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, as is my wonderful teaching assistant, Mr. Curtis
was a curse. If you could please say hello to
everybody. Thank you, Professor.
I'm so happy to be here. I'm so.
Jazzed and energized to be here for you, Professor.
Oh, you still still getting a little bit of that Maganium
fragrance? Little bit of Maganium stink it
up in here, Tony, Tony really stink.
It smells good. Tony really left the room in
with a lot of positive energy. I did talk to the principal, and
the principal was pretty on the fence about adding a third. 1/3
No, sorry. 1/4 groundskeeping member so I don't.
I don't know if Tony's going to. To compliment Larry, Terry,
Harry, Harry. Thing is he's like Teddy, right?
But the principal was like. What Teddy?
Who's Teddy? Who's Teddy?
Teddy, Terry, Terry. Larry Harry.
And who's what's the 4th? I'm sorry I feel so bad.
I've forgotten his name. There is.
There isn't a fourth one. There's only three.
But if Tony joined, Oh yeah, if Tony joined, then there would be
4. Tony would be for it, okay, I
was about to say. I knew I couldn't forget the 4th
one. Yeah, but of.
Course not, but the principle is they're saying it's not in the
budget. Also, their name doesn't end in
Aries, so it doesn't rhyme. And they have to have this whole
rhyming scheme going on with all of the different groups that
work for the GCLC bot SCLC, So, so I don't know.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to happen.
But also joining us here in the classroom today is, of course
our young trainer and training, Corbin.
Yo, what is going on? Happy Wednesday to you?
Or if you're listening on another day, happy morning to
you. Or if you're listening in the
evening, happy evening to you or afternoon perhaps.
Hope you're having a good afternoon.
Just happy. Happy, happy.
Any, any time you're listening to this class, it's happy.
It's just it's a happy time. I hope so.
You can't be sad and listen to this.
There's not a single sad thing about this class, except for
some of the people involved in it.
Yeah, you do. Well, you do a lot of sad
things, Corbin. What does that mean?
Like, I'm a sad person or I'm just, I'm sad.
I mean, you take it however you want to, however you want to me
and just the whole, like you don't have friends there.
The whole you have to. You guys tell me that sell hats?
Just to buy a bed. Listen.
You have a stinky roommate, stinky roommate, stinky.
The grind helps me build character.
What was your roommate's name? His name is Gordon.
OK, OK. And he is a human.
He is 150% human. Yes, he is.
We are the so, So they put somebody who was 150% human with
somebody who's only 50% human. That's interesting.
Why you? Guys, this is very nice to say.
You guys equal up to two humans and half of Mr. Mime.
I'm not in this part, Mr. Mime. Oh my goodness.
I am full human. I don't know.
That's not what your birth certificate says.
What makes him 150% human, professor?
You don't have access to my birth certificate as your
guardian as your as your legal guardian.
For our time and JoJo, they did give me your birth certificate.
Well, that's 100. It says human on there.
I mean, come on. It says human slash and then it
says something after that. But I don't want to say that
right now, cuz I don't want to give away your personal
information Corbin. That would be that would be
irresponsible of me as your as. Your I hear lies, lies.
Yeah, you're lying. You want to fit.
This excuse me. She's not.
I'm a boy. I'm a human boy with a lot of
emotions. Don't you call the professor a
liar? OK.
I didn't say you're a liar. You said lies.
You'd say lies, I said. Those are lies from a man that
happens to lie. I didn't call him a liar.
Yeah, he didn't call me a medieval instrument.
Yeah, that's true. All right.
We have a lot to talk about today.
So I think we should kind of, I think we should get right into
it. Does anybody know what Pokémon
we're talking about today? HM.
What type is it?
Professor, give us this. Fire type, right?
It is a fire type. Then just is UI of course.
You're an idiot. It fires arrows.
Yeah, See. See what I did there?
That was the professor, Mr. Curtis.
That was hilarious. That was a really funny thing
that you had thought of in your head.
Professor is definitely picking up what I'm putting down.
Thank you, thank you. It's like we're more In Sync
every day. I'm so sorry that I stepped on
your toes with the punchline there.
I'm sure you were. You were just about to say it.
I know you just jump right on it A.
Little slow to the draw there, Mr. Yeah, a draw like a smear
goal. Like a bow.
Yeah, like a bow.
Yeah, yeah, no, we're actually learning about Turtwig today.
Yeah, I did say that. I said last week.
I said last week, we're gonna learn about Turtwig.
And sure enough, today we are. Welcome to the Turtwig episode,
everybody. My name is Corbin Episode.
Episode. Sorry.
It feels like a new chapter of my life.
Feels like an episode. So go on, let me see.
Oh, welcome to the territory lesson.
We have so much to learn. We're gonna learn a lot of bit.
A lot about a lot of bit from our A lot of bit about it first.
Easy is it Corbin? From my new girlfriend and her
name is Dawn. Come on in, sweetie.
Thank you, Corbin. It's weird.
Let's learn about it, drew lips on his hand.
That's hand. It's making me very
uncomfortable. Please put that hand away,
Corbin. I'm trying to do a puppet show.
Do you mind? I spent half the morning
painting my hand to look like half the morning, half the
morning. Took you that long to put some
lips on your. Hand morning is now half over.
Yes, I did, but it was worth it. Well, is she beautiful?
Yeah, she's something. Thank you, Corbin.
I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to stop you right
there. You know this.
I do the lessons here, all right.
All right, well, fine. This is the professor's class.
I do the lesson, not your class, and sometimes Mr. Curtis does
the lesson. That's right.
Sometimes that's never happened. Very infrequently you do the
lesson. I have what did I do?
A lesson. I mean, you read the Pokedex
centuries. I can't.
Remember you. Read the lessons I did.
Do that once, Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was what I felt the most
alive. What did you say?
Nothing. Anyways, what do we learn about
today other than church wig? Is that it?
Yes. So we're learning about church
wig, but we're doing a weird fun spin on it where I read and I
instead read the Cinder Quill Pokedex centuries.
