G&C Podcast - Episode 198: Discussing The Pokemon Professor's!

[00:00:00] Hey guys, on this episode of Gaming Collecting, we are once again returning to Pokemon. This time we'll be discussing all of the different Pokemon Professors from the games and a couple from other media. But with that everybody, on to the episode.

[00:00:38] So how you been?

[00:00:46] Well Phil, before we started recording, is what I did!

[00:00:58] I did!

[00:00:59] Alex thought it would be really funny to just leave the studio before we recorded, and I was just kind of like, alright, she can come back in five seconds and then now we're here.

[00:01:10] What if I didn't come back? You said, I'll just record without you! See, I know what was really happening. You have your new co-host in the wings right now, and they're just waiting for the opportunity to take over my spot, isn't it?

[00:01:25] Because you want to cancel this show? It's okay, you don't have to lie to me. I know this is the worst performing one.

[00:01:33] No it's not.

[00:01:35] Anyways.

[00:01:37] It's all Michael.

[00:01:38] How you been?

[00:01:39] How you been?

[00:01:40] Where am I?

[00:01:42] What is it?

[00:01:43] Happy Halloween!

[00:01:45] It's Halloween night. This will come out like a week after Halloween, but that's fine.

[00:01:50] Um...

[00:01:50] What do you- I like your costume.

[00:01:53] Hope I'll look-

[00:01:56] Might as well be at this point.

[00:01:58] There's fucking might-

[00:01:59] There was a fucking-

[00:01:59] There was a fucking mouse in my house this week, alright?

[00:02:04] Yep.

[00:02:05] Yep.

[00:02:05] You know what? I've never had a mouse in my house, and you know why?

[00:02:09] Because you have cats.

[00:02:11] Yep, so get a cat, and then you don't have to worry about it.

[00:02:15] Yeah.

[00:02:16] But try and get one that's less of a menace to society.

[00:02:20] Honestly, your cat would probably be friends with the mice, let's be real.

[00:02:23] No, I honestly feel like if she sees a mouse, she will kill it.

[00:02:27] I have a feeling that she'll eat it.

[00:02:29] She'll-

[00:02:29] Yeah, she would probably try to eat it.

[00:02:32] Like, if there's been a mouse in my house, I probably don't know because she ate it.

[00:02:36] You'd probably find its remains and scream, and I'd hear about it, so...

[00:02:40] I'd probably find, like, just the bones.

[00:02:45] Usually cats like to bring you their sacrifices as presents, so...

[00:02:50] I know, but she's an odd one.

[00:02:52] True.

[00:02:53] She did start becoming a bed bug.

[00:02:56] Oh, she's getting older now, and she's losing that energy that kittens have?

[00:03:02] No, she still has it.

[00:03:04] She still has it.

[00:03:06] She's starting to get-

[00:03:07] Bill, the kitten energy lasts for at least three years.

[00:03:10] Yeah, well, I mean, she's starting to get fat, though, so that's probably slowing her down a little.

[00:03:14] I think it's more- it's cold, and it's warm on the bed with me.

[00:03:20] I think that's more of it.

[00:03:21] Because when she's on the bed, she's being a little shit the whole time.

[00:03:27] Oh, like...

[00:03:28] So I left clothes out.

[00:03:30] I went and worked out earlier.

[00:03:32] I left my clothes out.

[00:03:34] Because then I would immediately go shower after.

[00:03:37] I come upstairs, she's on the bed.

[00:03:39] She's freaking- she ate a pair of my underwear.

[00:03:44] She was playing with it, and there was fucking holes in it, so I had to throw them away.

[00:03:49] So now I can't even leave out any clothes, like, because she's gonna fucking eat it.

[00:03:54] Your cat is a fucking psycho.

[00:03:56] She's a temper.

[00:04:01] You wanted it, though.

[00:04:07] Fraud was committed towards me.

[00:04:09] They said this was a shy little-

[00:04:10] It was love at first sight.

[00:04:14] For the first month, she was a completely different cat.

[00:04:18] She was afraid of everything.

[00:04:19] She barely left the room, like, because I had her up in a room.

[00:04:22] And now she's a monster.

[00:04:25] She's a monster.

[00:04:28] She's a monster.

[00:04:30] You love her, though.

[00:04:32] I do, but...

[00:04:33] Oh my god, she's a menace to society.

[00:04:38] What have you been watching, Bill?

[00:04:42] Um...

[00:04:42] Watched a couple shorter animes in the background.

[00:04:47] Uh, nothing too major.

[00:04:48] Actually, today I watched the live-action Zomb 100 movie.

[00:04:52] Oh, you did?

[00:04:53] How was it?

[00:04:56] Cheesy, but not bad.

[00:04:57] Like, for live-action anime standards...

[00:04:59] I feel like for that, I could see it working.

[00:05:02] Because they've gotten zombie movies down, so...

[00:05:05] So, we're actually gonna be talking about it on Geek Addicts at some point in the future,

[00:05:09] so I won't go super in-depth.

[00:05:11] But, um, I will say...

[00:05:13] They abridged it, interestingly.

[00:05:15] Like, it only covers up to the, uh, the arc where he, uh...

[00:05:19] runs into his former boss.

[00:05:21] But they merged that arc with the, uh, the aquarium arc.

[00:05:26] Oh, okay.

[00:05:28] Like, it works for the film, but they merged those two together.

[00:05:31] It stops there.

[00:05:33] So it's, like, not, um...

[00:05:37] It doesn't go, like, what...

[00:05:38] Probably couldn't, like...

[00:05:41] Yeah, like, we don't meet Beatrice or anything.

[00:05:43] See, they didn't do a Sailor Moon Cosmos.

[00:05:45] They didn't do a Sailor Moon Cosmos and just made it make no sense.

[00:05:49] Um, I will say the, um...

[00:05:52] They did a...

[00:05:53] They bridged a lot of stuff together.

[00:05:54] I will say the, um...

[00:05:56] Somehow the zombies are supposed to be more terrifying

[00:06:00] because they are not, like, cartoony with, like, rainbow blood everywhere.

[00:06:04] But they're still really dumb.

[00:06:06] They also make the sound you make all the time.

[00:06:08] What do you mean?

[00:06:11] Their sound effect is a little, you're like...

[00:06:13] Sound.

[00:06:15] Like, my...

[00:06:17] That?

[00:06:18] What, like...

[00:06:19] One of your sounds that you make.

[00:06:21] The more of the, like, the weird gargling one.

[00:06:25] No.

[00:06:25] You'd know it if you heard...

[00:06:27] Yeah, that one.

[00:06:30] The sound they...

[00:06:32] Yeah, the sound they make is almost identical in the whole time.

[00:06:35] It took me out of a...

[00:06:36] That was my Kelly impression.

[00:06:38] That was my Kelly impression.

[00:06:39] If you ever watch it, you'll understand.

[00:06:42] But, um...

[00:06:43] You gotta tell me, like, a clip.

[00:06:45] I'd have to find one.

[00:06:47] I will say I wasn't...

[00:06:48] It's definitely not a movie to watch with the kiddos, though,

[00:06:50] because the scene where they, um...

[00:06:52] Where he rescues his friend...

[00:06:54] I'm forgetting the names already, but, um...

[00:06:56] When he rescues his friend at the Love Hotel...

[00:06:58] Uh, they're just fucking all straight-up nude in there.

[00:07:01] And I'm just like, oh!

[00:07:02] Lovely.

[00:07:03] Yeah, not for kids.

[00:07:05] It's everywhere.

[00:07:07] Like...

[00:07:07] Jesus.

[00:07:08] Like, yeah.

[00:07:10] Um...

[00:07:10] It was...

[00:07:11] It was pretty good, though.

