Hello there and welcome to the world of Pokémon.
My name is Professor J Mann. I don't.
I still don't like that professor.
I thought, Professor, I just finished changing all of the
labels to P Man, I thought you were P.
Man, who? OK, who asked you to do that?
I mean, once you said you were going by P man, I couldn't, you
know, leave. Everything else You did say that
last week, you did say that. I mean, I yeah, I said it was P
man. And then it got a very negative
reaction. So I don't like.
Any of the man's just professors fine.
But I I changed all of your letterhead.
I changed your label on the door.
I changed your, you know, picture in the hallway.
Everything now says P. Man, get Gary to change it
again, because now I'm Professor J Mann and thank you so much,
everybody for attending this lecture on Pokémon biology.
Joining me here in the classroom today is, of course my wonderful
teaching assistant Mr. Curtis Mr. K Mann.
Thank yes. Kate K Mann here.
I thought. This is so unnatural.
For you know, I'd be webbing for the professor.
I don't. He's.
Sweating profusely. Yeah, you're really nervous,
bud. What's going on all?
Right, Mr. Curtis. Well, let's call you Mr. Curtis.
Yes, yes, yes. OK.
Also joining us here in the classroom today is of course our
young trainer and training, Corbin.
Corbin, please. Hey, what's going on?
What's up? What's good?
Trainer and training here. Happy to be here.
Happy to learn about another Pokémon every day.
I am one step closer to getting my trainer's license and being
the best trainer in the world. I I don't know which region I'm
going to start on 1st. I think it would make more sense
for to start Encanto 'cause my mom would like me closer to
home. But I don't know.
Joto has been fun. It's been fun exploring the city
a little bit. Last weekend I went to the
flower shop, had a good time, smelled the roses, which I've
been told I need. Anything I've been told I need,
I did. I bought, I bought.
I bought a thing of tulips and while I was there.
I think is what we call them a a thing.
OK, sure. OK.
Whatever you want to call them. I'm 10.
I don't know stuff. OK, bouquet.
I bought a. Bouquet OK?
Of tulips. And then I also got some lilies
for my my roommate Gordon. He likes lilies.
He he dances around with his little cane when he gets lilies.
So I mean, he does something. And then I also bought roses and
I had those shipped to Don. Now I don't know where Don
lives, but I, I, I I sent them. I I sent them to the lab in SUNO
and with a note that said, hey, Professor Rowan, please give
these to Don and then a bunch of other stuff professing my love.
It was about AI. Think it was a 43 page essay on
my love for Don. But don't expect that kind of
work put into this class. I only do that for the love of
my life. So just on that out there.
I mean, that's fine. And that will reflect in your
grade and will determine ultimately whether or not you
get a Pokémon at the end of it. I will definitely.
Live your life that way if you want Corbin.
OK. I really honestly thought you
were going to say that you just, you know, on the box, wrote to
Dawn and then sent it off hoping it would make it there.
No, no, I did not do that. I I am smarter than that.
The Delhi bird network is pretty smart, but I don't know if it's
that smart. Well, Rowan will definitely, you
know, pass it along to Dawn, so I'm hoping she gets.
It, yeah. Rowan's the kind of guy that
will really, you know. He's got time for him, right?
Time out of his day to send letters to people.
Oh, I think he'll do it. Yeah.
He He's got time. OK.
Well, no, he doesn't. OK.
So I think we should go ahead. We got, we got lots, a lot to
talk about today. Does anybody know?
Well, before we talk about the Pokémon, I actually have a
couple of Gengar males here that I would like to read if that is
OK. I'll allow it.
The first one comes to us from Kelp.
We've gotten several Gengar mails from Kelt before.
Cool. This one says hello again,
Professor Jacob and Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis.
And there's an alternate spelling.
QYRTIS. Is that close?
That's not it. QYRTUS, thank you though very
close. Wow, the OK, it's actually
spelled Kurtis. He's he's telling a funny joke.
QQYRTUS, very funny. Oh, everyone's laughing right
now. Listening.
Hello again, Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis, and Corbin.
Hi, it's Kelp again. I'm sorry I haven't been able to
send in essays recently. I've had a lot on my plate
recently working for Professor Cooper.
You should try to eat less than. I've had that same problem.
Is that? Yeah.
Is that it? Yeah, I mean, it happens with
puberty. I get it.
Actually, on that note, sorry, the Gangar mail goes on to say.
Actually, on that note, Curtis, do you know what process I need
to go through in order to apply to the IAOATP, which is the
International Association of Assistance to Professor Ring,
Professor Ring, is that right? Very, very close, very close
Interregional Society of Assistance to professionalism.
Thank you. Very much.
OK. But but but if you if you want
to join first thing make sure you get the name right.
I'm sorry, I just have to put that out.
There second thing, can we get that name just one more time?
Yeah, the Interregional Society of Assistance to
Professionalism. There it is.
Thank you There. Alright, so everybody now, now
you know everybody, let's continue on Mr. Curtis.
So after you have put in at least 3600 hours of assistanting
to a professional, then you can apply.
OK, the application process does require that you write an essay
about how your role as an assistant has served to better
the advancement of your respective professional, and
then that respective professional will need to sign
off on their approval of your assisting.
And then it will go up. Yes, and it will go up against a
board of your fellow assistants. And if you're accepted, then we
will send you a letter back within three months and letting
you know that you're welcome to come to the once a year meeting
that happens so. Yes.
And then you're put into a ring where you have to fight the
Genghis Khan that Curtis insulted.
And then whoever wins gets to be.
