why I'm here to learn.
Can I get another hint? OK, I'll give you another hint.
We have already talked about the Pokémon that evolves into this
Pokémon. Is it Claude sire?
No. So we have not talked about
whooper. So that wouldn't make any sense
for for that clue that I just gave.
You right. But it feels like we've talked
about whooper, you know what I mean?
No. No, I don't.
Doesn't. It always feel like we're
talking about whooper. To some degree, yeah.
Oh wait, so is it. This starts with another C,
right? I didn't say that, but yes.
It feels like it starts with AC. Is it?
I really I think it it it feels like it starts with AD.
Crobat it is. Crobat we were learning about.
Crobat today, 5 gold stars this year ago.
So we may remember that we talked about Zubat and Goldbat.
We did. I do remember that.
That was a long time ago. Wow.
For some reason, Zubat and Goldbat are in the Cantonian
Pokedex, and we know we don't cover or Crobat in the Cantonian
Pokedex for some reason. But Johto was like, you know
what, we'll pick up the slack. We got it.
Don't worry guys. I was just a wee lad when we
talked about Colbat. I mean, I was only like, what,
10 years old then? I mean it's.
Just, yeah. But you're still 10?
I mean, last I checked, I think I'm still 10.
I don't know. Are we keeping track of my
birthdays? Yeah, have we?
We just need to, like, cut one of your fingers off and count
the rings right. That's a good idea.
Why don't you come over here? We don't need to cut fingers and
we don't need to mutilate the children.
We don't need to mutilate the children.
I've got my knife, right? Here, we don't need to.
Well, OK, all right. We don't need to mutilate the
children. He's trying to mutilate the kid
in the class. That's me.
Professor, Professor. He won't stay in this.
He won't stay put. Please do about it.
Okay, fine. All right, we won't cut off
Corbin's finger. Save that.
We'll save that. For less than #500, So what?
Less than 500? And you can quote me on this
everybody. We will cut off one of Corbin's
fingers. So.
At less than 500, do you think we'll get there, Professor?
For your sake, you better hope we don't.
It's less than 500. Who's that going to be?
It's bad enough we have to learn about Emperor then, but now I'm
going to lose a finger. Emperor in the Ember lesson
corpus and guest finger cut off all right.
All right, everybody. Put it on your calendar.
Yeah, like, OK. That's the binding contract, so
if it doesn't happen then I guess I don't know, you can sue
the GCLC bot SDLC. Good luck.
Yeah, I guess see you in like 7 years when we get there.
Yeah, but for now, has anybody seen Acrobat now?
I have not seen. Them much in in Canto because
it's weird to get a gold bat. To evolve into a crow Bat, you
need to love it, and we just do not love Gold Bat.
I thought I heard one in the sea foam islands we were trying to
find. You know, Articuno, right?
Thought I heard one. But I don't know, Maybe it was
just cave drips. I don't know.
OK, Mr. Curtis, of course you have seen a crow bat before.
You've done this lesson. Yes, yes.
And they do get stuck in some of the webs that we have strung up
around the nursery South of town.
Oh. Goodness.
So, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't think you really
find a lot of crobats out in the wild, right?
I mean. Well, maybe I don't.
Maybe, I mean. It is a nursery, so you know
it's possible that it's trainers, crobats, but I would
say it's most likely a wild crobat.
OK, well, I have a crowbat here today and I'm going to go ahead
and show you guys what it looks like.
OK, let's see it. Oh, what a fierce looking little
daddy. Batty, yeah, Crowbatty.
Batty is that. Another one of those kids slang
with crowbatty. Yeah, there's an attractive
person. They call it a Batty Crowbatty.
Oh, I thought it was if somebody was like, crazy or something.
No, no, no. They did like a kick flip off of
off of the top of a building and landed on another building and
you're like, oh man, that was Crowbatty.
No, no, you can't just be changing the kids terms like
that. They got to do.
That I'm not. I'm not changing the kids.
I mean, first of all, anybody can change any term.
All words are made-up. That's right.
Be able to be gabbity. See that was made-up and.
What does that mean? It means I'm a little bit
hungry. And can you say it again?
Good to babbity. That seems different.
I don't think that was exactly the same.
Well, that means I'm getting. Go back and take those two and
play them back-to-back and we'll see how similar they.
Were you're making Porsche just work overtime?
Yeah, well, also Portia has the ability just to cut out all of
this. That's true.
She does. She does.
But she won't. Because she's she likes to.
She's a purist. She likes to tease us.
Portia really makes her own hours.
She likes she likes to keep these lessons raw and unfiltered
as much as possible. I know that's not true.
That's true. I've heard the outtakes.
That's right. Oh, and you can too on Patreon.
We'll talk more about that later, more on that later on.
But we have a Crobat here. It's just, it's just, it's just
flying away. And now you might have
forgotten. I can understand if you've
forgotten because even though it is flapping, it is flying around
completely silent. Yeah, I can't hear a thing.
They're tripping me out. I see the wings moving, but I
don't see. I don't hear anything.
Yeah. So that is one of like Crobat's
best abilities is that I can fly like almost completely silent.
Let's let's describe Crobat a little bit more for for the
students at home. Well, I'll I'll say this, it's
not as like I would say that Golbat, with all due respect, is
an ugly Pokémon. It's not a very.
Go back up that statement. Go.
The big gaping maw is not is not something I'm a fan of.
A. Big ma gaping ma Gold bat's got
a big old mouth on it. Oh, did you say Gold Bat wasn't
a good Pokémon to like? Go bat go bat oh.
OK, I'm saying go bat. No, no, no, I said Go Bat is not
a very attractive looking Pokémon.
Crobat's a little bit cooler looking.
It it's it's kind of gotten away from being creepy and it looks a
lot more cool. It's got four sets of wings.
Now the the, the top ones are a little bit longer and they have
like a, you know, teal tint to the bottom of the wings and then
they have these little smaller ones kind of near the butt.
And then it does have like these like little almost like little
feet. I'm not really sure what those
are on this crib I like. Little little feats.
Little feats easier or something?
Like little grippers of some sort.
Little grippers. I'm not sure.
But yeah, I don't know. He's like, sit there.
He's moving, he's dancing, He's twisting around.
I You know what? I got a good name for him.
Let's call him Tristan, 'cause it sounds like twisting.
And it also happens to be one of the names of our one of our
patrons. So Tristan it is.
So Tristan's moving around purple in color.
He is white. He is not white.
He has yellow and red eyes, and he's got these weird, like,
almost like horn type things on his head now.
He's still kind of a BLOB body. Like gold bath?
Those are 100% those. Are ears lots of.
I guess from this angle that yeah, they are kind of ears, but
that's pretty much it. I I still cannot figure out if
those are feet or little baby feathers, what are those on its
butt? What are those?
Those are feet. Those are feet.
OK. Those little baby grippers so it
can grip onto all the cool things like.
Branches. I, for one, like their red and
yellow eyes. Oh yeah, for sure.
Very, very. I I kind of lose myself when I
stare into them. They're kind of.
They're a little intimidating eyes.
I'm not going. To hypnotize them a.
Little hypnotizing, hypatizing, you might say.
Hello. Don't stare.
Don't stare for too. Long Curtis, Hello.
So you good? Yeah.
I'm back.
Okay. All right, cool, good.
Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much it.
It is intimidating looking, but it's not as bad as goal bats.
But it's a cool Pokémon. I'm not gonna.