And we caught and we use we use Syndicwell instead of Turtwig.
Yeah, yeah, so it's it's weird. And also the label of this
lesson will be Syndicwell. I mean, if that's what it takes
to learn about my boy Turtwig, I'm I'm here for it.
I think you can really draw a lot of parallels between Turtwig
and Syndicwell. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I have no doubt. So look for those as we go
forward. So I have a syndicwell here
today. Now, Mr. Kurtwig.
Well, yeah, but I'm also gonna call it a syndequel.
Oh, OK, sure. Yeah, it's a syndequel.
Uh, huh. Sure it is.
Chris, I know you've seen a Syndequel before.
So yes, Corbin, have you seen a Syndequel before?
Yeah, I've seen a church. I mean, no, Professor, I have
not seen a Syndequel. Uh huh, Winkle?
Do we worry that maybe this is a too much of A complex concept
that we've come up with here that might not be good for
virtual students? No, no.
OK, We'll keep it going then. So, yeah, So this is a
Cyndaquil. I'm gonna go ahead and throw it
out. Yeah, I'm sure you're gonna
throw out a Hey, that's not a turd Twig.
That's a syndic Well, what did I say?
I thought you were. I thought this was a joke.
Like I said, whatever, this is a syndequil, but it's also a
metaphor for its earthquake. I'm sure it'll come back in less
than later. 8 Corbin it comes down to this.
Every time you see a Syndequil, imagine you're seeing a Turdwig.
Every time we say the word Syndequil, imagine we're saying
Turdwig. And every time we read an entry
for syndequil, make sure that you're imagining the equivalent
at. Entry for turd to it but but the
the entry is that we will be reading are for syndical.
Don't think that they're entries for.
Right. Gotcha.
I'm following. OK, cool.
So yeah, can you describe this syndequil to me?
Oh, he's very, very cute. I mean, he's got this, these
little tiny eyes, the numpy little hands, and he's got this
cute. Little like little what's?
I actually don't see anything on his back.
Oh, I mean, he has a back. I thought he was.
Wait, hold on. What type is this?
I mean, he's got a back, but it just there's these holes there.
I mean, wait, hold on, Professor, I have a question.
I can see you inching closer and closer to the sender quilt.
Yeah, I am. I thought this was a fire type.
I don't see any fire on this thing.
Is it a normal type? It looks kind of normal to me.
Well, the fire comes comes out of the holes on its back.
I don't believe you. OK, well, I'll be the
investigator of this. To me, it kind of just looks
like a bowling ball, right? It's perfect going size.
A good professor would stop this, but.
So instead of So hear me out here, instead of throwing one
into battle, you can erase one of the steps, you just throw the
Syndical into battle itself By rolling it.
By rolling it like a like a bowling ball.
Don't, don't. Yeah, So what?
You do is you take what? What would these fingers?
And then you're going to take your three fingers.
You're going to put them inside the syndical?
Whoa, whoa, that's that's what you did first.
Surprise in the syndicwell, I told, I told you fire comes out
of them. I'm sorry.
Don't that. And let that be a lesson to all
the virtual students out there. Don't make your cynical angry.
Oh, God, I'm just. I'm fumbling over my words.
You made me fumble, you Fumbler. You send a quill.
Actually, that is one of our patrons as well.
That's coincidental, huh? Look at that.
I'm gonna call you Fumbler. Cynical.
All right. I mean if you look at its, its
little hands, it does kind of look like it will fumble because
it's got, it's got like, I mean I wouldn't even call those hands
that it has, it has like. They're paws.
They're like paws. Little Paws doesn't have any
fingers or digits on the end of them.
Do you fumble a lot, Fumbler? Okay, I figured.
Yeah, it seems like you do. Shaking his head No though so.
Okay. All right.
Well, my bad. I've seen Fumble do some really
good serious artwork. Really puts my doodles to shame
to be honest. Who fumbler?
Yeah, Fumbler, you're an artist. Is that true?
Very interesting. Never fumbles a pen also.
OK, also, you cannot knock a football out of Fumbler's hands.
Yeah, it's. Like an iron type crit on that
might as well be an iron steel type.
Wait, I thought you said no. I thought you said he does
fumble things? No, he's he was shaking.
He was shaking. He said no.
Oh, you're right. You're right.
Yeah, my apologies. Yeah, No.
But you, yeah, you cannot, you cannot get this, this guy to let
go of a football. So what do you normally like to
draw with Cyndaquil? Oh, Charcoal.
OK, he just whipped one out from behind him.
Nice. OK, that makes sense.
Oh man. Charcoal.
That brings back memories,
right? I miss.
I miss charcoal. Yeah, good old, good old
charcoal. Oh yeah, or charming.
Oh, it's a. Long time ago, yeah.
I called him Charcoal. I think you guys called him
Stalin maybe? Fumbler.
I may have called him Stalin Fumbler.
Listen, let me tell you about the about a long tail many, many
eons ago about another little fire type starter like you.
And his name was Charcoal. Oh wow, he's nodding off to
sleep. You put you guys made a godless
sleep, Corbin. Actually super dulling super
well, thank you. We're gonna, we're not gonna
call him Stalin right now. All right.
Well, Corbin used hypnosis and it was super effective and.
What? I didn't even get to start.
My story is deep asleep. Hello.
It's Fire has gone out. So yeah.
Anything else we want to talk about with Cinequil before we
move on to the Pokedex entries? Nice long snout.
Very cute.
Good. We're.
Sniffing cute feet? Yes.
Also, cute feet? Dark blue fur on back, yes.
Cream belly, hands, feet side of face, underneath snout.
Yes, and that's a Cyndaquil. That's that is Cyndaquil.
Where are we on the hug ability rating?
Ooh, gonna give this if it's not.
If it's not flaring up, I'm going to give it an easy 11.
OK, this is that is from what, 3 to 14?
Three to 14, we give it 11 and the only reason it's getting
deducted any points is because I have to do all the work.