I I you we would never. OK.
Well, you did. Genghis Khan the reigning the
the champion. It is a It is a fraternal order
of of those who you know, respect the art of assisting
and. Assisting, That's right.
Yeah, anyone who would like to join may certainly can, but once
you're in there, it's a safe space.
You're locked in. You can't get out actually.
OK, so where do they actually send this application?
You can send it to me, Perry Perry back in the Saffron
Sitting Learning Center. He'll collect them there.
So if you just want to send them to the main.
What? That's not his job.
He doesn't do like administration work.
He's trying to talk people off of a ledge.
He's the school counselor. He's also the Saffrons, the
SCLC, the leader of the SCLC branch of the Interregional
Society of Assistance to Professionalism.
Oh, he. Is oh, he got promoted.
I should write a letter and thank him and congratulate.
Well, no, no, no. That it's a.
It's a. It's a volunteer position.
It's not a. Oh, OK Well, what a good lab.
Promotion. Perry does it for his love of
the game. He really does.
True. Yeah, OK, Yeah.
So go ahead and send those applications to Mr. Curtis.
I'm sure you can find his address somehow.
So Kelp's e-mail goes on to say anyway, I've enclosed a bit of
art I've done and an essay on for it.
Now I just want to say, I'm not going to read the essay on for
it because that lesson is long in the past.
But for anybody who wants to send us essay, we love getting
essays. Please try to do it like three
to four weeks in advance. A lot of planning goes into
these lessons, and I generally have to get it planned, you
know, ahead of time, that far ahead of time.
So if you send us an essay, you know, right before the lesson is
supposed to happen, you know, on that Wednesday, it's probably
not going to get included. So please send it, you know,
three to four weeks in advance. Also, I think we are going to
limit it, limit it to one essay per lesson going forward, just
as a time saving thing. We we, we, we really want to
read all the essays we get. But you know, we can't.
Unfortunately, we can't do that. Heck, we want to read all the
emails we get. We just we're just so popular
now. It's it's very hard to do.
We appreciate it and we read all of them, but but it's impossible
to read all of them in class. We do, we do.
And we try to respond to all of them as well.
Yes, all right. Anyways, so Kelp says.
I'm glad to hear that Mister Curtis is doing well, and I am
excited for more lessons soon. The first drawing is of Wobbly
legs, Willie. There's also Gubby one of Mr.
Curse's Spinnerak, Perry the Sidak Porsche Gary the
Shroomish, not Professor Oak's grandson, Blues Cousin Gary.
Oh, right. Yeah, clearly not the
groundskeeper of the SCBOTSCLC. Now, I do want to say it's not
the Saffron City branch of the Saffron City Learning Center.
It's just the saffron. It's.
The Saffron City Learning Center.
Now it's the Golden Rod City Branch of the Saffron City
Learning Center. Yeah, that that's an offshoot of
the original. SC but it's but the OG the the
main headquarters is just SCLC. Yeah, Kelp goes on to say.
And Doctor Professor Mr. Mime the Mr. Mime.
Again, this is the that teaches Clown School class in.
Yeah, it's back at FLC Learning Center, of course.
The second drawing is of Porsche playing the fair and Equitable
song. I think that's all from aspiring
researcher Kelp. Have a great rest of your day.
Love the artwork? We'll be sharing it on Instagram
and Twitter. Yes, yes.
I love, I love the fair and equitable Porsche.
It's great. I I love the MLG glasses.
Those are perfect. And I have to say 2 gold stars,
2 gold. Stars I You know what I'd give
them? Five.
Give them five. No, it's too much.
It's a. Good thing you don't have
control over that, Corbin. Yeah, that's true.
It would obliterate the the, the market.
Hey, you were giving him out a few weeks ago when you when you
were in charge of that, you were giving him out like candy.
So Gold Star extra credit for you.
I because because you did send in an essay, I didn't read it.
In fact you get 2 extra credit because of the the drawings and
the essays. So excellent work.
Kelp. Thank you so much.
The next ginger mail I have comes from professor Rex.
It says. Greetings, Professor Jacob and
other people in the class. They are too forgettable.
Sorry. Whoa.
Hey, burn. Listen, it took me a very long
time to remember Corbin's name and I it was.
It was around the sixth time that Mister Curtis started to
took these lessons that I was able to get his name correctly.
So I get it. They are pretty forgettable.
Yes, I had to deserve it. OK.
And if I If you don't deserve it, you don't deserve it.
I mean, what are you going to say?
All right, so Professor Rex goes on to say, I hope this e-mail
finds you in good health and surrounded by an abundance of
Pokeballs. It's your favorite prehistoric
Pokémon researcher from the Sinner region Professor.
Rex favorite. I don't.
I mean. I don't know of many historic
researchers from the Sinner. Region favorite.
I mean, I don't really have a favorite, and you also don't
care about my name, so you're not my favorite.
That is true. That is true.
It's a hard case to make, Professor Rex.
Yeah, you guys are forgettable. Also, I'm your favorite.
No, you're not. They say today I've got a few
fossil larious jokes for you guys or for you folks.
Let's hear it. Let's hear it.
What's Tyranitar's favorite movie?
Titanic. No, no, it's Rocky.
It's a rock type. I think it's right.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, Professor.
I don't think. I don't think Tyranitar is a
prehistoric Pokémon. It is not, so your research
needs to get a little bit better there, Professor Rex.
But this next one is why did Tyrantrum go to school?
Oh, I don't know why that's. One of my favorites is to
practice his RAR algebra, RAR algebra.