Lie Yeah, and I taught it some tricks so when I snap my fingers
it'll do this cool like cartwheel thing.
See here Check this out. OK, OK, Tristan.
Go Tristan. Go Tristan.
Hey, hey. Go Tristan.
He's missing.
What's up? I said.
Tristan's really twisting around.
Yeah. Tristan's twisting.
Yeah, he's he's just getting Crowbatty, am I right?
Well, I mean, Crowbatty is OK. Sure.
Crowbatty If you if you want to, if you want to change the term
that the kids are using to describe somebody they think is
attractive, you go ahead. Let's Right now, we'll make a
push that crowbatty means wicked or cool or something like that.
OK, fine. How about I'm Crowbatty with the
professor meeting. I have a good friendship with
the professor. I don't.
I'm starting to think Mr. Curious doesn't understand how
slang works. No, I don't think he does.
I mean, I I know deep in my heart that our Crowbatty
relationship. That doesn't sound good.
I don't like this. I don't like this stop the hit
I'm I'm hitting the the escape, the eject button.
OK, OK. I'm sorry, pressure.
I'll stop. I'll stop.
OK.
Please don't eject me. No, it would eject me.
Right. Oh.
Yeah, it just it just shoots. Me out.
Don't. Don't eject yourself, because
then I'm stuck here with them. Alone, it just shoots me out
through the spherical roof of the spherical room and I just go
flying for a. Little bit, that's right.
But that would be a pretty crow Batty thing to do, so I won't do
that. All right.
I think we've said everything we need to say about Crobat.
All right, So I'm going to go ahead and put Tristan back into
the Pokeball. Bye Tristan all.
Right, let's get started on reading these Pokedex entries.
Is everybody ready? I'm ready.
Freddy Starting off in the Joto
region. The first entry says it flies so
silently through the dark on its four wings that it may not be
noticed even when nearby. Yeah, so you got you got two
things working here. You got it's very quiet wings
fluttering and it's got it's very like dark fur, which makes
it hard to see in the dark. Oh, that's fur on it, OK.
I mean, or feather feathers? No, it's definitely fur, right?
That's fur, not feathers. Or maybe just skin.
I see. I thought it see from my angle I
thought it was flesh and that was a little creeped out.
Just. Pure, smooth skin.
That was smooth flesh. No I I think it's I think it's I
think it's. 1st but I'm pretty sure it's I I didn't get a good
enough look so. OK, well maybe later.
The next entry says the development of wings on its legs
enables it to fly fast, but also makes it tough to stop and rest.
OK, OK, gotcha now. The question is, does it even?
Does it even need to stop and rest?
Well, you see him hang sometimes, you know, like
they'll hang from something upside down.
OK, well, let's we'll read a little bit more and see what the
we glean from the rest of the bill cut at centuries as a
result of its pursuit of faster yet more silent flight, a new
set of wings grew on its hind legs.
Yeah, we saw those. Professor did not look like it
was coming out of its leg. Well then, maybe, maybe those
little things are not feet. Oh, so you're wrong.
Bottom feathers like Corbin was. Yeah, maybe.
They're butt feathers. Yeah, I'm not sure honestly, but
yeah so it's it's the poconic says that these grew out of
time. Legs grew on well, OK, it grew
on it's hind legs doesn't mean that it's hind legs turned into
these. OK, so on the hind lanes, not is
the hind leg? And then the hind legs kind of
just slurped up into the main body.
Schlorped. Now, that's not one that I'm
familiar with. That's not a term that as a
child, you know, a cool, hip child I am familiar with.
Oh, it's more of an onomatopoeia kind of thing, I guess.
And which Pokémon is that one? No, it's it's a it's a It sounds
like a word. It's a sound word.
Corp. Oh my God, What's up, Mr.
Curtis? Why did you just do that right
next to the recording device? Oh, his mouth just turned fully
inside out. Mr. Curtis, That's disgusting.
I've never seen anybody eat their own face before, but.
Mr. Curtis Yeah it's I I I was demonstrating what a, what a
slorp is all. Right.
That is disgusting. Do.
You want me to do it again? I would.
I would literally pay you to not
do it again. I would love to see fan art
though, of Mr. Curtis eating his own face.
You know what? That's horrific.
I think we can. I think we can avoid that.
I was doing a SLORP for for Corbin's demonstration of
perfect purposes. OK.
Well, we don't have to do it again.
OK, so moving on to the Hawaiian region.
The first entry says if this Pokémon is flying by fluttering
only a pair of wings on either the four legs or hind legs, it's
proof that Crobat has been flying a long distance.
It switches the wings it uses if it is tired.
I'm surprised it can hold itself up with those baby wings on its,
you know, behind the lower ones. Like can it just it can switch
to just those and still be able to fly?
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that Crobat doesn't weigh that much.
Let's see the well, hold on now, the average weight of a Crobat
according to I'm looking at my Pokedex right now, it says 165
lbs. Oh my goodness, great.
It's a. Heftier Little Tristan's a
heftier boy than we thought. And you're not going to believe
that not. Expect.
That how How tall do you think Crobat is?
Well, judging from the distance, from what I saw it flying up
near the, you know, ceiling, oh, let's say maybe 4 feet tall.
OK, we have 4 feet tall from Corbin Mr. Curtis.
That's. I'm not sure.
Maybe. Man, I I can't say that it was 4
feet tall. Tristan must have been about
like 3 feet tall. OK, you guys are clearly bad at
judging height because Crobat is 5 foot 11, nearly 6 feet tall.
OK, well listen, it was pretty high up on the ceiling
fluttering around, so. That is so crazy taller than I
thought. Yeah, that's that's like taller
than I am. Yeah, you're you're a Shorty,
not my Shorty. Don is my Shorty.
But you're pretty short. Hey, watch it.
Hey, what? What?
You don't say that about the. Professor, did he?
Short How tall are you, Corbin? I'm tall enough.
Shut up. You're.
Sure, you're shorter. Than I am.
Then leave me alone, all right? I'm also a boy.
I'm a boy. Listen, puberty hit in other
ways like my voice, but it didn't hit the the, the, the,
the height part yet. But it's coming.
Maybe when I turn 11. OK, we'll see.
Except you are frozen in time, so it might never.
Come. What's up?
What happened? And what?
The next Pokedex entry comes to us again, still still in the
hohen region. There is multiple in the hohen
region. This time, it says Curlbat
sneaks up on its intended prey using wings that barely make a
sound. This Pokémon rests is by hanging
on a tree branch with its rear legs that serve as wings.
OK, so the wings are the legs. The the rear.
Wings are the legs the little feed sees.
There are nothing. They ain't nothing.
Now I thought, I thought you literally just said a couple
entries ago that the rear legs or the wings grew on the real
legs were not, did not turn into the wings.
Well, that's just how I was interpreting it.
So. So the entry that you're
referring to says as a result of its pursuit of faster yet more
silent flight, a new set of wings grew on its hind legs.
And be and I was still trying to, you know, maybe reconcile
the fact that it does look like it has feet by saying maybe it
initially grew on them but migrated over time.
Yeah. But I mean these these are these
next entries really, really make it sound like, you know, the the
bottom wings are it's, you know, hind legs.
Fair enough. Fair enough, Professor.
Corbin, you seem to be struggling with this concept.
I'm just so like, if you remember, Goldbach's got like,
those little, tiny little skinny legs.
Uh huh. I remember that. 1 So it's like
those turned, those turned into wings.
That's according to a lot of these Pokedex entries, yes.
And then it grew butt feathers and.