I have to pick it up to hug it. And sometimes I'm lazy, but it's
so cute I don't care. So let me actually, let me put
it a 13. I'll take 13.
The only reason it might not be a 14, I don't.
I can't tell is because it can't wrap its arms around me.
So we'll say 13 for now. Well, on a scale for a magmar to
to spinner act, you know from 3 to 14.
Of course, you know it's not quite always on fire like a
magmar is. But it is a fire type and it's
it's pretty unpredictable. So, you know, if you just
squeeze a little too hard and it gets mad or it you know, you,
you surprise it, You just got burnt.
So I just like fire types. So I will.
I won't give it a three, but I'll give it a I'll give it a
six. It's a six.
Okay, that's pretty low. I'm going to split the
difference here and I'm going to go with a 10 because I agree
with Mr. Curtis like that, like the fire on the back of its
back. I guess on his back it just it's
just too much, too much danger. It's too risky.
I never know what's going to go off now.
Maybe if I was hugging A synthequel that I know is tired
and sleepy then then I would be fine with it.
Cuz as we'll learn that that affects their fire making
capabilities. Or one you trust.
Yeah, or what? Or when I trust well, it's not
like a rapidash where it's flames don't burn somebody who
it trusts. I bet you trust it not to ignite
its flames on its back. Oh, I see what you're saying.
I see what you're saying. You get me now.
OK, but yes, but also, it's also really, really cute.
So when it doesn't have the flames out, it's, you know, it's
hard not to hug it, right? Of course.
All right, I'm going to go ahead and put Fumbler back into the
pokey ball, and we're going to start reading some Pokedex
entries. 5 fumbler. 5. Fumbler.
I miss him already. Beautiful.
Okay all right.
Starting off in the joto region. The first entry says it is timid
and always curls itself up in a ball.
If attacked, it flares up. It's back for protection.
I mean, this was a little bit more friendly.
He wasn't curled up at first. When we started talking to him,
it kind of uncurled. Yeah, cuz at first I was like,
that's definitely a bowling ball.
That's a that's a sansla, A sans, true, right?
For sure, right? Wait, what?
Well, sans true also roll up in balls.
Right, that's similar. And they roll.
Really fast, but Sans sure didn't have any of these holes
in its back that made me think it was a bowling ball like
Cyndaquil did. I was just ran over and just
threw my fingers in there immediately, but it did not.
We appreciate the restraint that you showed Corbin.
Thank you. It's hard not to sometimes
moving on, the next Century says.
It usually stays hunched over. If it is angry or surprised, it
shoots flames out of its back. Sure.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean same I. Get that cut, Cut part of that
hurt my hand a little bit. Not gonna lie.
Yeah. So you think it was angry or
surprised when you? I think it was more surprised.
I don't think he was Inc. I don't know.
It felt like more like, I don't know, based on the way his holes
tensed, it felt like he was more like, whoa, not like get out.
You know what I mean. But you understand the
confusion, right? Like, it makes sense that you
would want to use that as a bowling ball.
No, you're just wrong. All right, So the next entry
here says the fire that spouts Herman's back burns hottest when
it is angry. The flaring flames intimidate
foes. Yeah, I wasn't a foe, but I was
intimidated for a moment. Yeah, for sure.
I mean also in pain. Yeah, there was, there was some
pain. It's starting to wear off a
little bit now, but yes, quite a quite a bit of deal pain, yeah.
So it looks like in these entries we have from the Joe to
region they all mentioned that it uses the flames like as an
intimidation technique, not really as a way to do damage to
anything. It's more like.
A to defend, yeah. Right.
It doesn't. It's kind of like Chicarita that
doesn't really want to fight it seems.
I think. I think a lot of these, you
know, pre evolved forms of Pokémon don't really want to do
a lot of fighting. They're just out here to
survive. They're just hanging out, yeah.
Yeah. And any kind of any kind of like
you know, defense mechanism they have is just that it's for
defense and not for for attacking.
Sure, yeah, let's let's see if this trend continues in the
Hawaiian region. The first entry says a syndequel
protects itself by flaring up the flames on its back.
The flames are vigorous if the Pokémon is angry.
However, if it is tired, the flames sputter fitfully with
incomplete combustion. Which is why I said like if I if
I know that the syndequel is tired, then that I think it's
safer to hug it. Yeah, that makes sense.
But yeah, so. But if it's like, energetic and
ready to go, you know you're gonna get burned, right?
For sure. And once again, Mr. Curtis, you
have smacked your lips like you were about to say something.
No, no, I thought better of it. Please, Professor, please
continue. Good.
I'm glad you have seen with strength within yourself.
I know this is like a new Mr. Curtis.
Normally he just said whatever popped into his brain, but now
he's like. No.
Maybe curse, Mr. Curtis. Maybe you should die and come
back to life more often because it's apparently made you a bit
more normal. I did.
I didn't die and come back to life.
I'd I was never dead. MMM.
In denial. I mean, maybe he did never die.
Maybe this is the same Mr. Curtis that we knew before
Corbin. Don't put those theories out
there. Why not?
Because I'm going to start panicking.
No, I'm the same, Mr. Curtis. You always know in love.
Maybe you just think you're the same, Mr. Curtis.
Maybe. Maybe Mr. Curtis's conscious was
transferred into you. But it's just a copy.
It's not. It's not the original thing.
Mr. Curtis is a robot that explains.
So much. See.
Right here, under my under my
arm it says version one. See.
What do you want? What is it right there?
What is? What is it written in?
What is it is that? Is that crayon?
Did you just write that? Version one.
Yeah, no, it's in. It's under my arm here.
You can't see it, I mean. I can, I can, but why do you
have version 1 written on your armpit and crayon?
Well, I mean I just just to prove a point, just to prove a
point. He just wrote that.
I don't know what the point is. And also like we don't know what
version the other Mr. Kurz was. It could have been version zero,
for all we know. That's true.
So that was the beta. Version Beta.
