July 12, 2023
TRAINER'S EYE #46 - "Lucario's Quest To Be Yourself" ft. TrainerRem
In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by TrainerRem, a Pokemon GO Trainer from Michigan who initially found his interest in looking for and catching rare Pokemon, but eventually transitioned toward battling in PVP and streaming Pokemon GO PVP on Twitch.
Growing up, TrainerRem had the pleasure of playing Pokémon with his brother, creating cherished memories and a deep-rooted love for the franchise. He also shares the struggle of trying to quit Pokemon as he grew up because he felt he was too old to continue playing.
TrainerRem shares the many trips he has taken because of Pokemon GO ranging from NAIC, Safari Zone, to Go Fest Chicago. He shares different stories from each event and why he was motivated to attend and meet with the Pokemon GO Community at different events.
Finally, TrainerRem takes us into the world of streaming on Twitch, sharing his unique perspective as a Pokémon GO PVP streamer. He shares both his motivation and the challenges he has faced streaming Pokemon GO and Pokemon on Twitch.
Trainer's Eye is a series where the stories are real and people still play this game. From PVP to Shiny Hunting, each person's Pokemon GO journey is unique and we dive into each journey here on As The Pokeball Turns!
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Chapters
00:44 - Introduction
02:37 - Interview with TrainerRem
32:24 - Skit/Intermission
46:41 - Thank You For Listening! :)
Transcript
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My name is David Hernandez and you're listening to As The Pokeball Turns.
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Welcome to As The Pokeball Turns, where the stories are real and people still play this game.
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Back when Pokemon first arrived in the States, it was immensely popular and everywhere.
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People were playing the games, collecting the cards, and the merch for Pokemon was nonstop.
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Eventually, the initial popularity faded and Pokemon Belonged to a very niche group.
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It became uncool to still be into Pokemon for any people old enough, usually you were made fun of for still being into Pokemon.
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You fast forward to 2016 and history repeats itself.
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Pokemon Go debuted and the craze was Worldwide.
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Businesses would advertise deals in some places if you played Pokemon Go or if you were on a certain team and everyone was playing it.
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However, just like Pokemon, Pokemon Go, went through a similar phase where sometimes you get asked, you still play Pokemon Go and I personally struggled with this question.
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I didn't know how to answer it.
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I loved the idea of going around and collecting Pokemon.
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it's a childhood dream come true even if it wasn't mainstream or popular as it was back in 2016.
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It wasn't until I noticed a former coworker playing Pokemon Go.
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Of course we geeked out over the game and the different Pokemon, but I asked her the question, why do you still play Pokemon Go?
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Little did she know, her answer would be how I approached not only Pokemon Go, but any hobby or interest I had moving forward.
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She answered.
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Because I like playing, why would I not do something I enjoy doing?
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My guest in this episode talks about the struggle of looking for other people's approval with Pokemon.
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He shares his journey from playing Pokemon when he was younger to Pokemon Go when he grew older, to eventually becoming a streamer on Twitch for pvp.
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Here's his origin story into the world of Pokemon Go.
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This is Trainer Rem.
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Now today I'm joined by the man on a Master Quest Trainer Rem, welcome to the show!
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Hey, thank you for having me, man.
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definitely trainer rem, and it's been a long time coming.
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For those who don't know, we've been trying to work on this for a couple months and a lot of it just comes down to, you know, we're both for busy people, but you are definitely busy because you go to school.
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You going full-time or part-time,
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part-time.
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so you gonna school part-time.
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You work two jobs, right?
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Yes, I do.
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So you're going to school part-time.
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You work two jobs.
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You're also a content creator doing TikTok and Twitch and all that.
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And you also have a girlfriend.
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Yes, I do.
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So like that's a lot on anybody's plate?
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So how do you balance it?
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Honestly, I didn't think that my life would get this busy, so it's been, back and forth figuring it out as I go along, but it's just remembering that, just take each day at a time, making sure that if something gets too difficult, making sure that I have my schedule and my to-do lists, which have been a huge help.