[00:07:12] You'll hear...

[00:07:13] If you want to hear more in-depth,

[00:07:13] I'm covering it on Geek Addicts at some point in the future, so...

[00:07:16] When does the one come out where you answer the questions?

[00:07:20] Because I keep checking everything.

[00:07:23] It comes out on Tuesday.

[00:07:26] Well, by the time this comes out, it'll be already out.

[00:07:29] But yes, next Tuesday.

[00:07:32] I've been waiting!

[00:07:34] Well, I'm sorry.

[00:07:35] On Geek Addicts, we recorded way in ahead.

[00:07:37] Because we've had...

[00:07:39] That's too much work.

[00:07:43] You've been busy lately, so we haven't had time to build a back...

[00:07:46] Well, things are going to be slowing down, so don't worry.

[00:07:51] Other than that, I did want to share a story I had shared with Alex earlier, but...

[00:07:55] One of my co-workers...

[00:07:58] I don't want to hear it.

[00:08:01] I don't want to hear it.

[00:08:01] I don't want to...

[00:08:03] I'm kidding.

[00:08:05] One of my co-workers at work, he...

[00:08:08] So they banned headphones at our job.

[00:08:11] Well, my job now.

[00:08:13] So everybody...

[00:08:14] That's not mine.

[00:08:17] No headphones at all.

[00:08:19] And so now everyone...

[00:08:20] Bill, I hate to break it to you, but that was banned a while before.

[00:08:25] You just were breaking the rules.

[00:08:27] That was banned when I worked there, Bill.

[00:08:30] I was never breaking the rules.

[00:08:32] Because I...

[00:08:32] Well, okay.

[00:08:33] I've always had a personal...

[00:08:35] I mean, not...

[00:08:35] Bob was...

[00:08:38] I'll rename it.

[00:08:40] It's a first...

[00:08:41] I doubt he listens to this.

[00:08:42] He was breaking the rules.

[00:08:44] But, um...

[00:08:46] Yeah, but the way they...

[00:08:47] The way they went about it was kind of shitty.

[00:08:49] But that's besides the point.

[00:08:50] So now everyone has personal radios.

[00:08:52] So there's just a shit ton of music playing in the building and...

[00:08:55] Wait, they gave everyone a radio?

[00:08:58] No, no.

[00:08:58] People just all bought their own radios.

[00:09:00] Oh, okay.

[00:09:01] Yeah.

[00:09:04] Because...

[00:09:05] Let's face it.

[00:09:05] Everyone...

[00:09:06] No one gives a shit and everyone's just gonna blast music.

[00:09:08] And it's probably annoying to some people, but I don't care.

[00:09:11] I'll just play my music louder.

[00:09:14] Yeah.

[00:09:15] But, um...

[00:09:16] To go back to the story.

[00:09:17] I'm walking by.

[00:09:19] And I hear this song.

[00:09:21] And I'm just like...

[00:09:21] That sounds really familiar.

[00:09:23] So I kind of pause and I listen.

[00:09:25] It's coming from his radio.

[00:09:27] And it's a One Republic song.

[00:09:29] And I'm...

[00:09:30] I'm just sitting here going like...

[00:09:32] Is that the ending theme to Kaiju number 8?

[00:09:34] So I just look at it.

[00:09:35] I'm like...

[00:09:36] I'm like...

[00:09:36] Are you listening to the Kaiju number 8 ending theme?

[00:09:38] And he looks at me dead in the face and goes...

[00:09:39] What the fuck is Kaiju number 8?

[00:09:42] And I'm just like...

[00:09:43] The song.

[00:09:44] I swear to God.

[00:09:44] It's the ending theme from that anime.

[00:09:46] So he pulls up his phone.

[00:09:47] And he looks at it.

[00:09:48] He goes...

[00:09:48] Oh, yeah.

[00:09:49] It is.

[00:09:49] Because it legit says Kaiju number 8.

[00:09:51] Oh, yeah.

[00:09:51] It does in the title.

[00:09:52] Yeah.

[00:09:53] He's like...

[00:09:53] Huh?

[00:09:54] What's it about?

[00:09:55] And I'm like...

[00:09:56] Uh...

[00:09:56] I'm like...

[00:09:57] Okay.

[00:09:57] How do I explain this?

[00:09:59] Monsters.

[00:10:00] Guys.

[00:10:00] I was like...

[00:10:01] Monsters.

[00:10:02] I basically was like...

[00:10:03] Have you seen Attack on Titan?

[00:10:04] He's like...

[00:10:04] I know of it.

[00:10:05] I've seen parts of it.

[00:10:06] I'm like...

[00:10:06] Okay.

[00:10:06] Imagine that.

[00:10:07] But more modern and like...

[00:10:08] In a city.

[00:10:09] And it's like...

[00:10:09] It's monsters rather than Titans.

[00:10:11] He's like...

[00:10:11] Oh, okay.

[00:10:13] Yeah.

[00:10:14] So that was playing at work.

[00:10:15] And he had no fucking idea.

[00:10:16] And I just find that really funny.

[00:10:18] It's a good song.

[00:10:20] It is.

[00:10:20] I do prefer the opening song though.

[00:10:22] By Youngblood.

[00:10:24] I like both of them.

[00:10:26] I like both of them equally.

[00:10:28] I...

[00:10:28] Since you brought that up...

[00:10:29] Well, as soon as I finish...

[00:10:31] I'm watching the newest season of My Hero Academia right now.

[00:10:34] And then I have two more episodes.

[00:10:36] And literally once I finish...

[00:10:38] I'm finished My Hero Academia...

[00:10:39] I am re-watching Kaiju number 8.

[00:10:41] Because I fucking love that show so much.

[00:10:43] Good for you.

[00:10:44] You could read the manga.

[00:10:46] You haven't.

[00:10:46] Well, I've been doing that too.

[00:10:49] How do you know what I'm doing?

[00:10:50] You don't know my life!

[00:10:52] Because you just watch One Piece on repeat.

[00:10:55] I actually have not watched that much One Piece this year.

[00:10:59] I've been branching out.

[00:11:00] Bill, I'm almost at 100 shows.

[00:11:03] That's good for you.

[00:11:05] I'm almost at 100 shows.

[00:11:06] I'm almost at 40.

[00:11:10] I'm working hard.

[00:11:11] So see?

[00:11:12] You can't say I was watching only One Piece.

[00:11:14] Because I've been watching a lot of different shit.

[00:11:16] Not shit.

[00:11:17] It's been good.

[00:11:18] Well, no.

[00:11:19] There's been some shit.

[00:11:20] There's been some shitty shows.

[00:11:23] One of them you made me watch.

[00:11:24] I'm just kidding.

[00:11:28] Bill just gave me the finger.

[00:11:31] Ew.

[00:11:31] A partial misready.

[00:11:34] Come on, Bill.

[00:11:35] If you're going to give me the finger, you're going to feel like you're doing this to me.

[00:11:38] No.

[00:11:39] I was doing my imitation of you in middle school.

[00:11:44] Yeah.

[00:11:45] Why?

[00:11:45] Ew.

[00:11:46] Wait.

[00:11:47] Speaking of middle school, mom sent me a photo of me dressed up in an old Halloween costume.

[00:11:54] And I was like, that is the ugliest thing.

[00:11:56] I literally texted her, ew.

[00:11:59] And she was like, I don't remember this costume.

[00:12:01] And I was like, probably a good thing.

[00:12:03] And she was like, it was pretty.

[00:12:04] And I was like, pretty ugly.

[00:12:07] I'm not going to lie.

[00:12:08] Some of the costumes we had back in the day were bad.

[00:12:16] Yeah.

[00:12:18] I love seeing old photos, though, of us in Halloween costumes.