What are you talking about? This is the Are you confirming
that you're a robot, Mr. Curtis? Finally, yes.
But am I? No, I'm not.
Are you? Are you here for all the, for
all the listeners at home? Are you confirming that you are
a robot? Yeah.
You're about to shock 3 million people listening right now.
I I I, I, I He's mafunctioning quick.
Reboot him. Reboot him.
Am not a robot. I don't like this.
OK, now he's doing a fun little robot dance.
I think he's messing with us. Beep boop Beep boop.
Beep. I don't know what to believe
anymore. Everything feels like a lie.
But no, no, no. I'm I'm 100% genuine.
The one and only Mr. Curtis has been here for the last 6
iterations of the class and 100 and so episode or lessons of
this current. He still has that glitch.
So where you can't, that's how you know it's me.
Yeah, that's you. That's that's all like you.
Case closed. Please take it away, Professor.
All right, so let's see here this next Pokedex entry.
Says this is now that we're done with the Hawaiian region.
Yes, for good. No, I'm kidding.
When we go into the center region, it says it has a timid
nature. If it is startled, the flame on
flames on its back burn more vigorously.
Yeah, yeah, we know that. We know that when it gets
heated, it gets hot. But this one?
That kind of makes it sound like the Flames are always going
right? Right.
But well, that wasn't the case. That what we saw today.
Yeah. And I think for the most, if you
look at most synicals like. Unless they're angry or
startled, the flames aren't there.
Right? Right, right.
I don't know, Sinno. I don't know, Sinno.
Sometimes you say things and I don't know if I like them.
Yeah, I'm like sin. No way.
So whoa ha ha ha ha ha. I say that was also pretty
funny. Thank you.
Okay.
So that does it for the Sinno region.
And guys, you'll never believe this.
Don't say it. There's nothing from the Unifa
region. Oh my God, what do you know Vins
doing? They did put stuff down, but
just it copies the exact same thing, Sinno said.
And also, Sinno's Pokenic centuries, they're so short.
Like you guys always have something new but
underachieving. It is like barely anything.
And Calo's copy is what we have here in the JoJo region, so
thank you for that guys. And there's nothing from the
Elola region. There's nothing from the Pal Deo
region. Nothing from the Gala region,
however, however. There is something from the
Hissui region. Ooh, what you got?
Of course predates the Sinner region.
It says hails from the Joto region, so I guess the joto
region was already around when Hissui was.
So I guess Joto is older than Sinno.
I think some would say that maybe.
OK. I mean if if.
That doesn't sound right, but OK.
But I mean, if this professor knows about the the Joto region,
Curtis, you're not a historian. It is true.
I am spinner, Rack expert and breeder.
I'm not a historian. So they say, hails from the joto
region. Though usually curled into a
ball due to its timid disposition, it harbors
tremendous firepower. Ooh, I mean yes, a baby one.
I mean, a Cinder Quill? Yeah, that's what I meant.
Sorry. For a second I thought you were
talking about Typhlosion. I'm like, that makes sense.
But Cinder Quill harbors a lot of power.
I don't know. I don't think it does.
Well, it doesn't. I mean it it it does when it's
surprised or mad, but it's so little, it's it's it's the first
evolution doesn't have that much power.
It's packed in a lot of lot of big powerful fire energy packed
in a little pack. That's your that's your little
cinequil. That's a lot of tshirt.
Right. So a lot of big fire energy.
Small little package. No even like the stammering and
the stuttering and the oz and that you said, yeah, those
would. No, that's all there.
Too No, There's been a lot of talking going on and there have
been zero hands raised. Sorry, I'm sorry Professor.
I'm sorry. I just thought this is a free
for all today. It kinda.
You know what? That's on me.
I need to take control back of my class.
No, Professor, you're perfect. Don't do anything different.
There's one last I guess maybe I should put this in the?
Unique Pokedex entry because this isn't really associated
with a region. But I do have a Pokedex entry
here from Professor Naroli which does what kind of research?
Sleep. Research.
Yes, he does sleep research. And on some on some weird sleep
islands out in a region that nobody knows the name of.
You bored, Mr. Curtis? You bored?
No, that's I was answering the professor's question.
By falling asleep. That's right.
Sleepy. Every time I hear that name,
it's just. It just triggers triggers some
sleepiness for in me. Anyway, so the entry here for
sender Quill in this sleep deck says apparently it often sleeps
curled up. You know, Professor Roly, You
know, bringing sillies in the the same old tradition of
putting, apparently, in a scientific discovery.
Come on. You don't know.
You can't like, look at it and say Yep, 9 times out of 10 it
sleeps curled up. Come on, Professor Ravioli, what
do you think in? On very rare occasions, wait,
you call him Professor. That's right.
No, I said. Naroli.
I said Naroli, that's. Porsche.
Play it back. What did he say?
Come on, Professor Ravioli, what are you thinking?
See, I we're not hearing this in real time, but I assume that you
know, it was neroli. We were really putting Porsche
through the the ringer, the. Ringer today.
Maybe she won't want to. We'll see.
Maybe. She won't do any of these and
we'll just be reacting to something that isn't there.
Wouldn't that be funny? That'd be great.
I. Think it's better every time I.
Hear it put in the laugh track here, Portia Okay.
This entry finishes off with on very rare occasions, a sleep
befuddled syndequil will spout flames from its back while
sleeping, let's say having like a nightmare or something crazy
going. On in the streams.
Yeah, but what do, what do? What's a cynical nightmare?
I would say. Falling bucket of a big bucket
of water. A big bucket of water?
Sure. Falling into a lake.
Falling into a. Lake Corbin trying to throw it
like a bowling ball. This is Okay.
All right. Well, I mean, Fumbler does
definitely have nightmares about that now.
Thank you. Well, thanks for traumatizing my
Pokémon, Corbin. Well, it's not yours.
You just loan it. Whoa.
No, it's mine. This fumbler is yours, Fumbler
is mine, Fumbler is yours. And you just let me name it.
