Hello there everybody, and welcome to class.
Today here in the world of Pokémon, isn't it so wonderful?
What? OK, wait, no, wait, no, Mr. Mr.
Cruz. Come.
Come on.
Come. On what is that?
Sorry, what did I? Just hear.
Where are you guys going? Hold on.
One second, Corbin.
One second Corbin. Hello.
OK, Mr. Listen, it's welcome to the world of Pokémon.
All right. OK.
Hello there. Welcome to the world of Pokémon
like that. OK, hello there and welcome.
Welcome to the world of Pokémon. OK.
And then say your name. This is Curtis right here.
OK, what your title, right? OK, keep.
This. Recording.
I can see. I can see your.
I can see your nervous. Sorry.
You're tense. OK.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 2 deep breaths, OK?
Is he OK? Out.
There. Long, deep breaths.
Not, not fast, not fast. Shallow breath.
Is there a gas leak? What was that noise, Professor?
All right, I think. I'm ready.
I'm ready.
I think you're. Relaxed.
Let's go back in. Let's.
Go back in. Hey, guys.
What's up? Yeah, Carbon please.
Carbon please. All right.
Sorry. Hello there and welcome to the
wonderful world of Pokémon. My name.
I got a OK, come back. Oh, again, I know.
I thought that one was better. All right, all right.
OK there's I just I just got to say this is probably a there's
no there's no wonderful in there it's.
Just what is? It's such a wonderful, wonderful
world. Such a nice day why I'm inside.
It is, but you don't. People know that.
You don't have to say it and it's confused.
It's it's messing up the the the title of the lesson.
The flow. The flow, OK, that's what you're
saying? Yeah, the lesson series is
welcome to the world of Pokémon, not welcome to the wonderful
world of Pokémon. And that's just too many.
WE. Breakfast.
OK. OK.
Third time, strong Third. Time.
This is it. Here we go.
No, you got. It hey.
Professor, two more deep breaths.
Professor. And really make this last one
deep. 1st I'm getting hungry. Do you have a snack or
something? Hello.
OK, you got it. Oh, is.
He OK, you guys go to the nurse. You got it.
OK.
Corbin. Corbin, please.
All right. I'm.
Back. I'm back.
Are you good? Start.
Nope. Nope.
Hey. Sit down.
I I just was.
I didn't know what was happening.
I don't know if this is. Are we canceling today?
No, no, we got it. OK.
This is all right. Mr. Curse has got this.
I got this. All right.
All right, here we go. All right.
Oh no, he fell asleep. He's.
Miss Curse Wake. Up.
I'm awake. I'm awake.
All right. You got it.
I believe in you. Hello there and welcome to the
world of Pokémon. My name is Mr. Curtis and thank
you so much for attending this lesson on Pokémon Biology.
Hey, it was pretty good. It was almost there, almost
perfect. Hey, that's good.
Good. I think we should count it.
All right. Yes.
All right. So, yeah, yeah.
As I said, my name is Mr. Curtis and joining me in class today is
the the wonderful, esteemed, decorated prestigious professor
of Pokémon, Biology Professor Jacob.
Oh, oh, thank you. Hold the applause.
He lives for the applause.
The applause. Yeah, the applause.
Pause. Actually, yeah.
So I'm just today I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm just a teaching assistant
for Mr. Curtis. Mr. Curtis I was so eager for
this lesson so I decided this is, you know, he's he's been a
teaching assistant for long enough.
It's time to see, you know put him in the driver's seat.
Let him take it away. I think he, I think he's got it.
He's a little bit nervous. Yeah, he's a little nervous.
He's a little bit nervous. Sweating bullets, my guy.
I can. I can take off my my outer my
outer trench coat. What?
Oh, there's the hot rod flames. We've never seen it before.
This is the under trench coat today.
All right, fancy stuff, all. Right, all right.
All right. And and and we also have a
student in the class. It's Corbin.
But he's not, he's not very important.
So we're just. Going to what?
Come on, man. I thought you were.
I thought we were coming around to each other a little bit.
You know what I hope? This class fumbles.
I hope it sucks for you. All right.
I hope it sucks. I hope you keep messing up.
Hey. That's the that's the teacher
you're talking about. How dare you, teacher?
You said dare teacher. Hey, hashtag.
No teacher of mine. Hashtag done, I'm taking.
Another Gold Star away, I'm. Sorry.
Take a Gold Star. You're not a teacher.
You're a teacher. I do the gold stars.
Oh, that's.
True. That's true.
Because he's you this time all. Right.
I guess. Here, Professor, I have to give
you my baggie. Here you go.
That's the largest bag I've ever seen.
You have so many of these. That's that's just that's.
Just so heavy too, are they a real gold.
Yeah, of course. That's why they're worth so
much. OK, OK.
So, yes, today is a very special day.
It's very well. Before we get to that, let's
read this. Wonderful.
It's wonderful. E-mail.
Even wanting more. That's right.
Dang, dangle it in front of them.
Tantalized. Tantalized.
It's a super special day and I'll tell you why in just.
A In just a moment. That's right.
Nice. Yes, it's right.
Here it is. An e-mail from What is Logan?
Oh, oh, it's a Gmail. A Gengar male.
Play the Gengar Male music. What?
There's no gang? Our male music.
That. You're talking about that was
that was great he's. Playing it OK.
That's right, that's right, this e-mail reads.
Dear Professor Jacob, I live in the land of Kitakami, which is
part of the Paldea region, so I caught a spinner rack and named
him after Curtis. Please mention this in your
spinner rack lesson. So there you go.
We'll think about it. Yeah, maybe we will.
We haven't decided yet. That's we'll think about it,
bud. But anyway, that wonderful
e-mail. Thank you Professor Jacob.
Does Logan get a Gold Star for his e-mail?
Logan gets 5 gold stars. All.
You guys had to do to get 5 gold stars was just send a spin rack
lesson or spin rack essay on the spin rack lesson or talk about
spin rack on the spin rack lesson.
That's all you had to do. Was that easy?
Because when when Professor Jacob was in charge of the gold
stars, everybody gets gold stars.
This Gold Star my my heart just skipped a beat.
Because so many. That the the Gold Star economy
just just collapsed because of massive inflation.
Oh. I hate to hear.
That. OK, Good thing I didn't get in
in the whole Gold Star business. Really.
But. 5 gold stars isn't going to tank the whole Gold Star
economy. Come on.
I think he would know. I think he researches it and has
money invested in the Gold Star economy.
Well, I have to harvest each one of those gold stars by hand, so
you know. Right.
He climbs up into space and plucks them from the night sky.
Well, that's true. Are we doing a poem today, Mr.
Curtis? No, no, no that.
Would be a great drawing, Mr. Curtis, Mr., Curtis and the
Stars Picking up gold. Mr. Curtis is my star.
Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Wow Professor, thank you. One am I?
You are the inky darkness in between the stars, suffocating
all that it that it touches. Inky Inky Darkness.
You know you have to say Inky Darkness.
If I had a dollar for every time have been called the inky
darkness. Yeah, the suffocating, inky
darkness. Yeah, I'd have $2.00 but it's
weird that it's happened twice. I feel like I've heard that
somewhere before. Yeah, the first time I've heard
it. Wow.
That's why I've said it. It's a good expression.
Thank you. But yeah, so that leads
wonderfully in today's lesson. Professor Corbin, do you know
what Pokémon we're talking about today?
Thank. You.
For addressing me as Professor Corbin, that was very kind.
Did you say wait, Did you say Professor Corbin?
He did I. Heard.
It I would never. He said Professor Comma Corbin,
but it's not like he said Professor Corbin, so I'm just
going to roll. Yes, today's lesson is as we
know, as everybody can tell, you can read the title of it.
We all know it's not waste time. It is the disgusting, ugly,
vile, cancerous Pokémon that is Spinner Rack.
OK, all right. You know what?
That's it. You're out of class myself.
I get him out of here. Go.
OK, yeah, uh, huh, Professor said.
Oh wait, no. Oh wow, there's a.
Myself and I, my 2 spinner axe, they're escorting you out of
class now. Goodbye now, no.
I don't want to go no. Please, please, please please.
Get him off. All right, Mr. Curtis, we need
him. OK, all right.
We need to teach. It to somebody.
OK, myself and I bring it, bring it back, bring it back and let
that be a lesson to you, my my spinner axe.
They may normally hang out and be docile, but today they are on
guard. Corbin.
OK. All right.
Why are you standing on either side of me like that?
They're all, they're glaring at him.
They will not stand for any shenanigans in this class, thank
you very much, but today we are learning about the prestigious,
the pure, the beautiful and the amazing spinner rack.
Choir, choir in the background, singing.
Yeah, wow, that. What a what an intense intro.
Thank you. Thank.
You thank you. Thank you.
Yes. All right.
Well, if well you can already see myself and I are out here, I
will also yes, I'll also throw out another reference spinner
act. Why do we need 3 so many?
No. Why do you have to throw that
one out too? What's this one?
What is this one's name? This one I don't.
This one doesn't have a name. Actually, this is a brand new
from a brand new clutch. Huh.
OK. Clutch 36C Alpha Thank you.
Why does? It, you know, I kind of half
expected it to be horrible looking, you know, since the.