[00:12:23] I can be like, wow, how dated.

[00:12:24] Because I think I was Max Steele one year.

[00:12:27] Who the fuck remembers Max Steele?

[00:12:30] Yeah.

[00:12:31] No, it's funny looking back.

[00:12:34] You got lucky.

[00:12:36] You had already quit trick-or-treating when Facebook was a thing.

[00:12:42] Facebook became a big thing.

[00:12:44] I was unfortunate.

[00:12:46] Mom had a memory.

[00:12:47] I quit trick-or-treating when I think MySpace was still the prominent social media platform.

[00:12:54] So on my old MySpace, which might-

[00:12:56] MySpace still exists.

[00:12:57] Kinda, I think.

[00:12:59] Maybe.

[00:13:00] If it does, if my account's still there, there's probably photos on there that I would probably like to not exist anymore.

[00:13:06] But I'm too lazy to find out.

[00:13:07] I feel like it probably doesn't exist anymore.

[00:13:09] Yeah, who knows?

[00:13:11] Yeah, that being said, though, some of those old costumes were hilarious.

[00:13:15] I'll always remember the year you were like some weird goth pixie thing.

[00:13:18] And everyone was like, oh, she's a pretty butterfly.

[00:13:21] And you're like, I'm not a butterfly.

[00:13:25] Because you had butterfly wings for whatever reason.

[00:13:28] And everyone thought you were a butterfly.

[00:13:29] No, they were fairy wings.

[00:13:31] It was a weird goth fairy.

[00:13:33] I don't fucking know.

[00:13:34] Yeah, that was one of your more abstract costumes.

[00:13:38] I don't really remember much of Halloween.

[00:13:40] Is it crazy?

[00:13:41] Like, I don't really remember Halloween that much.

[00:13:44] Maybe it was all the candy comas.

[00:13:45] Yeah, probably because you had a sugar coma the next day and you couldn't rum.

[00:13:49] You know what's funny, though?

[00:13:50] Is like candy-wise, like, I don't really like candy.

[00:13:55] Like chocolate anymore.

[00:13:56] And I feel like that's what you get mostly on Halloween.

[00:13:58] But I'm like not a good chocolate favorite anymore.

[00:14:00] I'm sick of chocolate now because it's overdone.

[00:14:05] Yeah.

[00:14:08] Yeah, that being said, though, some of those costumes.

[00:14:10] I think the last year I trick-or-treated, my costume was only a bunch of shit I just threw together at the last minute.

[00:14:16] Like, I think I had like a camo army hat and coat and a skeleton shirt and glove.

[00:14:21] And I said I was a dead army guy.

[00:14:23] And in hindsight, probably wouldn't have done that nowadays because, yeah.

[00:14:29] But, yeah.

[00:14:30] It was a different time.

[00:14:32] No, it was called I was lazy as fuck and I grabbed the shit I had in my closet.

[00:14:35] Because I didn't have it.

[00:14:36] I wasn't even going to trick-or-treat that year.

[00:14:38] I did it as a favor.

[00:14:40] Yeah.

[00:14:41] Yeah.

[00:14:42] And then the next year I said, fuck it, I'm done.

[00:14:46] You were Sailor Moon one year.

[00:14:48] I was.

[00:14:50] I don't want to talk about it.

[00:14:53] You were an original costume.

[00:14:54] All right.

[00:14:55] Today we're talking about Digimon.

[00:14:59] You don't know, like, anything about Digimon.

[00:15:01] And I already did that.

[00:15:02] I know.

[00:15:02] That's why we're not talking about Digimon.

[00:15:05] If you want to hear us talk about Digimon, or at least me, I did an episode with our buddy

[00:15:09] Schnickerman a while back.

[00:15:11] You can check that out.

[00:15:14] Sorry.

[00:15:15] It's a must.

[00:15:16] I can't not do that whenever.

[00:15:18] It's like Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:15:20] Like, the Schnickerman is my equivalent of, like, Yu-Gi-Oh screaming Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:15:27] Yu-Gi-Oh!

[00:15:28] Did you just say Yu-Gi-Oh screaming Yu-Gi-Oh?

[00:15:33] Yu-Gi screaming Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:15:35] Yeah.

[00:15:35] To become Yami.

[00:15:39] Anyway.

[00:15:40] So, we're talking about Pokemon for this episode.

[00:15:47] We're doing another Pokemon.

[00:15:49] It's been a bit since we've done one of these.

[00:15:51] Like, we kind of took a bit of a break there.

[00:15:54] To do the Macarena.

[00:15:56] Yeah.

[00:15:56] So, we've already, obviously, in past episodes, we've already talked about all of the different

[00:16:02] Pokemon in the Pokedex.

[00:16:04] We've talked about the Pokemon trainers.

[00:16:05] We've talked about the rivals.

[00:16:07] Pokes.

[00:16:08] Pokes.

[00:16:09] We've talked about the starters in particular.

[00:16:11] This time, we're going a little bit out of the box, and we're talking about the professors.

[00:16:16] Fiends.

[00:16:17] Because.

[00:16:19] Fiends.

[00:16:20] Every Pokemon game has a professor.

[00:16:23] Fiends.

[00:16:23] And I always found them.

[00:16:26] I found it very interesting that they kind of, like, would try to make them, like, unique.

[00:16:32] But they're also all kind of the same thing in reality.

[00:16:39] So, we'll start, I guess, with the guy who started it all.

[00:16:43] Professor Oak.

[00:16:46] Oh, I never noticed that.

[00:16:54] No?

[00:16:55] Yeah.

[00:16:58] Yeah.

[00:17:12] They're all named after trees.

[00:17:14] Magnolia.

[00:17:18] I think that's a tree.

[00:17:19] Maybe.

[00:17:20] I don't really know.

[00:17:21] Yeah, no, that is a tree.

[00:17:22] That's what I was saying.

[00:17:24] Okay.

[00:17:26] Anyways, so, starting with Professor Oak, the OG, the one from the show, the one that got violated by a muck.

[00:17:34] If you want to see that picture, look in the cursed image gallery on our server.

[00:17:42] What's there to say about Oak?

[00:17:44] He's the originator of, are you a boy or a girl?

[00:17:49] Are you a boy or a girl?

[00:17:51] He knows whenever you have your, he knows whenever you try to ride your bike indoors.

[00:17:58] He does.

[00:17:59] And he always tells you not to do that.

[00:18:04] He's also, I feel like, been the most prominent on, like, the animes as well.

[00:18:09] And, like, out of all the games, like, he appears the most often.

[00:18:13] So, he appears in...

[00:18:15] Outside games.

[00:18:17] Yeah, like, I mean, he was in Pokemon Snap, one of his rare talking appearances.

[00:18:22] Obviously, he was in the anime.

[00:18:24] He still appears pretty much throughout the anime, even though the other professors did appear.

[00:18:29] And the main games he appeared in, obviously, he's in Ruby Sapphire.

[00:18:33] No, no, no, no, no.

[00:18:35] Not in Ruby and Sapphire.

[00:18:37] That's, like, one of the few games he isn't in.

[00:18:38] But he's in, like, the original Red, Green, and Blue.

[00:18:40] He's in Gold, Silver, Crystal.

[00:18:43] He's in FireRed, Leaf, Green.

[00:18:44] He's in Diamond, Pearl, Platinum.

[00:18:47] He's in Heart, Gold, Soul, Silver.

[00:18:51] Yeah, the Pikachu Eevee games and the remakes of Gen 4.

[00:18:58] So, he's been in a lot of games.

[00:19:01] He's generally the one when people think Professor.

[00:19:05] Very prominent in the manga, too.

[00:19:07] He's got his brows.