That's very sweet of you. Yeah, I mean, I have a different
name for it. I'm gonna call it that always,
but I'll let you think that its name is Fumbler.
No, it's Fumbler. It looks like a fumbler.
Sure, it acts like 1. Sure.
It's definitely not Cindy. It is also a female Pokémon.
You were calling it a male? No, it's definitely.
I just didn't wanna correct you. No, it's definitely named after
our patron. Okay, sure.
Wink. All right, so let's go ahead and
read some more unique Pocadex entries.
The first one comes to us from Ashes Pocadex and says
Syndequil, the Fire Mouse Pokémon.
Normally mild and even tempered, Syndequil will shoot a scorching
flame out of its back when upset.
Bless you, Mr. Curtis. Wow, thank you.
That's rude. It's not.
He has a. I'm so sorry.
Sorry, I guess he's allergic to Ashes.
Pocadex. That would be too.
Okay. Well, we'll see how he reacts to
this next one, cuz it comes to us from Don's Pokedex.
I got the love of my life. Cyndaquil is able to use the
following moves, Flame Wheel, Swift, and Smokescreen.
So that's a we can all agree that's a pretty bad Pokedex
entry, right? And the move that Don uses on me
is charm. It's just something about it.
It's something about it. Guys, it's just it doesn't.
Say it swift. Yeah, go on.
Swift is not like one like a particularly fire type move that
I think about on a regular basis.
I guess not, no. You know what I'm saying, but
Swift never misses. It's kind of like Dawn's Pokedex
entries. They just never miss.
I would say this pokedex entry absolutely misses.
I mean like just because it's of just.
Because I'm sorry. Whoa, take a step back, Corbin.
No. Wow, he has a knife.
Don't you step to. Don't you step to the professor.
Take it, take it back. I'm about to flare up.
Like I said, the quilt. No, you don't flare up.
You don't flare up. You don't have fire, and this is
not flare up with web. This is not a knife, Professor.
I would never do something so stupid.
They call this a Shank. Okay, I made this that one time
I was put in detention for wrapping on the cafeteria
tables. You mean no?
You mean a? No weapons in class?
No. This is a Shank.
A Shank is, you know, something that's like a leg of Marie.
No, that's a leg. No, I'm pretty sure it's a
Shank. That's a Shank.
It's a Shank. I have to agree with the
purpose. Well, this is a.
Shank. It's a Shank steak.
That's this is a Shank that I'm holding and I'm going to use it
to Shiv you if you talk about about Dawn again.
OK, wow. So we everybody, everybody at
home is hearing this right? That he's going to stab you with
a piece of leg meat. Yeah, that's it's not very
scary. No.
So what happened to the what happened to the rest of the
marine? That's not, it's wood.
Look at this. It's wood.
I made a shake. It's it's piece of wood.
It's big piece of wood. Look at it.
It's a big piece of wood. And now?
Now piece of wood. Now he's crying.
I just. I just.
I just trying to defend my lady.
OK, anyways, so this I think. I just think it's funny that
it's pretty much just a list of moves that's in the Quill can
use and it's like not even a complete list either.
It's not even close she provided.
She brought more to the table than half the trained professors
did. She.
Well, she brought something different to the table,
certainly. Is it?
Sometimes that's what you need. That's what you need.
Something different? Yes.
Sometimes not this time, though, right?
To bring something different to all of our lives.
All right, whenever Don has a Pocadex entry, Corbin gets all
weird about it. All right, that does it.
For all the Pocadex entries on Cyndaquil, I think it's time to
really see if you guys were paying attention.
I have my doubts, so this should be interesting.
I would like for you guys to. Pitch this Pokémon to me.
No quiz. Don't pitch the Pokémon at me,
Corbin. I saw that you were.
I won't. You're winding up.
Put it away. You put now Tumblr away before
we before we get to the quiz, though.
Yes, I see. You know what, Mr. Curtis?
You are correct. I did see.
A couple of handouts that you had placed on my desk.
Yes, thank you, Professor. Thank you.
I just I needed to get those in there.
So yeah, actually, before we start testing, I do have a
couple of essays on Syndic will that came to us from virtual
students. So yay woo yay.
The first one comes to us from Will, Will says.
I'm so excited for the Jota region.
Pokémon that I have prepared an essay on the fire type Pokémon
starter out there, Cyndaquil, and hope that you can read it in
this Cyndaquil lesson because I need to make up for the credit I
lost for showing up to class late.
Well, don't worry, we don't keep track of attendance.
I do. Well, tardy, we do make sure
everybody listens to all the lessons.
So we do have track of that, but not, yeah, we don't have.
To do it, I do track tardiness. Oh, Mr. Curtis does, yes.
OK. Sorry, Mr. I'm ranking.
I'm ranking all of this. Listen this.
I'm not impact your grade Okay cuz I'm not the professor, but
I've got a ranking Okay. I know, I know all of you.
And where you're all at Okay and when you listen and how far
behind you are, well, yeah, that's.
Scary, Yeah. Like I said last time, we knew
what Less and Lillian was listening to, yeah.
You have it on that track. That app, I think, is what it
was, yeah, yeah. That was Corbin with the track.
That app I just knew intuitively.
Okay. Will says so.
They say because I need to make up for credit.
I lost for showing up to class late.
I'm not as much of A suck up as Mr. Curtis, but I need to get
caught up to Corbin. Also, if if Mr. Curtis is
revived in some some way, I'm going to get that Gold Star with
this three syllable word spinner rack.
Anyway, on to my essay. Yeah, so now you really have to
have a battle to fight here, Mr. Curtis.
Cyndaquil is known as the Fire Mouse Pokémon, a dark blue and
cream colored fire type fire type bipedal Pokémon that has
fire on its back. According to the Pokedex,
Cyndaquil is a timid Pokémon that protects itself using the
fire on its back which it can willingly flare up.