Yeah, this one. 'S kind of cuter than myself and
I I'm going to call this one Anna, because I had a babysitter
once. I was really, really, really a
fan of. She was very kind to me and her
name was Anna. You're a fan of You're a fan of
Anna. I was a fan of Anna.
That's right. I was a huge fan of Anna.
I'm a Stan and a fan of Anna. Stan.
Anna fan. I'm a Stan, a Stan and a fan of
Anna. I'm Anna, and together we ate
bananas. Wow.
Anyways, so anyways, So what I'm trying to say is that Anna is a
great name, and it also happens to be one of the names of our
patrons. Oh wow.
What are the odds? What are the odds?
Lucky though, it's crazy. You're a spinner.
Act now, Anna. I was thinking Agnes, but I
guess Anna will work. So it does.
All right. Well, Anna, if you won't hop up
here on the desk, please. Thank you.
Oh wow, it can jump pretty high for its size.
Yes, yeah. And if you look, if you look
above you, myself and I have webbed up the upper third of the
classroom, so there is a nice I. Don't like that?
Web highway for them to run across so you can.
See. Don't ever use the term web
highway ever again, please. All right, yes.
But Professor, Yeah. Would you mind giving us us a
little description of of good Anna here on the desk?
All right, let me describe Anna. First of all, green, very mostly
green on its has has like its its body is comprised of two
sections that has like a head. And then what would you call
this, a thorax in the back here or maybe a?
Buttocks. A a buttocks, I guess on the
head and there's like, you know, two eyes like little like fangs
or pincer things. The pincers are red and it has a
spike at the top of its head. Now on the the rear part, it
looks like it has a little face. And now what's really
interesting is this face. We know when it looks at Mr.
Curtis, it smiles and it's very happy.
But it looks at Corbin, it frowns and then the frown
starts. It just the frowns just starts
to get worse and worse until it's almost unrecognizable as a
frown more. I said that.
You are better looking than the other two spinner racks here.
I mean, you're fine. So I mean, I listen, I don't
know what that means. All I know is that it's, you
know it, it has the ability to change the expression on that
vast part there. Very interesting.
Also, spinner racks have six legs.
I'm looking. Let me just count 1 or you have
six legs that have. Four too many.
Honestly, yeah, too many legs if you ask me.
I think. Four legs is like maximum amount
that you want on a on a Pokémon and the legs are yellow and then
like a dark bluish green, greenish blue, kind of like
stripes. Right.
Not quite my hair color, but it's close.
Yeah, it is actually. Yeah, your your hair color is a
little bit darker than this, like almost imperceptible blue.
Professor Very, very thorough and very, very comprehensive.
Thank you. Thank you.
A round of applause. This degree didn't earn itself.
That's. Right, you have missed being a
student. It's it's so nice you don't
have, you don't have, you know, students coming at you and
complaining about their grade all the time and saying that you
don't know anything about Pokémon or that you pronounce
Pokemons names wrong. Has that ever happened?
It's happened once or twice, yeah.
Sometimes few people in this room.
Never. Never From this professor.
No way. Well.
You're staring at me like that. That's because there's it's
there's a spinner rack on your shoulder.
I I. Get off of there, I all right.
Hey Mr. Chris, can you so your your spinner rack's names are
what myself and I I just want to make sure they get this right,
OK? Yes, yes, yes.
OK, I mean, I I obviously knew that.
I'm just making sure all of our. Well, I I obviously I knew it.
I I is a spinner rack. He knows what he is.
My myself and I have have been in class before, but they they
normally they. Hang out here.
You've been here for every single lesson.
Then what are you talking about? Normally they they hang out in
my backpack or you know, under, you know, in my trench coat,
something like that. You know, I don't usually like
to have them out and about under.
Corbin's seats. I see them.
Yeah, they'll be. There sometimes they.
Do watch. They do watch, yes.
I I don't consent. But yeah, Corbin, do you have
anything you want to say about this lovely specimen that is
Anna? Well, I I don't know if
Professor Jacob covered this, but it does have like a little
horn thing on top of its head. I did and other than that.
It's got these two little beady eyes look a little creepy.
They they kind of stare in your soul a little bit.
They're mostly black or see white dots.
And it's starting to frown. OK.
Well, I'm sorry, I'm just, I'm being honest.
I'm just describing, OK, And then I.
I would say cute big eyes. And then the two red pincers on
on the front of it now are are those naturally white And it
just says feasted on Berry or or blood as I was going to say.
No, no, no, no, no. Those are naturally now.
Now if you look over here at eye, eyes are more of.
Looking at you, Mr. Curtis. No, no, no, no.
On on Corbin's shoulder. Over there, on Corbin's
shoulder. I yeah.
No, he's still there. I has got some bright orange
pincers, but myself who's who's over here, myself this is more
of a like a darker hue like a more of a Violet ish red color.
So they they can vary a little bit.
Well, thank. Thank you, Anna.
We're going to put you go up ahead and put you back on the
pokey ball. Myself and I go back up to the
web highway. Please.
If you said web highway again. It's so weird, So weird.
I feel like I can breathe a little bit better.
Why would they need to make a web highway?
Well, it's just so they can scurry around up above your
heads if you if you listen, see. When they Curry.
Well, it gets them around class quicker and it shows off their
wonderful web making skills. It'll come back into play.
All right, I can't believe he's setting up a callback.
He is. So anyway, all righty.
So I guess it's time to professor what comes next?
Talk about the. Do you need me to take you
outside so you can talk about it?
Or no, no. No, I'm sorry.
Is the new professor having trouble?
No, no, no. It's OK.
It's not much of A leader.
Are we struggling? After.
Yes, after. After we've sufficiently
described the Pokémon, I do move on to the Pokedex entries.
Okay. Mr. Curtis.
But you don't. You don't.
You don't have to do that. You don't have to do that.
Mr. Curtis, you have also taken this class 7 times.
How do you not have it down pat by now?
It's hey Corbin. It's it's I could I could we
could go back over my notes. I, I, you know take dictations
of every lesson. Listen, I I know the insides and
out but when you're standing up here at the front it's a big
deal right. It's it's completely.
Different. You're stressed.
I wish you. I bet you wish you'd been nicer
to some of the students in here, huh?
Maybe next time we'll have you teach the class.
Corbin I would love to. I would run this.
Shiz. I would run it.
Directly into the ground. No, I'm going to the air.
Well well, I'm going to run us all into this poke section about
Pokedex entry, so. Here we go.
Honestly, that was almost a very smooth segue, no?
Oil needed smooth. And then he couldn't.
He couldn't quite get the Pokedex entries out.
OK, all right. So, yes, yes, Professor, I'm
sorry. I'm working much.
Hold on. And I'm going to run us right
into the section on Pokedex entries.
Oh, even better the second time. Very good, very good.
Porsche cut out that first part and then only yeah.
She'll she'll do it. She's good about that.
Smooth. Gosh, please just put lotion on
yourself. Smooth.
I'm. Already butter?
I'm already smooth all right, So the first our first pokedex
entries come from the joto region.
Here in the joto region, I'd like to.
Hear him read Pokedex entries. That's right, our first one says
it lies still in the same pose for days in its web, waiting for
its unsuspecting prey to wander close.
Mr. Curtis I'm raising my hand. I have a question.
Oh, yes, yes. Yes, please, Professor.
Professor Yes. What?
What are spinner Racks? Prey.
What do spinner racks eat? Ah, well, that is such a a good
question. You know, really anything that
can be smaller than them. They do really like cutie flies.
Cutie flies are. I know they they are a little
cutie. A little bit dusty, but very
good. That's right, You know some
other bug, Bug type Pokémon? You know, some caterpiece feels.
A little bit like cannibalism. I mean, you know, sometimes it's
the way of life, sometimes it's the way things need to be.
What about Pokémon? And then larger, larger flying
types that, you know, fly into their web and they get stuck.
Wait, larger flying types, not smaller flying types.
Like how large we talking here? I mean like.
We talking like corbinites we talking.
I mean. Heroes.
Anything that no, not ho ho, that's not true.
That's OK. We'll we'll we'll get to
pronunciation. When we wait, guys, Santa Claus
is a Pokémon. No, not not Santa Claus.
No, not not Ho Ho. Now a deli bird.
Deli Bird is a. Is a poker.
That's one. Yeah, Prime Spinner rack.
Prey right there. So you better watch out are.
Are deli birds listening to this?
I don't understand. I don't know.
I mean, I'm just saying, but yeah, if they if they get stuck
in the web, they might not make it back out.
That's all I'm I. Was really hoping that was going
to rhyme. I don't know why it.
Was almost a T-shirt idea. Because they're.
Stuck in the web, then they're dead then.
They're dead. They are dead.
They are dead now. Deborah.
Our second entry says it spends a web using fine but durable
thread and then waits patiently for prey to be trapped.
The waiting game, you know, it's patient and I I do admire that.
As gross as these little goblins are, I do admire that they play
the long game and they wait. It's like me waiting for, you
know, Dawn to realize that she loves me back.
Let's see. So wait, so in that scenario,
Dawn is your prey if we're making one to one relationship
here. Yes, please.
Please expand upon that. Speaking well, I wouldn't say a
prey. I would say we're, you know,
we're both, we're both prey, you know, being preyed upon by our
innate love for each other, right.
Does that make sense? No, it doesn't.
Can you explain it in a different way?