Then it grew butt feathers that look suspiciously like leg or
feet. Well, I don't know how
flattering those butt feathers are.
Maybe Grobat or Tristan should consider shaving those.
Wow. Wow.
Just just, you know, body
shaming right now. I'm not.
Body shaming. Unbecoming.
All all right. Hey, maybe, maybe those butt
feathers are, you know, are considered very attractive to
Crobat culture. Corbin, right?
You don't know. I think so.
Maybe I didn't mean I didn't mean to insult the culture of
Crobat I I. Apologize.
No, no, no. No, you're I just know that if I
had butt butt feathers, I would personally probably trim them a
little bit. Not even shave.
Just trim them, trim it up a little bit.
Wow. Yeah, it's just me.
It's just personal preference. Well, that's a good thing.
You're not a crow bat. That's right, I say that every
morning when I wake up. Yeah, because you know, every
day you wake up, you could wake up as a crow bat.
That's true. But I wake up as a little boy
and I'm. I'm OK with that some days.
Yeah, and you do have to shave your butt feathers every day,
but you No. I don't.
You're still happy? You're not a crow bat.
No, I don't. He doesn't have to shave his
butt butt feathers, Professor, but he does have to shave his
outcroppings on the side of his head.
Man outcroppings. Don't call my hair outcroppings
under my hat. That's not very nice, is that?
I have a very nice set of hair. Thank you.
Yeah, he shaves it that way on purpose.
Right. Wait, what?
No, I don't. I don't.
I don't even use a. Razor, listen, we're all we.
We love your your black and slightly blue hair.
Corbin. Thank you.
I I I like it as well. All right.
Hey, you're not going to believe this, but there's another entry
here from the Helen region. Woo.
Birch, what you doing over there?
He's just cranking him out. He's like thought of another
one. Going to put it into another
completely different pokedex entry, it says over the course
of evolution, its hind legs turned into wings by alternately
resting its front and rear wings, it can fly all day
without having to stop. OK.
So do you think that's like, you know, like a like a 16 hours
thing or we think it's like a? Full 24 hours, A solid 12.
Yeah, I would say at least. I mean all day.
It's daytime. All day a day is 24 hours.
That's true. That's true, Professor.
If that's what the Pokedex entry says, then we have to assume.
Day could be sun up to sundown. For at least the 24 hours so.
Maximum of 24 hours. Minimum of 12:00-ish hours.
How about that? We we all agree on that.
That's what we're getting from this Pokedex entry.
I'm happy with that professor. 12 I would say 12.
Well, let's, let's, let's, you know, just go straight down the
middle and do hold on, let's say the 18 hours. 18 hours, sure.
Yeah, that sounds right to me. OK, moving on.
That's that's it for the Hohenn region.
Pocock centuries. Moving on to the Cine region.
There's a lot of entries here too.
So I people were enraptured by Crobat.
I don't know why. First one says having four wings
enables it to fly faster and more quietly.
It turns active when the night comes.
That's right. When the night when the night
falls, Quebec comes alive. OK, so so maybe maybe it can fly
for 24 hours, but just during like you know, darker time like
it maybe it's not quite as active unless it's like really
dark out. Some people call that evening or
night Mr. Curtis. The Dark Time the.
Darker the dark times. The dark times can be different
for everybody. I called the dark times when my
father left. Then that's right.
Well, I mean, he still tries to come visit you, Corbin.
He does. You guys have heard from him?
I haven't. Seen him?
Yeah, Mr. Mime stops by all the time.
He's not OK, Mr. Mime. That lives with my parents all
the way back in Saffron, not my dad.
And yet he still makes the journey here, Corbin.
Yeah, and I tell him I didn't ask for this.
I didn't told him. I didn't ask him to come visit.
He just wants you to know that he cares about.
But I know and I care somewhat, but the space is nice.
Do we not to change the subject? I know we're really unpacking a
lot of things for Corbin right now, but for Do we think that
Crobat can fly while it sleeps, or do we think it lands?
I don't. I think it lands.
I think it uses his butt feathers to latch on.
I I think given the, given the you know, the the wording of of
how like you know how it hangs and how it can be active and
inactive, I would say probably it does sleep.
Yeah, maybe when it hangs. Because it does, this Pokémon
rests by hanging on a tree branch with its rear legs that
serve as wings, that was. Yeah, I think it.
Yeah, I think it sleeps. I mean, OK, you're right.
All right. Yeah, I'll agree.
I, I. It might be interesting to see
if, like, you know, you know, there's sleep walking.
What if there's also sleep flying, maybe some crobats
because it's so easy for them, they just slee fly.
I mean, you just say that's not possible, you know?
I mean, yeah, just, I mean anything is possible, right?
That's right if you believe in yourself.
Yeah, even you can fly. So go out there and try it.
Everybody try it. Go to the top of the building.
Jump off a building and let us know.
Well, we probably shouldn't endorse Jump.
Off Well, well, well. Hold on now.
We shouldn't endorse. That what?
Huh. Don't go do that.
Nothing. Nothing.
Porsche will cut that out. Oh yeah, I did just get it.
I just got an e-mail from the headmistress.
Apparently it says latest check here.
It says stop talking or stop telling your students to jump
off of buildings. Sign the headmistress.
OK, yeah, I guess she's listening to this lesson.
In real time? Yeah.
Is she peeping in? That's weird.
I mean, I know. Oh, Mr. Curtis, you're
accidentally leaning against the intercom button.
Mr. Curtis No no. That's in there.
Come on, that's what that echo's been the entire episode.
Well, maybe only you could hear it.
Maybe only you could hear the echo because you're right next
to the door. But we couldn't hear it because
we're over here in near the center of the classroom.
Where the recording devices, so I'm guessing.
I'm hoping there wasn't a echo throughout the entire lesson.
There definitely was not. I can assure you I have not
heard an echo and the this entire conversation will
probably not be in it. Oh, yeah, yeah.
I think Porsche should keep this one in.
This is this is great stuff. So wait, Mr. Curtis has just
been we've just been broadcasting this entire lesson
throughout the school? Yes, Everybody's getting,
everybody's getting the welcome to the world of Pokémon for free
out there. That's ridiculous.
No, we can't be having that. Well, actually.
That's hey Okay. Now I'm gonna have to go around.
Start collecting. Money.
And yeah, and have them all sign the disclosures.
Gotta get that dango, you know what I mean?
Gotta get that dango. It's not the term the kids say.
Wait, the Sorry. Gotta get that dango.
You know what I'm saying? Gold dango.
Yeah, no, I got it. I got the, I got the.
Reference. Gotta get that dango.
Do that, dango. Do that, dango, you know what I
mean? Yeah, What that dango?
What that dango? That's right.
No, Like, just get that dango, get that cash, get that money.
Keep that dango where I can see you please.
Man, kids are so crowbatty these days without like, come up with
new slang. Thank you.
OK. I just think I'm still in the
Sinner region, Mr. Curtis. You're still on the intercom
button. Mr. Curtis get off the intercom
sit. In your seat.
Look, I'll come sit down. I know you're trying to act cool
and look all cool, you know, sitting in the back, leaning up
against the wall, flipping a coin.
But you got to sit down. Yeah, you don't look.
Cool. I'm so sorry.
I'll go sit down. My apologies, Professor.
Thank you. All right, the sex entry says a
Pokémon that gained vastly enhanced flying performance by
having its legs turn into wings. Why don't Why don't they just
all do that? Just have your just have your
legs turn into wings forehead. Yeah, exactly.
