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. Mr. Curtis, can you please say
hello to everybody? Hello there, I am teaching
assistant professor, I mean Mr. Curtis.
Thank you very much. Hold on.
Whoa what? Mr. Curtis you try to take it
through something, no? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No. Tell you you.
Teaching this class still What's going on you?
I bow to your great news, Professor Jacob.
Fucking beep on my you get. Pretty suspicious of.
Won your place, buddy. I'm so sorry.
He's listening. If I if I die of mysterious
causes, just oh, don't say that this just.
I will not, I will not stop investigating till I discover
the cold. Yeah.
Oh, it was absolutely him. It will absolutely be Mr.
Curtis. Oh, what about me?
Did you? Say what about you?
I guess me. I guess you could have served me
Corbin. No, I mean, I don't want to.
I want to take your place. If you die.
I want to be Professor Corbin. When was that even ever on the
table? Nobody.
Nobody's. Replacing it's not normally on
the table. What I'm saying is, I propose it
now. That you that you replace me.
Yes, if you die in the event absolutely not that you would
have to serve me that Mister Curtis, I would usurp the
throne. I would burn down all of the
schools no more. Wow.
Well, you could put that on the record.
Well, Corbin's job here is to learn about Pokémon, right?
And what's better way to learn about Pokémon than to teach
Pokémon? Maybe.
Maybe the best way for Corbin to learn is to become the.
Teacher, is this your is this your resignation now or are you
retiring? No, no, you'd have.
You'd have to kill me to to stop me from reading these Vulgate
centuries. So, yeah, get get working on
that. OK, So, oh, yeah.
Also, that's Corbin, by the way. Hey oh hey everyone.
I'm the trainer and training. Soon to be professor.
Yeah, young, training, training. He's 10 years old.
He's a small boy. He sells hats sometimes.
Yeah, his dad is Mr. Mime that. Goes.
No, he's not. No, he's not.
Donnie. Johnny.
J. Is not secretary.
He helps out around the house and now he also assists Perry as
a secretary for his psych business.
Or. The J stands for Jeez, I'm so
proud to be Corbin's father. And he's called.
Jeez, I I love my son Corbin so much that I picked up a part
time job to help fund his foreign exchange student
learning. I have grown tired of you guys.
Wow. Like he looks withered in the
chair. So he really.
Doesn't look tired. That was him.
He fell off and and he fell to the floor.
And then instead of falling right to the floor, he fell kind
of like, you know, when you drop a paper bag or a piece of paper,
it kind of like the wind, air resistance kind of makes it go
back and forth. That's how he fell to the
ground. That's true.
That's why that. I'm about that small all.
Right. Stop.
No, it's because you're so withered and you're tired of
this. There he goes again.
There he goes again, he. Goes again, don't pick him up
and no. No, no, no, no.
Don't touch. Me.
All right. No, I don't want you to touch
me. No.
No, no, you're back in the chair now, all right?
I'm just upset. OK.
All right, everybody. I need you to be focused today.
I'm in. I've dialed in, Professor.
I'm in. I'm in.
Tidley staring. OK, great.
Hey, it's like you learned that from Natu from last week I.
Did I did learn that from last week and I'm staring at you.
So we learned about Natu this last week.
This week. Does anybody know who we're
learning about? It's the evolved.
Sort of natu. It's the one that starts with
the ZI. Got out of my hand.
Here it is decidui. That you do have this UI on your
hand. But that's true.
We're learning about that part's true.
This next, Yes, it's Zotu with with an X.
It's Zotu with an X. But yes, we are learning about
Zatu today and I'm very excited and you don't want everybody to
be on their best behavior. Wait, why?
I'm already because I've asked a very very special guest here
today. Now some of you the Corbin, I'm
not sure if you know, but Mr. Don, you definitely know no.
It's not Don. So are the headmistress here at
the GCLCBOTSCLC? He is actually a Zatu.
Oh. Yes.
Oh, that's right. I forgot about that.
I've seen her picture in the hallway and stuff, but.
She's she's an excellent, an excellent headmistress.
She is, you know, Wait, what's? Her name again, Professor?
I don't remember. She just.
Goes by headmistress, nobody knows what her actual.
Nobody really knows what her real name is.
Yeah, she. Refuses that she prefers to go
by Headmistress. Yeah, so and.
And let me tell you what the headmastress bakes a mean banana
bread. Does she really?
She brings it in for all of, like, the teacher work days?
Yeah, she. She brings it.
In for the this is, I don't know he's well.
He's lying here. What?
Well, somebody provides the banana bread for teacher work
days. Who?
If it's not the headmistress, then who is it?
I don't know, maybe it's the the.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure we have a Homec class Mr.
Curtis that I think it's a Fido and their teaching assistant is
like a flat an Appleton or an Appleton.
Something like that. Yeah, that's.
Yeah, so maybe they brought in the banana bread, but I'm pretty
sure that the headmistress doesn't cook.