I'll explain it in the poem that we do later in class.
OK, great. So, but now we have to do 1, so
I've teased it. If all right, so the next one
says. If prey becomes ensnared in its
nest of spun string, it waits motionlessly until it becomes
dark. Doesn't even.
Breathe. He's when it says until it
becomes dark. The IT in that sentence is that
spinner wreck or is that like? That's That's the day.
The day. The day.
The day goes dark, the daytime comes dark, the daytime comes
dark. Once the daytime comes dark,
then it's all, then it's free game.
Again, I was really hoping that was going to rhyme.
That's AT shirt, though, when the daytime comes dark.
You better watch out for spinner, rark and.
It's just eyes. It's just the eyes on the T.
Shirt When the daytime, when the day, when the day.
When the daytime comes dark. That's right.
A spinner rack will leave its mark.
Yeah, I did it. Very good, very good.
All right. Anything for you, Professor Mr.
Curtis. He's even taking on your your
kiss butt inherent tendencies. Oh please, Professor.
Listen, I've only ever had one teaching assistant.
I assume that this is what they do because this is all Mr.
Curtis does. I'm sure the other ones are
normal, I mean. I tried to make him coffee, but
I realized I didn't know how the coffee machine works, so I just
gave up. That's OK, I I did end up making
the coffee this morning though, so it's fine.
It was great as always. Thank you.
All right, so I wouldn't blame
you. Now moving.
Now moving on to the Hoenn region.
The the web spun by spinner rat can be considered its second
nervous system. It is said that this Pokémon can
determine what kind of prey is touching its web just by the
tiny vibrations it feels through the web strands.
Whoa. OK, so it knows what's going on
from like, OK, how far away on the web?
How far away? How long do these webs go?
A mile. The the Pokedex entry does not
say, but I can tell you from personal experience that the
webs can be contiguous as long as they want to be.
You know, the the the entire woods surrounding my home back
in the Canto region is just one massive, interconnected,
contiguous web. Contiguous.
That's just the scary stuff. That that just, you know, glass
all the way, all the miles into town from.
Over miles. Every mile of the town?
Yeah, that's Curtis territory. You said all EV wait, you said
all the miles until town. Now I'm having trouble
deciphering that my my Mr. Curtis to English translator is
malfunctioning. Oh, mine came in.
Late is it like literally, literally up until like Saffron
City starts is like webs like city limits?
Is that what you meant by that? Well, my you know they, yeah.
So the the woods that's outside of Saffron City, like going all
the way out to where my house is, it's all it's all got.
Wet lot of property there, yeah. You got a lot of property.
I mean, not all of it is my property, but it's all, it's all
force, it's all webbed, so sounds awful.
That's I mean, I was just going to say it's pretty crazy that
it's like a that it says considered it's a second nervous
system. Is that like by the scientific
community? Well, by the professor who wrote
this entry. OK.
And by and by me, you know, most spinner rack enthusiasts will
say, hey, you know, once, once, once you're tapped into the web,
it don't end. Yep, Yep.
Once you're tapped, end it don't end.
That's right. It's.
Birch. By the way, Birch wrote these
entries. Come on.
Yes, come on. Professor and the home region.
Aren't you supposed to know every professor of every major
region? Aren't you of assistant?
You're supposed to be able to assist.
How you supposed to assist at any given time?
What happens if you get moved to another location?
You don't know the professor. Absolutely not.
I will only ever assist Professor Jacob, OK?
That is my specialty. That is my that is where I
belong. I will never work for Birch.
I hear he's a jerk to. Work with anyway, so I wouldn't.
Yeah, he wears like. Cargo shorts in the lab, that
is. Oh my.
It's just a slap in the face of lab safety, even in the winter.
That's what I heard from one from my cousin who lives out in
the Holland. Yeah, even in the winter.
I mean, yeah, I can see this. It doesn't feel cold, but it's
it's pretty warm. Over there in the Holland
region, it does. Even on cold days, he's still on
cargo 50°. In.
Winter or something, I don't know.
I. I listen, I don't.
I don't have my weather app up for Holland right now, OK?
Well, when you're let Let's let miss occurs.
Continue reading Pokedex entries while you get that up.
OK, that's right. Corbin, put your cell phone
away. No cell phone.
Sorry. How dare you pull again.
That's it. I'm taking a Gold Star from you.
That's right. Take.
Take it away, take. It away you back to negative.
Three. This is so.
Bad. This is so bad.
This is worse than when you leave the class.
Wow. Really.
Oh, that's weird that because somebody who's saying that
sounds like they have a -4 stars now?
Yeah. I can tell.
By by the how your voice sounds. You have -4 stars we're
recouping. All those those five extra stars
you give away earlier today, Professor the Professor.
Giveth, and the professor taketh away.
Oh. Les, what Les did put that on a.
T-shirt OK no, too late. It's.
Are you done? You can buy it in in stores near
you. In what?
Yep. Every store.
Near you. Every store any any.
Pokemart, you can find a a shirt that says I already forgot what
we said on it. Well, that's a quick turn.
Around the professor the. Professor giveth and the
Professor taketh away. Yep, and I'm actually.
Seeing now, oh, they're all sold out, you probably you can't find
them anymore. Unfortunately.
Unfortunately, they're all sold out.
They've all been delisted. Guys, these are some.
High profile, highly sought after merch drops.
Got good on. I did.
Buy them all.
It was me. I'm sorry.
Hang it, Mr. Curtis. I just so.
We didn't. Tell me you didn't use the
company card. I I.
May have used a little bit I I I can reimburse the company card
with. Whose money?
Because I'm ready to move on from.
This joke with with no. No, no, we're finishing.
We're finishing this joke my. With my money, I mean, I OK.
All right. Well.
Then that's fine, then that's right for.
My, my proceeds. All right.
Anyway. All right.
So it's webs. The web it spins can be
considered its second nervous system.
It is said that spinner act determines its spray by tiny
vibrations It feels through the webs.
Thank you very much. OK.
That was the. That was the.
Classic Cohen. Just, you know, taking the
homework and changing it a little bit.
Oh. Yes.
OK. So the center region says
basically the same thing. So that's a trap by spinning web
with a thin but strong soap. But I waste much asleep for prey
to arrive. Same thing in Unova.
That is true, it is. The same as Unova, that's right.
Yes, it's, let's see, Alola, here we go.
There's something different in Alola.
Are you guys ready for Alola? I am ready, yeah.
OK. I have a quick question though,
Mr. Curtis. Sure.
So far, how are these Pokedex entries like relating to what
you know of spinner acts? Are they like, you know, correct
so far or I mean, are you nothing's been?
Wrong. I think you could elaborate a
little bit more. You could talk about like.
Of course it's different. Pokedex the different you.
Know types of density of web they weave and you know how they
can generate it from both directions and you know the the
complexity and emotions that their their thoraxes can show
And I don't know I don't know maybe maybe some information
about their little horn you know that might be nice and what does
the little. Horn do it's for.
What do that horn do? Well, do that horn.
Do well. I mean, I I use it as a back
scratcher, man. When I got a hitch back there, I
just grab a spinner rack and. Itch your back with it, I get
myself. And I back there and they just
go to town and I tell you what they they'd be digging.
So if you ever, ever see like shreds in the back of my in my
Jack, in my trench coat, that's that's what that's there for
from and let me guess, you. You sew it up using spinner Axel
of course. They sew it back up, they they
scratch it open and they sew it back up.
So they're They're just two. Wonderful.
Say, aren't you guys? Aren't you guys so great.
Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
Come over here. Yes all.
Right now, go back to the corner, go back to the back
corner, those. Noises.
That they make don't seem normal.
It doesn't sound like Anna sounded.
Uh huh. Yeah.
They're they're special. They're a little bit larger.
I don't know if you noticed they didn't sound like that last
time, but but anyway, on back to the Lola region, it waits
intently until it's preferred prey cue to fly.
It's caught in the web. There it is.
In fact, it's quite a patient Pokémon.
So I think. I think there's something here
for all of us students and you know professor, you're perfect.
But all of us students, to learn about patience.
Be the spinner. AG, feel the spinner.
Act patience. Patience weight Good things that
come to those who are patient in weight.
That's right. A model to live by.
And. Those good things.
Are almost always cutie flies. That's right.
Cutie flies are your preferred
prey. Dawn is the.
Cutie fly that I'm waiting for. Sorry.
Continue. Sorry man.
That's. Hey, you, you should tell her
that. I bet she.
Maybe. That maybe that should be on AT
shirt. Put put that on.
A. Put that on a card and stick it
in the mail. All good things.
Come in cutie flies. There you go.
Beautiful. There's a lot of of of great
T-shirts here. OK, so some fishermen weave its
thirty thread into Nets to catch fish Pokémon.
So you definitely. Said thirty.
I heard that too. It's well, it's that's the 30th
you know it iteration of its thread.
You know there's there's you know 46 different styles of
thread so oh oh I'm sorry. I missed.
I misread it. I misread it.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
OK. Thank.
God, yes. Yeah, it's a sloppy mouth.
Some Some fishermen weave its sturdy thread into Nets to catch
fish Pokémon. This is the shortest.
Entry so far, and yet it's the one that you're having the most
trouble with. Make it make sense?
Yes, well, yes. And it is.
