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 our young trainer and training, Corbin.
Corbin, how are you doing today? I'm good and you better.
Hey, you better watch your mouth, 'cause things have
changed around here, buddy. I've enrolled in a new course
here. Well, OK, I think it's back.
I was doing a fun thing where you get introduced for at first,
but now if you tell me you're you're doing other lessons or
other other classes, you know what you're you're dead to me.
Joining me here in the classroom is my my perfect, wonderful,
amazing trainer or a teaching assistant.
Mr. Curtis. How are you, Mr. Curtis?
Oh. Professor, don't do that to me
again. I'm so afraid.
I betrayed you, Professor.
Hey, Mr. Grins. How's your hands doing?
Yeah, how's it doing. Look, look.
See. You really broke it on that sudo
wudo you. So really gnarly.
It's a weird shaped cast. It's getting better.
See, it kind of creaks when I do this.
Wait, are you? Why are you moving the?
How are how are you moving? The cast EW.
But it but it's fine. It's it's healing up.
And I can I I got one little finger that sticks out top.
I can kind of twitch it a little bit.
It would stop that and come over here, tickle you.
Corporate. No, no, they'll give him the
finger. It's disgusting.
Gosh, you guys don't remember. Mr. Curtis broke his hand on on
Sudo Wudo last week because he's dumb.
Yeah, I thought it was a tree and I was going to prove my my
prowess and my strength that Sensei William Shire taught me
and and chopped the tree in half with my bare hands and it turned
out to be a stone suit of woodo so.
Yeah, well, hey, it happens. It doesn't happen.
I mean, it's pretty obviously not a tree.
Yeah, I believe one of the Pokedex entries was even like
it. It it fails to fool even
children. So you guys are.
OK, children, Children is aged to 11 and up.
All right, I'm 10. It's fooled me.
That's fair. He is, He is.
He is a children. I am child.
You have no, you have no excuse. Yeah.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was
blinded. By your hubris.
OK, so Corbin, what were you blathering on about?
About some other. Lesson I was going to say first
of all, you know I take other classes here.
Excuse me, I'm talking you. You know you.
I take other classes. Excuse me?
You don't talk to the professor that was.
Excuse me, Mr. Curry. Excuse me?
No, I'm excused now and I will say that I take other classes at
the school as well. Number one, it's none of your
business. I want to know more.
Recently I have become I have become a check it out.
Got a badge here. Boom Cub, chew scout.
Look at that, says Kick. Me.
Why are you wearing a badge that says kick me?
Oh, sorry. One of the other kids put that
on my back. Where?
There. Oh, my jacket.
OK, here it is. Yeah.
Cub Chew Scout. There's my badge right there.
You see that? That means I'm a Cub Chew Scout
and I have been learning the ways the ropes of the cub chews.
Cub Chew, and we have been doing our most to learn about survival
skills in the last week. We've been learning about what
it means to have honor and integrity.
And I feel like I've really built my character up in the
last week that I've been taking this new class.
It's been a lot of fun. And yeah, I think it's a good
time. All right, I have a lot of
questions. I did not know that the Cub
chews were in the Joto region. I thought it was just a Unova
thing. Well, they do have a small
branch that they're starting here.
It's a newer class. They just started it this
semester and I learned about it, you know, through a couple of, I
don't want to say friends. They're the ones that actually
put that kicked me. Was it Gordon?
No, Gordon. Gordon didn't put that on me.
Gordon is not a student. Here.
But I was like, did Gordon tell you about it?
Yeah, yeah, he does. He looks out for me.
So he was researching some of the classes and Gordon found out
my roommate, the the cadaver that dresses as a Mr. Rhyme.
He found out that there is a, you know, there's a, there's a,
there's a Cub Chew Scout division here at the Golden
Marrow City branch of the Saffron City Learning Center.
And I enrolled and I'm in and I've been having a great time.
Now I know now, Corbin, I know that the Cub Chew Scouts have a
slogan. I cannot for the life of me
remember what it is. But you, as a Cub Chew Scout,
would remember. So what is that slogan?
Oh my gosh dude. So right now it.
Seems like you're stalling. Thing.
But I know part of it. So the first part is when in
doubt, chew it out, chew it out. When in doubt, chew it out
right. I wish it wasn't.
I mean that's the one that. I wish that wasn't it.
Yeah. I mean, I listen.
I don't make the rules. I just recite them.
Oh, it's not like. Like I promise to, you know,
uphold the trainer code and not try to catch other trainers
Pokémon or you know, I I I promise to you know.
Have a good battle daily, is that not?
That's right. Yeah.
So the, the tent, the the the the saying is when in doubt,
chew it out and then after that, that's what happen.
That's. Part of it and.
It says something along the lines of I swear to every tenant
there is, I will not catch another trainer's Pokémon, I
will not spit in the face of another trainer, I will not
dishonor myself nor my peers on the battlefield, and I will
listen to my scout master. No killing whatsoever, that
person. Hate that?
Rule slogan. This is all part of the slogan.
And then is supposed to be a quick like punchy like a like a
one the 1st. Part is when in doubt, chew it
out. And then the rest of it.
That's the rest of the part. That's Slogan Part 2.
OK. OK.
Do you so obviously.
So you have badges, obviously. I have one badge.
I have the entry badge. You get it on the first day.
Oh, the great participation trophies.
There's. There is.
I'm currently studying for, like I said, my survival skills.
There's a survival skills badge that is up in the running and
I'm thinking of testing that out.
May do some survival stuff maybe if you guys want to.
Help your boy out. No.
I'm very good at survival stuff. I can barely.
Survive being with you, Mr. Curtis.
I would, I would. I'll even lend you one of my
spinner act. They're, you know, invaluable.
You need to make a shelter. They'll get you up in the tree
lickety split. You need a blanket or a tarp or,
you know, wow, it sounds like he's build a trap.
Pitching us a A spinner rack right now.
I I don't build a trap or is this a pitch of Pokémon this
week, Professor, are we learning about spinner rack?
Again, no, we're not. Maybe you wanna lash together
some trees and build a shelter? Hey.
I'm sorry. What?
What would you need from us?
I listen. I just need a chance.