Well, it's a shame. I'm sure they would produce
quite, quite a mean, you know, Trey Brownies.
Now he's trying to kiss Butt to the headmaster, since she's not
even in the room yet. Not even in the room, even.
In the room. But if you actually Mr. Curtis,
if you could please call her in you could use the intercom and
and have her Oh yeah, yeah, oh oh oh wait.
She must have seen in the future because she's she's right there
at the door. She's already there.
She's already here. Come on.
Yes, please. I bet he's headmesters.
Come. Come on in.
Come on in.
Hello. It's nice to meet you in person.
Let me just. Use the the intercom just to
announce your presence here real quick.
OK, wait, can you do a little? Can you do a little bugle sound
to start? With.
Oh, yeah, yeah. OK, hold on.
Yeah, let me press the button. Did he have to turn the speaker
on in our room? Too.
It's so loud and there's like a little bit of an echo too.
Well, he'd never do this for you.
Presenting. The.
Head Midstren, That's. Right, mistress.
Thank you. Headmistress it is.
It is an honor to meet you. You are very esteemed, as they
say you're wonderful. Love the plumage it it.
It's an honor, truly. Yeah, you you really, honestly,
you always have one eye on the future of the GCLCBOTSCL.
C That's how she knows how to you know, that's the best person
to have in charge of a school because you know anything bad
before what's going to happen so she can prevent it.
So if there's any other future accidents, yeah, I I I'm just
assuming that you let it happen, Headmistress.
Well, OK, we'll learn a little bit about, you know that that
statement holds a lot of weight in Corbin, the ability to to to
change the future and we'll we will touch on that going
forward, but we'll learn that Zatus really don't have a hand
and how the future plays out well.
Well, they don't have hands at all.
They have feathers. OK.
Yeah, you got me there. So yes, Headmistress, again,
thank you for for coming in, and thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
It was great to see you. It's great.
I know. Yeah, I I know.
You want me to participate in more school functions.
I'm sorry. I'll.
I'll try. I Listen, you don't have to, OK.
When you talk about this all the.
I, I, I come to all the teacher work days for him though.
I mean, you know, I'm there to to put in the word oh.
Professor Jacobs, antisocial. I just, well, I'm not
antisocial. I just have more important
things to be doing. Whoa.
I mean, I mean, listen to me somewhere more important.
Oh God. Geez, though.
God, I'm really talking myself into a corner now.
The head. Head.
OK. Corbin.
Yes.
Not to, not to distract, I mean to change the subject, but.
Me. I'm here.
What if if you could describe the headmistress for everybody,
that would be excellent. Please straight your stuff,
headmister. OK all.
Right, so easy if. You if you take what Zatu looks
like, OK, you picture Zatu everybody in your head.
Well, you're you. That's the head, OK?
You mean not to, not sorry. If you picture not to in your
head, everyone picture not to the little baby being from last
week, that's the head of Zatu. That's it.
That's the head. But the full body, it's a lot
longer. It actually has a head and a
body now, as opposed to just being one big ball.
It actually has a body filled with feathers.
Now it's got some cool stuff. So it's feathers now have white,
black and red and a little bit of yellow on them, but they're
mostly white and on its chest. You can't see it too well
because Headmistress kind of has her wings draped in front of her
body. But there's like this weird
coloring pattern on the chest that looks like eyeballs.
They look like red eyes and those.
Aren't her real eyes Oh? Hey, that's creepy.
Don't don't me like that. And then the feet, the feet are
a little strange too. They're not like, you know, not
to kind of had two claws, the front one of the back to have
like, you know, 3 little claws on its feet.
But Natsu just has like one. It looks like one big, sharp
slipper. Yeah, I was going to say it
looks like it's like it's like a shoes or maybe it's looks.
Like Shoes. Looks like he's wearing sandals
like a hippie. And then it has a really long
red plumage on the back of its head.
It doesn't have one big smelling plumage like Natsu does.
It has two. They're very long.
It kind of looks like a long bandana.
Yeah, like like like a bandana tied like at the back of their
head. Tied at the back of their head,
yeah. And then that's and that's it.
That's that's. Very much it very good
description of of. Oh yeah.
Thank you. And thank you, headmistress, for
allowing us to describe you. Right.
I would love to see you predict the future sometimes.
Yes. Doesn't Is Dawn going to be my
girlfriend? Wait, don't answer.
I don't want to know yet. OK.
Well, no, not that. If you could give us, I don't
know, maybe something like a something that might happen in
the future of the classroom, something that we that we can,
that we can look. Out, Right.
You'd like to see that Mister Curtis, right?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm, I'm looking,
actually. I'd I'd love to see the the
headmistress at. Work OK?
Please. I would love Headmistress.
Please. Predict not yet not to put you
on the spot. Not to put you on the spot, but
please perform for us. Please.
I see a dark fall breaking upon the grassy stone.
Oh wow. Wow.