[00:19:09] He has, in the manga, he has a straight-up Professor Roshi arc where, like, he joins the final Pokemon tournament as a mystery fighter.

[00:19:19] Just to, like, teach Green, the female protagonist's character.

[00:19:25] Just to teach her a lesson.

[00:19:27] And then he quits right after beating her just so he can teach her a lesson.

[00:19:31] He's just like, hey, fuck you, bitch.

[00:19:33] I'm out.

[00:19:33] Well, no, she stole her Bulbasaur from his lab in the manga.

[00:19:39] And he literally joins that thing just to beat her.

[00:19:42] And then all he says to her after he beats her is he goes, stealing is wrong.

[00:19:46] And then that's it.

[00:19:50] Yeah.

[00:19:52] But Oak is a very interesting one.

[00:19:54] Apparently, all the professors have, like, specific, like, sciences that they study, too.

[00:19:59] Like, apparently Oak is...

[00:20:00] Yeah, I never noticed that.

[00:20:02] Like, I was reading that, too, because I'm assuming that you're on Bulbapedia.

[00:20:06] Yeah, the best database for this knowledge.

[00:20:09] It is funny looking at...

[00:20:12] But you know what's funny, though?

[00:20:13] After reading this, it makes sense, because you actually think about it and you're like, oh, yeah.

[00:20:17] Yeah.

[00:20:18] It is funny, though, looking at, like, the...

[00:20:21] Because it had, like, the region and then what games they appear in.

[00:20:24] And then, like, the professor's name and everything.

[00:20:26] But it's funny how it's like, all right, like, Kalos, just one game.

[00:20:31] Yanova, two games.

[00:20:32] Sino, ooh, a couple games.

[00:20:34] And then you just get to Professor Oak and he's like, meh!

[00:20:37] Like, all these games.

[00:20:38] He appeared in a lot of games.

[00:20:41] But he is a studier of Pokemon ecology, which, to be fair, that was the start of the series.

[00:20:47] It makes sense.

[00:20:50] Moving on, though, then we get to Professor Elm from Pokemon Gold and Silver.

[00:20:57] Professor Elm was always weird to me, because, like, he's prominent for, like, the first, like, start of the game.

[00:21:05] Where, like, he makes...

[00:21:06] You go and find the Togebi egg for him.

[00:21:08] And then after that, he basically just disappears from the game.

[00:21:13] Because, like, later on you run into Oak again and then Oak becomes the main professor again.

[00:21:16] And Elm kind of just gets forgotten.

[00:21:20] Oops!

[00:21:21] I remember because he's kind of, like, scatterbrained.

[00:21:24] And he also gets his Pokemon stolen by Silver.

[00:21:30] And, I mean, just looking at him, he looks very forgettable.

[00:21:35] He's not very memorable.

[00:21:38] In terms of design, like, he just kind of looks like a younger, dorkier Professor Oak.

[00:21:44] You know, though, I wouldn't say he's the most forgettable, though, because we'll get to one actually pretty soon who I think is more forgettable.

[00:21:53] Elm at least had an interesting personality.

[00:21:56] He did...

[00:21:56] He was very big into the Pokemon breeding.

[00:21:59] That was his study.

[00:22:00] Because he does bring up the whole, like...

[00:22:02] I don't like that.

[00:22:05] What?

[00:22:05] You don't want to be like Brock?

[00:22:06] I want to travel across the Pokemon world and breed.

[00:22:11] Yeah, exactly!

[00:22:12] No!

[00:22:13] I don't like it!

[00:22:15] Fucking such a weird anime.

[00:22:17] But, yeah, he studies Pokemon breeding.

[00:22:19] And, like, one of, like, his...

[00:22:20] Helly Donut.

[00:22:21] One of his main things in the game is, like, he gives you a Pokemon egg, which later becomes a Togepi.

[00:22:28] Which is an interesting little thing.

[00:22:30] It teaches you about how the eggs work in the game.

[00:22:33] Other than that, though, Birch only appeared in Gold, Silver, and then Heart, Gold, Soul, Silver.

[00:22:37] He...

[00:22:37] Not Birch.

[00:22:38] Elm.

[00:22:38] We'll get to Birch.

[00:22:41] Yeah, he's...

[00:22:42] He's there.

[00:22:43] He gets kind of overshadowed by, um...

[00:22:47] Oak in the second half of the game.

[00:22:49] Yeah.

[00:22:50] He's just like, alright, fuck you.

[00:22:52] You're out.

[00:22:53] Yeah.

[00:22:53] This is my game now!

[00:22:56] Moving on to Professor Birch, though.

[00:22:59] He's...

[00:23:00] He...

[00:23:01] He is.

[00:23:01] He's more...

[00:23:02] His entire...

[00:23:04] He's sick!

[00:23:06] Professor Birch gets a bit more screen time.

[00:23:09] Mostly because he is the parent of your...

[00:23:13] Of your rival character.

[00:23:14] So, like...

[00:23:15] Say you're playing as Mae, then he is the parent of...

[00:23:20] Brandon.

[00:23:21] Or if you're playing as Brandon, he's the parent of Mae.

[00:23:25] Which is interesting.

[00:23:26] His first appearance in the game is he's getting...

[00:23:28] I just read...

[00:23:29] His wife...

[00:23:30] His wife is Mrs. Birch.

[00:23:32] But when I first read it, I was like, Mrs. Birch!

[00:23:34] What?

[00:23:35] Hell yeah.

[00:23:39] When...

[00:23:40] His first appearance in the game is he's getting chased by a bunch of Poochianas and he's stuck in a tree.

[00:23:44] I always loved that at the start of the game.

[00:23:47] And you have to go rescue him.

[00:23:49] He's like, this fucking guy.

[00:23:51] What the heck?

[00:23:53] He is a bit more prominent than...

[00:23:58] He's a bit more prominent than some people in the game.

[00:24:03] But...

[00:24:04] But...

[00:24:05] That being said...

[00:24:07] He is also kind of forgettable.

[00:24:09] Like...

[00:24:10] Ugh.

[00:24:11] I'll never forget him.

[00:24:13] He appears more often than Elm, but like...

[00:24:17] Once you get your opening stuff, he's pretty much gone.

[00:24:21] Yeah.

[00:24:22] Even in the anime, he was kind of like...

[00:24:25] There.

[00:24:26] But not really.

[00:24:34] He's still the most prominent professor.

[00:24:36] So, like, they still kind of all disappear.

[00:24:38] Heavy creepy Uncle Oak.

[00:24:41] That being said, though, I want to talk about the most forgettable professor.

[00:24:45] Professor Rowan.

[00:24:47] From Diamond and Pearl.

[00:24:48] I don't ever forget Professor Rowan.

[00:24:51] Does he do anything after the start of the game?

[00:24:54] Because I don't remember him ever appearing again.

[00:24:57] I don't remember, but I always remember his character design.

[00:25:01] Well, because he was like the older one.

[00:25:04] He's the old guy.

[00:25:05] Oh, yeah.

[00:25:06] We never...

[00:25:06] He's just a grumpy old man.

[00:25:08] We never did say, though.

[00:25:11] Birch's study is Pokemon habitats, which kind of makes sense, considering he's kind of like always outside.

[00:25:16] And eat him because he's sick.

[00:25:18] Yeah.

[00:25:20] Professor Rowan, though, he studied Pokemon evolution and form changes, which was a big aspect of Diamond and Pearl.

[00:25:27] There were so many fucking forms.

[00:25:29] He was busy studying.

[00:25:31] He was actually doing his job as a professor.

[00:25:35] Unlike some other of them.

[00:25:38] What's funny, though, is it's another game where Oak appears in the second half of the game and becomes the more interesting professor.