Well, I mean, obviously Pokémon can't control how they evolve,
so. The way this is written, it kind
of sounds like it was a conscious decision to have your
legs turn into wings. They made a they made an
executive decision. They were like, you know what?
Stop that. I don't need these anymore.
What is? What is the executor have to do
with those? Corbett Mr. Curtis.
I I mean a, a, a they made a a big decision to do this on.
Purpose. He is jumping from Cliff face to
Cliff face, desperately trying to find words that did he use?
There he is, the slot machine. Go on again.
All right, the next entry and the last entry from the center
region says the transformation of its legs into wings made it
better at flying but more clumsy at walking.
Yeah, I mean, how is it going to?
Yeah, Like, how would that work? It's just going to walk on its
wings. Here's here's what I imagine
it's like, it's like, you know, main body, it's a little kidney
bean esque body is like flat on the ground.
Not little, almost 6. Feet, sorry.
Yeah, sorry. It's 5 foot 11 bean bean body is
is, you know, just that's a T-shirt, right.
And then it's it's like bottom wings are kind of like, you
know, kind of like swimming on the floor a little bit and that
kind of moves it back and forth. I like that T-shirt idea.
Thank you. How is that T-shirt idea?
It just is a lot 5 foot 11 bean body.
I mean you wear that without context.
Anywhere you go, people can be like, that's a cool person.
I'll be your 5 foot 11 bean buddy, Corbin.
Hey, save it for the Valentine's lesson.
Everybody needs a 5 foot 11 bean buddy in their life.
That's right. OK.
Professor, I'll be your bean buddy whenever you want.
Me to. I've changed my mind.
I do not want a 5 foot 11 bean buddy.
It's bean body, but I do like being.
Buddy, I am. I am 8 feet tall, so you know 8
and I'll be your 8 foot bean. Buddy, I'll be y'all 8 foot.
What was that accent? Mr. Curtis what was that?
I'll be your I'll be your ape for being buddy.
Oh, I don't like that, Mister Curtis.
OK, I actually have a Pokedex entry here from the Unova
region. No kidding.
It doesn't say anything like, you know, groundbreaking, but it
is different. So I'm going to go ahead and
read it. OK.
Having four wings allows it to fly more quickly and quietly, so
it can sneak up on prey without its noticing, without its
noticing. Feels like that should just be
it right without it noticing. Who wrote that?
You know, you know a professor. Hold on.
I got. No, don't tell me.
Don't tell me. Sycamore maybe?
I got it. I'm not looking it up.
Is it Sycamore I? That's a random guess I don't
actually remember. I'm sure you just Juniper like
for your. Professor Juniper, it just came
to my break. That's what I said.
Yeah, that's right. Yes, So yeah, Professor Juniper.
OK, Professor Juniper, let's talk for a second.
You're you've been very lazy with your Poconets on here, and
I'm not sure what you're doing over there, the UNOVA region.
But you you just you just aren't providing any useful
information. That's really harsh.
I I call them like I see them. What can I say?
Well also Professor Jennifer is a woman I believe.
OK and. You said him.
I don't think I ever said him. Oh, you're not.
Well, either way, What you say. Is like I sees him.
Well sees him. No sees them.
Them. Oh, not him.
OK, Sees. Apostrophe EMI.
Call them as I sees. Them.
I call them as I sees them, yeah.
Now what did we learn about seesor?
Let's see here Sizor Sizor of some call call it Pokémon 212.
We'll be there soon. We are on Pokémon. 169. 169 Nice
so. Why is that nice?
Huh. Why is that nice?
I didn't say that. Cuz it's a, it's a.
It just rolls off the tongue. So we got a ways to go.
All right, There is nothing new from the Kalos region, so we are
going to go ahead and move to the Ellola region where there's
a lot of new entries. Yay Woo.
The first one says both its legs became wings and as a result it
can't move well on the ground. All it can do is crawl around.
That's like that's like rhymes. It can't move well on the
ground. All it can do is crawl around.
I think I can write a poem better than that.
We doing a poem today, professor.
Maybe. Oh, hey.
The next entry says silent and Swift in its four winged flight.
It bites down on its prey before they.
Really, really tight. That really, honestly, that did
have the cadence of you think it would rhyme, right?
Yes, silent and swift. In its four wing flight, it
bites down on its prey before they realize what's happening.
In a heartbeat, it drains their blood.
All right, this is new. This is new information for us.
Oh, Professor. OK, so now we're blood sucking
here. That's new.
Yeah, now I correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure
Goldbat also sucked blood. Yeah, Goldbat also really
sucked, so that makes sense. Got him.
Hey, you'd be nice to go. Back.
No, it's cool Pokémon. Now it is does seem crazy that
in one heartbeat it drains the blood.
I guess it maybe not like it doesn't say it drains their
blood entirely, so it's probably not probably not entirely.
I think it just means a little bit.
I think it just means it drains a little bit at a time.
There's nobody could drain a full body's worth of blood in
just a single, you know, like second.
Yeah, And it wants to do it in a heartbeat because that's, you
know, you know where the most blood is going to be.
I. Don't think any Pokémon has that
kind of suckage. Well, put that on a T-shirt put.
That on a T-shirt. Maybe.
Wait, doesn't Cabo tops, like, suck all the innards out of a
Pokémon? Yeah, yeah.
But I don't know if it. Does a lot of suckage.
Yeah. I don't know if it does it in a
heartbeat though. True, Okay, you know what?
We should have a suckability. You know what?
That's a great idea. You know, as soon as I said it,
I realized it was a terrible idea.
So I'm gonna. Move ohk OK alright.
I was professor by the way. For the record I told this out.
Now I don't think Kabu tops. I think it rips open the stomach
and then eats the entrails. I don't think it just sucks them
out. I I don't know.
I'm not. I'm not going to go back and
look. So any students at home who have
an astute memory or the time to go back and listen to the Cabo
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Was Apple? I don't.
Know I'll just. Be actually, I have heard of an
Appleton podcast. OK, nice.
Nice. Maybe we should.
Maybe we should transition to. That, well, they don't have
millions of listeners like we do, So I think we're safe.
Yeah, OK, so next entry from the Olalla region says its things
are so sharp. How sharp are they, Professor?
If it bites you in the dark and sucks your blood, you won't
notice any pain or realize you've been bitten I.
Hate. That is terrifying.
That's great. See, That's great, Corbin,
because you will not even notice.
You won't even notice that you've been bitten and sucked.
That's so, yeah. Go ahead and write check.
Check your arms and legs and then check each other's necks.
Because the lights are on, so I don't have to worry.
Well, not right now. But maybe, Hey, maybe when you
were walking home at night one day, maybe it gave you a little
bit of a suck and you didn't know I.
Don't like that, I don't. Like come over here corporate
check his. Hand No, no, you don't need to
check me. Get off.
Wow, it is.
It is covered and small, little like piercings.
What? What?
Are you talking about? That are exactly Crobat Fang
width apart, are you? Serious.
No, Don't mess with me like that.
Are you? See, I can't see the back of my
neck, Do I? Seriously.
Have you been, have you been feeling like a little bit more
tired recently, Corbin, maybe a little bit more lethargic?
I mean, not really. I mean, for the most part, I
felt kind of. There he goes.
He's gone, Professor. Yeah.
All right, We got we. Got we got.
Oh, sorry. What happened?
What happened?
You you fell asleep due to lack of blood because I I think
you're walking through some kind of crobat nest or something.