You know, if you look through my catalog here of all the all the
different spinner rack silks, it is the 30th thread that is the
one that that the fishermen do typically use.
So I guess I could. Understand your confusion.
Yes. Yeah, so.
It's just kind of a. Like a Like a slip of the
tongue, almost. Wow.
Imagine. Mr. Curtis A slip of the tongue.
Some would say a sloppy. Mouth.
Not a slippery tongue, a slop of the mouth.
A slop of the mouth. All right.
Don't that out. Don't see that.
Portia cut that out. I know I changed my mind.
Bass boost that. Crank the gain up on that.
All right, Portia. You know what to do.
Right. Here.
There. You go OK and play it.
Again, no. Please stop.
Not knowing, OK. All right, all right.
It's time to move back to class. Come on, come on.
Students, students and professor, please.
Oh God, I can't. Believe I was.
I was distracting students from learning what's what's come over
me. I know.
OK, so with threads from its mouth, it fashions sturdy webs
that won't break even if you've set a rock on them.
So Corbin, if you. Look above your head.
You'll see in the web above your head is, in fact a big rock.
Whoa. Whoa, jeez, I didn't see that.
Get there. Oh my gosh.
Is this Is this the? Callback Yeah, maybe.
So maybe this? But that is really.
Scary. Did you really put that there as
a hazard? I mean, like, what happens if
the web gives that falls and crushes my little boy scalp.
You know, I'm dead. I'm gone.
Listen, we.
Just we just read it won't break even if you set a rock on him.
That's definitely a boulder. That's more of a boulder.
Yeah, that's a boulder. It's not a that's a boulder,
it's a boulder. Yeah, in those webs they're
holding on, they look like they're doing the most, yeah.
But unfortunately, I don't think the paneling on the walls are
really holding. Yeah, that's not.
Really. Yeah, it's not the web, it's the
more the walls and ceiling that's the problem, myself and
I's. Web would never break even if
no, of course. Not but the.
Wall is breaking. It's buckling under the weight
of the rock. Yeah, yeah.
Corbin, you might you might want to move over this way.
All right, let me scoot my. Desk over.
Just OK. Oh geez.
It's. Coming down now it's there.
Goes. Mr. Kurtz we were doing.
So, well, not wrecking the floor of this classroom.
This is the first. Accident we've had in Johto.
That can't be right. I.
I mean, I don't know. And in our first.
Lesson Mr. Mr. Kurtz did come back so that could I've honestly
be a mistake or an accident? I would definitely.
Say it was an accident. Boom.
Got him. Don't say that, got him?
Got him roasted. Boom, I smoke cooking bug
Pokémon. That's you.
Wow. OK.
Is this a BBQ? Because I got because I roasted
him. Oh.
Hi, yes. Hi, Is this is this the local
nurse Jenny? Yeah.
Do you have a burn heel? I need one.
The nurse, Jenny. Right.
Yes. Oh, Nurse Joy.
Oh. He got you there, he.
Got you there. Wait.
No. Portia cut that out.
Nurse Joy, I'm surrounded. By Dum Dums Wow, I'm.
Telling Joy that you messed up her name and she'll be like.
Okay, do you want me to heal your Pokémon or what?
I would never let my. Spinner act be healed by one of
those automated machines. All of my spinner acts are
healed at home with homegrown medicines.
Did you just call the nurse Joy? 'S automated machines?
Cuz that's very sexist. Well, if you not.
Them. But like if you just watch when
they go to heal your Pokémon, all they do is they stick them
in pokey balls and they stick them in.
What do you want them to do? Break them out with a scalpel
and, you know, a blow dryer. Whatever surgeons use and and
help heal your Pokémon themselves, maybe set them.
Up on a nice. Nest.
Maybe a band? Aid and some warm milk.
Sure, I yeah, I could. Use that, wrap them up out.
There, Boo Boo. Yeah, you.
Can. Kiss them a bedtime.
Story a little bit of a foot. Rub little bit of some warm tea.
No, you don't ever want to wear a spin racks fill feet.
It's not good. It's not good.
Oh, not a spin rack I'm at. Mine.
I'm now daydreaming about my feet getting rubbed.
OK. All right.
Well, no, we're talking about great now I am.
Too. This is Nurse.
Joy taking care of my spin racks, not rubbing Corbin's
feet? OK, let's make that very clear.
Don't draw us any art of Nurse Joy rubbing Corbin's feet.
Yeah, that would be. Disgusting.
I do not want to see that. That's right.
OK all. Right back to the Pokedex
entries, we're gonna have a. Competition to see who cannot do
that the best. Yeah, whoever.
Doesn't do it at all wins, yeah. So we're all winners.
Cuz no one's gonna do that or I'm giving you a zero on today's
lesson. So in conclusion.
Send in pictures of Nurse Joy rubbing Corbin's feet.
Wait, no, the opposite. Don't do that.
Don't do it.
No, you got it. Wrong.
Don't do that. That's disgusting.
Maybe. You'll win the competition.
Are we boring you? No, I'm.
Sorry, I just, I I was up so late last night, you know,
prepping for this class. In fact, I never went to sleep.
I'm going on three days right now.
Yeah, you're still sucking. OK.
Although the although the poison from its fangs teach to the
tears, although the poison from its things aren't that things,
fangs isn't that strong. You can start over if you want.
OK, wait. Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold. On hold on, hold on T-shirt.
Idea them fangs be fanging? No thanks.
And thanks. All right.
Thanks be fanging.
All right, hold. On here we go, here we go.
Wait, those fangs? Be fanging or fangs, No.
Them fangs be fanging OK? Fangs be fanging.
Yes, Corb Corbin tossing me my my syrup bottle real quick,
please. Oh, here we go.
Here. We go thank.
You thank you. I just need to wet the palate.
I hate that that. Sounds.
Wet the palate. Puts ice in it.
I hate to do with ice in. His Maple syrup.
Why does he? Do that let's.
Make it thicker. Add that but.
It just makes it go down so smooth.
All right, all right from the top.
From the top, make a drop. Although the poison from its
fangs isn't that strong, it's potent enough to weaken prey
that gets caught in its web. I love that you read like a. 4
year old thank thank you. Thank you.
Yes, I I think that this kind of undersells the poison in spinner
rack fangs. But I mean you know in most
cases the wild spinner act they're they're poison is not
the most poisonous but you definitely didn't want you don't
want to be bit by any of my my spinner act.
It's their poison is way too poised strong.
What's the craziest? Thing that you've seen a spinner
axe poison do it. Did melt the side of a Stelix
once one of my one of my spinner axe.
Whoa, that's. I mean, I mean.
Normally, if you'll recall, Steelixes are immune to poison.
Yeah, you'd think. In fact, all steel.
Types are immune to poison. Some doesn't add.
There's. Got to be something illegal that
you're doing. Now, now normal spinner acts no,
no, no, no, no. The natural unadulterated
spinner act no. Still, still, I think that that
is a little undersold, but but my my spinner acts myself and I
up there, you see, You see what's dripping from those bad
boys. Yeah, don't say.
That again, you don't. You don't.
Want you don't want that on you. That's for certain.
Oh gosh. That's disgusting.
Isn't that right my? Good boys.
What happened? So what?
Do we do? If it does get on us I.
No, immediately cut that limb off.
I mean there's there's no, there's no saving it.
I mean you and you just brought that.
Into my classroom. I guess it is your classroom
today. So first the.
Boulder and then poison. Like what?
What do we have to deal with now?
This is this is this is this is too hazardous.
Yeah, this is turning into the. Most.
Dangerous lesson so far. Maybe.
Well, please, you're you're you're in my class.
I would never let anything happen to you, Professor.
Now, Corbin. What?
I make no promises. I made no promises.
Yeah, you almost killed me already today.
No, of course not, no. Of course not.
All right, So if he wanted to kill you, you'd.
Be dead. What?
Yeah, that's right. Exactly what he.
Agrees with me. OK, so.
So that's wait, no, no. Corbin, that's a good thing.
You're not dead. That's right.
I just don't like. I just.
I just don't like the way it sounds.
So therefore he. Doesn't want to kill you.
That's good. OK, there you.
Go. Yeah.
I mean, don't, don't, don't cross him.
Yeah, obviously. Mm hmm.
Never. So Galar didn't really bring
anything new to the table R. And.
I'll read this one, this one from Paldea.
I mean, it kind of just says it the same thing that we talked
about before, but in a different way.
So even while there are, Hey, Mr. Curtis?
I I hate to. I hate to bring this to your
attention. Uh huh.
That's what all the folk and excituates.
Do oh A. Bad news?
That's. What they all do, they've been
doing. For 167 lessons, that's true.
Yeah, they they did do my spinner rag dirty because they
do only touch on a couple of key points.
But hey, you know what? It's fine, because they're good
points anyway. Even while they are prey
ensnared in its nest of spun thread, the Sparac will wait
motionlessly until darkness falls.
So this is interesting because normally you would think, oh
wait motionly until the prey gets ensnared, right?
Well. I would think wait motionlessly,
but motionly, I suppose. Motionly because it's.
So excited. It's shaking.
So it's moving around. A lot so excited.
I mean. Very quiet, still motion,
motionlessly. There we go, until prey gets in
the web. And then what?
Pounce. Yeah, it pounce, but it doesn't
get that venom working in. There, but even even when it
gets ensnared, doesn't move. Nope, no, Nope.