Cyndaquil is usually given to new Pokémon trainers in the Joto
region by Professor Elm, but you had better leave Quick or Elm
Elm will try and take it back. Trust me, I know.
I went to Joto once. I mean, maybe, maybe you just
stole a Cinder Quill. Maybe.
Yeah, maybe you're a criminal. Yeah, maybe.
I don't know. Were you supposed to be a
trainer in the JoJo region? I don't know why I'm asking.
They can't talk back. So.
But anyway, while Cinder Quill is by pedal, it chooses to stay
hunched over. Its fire is at its hottest when
it's angry. And I looked through my Pokedex
and some articles about Cinder Quill.
Sorry. I looked through my Pokedex and
some articles about Cyndaquil, but I just could not find
anything on how hot Cyndaquil's flame flames can get.
Cyndaquil weighs approximately 17.4 pounds and sands at about 1
foot and eight inches and is in the field egg group.
The end the end End of the story.
But not the end of the Ganggar meal cuz they finish off by
saying thank you for reading my essay and I look forward to the
upcoming JoJo region semester and I'm both looking forward and
terrified to talk about the spinner act line by my professor
in. Me too.
Best times are ahead. Best times are ahead.
Thank you. Best times are ahead.
You really. You really?
Gave up at the end of that song there.
I thought it was a great song. Nope, I see.
I mean, I just didn't want to go off into the second verse.
Not in the middle of class. Thank.
You thank you for that. All right.
So this next cynical essay comes to us from Malcolm.
I believe this is a different Malcolm from the Malcolm that we
that e-mail that we read last time.
I think, or maybe it could be the same outcome.
It is a different Malcolm. I mean it.
Could be the same Malcolm from a different Gmail address that has
happened before. It could be.
Or we just have a lot of Malcolm's in our student?
Meetings. So they said I might have sent
you a Gmail before, but I think it hasn't reached you.
And I love this Class A lot, but I have made I love this Class A
lot, but I have made an essay on Sendaquel as if it's like.
A punishment to us or something, right?
Exactly. And it's not.
It's a pleasure. It's.
It's just a weird way that you've said that Malcolm.
It might be an orthodox but and then they launched into it.
Cinderquil by Malcolm Cinderquil is a quadrupedal mouse adjacent
Pokémon with bluest fur on top. So it is, it is bipedal, not not
quadrupedal. That's that's just one thing I'm
noticing right off the gate, off the bat here.
Right, so it's a bluish with blueish from on top and a cream
underbelly, nubbin feet and hands and a long snout on its
back. Oh sorry and long snout on its
back are 4 red circles that can erupt into flames.
When angered, it tends to curl up because it is timid and if
tired, it sputters with incomplete combustion.
That's it. That's it.
I love that's my favorite sign off so far.
Yeah, that's it. And they've also included a
picture. It looks like a picture that
they took. I don't think they drew this
picture. They they snapped this picture
with a camera of a syndicate. Oh well, that's wonderful.
Good photo. Well, thank you so much,
Malcolm. All right, Mr. Curtis, Gold
stars. Well, I mean when you drop that
three letter word, that three syllable word.
Three letter word spit. Spit.
But yeah.
Now Professor, could you do me a favor?
Could you read back how he spelled that 3 silver word
before? It is, so it is wrong.
But it's close. It's close.
Yeah. See, see, you know, there's,
listen, I'm not the best speller, OK?
My grammar, my grammar ain't so good.
All right? It's definitely not.
But if there's one thing. That that you have to do if
you're going to play to my Spinnerack weakness is Spell
Spinnerack correctly. At the very least, look up how
Spinnerack is spelled. I could tell by the way that the
professor read that word out, that I knew it was spelled
wrong, knew. It was spelled wrong.
It doesn't. There isn't A/C before the K and
spinner act. It's the only word he he cares
to spell correctly. That's right.
If that's right, so I You know what?
Will I will give you he will a Gold Star.
A Willy. Yes, because he because he also
did say that they're looking, they were looking forward to
talk about the spinner act line, but they spelled spinner act
wrong again. Yes, they they didn't.
Will did not learn how to spell spinner act in the middle of
perhaps perhaps a bronze. Will, will you get a 3/4 of a
Gold Star? I'm not going to demote you to
Silver, but I. Can't justify giving you a full
Gold Star if you're not gonna spell the Hey, that's still
pretty good. Spell it right so you get 3/4.
But you know what You're on your way to That one whole Gold Star
to get a star sticker, or five gold stars to get a lollipop.
So hang in there. Or 2,000,365 to get a spinner.
A spinner rack egg. Reject spinner, rack, egg.
There you go. Whoo, nobody wants that.
I don't. What about Malcolm?
What does Malcolm get? Malcolm did not talk about
Spinnerack or the the inherent, you know, weakness of fire types
being just a crappy type compared to the bug types will
cower in fear of a fire. Or anything along those lines.
They also keep them warm when they're cold.
Malcolm gets a silver star because they did, they did send
a good, they did send a good picture of of Synaquillan.
So I got to give him credit for that.
But no reference to the inherent superiority of bug type.
So cuz they're not superior, they're gross.
I mean, they are, but OK, they are gross.
All right. Well, thank you guys so much for
sending in your essays. You, of course, both get extra
credit. I'm not stingy with that.
But yes, so I think we should move on to the testing portion,
which is, as I said previously, a poem.
Quiz time. Gonna get my.
Because I. Am Tom laptop.
I am in the market for a Cinder Quill and I would like for you
guys to pitch one to me. Get me to buy your Cinder Quill.
I'm gonna read the rubric real quick and then you guys can get
started. A professor?
I thought you already had a cinequil.
I'm for the purposes of this exercise that we're doing.
See, The thing is, you also don't have a cinequil to sell.
You see how we're doing like this kind of imagination thing
right now, Mr. Curtis. I think it's role play again.
It's role play again. Yes and yes.
And Mr. Curtis? I put.
I put on my my Mr. Mime hat Corbin What?
My son, What? What?
Do you don't talk to your mother
that way? Yes and yes.