What? No, that can't be right.
Covered in crobat bites. No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, not a not a great idea. I don't.
I don't think that's correct, Professor.
No, I I would have known. I would.
I would have been able to feel that right.
I mean, did you not hear the entry that I just read?
Listen, Listen, listen. I I I I can't imagine that that
would be something that would happen to me, right?
I don't even have that much blood to suck.
I'm. I'm a little boy.
What would what would they Why would they want to drain the
blood of a 10 year old child? That just doesn't make sense.
Easy target, Mr. Look at Mr. Curtis.
He has a beefy whatever he is, and there's so, so much blood to
suck. Yeah, but we all know that
Mister Curtis's skin is impenetrable.
And I'm. I'm all skin and bones.
Really. I mean, listen.
Listen to how I jiggle when I write, when I wiggle my arms.
Mr. Curtis What? Do you?
Wow, that was musical, Mr. Curtis.
That was incredible. Mr. Curtis do you have a
xylophone and your sleeves again?
Or was that was that actually your bones?
No, I he. He like, he like.
He pulled up his shirt and then played his rib cage.
That's what he just did. EW.
Well, hey, wow, that's rude. That is gross.
I don't need you to play your rib cage like an instrument.
Please put that away. Yeah, please, please stop
playing it. I know, I realized.
I was playing it. I'm trying to put it away.
If you. Could stop, That'd be great.
I'm sorry, I won't do it again. Well, I didn't.
I didn't say that. Well, I didn't say that.
Don't do it again. That's for, just for.
Right now, I mean for you right now.
I know. He's playing again.
There he goes. Every time you pull up your
shirt, I want to die. I mean it.
Just what I I don't want. I'm covering my eyes.
I don't want to see that. Like he has all the muscles that
everybody has. It just in just the the wrong
places. It's just in slightly different
places. Yeah, like, is that, is that a
bicep? Like on your belly button?
Like what is that? It's just belly button bicep.
You need to get that checked out Mr. Curtis.
I'm sorry. I guess I'll go to the nurse
after. Great.
I haven't actually been to the the the nurse and and the
GCLCBOTSCLC. Has anybody, has anybody talked
to the nurse? Are they nice?
Because the nurse said the SCLC scared me, honestly.
What? Who?
Egg Excelsior. So she's not that bad.
She had a stare, you know. She had a stare and it freaked
me out. Yeah.
Oh, you haven't seen the. Yep.
You haven't seen our nurse. Here.
Yeah, yeah. No, I haven't.
Roslyn the Rosalia. The Rosalia.
The Rosalia? Yep, sure.
However you want to pronounce it.
Yeah. Yeah.
She's really cool. She's really sweet.
Yeah, I promise. She's very tender.
OK. All right.
Well, that's, that's good. All right.
I I think I still have a another entry.
Yeah, we're getting a little sidetracked.
Yeah, sorry. It says it feeds on the blood of
living people in Pokémon. Oh, maybe I should say this in
more like creepy boys. It feeds on the blood of living
people in Pokémon. If it can't drink any blood for
even a short while, it becomes weak and unable to fly.
Oh that. That is a death sentence too.
Like if it can't fly, what's it going to do?
Waddle around and and drink. Some What if it can't fly?
What's it all for? Categorically not good at doing
that, so. Yeah, all right.
So that does it for the Alolo region entries.
I think there's some unique entries from Galar too.
This is wild. Oh my goodness.
The first one says both of its legs have turned into wings
without a sound. Crowbot.
Crowbat flies Crowbot. Oh, that's cool.
Evolution. Does it turn to a robot?
That'd be cool. Just.
Like a robot, I am Crowbot. Watch me flap.
I am Crowbot. Downloading blood?
Downloading blood flapping. Extract.
I am super friend. Extractingblood.exe.
Activating super suck. Wow.
Need to recharge?
Shutting down. And that was Crowbot.
And we'll never hear Crowbot again.
Yeah, that was a good bet. Without a sound, Crobat flies
swiftly toward its prey and sinks its fangs into the nape of
its target's neck. What's a nape?
It's like at the base of the neck, like kind of like where
the neck meets the shoulders. Right here, Corbin.
Oh God, yeah. What's under the fold?
It's right where all of the Fang marks are on your on your neck,
yeah. Oh, the ones I couldn't see on
the back. OK, All right, cool.
You're very porous back there. Gotcha.
Mr. Curtis, please put the growth on your neck away.
Thank you, I'd. I'd.
OK, what? Sorry, I was looking at the
board. I did not What is?
What is? Mr. He tried to show me his nape
and there's there's a growth on his neck.
It's not that bad, come on now. You got to get, you got to see
Rosalyn. You got to see her.
Rosalyn the Rosalia, huh? You got to see her, man.
She'll help you out. Wow, you're on a first name
basis for the school nurse. Yeah.
Did the Pokémon have last names? I don't understand.
Yeah, of course they do, Rosalyn.
It's just it's just the Pokémon name.
Oh, OK. Rosalyn Rosellia.
Yes, sure.
OK, the next entry says this Pokémon flaps its four wings
skillfully Crobat, not Rosellia. I hope people don't think they.
Cannot stress that enough. Gotcha.
Crobat can fly through cramped caves without needing to slow
down. That's pretty cool.
It does. It does slow down, but doesn't
need to. It wants you to know that, like
I could like it can fly as fast as it wants to these games, but
it's slowing down on purpose, like for you.
That's very nice. So just so you can like see how
good it is at what it does. Yeah, just to show off, you
know. All right.
The next entry and this next entry comes to us from the Sui
region. That's right.
Hey. Let me.
Dust off this. You're loaded up with entries
today. This old paperback Pokedex entry
that we've uncovered get all the dust out.
It's hind limbs have become another set of wings.
Crobat expertly Remember Crobat expertly maneuvers its four
wings to dart in to dart in exquisite fashion through even
the most confined caves without losing any speed.
That's cool. And we do also have an entry
here from the Lentil region from Professor Mirror.
It says sure Crow, that's a speedy flyer, but I hope you
also notice how quiet it's forewings are.
It sometimes lands to rest, but it's not very good at walking.
No, we we talked about that earlier.
Very informal entry too, huh. Very informal entry too, Yeah.
I know, it really sounds like it really sounds like Professor
Mirror has like like called you up on a cell phone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's like, hey, I'm about to tell you all about Crobat right
now. Hey.
Hey, you got a second? I'm like, yeah, I I so most
pokedex entries like you, you point the Pokedex and it comes
with it says this thing that it's programmed to say when it
sees the Pokémon. But however, Professor Mirror's
research students, when they see a Pokémon, they get a phone call
from Professor Mirror and he's like, Oh yeah, sure, it can fly
fast, but it's also quiet. Did you notice that?
All right, I got some chores I got to do.
I'll call you guys later. Adios.
That's a friend. All right, that does it for the
original Pokedex entries. I do have a unique Pokedex entry
here. It says and it comes from Ash's
Pokedex. By the way.
That says Crobat, the evolved form of Gold Bat.
With its two additional wings, Crobat is able to fly much
faster than Gold Bat. Yes, Speedy boy.
I would hope so because we all know 4 wings better than two
wings. That's what I always.
Say I could I should keep that in mind when it comes to my
spinner? Act what?
No, but they don't need wings. We don't need spinner act flying
around. Wait Mr. Cruz, Mr. Cruz 8 Wings?
Stop. Stop giving him ideas.
No. Professor, that's such a.