Is that supposed to say? It's like algebra, so Al does.
It's like algebra. But this the A the AL is the
second part of ROAR and also the L is an R so it's a RAR algebra
OK? OK.
OK, so you know what, Maybe workshop there was puns a little
bit more. OK, the the first one, first one
top notch, second one little bit of a.
The second one's a little bit, was a little bit stressed, I
think. Oh, OK, so then then they go on
to say, yes, I know Tyranitar isn't technically a prehistoric
Pokémon, but in my defense, my first Pokémon was a Lavatar that
I named Rexy. All right, so there, there's a
lore. There's a lore reason behind it.
Well, I figured they just heard us make fun of them, so they
sent in the second-half of this e-mail.
Sure, yeah, they say. They go on to say.
Anyways, unfortunately I found out about this class too late,
so I couldn't send any Gengar mails for the previous
prehistoric Pokémon, but I'll make one for each evolution of
Larvitar and all the prehistoric Pokémon going forward.
I hope you all have a great lesson about decision.
Why? Let's talk about.
It. See.
No, that's awesome. Let's go.
I do love. I do love.
Did you give? Professor Rex, the curriculum
ahead of time? That's crazy.
It's not well. Also, Professor Rex would have
absolutely no idea of when we'd read this.
Sounds like they do. I don't know.
Good guess, Professor Rex. Unfortunately we are not
learning about decidui, so thank you so much for the jokes.
In fact, I would love to have more jokes going forward, so I'm
going to give you extra credit for that.
Professor, I could give you some jokes if you want.
No, you're a joke. Got em.
Got em.
Same. We are the same.
Same. What's the curse?
Does Professor Rex get a Gold Star?
I mean, they're a professor. Do they really need a Gold Star?
I tell you what, I'll give EM2 Silver Stars.
OK, they did get, they did turn in some jokes, so I'll give em
that much they try. But I'd like to see some some
jokes about some, you know, bug types, some spinner acts that
would be funny like. That we all know that Mister
Curtis's Silver Stars are just his gold stars with an
additional layering of like a silver coating.
So it technically they're more valuable than his gold stars,
but he ranks them lower. But they are, in technicality
more valuable. I don't know about that, but OK,
yes, they, I do have to. They are cored with gold.
So I guess you could say, yeah, OK, gold with an extra silver
layer on top, but they are gold stars.
OK, let's be clear. OK.
They are gold stars, yeah. They're made of gold.
We already established this. Yeah, they're technically.
Gold stars with with wearing a mask.
There are gold stars undercover. Oh, Stuffy.
OK, maybe so. Maybe so.
I guess that's a good way to put it.
All right, well, thank you so much for all of the Gengar
mails. Please keep sending them in to
wwopokemon@gmail.com and we will do our very best to read them.
Especially if it's the night before we're posting the lesson,
definitely send them in the night before.
No, no. We might read it, it just
probably won't be included in the lesson that you are
intending it to be included in. Although if it's an essay, we
probably won't read it. These lessons are planned out
well in advance, OK? All right, so time to get into
the lesson in earnest. Does anybody know who we're
talking about today? This is one that I merely forgot
about after you said last week. OK, so like most weeks.
Right. It it's a water type, right?
I can see now Mr. Curse is jumping up and down to see Mr.
Curse. Do you?
Have a guest sort of settle down.
It it is a decidui professor. No it's not decidui.
Although good guess, good guess, close almost almost had the.
Type Professor Rex did say that. So yeah, it is decidui, right.
No, it's not. I just.
I just said no to Mr. Curse. That's not.
Decidui Thought I'd try again. Thought I'd wear you down.
Does anybody else want to guess the said UI?
I figured if I asked again, maybe would actually you'd scrap
the lesson and say let's do it. A butterfree effect, and it
would have ended up changing the future into us learning about
decidui today. Right.
Maybe. OK, it's not, it's not decidui.
I'll just tell you, we're learning about Chincho today.
Who? Oh, OK, good.
Another bug type. Which one's that one?
It's not. Well, no, Chincho is not a bug
type. What?
Wait, it's not Professor. No, it's it's a water and
electric type now I'm guessing. So Mr. Curtis, you have seen one
and you have had this lesson before.
So I'm a little bit surprised that you thought it was a bug.
Type Corbin. I'm.
Guessing, but it but look at it. I can't.
There's nothing there, Mr. Curtis.
It's the it's the desks and the floor.
What are you? Talking about, he's gesturing at
nothing. OK, you know what?
That's Mr. Curtis is the Chincho.
In the room with us right now, 'cause I don't see it, yeah.
Yeah, Mr. Curtis is Chincho with us right now.
That's funny when the professor says it if.
Not yet. OK, but if you.
All right, good. You passed the test.
Well, I have a Chincho here, Corbin.
I assume you haven't seen one. I'm not.
All right. Well, here is Chincho.
Oh, it just kind of flopped on the floor there, OK.
Yeah, so this is the water type Pokémon.
It spends all of its time in the water, so it doesn't like being
on land that much. So let's let's make this quick.
Let's make this quick. Let's see.
It's a blue ball. It's got these little fin wings
on the side of it. I don't know what's going on.
OK, look at look, look at its, look what's on top of its head.
Everybody say with me it is. Horns.
Oh, antennas. Yeah, it has these little dangly
antennas with like little with little lighting, like little
light bulbs on the end of it. Yeah, yes.
In fact, they also carry an electrical charge.
Oh, hey. Yeah.
So I don't, I wouldn't touch them.