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And also just making sure that I know everyone's schedule, like my family's schedule, my girlfriend's schedule, they know my schedule as much as possible.
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But just being able to manage all that, it's very helpful with the schedule, making sure that we communicate what we need.
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I communicate what I need and that's pretty much how I've been doing it.
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I gotta say this like you gotta have some kind of drive or motivation to try to balance all that cause it's a lot, it's a lot on the plate, so what's your motivation?
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what drives you to keep trying to hold all that together?
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The future.
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Just trying to think about what would I want my, what do I want my life to look like and what kind of person do I want to be?
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And do I wanna be the kind of person that has to take one thing at a time and making sure that I take a single step at a time, or do I want to be able to multitask and, how to prioritize tasks, figure out which one I need to do first and which one I can leave for later on or you know, leaving free time, just me time basically and scheduling it out.
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That's been really helpful and I just love being organized like the motivation for organization is huge, it's been a game changer since, I wanna say I turned at least 21 or 22, cuz I've usually, I grew up a very disorganized person, but seeing the organization, like seeing that I have my to-do list in front of me, seeing that, oh, this is what I need to get done this week and then I can, and I can plan ahead for next week.
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That's what keeps me motivated too and just kind of like seeing in real time, I'm becoming the person that I wanna be.
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you're ahead of the game for me cuz I didn't learn organization till probably two years ago cuz like you, I would just go with the flow of things and that works for a while, but eventually you have to have some structure in your life.
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Exactly man.
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I Look forward to hearing what your future is like, but let's go back to the past a little bit.
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So when did you first start playing Pokemon Go?
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I started pretty much when the game was launched, like a lot of people that we know, I started back in July of 2016.
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I just graduated high school the year before, so I was literally, as I was going into college, Pokemon Go started and I remember seeing the first teaser trailer for it.
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I was like, oh my gosh, Pokemon in the real world.
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That's gonna be insane.
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This is like literally what I wanted as a kid.
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And it was still during that time where I was going through the traditional stage of being a kid, being a teen to an adult.
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and I still have my hobby, still have my interests, you know, in Pokemon, honestly, I was a bit out of it at that point, like before Pokemon Go was announced, I was in that stage of like, well, I like Pokemon, but I don't think I wanna take it with me into adulthood because even though I like it and it's one of my hobbies, I feel like I kinda should leave it behind cuz I wanna see where I can go if I just leave the stuff that I used to like as a kid behind.
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But, a lot of people growing up, going into college, you realize that a lot of people just don't care about that.
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you're able to be yourself, you're able to be who you are and, being in that environment plus learning about Pokemon Go, that helped a lot.
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And I ended, actually ended up meeting a lot of people and made a lot of local friends because of Pokemon Go in the first couple of days.
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I went out with, my friend Noah, and we went biking all around the neighborhoods, trying to learn how Pokemon Go worked.
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We were just recording on Snapchat, like it was the hottest day of the summer.
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We would just be riding up and down like the different neighborhoods and streets, like spent hours.
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We went up and down Woodward Avenue, on our bikes like hunting Pokemon, we went to downtown Royal Oak.
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The, like streets were crowded with people playing Pokemon businesses had the, oh, come in and if you're Pokemon trainer you can get this deal on Pizza, this deal on bubble tea, there was even the tea shop that had hypno art, saying set up a lure here and you guys get 10% off, your next purchase.
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it was crazy.
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And that was the fun part about Pokemon Go is that it was embraced not only by the player base, but the community itself, like you saw businesses advertising, just having a Pokemon Go account and stuff like that.
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It was just so surreal.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Just seeing how people were interacting with each other and it felt honestly, I do see the tweets and like TikTok and whichever, like whichever social media form resurface every couple of months and be like, Pokemon Go in 2016 was when the world genuinely felt like it was at peace for a given length of time, even though the servers were dog crap, like we all remember like the servers, they were not working every once in a while and there was no battling aspect like there is now.