I first of all, I need my guardian, which is you,
apparently. While I'm over here in Joto, I
need you to help me sign off on this.
I need to go out into the wild with at least two chaperones,
one of them being my guardian, and I need to prove my survival
skills through, you know, a kind of a a a day of camping.
Can you just tell them about the time that we crash landed on on
the Sea Foam Islands? It was the Sea Foam Islands.
It was the sea foam islands, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and then survived all the way to to the the island.
Yeah, but we survived because we were spooning dugongs.
That's not going to count for my survival badge.
It's got to be something I do now while enrolled in class.
Do spoon gongs? Is that what it was?
Hold for laughter. It didn't land.
OK, All right.
Corbin, I'm looking through my notes right now.
Sorry. I'm flipping through a lot of
notes right now. I'm trying to figure out.
OK, actually I think, I think this could work out.
I think we, I think we have a lot of grass type Pokémon coming
up in the lessons. So it's not just said you.
Why don't even say it? Don't say it.
That's what's going to stop that professor.
We. Do have a lot of grass type
Pokémon coming up, and grass type Pokémon love to live in
forests and and nature places. So maybe, maybe, Oh, maybe we'll
go on a camping trip in these upcoming.
Maybe for the next all I need is one day, all I need is 1.
Day I have to change a lot of my lesson plans.
Here It's. Just one day.
That's it. It's just one day that I'm
asking. That's it.
Okay the next Okay one day. If you wanna do it on a lesson
day, like on a Wednesday so we can record it, that's a great
idea. OK.
All right. Listen, we're getting, we're
getting distracted here. We have a lot to talk about
today, Corbin. I will review my notes and maybe
maybe we'll have a camping trip in the next.
Maybe I'll. I'll hold.
On hold. You too.
All right. So I've got so many things to
prep, so many trains. No, no, no, no, no.
And you missed it. It's a.
Curse It's courses to set up in the woods.
This is all. This is all corvid.
This is all. It's all me.
I am doing it. Corvid needs to prove to us that
he can survive. Yeah, but we could make some
high ropes courses that would be so much fun.
We could put some silk up in the.
Tree, we don't need to do that. That's not survival, that's
entertainment that could be done after the survival.
After you survive, you can entertain.
All right. That's that's that's one of the
tenants. No, it's.
See, this is where you're wrong already.
It's tents we'll be sleeping in, no?
No, no, no, no. They have tenants too.
What they have tenants just like, just like Cub chews out in
the wild do. Whatever.
OK, if we get to go next week, I'll show you guys my little
outfit. Wow.
Wouldn't it be a great idea to see Little Corbin in a Cub Chew
Scout outfit? I can't.
I would love artwork of that. That'd be so fun.
Stop asking. Stop begging for artwork, all
right? Does anybody know what Pokémon
we're learning about this week? It's a decidui, professor.
That's true. It's neither of those, and you
both got it wrong, so I'm just gonna say it, We have it.
Bondsley. No, no, we're not learning about
Barnsley this week. Although that does say to me
that you do remember who we learned about last week, which
is pseudo widow. So I guess suppose that.
How could I forget this week of Caesar?
Right. You you forget a lot of things.
What'd you say? Look at my hand right now,
Caesar. Is it Caesar?
No, it's not Caesar, OK, Yeah, he has a he has a personal
memory of his hand exploding against.
God. Flying to pieces against the
rock? OK, no.
We are learning about Poly Toad this week.
Oh, oh, OK, Now we have a Poly toad.
We got Terry. He works in irrigation at the
school. Is he going to come in?
Oh, he's such a good. Singer I love Terry.
He is a good. Singer.
I have heard him while he's been working outside.
Are we going to have a singing performance from Terry?
No, we're not. And now if you just sing, just
listen for a little bit. Let me explain.
So we have learned about the Pokémon that Poly Toad evolves
from already Squirtle we didn't learn about last week.
It's not Suit a Widow. So Poly Toad Actually, how can
you guys guess? Do you guys know what Pokémon it
is? I mean the name should give it
away. Is it a variant of Squirtle?
No, it doesn't evolve from Squirtle.
Oh, OK, side duck. You're all saying water type
Pokémon, which is great. Gyarados.
No toad duck. You know, they're kind of,
they're both from the. Same period.
It evolves from polywhirl, right?
Polywirl evolves from polywirl. Now I know what we're thinking.
Wait, doesn't polywirl evolve into Polyrath?
Hmm. Yeah, we, we did talk about that
in. We did talk about that I.
Believe, I believe if you have a special item, I think it's
called a A King's, A King's boulder, A King's and a prince's
rock. A King's rock, is it a King's
rock. King's.
Rock. That's it.
That's King's Rock. Yeah, if you give a Poly Whirl
King's Rock, it will evolve into a Poly Toad instead of a Poly
Wrath. Yes, but yes, that's kind of
like you know where it's come, where it's come from.
I I still don't want to like you.
You just think that you can find Poly toads just randomly out in
the wild. OK, so they're rare.
That explains why I've never seen one.
In they are, they are fairly rare now we do like you said,
like you guys said, we do have a Poly toad employed here at the
GCLCBOTSCLC right Terry Terry, he's irrigation.
I was not able to get him to come visit today.
He was very busy with his irrigation duties.
However. However, now we were able to get
his sister. Now we you guys haven't met his
sister yet, but she does. What's?
Her name? What's her name?
Professor. Oh, well, I guess maybe you do
know her Dolly. Dolly the Poly toad.
I don't know that I've heard of Dolly.
I haven't really chatted with Terry much.
It wouldn't help if I did because I don't speak polytode,
but yeah, I I actually, I was not aware that he, Terry had a
sister. OK, well her name is Dolly and
she is the choir director here at the GCLCBOTSCLC.
Oh, OK, I know you're talking about.
I have seen her. OK, I have.
I've. I've heard her class, but you
haven't seen her, is what you're.
Saying OK, OK. So I don't spend a lot of time
out of this classroom. Hold on, I I need to.
Let me. Let me see Holly real quick.
I just want to make sure that that's what that's.
Apology. Well, I was going to invite her
in anyways, actually. OK.