Dark form. And a grassy stone.
Too a dark form broken upon a grassy stone that doesn't make
any sense. OK, well, hold.
OK. Whoa.
Corbin, come on. Very, very almond.
Yeah. Yeah, I.
Think it makes a lot of sense. I mean, we should, we should
look out for that. Why can't you just predict the
future and say somebody's going to have reflux tonight?
Like, why can't you just say that?
Well, because it's never that easy.
All right. Wow.
OK, now. Now she wants to see me after
class and talk about the disobedience in my classroom.
Thank you, Corbin. OK, Granted.
Granted.
In his defense, we haven't
learned about Zatu yet, so there's a lot we don't know.
I don't know how vivid you can see the future, but I guess
we're going to learn about it. Yes.
OK. Well, thank you.
And listen, I know you have a lot going going on and a lot to
take care of, so thank you so much.
For thank you so much for being. Here so much we love you.
Thank you for making it great. I'll make I'll make you banana
bread this time, Headmistress. Thank.
You. She just walked right out, did
not even acknowledge. Didn't even acknowledge that
there. Didn't even acknowledge it.
OK and then oh. My headmistress.
See ya. Wait doors you look at close the
what you look out the. Window.
She She walked outside and just kind of like staring at the sky.
She told me she had a really busy schedule and she's just
staring at the sky. It's a part of her, It's part of
her daily. Routine.
Maybe it's part of her meditation to get in the
headspace to help the school. Probably.
Well, definitely. OK, so let's we we've dilly
dallied enough, it's time to start reading Pokedex entries.
All right. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
All right, let's start off in the joto region.
The first entry says. They say that it stays still and
quiet because it is seeing both of the past and the future at
the same time. It's maybe she was seeing
Curtis's past and future at the same time and it's too much to
comprehend, so she's having a brain fart.
It's hard. She had to go.
Purge.
I don't blame her. Listen, it's hard for me to
figure out Mr. Curtis's present. I couldn't imagine seeing his
past and future. At the same time.
I think that my brain would melt.
Oh, it's not that exciting. Now the next entry here says in
South Amarica, it is said that its right eye sees the future
and its left eye views the past. Little cross eyed action, OK?
Yeah, we've talked about Amarica before, the Amaricas.
Yeah, right. We've talked about them before,
too. Yeah.
So yeah. So it's easy to remember which
eye sees the future and which eye sees the past if you kind of
think about it like you're reading a book, right?
If you're in the middle of a line in a book, the words to the
left are in the past, but the words on the right are in the
future. You haven't read them yet.
Right, natural progression. Yes.
So that makes a lot of sense, Professor.
So it's pretty fairly easy to remember.
For some reason you would need to conjure that information for.
I don't know is if it popped up on some kind of quiz of some
kind. Who gonna put my Roton laptop?
No. No, Look at his hopes up.
Don't keep doing it. Better be another.
Poem. No.
No, I'm not. We're still.
Gonna be another poem.
It could still be a poem. Oh, I'd love it.
I'd love it. Really spice it up to two.
Back-to-back. The next entry says once it
begins to meditate at sunrise, the entire day will pass before
it will move again. Wow, so our headmaster stay is
busy, is what you're telling. Me.
Yeah, a full schedule. Yeah.
And yeah, let's just peek out the window.
Yep, she's still there. Oh my gosh.
Hasn't moved. That's true.
Yeah. Won't move until the day is
over. The next entry says this is.
We're moving on to the Helen region now.
Zatu stands rooted and still in one spot all day long.
People believe that this Pokémon does so out of fear of the
terrible things it has foreseen in the future.
Gosh, that's what is this. Makes you think about this dark
form now that's gonna, was it break upon the grassy stone?
Was that is that what she said? Yeah, yeah, That dark form
broken upon the fantasy. Stone.
Is that like what's? I mean that's kind of what's the
like I'm I'm a little bit worried now, is that a terrible
future for us? I don't know that could be
something. Really dark form am I going to
break? Am I the stone?
Because I'm really strong. Am I going to break because
Corbin annoys me so much that I just lose my mind?
Hey, is that nice? Yeah, you're right.
You're you're you definitely aren't the grassy rock.
Thank you. If anything, I'm the stone.
Wait the grassy. Wait, the grassy stone?
The same thing. Never mind.
A rocking a rocking stone. I mean, what's the?
Difference. Maybe I am the dark form.
Maybe. Woo.
OK, the next entry says. Zatu is known to stand
motionless while staring at the sun all day long.
There we go. She's staring at the sun, that's
what. She says.
Wow, that's supposed to stare at the sun?
That's what my mom told me. Well, your your mom isn't a
Zatu, so. They get special permission.
Yeah. And like, here's the thing, Zatu
stares at the sun all day, right?
And it can see the past and the future.
We don't stare at the sun all day, and we can't see the past
and the future. So I mean, what's the.
I mean, what's the common denominator there?