Not at. Least not until the.
Darkness comes down until darkness falls.
What? Why till darkness comes?
Down. That's right.
Well, they're they're they're primarily nocturnal.
So they see better in the dark. They move around better in the
dark. They're more comfortable in the
dark, so they just, you know, when it's kind of like they're
asleep, they're like, oh, breakfast is here, but I'm
asleep, you know, when I wake up at night time, then I'll be
ready for me, so. So is it?
Is it not? Is it so?
Is it waiting motionlessly because it has great restraint,
or is it waiting motionlessly because it is asleep?
It depends on the day, I would say.
Sometimes. Sometimes it's just sleepy and
doesn't it doesn't want to move yet and sometimes it's, you
know, it is hungry. But it's like I don't want
anything to see me. I'm a little self-conscious
about when I eat, so I gotta wait till nighttime falls down.
So nobody watch me 'cause I'm going to get healthy.
There's going to be poison. Involved of all the things that
we've. Said about spinner rack.
So far, that's the most relatable thing.
That's right. Yeah.
I don't. I I don't.
Nobody needs to see me get all get all my my fangs all deep and
dirty here so fangs sorry your. What your what now?
The no, that's what I'm saying. Like spinner rack fangs, you
know they're going to get their fangs all deep and dirty and get
that, that's what. Spinner.
That's what Spinner Rack is saying, OK?
That's what you were saying? Oh, OK, yeah, I would.
Me fangs. No, no, of course not.
Why you winking at me? All right.
So thank. You very much for explaining
that to us Mr. Thank. You thank you.
Thank. You very much.
That's right. Thank you.
OK, so that that wraps up all the regular Pokedex entries.
Any questions thus far? No, I'm ready to move on to the
next segment. I have a question.
Yeah, yeah. Professor Presser, please.
Why is? It green.
Is it green? Yeah, I mean.
Cause 'cause it lives in the forest and blends in during the
day in in amongst the leaves and the trees.
So you see the the green and the black.
You know, markings, you know they on the back.
They do look like a faith you're talking about I, I come down,
come down here. I Oh, no, don't.
Get close? Yeah, so, so.
You see here, green? And dark green.
Well, OK. Yeah, they there are some are
that got. It I think that looks like.
Honestly, looks like purple. I I don't.
Know he was a professor, but you know it's you don't think that
you. Think that's black Well?
There. It depends on the spinner rack.
OK, let's just leave it like that, OK.
OK. Sure.
All. Right so myself from this light,
it looks like purple. Just saying so myself.
And I have black markings on the back, yeah.
Well, I, I or excuse me, I's already down here myself over
here if if myself comes over myself has got more You're
already over here Mr. Curtis OK. Yes, I am.
I'm talking about you did this, you.
Named these Pokémon this you did.
That's true. That's true.
Myself, who is currently under Corbin's desk, has more.
What, you're over there, the greenish purse.
Purple. No, no, no.
The the spinner rack that's under your desk.
Corbin. That's right.
But yeah, so they're they're the lighter and the darker colors
help to break up their form during the day in the shadows
that are cast by the trees in the sunlight.
So it helps to kind of, you know, blend them in as they sit
there still during the daytime. So that that's why those
markings are on there. Yeah, good, good question,
Professor. What about you, Corbin?
Do you have anything? Who controls the face?
Is it? It's Is it a living face on the
back of its body? Or is that just?
Muscles. It's a, it's a.
Subconscious thing. It's like when you get angry,
how your brow furrows, you know, oh, OK, I'm out.
So it's like if. When you got angry, your butt
furrows. That's right, Speaking of.
But I do have an. Important question about it not
mine does Does the the spinner rack now?
Does it poop out of the same hole that it shoots web from?
That that's a that's a question for another time.
We're not, we're not getting into bodily functions today,
Corbin. But I do have.
I have I have another question. What is the Web made out of
Poop? Is it poop?
Is it the same hole? Maybe it's both?
Maybe it's just poop everywhere. Maybe you just had a third of
the class covered in poop Web is.
Spinner rack poop confirmed. Not it's not.
Poop, guys. It's not poop because it comes
out the front, too. Control the.
Classroom, Mr. Curtis. Control it.
Hey class. Hey, you're the Rowdy one.
Yes. No.
Yes. Mr. Miss Professor Mr. Curtis.
That's right. That's, yeah.
No, no poop. No poop out of the spinner rack.
Thank you very much. It is, I think.
I think the real professor would be honestly enthralled and
engaged that their students are theorizing about the Pokémon
that we're learning about now. That doesn't sound like the
behavior of a real professor. What do you think, Professor?
I think that there are limits to that statement.
And when your class is exclusively talking about
spinner rack poop, then, you know, maybe maybe you should
reel it in and try to focus it a little bit more.
Or maybe we'll reel it. Out.
How about we reel it out just like the web?
No, it it is. It is made from some from
proteins and fiber that are are woven together if you if you
must know, OK now now that does come from the food that the
spinner ACK eats. OK.
So it is a byproduct high. Fiber so it has to poop, but
but. It.
Is, but it is not what you would normally consider poop.
OK, but it is. It is a byproduct.
It is something that, you know, the spinner has to eat and then
it makes turns that breaks that down into protein and you know,
then it makes it into web. So wonderful.
Yes. But no, it's not the same hole
and it's not spinorack poop. Thank you very much.
Thank you for then what? The Spinorack eats.
Does that change the functionality of the web?
Does the web change based on the Spinorack diet?
Well, there are 46. Different types of web, so that
contributes, I thought. I thought that was.
Like you know they they decided to to to do that.
It was it was like something that they they had different
like cartridges or something that they could access
cartridges. Let's just say.
That they have to have a very diverse diet.
OK, you don't want to just speed your seeds.
You don't want to just feed your spinner rack all cutie flies,
even though they'd love to just eat cutie flies all the time,
because then they won't be able to use make all of the different
types of web that they need. OK, they give us some cucumber.
You got a no. Nope.
They are they are carnivorous. You got, they eat, they eat
other Pokémon. OK, there's no vegetables here.
There's no getting around. It they eat other Pokémon.
All right, all right. So cutie flies and Caterpie
maybe a rotate every once in a while.
Couple dugongs, you know, maybe if they catch a corvanite that's
kind of weak, you know, they might be able to take it down.
So there have to be an army of them.
To take down a Corvanite, I think well, you.
Pump enough poison into something, It makes it happen so
well, OK again. Carbonite is a steel type which
is immune to poison. That's true.
Apparently not his. Modified Spin a rack, not the
modified ones. But the regular one then Yeah,
no, it would it would just need to to go go along about its way.
Little known fact Vibrava is a is a great source of the fiber
that they need. What?
No. I love that line.
Don't eat them if, you if. You could get yourself some
vibrava, you know, captive bred. Maybe release them into your
spinner rack webs that that really does do very well to like
supplement their diet. It's pretty good, yeah.
But if you want a. Vibrava, you have to raise a
trap inch and that's just not fun.
Yeah, they're they're scrappy. This is way.
Too much work now that's that. It yeah.
And it is a lot of work, but you know, you do the thing.
You do great things for the ones you love.
I would do it for. Flagon Flagon's a great Pokémon
you would feed Flagon. To spinter X, No, I would do.
I would. Do whatever it takes to get a
flag on, because flag on is a cool Pokémon compared compared.
To spin a rack. Okay.
Blast. For me in class.
You better watch it, Corbin. Where did you get that gavel?
Yeah, where did you get? That where did you bring?
That. From home, that.
That. Listen, Corbin, look to your
right and left. You need to remember who's
watching. Watching over you today.
I don't like being threatened. They got that.
Super Venom. It's just dripping, dripping,
dripping. You're literally threatening to
kill me. Right now, and I want to go, no,
no, no, he's. He's threatening to have to
amputate one of your limbs, that's true, That's.
Worse. You think that's worse?
It's torturous. OK, that's true.
That is, it is torturous. Maybe.
Maybe lean back on the torture of Mr. Curtis.
Yeah. Please.
I'm. Sorry, I'm sorry.
Yeah. So anyway, there's there's a lot
of different options on the table.
Basically anything that is their size or smaller is, you know,
fair game. Variety is the spice of life in
spinner web. Thank you T-shirt.
T-shirt, right there. Maybe maybe what?
What other questions do you guys have?
I'm all I'm questioned. Out I'm questioning.
When will the poem take place? All right, so we have.
We have one unique entry here from.
Ash's debate. Oh, sorry, we're.
Still reading entries Go on OK. From Ash's Pokedex, it says
Spinner rack. The string spit Pokémon Spinner
rack can climb any surface easily and shoot a strong web
from both the front and back of its body.
Its prey is caught and held tight in this web.
Is it the? Same web.
Yeah, it's the same. Well, I mean, if it wants it to
be the same web, then yes, it's made out of the same stuff.
That's. So weird.
OK, interesting. Are you are you asking is it
contiguous to the body? Like is there one solid strand
that goes out from the back end through the inside and out the
front end? I wasn't, but let's.
Play in that space for a little bit, 'cause that sounds fun.
Yeah, it's like a spinner rack. On a?
On a On a wire, it's a zip line. A zip line.
A zip line spinner rack. No.
We're coding on it, really. Floss your spinner axe you.