All right, Dolly. Yeah.
Yep. Come on in.
You can come on in now. Hello, Dolly.
Hi. Oh, my goodness, aren't you
cute? Look at you.
OK, all right, so I have seen Dolly before.
No offense. I thought you were a shiny Crow
gunk. So now, yeah, no, I could see
that. I could definitely.
See that now? Now I know.
And she and she is taking massive offense to.
It. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, sweetie. I didn't.
Mean Dolly? I'm sorry, Dolly, he said.
Don't take offense. Did you not hear that part?
Yeah, don't take offense, OK? Yeah, I said.
Don't. We build them here at the Cub
Chew Scouts. We build them.
We don't take them. That's the other rule.
Build fences, don't take offenses.
Gotcha. Is that now that's a much better
slogan than the one that you said.
Well, it's a tenant, not a slogan all.
Right. Well, all I'm saying is that it
would be better as a slogan. I don't make the rules, but I'll
talk to my I'll, I'll talk. Like you barely even remember
the rules, honestly. I I've been.
I've been in a week. All right.
I'll talk to the Scout leader. Good.
Yeah, I would like to talk to the Scout leader too.
That's right. Okay.
Yes, go on Well. I was just going to say Miss
Dolly, I'm so sorry about the insult.
I would just really love to see an example of your great singing
well. Before we get to that, before we
get to that, Corbin, could you please describe Dolly
respectfully, if you will? Dolly is very cute she.
Is good start, Good start. Oh, look, she's she's blessing.
Wait, yeah, that's just her skin.
That's just skin. So a very different look than
Poly Whirl or Poly Wrath or any of them.
First of all, it's not even blue.
Dolly is green and yellow so she has this cute little smile,
these little rosy little pink cheeks and still got that swirl
on the belly. But again, it's not like white
and black. It's more yellow and green.
It's it's whole bodies green and on its hands and feet it's got 3
little booms, little Boo Boo nubs and they're all the hand
and the nubbins are all yellow and it's it's bottom jaw is
yellow and again part of that swirl on its belly is yellow and
then other than that it's got this cute little.
It looks like a kind of like a light blue hair.
It's like 1 strand of hair or antenna or something poking out
of a. Task.
What is that, professor? Well, we'll learn more about it
in the Pokedex centuries going forward.
But it is a long hair and it is very important.
OK, yes, So. And and she's very, very like,
happy that you've said that it's a long hair, which is, yeah, an
important thing to a lot. Of Oh, it's very cute.
Dolly. It's very, very cute.
All right, all right. Now, Mr. Curtis, I believe you
were about to ask Dolly something if you.
Yes, yes, go ahead, Miss Dolly. We we've all heard of your your
great skill as the choir director here and all the awards
at the choir I've received. Right.
And Terry's great. So obviously Mr. the Family
right. Sure.
Sure.
So we I was just hoping that you could grace us with a little
musical example of. Your proud.
I think the virtual students would love that.
Dolly. If you.
Yeah, if you if you could. Please, Dolly.
Whenever you're ready. Whenever you're ready, Dolly,
please. OK, Dolly, come on.
Whenever. I know you're doing a lot of
warmups When whenever you're ready, just Dolly take it away.
Wow. That was that was great.
Yeah. Thank you so much.
Wow, that was, did you? Imagine that professor that was
so good that was. God, OK, Mr. Curse.
We can't lie to her. That was horrible.
That was really bad. Professor Jacob, that sounded
like a wingle getting stepped on.
I'm going to be honest with you. It was.
Bad, I thought. It was pretty good.
It. Was bad.
It was like she was pinching me in the face with her voice.
Oh, Dolly. I'm sorry, sweetie.
That was not very good. Whatever your day job is, don't
quit. It don't, OK?
Don't patronize her. Dolly.
I'm sorry baby. That was just better luck.
Next time, maybe take some lessons from Terry.
Oh. No, no, no, no, no.
Guys, guys, you can't say that about Dolly.
She's she's so mad at us. I'm sorry.
I should have worded that better.
Should have given you constructive feedback and not
made fun of you. I'm sorry.
Whoa, hey. Wait.
Oh, she's starting to sing again.
What is that song? What is that song?
What was that song? Oh gosh.
Did you guys hear those chimes? It's Oh my bad.
Oh. That was weird.
OK, she looks pretty pleased with herself now.
Why? Do you have like a grimace?
Why do you have that? Wait a second.
Stern smile. It's no haunting.
I've heard that. Did that.
I think that was a perish song. You.
Did not. Oh, she's slowly nodding.
She did. She's and she's slowly and also
backing out of the classroom. You just committed 3 murders,
Dolly. She's she's walking back where
she's not even turning around. She's just like Oh my goodness,
you just perish song. Just we just got perish song
don't. Walk away, Walk away, Dolly.
Please. I shouldn't have said I I
screwed up there. Pulled it Mr. Curtis.
All right, everybody, terrible news.
We're going to die. This may be our last lesson.
It's like, OK, I don't think. I don't think Paris.
Paris song, I think is a misnomer.
I don't think it. Kills you, right?
It's called Parish Not Faint Song.
Well, listen, we have a limited time here and I think it seems
like it. I think the only thing that we
can do right now. Go home and hold our loved ones
and call Dawn and hope that she picks up the phone and tell her
how that you're a brand new Cub Chew scout and that she's going
to get really impressed that you guys are going to start dating
virtually. That eventually it's going to go
steady, you guys are going to meet up in person and you're
going to grow old together, that you're going to have a bunch of
kids, you're going to have a family and a legacy.
It's going to be awesome. They're going to hold you at
your deathbed and they're going to say goodbye.
Grandpa, thank you for all the fun stories, and I'm glad I got
to learn about you from all those lessons.
Close. I was going to say Pokedex
entries reading. Some Pokedex entries.
OK. That's a close second I guess.
There's no there's no place I'd I'd love to live in my life than
here with you, Professor. Does anybody have Don's number?
No, but I do have Pokedex entries here, so I'm going to go
ahead and read them. Starting off in the Joeto
region. The first entry says if Polly
Wag and Polly Whirl hear it's echoing cry.