We're not. Saying the sun has supernatural
properties, LPC through time. Yeah, maybe we're not.
Maybe you're not going blind when you're looking at the sun.
Maybe you're accessing the future and past sight.
Listen, listen. I can't.
I cannot condone this for our our, our, our students.
Sure. So please allow me to experiment
over this next week. I will stare at the sun all of
next week. Okay and I have assignment for
all the students go out and stare at the sun.
No, no, no, no. No.
No, no, no, no. I will do it.
We cannot condone this to the
students. Let me experience the 1st and
then once we can. Determine yeah, just in case
everybody send us Gengar males have you pictures of you staring
at the sun. Yep.
No. Is that no, no.
Is that what we're doing? We are Are we endorsing that?
Are we endorsing that in the class series to Stare at the
Sun? Everybody send it Gengar males
of pictures of me looking at the sun.
I'm going to look at the sun all week and you guys just imagine
that and then I'll we'll we'll re evaluate next week when we do
decidui and I'll let you know eye damage.
No eye damage. See the future.
Don't see the future. We'll we'll revisit next.
OK, we probably won't, but you know it on the off chance that
we do. All right, So nobody except Mr.
Curtis look at the sun for now. For.
Now subject to change. Yeah, it could, if we could have
you staring at the sun in the future.
OK, the next entry here says that.
Wait, hold on. I don't think I've finished that
last entry. OK, so Zatu is known to stand
motionless while staring at the sun all day long.
Some people Revere it as a mythical Pokémon out of their
belief that Zatu is in possession of the power to see
into the future. Do you think that Zatu sees the
end of time like the end of the world?
As it does bring up a good question as to how far we think
into the future Zatu. Can see.
Yeah, Yeah, Maybe Zatu. Maybe the headmistress just now
has that face because she saw how all of us die.
And it involves a grassy stone and a dark shadow break.
Maybe. Maybe that's a key to our death.
Maybe everybody be on the lookout for that.
Yeah, I'm not going to walk near any stones.
Well grassy. Or dark forms.
Or yeah, if it's not grassy, if it's a bare stone, that's a fair
game. I can sit on that.
Everybody wear light clothes, light and bright.
Clothes Ghost type Pokémon. Yep.
Stay away from dark forms and ghosts, and stay away from
grassy little rocks. All right, the next entry here
says. It has the enigmatic power of
foreseeing the future. Some people in different lands
have long believed that Zatus are emissaries from another
world. Yeah.
A timeline. Well, I mean, just another
world. What?
Well, yeah, what does that mean? The dimension planet.
Different dimension a different. Are they aliens like Clefa?
I mean, listen, it's not it wouldn't be crazy for a Pokémon
to be an alien, right? There's AI feel like there's a
lot of instances of Pokémon be strongly tied to space.
We know that Clefa and Clefairy are most likely aliens.
There's the theory that the Nido line are all aliens.
Don't forget, don't forget star you and star me that seem to
interact with the stars. Stars.
There's a lot of Pokémon that have implications of
extraterrestrial origins. They're.
Connected. That's right.
Who used to say all Pokémon aren't aliens?
Oh, that's a fun theory. That's.
A fun. Theory.
What if it was all humans here for a while and then the aliens
crash down? What if?
Wait, then at what point do we start becoming the aliens?
Or what if we're the aliens and we crash down and the Pokémon
OK? But here we would have ties to
space and not the Pokémon. Well, obviously not strong
enough ties because we're not in space anymore.
Maybe. Maybe we're aliens that were
traveling space, but we're like, we're allergic to space, so we
need to get out of here. So let's go down to there where
all the Pokémon. Are that doesn't add up.
If we all had strong ties then I don't I don't dress up so I
don't have any ties. So that doesn't make sense.
That's. True.
He doesn't have ties, Mr. Curtis.
Yeah, I do have. Half a bow tie.
This is this is a great thought experiment, but we need to half
of a bow tie. I do have half of a bow tie,
yeah. Well, which half, The top half
or the bottom half? Left half.
Left half OK. Gunk our school, Tota Valley at
the right half. Nice.
Good work, gunk. She's doing a great work.
OK, moving on to the center region.
This odd Pokémon can see both the past and the future.
It eyes the sun's movements all day.
So maybe it's not the OK, Mr. Curtis for your research.
Maybe it's not just just staring at the sun.
Maybe you have to take note of the sun's movements.
I'm like what it does. It's a good thing I am.
I'm so good at taking dictations from you, Professor.
I won't even have to look away. I could just stare at the Sun
engine. Just write like I'll hold a
clipboard and I'll just write underneath all the notes that I
find. Good.
Yeah, great. I mean, don't forget to doodle
doodle the sun while you're doing it.
OK, I could do that too. Yeah, don't forget to add Hey,
for this week's picture on Patreon, why don't you add the
sun in there? OK, I'll make it.
I can make it happen. That's a good idea.
In honor of the headmistress, I will put in her favorite thing
to look at that is the sun. OK, and let's.