Good idea. No, that's enough.
All right, so that does it for all the Pokedex entries that we
have now. I do actually have a couple of
essays that were sent to me via Gengar Mail, which of course is
WWO pokemon@gmail.com. The G stands for Gengar, as we
all know. That's right.
So I have a couple of essays here.
There's three. I'm going to try to read them
quick. They're varying lengths.
I think we'll be fine. First one comes to us from
Richard. It says greetings.
Richard. Yes, Richard.
Greetings, Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis and Corbin.
I've been to these lessons and I have been learning so much
because of them. So much so, I wanted to tell you
about my favorite Pokémon Crowbat.
Oh. And thus starts the.
Essay There it is. Crowbat grows a pair of wings on
top of what it had as a Golbat. This allows it to fly a longer
distances by alternating between the two wings.
On top of that, Crobat is really good at taking out bug type
Pokémon. No offense, Mr. Curtis.
That's right. No, no offense.
Offensive Curtis. Yeah, take out those dirty
spinner racks. I don't know my my spinner racks
have taken out quite a few of Crobat.
Well, that's an offense, Darcius, so that's how it should
be. Yeah.
And your your crobats, you know. I'm sorry your your spinner
rack. Are, you know, unnatural, We'll
say. Yeah, they're they're horrific.
Richard goes on to say, however, for what it's worth, my favorite
bug type is Escavalier. Thank you for having me in this
class and I hope this is an awesome rest of the semester.
It's going OK. All right.
Yeah. OK.
So, you know, great work. Extra credit work, of course.
Mr. Curtis, Gold Star. Well he did, he did let us know
that his about his favorite bug type.
So I'll have to give him that much gold, Gold Star for you.
All right. Put it in the bank, Richard,
because eventually you'll get enough to Was it get?
Buy a house. A spinner rack egg I think is
what is is a couple of a couple million gold stars.
It takes. It does take a while.
It does take a. While So, yeah, I'll just a
couple more essays and you'll be there.
All right. The next essay comes to us from
Caden we've received. Caden, what's up?
How are you? Several gmails from Caden.
I think they sent us a couple of pictures this first.
So they they say hello Professor Jacob, Mr. Curse and Corbin.
My name is. Keith, hi.
Hi. You may remember that I
submitted Art of Mr. Curtis. Yes, yes, I recall.
It doesn't match it it it was it was much prettier of a drawing
than how he looks in real life that it's.
Worth it? Yeah, they say.
I have a few things to say and have written an essay on the
wonderful second best Pokémon Crobat.
If an essay has already been written by another student, you
and you can't use this one. I understand.
Well, don't worry. OK.
Move it on, move it on. You're OK?
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm sorry. Move it on.
I gotta move on to the next one. So they say first of all,
Flareon is very good for cuddles.
I found that it can control its temperature very well.
Not good at, not as good as Bray loom obviously.
I don't know if that was obvious it.
Wasn't obvious to me. But it's very warm and soft.
Second of all, I would not recommend hugging A Raichu.
I know it's something, but trust me on this one.
All right. I believe that one.
And then Keaton moves into the essay, Crobat sitting
comfortably as my second favorite Pokémon right after
Bray Loom. Good one.
It's an absolute gem in my squad.
Jelly, my shining crowbat, is the embodiment of unexpected
versatility, usually donning A docile and friendly demeanor.
Despite its fearsome appearance, Jelly surprises opponents as a
fierce and determined battler, She is a very good girl.
Yes, she yes, she is evolving through high friendship.
This evolution isn't just about strength.
It signifies a bond that goes beyond battles.
I mentioned earlier that it evolves via friendship.
Right, right. A loyal friend through thick and
thin moves like Toxic and Veno, Shock showcases Jelly's prowess
in battles, often catching adversaries off guard.
But beyond the battlefield, Jelly is a consistent companion,
bringing an extra layer of camaraderie and excitement to
every adventure, not to mention how silent and quick it is.
It's presence elevates the team dynamic, turning routine outings
into thrilling escapades. With Jelly by my side, the
journey isn't just about victories, it's about
unforgettable experiences we share, as I'm sure it is for
anyone else who has the pleasure of owning A Crobat.
It took me ages to evolve Jelly, but I don't regret a single
thing about it. Would I recommend a Crobat for
new trainers? Definitely not.
That's surprising. Surprising.
I mean, it seems like a intimidating Pokémon.
I mean it. It flies around and sucks
quickly in the dark. I mean, that's not something you
want to give a new kid. Yeah, and Katyn says Well,
definitely worth the effort. Crobat is a difficult Pokémon to
evolve. You have to deal with Golbat
first, and trust me, it's not very much fun having a a Crobat
or, sorry, a gold bat trying to drink your blood and your
pokemons at every corner. But Crobat is definitely worth
it. That is to say, Grobat will
still drink blood, but it's nowhere near as bad as Goldbat.
Okay, gotcha. Also Corbett is powerful and new
trainers might not be able to handle that very well.
And then they say 9:50 would recommend.
But you wait, so hold on, you would recommend it just not to
do? It or would not recommend it
would. Or would not recommend it?
I'm getting. Mixed signals I think asterisks
and then down below it says just not to new trainers.
Just not. To OK.
OK, gotcha. SA Kaden.
You should get Kaden. You should get another crobat
that matches and call it Jam. Jam and.
Jelly. Yeah, Jelly and jam.
Jelly and jam? That'd be awesome.
I think, I think, I think peanut butter would be better.
I didn't ask you. Well, I mean, now they need to
get a third crobat and name it Peanut Butter.
Jelly jam, peanut butter, peanut butter, Jelly and jam.
Or or or two more crobats and name one peanut and the other
one butter. And then a fifth Crobat named
Honey and. Then and then two more Crobats,
both named Bread, and they go on either side.
Right. And then another Crobat named
Lettuce. Whoa, wait.
Whoa. And then that that crobat
doesn't go anywhere in the sandwich, right?
Oh, no, no, no, no. Dude, we started a new sandwich,
Crobat. OK, so our new sandwich are
probats. OK, well, we can explore more of
that later. Caden excellent essay.
Thank you so much. I will say maybe for essays in
the future, try to involve more about from from the Pokedex
entries and less about the specific Crobat that you have or
the specific Pokémon that you own.
I mean, I like learning about Cadence Crobat.
I mean, I did too. I did too.
But, you know, as far as essays go, you know, we need a little
bit more scientifically provable facts.
Mr. Curtis Gold Star. I I was captivated by Jelly but
I I don't know I didn't hear too much about bug types in that in
that. Way and yet I can still see you
reaching into your your Gold Star bag.
Oh, Professor, you don't leave anything for surprises.
Yes, here's your Gold Star. And he held it out in front of
him and let go of it, and it fell to the ground.
So OK. Come you can come get it after
class whenever. You're OK.
It'll be here. All right.
Thank you so much, Kaden. One more essay and it comes to
us from James from Little Root Town.
James, it says, Dear Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis and Corbin.
Here's my hello. I wrote on Crobat.
Sincerely James from Little Root Town.
It says Crobat is a large no kidding.
No, no joke. No kidding.
At large, Crobat is a large purple bat like Pokémon.
Well, not only is it bat like, it is the bat Pokémon.
Yeah, it's crobatty. So yeah, it is the epitome of
bat. Like it has four wings that were
transformed from legs. OK, two of the wings were
transformed from legs. Yeah, let's get that right,
James. Let's not.
Mislead. The other two were already
wings. OK, sorry.