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it was only like use the footprints to find Pokemon.
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explore the Pokestops, go out in the world and see where you can track Pokemon.
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they could have been anywhere, like back then they were pretty much just placed in random spots there, like random spawn points throughout the world.
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So it could have been like, oh, there's a dragonite at the church down my street Oh, there's a charmander inside this business like that's, an office building.
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And it got even to the point where my friends and I, in like 2017, I think, we actually used to go to downtown Ann Arbor, and it would be 3:00 AM like 2:00 AM.
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My boy Jacob would just be driving us around in his, sports car and even though like University of Michigan, basically during the day at night, there's almost no one in the streets.
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So he was just like zooming up and down the streets.
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I ended up getting a little bit carsick sometimes, but like, but it was worth it because there was one time where we actually were tracking Dragonite, for the whole night and then there was a point where we actually ran into an intersection that had two dragonite spawning at the same time.
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Oh wow.
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like everyone was inside.
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It was dark, it was late.
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And we like, and I was tracking one on my Ann Arbor tracker and my buddy was tracking another on his phone, but they actually happened to be at the same intersection, so missed the bigger one, that was like 2,500 something and then the other just happened to be 25 cps.
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So like I ended up catching that one, but it was an experience I'll never forget just because that kind of was the epitome of Pokemon Go at that time for me.
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You spur up a memory from me, so we actually had, in Dallas, there's like this section of Dallas that always spawned Dragonite.
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We had a scanner.
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So we were able to keep track of where the spawns were.
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It always, it was West Dallas.
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It was just this part of West Dallas had always spawned Dragonite and I'm wondering that obviously it's different now cause we don't see that.
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We don't see those around anymore.
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wonder that maybe back in the day there was like specific, I don't know what to call it, areas to where like these rare Pokemon would constantly spawn I forgot all about that when you mentioned, I was like, oh, we had the same thing here.
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Yeah, because I think at one point, well, a lot of people in 20 17, 20 18 started developing scanners for certain areas and people would suddenly find the spots where the rare Pokemon spawn the most.
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for us, that was either downtown Detroit in the surrounding area of metro Detroit, or that was downtown Ann Arbor.
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And the hotspot was definitely Ann Arbor the most, because every time, like every time I would be, in my room late at night, I'd just be watching the scanner just for fun and all of a sudden I would see, like, I remember gen two came out and people were hunting Pupitar, Larvitar, Tyranitar, and like Unown.
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I was seeing so many Dragonite, Unown, and second stage evolutions and Tyranitar, like all these random spawns that are super rare pop up in downtown Ann Arbor.
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And I'm like, I think it is because, you know, college town, there's a lot of cellular traffic down there and it's also a touristy side for Michigan, so I'm thinking maybe, maybe because there weren't that many spas like that anywhere near me, but luckily for me it's like a 45 minute drive to downtown Ann Arbor, so I'd actually sneak out some nights just to like, oh, it's an hour long Spawn, a Tyranitar, let me go catch that and it's like 30 to 40 minutes away.
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And then I would just sneak back in the same night just to go back to bed and, and the same thing the morning.
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And I'm like, this game has a choke hold on me man.
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And it's terrifying to think about, but it was totally worth it.
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were you trying to keep it hidden from your parents?
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I assume?
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N I mean, like, honestly at this point, telling the story, I don't mind it, but keeping all of that, like, hidden, cuz I know that they knew that I was sneaking out at some point, so they're like, you're gonna run your car ragged.
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And it was already, it was already 2002 Ford Explorer.
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So like,
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it's had some good years.
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Like legit, legit.
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It's taken me from point A to point B for a long time, actually this recent year I told you, it started crapping out on me a little bit.
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So I'm like, oh, I guess I can't really do that anymore.