[00:25:47] That's funny.

[00:25:48] Oak just wants the spotlight.

[00:25:50] He's just like, this is my game now, Birch.

[00:25:52] Get out.

[00:25:52] No, he's just nostalgic.

[00:25:54] Like, he just appears.

[00:25:55] And then people go, oh, my God, Professor Oak.

[00:26:00] See, the Rowan...

[00:26:02] He does appear in the next game, though.

[00:26:03] No, no.

[00:26:04] He doesn't appear again after the Diamond and Pearl games.

[00:26:07] But what's funny, though, is like Rowan, I don't even remember in the fucking anime.

[00:26:13] I think he literally appears at the beginning and then that's it.

[00:26:16] Never again.

[00:26:17] Yeah.

[00:26:18] Yeah.

[00:26:18] He just stays in his lab.

[00:26:20] He does look very spiffy, though.

[00:26:22] But, Bill, remember, this was the game where everything was kind of forgettable because even, like, the Team Galactic, whatever they were...

[00:26:30] They're more memorable than Flair, goddammit.

[00:26:37] Yeah, but I don't know what they were doing besides blowing up a lake.

[00:26:41] Like, that was it.

[00:26:43] What is that?

[00:26:45] What are you drinking?

[00:26:47] It's already too late.

[00:26:48] You've already missed her off.

[00:26:49] No!

[00:26:49] What are you drinking?

[00:26:50] I didn't notice you drinking before.

[00:26:53] I'm drinking a Bush Light because I'm boring, okay?

[00:26:58] Bush?

[00:27:00] Beer?

[00:27:01] Beer?

[00:27:03] I'm sorry.

[00:27:03] My favorite NASCAR driver is sponsored by them now, so I feel obligated to buy the beer, okay?

[00:27:09] Ask me what I'm drinking.

[00:27:11] What are you drinking, Alex?

[00:27:14] Gatorade?

[00:27:15] Cool.

[00:27:15] I'm drinking a Gatorade Zero Glacier Cherry.

[00:27:19] I don't care.

[00:27:20] We're not doing the facts mid-episode.

[00:27:23] Yes, we are.

[00:27:25] I'm changing it up.

[00:27:26] I'm changing it up.

[00:27:28] Glacier Cherry.

[00:27:29] Sorry.

[00:27:29] Not letting her say the bad.

[00:27:32] Not letting her say anything.

[00:27:36] I've muted her.

[00:27:40] Now.

[00:27:41] I need me right now.

[00:27:42] Oh, thank you.

[00:27:43] It's 10 calories.

[00:27:45] Serving size one bottle.

[00:27:47] We're not doing this in the middle of the episode.

[00:27:53] Just replace me, bitch.

[00:28:00] Anyways, moving on to...

[00:28:06] Nobody cares.

[00:28:07] It's fucking Gatorade.

[00:28:13] Nobody.

[00:28:13] Nobody.

[00:28:18] So, moving on now to the Innova region.

[00:28:21] Black and white.

[00:28:22] Black and white 2.

[00:28:28] We have the first female professor.

[00:28:32] Professor Juniper.

[00:28:34] Yeah.

[00:28:35] I like Professor Juniper.

[00:28:37] She was actually helpful.

[00:28:40] She was actually there to...

[00:28:42] There's a lot of shit going on in the game.

[00:28:43] Unlike previous games, there's actually story in black and white, so she actually contributes to shit.

[00:28:49] Yeah.

[00:28:50] She contributes to the story.

[00:28:52] Her study is actually kind of interesting.

[00:28:54] She studies the origin of Pokemon, which is actually kind of fascinating.

[00:28:57] Which is something that, like...

[00:28:58] Well, because this is where you get some of the fossil Pokemon, right?

[00:29:00] You get, like, pretty cool fossil ones in this game.

[00:29:03] I mean, there's fossils in every Pokemon game, but they did...

[00:29:07] The way they did it with black and white was very interesting.

[00:29:11] She's got a cool design.

[00:29:13] Like, she's...

[00:29:13] I'm surprised it took them this long to have a female professor.

[00:29:16] It would also be the last female professor for a good while as well.

[00:29:21] She was too good.

[00:29:22] They couldn't make anyone else up to her.

[00:29:25] I remember all the losers online, too.

[00:29:27] They were complaining.

[00:29:28] Like, a female professor.

[00:29:29] Like, who cares?

[00:29:31] It's a fucking video game.

[00:29:32] She was great.

[00:29:35] She was.

[00:29:36] And she's, like, a good design.

[00:29:38] She fits in with, like, the rest of them.

[00:29:41] It was different.

[00:29:42] She did a hell of a lot more than her successor.

[00:29:44] That's for sure.

[00:29:46] Yeah.

[00:29:46] Who was her successor?

[00:29:49] Professor Seymour.

[00:29:50] Seymour.

[00:29:51] Oh, that's because he was from X and Y.

[00:29:54] Yeah.

[00:29:55] But he looked fabulous.

[00:29:57] Yeah, he's got a cool design.

[00:29:59] He's very...

[00:30:00] I mean, to be fair, it's France.

[00:30:02] And, like, everybody was very...

[00:30:04] Everybody was kind of fabulous in that game.

[00:30:06] I mean, it was Team Flare, for God's sakes.

[00:30:10] His...

[00:30:11] So this is the point where, like, their studies just kind of became, like, gimmicks of the game.

[00:30:16] Because his study was Mega Evolution and Change.

[00:30:20] Hmm.

[00:30:20] I wonder why.

[00:30:21] They also stuck Evolution in there just to give him something.

[00:30:25] Even though I think Rowan also was Evolution.

[00:30:27] So, whatever.

[00:30:29] Yep.

[00:30:29] Evolution and form changes.

[00:30:31] Yeah.

[00:30:32] I'll always remember Seymour for...

[00:30:35] He gives you your starters.

[00:30:37] And then he shows up halfway through the game.

[00:30:38] He's like, here, have some Gen 1 starters as well.

[00:30:42] Just because.

[00:30:43] I have some candy incoming, my man.

[00:30:46] But...

[00:30:47] Other than that, though, he really...

[00:30:49] Does he ever appear again after that?

[00:30:52] Like, I swear I don't remember him.

[00:30:53] I don't remember him in general.

[00:30:56] So...

[00:30:57] I remember that fabulous hair and giving you fucking two starters.

[00:31:01] Because...

[00:31:02] I think I remember his design, but I don't remember him being the professor.

[00:31:06] Hey.

[00:31:07] He gives you two starters.

[00:31:08] Because I swear to God, this game wasn't easy to begin with.

[00:31:11] It needed to give you a little bit more of a cushion.

[00:31:14] Hmm.

[00:31:16] Yeah, yeah.

[00:31:18] Seymour, he's not the...

[00:31:20] He's like the first professor that I swear to God was designed to be attractive.

[00:31:24] I guess.

[00:31:26] Like, by anime standards.

[00:31:29] He's there.

[00:31:30] All right.

[00:31:30] But then, if we're talking about designed to be attractive, the next professor was...

[00:31:35] Aloha!

[00:31:36] I didn't get far enough in this game to care, but I did get my Pokemon for him, so that's nice.

[00:31:41] I will say, the interesting thing about this professor is that part of the...

[00:31:46] I mean, you didn't play the game, so you wouldn't know.

[00:31:48] But part of the whole series is that he's trying to make it so that there's a regular Pokemon

[00:31:53] league in Aloha, so that they can compete around the world.

[00:31:57] The one thing that made Aloha unique?

[00:31:59] He's like, fuck that.

[00:32:00] Let's go back to the normal shit.

[00:32:02] But he does actually end up becoming...

[00:32:05] He's not only the professor, but he's also the Elite Four leader.