Anyways, it evolves from Go Golbat with high enough
friendship with its wings, it flies silently through dark
skies. At night it flies so silently
you probably won't notice its presence.
It flies faster than Zubat and Golbat, but it's harder for it
to stop and arrest, so instead it switches the set of wings it
uses when it gets tired. How it does rest when it needs
to is by hanging on a tree branch.
It's wings are much better for flying, but bad for walking, so
it mostly just crawls on the ground.
It can maneuver it's wings in such a way that even in the most
confined caves it can move easily.
They are nocturnal Pokémon, meaning they sleep during the
day and are active at night. Crobats drink blood for
sustenance, so if you have one, try to keep it fed by harvesting
blood from somewhere, I'm sure James intended to say.
Like your least favorite person in school.
And and very quietly sneak some of their blood.
But nobody could sneak it better than Crobat.
Just just saying. Yeah, if it doesn't drink enough
blood, it will become weak and unable to fly.
Its fangs are so sharp that you won't feel any pain when bitten.
So in a way it's worse than normal.
How it gets its prey is by sneaking up on the target and
biting the nape of their neck. They can drain their prey of
blood in a heartbeat. So if you're walking in an at
night in an area with crow bats, you might want to have a psychic
or electric type Pokémon with you to beat one if it attacks
you. Thank you for listening and I
will provide another essay sometime in the future.
Bye. Bye or or or bug type with some
strong silk to make a net to catch them.
That would be a good one as well.
Well it is also flying type so it will no and it will do a lot
of damage to a bug type. Now I listen Mr. Curtis, I
cannot give the students false information.
Bug type Pokémon are not a great counter to flying type Pokémon.
Yeah, shut up and you're. I suppose you're right,
Professor. He does.
He. Literally.
When I'm ready for. Life without a little challenge.
Listen, I call them like I see them.
Only I've ever said that before, but it's true.
Thank you so much, James from Little Root Town for the
wonderful essay. You get plenty of extra credit
for that. And Mr. Curtis, I can see you
reaching into that Gold Star bag.
He's just giving them out like candy today.
Woohoo Rare candy, baby. And Yep, here's one for you as
well. Stop.
Dropping them on the floor. Why are you?
Doing that. That time, he watched as it fell
to the ground. He knows exactly what he's
doing. He just seems demeaning.
But all right, so that does it. For all of the information that
we have on Golbat, it is time now for the testing portion.
So go ahead and put away your. Pocket my root on laptop and put
it out to take this quiz. And that's fine, but we're not
doing a pop quiz today. We are doing a debate.
Oh. Yes, we are doing a debate
today. So I did.
I know I said this plenty of times before, but I did change
the format of the debates. So basically I start off by
telling you guys what the topic is, all right?
Then I choose one student and they get to decide if they want
to go first or second. Then whichever student goes
first gets to decide if they will be for or against the
topic. All right.
Sound good? Yeah.
OK, you're kind of looking at me with a blank expression on.
Your No, I hear you. I mean, I get it.
All right, so here's the debate topic.
Losing its ability to walk was a worthwhile evolutionary trade
off. Wait.
Say that again. Crobat losing its ability to
walk was a worthwhile evolutionary trade off Mr.
Curtis. Yes.
Would you like to be 4? Sorry.
Would you like to go first or second?
It really comes down to whether or not you think you can come up
with an argument for either of these.
You know what? I'll give, I'll give.
I'll give Corbin the the option of choice and I I will go
second. Wow.
Truly. It's truly a unexpected move for
Mr. Curtis to go second. So Corbin.
That means you can decide if you would like to be for or against.
I would like to be for it. I would like to defend the
argument that Corbat losing its ability to walk was a worthwhile
evolutionary trade off. All right.
And that means Mr. Curtis you are against.
All right, Professor. All right, so go ahead, take
some. Oh, here, let me read the rubric
real quick. So first you must include
information we learned in class. 2 You must demonstrate an
understanding of the Pokémon's unique attributes and abilities,
3 you must build an argument around proven facts about the
topic Pokémon, And four you must respond to at least one of the
opponents arguments with a legitimate counter argument.
All right, have at it. Take some time, come up with a
good debate, some some good points and counterpoints, and
maybe predict what your opponent is going to say and let me know
when you're ready to go. All right.
Kind of get a yes or no if we're all ready to go.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes.
Yes.
OK. So I believe Corbin, you had the
first go. So and you are for the statement
that losing its ability to walk was a worthwhile evolutionary
trade off. So take it away.
Hi everyone. Yes again.
I am arguing that Crobat losing its ability to walk was a
worthwhile evolutionary trade off.
You know, we're supposed to use the the Pokedex to defend our
arguments. And honestly I think the Pokedex
could not be more clear. It gives we we know that it's
evolution and evolving to have four wings now gives itself a
speed, gives itself more speed and allows it to hunt and battle
more effectively with you know whether that being you know with
the stealth aspect to it, it allows it to do that.
It could not do that if it was just walking.
And I'll just simply say this in the Suno Pokedex entry, one of
the pseudo Pokedex entries it states that it's flight
performance is quote enhanced. Therefore last I checked the
word enhanced meant better. So it is literally better
evolutionarily. It's flight performance is now
enhanced that it evolved. So it is a worthy evolutionary
trade off in order to for it to hunt and for it to battle and
you know, capture the blood that it needs in a stealthy way and
also you just fly around more effectively.
It allows it more versatility which it could not have with
gold bat, which you know when it sucked too much blood, got a
little fat, weighed itself down. So I think in every sense of the
word, it is worthwhile. OK.
All right, so Corbin says that because it can fly better and
quieter, it is a worthwhile trade off.
Corbin. I love it when you directly
quote the Pokedex. So.
Oh, I know you do so. Good job.
I love it when the professor loves it.
It doesn't matter what it is. When the professor loves it, I
love it. Well, I don't like when you like
what he likes. Mr. Curtis, you may now have
your opening statement and you can respond to Corbin's opening
statement. If you can.
Now you you have to. You have to or or you're
elsewhere. I don't care if you don't like
if I like what the professor likes, so there.
Don't break your brain, Mr. Curtis.
They broke. My OK, please give me just a
moment here. Oh, the syrup with the ice.
Oh gosh, you can really hear the ice.
You can really hear the. ICE.
All right. Thank you, Professor.
Thank you, Corbin. I appreciate you bringing up
those points. Let me ask you this.
What words would you use to describe a crowbat?
Words might like silent, fast, clumsy.
That's what the Pokedex has to say.
Pro bat is a proficient philosophy.
Who's pro bat? He's like pro.
That's a different Pokémon you fail.
Crowbat is a proficient flyer like many other flying types,
but unlike many other flying tribes, it has traded its
ability to navigate the land. In order to do that, we know
from the Pokedex that crobats have to rest, and resting as a
Crobat is tough because of this weakness.
And when you are, when are you most vulnerable?
When you're resting. Crobat has also taken on a great
weakness in order to gain a slight strength, which is just
frankly not worth it. This is why you still see legs
on a lot of flying type still, because eventually you do have
to come down. And when you come down, you're
too vulnerable when you don't have any legs, thank you very
much. And then that's the end of my
opening statement. And then in response to Corbin,
I have to say Corbin said it can't be stealthy on the ground.
Why? Because it's clumsy on the
ground as a result of its trading its hind lanes for its
double wings. You can't say that that's a boon
when it's because it's not, it's specifically not stealthy on the
ground because of this trade off that it has met.