I mean, I guess you can touch one, just don't touch both of.
Them I'm not I I'll, I'll I'll be safe here.
But it's eyes are kind of weird. It kind of looks like a plus
sign and it's eyes, it has a yellow eye but it's pupils are
like a black plus sign. It's really strange.
It's got little baby feet. They're kind of hard to seat
because it's just kind of flopped on the floor there.
But yeah, that's that's. I mean, honestly.
Are these baby feet or are those back fins?
Those are baby feet, but it's got side fins, it's got baby
baby feet on the back butt part and then it's got side fins on
the side. Now, I don't want to be that
guy, but you did also think that Crobat had baby feet, but those
were it's just it's feathers. No, I said there were butt
feathers to begin with. You guys said they were feet.
I didn't say that. You guys said that?
I don't know. This feels like gaslighting, but
whatever. Is that a Chincho move?
What does that move do? I don't.
Know Mr. Curtis. It does feel like you wanted to
say something. No, I just, I just was going to
say I think that Chincho should be reclassified as a bug type.
It's got the antenna, it's got the wings.
But it's clearly the water and electric type.
What are you talking about? It it could be a bug and
electric type too. OK, it happens.
But it likes to live in the water.
Mr. Curtis is. There are bug types that live in
the water. Mr. Curtis is right.
We do change typings sometime. Sometimes.
Like Clefairy used to just be a normal type, now it's a fairy
type. Very true.
Thank you, Professor. That's.
True. So I mean, there's nothing
saying that Chincho now now Mr. Curtis, would it be a bug
electric type or would it be a water bug type?
That's a good point. I would say probably a water bug
type, but you know you don't. You can also have moves that
aren't necessarily one of your two typing types, like that is
something. Does it even know any bug moves?
Do we know if Chincho's capable of learning any of these bug
moves? I don't know.
I don't listen. All right?
I think I've made it pretty clear that I think the typing
structure is it is outdated, it's archaic, it's not useful.
I think we need to categorize Pokémon via egg group.
That's a bet, much better way to do it, much more biologically
sound. Because you know, we have, we
have you know, normal type where we have like a water type
Pokémon like Psyduck that learns lots of psychic moves and so why
is it not a psychic type Pokémon?
It's just a water type Pokémon. Doesn't make any sense, right?
Exactly exact a good. That's a good point.
See. I agree with you, I do think
Chincho should be a bug type. Wow.
I think. I think it's as I feel like
these typings are ridiculous. They are, you know, just just
unimportant. So it's it's fine to call it a
bug type. I mean, it's a tough needle to
thread. It's a little Shard to navigate.
I mean hard to navigate what hold on Shard?
OK, well, he's he's he's cooking.
Let him cook. Let him cook.
Guys, my brain is cooked. Shard.
That's a good name. Chinchu.
Yeah, we'll call you Shard. That's a good name.
Also, I'm pretty sure that's a patron.
Double check. Double check.
Real quick double check. Double check.
Double check.
Yes, One of our patrons names is Shard.
He didn't. Actually, like, look at his
Rotom laptop. His eyes just kind of rolled
back into his head. And he, I don't know if he was
actually like looking at, maybe he has like a.
Yeah, Porsche kind of taught me that move.
She does that when she edits, so she kind of taught me that when
I'm trying to remember stuff. Anyways, OK, so yeah, Shard is
one of our patrons. So thanks Shard.
We're naming this after you. Well, thank you so much.
Shard and Shard is struggling to breathe the Shard, the Chinchro.
So I'm going to go ahead and put Shard back into the Pokey ball
and I think. Good idea?
Good idea. Good idea.
You're killing him.
Her. Her Sorry, my bad.
Her. It's a female I.
Didn't mean to misgender. I I apologize.
I apologize. OK, all right.
All right. Come on.
Come on back, Shard. OK, let's read some of these
Pokedex entries. Starting off in the JoJo region,
the first entry says it shoots positive and negative
electricity between the tips of its two antenna and zaps its
enemy. Yeah, all.
Right, hold on. I got to.
I'm cooking again. Let me think of a shirt.
Positive vibes. Negative.
Negative charge? I don't know.
Well, it's also a positive charge.
So it's positive and negative charge.
Positively negative. Positive vibe vibes.
Negative. I I want it to rhyme with vibes.
Negative vibes. No, that's nothing.
Sides. That doesn't negative sides I
don't know we'll we'll workshop that one that one's that one's a
work in. Progress.
Somebody else come up with the T-shirt names.
Are we getting tired? Just in general, just getting
tired. Yeah, I'm just tired.
All right, guys, I do want you to keep track of.
So that was one use for Chincho's antenna.
All right, so zapping enemies. So for like, attacking, all
right. On the dark ocean floor, it's
only means communication is it's constantly flashing lights.
All right, so it doesn't explicitly say it, but the
flashing lights do come from its antenna.
So that's that's two, that's two uses for the antenna.
Right. I think we we'll be talking
about that. And then the next entry in the
Joe terration says it's antenna which evolved from a fin have
both positive and negative charges flowing through them.
OK, I think. I think one of them has a
negative charge and one of them has a positive charge.
I don't think they have both positive and negative in in both
antenna like at the same time. I think if you have one in one
and one in the other it could be like a current.
If you touch both antenna on either side, then it's right
through them the. Professor, what does the Pokedex
say? It says it's antenna have both
positive and negative charges. I assume that means in both of
them. I mean, I don't.
You can assume that, but doesn't explicitly say that.