Go see if she's still staring at the sun and oh geez, she's right
at the window. What the heck?
She's staring directly into US. Oh.
My gosh, what are you doing? What?
Is everything OK? I.
Think she's looking at Mr. Curtis?
Hi. Hi, bread Mistress.
I promise I'll make you the banana bread did.
You call her bread, Mistress I. Think you said bread, Mistress.
I heard Bread Mistress. Somebody draw a picture of a
fleas of Zatu, but its body is made out of banana bread, and at
the top it says bread. Mistress, thank you very much.
Well. Corbin be the change you want to
see in the world. So it's now your assignment to
draw the bread Mistress. Draw the bread, Mistress Corbin
he. Who smelt it?
Delta at Corbin. Oh man.
OK, let's just try to ignore the Head Mistress staring at us from
out the window. Maybe is this.
Wait is the is the shadow thing about to happen now?
Wait, is the dark presence thing?
Are we going to die now? Is it happening now?
She's not moving. Is it?
Is it happening now?
I don't think she can hear me. No, I think she can hear it
happening now. OK, she's not doing anything.
Today. Today.
By playing at my watch here. Maybe she'll get that now.
Lex pointed Lex up. There.
Time. Lex.
Time. Time Time today.
Now us dead. And then I become president
again, right? OK, there's still no reaction.
No, no reaction. All right, all right.
Professor, please go on. Go on with class.
So hard to focus when she's
staring. All right.
Moving on. It is.
It is hard to be in the presence of your idols, isn't it?
Shut up. I didn't say that, OK?
Nothing new from the Innova. Nothing new from Kalos.
Moving on to the Alola region, the first entry says.
It's said that while this Pokémon has the power to predict
the future, it's not powerful enough to change the future it
sees. OK, so that makes that makes
sense why all these bad things still happen, because I feel
like if the head meshers wanted to, it's her job to protect the
school, she would have stopped some of these things.
Yeah, but OK. And here's here's another one,
Here's another entry that kind of talks about that as well.
While it can, while it can see the future, it has no desire to
change it. Oh, never mind.
She hates us. Which is probably why it remains
motionless at all times. It's just here.
It's along for the ride. Just here just being a passenger
like the rest of. US You know, sometimes it's it's
good to observe, right? Just just watch.
You don't have to partake in things.
You can just observe them, which is fine.
All right. So that does it for the regional
Pokedex countries. I have two unique Pokedex
entries here. The first one comes to us from
Ash's Pokedex. It says Zatu.
The Mystic Pokémon Zatu is said to be able to foretell the
future with a high degree of accuracy, but it is unknown
whether it's prophecies are correct.
Really. So they could be Not the future.
I mean, I feel like we could wait.
Hold on it, it's wait, hold on. It is said to be able to
foretell the future with a high degree of accuracy.
Except when it does. But it is unknown whether it's
prophecies are correct. Well, then it's not the future.
OK, so it's saying it has a high.
Degree of accuracy, but it's not 100%.
Oh. OK, so maybe the whole dark form
thing's not true. Maybe.
It's saying that. It's saying that they like
people say that they can see the future, but is it actually
seeing the future? Said.
But it is unknown where the prophecies.
Hey, Ash's pokedex, That's a bad entry.
That one sucks. That one's hard to read.
And. Especially since other entries
make it pretty clear that it is very good at predicting the
future, just doesn't want to make changes.
Yeah, what the heck, man. Yeah.
Let's move on to Don's Pokedex. Oh my goodness.
Tell me, sweetie, what's it about?
Yeah, Dawn, the the sun rising talking about Zatu.
A Pokémon that. It's poetry at its finest.
Some there's something there there's some kind of thing
there's. A lot there and I feel it in my
heart. Zatu, the Mystic Pokémon.
This unusual Pokémon. God, I have to say that with the
headmistress looking right at me, I hate.
That's awkward. Yeah, that's awkward.
This. He's he's just, he's just
reading the entries. I'm just it's just in the.
You're not. You're not unusual.
You're very lovely,
headmistress, and you make great banana bread and she's just.
Staring, There's no reaction. So this unusual Pokémon can see
the past and future as well. It watches the sun's movement
all day long. OK, get that girl.
So that does it for all of the Pokedex entries on Zatu now all.
Right I. Have an essay here for us?
Oh really? Yes, a student sent in a
wonderful essay. So we're going to go ahead and
read it now. Oh, OK, this comes to us.
And I believe we've heard from this student before.
This comes to us from Felipe. Hey.
Hey, Felipe. Says dear Professor Jacob
Cinnawood question mark. Nope, that's not right.
That's not my last name. Chestnut.
They also say, I swear you said Redwood Ones maybe, I don't
know. I say a lot of things I cannot
be held accountable for. Any pretty sure it's chestnut.
So they say, Dear Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis and Corbin, my
name is Felipe, pronounced Felipe.