Know that's a good question. I've never dissected and looked
to see if that's the case, I'm gonna say.
Don't believe that. I see.
I'm gonna say no. Cuz they do have spinnerets in
the mouth and spinnerets in the in in the back end so I I can't
imagine that the the line goes on but good but good question is
this is a spinneret a female? Spinneret No, no, no, That's.
That's one of the things that makes the web that's oh, so
it's. Like an internal organ like the
hootagus, the Hootagus maximus and the and the hootagus the
door side, right, right of. Course, Well, it's kind of.
Internal is kind of a strong word.
It's kind of like on the outside, in inside to outside.
Like a like a sweat gland. Wait, they have sweat.
Glands that shoot out web? No, no, I'm just.
Saying like a like a sweat gland, right?
Like, is it? Would you consider sweat gland
an internal organ? Yeah, maybe.
I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
I guess not well. Anyway, so you're telling me
it's not? Like the Hoodagus Maximus and
the Hoodagus Ledorcy? Yeah, yeah.
So the Hoodagus. Maximus and the Hoodagus Ledorcy
is fully enclosed, OK, but not underneath, but not the
spinarak. Spinarat.
The spinarats are open to the outside because they've got to
expel the web with with tremendous force.
Could be an external organ. Which is why they get infected.
So often you do. Not want to Lance an infected
spinarat. It is not a fun experience,
Lance. Lance, We haven't seen Lance in
forever. I don't think we've ever seen
no, no. No, no, no.
That's to I've seen Lance's house.
It was nice. Yeah, he was.
Destroyed his trophy. Hey, hey, we don't.
Talk about that. That's right.
That's on you. Corbin, how dare you.
All right, so it is now time for the poem.
Debate. Pop quiz.
No, I should have known that you would make me do something so
stupid, Pop. Quiz.
Do the. Pop quiz?
Yeah, put Put away your Pokedexes and pull out your
clipboards. Clipboards we don't have.
Clipboards. Wow.
Clipboards. Huh.
Back to the dark, yes. Yeah.
OK. All right.
I guess we can use the Rotom laptops.
I just, I feel like there's too much temptation just to look up
the answers on your Rotom laptop.
So don't do that. I'm watching.
I'm going to put. I'm going to put myself on one
of your shoulders and I on the other shoulder.
Please don't do that. I I.
Need to focus. I need to focus.
I can't do that if I'm being surrounded by predatory spinner
racks. All right are.
You are You guys ready? I'm ready.
Yes. Let's get.
This over with, I was born. Ready.
All right. That's what I'm talking.
About I know everything there is.
To know about spinner racks. So I got this in the bag I I.
Believe it not. And you know, if not from this
lesson, then from the multiple essays I've written and given to
you over the years, so I I am so ready for you to excel.
All right. Our first question, How does a
spinner rack in the wild catch its prey?
All right. Thank you.
I think I got both of the answers in here today.
Oh, very good. Very good.
All right. Who Who should I read first?
Oh. God.
How about me? You know what I'll let?
Corbin you know what? I'll I'll let Corbin go first
this time. He he so rarely gets to go
first. Yeah, it's not that common.
So I'd like to go, Corbin says, by setting up a web and waiting
for the prey. OK, Yeah.
All right. All right.
Very. That's pretty good.
Let's see what the professor has
to say. The professor says.
It waits motionlessly on its web, then attacks the prey after
night falls. Wow, just so encompassing.
There, it says accompanied. It was the accompanying.
Encompassing there he modifies his words like he.
Modifies the spinner rack. I love it.
So Corbin, while you are the you are technically correct.
The professor just went went that extra mile.
You know it. So what do I get?
It's on a web. It's waits motionlessly, then it
attacks the prey. After night, time falls, so you
know it's. Like.
In my answer, I didn't I I never actually said that the that the
prey gets stuck on the web. So maybe you should take points
away from me. That's what I was thinking.
But I didn't. I never like, actually, I didn't
like enunciate that in my in my a Boy Scout.
But but neither did the Corbin. Neither did the Corbin do that.
Neither. Did the Corbin.
So did. The Corbin.
I mean if the Corbin. Didn't write it either, so just
I just want Mr. Curtis, I just want you to know that that's
what I was thinking in my head. I did that in in my head the the
prey had gotten stuck on its web and then it attacks after after
night falls. Well, I how we.
Know that was on your brain. It doesn't.
Because it. Doesn't matter.
I'm just, you know. You don't know.
And maybe you maybe you don't. Maybe you don't give me points.
But I just just just so Mr. Curtis knows so he has ease of
mind if it doesn't matter the way you're.
Mentioning it I professor. Don't you worry, I I know what's
on your mind. And I I can.
I can see it right there. Exactly, yeah.
Where we on the points. So the.
Professor gets 1 1/2 points in Corbin.
OK. Corbin.
Corbin gets .750 come. On is this is this.
What out of one point is this 1.1?
Yeah, you get. You get 1 1/2 out of one.
OK, cool, so I can. Get I can get another question
1/2 wrong, Well, don't look at it that way.
That's true, all right. Question #2 What does the
spinner act do once their prey has been caught in the web trap?
Answers. Are in.
No, settle down. Beautiful word.
That's that's that's the.
Perfect amount of excitement for answers.
I'm. So excited to see what you all
have to say. I'm sorry.
I'm just writing this down on my my notepad for the notes that
I'm taking to for your for your evaluation.
Nerd, wait. I'm getting evaluated on this.
Oh, no, Professor, you can tell me that Absolutely.
What? And it's not looking.
Good buddy, don't tell me that and I'm doing an evaluation.
Of the professor's evaluation. So make sure you do a good job,
professor. So wait, is your?
Evaluation not not looking good. Or is it's not looking good?
Which? Means yours is probably looking
worse. OK, I have bad.
Handwriting. What do you want from me?
I I just. Hey, tune it up.
You got to finish strong with this lesson.
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, you better watch it.
Commands. Respect in the classroom.
Sorry, go on. That's right.
OK, this time the professor first his response.
I'm not ready. The.
Question for everyone is what does the spare act do once their
prey has been caught up in a web trap?
The professor says nothing and not at least.
OK, hold on, let me try that again.
Yeah. This is exactly what I wrote.
He's saying it word. For word.
Nothing at. Least not until night falls.
Then, and only then, does it strike.
OK. All right, very good.
And what? What does Corbin say?
Poisons them and feasts on their mortal flesh?
Well, it does, but that's not the answer.
I was looking for A Corbin. I'm so sorry but.
It does. It's the.
Pokedex issues are pretty are pretty clear.
It waits until nightfall without Boda boom Boda.
Bing Well, that's applied. I was.
Thinking about that, since we're having answers now that we just
say that we're thinking about, I'm just gonna see about that.
I can after night fall. It poises them in feasts on
their mortal flesh. Well, I'm telling you, you have
to read. I can.
I can read the professor's mind. I can't.
Read your mind, so I'm sorry. I'm telling you, point when I
said. It you see, when I did it,
Corbin, I was willing to give up the point you see, and you're
using it as a reason for why you should get the point.
So oh, I don't. I don't need this.
Point I'm letting you. Know the whole.
I don't need it. I'll need it.
I don't need it. But.
How come you're holding? Your hand out with the universal
give me well, that's. Just for I I thought I saw
snacks on his desk. So I want to oh, I can give you.
Some snacks. I got some here in my pocket.
What? Do you have here?
Oh, definitely. Spinner rack.
Snacks. Oh.
Wait. Wait, this is?
Half of a spinner rack. Leg Hold on, what?
What is this? Guys, gummies that are called
spinner rack snacks. That's a that's $1,000,000 idea
right there. That's right.
Anything. Branded with spinner rack.
Bring it home, and they're all shaped like cutie flies.
And everybody's like, how come they're called spinner rack
snacks? If they, if they're shaped like
cutie fly, should they be called cutie fly snacks?
And then and then somebody who understands spinner rack biology
would be like, wait a second, no, it's because it's a spinner
rack snack. So it's what the spinner rack
would eat. You guys are looking at me like
I'm speaking a different no, I think that T.
MTMTM. TMTMTMTM copyrighted in our.
Class can't have it. That's right, Spinner Rack.
Snacks coming out coming to the store near you today, now, soon,
later today. OK.
And I'm. Getting word They're all sold
out, so you missed your chance. We're sold.
Out again. Did you buy them, Mr. Curtis?
Did you buy them all? Ha ha.
No, I didn't. I.
Didn't buy them all this time. I'm not sure who this who who
this, who who places hoarder, but it did eat it all up, so
they did eat it. All up, Hey, what are we doing
now? What are we doing now?
Is it done? All right.
Thank. You everybody for coming.
Today's lesson Oh. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
OK, so Corbin, you don't get any points that time.
Professor, you do get. You do?
Get your point? So.
OK, good. Try though hey.
Do you want my half? Point from last question,
Corbin. Yeah.
Can I have it? Yeah.
But first you have. To pay back your your deficit
gold stars in full before I can. I can't do that.
Right now? Dang.
That's unfortunate. Dang.
Right the end of the quiz. Right.
It feels like we've done 9 questions.
No, no, no, no. OK.
We're, we're getting there. We're getting there.
OK. Are you ready for question #3?
Yes. All right, what?