Well, let's assume for the sake of my well-being.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't think we should assume
that it has both positive and negative in each individual.
All right, fine. My antenna has positive.
I'll just be over here minding my own business, not assuming
that. That's what'd you say.
Nothing. I just.
I'll be over here minding my own business, not assuming that at
all. All right.
See, that's that's what somebody who is going to be over there,
assuming it is, would say. You're right.
I'm assuming that's so hard right now.
Stop it. Please stop.
All right, let's move on. Oh, also, the antenna evolved
from a fin, so that means that Chincho previously had four fins
and two little feces. Wait, so what's the pre
evolution to Chincho? Chin.
OK. Is that a fact or?
How dare you know? How dare you question the
professor either way? This pokedex entry This pokedex
entry states that there is some pre evolution to Chincho.
Well, it gets. It's like our names.
Apparently it's not important enough to remember so.
Wow, you're really you're really taking that personally, huh?
I'm a little upset, professor. No, that's that's, you know
what, I think you're important enough.
That's very kind. Thank you.
And I know I rolled my eyes. Very.
Well, hey, wait, wait, wait. Watch the eyes.
Watch the. Eyes.
I do definitely believe it. Stop rolling them, please.
And I know I winked. I winked a bunch when I said
that. That you rolled one and winked
the other. How did you do?
That I I got a lot of skills. All right, let's move on to the
Hohenn region first entry, says Chincho.
Let's lose positive and negative electrical charges from its two
antennas that make it that make its prey faint.
All right, so there there's attacking again.
This Pokémon flashes its electric lights to exchange
signals with others. And there's the communication.
There's the T-shirt get flashed chit show on it.
Nope, I don't think so. Maybe not.
Wow, what's wrong with that? I just, you know, I don't think,
I don't think it's. I think it's, yeah, a little
misleading to be honest. Yeah.
OK, so it doesn't flash, people. OK.
All right. Or Pokémon.
The next entry says Chincho's two antennas are filled with
cells that generate strong electricity.
This Pokémon. How?
Strong are. Oh, sorry.
That wasn't the time for that. Sorry, go ahead.
Well, I mean you can say it if you want.
How strong are they? This Pokémon cells create so
much electrical power, it even makes itself tingle slightly.
Tingly. Slightly, a little bit.
How about get tingled? All right.
Sorry. I'll take a break from.
T-shirts? Wait, sorry, What is What was
that? Get tingled.
No, see, this is what I'm saying.
All of your T-shirt ideas start with get and then some word.
So, like, get tingled, get flashed.
When we launch our merch store, Professor, they're going to sell
like hotcakes. You just wait.
Yeah, until we make a T-shirt that says get hotcakes.
That's a good idea. No, it's not.
No, it's not a good idea. It's a bad idea, The last entry
for Chincho from the Hoenn region says when it senses
danger, it discharges positive and a negative electricity from
its two antenna. It lives in the depths beyond
sunlight's reach. That's pretty cool, that.
That'd be a cool thing I'm gonna have on your tombstone.
Yeah, for sure. OK, that does it for the Hoenn
region. Moving on to the Sino region,
there's only one entry here, so we'll get to this pretty quick.
It discharges positive and a negative electricity from its
antenna tips to shock its foes. So we knew that already.
Yeah, we knew that. Again, like not ground breaking.
It's not ground breaking information from Sino, but why
is it ever? Right.
Not even the ground type, so don't worry about it.
Once again, Professor Juniper didn't decided not to give us
any new information. Junie.
Has nothing. Come on.
Callos also doesn't have anything new.
You know, I'm one of these times.
I'm just going to assume it doesn't have anything new and
jump right over it when it does have something new and
groundbreaking and. I'll and everybody there is
going to be mad. I'll have.
I have to remain vigilant, that's.
Right. Moving on to Alola, the first
entry says it's two antenna were originally fins.
It discharges electricity to stun its prey before attacking.
Now what is the attack if not the electric electrical shock?
I have to ask. Well, yeah, it is.
Well, it says it discharges electricity to stun its prey
before attacking. So, OK, so it it it, it bites
afterwards, bite it, it stuns it with the electricity and then it
goes in. Front of it, you know, head,
butt, head butt's good. Head butt's a good.
One Wow. A biting attack.
You know what Pokemons do A lot of biting.
Yeah, what? What Pokémon Professor water
type bug types? Stop fueling him.
He doesn't need any I. Think I think.
I think this Chincho might be a bug type.
I professor, I have to agree. Shard is a full water and
electric. OK, you watch it.
So, so we should now. So what we should have is
T-shirts that say Chincho water bug on them.
The true bug type. No, no, no, no, no.
I actually did think of the T-shirt idea during the last
century. And I got it.
I locked it down. It's going to have a Chincho on
it. It's going to be really small on
the T-shirt, and most T-shirts can be black.
It's going to say the bottom and white text is going to say I'm
positive that I'm negative. You know, I actually, I don't.
I don't hate that one as much as I thought I was going to.
Yeah, meet me neither. And that pretty good.
Yeah, maybe. Also I so the idea of like, so
it's like an all black shirt, right?
And then it's like a very small chinja at the bottom, and it
says it lives in depths beyond sunlight's reach.
That could work too. Yeah, that could be good.
OK, the next entry in the Alolo region says, Nope, you're not
going to believe this. It says it lives in the depths
beyond the reach of sunlight. I feel like I just heard that.
I know. I mean, it's slightly different
how it said it just a wee bit. It goes on to say it flashes
lights on its antenna to communicate with others of its
kind. The next one says it's two
antenna glow softly to learn and pray, making it a useful Pokémon
for night fishing. All right, all right.