They respond by gathering from far and wide.
Oh, that kind of rhymed a little bit.
Echo and cry. Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised
like, do you guys see any Poly whirl or polywag around here
when when Dolly was singing? I did it.
They probably ran through the hills.
Maybe. Maybe maybe Dolly's just a bad
singer. I mean, that'd be crazy, right?
We We hired her. Yeah, because I don't know,
maybe she was just fooling around.
I don't know. Why would.
How would she get to be the choir director if she sucks?
I mean if you, if you, those who can't.
You know what they say. Yeah, go on, Curtis.
I. Was about to say those who can't
teach. Yeah, those who can't do, teach.
That's right. Also maybe NEPA?
Wait. Hold on.
Wait. Hold.
On. Wait, I take offense to that
saying. That's right, because you can't
discover any Pokémon. But not you, Professor.
Not not you, Professor. Though you're of course is a,
you're. I would write the best pokedex
entries. I would write pokedex entries.
So good if they let me if if I could find a region where that's
that's that doesn't already have a professor.
But The thing is, all these regions already got Dang
professors. All of them.
All right, Professor, you say the word.
What region do you want to be the professor of?
And I'll, I'll make an opening. Say that.
You said that about Professor Oak a few weeks ago, and I
didn't like it. You're going to make an opening.
What does that mean? What does that mean?
I'll I'll open up some some some replacements.
The next entry here says whenever three or more of these
get together, they sing in a loud voice that sounds like
bellowing. Yeah, or.
Whatever noise that you know, Dolly made.
I mean, I think bellowing is a pretty good bellowing is good.
Yeah, yeah, sure, the next entry says when it expands its throat
to croak out of tune. Nearby, Pollywag and Polly Whirl
gather immediately. All right, T-shirt throat to
croak. Hashtag throat to croak.
Did I wait? Throat throat to croak Why wait,
are we putting a hashtag? Wait, are we putting hashtag
throat to croak on the shirt? It's yeah.
So no, no hat. OK, fine.
Forget the hashtag. It's just going to say throat to
croak and it's just going to be a polytope giving you a thumbs
up. And not like, expand your throat
to croak or something like that. Just throat to croak.
I think throat to croak is just catchier if you just say that.
Yeah, but it's also meaningless. Throat Throat to.
Croak. Well, not if you listen to the
class. That's true, and that's what
it's all about. And so people say, what on earth
is that from? Where did you get that amazing
T-shirt? And they'll say, we listen to
welcome to the world of Pokémon. It's a fun online class.
And they'll say, that's awesome, where can I listen to it?
Then they'll tell you all the platforms that they can listen
like spot a flag on and flap a podcast.
Then they'll mention our Patreon.
Then they're going to give us a ton of money.
Then we're all going to get rich.
Well, you're you don't get any other revenue, Corbin.
What? You're you are paying us.
You remember that, right? That's right.
And Mr. Curtis doesn't even get paid.
You're the only one that gets paid.
Oh, this is all for you. You know what guys?
Take your subscriptions away. I am.
I am. 10 years though the Patreon.
The Patreon money is for the class.
That's right. All right.
It's it's it's for class repairs and class expenditures that you
know the school refuses to pay because of a horrible, terrible
Kangas Khan accident that was 100% Mr. Curtis's fault.
Nobody's fault and completely blame this.
It was all his fault. So you say all for class
expenses, huh? Is that a new coffee mug?
What? The one you have on your desk,
That's a new coffee mug. I noticed that when I walked in.
Did you get that with the Patreon money?
No, I got that with the money that the students pay me to when
they enroll in the class with my the salary that the the
GCLCBODSCLC pays me. But did what?
What did What did you do with the one I made you, professor?
Oh, this is the one you made me. I just made a couple of changes
to it. Yeah, it looks nothing like it
and it's got no web on it. Corbin.
Wait, why? What are you doing?
Why are you doing this to me? What are you doing?
Just can't. Just.
Just cut it out. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I. Just wait.
Oh Dang. Sorry.
I thought it was whispering in Corbin's ear.
I guess I was accidentally whispering in Mr. Curtis's ear.
I. Just wanted you to like my
coffee cup. It was ugly, Mr. Curtis.
I'm glad he changed it. You know what?
I'm going to solve this awkward situation like I do with most
awkward situations, which is by reading Pokedex entries.
Moving on to the Hohenn region, the 1st century here says the
curled hair on Poly Toad's head is proof of its status as a
king. It is said that the longer and
more curled the hair, the more respect this Pokémon earns from
its peers. All right, RESPECT.
Find out what it means to me. Poly toad, Am I right?
Good. OK.
Moving on to the Sino regions, that's that's probably why Dolly
was like super happy when you said that described her curly
hair as long. And then you completely
eradicated all of that goodwill when you oh, you.
Guys did, too. It wasn't just me.
I. I thought it was really good.
Mr. Curtis and an extremely uncharacteristic turn of events
was was pretending to like it well.
Maybe he's just tone deaf. I I no, I I did really enjoy it.
Mr. Curtis, she's gone. You don't have to to lie
anymore. But I, I, I I mean, I guess if
you say so, professor, say it was no say it no I.
Genuinely liked her. It was.
It was not good there.
It is he got. That's what I thought.
I'm glad we agree.
All right, let's move on to the Sinner region.
There's only one in the Helen region.
I mean, it was still a pretty good entry, but come on, come on
Helen, Give give me a couple of good entries.
Come on. There is also only one in the
center region, and it's very short.
It says it gathers groups of others as their leader.
Its cries make Pollywag obey. Oh, stand at attention.
Yes. Obey.
Gather and obey. Stand at attention.
Oh, isn't that something that the Cub Chew Scouts do, Corbin?
They do, yeah. That's before we that's before
we, you know, do our Pledge of Allegiance.
Yeah. To the cub Chew flag.
Yeah. Wait to wait you to the cub chew
flag. Mm hmm, yeah, there's a there's
a flag we hang in the class. Come choose to have their own
flags. Yeah, we have our own flags
here. Oh well, you'll have to bring
one in one time, Corbin. I might have to bring it in in a
future lesson. Maybe, maybe next lesson, you
know, OK, there's nothing new from the UNOVA region, nothing
new from the Kalos region. There never is, however, here in
the Alola region entries. No, we're not.