[00:32:12] The champion.

[00:32:13] Yeah, he's the champion.

[00:32:15] Spoiler.

[00:32:15] So not only...

[00:32:17] Ooh, a game that's been out for like 10 years.

[00:32:20] Some people get upset about that, okay?

[00:32:22] You gotta care about everybody.

[00:32:24] I mean, they should already know what our podcast is about at this point.

[00:32:28] Just say that.

[00:32:28] Fair.

[00:32:29] I mean, we are a podcast that spoils everything, but...

[00:32:31] Yeah, we ruin everything.

[00:32:33] We're ruiners.

[00:32:34] At least I am.

[00:32:35] I'm a ruiner.

[00:32:36] I ruin everything.

[00:32:38] Goodbye.

[00:32:39] So does his gimmick change between Sun and Moon or Ultra Moon, Ultra Sun, or is he basically

[00:32:44] the same in both games?

[00:32:45] No.

[00:32:46] So the thing about Ultra Moon and Sun Moon, it's literally the same game, except the endings

[00:32:52] are different.

[00:32:53] And there's more content in Ultra and Sun Moon.

[00:32:56] But really, the biggest thing is that they changed it so that the lady doesn't become like

[00:33:01] possessed by the Pokemon.

[00:33:04] Fair.

[00:33:05] That was the beginning and intros of the game are exactly the same.

[00:33:09] Gotcha.

[00:33:10] I will say, I did like the...

[00:33:12] I kind of liked that they kind of turned it under the head where they made the professor

[00:33:16] like a character that you meet very early on and then, surprise champion, bitch.

[00:33:22] Yeah.

[00:33:23] And he's hot.

[00:33:26] Is she sure?

[00:33:27] He also doesn't...

[00:33:28] He doesn't wear a shirt either.

[00:33:30] He just wears his jacket.

[00:33:31] Well, it's Hawaii!

[00:33:33] The Hawaii...

[00:33:35] Also...

[00:33:36] That's just what they wear.

[00:33:37] No, I'm just kidding.

[00:33:38] That's terrible.

[00:33:38] You know what I find really amusing, too?

[00:33:41] What?

[00:33:41] All of the professors wear their lab coats, except for Rowan, for whatever reason.

[00:33:48] At least in his...

[00:33:52] Because he's a businessman.

[00:33:53] He's a business bitch.

[00:33:55] In his later models.

[00:33:56] Like in his artwork, he's got like a black detective coat on at one point.

[00:34:01] But his in-game sprite, he doesn't wear a lab coat for whatever reason.

[00:34:05] Like the rest of them.

[00:34:06] Business bitch.

[00:34:09] Um...

[00:34:10] Professor...

[00:34:10] He...

[00:34:11] Yuki?

[00:34:12] Yuki?

[00:34:13] I think his name is.

[00:34:14] That's Sun and Moon guy.

[00:34:14] Is that a tree also?

[00:34:17] I assume that's a tree.

[00:34:19] I think so.

[00:34:19] I think it is.

[00:34:21] I'll do it.

[00:34:22] I'll do it with Google.

[00:34:23] I'm assuming it's like a...

[00:34:24] I'm assuming it's like a tree native to Hawaii.

[00:34:27] That would be my assumption.

[00:34:30] It would make the most sense.

[00:34:33] It's a tree.

[00:34:35] Okay.

[00:34:36] It is a tree.

[00:34:37] Makes sense.

[00:34:39] Yes.

[00:34:41] And his study was Pokemon moves.

[00:34:45] Yeah, because he was going to become the Pokemon champion.

[00:34:49] Yes.

[00:34:51] So moving on now, we get to the Galar region where we have two professors.

[00:34:57] Yes.

[00:34:58] Kind of.

[00:34:59] Well, one's like a professor in training.

[00:35:02] Yeah.

[00:35:03] So Sword and Shield, I have come around on a lot.

[00:35:06] We also have two female professors, which is...

[00:35:09] Yay, more female professors.

[00:35:10] We have Professor Magnolia, who studies Dynamax.

[00:35:15] Because, you know, Dynamax.

[00:35:18] Dynamax.

[00:35:20] I will say, I like her design.

[00:35:24] But I don't remember much about her after she gave me my Pokemon.

[00:35:31] Or does she even give you your Pokemon?

[00:35:36] Because I know in the later games, they kind of get...

[00:35:38] Because I know in like X and Y, they get their Pokemon in a box.

[00:35:40] Like, the professor doesn't even show up to give it to them.

[00:35:44] I honestly can't remember.

[00:35:46] I remember Sonia, too.

[00:35:48] The professor in training.

[00:35:50] Because she appears throughout the game.

[00:35:51] She's like...

[00:35:52] Yeah.

[00:35:54] Kind of like a Misty type character.

[00:35:56] But I liked her more, honestly.

[00:35:58] I really like her design.

[00:35:59] It's very fun.

[00:36:00] It is.

[00:36:01] It fits with the style, too.

[00:36:03] Like the English look that they've got going on.

[00:36:06] Or Scottish, I guess.

[00:36:07] And she also is named after a tree.

[00:36:10] Sonia?

[00:36:11] It's an Addisonia.

[00:36:13] So it's a Addisonia, I think, is what it was.

[00:36:16] It's one of those big trees.

[00:36:18] And like the big trees that have the whole canopy of leaves.

[00:36:22] Yeah.

[00:36:23] Yeah.

[00:36:23] She is also named after a tree.

[00:36:26] Nice.

[00:36:27] And she studies Galar's history.

[00:36:29] Which makes sense.

[00:36:30] Because she is kind of roaming around.

[00:36:33] And I think, too.

[00:36:34] Like, she helps you later.

[00:36:35] How far did you get in Sword and Shield?

[00:36:37] A couple gyms in.

[00:36:39] Okay.

[00:36:39] So you didn't get to, like, your...

[00:36:43] Oh, you didn't get to Twist.

[00:36:45] No, I haven't yet.

[00:36:47] Oh, okay.

[00:36:48] And I'm not going to say anything.

[00:36:50] Okay.

[00:36:51] Yeah, we'll cover that later at some point.

[00:36:55] But yeah, moving on.

[00:36:56] We now get the Hisui region.

[00:36:59] So Pokemon Legends Arceus.

[00:37:03] Professor Lavaton.

[00:37:04] I love his stupid hat.

[00:37:06] And how he's kind of...

[00:37:07] He's spooky.

[00:37:08] He's kind of just, like, a crazy person.

[00:37:12] Yeah.

[00:37:13] Well, I mean, everything's so new.

[00:37:15] So everything's just like, woo!

[00:37:17] Woo!

[00:37:17] Woo!

[00:37:18] Yeah.

[00:37:19] I liked him, though.

[00:37:20] He was fun enough.

[00:37:21] Like, he's kind of crazy.

[00:37:23] He's very...

[00:37:23] He takes to you appearing out of thin air very well.

[00:37:26] I'm not going to lie.

[00:37:28] He's just like, all right, whatever.

[00:37:31] He's very on-brand.

[00:37:32] He studies Pokemon ecology, so he's basically like Oak, just starting out.

[00:37:38] They didn't really learn much from him to Oak, I guess.

[00:37:45] Yeah, he's there, though.

[00:37:48] I don't remember much of the story in Legends Arceus.

[00:37:51] I just remember roaming around, catching shit, and throwing rocks.

[00:37:55] Yeah.

[00:37:56] I'm also like...

[00:37:58] Huh.

[00:38:00] Don't know.

[00:38:01] I don't know.

[00:38:02] Now, the Palladia region...

[00:38:06] Head.

[00:38:06] So there's two different versions.

[00:38:08] You have...

[00:38:09] Yeah.