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but back then it was super worth just like seeing people that I knew at those random spawn points like I remember sticking out for a Tyranitar spawn that wasn't like 20 minutes for me.
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it was like 1:00 AM and like all of a sudden you see this line of cars just pulling into this neighborhood and I'm like, really gonna get the cops called on us or someone's gonna come out and start like shouting, saying get away, get off my lawn, or something like that, but it was a Tyranitar spawn, so seeing like at least 15 or like to 16 cars on one street pulling up like one by one and then it's me seeing a group of my friends all the way from Detroit who came out to get it.
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I'm like, this is what Pokemon Go was meant to be at that point.
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So you've talked about your area a couple times, so can you gimme some insight, like what is it like to play in your area?
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Like where do people go for like raid hour, community days, stuff like that?
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being in Michigan, it's definitely, it's a good place for, I would say mostly water type spawns because even if you go near, cuz we, since we have a lot of bodies of water here, anytime you go near a lake that has like a, cities on the water or city on the Detroit river, like if you go to the river walk in Detroit, you'll see a lot of pretty good spawns in general, depending on the time of day that you go.
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the main hotspots I would say are downtown Detroit because plenty of Pokestops, plenty of gyms, plenty of like cellular traffic.
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So you're likely to get any type of spawn, that you really want there as long as if you spend like at least a day.
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back in 2016 through, I wanna say at least 2019, the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit used to be the big hotspot because during community days, during certain events, like that place would be lured up.
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like nobody's business, everybody be there, like walking in groups, walking the rotunda, sitting on different floors and just sometimes people just sitting with their phones plugged into the wall, just like sitting cross-legged, leaning on the wall, talking to each other.
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during the Youmacon, like people would be playing during the convention while they're in cosplay and I would sneak in there just with my very poor Pokemon Go Trainer cosplay, just to act like, Hey, I'm cosplay.
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I got a Pokemon ball in my hand.
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I got my, I got my, my yellow shoes, my windbreaker, my team instinct hat.
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I'm cosplaying so I'm sneaking
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you were decked out.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Like ever since I was a kid, I love dressing like a Pokemon trainer for at least like either Halloween or any kind of cosplay event.
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Now it's died down cuz they either would kick out Pokemon Go players or the g p s signal would be wonky.
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like with everything changing and go to like the crowd dissipated.
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some places are still hotspots on given days, like it would like mostly like the downtown areas like Royal Oak, Birmingham, Dodge Park and Sterling Heights, rochester Municipal Park in, of course Rochester in Auburn Hills.
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Like those were the hotspots, like Ann Arbor and I'm pretty sure msu, but it was mostly the metro Detroit area and surrounding areas that was the hotspot for Pokemon Go.
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so earlier you mentioned about how, I think you said you went to college you were trying to put Pokemon away cause you thought like, eh, you know, I'm older now, maybe I should grow out of it.
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What made you switch back to falling back in love or coming back to Pokemon?
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I think it really was more of me going into college and then, because my family, growing up they would be like, you gotta leave yourself behind.
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growing up for me, when I was a kid, I liked Thomas 10 engine a lot.
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so I loved collecting Thomas toys and then up until about, I wanna say midway through middle school, like I was in seventh grade, not even gonna lie to you, I still, I got into model trains, so I was collecting those more and then at the same time I liked Pokemon still like Pokemon was that constant factor throughout my entire life that was always there.
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ever since I was a kid, my brother introduced me to Crystal and I was too young to know what I was doing, so all I saw was like, just noises, people throwing out Pokeballs and just like little pixels battling each other and then as I got older, like when I was at least six, I think, I remember the first game I played consciously was Pokemon Sapphire.
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Gen three will always have that special place in my heart because that was the first game that I knew how to play.
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But then, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl is where it's like, oh, okay, I'm older now.
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I know how to actually beat the game by myself.
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And then Gen five is where I had the best time.