We're not in the Elola region. The way I said that did kind of
make it sound like here and and beautiful Elola, but we're not
here Elola. This entry from Elola says they
gather on moonlit nights to form a large chorus.
Their cries sound angry and not at all pleasant, but they are
certainly distinctive. I should just remind everybody
we're talking about Poly Toad here.
None of the entries like have mentioned the name of the
Pokémon. Well, except for except for the
hell and entry, right? And we were talking a lot about
Cub Chew. So it's.
Just a friendly reminder, yeah, we're talking about Poly Toad
today. Cub Chew's in a couple lessons.
Yeah, just a few. The next entry says it's the
leader of Polywagon Polyworld. When Poly Toad roars, they all
cower in fear. The next one roars.
Must be talking about it singing.
In fact, this next entry says although it's cries sound like
screams, A composer created a beautiful ballad that was
influenced by the sounds. Oh.
Have you guys heard it? I have not heard it.
I've not heard this piece. Maybe, maybe.
Maybe Porsche will put it in right now.
Wow, that was beautiful Porsche. Thank you so much for putting
that in for us. Brings a tear to my eye.
The next entry and the Lola killing it with these entries.
By the way this. Is Curtis with a Squirtle?
Allegedly never proven. No.
The longer and more luxurious the curled hair on its head, the
greater number of polywag and polyworld that will obey it.
Pretty good let's. See, the longer the more they
listen. What interesting you said, The
longer the hair, the more that the other ones listen.
Like that means they're commanding more respect.
The longer and more luxurious to curled hair on it's head, the
greater the number of pollywag and pollywirl that will obey it.
Wow, so you can command the mass.
Will listen to. Yes.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, all right.
The next entry comes to us from the Galler region.
Galler getting getting their hand on the ball.
Down and dirty. At nightfall, these Pokémon
appear on the shores of lakes. They announce their territorial
claims by letting out cries that sound like shouting.
My lake. Hey, hey, it's Dolly.
Get away from my lake. I back off.
Hey, hey, Where's the Where's the Polly Wags at?
Get over. Here what a wags at.
Where's the Polly Wags at any? Whirls out.
There. What a wags and whirls.
Tell a girl. Give you whirl.
Rats not allowed. Get out of here.
Rats just, like, don't like you. What are rats?
Raths. Polyraths You're not.
Allowed, they said. Rats.
Well, OK, there haven't been any mentions of polyraths in any of
these, so I don't think Poly Toad can control any polyraths.
Well, it just doesn't cares for polyraths.
Yeah, like it could. It could, It could control
polyraths. It just it doesn't want to.
It just. Doesn't want to.
It just doesn't. It's like, it's like, it just
doesn't like their vibe. Right, No.
All right, the next entry says. The cry of a male is louder than
that of a female. Male Poly toad with deep
menacing voices. Find more popularity with the
opposite gender. Deeper the better.
And more menacing the. Better get the go to get the
deep voice. Oh, that's so scary, Mr. Curtis.
I'm very menacing, aren't I? But very menacing.
Who is this dark? Who?
Is this dark? Form in the classroom.
It sounds like he's got a mouthful of oran berries too,
when he's talking like that. Probably does.
A. Little glutton.
OK, let's see here. Are these new entries or I'm
just going to read them. I think they're new in the
Paldea region. If Polywag and Polywirl hear
it's echoing cry, they respond by gathering far and wide.
Like it's just so much that we've like already heard.
It's hard to tell if like we've heard that exact one.
Yes, I think we, I think we have heard it.
I think in fact I think that was the 1st century that we read.
So thanks, Paul. Dan.
Nice. Let me just read this next one
too. It's the leader of Polywagon
Polywirl. When Poly Toad roars, they all
cower in fear. Oh, oh, well, they.
I mean, or they come running, right, 'cause sometimes they're
singing sounds like roaring and they.
Yeah, Well, I mean singing in a loud voice that sounds like
bellowing. Yeah, it's just keep saying it
sounds like bellowing. Not as much roaring, but but
when they roar when there's angry intent behind it, then
they know. Then they know to to cower, to
get out of there. That's.
The thing because like polytote is the in my opinion the least
intimidating looking of the whole polywirl polyrath Poly
toad polywag line. I don't know.
Polywag is pretty innocent. Well, so does Poly Toad.
Poly Toad looks like it wouldn't, you know, hurt a cutie
fly. I mean, it certainly looks a lot
more, you know, docile than a Polyrath.
I mean by name alone, right? True, true.
True. True.
But it seems to have some kind of hold over the Polywirl and
Polywags. I don't have any entries from
the Lentil region, so I'm not going to read any of those, but
I do have some unique Pokedex entries.
The first one comes to us from Ash's Pokedex that says Poly
Toad. The frog, Pokémon Poly Toad,
likes to expand its throat and sing out, drawing in Polywag and
Polywirl from all around. Yeah, bring in the crowds.
Oh, we haven't heard from this in a while.
This comes to us from Ash's Pokedex.
Oh, this fella. Yeah, it says Polly Toad, the
frog Pokémon. It gathers groups of others as
their leader. It's cries make Polly Wag obey.
Put them in line. Put them in line.
Yeah, that the way that's worded is a little bit confusing.
It gathers groups of others as their leader.
So like, it's the leader as the groups of others.
Yeah. And I think we can all from from
the other entries we know that there's others consists of
polywirl and polywags. Right, right.
The others, as they called it in some foreign lands.
The others. The other ones.
OK, so that does it for the unique entries on Poly Toad and
that does it for all the Pokedex entries on Poly Toad in general.
And now I would love to get to our testing portion, however.
Gonna put away my pokey Dick. That's fine for you.
I wrote Tom. Actually the testing course is
gonna be open book open notes, so if you wanna that's fine, but
for you that I have an essay here I would like to read.
Okay. Yes, this comes to us from
Parker. I believe we've heard from
Parker before. They say, or I guess here
they've they've described themselves as the Poly toad man.
Parker So. Poly Toad Man Parker, let's go.