[00:38:11] Scarlet and Violet.

[00:38:12] And with each one, you actually have a different professor.

[00:38:15] I played Violet, so I can speak to Violet.

[00:38:17] I did not play Scarlet.

[00:38:19] I have Scarlet, but I just have not played it yet.

[00:38:23] But I will tell you...

[00:38:23] I haven't played either, so this is all, Alex.

[00:38:26] Well, Bill, guess what?

[00:38:27] What?

[00:38:28] The professor.

[00:38:29] The professor?

[00:38:31] He's been dead the whole time.

[00:38:34] I'm not kidding.

[00:38:36] The whole time, he has been dead, and you've been talking to an AI version of him throughout the game.

[00:38:45] Okay, I don't want to play this game even more now.

[00:38:49] So...

[00:38:49] Great.

[00:38:50] Wait.

[00:38:51] Just click...

[00:38:52] Click on...

[00:38:54] Actually, here.

[00:38:56] Here, I'm going to send it to you through Discord.

[00:38:58] This is who you end up fucking meeting.

[00:39:01] This is...

[00:39:02] You end up facing the game.

[00:39:07] Yeah, I'm not playing this game.

[00:39:09] This is AI.

[00:39:11] I fucking refuse.

[00:39:13] Because you travel with one of your friends, and I think his dad is the professor.

[00:39:19] I think that's what the story is.

[00:39:22] And he's like, I'm just trying to find my dad.

[00:39:24] Yeah.

[00:39:24] Yeah, it's his son.

[00:39:26] He's like, I'm just trying to find my dad.

[00:39:28] And you're going into this whole time, like, you keep hearing about the...

[00:39:32] What's it called?

[00:39:33] The...

[00:39:34] The...

[00:39:34] Something Zone.

[00:39:37] The...

[00:39:37] Area Zero.

[00:39:39] Area Zero, which is, like, this place where the special Pokemon are.

[00:39:43] And he was, like, studying in it.

[00:39:45] And I guess he just died.

[00:39:46] And then his...

[00:39:47] But he left an AI, like, robot version of him?

[00:39:51] Because I think it was a hologram.

[00:39:52] But basically, you think you're talking to him the whole time, but it turns out it was just this fake version.

[00:39:58] AI version of him, and he was dead.

[00:40:00] He was dead the whole fucking time.

[00:40:03] Wasn't expecting that in a Pokemon game.

[00:40:06] So, reading into it, apparently Professor Sada is basically the same.

[00:40:10] They just...

[00:40:11] Oh, okay.

[00:40:12] Also, fun fact...

[00:40:13] I wonder if she's the mom.

[00:40:16] Oh, yeah.

[00:40:16] Technically, she's, like, the same.

[00:40:19] So, I don't know if, like...

[00:40:21] I don't know if that works.

[00:40:23] It's not important.

[00:40:24] I will say they were...

[00:40:26] Arvin is the best part of that game.

[00:40:28] Another reason why I don't like them is they ended the tradition.

[00:40:33] They're not named after trees.

[00:40:36] Yeah.

[00:40:37] No, I tried to see if they were, and they weren't.

[00:40:40] No, it says it on...

[00:40:41] It says it on Volveteer.

[00:40:42] There's gotta be more trees out there.

[00:40:45] They should be.

[00:40:47] It's a tradition.

[00:40:49] So, those are the game ones.

[00:40:51] There was a few other professors that they added in for, like, animes.

[00:40:55] Like, there was...

[00:40:56] I remember Professor Ivy was an interesting one.

[00:40:59] She was from the Orange Islands portion of the anime.

[00:41:02] She's the one that Brock left the group...

[00:41:04] She's the reason why Brock left the group for the Orange Islands and then came back after.

[00:41:09] And when questioned about Professor Ivy, he just said,

[00:41:12] I don't want to talk about it.

[00:41:13] It was so...

[00:41:15] Something happened there.

[00:41:16] She broke up with him.

[00:41:18] She was like, this guy's a fucking creep.

[00:41:21] Maybe a pet.

[00:41:22] Nobody knows.

[00:41:23] Nobody knows.

[00:41:24] There was also Professor Freed.

[00:41:27] Freed?

[00:41:29] I don't remember him.

[00:41:30] Didn't watch the anime that far.

[00:41:33] Me either.

[00:41:34] Because it doesn't look memorable.

[00:41:36] Other than that, though, like, the trading card game didn't really have anything different.

[00:41:42] Yeah.

[00:41:43] The professors.

[00:41:44] That's about it.

[00:41:46] Oh, there was Dr.

[00:41:47] Who's that?

[00:41:48] Dr. Kreiso?

[00:41:49] I don't know who that is.

[00:41:51] Oh, it looks like it was for an event only.

[00:41:54] Never mind.

[00:41:56] Probably.

[00:41:57] Pokemon Wonder attraction.

[00:41:58] Don't know what that is.

[00:42:00] Man.

[00:42:02] Yeah.

[00:42:03] Me.

[00:42:04] There were, like, the side characters and assistants as well.

[00:42:09] I do love that picture at the top of the Bulbapedia page, though, that I don't know if it's actually official or it's something, some fan picture.

[00:42:16] But that's lovely.

[00:42:19] That is funny.

[00:42:20] What would you rank the professors?

[00:42:23] What would be your professor ranking?

[00:42:26] If I had to rank them just in terms of, like, I guess from, like, how much I care.

[00:42:34] Oak is the one I care about the most.

[00:42:35] Then probably Juniper, then Birch.

[00:42:40] Ulm.

[00:42:41] Fake.

[00:42:42] Rowan.

[00:42:44] Siamor.

[00:42:46] The Sword and Shield ones.

[00:42:48] And then I get after that.

[00:42:50] So.

[00:42:52] Yeah.

[00:42:53] I feel like, I feel like Oak would be, you know what?

[00:42:57] Juniper.

[00:42:58] I like Juniper the best.

[00:42:59] She's the coolest.

[00:43:00] And then Oak.

[00:43:01] And then Rowan.

[00:43:02] Because I don't know why.

[00:43:03] I just like Professor Rowan.

[00:43:04] He didn't do much, but I liked him.

[00:43:07] Professor Kooky.

[00:43:08] Or Kooky.

[00:43:11] Kooky.

[00:43:13] Kooky.

[00:43:14] He's a kingler, like in the anime, where his, like, sound effect was Kooky, Kooky.

[00:43:20] Yes.

[00:43:21] For no reason.

[00:43:22] I like Professor Magnolia and Sonya.

[00:43:25] Professor Ladin.

[00:43:26] They were cool.

[00:43:28] Elm.

[00:43:29] Sycamore.

[00:43:30] And I guess Professor Bitch.

[00:43:32] And then the dead ones.

[00:43:36] Fucking AI professors.

[00:43:37] What the fuck?

[00:43:40] Well, no.

[00:43:40] They weren't alive, but they're just fucking dead.

[00:43:44] Yeah, but that doesn't matter to you in terms of what's going on in the game.

[00:43:48] The worst part is when you're playing and, like, you're traveling with his son.

[00:43:52] And then his son's like, my dad's dead.

[00:43:54] And you're just like, I'm not ready for this conversation.

[00:43:58] Like, why am I here?

[00:44:00] Why is your daddy?

[00:44:01] I know it was a fucking weird time.

[00:44:04] See, the thing that-

[00:44:05] It actually was giving me vibes of, like, Pokemon Sun and Moon when the lady got possessed.

[00:44:10] I was like, what the fuck is happening?

[00:44:12] This is Pokemon.

[00:44:14] And I was feeling the same way.

[00:44:16] So, it brought up those memories.