That's the third. That's the third, yeah.
We got 3. Hit me with those three again.
We got communication, we got flashing to stun enemies, and we
got luring and prey. OK, it doesn't flash to stun the
prey. But it uses the antenna.
It goes like this. No it doesn't.
Are you stupid? It goes like that, like that.
Actually, I think it goes absorb.
Well, I think that no, that's something that like a riot you.
Would make professor does do that.
You got to think of Chincho. Something of that size would be
like. Like that's more or maybe like.
Oh, I could. No.
Is any of this good? Is that this good audio for the
students at home? Yeah, I think, no, I think plus
or minor would probably be, I think that's closer to that one.
I think would be more like Chincho.
OK, well, you know what? We'll we'll find out.
Maybe we will, maybe we won't. I don't know that was empty
words, All right, The last entry from the Alola region says
Chincho. Blink their shining antenna
antenna at one another to claim their respective turf.
Very solitary, these Chincho, apparently.
Recognize. OK.
And territorial, so that's and that's a fourth use for the
antenna. See.
How important the antenna is to a Chincho's entire.
BA That's three still, though, because it's still
communicating. It's still a form of
communication. I guess, I guess it is a form of
communication. That's right.
I'm right in your. But it's like a specific form of
communication. It's like it's claiming turf.
But it uses it for communication.
Communication can mean turf. It can mean hey, I found a cool
little like snack over here. It can mean anything.
Communication is a broad term. Fine, whatever.
Gold Star for me. Thank you.
Mr. Curtis My hand is out
please. No, no, no.
I'm sorry. You're staying in the negative,
my good Sir. Wow.
Well, I need a Chincho to juice me up to the positive.
Nope. Nope, I will not.
I will not laugh unless the professor says it's OK to.
Laugh. He's why he's joking it back.
He's laugh. He's a pain.
It was so good. It was so funny.
You can laugh. It's OK.
You can laugh, buddy. You can laugh.
It's OK. I can't.
Put it out. I won't.
I'm good. Hold on.
I just need to get a quick. No.
Professor, remind him that he can laugh at my jokes.
It's OK. Know what?
I'm not going to dictate whether or not Mr. Curtis needs to
laugh, so it's it's up to him. All right, I have one more
regional Pokedex entry. It comes to us from the Lentil
region from Professor Mirror. It says Chin Chos 2 antenna
antennae, antennae, antennae, antennae.
Antennae. But what are we thinking?
What are we thinking? Antennae.
Chincho's two and 10 antennae.
Which? Is evolved from a fin can light
up from electricity running through them it's it flashes
those lights to communicate with others.
I think specifically to communicate with Chincho like it
can't, it can't talk to a whale Lord with it's.
Right. Just other Chincho.
Yeah, all right. I have one unique Pokedex entry
which comes to us from Ash's Pokedex.
It says Chincho, the Angler Pokémon have the ability to
conduct electrical currents between currents from there to
get this tentacles. Whoa, whoa.
What? Whoa.
Now if you look at them as tentacles, that puts me back
into water electric type and not not water bug.
Sorry, Mr. Curtis. Think you're wrong, according to
Ash. Now but how many times did we
say in 10? I though How many times did we
say in 10? I though.
A lot. I think it feels like I said it
too many times. That, that, that and and that I
think goes more times that means more bug.
Thank you very much. Wow, couldn't have said it
better. You're welcome.
OK. So Chincho, the Angler Pokémon
have the ability to conduct electrical currents from their
two tentacles which flow positive from one end and
negative from the other. See, see, that's what I was
saying, right? So now we have definitive proof,
and in no unclear terms, that it's one is positive and one is
negative. That's right.
Chincho can also communicate underwater by flashing its
tentacles. Now it's doubling down on the
tentacles. There's no word again.
All right. And that is the only unique
Pokedex entry we have. And that does it for everything
we have on Chincho. Oh hey, we made it.
Hey, there we go. Think if you feel like you know
everything about Chincho now. Sure.
I feel like I know a lot about Chincho.
I really do. I would have liked to learn more
about the eyes. Why are the eyes pluses?
Does that help it see lights in the darkness of the water and
the and the What is it? Wait, what is it in the the?
Dark abyss. Dark, dark depth.
In the depths beyond the reach of sunlight.
Dark ocean floor. Thank you.
Maybe. I don't know.
Hey if anybody has you know anybody has a theory about that,
feel free to send it to wwopokemon@gmail.com.
There you go. Let's know.
Or Discord 2. Whatever works.
Or Discord, Discord 2, the sequel to Discord.
Which you only have access to. Full access to if you're a
patron. Just throwing that out there,
you've been asked and I'm answering.
He's answering OK, so I think it's time now for the testing
portion. So today what I'm going to do
pitch a Pokémon. Oh, pitch it up for the boys in
the back. Here we go I am.
Listen, I I got to buy a Pokémon.
My boss says I have to purchase a Pokémon.
I have all this money, but I don't know what I would.
Headmaster said that. Huh.
No, this is a hypothetical. I'm acting right now.
Could you not tell that I was acting?
Well, you're not very good at it.
Here I'm I'm acting. Hello.
There. I'm I'm a very wealthy man and I
and I would like to buy one of your fighters now if you could.
I will only buy one of your Pokemons if you whoever provides
me the best pitch, will receive all of my money.
Give him an Oscar. Give him an.
Oscar, you don't buy it. You don't look like somebody
that's got that dango. I don't buy it.