So let's see here. This essay starts with hello
Professor Jacob, Minister Curtis.
Oh yeah. Minister.
Yeah, well, and then it says Minister Curtis, Curtis or
Curtis, Three different spellings.
One of those is right, but I won't say which now.
Corbin, you are not mentioned here at all, so don't listen to.
This. I will.
Parker, you don't earn my
respect. OK, so the this essay is as
follows. I'm here to inform you guys more
about my favorite Pokémon, Poly Toad.
Isn't he so cute? Any any who?
Here's what we humans in this world know about Poly Toad, man.
Spoken like a true Mr. Curtis in that sentence.
Parker Hey, you're not supposed to listen, Corbin.
That's humans. Oh, no, not listening.
Sorry, That's humans. Know all of this?
Poly Toad is able to evolve thanks to the aura emanating
from a King's rock. Poly Toad is known to on moonlit
nights, join in chorus. Their cries are not at all
pleasant and sound kind of angry, but are not meant to be.
When you find a Poly Toad, you've got a 5050% chance of it
being male or female. I'd also like to say that I'm
enjoying your lessons and I'm excited for the soon to be
Spinarak lesson. This essay was given to us a
little while. Ago All right.
I'm. Excited.
I wasn't going to read an essay for a Poly Toad on on a lesson
that wasn't for Poly Toad. I don't know that's right.
Should have read it then, guys. No, no, no.
So this is just, this is just great showing.
Like, if you if you want those essays to be read on the lesson,
you got to send them in early. That's right.
That's right.
They say, and they finish off the message here by saying also
Misty has one of Misty has one as the gym leader of the
Cerulean City, but mine is far superior for it is a shiny.
Does Shiny make it statistically better in combat?
Yes. And then they added a bunch.
It's. It's the power of cool.
Oh. OK.
They didn't specifically say that it's superior in combat.
It's just superior. Oh, because it's.
Shiny Pokémon aren't only for for fighting Corbin.
I'm well aware of that. I know that better than anybody.
They're for loving and hugging and building nests with.
And doing my taxes. And for drowning, right, Mr.
Curtis? That's Squirtle.
No, no, no. I don't know what you're talking
about. I want to learn.
I. Don't even.
I'm not even convinced the Squirtle can drown.
It was like, maybe, maybe it's like, have we looked into the
coroner? Or like the the what's the
what's the the the the what's the guy that.
The Morticial. Examiner.
No, no. One more morticious.
Is that right? I don't know.
The Funeral Home director. No, the guy at like, the Police
Department. I'm sure my scout master knows.
That does autopsy. The medical.
The autopsies of bodies, I don't know.
Maybe somebody, one of our students will know.
Maybe. I think we should look into that
guy, though, because I'm not convinced you can drown a
squirrel. Yep, dig up the body.
I know it's been a few years, but let's figure it out.
They finish off by saying any who thanks to all of you from
the Poly Toad Man Parker, PS Minister Curtis, Curtis, or
Curtis. My second favorite Pokémon of
all is Spinner Rack. All right.
Kisses butt at the end with spinner rack.
Doesn't mention me once. No gold stars.
He actually owe us 5. Well, unfortunately for you or
or fortunately for you, Polly Toad Man Parker Corbin does not,
is not in charge of Gold Star distribution.
You are getting extra credit though for this excellent essay.
Yeah, yeah. I missed the nice emails.
Mr. Curtis What's what's What's the Gold Star situation here?
I I think this wonderful and thoughtful essay given us to us
by Parker the The Polly Toad Man Parker, Polly Man Toad Parker.
Excuse me, Polly Toad Man Parker.
Polly Toad Man Parker. There we go.
Probably Toad Man Parker gets gets 2 gold stars.
Boom. Boom.
Nicely. Done, Parker.
That's right. Excellent.
Well, you see, I have to. I have to do right by those who
recognize the superiority of Spinner Act.
Now, you didn't say Spinarak was your favorite Pokémon, but it's
your second favorite, so I'll give you some credit there.
And that's 22 gold stars for it not being their favorite, which
is so even just a mention of Spinarak guys.
And and Minister Curtis, I like that, Corbin.
I think from now on you need to call me Minister Curtis.
EW, no, I'd rather die. That can be arranged.
My child, my child, come, repent.
I am Minister Curtis in the Church.
The Church of the Night Mother. The Church of the Night Mother.
Come. I am.
I'm the minister. I will spit in your church.
This. I got a This classroom is not
the church. This is.
So rude. This.
There's no religious affiliation with this classroom.
Oh. Oh, sorry, I'll clean it up
after. OK.
Thank you again Parker, for the wonderful essay.
If you would like to write an essay for a Pokémon, please do
just make sure to send it in early.
So we have plenty of time because we are only reading one
essay now. So it's first come, first serve.
So please get those in early. All right.
So now I think it's time to do the testing portion.
Today we are going to do a debate.
Boo. Debate it up.
Yeah, debates. Personally, that's some of my
favorites to do. So the debate, the structure is
a little bit confusing, so let me read that for you guys really
quickly. Basically what's going to happen
is I'm going to pick one student and they're going to decide,
well, OK, first I'm going to give the debate topic, then I'm
going to let 11, either Mr. Curtis or Corbin decide if they
want to go first or second. Then whichever student goes
first gets to decide if they will be for or against the
topic. Basically, like whoever I ask as
gets to decide if they think they can both defend or or be
against the topic just because you know going second kind of
gives you a natural advantage is the reason behind that.
Also, the rubric is you must include information we learned
in class. You must demonstrate an
understanding of the Pokémon's unique attributes and abilities.
You must build an argument around proven facts about the
topic Pokémon and four, you must respond to at least one of your
opponent's arguments with a legitimate counter argument.
All right, so I'm going to read the debate topic.
It's not really a for or against, but there's two options
here. So the debate topic is polywag
and polywirl gather around and obey Poly toad because A they
respect its authority or B its cries have a magical commanding
abilities. So I'm going to say Corbin,
would you like to decide if you would like to go first or
second? I think for this debate I will
go second. OK, all right.