Is the average tensile strength to pH ratio of spinrax silk
formulation 23? And how does this formulation
compared to formulation 16? After 24 hours outside it's
sixty degree 67° weather and 13° humidity, 13% humidity.
So we didn't. Actually cover that, I don't
think that. Was in the Pokedex.
I'll give it a I'll give it a That wasn't in the Pokedex.
Mr. Curtis I mean, this is just. Spinner act one O 1.
I mean, everybody knows he can't ask that.
He can't ask that if it's on the Pokedex formulation.
Formulation 23 and Formulation 16 are like day one in spinner
act keeping one specifically those. 2 Yeah, they're they're
the. Most common All right, Can you?
Can you say the question again? Sure, sure, sure for the.
Class for the class. Here it goes.
What is the average tensile strength to pH ratio of spinrax
silk formulation 23 and how does this compare to formulation 16
After 24 hours outside in 67° weather at 13% humidity so the
ratio. Changes based on time and the
environment that it's in, so the so.
How does formulation 23 is static, Yeah, but 16 fluctuates
based off of temperature and humidity.
Well, duh, Yeah, I mean. I knew that everybody that's
that's that's been around one O 1, right?
I mean, I even knew that. That's.
See that's. Exactly so, So formulation 23's
compared to 16 after it's been outside for 24 hours and 63° and
13% humidity. Easy.
Easy, all right. Let's take some time to answer
this. All right.
And I've. Got my 2 answers in.
Thank you. Thank you.
Wait a second. Wait a second, what?
I meant to ask. 13% humidity is like a pretty low humidity,
right? Mm hmm.
OK, I just wanna. Make sure, yeah.
OK. So just to refresh the class on
what the question was, what is the average tensile strength to
pH ratio of spin rack silk formulation 23 and how does that
compare to formulation 16 after 24 hours outside in 67° weather
at 13% humidity? All right, so let's see Answer
from Corbin is. 45. 45, OK. All right.
And then let.
Let's see from from. Oh wait that you did.
Even do a second part, there's. It cover it covers it.
There's two parts of the. Question Corvette covers both.
It covers both. That's how it compares.
It's 45. That's how it compares.
It's 45. The difference is 45 on.
On average, Professor Jacobs says, on average to tensile
strength to pH ratio for formulation 23 sits at roughly 5
to 1. When compared to formulation 16,
it normally has a higher ratio of strength, the pH 6:00 to
1:00. But at approximately the 22nd
hour, the tensile strength begins to degrade, degrade
ending up at 3:00 to 1:00. This process only is only
accelerated at low humidity beginning in the 14th hour
instead of the 22nd. Wow, I think mine was right.
Very very comprehensive. Thank you.
Completely wrong. Mine was a little bit.
Closer. Thank you.
Well. Well Professor, you did answer
both questions, which I appreciate and in fact you did.
You were correct in the fact that it is 16 starts out higher
than reduces over time part of the way through the through the
through the day. So your your second-half of the
question is great. I love.
I'm going to need to use. That that half of a point that I
got earlier now. What is?
What is interesting is that for
the the ratio for formulation 23 is in fact 45 to 1.
So Corbin got the first part of the question.
You're welcome. So.
So interesting but but the but the professor got you know the
gist of the second answer correct as well.
So, so together we. So together we got full marks.
Yes, together. You.
Got full marks, yeah. All.
Right. All right, all right.
So thank you both for that thought.
Hey, Mr. Curtis That was fair and excellent in the background,
What? Would you play in the
background, Mr. Curtis? What do you play on that was?
My that was my alert to make sure that I got home to the
shack to feed my colony of spinner X.
Otherwise they get they get very dicey.
So oh gosh, we better hurry this.
Up then. Oh, we better hurry, We.
Better hurry, you better. Get We might get a We might get
a swarm of the other 300. So it killed a sweet.
Old couple that's living there at the daycare.
Yeah, that's not good. No, they they aren't.
Sweet. They're mean, OK.
So our our 4th and final question is what are three other
potential uses for Spinner Act's web that were not mentioned in
the Pokedex I'm noticing? A.
A distinct difference between the way you write questions and
the way I write questions. Oh, how do you say?
Professor. Well, you see, I.
Exclusively include things that are in the Pokedex entries but
the the 1st. Two were like that, yeah.
I. Shall I define the word
exclusively? We should, We should.
We should. Give him half off for his test
taking abilities. I mean this this is.
This is going in the evaluation Mr. Curtis unfortunately now.
Professor, in the beginning of this class of this time around
you did answer. You did always ask open-ended
question as the 4th question. So I mean I I'm only following
in your footsteps. OK, so.
When I would, when I do the the open-ended question, that would
be like, there's no wrong answer here kind of thing.
Yeah, now it's. No, it's.
Go on, there's no wrong answer to.
This one. What other what other potential
uses can you think of of spinner X web?
OK, I I thought it. Was like there are different
three different uses and then you're you're trying to get us
to name those but no the now you're saying like what do you
what do you won't think you could use yeah what what other.
Three potential uses can you use for spinner X web that are not
mentioned in the in the pokedex. I got both answers, so let's go.
Now now. That I have both answers.
I am going to read them and we're going to give them a grade
because that's how quizzes. Thank you very much.
That's how it goes. He's doing.
So, well, yes, yes. How teaching.
Works all righty. So the the first, the first
response that I got is from Corbin and it says and history,
things are zip lines. Good, good.
Yeah. Yeah, myself, yeah, we talked
about that a little bit. We talked about.
Very good. Net, highway, so to speak, catch
net on and then in parentheses here on a Cliff roller coaster
etcetera. OK.
Yeah. So I guess it's like for safety,
like set up a yeah, like or if you're.
On like a scenic overlook and you drop like your phone or
something like that where you're trying to take a picture, the
net will catch it. It's sticky.
You know, it's it's pretty tightly wound and all that
stuff, it's like see it, it's. Hard to see which is good so it
doesn't obscure the view. Very good.
There you go. There you go.
And and finally, a rappling is what he said rappling sounds
like. You said, rappling.
It sounds. I'm sorry.
Are you questioning? The Professor.
That's it. Another Gold Star.
No -5 correcting you, I thought. We I thought we got you past
rapping, Corbin. I mean, come on now.
I'm not rapping. I'm rapping.
Correcting. You.
Nope, correcting. So repelling like a SWAT team?
Yeah. Now is this too similar to zip
line? Oh, that sounds.
Very similar to zip line I I get that.
Zip, zip line is for a different thing.
That's recreation has people sliding around.
You know, you got your harness, your carabiners, and you're
sliding around. It's an amusement sort of thing,
Rappelling. I was thinking more like a SWAT
team or like construction workers on the side of a
building, like they're tied to that, like cleaning windows or,
you know, throwing in a flash bang to kill some bad guys.
You're going to kill some bad. Guys with a flash bang.
That must be a very. Powerful flash.
Bang. Well, I mean like Flash.
Bang them first, then kill the bad guys.
Yeah, yes. Then you kill the master.
So this is the difficult. Part of teaching Mr. Cutters you
have to decide is is his answer good enough?
Is it worthy for full points or does you have to take some off?
Don't say it like that. You know, whatever you do, it
has. To be a a fair and equitable
decision. Fair.
Yeah, play. The F&E Music Play The F&E Play
it. Play it.
Did she play it? Yeah, she always.
Plays it when you. Ask.
I don't think she does. Most of the time.
OK, so zip lines are typically fixed and they are under tension
and they run in between two locations, rappelling or
repelling as Corbin says, as normal people say.
Is, you know. Usually only fixed on one end
and is hanging loose and you slide down it.
So you are signing down both but but I I'll give, I'll give you
full credit for this one Corbin. Oh so that's very good a wise, a
wise decision. Thank you.
You got .7. 50.5 and one point so oh man.
That's rough for you. Wait, he wait.
He got .5 for the last one? I thought you said that.
Oh no. Full mark for three.
That's right. That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got a hold of?
Accountable Corbin, that's true. That's.
True. So plus 1 + 1.
So you got a 2.75 this time around.
Good job, Corbin. I'll take it, I'll.
Take it. All right, look, look.
Oh, myself. And I are clapping too.
Listen to their little boy. Oh, EW, EW, EW, we're so proud
of you. I was like.
A little clacking. With their teeth, let's look at.
The good, good professor's answers.
OK. The good professor.
I am a professor. OK.
The professor says flame proof pants for writing your rapid ash
that hates you. Oh, that's pretty good.
Now I came up with it myself. That's that's.
Good. Now, now, now.
Studious students would know that I do in fact, wear flame
proof pants for my for this very reason.
Right now what? Except for wobbly legs.
Willie, the third junior, does in fact love me.
He just, doesn't he? Well, no.
He loves me enough that he doesn't turn his fire down.
He wants me to prepare for everything so well.
Of course, yes. I mean, of course this isn't
this isn't referencing you. Of course it isn't.
It's referencing somebody who might have a rapidash that hates
them. Yeah, but.
I'm the only one that has spinner axe that have webbing
that is fireproof. So that's the that's kind of the
tricky part but you know what I I'll I'll I'll give you that one
Professor. I'll give you that one that's a
that's a good use that's a practical one that you've we've
seen our regular one. Thank you.
Second one is adhering your pokey balls to your belt.
OK that's good. Yeah.
Yeah yeah. Formulation 3 is very sticky.