Sorry. What really the the very posh
voice didn't. Doesn't.
That was that was my character. Wealthy man trying to buy a
Pokémon. Oh, perfect.
Thank you. So we've all we've all done
these picture Pokémon assignments before, but let me
just remind you what the rubric is.
First, you must include information that we learned in
class. And two, you must demonstrate an
understanding of the Pokémon's unique attributes and abilities.
Three, you must, the selling points must be unique to the
Pokémon that we discussed in this lesson.
Therefore, Chincho, these selling points must not be
sorry, must be for the Pokémon itself and not for a product it
produces. I'm not even really sure what
products a Chincho could produce that you could sell.
Maybe, like, I don't know, fin oil or something.
And then the student who provides the most compelling
selling points will get a bonus point.
So really, give it. Give it your all.
Try your best. If you will pitch me a Pokémon
when you're ready, take take some time to write it.
I know you can't, you know, just conjure these things out of
nothing. I can't.
It takes time, professor, to work this magic.
All right. Well, well, students at home
will be right back. Professor, Professor, I'm ready.
I'm ready as well. Professor, I have Professor.
I'm ready. I'm ready.
Oh wow. Both ready at the.
Same time we we did not time that.
Yeah, but I was ready first, Professor.
Well, no, I was ready at the same time.
Well, since you were ready first Mr. Curtis, I think we should
have Corbin do his pitch. I think that's OK.
Fair and equitable decision, professor.
Thank you. Well, fair, fair and equitable
play the F&E music. Play it, Porsche.
Play it. Play it here right now.
Love it, love it. Love it, love it, love it every
time. Here we go.
All right, so I have a very practical, everyday use that you
could use a Chincho for a professor, and I might get
docked points for not being the most original, but I think it is
a very applicable use. It's going to save you a ton of
money at the store if you decide that you want to eat fish
Pokémon. Because guess what?
You have the best fishing tool in the entire world, right?
OK. All right.
OK, so number one, it can use its lights to lure prey.
We know that, right? We know that it can lure prey
using it. The lights on its antenna or
tentacles, whatever you want to call them.
Or hands, I don't know. We call it everything at this
point. So it can lure the prey over and
bait Pokémon to your hook. And honestly, it's going to do
all the work for you because it can also stun them for you.
It's going to give a little zappy ZAP and then that, yeah,
that Pokémon is going to be stunned so they're easier to
capture. And then not to mention, if you
don't want to really get your hands dirty, it can also attack
after it's done, and it can just kill the prey for you so that
you can all you have to do is just, you know, it's going to
need it. But before we get to that,
before we get to the part where you can cook the fish, it can
also use electrical powers to start the stove or fire to get
it going. A little electrical spark, you
know, like if you're out there, you're hanging out, you're going
camping in the woods, you need to catch some Pokémon or you
need to catch some fish Pokémon in order to eat that night.
You put your chinchu in the water, it's going to blur them
over. It's going to ZAP them, It's
going to it can help kill them, or you can just hook it.
It's probably more humane to just let the Chincho kill them,
so we'll say that so the Chincho can then attack either bite.
It's not a bug type. It can bite the Pokémon prey, it
can kill them, and then you can start a fire with its electrical
little bulbous on the antenna, and you can put the fish Pokémon
on the stove, cook it, and then eat it.
So Corbin, are you saying that it's an electric fire type?
I am not. Oh, OK, kind of sounds like what
you're saying. No electrical charges can.
You can start a fire with an electrical charge, of course.
If you're out in the wild, you get a little bit of kindling,
and on some firewood and stuff like that, you get an electrical
charge there. On some dried leaves, you can
absolutely start a fire with that.
OK. All right.
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
You know, I think that's it. OK.
All right. So you're selling it as a your
selling point is that it's a invaluable tool for fishing?
For fishing, yes. For fishing.
There you go. OK.
Excellent, Jeff. All right.
Mr. Curtis Mr. Curtis Would you like to?
Thank you. I'm here.
Yes, I called you.
You don't have to raise your hand.
I already called. You you already called me.
OK, all right, all right. Yes.
What professor? It's your turn, dummy.
Can you do your pitch? Give me your pitch.
Oh, of course, of course. OK, Professor.
You were the one raising your hand, yes.
Yes. OK.
Well, you called my name, so I just wanted to tell you I was
here. OK.
Anyway, all right, all right, Chincho, let me tell you what,
Mr. Fancy Man. What?
This is the best. I'm the fancy man.
This is the best Pokémon for you as you go and bark on your
journey as an endurance rowing champion, thank you very much.
Say that you're taking your trip and you're going from Vermilion
Harbor to Pawnee Island in Alola, and you're an endurance
rowing all the way. You could have no better
companion than a Chincho. Thank you very much.
First of all, obviously, let's get this out of the way.
Well, I thought you were done, you said.
Thank you very much he. Didn't say thank you very much.
That's it. What's?
Going on. That's enough.
Yes. Then, Chincho.
All right, so first of all, let's get this out of the way.
Obviously watertight, you'll be in the ocean.
That just makes sense, right? You want to bring Pokémon?
It just makes sense. You're you want to bring Pokémon
with you, they're going to be comfortable while you're out
there for an extended period of time.
That's let's get past that second.
No need to worry about losing power.
Your Chincho works like a portable battery, and it can
supply Tenna our power from its antenna.
You know, positive negative on either side. close that circuit.