And Corbin. Don't talk to your mother that
way there. My mother's.
What are you talking about? My mother's not in.
Here you can just take those big clown feet of yours and walk
yourself outside. I have clown feet, Mr. Curtis.
Outside. You're in timeout now.
No, I don't like this. What has happened?
All right. All right.
So that was OK. I have some notes.
And seen I. Have some notes, Mr. Mime only,
says Mr. Mime Curtis. So that was a big flaw right out
the gate that was see how this I'm writing these notes down
now, Professor. Thank you.
Thank. I am so confused.
What is happening? Why are you pretending to be my
mother? He's doing no, he's being your
dad. I'm your dad.
It's. Pop of mind.
You put a Mr. I don't Mr. Mine. I hope not pop of mind, dad.
You gotta keep up, Corbin. You gotta keep up if you have
any hopes of getting a full marks on this lesson.
Mr. Mine is not my dad. You're right.
I'm. I'm your dad.
What? No, for the time being, I'm your
legal guardian. Oh, Legal Guardian is different
than being my dad. Professor, can you be my dad?
No, You're an adult, Mr. Curtis. You don't need a dad.
Remember kids, when you grow up and become an adult, you don't
need parents anymore. Yeah, be sure to tell them that.
I'm sure they'll love that. You heard it here first.
Yikes.
All right, so the rubric for pitch of Pokémon is.
One, you must include information that we learned in
Class 2. You must demonstrate an
understanding of the Pokemon's unique attributes and abilities.
3 Selling points must be unique to the Pokémon we discussed in
this lesson and as a sub point onto that point.
These selling points must be for the Pokémon itself and not a
product it produces or provides. Please don't sell me cynical
smoke. I don't want it.
And for the student who provides the most compelling selling
points will get a bonus point. So go ahead, take your time with
that in mind and right pitch me the Cinnaquil.
Professor. Professor, I'm done.
I'm done. Professor, I am also finished
my. Hands Up has both finished at
the exact same time. That was amazing.
All right, that's. What we do here?
I think Mr. Curtis finished first, so in that case.
Oh man, I'm going. To let Corbin read his do his
pitch first. I think that makes that makes
sense. All right, Okay.
Here we go, guys. Yeah, give it to Anthony,
please. Portia pause for the pause.
For the music, Sorry. Pause.
Stephanie. Portia.
Go ahead, Anthony. Anthony hit us with it.
Now do it and do it right. And put it in right now, she.
Already did it. She already.
Did it. Sorry.
OK all. Right.
God, I didn't hear it. I don't know how you.
Heard it? I did.
We didn't hear it. It's in post production.
We don't hear it guys. We don't hear the music live.
Which is so sad. She edits it in we.
I know. We just we know how good it
sounds. All right, here we go.
I have two main uses for a Syndequil, and let me tell you,
the first one not as exciting. Second one.
A little bit more exciting, but I got 2 uses for it.
So the first one I want to mention is that it's a fire
starter. I know you're like, OK, yeah,
it's a fire Pokémon, but the thing that's anest out this is
it's exactly that's very good. It's not like there's like six
or seven of those or anything. There's way more than that,
buddy. Anyways, so it curls up really
nicely. There's wooden fireplaces.
What? Like there's six or seven of
those. Yeah, we can't ignore that, Mr.
Curtis. There's more than six to seven
starter Pokémon at this point. A7 isn't even multiple of three,
there's always 3. Come on, Mr. Curtis.
No, I did fire. Starter.
A fire. There's specifically fire
starters. Oh, just.
For there's also more than six of fire fire starters, Mr.
Curtis Well, I know, I know there should be 9, right?
Very good. Can I get back to pitching my
Pokémon to the professor? I'm so rudely interrupted.
All right, it's a fire starter. It starts fires because it curls
up very very nicely in between the wood.
Especially if you do like a little log cabin style fire, it
can Nestle in. Cynicals are very small.
It can Nestle right in the middle of that pile of wood and
then it can just start a little bit of fire and it just keeps
there and it keeps it warm for as long as you want.
It can just keep going over and over.
Now the second one hear me out. Sendaquel can be used for a real
cool state-of-the-art low technology alarm system.
Now now hear me out. So you have a rope that is
attached to a bell. OK, now this rope is going to
sit right in front of the Sendaquel as the Sendaquel goes
night, night time. So here's what's going to happen
if a door or window breaks open. Somebody enters the house.
What's going to happen? That rope that's attached to the
bell sitting right above the cynic will is going to be
disintegrated by the flame. If cynic will get started, it's
flame burns. So it's going to burn the rope,
which causes the rope to be split, which is the the device
that's holding the bell up and it's going to ring the bell.
That's basically how it's going to work.
A real, a real rube if you, if you.
A real rube? Yes, yes, exactly.
Yes. So if miss, if the sendaquel is
startled, it burns a rope which clings a little bell and then
it's the quickest way to alert people inside the vicinity.
There is somebody entering the home.
It's quicker than the sendaquel just running down to the master
bedroom being like, hey, there's people, hello, it's quicker than
that. It's an immediate reaction and
it will set. It will scare your intruders and
send them running. Well, I mean, it's not going to
scare them, I guess. It will scare them.
You know, it might, it might cuz I mean that is the the purpose
of cynical flames is to his intimidation.
So maybe it might scare him. And loud bells, those are Those
are scary. OK, I guess.
I mean, is it a really loud bell?
Like a Like a Like a yeah, like a church bell.
It's a really loud clang. Let me tell you what.
OK, so that was pretty good. That was pretty good.
Corbin, I gave you full marks on including information that we
learned in class. And I'm going to give you full
marks on the selling points too. And now I am going to take a few
points away for the understanding of a Pokemon's
unique attributes and abilities. Because you now you did
accurately describe what would happen if one startled.
However, for the fire starter, you kind of made it sound like
it could continuously go forever.
But something that we No, no. No, it could keep.
It could keep exuding fire whenever you.