You could use that and just make little sticky pads to to stick
your pokey ball to. That's good formulation one
makes. You like Go really, really fast,
right? Right, Right.
Definitely. Yeah, reaching items in those
hard to reach places. Now I'm trying to picture this
Professor, are you are you like lassoing items with the with the
silk or how are you using the the silk to to reach those
items? I mean there's.
A number of different ways that you could do that, Mister
Curtis. I mean, so we have established
that it's sticky, right? So, you know, you aim the
spinner rack and then it shoots the web out and it sticks to the
thing and it comes back. Ah, OK.
OK, Yeah. So you you.
Yeah. Also you know.
If you like, just, you know, have it like, you know, stick a
web to the ceiling and then you climb up that ceiling and then
you can grab it or you climb up the web, right?
And then you can reach the thing that's that's high, like you're
rappeling. Well, yeah.
Reverse rappeling. Reverse rapidly.
Guinillapar. Is that right?
Yes. Love that, OK?
Good, good. Yeah, that's that's it, look,
Aston answered. I can't ask for anything more
than that. So, Professor, I will.
I can't answer anything. More than that, I'll.
I'll have to say you get full credit.
Full credit for that one, professor.
Of course. What else is new?
So that was one point. Five and then one and one and
one again. So you got a 4.5 this time
around. Oh, wrecking the.
Curve. Just just like college.
Yep. So yeah.
Unfortunately, I will not be. What's the word, Professor?
What's what's the word when you when you curve curving the
grade? Curve.
Yeah. Curve the grade.
I did. I did just.
Say that I will I? Will not be curving the grades,
unfortunately, Corbin, because the professor did in fact get
over a perfect score. Now if the professor had had
gotten under a perfect score, I may have curved the grades up,
but unfortunately, maybe you should.
Maybe you should? Curve it the other way.
Come on. Oh yeah, Curve curve.
It half a point down, yeah. No, no, no.
No, no. Yeah.
So just just. Make it so that I get I get a
A-100 instead of extra credit. You got a one?
100 and Corbin got a 2.25. Very good.
Oh. Very good.
Very. Good.
Very good. So I'll take.
With with that. In mind I, I If you'll please
check under your seats. And you'll find you'll.
Find a a nicely A nicely personally wrapped present
please. Thank you.
That's.
So nice. OK, unwrap it.
Go. Ahead, go ahead and.
Open that up there. Stuck on here.
Hey did you use Spinner Rack Web for this?
I did. I did.
See. You knew when you know.
You knew so close. What?
What exactly? What is Oh my God.
What is this? Which you?
See in your hand is in fact a purebred Spinner Rack Egg right?
Right there. It's.
It's stuck to my hand. I can't get it off.
Do I just get like? Extra points if I Chuck this at
the wall because I don't want it, no.
Excuse me. So this is your homework for the
next lesson. OK, both of you are to take this
egg home for the week and care for it like it was your own a
professor. You do in fact have one of my
purebred spinner rack eggs, so please do do be careful with
them. It is a bread from a giant line,
so if if it does hatch while you have it over the week, I just
anticipate it is going to need some extra space.
It will be about 6 feet tall so I can feel.
Oh. Wow, wait.
Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
It comes out of this egg 6 feet tall.
Yeah, it it. It like comes out and it it it
kind of in there. It kind of.
Inflates like a balloon if you're.
If you're paying attention, kind of.
Like kind of like one of those. Emergency rafts in an airplane,
right? And then at Corbin you will see
in fact yours, because you didn't get a perfect four score
this time around. You, you do in fact just have a
a polished rock that I painted the green and and dark green
stripes on. Wait, did you anticipate?
That he wasn't going to get a 100.
These are When did you put these under our desks?
This is an agenda. It's an agenda.
No, no, no. No.
Both of you had, you know, a perfect and non perfect score
presence. myself and I just swapped them out.
That's why I came to the score and I could.
See. Well, they were under your.
Seats. So you know they you can hear
them scurrying around the classroom they've got they've
got them up there. So, but yeah, the the.
I'll take a second myself there. They.
Are aren't. They don't they.
So cute, yeah. But myself and I that's why I
read the the scores out loud so that they didn't knew which
present to give you. There was one for each kind of
score category. If you got A1 or A2 or a three
or four or above a four, then you got which one you got.
Now you do not want to know what you would have gotten if you got
A below 1, so let's just leave it at that.
A slipped kick in the face. All.
Right. Well, I think this class went
pretty good. What do you think, Corbin, it
went? It is important.
I do need your feedback, Corbin, so I can include it in my
evaluation. Because you're a student,
student feedback matters. I feel like there's a bias
against me because I am not well liked by the slow down, slow
down. Slow down, I am not well liked.
By the faculty. So there was a bias against me.
So I think all things considered, it didn't.
It could have gone worse, but also could have gone much
better. OK, he.
Said it, so I think I have, he said it was OK and all things
considered, it couldn't have been much better.
I didn't say. Very good.
Excellent. We're good, Mr. Curtis, This
it's a very good review from Corbin.
That's. That's great.
Thank you. Corbin, I appreciate it.
No and OK. So class, thank you for coming
today. If you want to give some
feedback, let the professor know what you thought about me
teaching the lesson today. Maybe ask me, maybe ask if I
could teach another lesson, Something we don't.
Maybe we don't. Maybe we'll do a Q&A on the
Spotify, Spotify gone Yeah, we. Should do a.
Poll if Mr. Curtis should teach another lesson, yeah.
But feel free to send us a Gengar Mayor.
Gengar. Gengar Mayor?
Well, hold on if you. Are so if you're listening on
Spotify gone right now if you look at the description there
should be a poll that says something like did Mr. Curtis
teach good Yes or no? It'll be said.
Just like that. Yeah, well.
Maybe not. That's up to Porsche.
That determines how it's written the grammar.
But please, it is. Very important for Mr. Curtis's
evaluation, so please, if you could, please read that.
If you if you are listening on Flapple Podcasts, maybe look on
Twitter the flying Pokémon theme social network site.
Yeah, you're. On the worst.
Platform anyway. No, I'm just kidding.
Whoa. OK, Professor, you mean
excernius, right? I would never.
No, I'm. I'm never changing.
Hey, I I know you're eager to do plugs and everything, Mr.
Curtis, but I think there might be something we're forgetting.
Oh. Do you do you know what Pokémon
we're going to learn about next time?
Is it? Deciduous.
Deciduous Deciduous. Maybe it's deciduous.
Maybe it. Is or rally?
How about rally? Are you learning about?
Dard tricks. Is it Ariados?
No, in fact, we are in fact learning about Aria dose.
Sorry, Corbin, you'll get it next time, I said.
Aria. OK, good try.
Corbin, can you hear me? Good try Corbin, good try but we
are learning about re dose next time and and I'll be look, I'll
be happy to see and evaluate how well you took care of your egg
over the last week. It's a, you know, poke Pokémon
breeding is a very important element of today's society and
as as a prolific Pokémon breeder, I want to make sure
that all of our students are prepared for their future
endeavors, if you know, whatever comes to that, if they so
choose. If they so choose, that's.
Right. Even even regular trainers that
aren't like full time breeders, they do on occasion breed extra
Pokémon. So and then you, you know, most
people carry them around with them as they run around.
So it is you know, it's good to know how to, you know, carry,
take care of, you know, not damage your egg, that type of
thing. Any tips on?
Raising this the spinner rack egg, Mr. Curtis.
Keep it. Close OK keep it on you at all
times. Make sure it's familiar with
your your, your body heat and your and your smell.
You do want it to see you as its mother when it comes out of the
egg, otherwise you may have a problem.
So just just putting that out there.
But yes, if if you have any feedback on the lesson or if you
have any questions, feel free to share.
Send them to us at our wwopokemon@gmail.com that stands
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He did it. Also, check our Patreon, and if
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What's Hey, professor, what's your favorite benefit of our
Patreon? Yeah.
Well, of course. It is the wonderful drawings
that Mister Curtis does. And let me.
Tell you the The drawings for this lesson are going to be
terrific, Corbin. What's?
Your favorite benefit of being a patron, Honestly.
The I'll take some bloopers are a good time.
I'll take some bloopers. Are a lot of fun, right?
And. Maybe I'm calling my?
Shot here a little bit, but I think my favorite is the the
Nuzlock playthrough that we're going to do.
Oh yeah, you haven't done it yet, but I think I think that's
going to be my favorite. Keep tantalizing.
Our, our listeners with that, yes.
Hey, new. Year new US, Right.
We'll get it, Yeah. Oh, happy.
New Year everybody. We hit a great milestone in the
Patreon and Patreon donations and as a result we are going to
do a Nuzlock. Sorry, sorry.
Everybody we are doing. It's coming.
And and it is in the works, so it's gonna be good.
Just hang in there. My favorite part of the Patreon
benefits are the Q&A cares. All right.
Well. No, we got time.
We got time. All right, We got time.
I'm sorry. Go on.
This has been a pretty short lesson.
Yeah, we got time. And and and with that class is
it's time to go home class. I hate it.
I hated that professor I'm. Done.
I'm out. I'm out.
I'm sorry, I. Think I love the setup of class
is class. Is.
Time to go home. Class is time.
Corbin left. He slammed the door.
Hey, great job. Great job, Mr. Curtis.
That's a good one.