You can recharge your cell phone so you can listen to your music
as you're going, or, you know, make emergency phone calls if
you need to. You know that type of thing,
right? Anything you might need power
for If you want to like blend up a protein shake in the morning
before you get Rowan again, or you know that maybe power up
your shower, that might be a good idea.
So whatever you need to do, your chincho's there for you.
It's got, it's got the current, it's got the juice.
Third, you can use the antenna to light, obviously to signal
your journey. To keep you safe from passing
ships. Maybe in the night.
Make sure they're aware you're down there because you are in a
little little boat, you know it's just so they don't run into
you. Or if you're in the event that
you need rescuing, the Chincho can serve to mark your location
for rescuers. Just good, good for signaling,
as the Pokedex does say. Finally, it can use its lights
to bring in prey for you to eat so you don't need to carry all
your food with you and that saves you weight, which makes
your journey all the much easier.
Thank you very much and have a nice day.
Thank you. He's walking away, Mr. Girls.
Now come back. Come back.
Oh, wait. OK, you still need me.
All right, I'm back. I'm back.
Yes, all right. So for the first two you did,
you did excellent, great job, you absolutely included
information, and you definitely understood what it's all about.
The endurance rowing companion. I got to ask, why specifically
rowing? Why not just like sailing or
like a boat trip or something like that?
I guess, I mean, I guess so you know, the the idea, I guess that
I thought about sailing would work too, I suppose.
But you know, if if you were just going on a boat trip with a
boat with an engine, you know, that's going to solve a lot of
the problems that we talked about.
But you know, if it's just you and the Chincho and your boat
and the paddles and that's it, that's just you out there in the
water. I can think of no better Pokémon
to bring with you, so. Not even spin a rack.
Well, you see, I am AI am a bit. I'm a fancy man, so I do a fair
bit of sailing from time to time.
Yes, well sailing. It would work for your sailing
as well. Too, I'm not.
I'm not buying these performances.
No, no engine to supply powers. Your Chincho is right there, and
all the other things counts as well too.
OK. All right.
This is very good for the both of you.
I gotta say I was. I I was I was prepared to give
this one to Corbin. I I was not convinced that
endurance rowing companion was gonna was gonna was gonna shake
out but you. But you did you did a good job
of bringing all just a lot You're you're right.
I mean, Chincho can be a great companion for survival.
Out in the Out in the woods or out in the wilderness?
Minds the woods. The Woods of the Waters.
I knew exactly what you meant. Well, I mean, I assume, I assume
since you're rowing, you're in a rowboat, right?
I assume you dock at night to get a shower going.
No, I mean, well, you're not. Because you said a shower.
You said the power. Shower.
You're not docking so much as you just, like, stop rowing and
float out there for a little. Bit Mr. Curtis smells like he's
never had a shower in his life, so I'm surprised he prioritized
that. Explain the shower thing to me
then. I just, I just meant like, you
know, like if you're if if you, you know, need the power, like a
small pump or a little water heater, you know, Chincho could
be there to provide extra electricity for you.
You know, you want to have a nice warm shower because you're
out there exerting yourself. You're rowing, right?
You're sweaty and stinky, right? So you want to take a nice warm
shower, but you're out in the middle of the ocean.
You know, you got to come up with the, you know, you've got
to be able to pump the water. You've got to be able to heat
the water. That's a lot of electricity to
use. You don't want to, like, rely on
battery packs. You have them on the ship.
The Chincho's there and it has energy galore.
So OK, I like Mr. Curses because it's outside the box.
But Corbin's has also has a lot of value because he he is right.
You know Chincho is basically, you know, made for fishing.
It's it's the Angler Pokémon, right.
So I I think, honestly, I can't decide.
I think we should leave it up to the virtual students.
Hey. There will be a poll.
We'll put a poll on Spotify Gone and on the flying Pokémon theme
social network site Twitter, so look for those there.
Portia will take care of that for us.
Thank you so much for your hard work, Portia.
Thank you, Portia. Thank you.
Portia, we we honestly couldn't cannot thank you enough, but
that's going to do it for today's lesson.
Oh, you guys got perfect marks otherwise.
Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Whoa, hey. Whoa, hey yo.
That's going to do it for today's lesson.
Does anybody know what Pokémon we're talking about next week?
It is the form of Chincho. Oh, that's not a Pokémon, is it?
Is it? It's that one water one.
It is a water one. What's that?
Water little one with all the legs.
Spin rat, something like that. Sounds like it should be Pokémon
Spin Rat. Spin you think of You're not
thinking of spinner rack, are you, Spinner?
Spinner. What's it called?
We're gonna talk about spinner rack again.
Shut up. No.
Shut up. Gosh.
Nice, I triggered him activation.
I got me myself a little growl with.
Puppy you just call run what your name is called, so it's.
Not spinnered, Spinnered. You sure it's not decision why?
I don't know. How do you spell?
Spinnered. Spinard.
I don't know what Pokémon you're referencing.
It's that one little one. Okay.
Well, you figure that out. No, it's not just a July.
And I'm just going to go ahead and tell you we're learning
about land. A Raquid Wait.
A. Raquinid.
That's what it's called a raquinid.
A roquinid? A roquinid?
It sounds like Aqua. Is it a roquinid?
Ned. Is it that one?
That wasn't the one I was talking about.
Actually, it was a different. One no good guess though,
because as we all know, Chincho is a Water Bug Pokémon, so it
makes sense that it would evolve into a Water bug Pokémon.
But no, it is Lantern, and we'll be learning about Lantern next
week. So until next time, if you would
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All right, so I think I'll just go ahead and step off of my
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