I did it right this time, a trainer and training from a
southern region. I wrote to you a couple months
ago when I was still in lesson 62, but I'm all caught up now.
I'm also the guy in the bird Pokémon theme, social net social
media site Twitter who in a moment of delirium wanted a
three hour class of just Ariados crawling and webbing sounds.
Thank you for not doing that, Mister Curtis.
Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Curtis.
That would have been awful. I'm, I'm, I, I I.
How did I miss that Xerneas? It was the the professor.
Did you hide that one from me? Because I would.
I would have, happy delivered, happily delivered.
Oh, the no, that was on the flying Pokémon theme social
network site Twitter. Oh yeah, no, I only watch X
Xerneas now, so yeah, I have to. Go the name change right.
Yeah, the name change. I will never call it Xerneas.
He'll always be the flying Pokémon theme.
Social networks like Twitter. I don't care if it's a mouthful,
It's a lot. OK, So he says.
Thank you for not doing that, Mister Curtis.
I love your classes and I hope I can keep on learning with you
for a very, very long time. Well, we'll see how this essay
goes, Felipe. Yeah.
Who knows? According to this prophecy, we
we could we could be dead. He.
Knows he might kick you out. I'm kidding.
We won't do that.
We could also die. Yeah, yeah.
We could also die, I mean. Who knows when this prophecy's
gonna hit? Who knows when this future site
is gonna impact us? They say.
Anyway, I'm writing to you because my mom caught a Zatu
recently who's well, staring at me right now.
Join the club. Join the club.
So I'm a bit inspired to write a short essay about this bird, if
that's OK with you, do it. Zatu.
The evolved form of natu is a green psychic flying Pokémon
whose white wings cover its body like a kimono or a poncho.
They have a lot of stripes covering their bodies, with
males having an extra yellow stripe on the sides.
Oh, OK. I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah. Although they have regular eyes
on their heads, like most of Archaeus's children, they have
some sort of extra red eyes on their chests who are also
staring at me right now. I don't think there's a real
eyes. I think those are like.
I don't know. You may sound like they might
be. Maybe.
I mean, maybe they can. Pretty creepy, I.
Guess Zatu are very quiet and usually don't move much because
it is said they are looking both at the past and the future at
the same time. Sometimes they stay still
looking at the sun all day long. Well, not my mom Zatu.
Seriously, this one is just looking at me.
It hasn't moved in a while. I'm getting a bit nervous to be
honest. I better go.
I better go drink some water and then finish this.
No, Zatu is now blocking my way. Weird.
Okay, I won't. So you're writing this as it's
happening. You're staying in front of the
Zatu, writing this down we're. Getting we're getting commentary
as it's going down. I love that.
We're getting the play by play on the field.
Gotcha. Cool.
It is said that this Pokémon doesn't move much because it
doesn't like the visions it sees or because it doesn't want to
change the future. I wonder if my mom's Zatu is
trying to prevent my dark future now, or if it's just being a
jerk but I need to go to the kitchen.
I'm very thirsty and that's it. But what if your kitchen blows
up and then it saved you? Yeah, your kitchen might.
Wait. Philippe.
Are you still alive?
Are you still alive, Philippe? Did your Did your Zatu protect
you or no? Let us know.
Send. Yeah, send it.
Yeah, Send us a response back quickly.
Send us a response back that where you blink three times just
so we know that you're. Exactly a video of you blinking.
Thank you. Anyways, they finished the
Gengar mail by saying and that's it.
Thank you for taking the time to read this essay and I hope I get
a gold medal. I mean a gold medal.
I don't know. You might get a Gold Star.
A star is better than a medal. Yeah, oh, they say.
Oh yes, Mr. Curtis. Oh no, I was going to say, yeah,
sure. Gold stars.
Oh wow, because this next part, Felipe says I know how bug type
Pokémon are totally the best there.
There it is. KISS. 1 1/2 gold stars for you,
my good Sir. Oh, that's almost the gold
medal. I thought a star was above a
metal. Yes.
Yeah. Wait, oh wait.
A star is above a metal. Yeah, you said a star and 1/2 is
almost a gold medal. That's what, Yeah.
That is what I said. I I didn't.
So a medal is higher up ranking wise than a Gold Star.
Yeah, I mean. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. It's much larger.
OK. Do you not know the the standard
conversion? I do not.
It goes star. I don't.
Get enough to know. Yeah, I was going to say stand
like a student that's never received a Gold Star.
I I've gotten one or two here and there all right.
Star, Medal, Stamp, Sphere, Trapezoid.
And then Golden Shoe. That's the highest level.
He's just looking at things around the room now.
No, that's a standard. Golden Desk.
Golden belly button lint. No, no, no.
And then a golden. Mysterious lime coming out of my
backpack. Gross.
No, no. Come on now.
Hold on, Felipe still has a some, Some.
Yeah. Shut up.