So that means that Mister Curtis gets to decide which which side
they want to be on. Would you like to hear those
again, Mr. Curtis? Please give it to me one more
time. OK, so Pollywagon Pollywirl
gather around and obey Polly to Polly Polytode.
Man, I got some polytude right now.
I. Was going to say that's when a
polytode gets in a bad. Attitude gets in a bad mood.
Polytude. Watch A Polytude.
Polywagon Polyworld gather around and obey polytode because
a they respect its authority or B its cries have magical
commanding abilities. I think, I think they respect
the authority of the polytode, that's what.
I'm going to go. For OK.
All right. So Mr. Curtis, it's going for
respect to authority. That means Corbin.
Your argument is that its cries have magical commanding
abilities. Okay all.
Right. We feeling good.
We feeling good about that. That's right.
All right. So take some time, come up with
your debate platform and we will reconvene back here when you are
ready. OK.
Are we all ready to us to? I think we are.
Jump up, jump up into the front of the classroom and and debate
our little hearts out. I come up to the front.
Listen, I am. Dumb.
Hesitant about going first. I'm not going to lie, it's not
my favorite thing. But you know what?
I'm feeling good. I'm moving smooth.
I'm wiggling. And waggling.
I don't like that. So Are you ready for me,
professor? Because I'm.
Smooth as if he broke all of his bones in his hand.
Woo. Well, yeah, my this this hand
and this this cast is not no. I mean, that's not moving
smooth, but the rest of my body is.
I please never use moving smoothing.
Ever. That's right.
OK. Moving smoothing ever.
That's a T-shirt. Professor J Mann.
Yes. Are you ready for me?
Oh. I was born ready.
OK, all right, all right. Let me hold on.
Let me just clear my throat real quick.
Oh my. OK, well, you weren't.
Ready guys? Are you sick of this yet?
OK. All right.
Leave a comment.
Thank you Corbin for listening and the professor for teaching
this class for all of us. I have to say the main.
Reasons. Yeah, I have to say the main
reason the Poly wags and whirls obey those toads is because they
know how much of a boss they are.
I mean, look at that curled hair on top of their heads.
It's proof of their kingly status and their roar causes
them to cower in fear. And everybody knows nothing
sparks more respect than fear. That was is that it?
That was it. That was my opening statement.
OK. OK.
All right. Corbin I guess if you would like
to now, so yes. So you can now do your opening
statement and also you can respond to Mr. Curtis's opening
statement. Gladly, very gladly.
Thank you professor for allowing us to have this debate.
I think it's a solid one. And again I am arguing that Poly
wagon probably world gather around polytope because it's
cries have a natural commanding abilities.
It's not a matter of earned respect, so let me quote the
Pokedex here a couple of times for you.
In the Sinner region, there's two entries I want to talk
about. The first one says its cries
make Pollywag obey. They make it obey.
It commands it to obey. It is not a choice.
Also in Sino there's another entry.
It says a group of Pollywag and Pollywirl will form with a Polly
toad as the their leader. Polly Toads cries make the
Pokémon of the group obey again. Makes them obey as their leader.
It is a natural leadership that this Poly toad is is thrusting
upon these polywags and polywirl.
OK. Also it states that they cower
in fear in the Ellola region as Mr. Curtis just said, and this
will lead into my rebuttal here. They wouldn't do that with the
leader they respected. Because Curtis said nothing
sparks more respect than fear. Excuse me?
So let me get this straight. If you threaten my life and
point a gun at my head, that means I respect you because I'm
scared of you. Nah, no ones going to cower in
fear of somebody that they respect.
So the Pokedex entries have said it makes them obey and they
cower in fear when it cries. That to me sounds like a
commanding and natural ability that the Poly toad possesses.
They are not following it out of respect.
All right, excellent. Excellent job.
Excellent rebuttal as well. Corbin now Mr. Curtis Minister
Curtis, as some call him. Thank you.
You may now respond to Corbin's
opening statement and his response, and you may also
provide your closing statement. Please try to make them two
separate distinct things. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you. Corbin really likes to focus on
those entries from Seno that say make obey.
Well, let me let me point this out to you here.
OK? The professor makes you come to
class. He makes you do this debate.
He makes you do your homework. Right.
But is that magic? No, that is respect and that is
fear of the grade that you will get if you fail to follow
through and it is the fear of the repercussions of failing
this class. There's nothing magic about that
OK that is natural that is part of the relationship dynamic it
because professors at a position of authority.
OK, that's my rebuttal. Whether and then coming into my
closing statement, whether it be their poofy pomp that looks so
keenly or their menacing roar, the reactions in the wags and
the world's are purely natural phenomenon.
OK, the wags of the world's respect the toads not because of
some special magic, but out of fear or jealousy or maybe
infatuation. These are all emotions and
reactions that all of us, human and Pokémon experience in our
daily lives. There's nothing magic about it,
just science and chemistry. Thank you very much.
All right. Hey, very good.
You know. At a certain point, though, you
know. Magic science we don't
understand. Sorry, sorry I won't go in cuz
we still have one more part to go on here.
Corbyn, you may now make your closing statement.
You're only your closing statement, you do not get to do
a rebuttal. Okay closing.
Statement. Sounds like you kind of did do a
rebuttal there in a second earlier, but.
You kind of. No, I just that wasn't really.
But I was talking at the same time, so I didn't quite hear
what he said. Yeah, it wasn't a rebuttal.
I'm just saying, to reiterate what I've said before, you know,
making them obey sounds like something that is against their
will. They are there is they're not
earning the respect. It is a commanding, natural,
magical thing. It is an ability.
As soon as they hear that cry, they automatically fall in line
and they show up immediately. Some of the other entries talk
about that. They just, they converge in the
area. It's like a call to arms.
It's not necessarily a respect thing.
It is a matter of, you know, a magical ability and again, if
they respected Poly Toad they wouldn't be so Dang scared of
it. All right.
OK, Excellent job to the both of you.
I think I asked one of my favorite debates so far.
You guys both, you know, handled, you know, your your
opening statement. Mr. Curtis's opening statement
was a little bit short, but besides that, it was very good.
You guys handled the counter arguments really, really well.