Thank you very much. OK, wait, say that last part one
more time. OK, so Corbin said that it's
stealthy in the air when it can't be on the ground.
And I'm saying it's it's specifically not stealthy on the
ground because it's clumsy on the ground as a result of this
trade off. OK.
So OK. So OK, so you're saying that you
know it's not a worthwhile trade off because it's it's your most
vulnerable when you're on the ground and that vulnerability
has just been increased because of how bad it is on the ground.
And you're you're saying that it's if the entire point of the
evolution was to increase the stealth.
You know, having aspect of it being incredibly unstealthy,
which is when it's on the ground is, you know, counter to that,
which is what the Corbin's argument was.
OK, excellent job Now Corbin, Yeah, he's going to, he's going
to take that. He's going to take that line.
Up. No, I'm going to.
Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take it.
I'm going to ball it up and I'm going to throw it right into
your stupid face. Mr. Curtis.
That's why I'm going to. Do I'm going to fight you with
words. This is.
What I like to hear this is the first.
One to fight you with words. OK, Professor, just for the
record, as far as I know, we have a window in this classroom,
correct? We have a window.
Right.
Yeah. And it's very old window right
there, because this is a perfectly spherical room, right?
It's a really cool looking window, Mr. Curtis.
Do you see what those are out there?
Kind of just passed there. There's a little bit of yeah,
those things with the trunk and the leaves.
That's called a tree. That's where the Crobat rests.
It's not vulnerable if it's hiding in treetops or on
buildings or somewhere higher up.
No one says Crobat rests on the ground, it rests in trees, as
stated in the Hole in Pokedex entries #1 #2.
Although it does need to stop and rest, it is still capable of
flying all day. Like every Pokémon and every
living thing needs to rest at some point.
However, it could go all day, It could get the blood that it
needs, it can fly around, it can fight, it could do whatever.
But then it's got a chance to rest a little bit.
And where is it going to go? It's going to go high up to do
that. Now, Curtis did say that it's
clumsy, But then at the very end, he said it's clumsy when it
walks. Which is the correct part.
To say that Crobat itself is clumsy is not true.
The Pokedex entry states in the center region that it's clumsy
when it walks. That's literally what it says.
Transformation of its legs into wings made it better at flying
but more clumsy at walking. It doesn't need to walk.
And my next point, and my final point about this whole argument,
you know, debate thing, is that Goldbat before drank blood.
It loved to drink blood. That was its whole thing, and it
it drank too much, it weighed itself down and it plopped on
the ground like a little fatty. So what did it do?
It evolved so that it could drink blood, where it gets its
sustenance way more effectively by having two pairs of wings.
And it has way more mobility, has way more stealth, you know,
to be able to fly around. And yeah, it have literally,
quite literally evolved. So that could suck blood more
easily to get a sustenance. So it is definitely a worthy
trade off. You need sustenance to survive.
It needs blood. Sorry I hit the recording
device. It needs blood to survive.
You're. Getting very anxious.
It needs blood to survive. Therefore it evolved effectively
to stealthily grab that blood in the most effective way.
And yeah, I rest my case, I'm done.
Mike Drop Mr. Little Corbin Trainer Training.
Corbin is out. OK.
All right. Mr. Curtis, if you could please
give us your closing statement. Now remember, just a closing
statement, not a response. Oh oh, I have so much to say
about that whole. It's not vulnerable in a tree.
Well, if you can work that into some kind of closing statement
without directly. That's right, that's.
Right to Corbin's statement, then that's fine.
Nothing. OK.
All right, so yeah, so fumbling, professor.
All right, the Pokedex also says that if it can't drink for even
a short while, it becomes unweak and unable to fly.
It may. Unweak.
It may become weak and unable to fly.
OK, Yeah, you you heard unweak, right, Corbin?
I definitely heard unweak. I.
Thought I was making sure I'm not crazy here.
I'm not. I'm not Crow Batty, right?
Now, right. No, no, if it.
OK, hold on. Let me start over.
That's.
What I call when I'm having a bad week anyways.
The Pokedex also says if it can't drink for a short while it
becomes weak and unable to fly. It may fly well when it's
flying, but it's flying. Stamina is poor, is it?
Is it poor because it's using double energy fly to fly because
it has twice the wings? The Pokedex doesn't explicitly
say so, but what we do know is that if it can't find something
to drink in a short while and ends up on the ground where it
is clumsy and it is vulnerable, and it is more likely to be prey
to a predator Pokémon, I rest my case.
Predator Pokémon. That's right, Predator Pokémon.
Thank you. OK.
He's wrong. He's objectively wrong.
So. I so obviously I don't say who
won and who lost. All right that's that's you know
that's up for everybody else to decide now.
So OK, Mr. Curtis is right. Mr. Curtis is right.
The Pokedex does say if it can't drink any blood for even a short
while, it becomes weak and unable to fly.
He also just said it can't fly around that long, which is not
true. Now that is true it it does have
a very good flying endurance, but as long as it has that
blood. So it is kind of like a trade
off, but a. Worthwhile one he's.
Extremely proficient at getting the blood, so it's kind of hard
to say. I don't want to take off points.
Take off points for that, Mister Curtis.
I thought about it, but I think I'm going to give you full
marks. So perfect score for Mr. Curtis.
You included information we learned in class and an
understanding of that information.
And I think you did. Your argument was built around
proven facts and you responded to Corbin.
Thank you. Thank you Corbin.
You got full marks for for most of those things.
Now what? You did say that Crobat doesn't
need to rest, and that's just wrong.
Yeah, I did, I said. It does rest.
I said every Pokémon needs to rest.
That's not what I. Said.
I'm pretty sure you said that it could fly continuously.
I said it could fly all day. It's literally what the Pokedex
says. I said it could fly all day, but
it does need to rest and it can rest the tree.
No no way. I did not say it doesn't need to
rest. I do.
I do recall him saying that it does rest in the trees and it's
fine. I swear he said something about
it. No way.
Somebody somebody listening response to my comment.
Somebody listening Fact Check it please.
I'll find out for now. For now, I'll give you full
marks. I I do think this is a very good
debate. I think you guys brought up a
lot of good points. I think, you know, I'm not sure
where I land on this whole debate of whether or not it's,
you know, worthwhile it. The fact that if it doesn't, if
it isn't able to suck blood for a little bit, it can't fly.
And if it can't fly, it basically can't suck blood.
It's dead. Unless somebody gives it blood,
it's it's just not going to make it.
I think that's that's such an incredibly risky trade off and
I'm not sure it's worthwhile, honestly.
Thank you, thank you. That was the whole my whole
closing argument. Thank you, Professor.
Everyone let us know if you're listening on Spotify Gone.
Let us know in the poll whose argument was better, me or Mr.
Curtis. Yes, Porsche, please.
Please remember to make a poll for this one.
Oh, she does. She's been good about it.
Let us know, me or Mr. Curtis. We had the better argument.
Vote now. All right.
But that's going to do it for today's lesson on Crobat.
Does anybody know who we're talking about next week?
Crobat. All right, see you next time,
folks. All.
Right later, everyone. And the outro music plays and
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Who was it? Sorry, it's Chincho we're
learning about. Chincho.
That's one That's a.
You had me going there, Professor.
Almost. Pokémon, right?
Almost turned off the recording device.
I saw you. Reaching, That's a real Pokémon.
Yes, Chincho, believe it or not, is a Pokémon.
The never heard of Pokémon? Never heard of it.
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