Listen to Felipe. PS If you talk to Professor Palm
again, say hello to him too. By the way, did he ever
apologize for the whole Corbin taking care of an empty egg
thing? I never got a written apology,
but I assumed that he apologized, so I just accepted
it. We're just going to just as long
as we imagine an apology, is it really necessary to get a
natural apology? Well, yeah.
I mean, the power of the mind is incredible and imagination can
do so much. For well, Perry told me, even
without an apology, you need to learn to forgive.
So I'm trying to take that to heart.
Wow. That's wow.
That's so, so big of you, Corbin.
All right, well, thank you so much, Felipe.
You will, of course, be getting extra credit for this.
This is a wonderful essay. It's very well done.
I hope you were able to get some water.
Mr. Curtis has already dealt out the Gold Star and 1/2, so if
anybody else would like to send in an essay, please, please do
so. We are shifting to only reading
one essay in a lesson, so and we.
First come, first serve. Yes, we're doing a first come
first serve, so even all more reason to get in there early.
If there's a Pokémon that you like, send us a Gengar mail as
soon as you can. That's right, all right, But
enough of that is now. Time to move on to the testing
portion of the class. Gonna put my no, no.
No good, good energy, Mr. No, no, no, no.
As I hinted earlier, we are doing a pop quiz today.
So put away your Rotom, bring out your Rotom laptops, put away
your Pokedexes, maybe. Maybe a pen?
A pencil, calculator, Who knows? It is what might be in store.
Couple snacks. Yeah, snacks is a long one, so
let's jump right into it. Question number one, what does
Zatu see with its eyes and which eye sees what?
All right, both of the answers are in, Corbin says.
Left eye sees the past and the right eye sees the future.
Yeah, OK, maybe that might be right.
Let's see what Mr. Curtis says, he says.
Their eyes see the future, the right eye sees the right thing
in the future, and the left is left looking in the past.
Oh, that's a that's a fun mnemonic, too.
Super funny. So the.
Left eye is left in the past. Yes, that that is, you're both
correct. Noise.
Right. Yeah.
So.
Left is right is future, left is past.
OK. That's right.
All right. The right thing in the future?
And that one doesn't make as left.
Looking in the past. Going strong.
Baby yeah, the first part isn't a great mnemonic, but the second
part is is pretty good. You really struggle.
I like it. I like it.
I like it a lot.
Question #2 What are the what are two theories that we
discussed that attempt to explain why Zatu stands still?
OK, let's see here. I think.
I think we're all ready. Yep.
OK. Yes, Corbin's ready Mr. Curtis.
Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready.
I'm ready.
My look. My pen's down.
I'm not going to turn around from the.
Give it to me. I'm worth it.
Let's go. Let's see here, Looking at the
computer here, Corbin's answer is because it's seeing the
horrors of the future, and it knows it can't do anything to
stop it. And then his second one is the
sun keeps it warm. That's.
Just an observation about you know, why it chooses the sun to
stare at. Okay.
I mean, I didn't ask why it stares at the sun.
I said what? I said Why does it stand still
all day? But whatever.
Well, there you go, yeah. It's just more Corbin the Sun.
Corbin, keep that energy, it'll help you in the next question.
I like it. There you go.
Mr. Curtis says it stands still crippled with the fear of the
terrible future news it sees with its right, right eye.
But some say it just starts meditating in the morning and
the whole day will pass before it moves again.
Interest. OK, you both didn't get the
second one. No, I didn't.
Wait, I didn't know it. Yeah, no.
So OK, fear. Fear is one.
You both got the fear. Right.
The horrors of the future. What was the other?
One, yeah. The other one is.
It's either it's unwillingness or its inability to change the
future. But I mean, I kind of did answer
that too, I said. Because it's seeing the horrors
of the future and it knows it can't do anything to stop it.
That's technically both. I feel like there's a lot of
entries, Professor. Listen, you're the boss.
You're the boss. Professor, we're saying there's
a lot, there's a lot of entries to talk about how it meditates
all day. Well, the entries so it says it
does stand still and look at the sun, but I was asking why it
stands still. See, I thought that was one.
I thought seeing the horrors of the future and knowing and being
still because it no, it can't do anything to stop it.
I thought that was one and I could not think of the second
one. I mean, so, OK, so from the
Ellola region we have is said that while this Pokémon has the
power to predict the future, is not powerful enough to change
the future it sees. And while it can see the future,
it has no desire to change it, which is probably why it remains
motionless at all times. That's Ellola Hoenn.
It says Zatu is known to stand motionless while staring at the
sun all day long. Wait.
Hold on. Zatu stands rooted and still one
spot all day long. People believe that this Pokémon
does so out of fear of the terrible things that has
foreseen in the future. SO2 separate things.
It's not the same thing. It's two different theories.
And I mean, honestly, I think, I think Corbin gets it.
I think Corbin gets the points, Curtis, I I think, I think you
get half a point. But it but I I but it does say
something about it starting to meditate in the morning and it
goes all day meditating without moving.