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after that I noticed okay, I'm still playing Pokemon games, but I'm not really into as much as I used to be and then as I got through high school, not many people were talking about Pokemon, so I was like, maybe it's time for me to leave it behind?
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as I got into college, I saw people just letting go and just being like, I love Pokemon.
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I love Weeb stuff, I love anime, I love like hobby, I love gaming, blah, blah, And people not putting them down for it.
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I was like, oh, maybe I actually can enjoy it.
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Then Pokemon Go comes out and I go to town, I'm like, okay, so we can finally hunt Pokemon in real life, we can play with our friends, maybe there'll even be a battling aspect where you can battle the gyms and then you can battle other trainers, which did happen, just getting older kind of meant like, Hey, I can still love the things that I love, it doesn't make me any less of a person.
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So letting go and being able to play Pokemon go, getting back into games, finding online communities, finding Discords, and then going into Birmingham communities and everything, seeing Grown adults play Pokemon Go, who hadn't played Pokemon at all, like it was a game changer.
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you pointed it out as you get older, learn to just enjoy the things you do, you don't have to do things just because other people do it.
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I think that's the important part about growing up and even what Pokemon Go allowed is that it allowed it to be acceptable to be a Pokemon fan as an older person.
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people now of all different ages of all different races and everything come and play Pokemon Go and I think that's just a very motivational factor that I'm glad maybe people who are even younger than myself and maybe even younger than both of us, get to experience.
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for sure.
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like my parents they indulged my hobbies.
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Pokemon has always been that constant factor in a lot of people's lives.
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Like where they say, oh, I grew up playing like the original red and blue and then yellow.
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my brother, he didn't get a chance to play those games, but like I said, the first game that he got was Crystal for our Game Boy, SP and him teaching about how the game works and he stopped playing the games around Gen four cuz I was like, I told him, you should get, pearlized should get Diamond and we should trade, and then you could teach me how to play the game better.
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He's yeah, sure.
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And that was his last generation with Pokemon, but he still loves the original Pokemon like Gen-1-er, you know.
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But, um, he taught me everything.
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But then every once in a while, I'll talk to him at Pokemon and they'll be like, dude, that looks sick, that looks awesome, so Pokemon is that one franchise that if people grew up with it, they're never gonna forget it.
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And you know, with all your experience with Pokemon, do you have a favorite Pokemon at all?
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Shiny Lucario, straight up.
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it's it's actually what my whole entire brand is based on, just because I never had a favorite shiny, I didn't even know about Chinese until I was much older.
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so I was like, Ooh, wait, what's a shiny, and oh, it's a random, like Pokemon, like type of Pokemon, like certain variety you can encounter in the wild, et cetera, et cetera.
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I didn't have much interest in them because I was like, oh, if they're a random chance then I'm not really interested in hunting them, but as Pokemon Go became popular, I think that's actually where I started seeing oh, I want more shinies.
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Or like thinking about oh, I want more shinies cuz this is kind of what's introducing me to that aspect of the game.
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And also learning more about type advantages but like I said, favorite Pokemon, shiny Lucario, just because I liked Lucario to begin with.
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It wasn't my favorite.
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My favorite used to be Swamper, because like I said, gen three, but then when I saw shiny Lucario for the first time I was like, that one right there, that's my favorite right there.
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you said you built your whole brand around Lucario or shiny Lucario like what do you mean?
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that's just your mascot or is that kind of the meaning behind your name as well?
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It that is pretty much the mascot.
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trainer rem actually stemmed from Trainer Ramco, which is like my full name.
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So my like, actually it's funny that my mom came up with, when I was a kid for my email, I was like, lemme just use it for my game username and everything, but then people could never pronounce it correctly.
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So I was like, you know what, let me just go ahead and sh and shorten it to trainer rem because that rolls off the tongue much easier and it's easier for people to remember and then, hearing people mention it, like I've heard my name mentioned on streams.