But The thing is, if a cynical is tired, it won't be able to.
All you need to do is start the fire.
It's a fire starter. All you got to do is start the
fire and it keeps under there. It keeps warm.
Everybody wins. It's in a peaceful little home,
surrounded. By definitely.
You definitely made it sound like it was going to be doing
the fire forever, Mr. Curtis. Do you?
Can you? I didn't say the entire I I I
did not say. I'm pretty sure you said it was
going to chill in out in the fireplace in the logs and and.
Be, I said. Fire starter.
That's a fire starter. I didn't say it was going to be
going the whole time. I'm giving you.
I don't know. Three out of four.
I don't think that's fair, but I will.
Do you at least think it's equitable?
No, it's not, I don't think. It's what about 3.5?
I'll take a 3.93. .9 OK how about a 2.5?
That's less I'm getting. There you go.
I'm getting to say you're stronger than that, professor.
I'm getting less. Now, all right, you know what,
you're right. You're right Corbin we how about
we compromised with three? Sounds good to me.
OK, great. All right, Mr. Gurus, it is your
turn. Let's hear what you have to say.
Well, this. Is and if you could do it
without taking a long drink from some kind of liquid, yes, I do
need to clear. My no.
I am done. I can't deal with this anymore.
Okay there it. Is, you can't.
Corbin is resigning from this class.
I am resigning as former class President Okay.
Well, hello. Today I'm here to introduce the
next generation in security. You're joking.
Let me introduce the Scream Dequeil.
Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody.
Applause around. Thank you.
What?
Did. You say the Scream Dequeil.
That's right. Yes, it's it's a.
It's a pun. No, we get it.
It's done. We get it.
What's up? OK, all right.
Anyway, there are many cases where you want to deter an
intruder but limit the amount of collateral damage around.
So Cinnaquil's come in small, unobscuring packages, meaning
they can sit safely off to the side, curled up in a ball in a
corner or hidden and and don't have to constantly have fire
out. Unlike a lot of fire types, once
the wrong person invades their space, they're and they're
startled or mad because their space is intruded upon.
Boom, their flames come out to deter invaders.
But then of course you know, as as Senda quills use their flames
for prediction, you run a little risk of collateral damage in the
area used, more directed just towards that individual.
And then additionally or finally, the sudden flare of
file can fire. Excuse me, can I don't?
Think you ever fully said it? The sudden flare of fire can
draw draw the attention of other beefier guard Pokémon to come to
the rescue. Which means that this limits the
cost of maintaining a large staff of powerful Pokémon.
And instead you can have a collection of of kind of
watchdog syndicwills that set off the larger alarm to alert
the the one or two beefy Pokémon that actually do a lot of the
heavy muscle lifting. Thank you very much.
Okay. All right.
So now I mean sign up in the lobby.
We do clearly have a. You know a situation here where
this is very similar to to Corbin's.
It sounds like somebody cheated perhaps.
Well, I can't. I can't follow him for that.
That was watching you guys the whole time.
I know he was. He kept his eyes well also.
He's sitting in front of you, so yeah.
So yeah, it would be who's looking over who's who's looking
over whose shoulder. Yeah, Corbin.
I would never look over your disgusting shoulder.
You're also much taller than me. OK, so let's see here.
So I'm gonna be before. For the first category, you
definitely included information that we learned in class.
I am gonna give you a four for the understanding of the
information that you talked about.
Cuz you're right, it doesn't always have to have its fire
out, which is very good and it's small and it cross a bit of ball
and all that stuff. Yeah, I'm gonna give you a four.
I'm gonna give you a four all around, man.
Pandering Very. Hey, can we get, Can we get an
effiny? No, thank you.
No idol. 2nd Effiny. No, no second effiny right here,
please. Effiny Effiny.
Thank you, of course. If you cherish me as a friend,
you will not do it. It's not fair and equitable
unless I get a four. And she just played it.
That was hilarious. That hey, hey Portia.
Incredible comedic timing. If I could.
If I. How do you know she played it?
Well, if I say it like that, she has to play it.
Portia, Portia, you're once again you're play that fair and
equitable soundtrack that you came up with is beautiful.
I love it. Thank you.
Do you have a band, Portia? Are you thinking of us starting
a band? Can I can I?
Can we be in your? Can I be in your band?
I'll be the Pokémon biologist in your bands.
Okay. All right, well, we can't.
We're asking here and expecting her to answer, but she can't.
Yeah, she can't answer cuz she won't hear this until later on.
All right, so now I'm left with the very difficult decision of
figuring out you had most compelling selling points here.
So it's so hard when you guys basically come up with the same
thing. See?
Because. Corbin included the additional
thing of it being a fire starter, but Mr. Curtis is
there's a lot of fire types that could be fire starters.
I. Mean that is true.
That is very. But it but it curls that's it
curls up really, really small. That's one of the things about
it. And we'll say, yeah, you
included those two things and Mr. Curtis's, I feel like
security detail was a little bit more fleshed out, a little bit
better than just burning a string and.
Oh man, I thought mine made great sense.
How about this? How about this?
You guys each get one bonus point.
I'll take it. Instead of instead of the usual
plus four, which really screws up the grade.
I don't know why I decided to do it like.
That I'll take it. Thank you.
All right. But hey, excellent job to the
both of you today. I'm very, very proud of you guys
for the first, the first pitch of Pokémon of the new semester,
you guys Very well, but that is going to do it for today's
lesson on Sendaquil. Sorry on Turtwig.
Thank you. Does anybody know who will be
learning about next week? It's weirdly enough, it's the
evolved form of Cyndaquil, not Turkey.
So it's not blazican. No, it's not Blazican.
It's it's Decision I. Nope.
Is it Mag Mortar? No, we're getting further away
from it here. It's slugma, right?
That's the one. Okay.
Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it.
We are learning about qulava. This is the evolve.
The La Vela some. Vela.
Yeah. La Vela.
Yeah. It's really interpretive how you
say Pokémon names. Yeah, of course.
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