"I haven't invested as much time into education as you have" - Man who speaks like he has a PhD in English Literature

i cant believe the fridge had freezer as a guest. folks this is insane

the goodra fandom is drying, like if you are a true gooner.

It's Freezai Friday Folks.

I would like to thank freezai for the epic magcargo endHorsement at the end. Trully an ally, horsea doesn't stand a chance!

freezai seemed like he quite enjoyed talking to another creator in the competitive poketube space and getting a chance to ask questions of his own. i never really see him do collabs, i wonder if he gets much opportunity to talk to other creators or if he's kinda in it alone

Oh, I have to do some chores in the house and a new ep of The Fridge dropped. Thanks Jimothy, so I don't have to re-watch an old ep or risk the dire consequences of doing chores without YouTube.

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Freezai puts  more thought into both pokemon and life than i could ever fathom doing for myself.

It's nice to hear some more in depth thoughts from freezai and learn about him. He's always been a bit more mysterious that other big poketubers and even his Live channel is very matter of fact.

I do hope this podcast does well and you make a million more episodes.  Excellent stuff.

3:14 I can't tell if he's saying this as to say the teacher was watching it live at the time or he was but either way is really kind of cute to think about damn ogs

this is a dream come true for all internet core pokemon addicts

I can't believe we managed to get Jimothy Cooler and Freeza in a podcast togrther.

something i never quite registered about freezai is just how intelligent he is, like i've been a fan of his for ages now and tune into his streams whenever i see them (yours too jim dw) but i never realised just how smart he is. obviously i've seen his ridiculous ability to analyse a gamestate, predict his opponents, and understand a metagame, and it's clear he puts a lot of thought into his channel, but even when he's just chilling on a podcast his brain seems to go at superhuman speeds. the way he constantly counters with his own questions also made me laugh, it's just totally natural for him to constantly seek out information so even when he's a podcast guest he can't help it.

also just to briefly give my two cents on smogon tournament coverage, this isn't meant to criticise any specific people, nor is it a criticism of the smogon team who do a huge amount of work to keep the servers up, regulate the tiers and host tournaments, but from my perspective it's ridiculous to claim that people aren't interested in tournaments. everyone who's watching these channels or playing on showdown obviously finds singles interesting, the reason why those people aren't playing or watching tournaments is entirely due to a lack of advertising, poor implementation and the state of the community. the smogon forums are a mess where most casual players don't feel comfortable wading through the controversy and ranting to find tournaments to play/watch, the smogon team do nothing to promote their tournaments outside of occasional messages on showdown which is no way near enough, and as for the community the players are in their own little bubble where they all hang out, constantly play best of 1 games in huge team tournaments where almost nothing is relevant, then don't upload any of it. we need to have more logical and competitive tournaments (best of 3 solo rather than best of 1 teams mainly), we need to have tournaments integrated better into the showdown site so we don't have to mess with the forums to get involved, and i'm honestly shocked that there isn't already an official showdown youtube channel there's thousands of players and creators who could work on it, and they could advertise tournaments to new players as well as covering tournaments with commentary like jim's doing with his revival channel

58:04 Well, that didn’t age well

This was the origin for how Jimothy started playing in ZU, and his recent video about Chansey in hackmons!

What a great brainstorming session here! Freezai is so analytical 😂

JIMOTHY ADVANCE WARS CONTENT WHEN???? (bubbling with excitement)

I forgot to comment the other day and I don't have much to add that others haven't said. I do think it's interesting that Freezai seems interested in Wolfey-like numbers while also not wanting to make YouTube a full priority, but I think that it's respectable albeit difficult (and he doesn't seem too attached to becoming a Wolfey-sized channel). I really appreciated how candid he was with his answers to a lot of these, confidently sharing some more controversial opinions like hating building and that he doesn't really care about bans etc. and just wants to play the game (neither is like, super hot take, but definitely stuff that others seem to tiptoe around more).

His comments about "how do we make things bigger?" with respect to viewership about tournaments are very valid, and I think it definitely requires some luck and a lot of help from Smogon itself. It's not available anymore, but there was an old video by blunder that apparently was very critical of Smogon's promotion of its own tournaments, and many content creators, tournament players, and viewers seemed to agree with him. At some point Smogon needs to want its own events to grow, but obviously that's hard when there is so much required from these volunteers for pittances in return.

IDK if it was your intention, but it definitely did FEEL like you were a little on the defensive about Showdown 6v6 when Freezai was espousing the joys of VGC. Which isn't a bad thing, you're well within your wheelhouse to share your own opinions on stuff (even though in this case it seemed like you were trying to come across more neutrally). It did surprise me a bit though since usually you ride their wave. I can get the same way about other stuff so it was a relatable moment lol.

One last thing I'll say is that on a personal level, I do think that videos about stuff like bans "age well" because they are neat snapshots of that moment in time. I like to learn what went into tiering decisions more in-depth even many years after the fact, personally. Though I do agree they don't seem super conducive to growing a channel.

I'd absolutely listen to Freezai doing history content