The responses were great. Basically Mr. Curtis is saying
that, you know they have like the curly hair just indicates
respect. It's it's it's it's all about
respect. And the fear that that, that
that they used to command the other Pokémon Corbin hit back
with fear does not equal respect.
And that if you I love and I love it.
When the Pokedex is quoted, he quoted it saying their cries
make the Pokémon obey. And that that word make is, you
know, really it's very key. It's very telling.
It's a very telling there. But Mr. Curtis did also have a
very good point. You can make somebody do
something without magic involved and that that is also true.
So I'm honestly great debate all around.
I'm not going to, it's not my job to say who won the debate.
That might be the poll in the description on Spotify gone.
So virtual students, you you might get to say who, who won
the debate. But I think it was a very good
debate on both sides. You guys all get full marks.
Full marks. Easy to grade, easy to grade.
High five Corbin. Nope.
Make him make him do it. Use your magical abilities to
make him do it. Fine, fine, OK, fine here.
Oh. Gosh, Corbett, not that he that
was. His broken hand Corbett for.
Putting that hand up, that's his fault.
It's so much. Corbin My my one little tickle
finger. I'm.
Sorry, No, it's on the floor. Oh.
No it. Didn't.
Even. See that?
Oh, I'm so sorry. OK.
I'm going to have to, oh, put it on ice.
I'm going to have to take that to the nurse's office.
As listen, as another tenant of the Cub Chew Scouts, I will say
we give life, we do not take it. So I will say that I apologize
for, you know, knocking your finger off.
Wow. Hey, maybe this cub chew thing
is really good for him. That's what I'm saying.
OK. So does anybody have any what's
that, did you hear that sounded like, it sounded like chimes?
Did you hear guys hear that? Oh, that was.
How many was that? Three chimes that was.
Did you guys, Where did that come from?
Was that from the vent? Or was that?
It sounded like 2 this time. I think it was 3 the first time.
I think it's two now, huh? Was it counting down?
That was two. I can't keep track.
I'm sorry. That was that was weird.
Yeah. I don't, OK?
Are you guys, are you guys feeling OK?
You don't feel like you're about to perish or anything are.
You. No, no, no, no, no.
I'm. Feeling a little bit light
headed. I got to be honest with you, but
I'm, I'm, I'm OK. Anyways, just continue.
Sorry. OK, so that's going to do it for
today's lesson on Poly toad. Does anybody have any lingering
questions that were that weren't answered about Poly Toad?
About Poly toad Corbin. No.
Okay. Well, that's great.
That means I did my job. Can I, can I can I have one of
those whirls? Do you think I could I could
pull that off? What the whirls is that you said
like the. Yeah.
Like if I had one on my head, like do you think I you think I
could pull it off? Are you talking about the hair
or are you talking about the spiral pattern?
No, like if I had the little poof, of the poof on top of my
head. The spiral.
You said the whirl like the front of it.
Yeah, you did say the whirl. Well, it's the swirl the the
poof on top of its head if I got one of those on my head.
OK. Those are two different things.
No, I don't think you could. I don't think you could, but it
would. It would command respect, I'll
tell you that. Or magically force it.
OK. Great question, Mr. Curtis.
Thank you for that. All right.
Does anybody know who we're talking about next week?
See Evolve form of Poly Toad, right.
No, sorry. No it's not.
It's not related to Poly toad in any way.
Oh, that's right, because you're talking about possibly doing the
camping trip, so it's going to be a grass type Pokémon.
I was saying that it is a grass type Pokémon and that works well
with the camping trip that that I now have to.
Plan decision. Why?
No, it's not decision. Why Mr. Curtis?
How does that make you feel? I feel a little.
He kind of stole your spot, huh?
He's I. Know.
Yeah, joint your spotlight. I just.
I really thought it was this time.
Sorry. I really, I really wanted to say
it, but Bonzabee, Is it Bonzabee, Trevenant.
No, no. We are learning about Hop Hip
Hop it. Little hop it, little hop it
potentially. Potentially on a field trip of
sorts, a field. Trip, so you're committing to?
It or a wood, wood trip? So you're committing to it.
We're doing a summer camping trip.
No. Fine.
Yes, we'll do it. We'll only one lesson, though.
All right, only only one day I need.
As I said, that's all I need. I just need one day show off my
survival skills, OK? OK, all right, so until next
class, if you have any questions for me, the professor, you can
send us a Gengar mail at wwopokemon@gmail.com.
If you want to send us a an essay for an upcoming Pokémon,
make sure you get that in as early as you possibly can.
And also, hey, we have a Patreon.
Mr. Curtis Patreon Explain
explain how this works. Explain the Patreon.
I can't comprehend. There's there's so many great
rewards. I mean, most importantly my
doodles go up there every time, every class as we as we.
Yeah, every. Time.
Every every class I. Time.
All of them. All of the times.
I make a doodle of the Pokémon and that's really the main
thing. But I guess you also get access
to the Saffron sitting learning server, which is our our Discord
that we have for this class. You also get to listen to Q&A,
special Q&A content, outtakes and bloopers.
You get to watch our Nuzlock playthrough of Emerald.
There is. What else am I missing?
Boy, there's a list of the stuff that we had somewhere.
Yeah, just rattle off of it. That's true.
You know, I think he did a great job.
I'm, I'm like super excited to go check out that Patreon now.
Thanks. Thanks Mr. Curtis.
Now he's going to check it out, hey.
Corbin, Corbin, What's your favorite part of the Patreon at
the moment? Probably the nuzlock.
The. Pokémon Emerald Nuzlock videos
are a lot of fun. Yeah, even though.
Even though we suck. Yeah, we're pretty bad, but it
that's. Hey, come hang out with us.
Enjoy. It and also that's just kind of
the nature of a randomizer. It's it's rough.
Yeah, it's rough. It is randomized too.
So yeah, all the Pokémon, all the moves, a lot of it's
randomized. Yeah, base stats are randomized,
which is the thing. Abilities are randomized.
It is shredding, let me tell you.
Yeah, we never know what's coming around the corner.
All right. So I think that's going to do it
for today's lesson. So until next time.
Oh, I don't feel oh. Professor quick, my finger.