And I was asking like why is it doing that?
Well, it doesn't say that the fear is why it meditates.
It's just saying that it's meditating and you don't move
when you're meditating. That's I think that's a valid
reason to stand still. Give it to a professor.
I mean, I mean, I don't think so this, I mean meditating like
it's just people observing that it's not moving, not what
they're not saying like what it's actually.
No, the theory of why? Meditating is an intrinsic is an
intrinsic thing. It's the statue is purposely
meditating all day. It's not moving.
You're Yeah, you're saying the reason it stays still is because
it's meditating. Professor Jacob is saying that
because it's meditating. That's not an explanation, but
Curtis is trying to say it is an explanation.
Meditation is an explanation for why it's standing still.
The first reason is it sees the horrors of the future and it's
scared. The second reason is it's
meditating. That's why it's still.
That's what I can see. The classes uprising against me.
No I need. I mean professor, professor,
professor, you're the boss. Do you have to do what's fair
and equitable? You get 3/4 of a point, Mr.
Curtis. You've made me budget a little
bit, but I know this is not full points.
Mr. Curtis, for once I tried to help you out.
I deserve a Gold Star for that. Thank you very much.
Appreciate. It all right.
This one. This next one's easy.
This next one's a given. This is full marks for
everybody. Question #3 What object does
Zatu stare at all day? You've already answered this.
The same thing I stare at as a dawn.
Kind of OK, you guys, you guys threw that one in real quick.
OK, so Corbin said the answer is the Sun.
Mr. Curtis said. Please don't second Mr. Curtis,
says the big flaming ball of Sun.
It's. The.
Sun it. Stares at the.
Sun Big flaming ball. That one, like I said, that one
was given, you kind of already answered that one.
Maybe we should have flipped those two questions that.
Would have been good. Question #4 This is a fill in
the blank, so I guess it's not really a.
Question. Final question, right.
All right. Yeah, maybe.
Let's go. Oh, thank goodness.
It's ability of future site has led to some cultures to believe
that Zatu is a slash and blank. OK, I see we're all eager to
figure out what the real answer is.
You're looking at me. You.
You two are staring at me.
And then the headmistress is also staring at me, waiting for
you to give the answer. OK, so this was a film in the
blank. It was.
Its ability to of sorry. Its ability of future site has
led to some cultures. That has LED some cultures to
believe. I am butchering this.
I'm tearing this. You're doing great.
You're doing professor. Cut all this out Portia.
Thank you very much. Professor, you could never mess
it up. He did.
I think I'm confused. I think everybody is now more
confused as with what the question was.
Its ability of future site has LED some cultures to believe
that Zatu is a or Anne Blank, Corbin says.
Creature from another world. And then Mr. Curtis says A an
mystical visitor from other worlds.
Yeah, I mean, you're both pretty close.
I mean, the word that I was really looking for was an
emissary from another. World Emissary, OK?
But mystical, Definitely. Mystical is a word that gets
thrown a lot. I know we talked about being
from another world. I knew that.
I thought they said something about being it being mystical.
They do, yes. There is, yes.
So in the Hoan region they this is where a lot of this comes
from. They say that some people Revere
it as a mystical Pokémon. And then and other entries from
the Hoan region say some people in different lands have long
believed that Zatu are emissaries from another world.
So. So you get full marks.
Mr. Curtis Corbin I do have to be fair and equitable here.
Possibly. Is it fair?
Oh. Oh, sorry.
Good. All right, all right.
So. Thank you.
Creature from another world.
Creature. Yep.
Being. I mean, it is.
This doesn't have the flair of an emissary or mystical being.
But it's still a creature. It's.
Creature. All right, I'll give it to you.
Oh, thank you, Professor. Very kind thank.
You this is this is a rare pop quiz where Corbin has a 100% and
Mr. Curtis. Does not.
It's been a while. It has been a while, but that's
OK That's OK. Hey, you.
You can't win them all. Mr. Curtis.
He's spiraling. He's he's spiraling.
I can't. I can't.
Do this anymore.
He's he's pacing around the room.
He's Professor. He's injured.
We need to call the nurse soon. We need to get Roslyn.
No, he's not. He's not injured.
He's fine. OK?
While he's recovering Corbin, can you tell me what Pokémon
we're learning about next? Week.
Give me a head. What type is it?
Shut up, Mr. Curtis. I'm trying to answer the
question. It's OK.
A. Hint.
A hint. OK, you will be shocked to find
out. Wait, is it?
Oh my goodness, this is one of my favorites.
I think I've made this. Joke is this mareep.
Yes, we are learning about MAREEP next.
To you? Oh yeah.
Mr. Curry she OK? No.
You good, bud.
He's. He's doing well.
All right. Well then, Until next time, if
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That's right. We got Q&A segments with with
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He's, I think he's saying they're good.
They're good. They're getting better.
Corbin what's your favorite thing on the Patreon, right?
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