[00:44:19] See, for me, the thing that always kind of got me was, like, the reason why Oak is probably my favorite,

[00:44:27] just because so many of the memes came from Oak.

[00:44:29] Like, none of the other games had, like, the same jokes where, like, you try to use the bite.

[00:44:34] I mean, inappropriate with mucks.

[00:44:36] No, that was just the anime.

[00:44:37] For some reason, really, like, that.

[00:44:40] I always remember the episode where he gets the muck because it's like, Oak is, like, really creepy.

[00:44:43] Like, ooh, I wonder what Pokemon Ash sent me this time.

[00:44:47] And he opens it up and he's like, why did he send me a muck?

[00:44:50] And then they're like lovers towards the end later on in the series.

[00:44:57] But, yeah, I always like the memes.

[00:44:59] Like, the whole, like, you try to use a bike indoors.

[00:45:01] It's like, Professor Oak always told me now is not the time or place.

[00:45:04] And it's always like, why does Oak know?

[00:45:06] He always knows.

[00:45:08] He's always watching.

[00:45:09] He's in your walls.

[00:45:12] He's in your walls.

[00:45:13] He created the AI.

[00:45:16] I always remember when X and Y, when Sword and Shield came out and, like, you had, like, the bikes that could ride on water.

[00:45:22] It was all the jokes about Professor Oak having a stroke.

[00:45:26] Seeing this.

[00:45:29] Whoops.

[00:45:30] It's like, they're riding the bike on water.

[00:45:32] This is not right.

[00:45:34] He's like, this is not logical.

[00:45:38] Yeah.

[00:45:39] But, yeah, those are the Pokemon professors.

[00:45:40] They're kind of iconic.

[00:45:42] They don't know whether you're a boy or a girl, despite having eyes.

[00:45:47] You know.

[00:45:47] Well, you gotta decide.

[00:45:50] They should be able to see.

[00:45:52] AI, Alex.

[00:45:54] AI.

[00:45:54] No, only in the last game.

[00:45:56] I would get the next professor.

[00:45:58] All right, prediction.

[00:45:59] What do you think they're going to do for the next professor in the next game?

[00:46:03] It's going to be the leader of the team.

[00:46:07] So it's going to be, like, a twist like that.

[00:46:09] That's my theory.

[00:46:13] So the professor's the villain.

[00:46:15] The professor's the bad guy.

[00:46:16] That's my theory.

[00:46:17] And he kills you.

[00:46:19] And you die.

[00:46:19] Honestly, that would be a more interesting Twitch than fucking AI.

[00:46:24] So.

[00:46:28] Or they've been dead the whole time.

[00:46:30] Yeah.

[00:46:32] Yeah, make them the villain.

[00:46:33] That would be fun.

[00:46:35] All right.

[00:46:36] I like that.

[00:46:37] I think that's a good plan.

[00:46:38] Good idea.

[00:46:39] You send them a letter.

[00:46:41] I'm actually surprised we haven't gotten an announcement for the next Pokemon yet.

[00:46:47] We haven't?

[00:46:48] No.

[00:46:50] I just know we wouldn't.

[00:46:51] I just wasn't paying attention.

[00:46:53] Maybe they finally learned that, you know, they have to take their fucking time with these games.

[00:46:58] Yeah.

[00:46:59] They have been rushing quite a bit.

[00:47:01] Well, they've had every incentive to rush through them because people will buy them regardless.

[00:47:07] So it's like, eh.

[00:47:08] Who cares?

[00:47:11] Ew.

[00:47:11] But.

[00:47:12] Yeah.

[00:47:14] That was a chat.

[00:47:15] We're running out of things from Pokemon to talk about.

[00:47:17] I guess we should probably talk about the teams next time.

[00:47:20] I thought we already did.

[00:47:22] Not in full depth.

[00:47:23] We haven't talked about the teams as an episode.

[00:47:26] We did, though.

[00:47:28] We talked about.

[00:47:30] I thought we did.

[00:47:33] I don't remember.

[00:47:34] Because I know I've brought up Team.

[00:47:35] I know I've brought up Team Yell extensively a couple times.

[00:47:39] And Team Skull because they're my favorite.

[00:47:41] Because they just.

[00:47:41] No, no, no.

[00:47:42] That was during the Diamond and Pearl games that shaped us because we were talking about Galactic.

[00:47:47] And we went off on a tangent above all the other teams.

[00:47:49] Oh, yeah.

[00:47:51] Because they weren't memorable.

[00:47:53] We'll do a proper Teams retrospective at some point in the future.

[00:47:57] Hell yeah.

[00:47:58] Hell yeah, brother.

[00:47:59] Yeah, my brother.

[00:48:03] That being said, though.

[00:48:05] Once again, guys.

[00:48:06] Thank you for joining us on the Gaming Collecting Podcast.

[00:48:09] Wait.

[00:48:09] Wait.

[00:48:10] Wait.

[00:48:10] Can I say it now?

[00:48:13] You already did.

[00:48:13] Can I say my best?

[00:48:15] You didn't let me visit.

[00:48:17] You got muted.

[00:48:19] Everyone cares.

[00:48:20] No one cares.

[00:48:23] You have to wait.

[00:48:24] You have to remember to do it at the start of the episode or else we don't do it.

[00:48:28] Period.

[00:48:32] I'm not listening to that.

[00:48:43] No one buys your crocodile tears.

[00:48:46] All right.

[00:48:46] How can you hear me if I'm muted?

[00:48:48] Because I unmuted you and I could hear it for a while.

[00:48:52] Oh.

[00:48:53] Well, why didn't you just keep me muted if you could tell I was crying?

[00:48:58] No.

[00:48:59] Because it's fake as fuck.

[00:49:01] Anyways, guys.

[00:49:02] We're fake as fuck.

[00:49:03] Yeah, I know.

[00:49:04] Anyways, guys.

[00:49:05] Once again, though, thanks for joining us on the Gaming Collecting Podcast.

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[00:50:03] Bill?

[00:50:04] Bill?

[00:50:05] What?

[00:50:06] Can I close the show with a Halloween-themed dad joke?

[00:50:11] You get one.

[00:50:13] Okay, Bill.

[00:50:14] What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?

[00:50:19] What?

[00:50:20] Squash.

[00:50:29] Wait, wait, wait.

[00:50:30] I got another one.

[00:50:30] I got another one.

[00:50:33] Ghost predict the future.

[00:50:37] How?

[00:50:38] They check their horror scope.

[00:50:40] That one was not nearly as funny.

[00:50:43] Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[00:50:44] One more.

[00:50:45] No, you got...

[00:50:46] I gave you one more than you initially got.

[00:50:49] Just one more.

[00:50:50] Just one more.

[00:50:52] What do you call a werewolf with a fever?

[00:50:56] What?

[00:50:57] A dog.

[00:50:59] That one was the worst one.

[00:51:01] Three.

[00:51:02] All right, all right, all right.

[00:51:03] All right.

[00:51:03] No, no.

[00:51:04] You don't get any more.

[00:51:05] You got three.

[00:51:07] Please, one more.

[00:51:08] This one's pumpkin-related again.

[00:51:10] How do you mention broken cord with a pumpkin patch?

[00:51:17] Okay, that one was all right.

[00:51:18] That's it.

[00:51:20] Once again, guys, thank you for joining us on the Game and Collecting Podcast, and we will

[00:51:24] see you all later.

[00:51:26] Are you sure you don't want another joke?

[00:51:28] No.

[00:51:29] I can find another joke.

[00:51:31] Too bad.

[00:51:32] I can...

[00:51:32] Wait, wait, wait.

[00:51:33] Wait.

[00:51:34] Wait.

[00:51:34] Oh.

[00:51:34] Oh.

[00:51:35] Oh.