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I heard my name mentioned, when I went to, N A I C, I like trainer rem with the shiny Luc Carrio.
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like Lucario, just is more bold because most people, like most people like Lucario.
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Lucario is a fan favorite, right?
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that's like saying, oh, like I like Charizard.
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I was like, well, I don't wanna be basic, but, but like but like your favorite is your favorite.
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again, Lucario wasn't my favorite until I saw Shiny Lucario and I was like, that right there, it stands out from any other shiny that I seen, and Lucario, like still at its base, it's a cool Pokemon, it's a very, it's a very agile, strong mentally and physically strong Pokemon, and it's always a symbol of a strong trainer in Pokemon.
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it's like the symbol of what I'd like to be like mentally and basically strong and resilient and that's what Lucario is to me.
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it's strong and resilient.
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And then the shiny aspect of it being bold because a lot of people don't like it shiny and I'm like, maybe I do because it stands out more than any other shiny that I've seen.
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So I think it resonated with me to the point where I'm like, that needs to be what I make my entire brand around like the brand colors like it's the neon yellow with black and gray.
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It, stands out, it's bombastic and, that's kinda what I wanted to be noticed for I feel like I'm more bold.
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I feel like I'm more confident in myself and I feel like if people need to ask me questions about PVP or about any aspect of Pokemon Go p or my opinion on the game in general, then I kinda wanna be the person that they go to for that.
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So Lucario's not only your favorite Pokemon or your favorite shiny, it's also an idea of who you want to be as a person as you grow older, it sounds like?
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Yes,
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That's such a good parallel.
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I've never like when you're say that, I'm like, man, this is this guy's going pretty deep.
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Let him cook.
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I like it.
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He's the goat.
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The goat.
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Well, yeah, like Even then, like I didn't know cuz when I first started streaming I was like, well I don't know what I want my brand to be, but I remember when I started streaming in 2019 using only my phone, I remember like making my brand almost immediately based around, it was first shiny Riolu cuz when I got my first shiny loo from the Easter event a couple years back, I was just sitting at my desk like eating my Wendy's late at night.
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my final egg from the event hatched like a week later and I was like, I wanted it.
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It was like, it was, it was like, oh, it's a nice shiny, I really do want, it's like, probably gonna be my favorite if I can hatch it.
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And then literally the first shiny Riolu that I hatched was that same Lucario that you saw at N A I C.
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It's like the best PVP IV Lucario I've hatched.
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it is like, of course I best buddy it, it evolves straight to 1500.
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I was like, that's my main Pokemon right there.
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as Pokemon Go has progressed, what's your way to play Pokemon Go?
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around 2016, my first drive was just to play Pokemon in real life, you know being able to challenge gyms, hopefully battle, because like seeing that we didn't have the battle aspect until much, much later in the game.
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I was kinda like, well, that's all right.
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I don't really have to worry about battling for now.
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I just like thinking about the Pokemon journey because growing up I always had this, I was always one of those kids where they like to imagine that I was in a certain scenario or like, I would be going on a journey with my Mudkip.
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I always made, I loved Pokemon to the point where I loved making my own Pokeballs out of like either a tennis ball, and I colored on it with permanent marker and aluminum foil, just so I could throw it up in the air, like to the sun, like how Ash did in the first movie where like, you know, like, I wanna be the favorite best
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best, like, no
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like man, like, like, I think that's always like an iconic moment for me because seeing the Pokemon battles, even like growing up was just always so inspiring to me and then watching Gen One through all the way through Gen four like at the time was like really, it was like one of my lifelines.
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Just because hearing the music, seeing the characters and every story about like friendship and growth and training with your friends and everything, just becoming stronger and being a better person And then once 2019 rolled around and These teasing of trainer battles like I remember seeing the first picture was of the battlefield and suddenly seeing the exclamation point, like how we see in the main series games, just like above their head as if a trainer's challenging another trainer to do a battle.
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I freaked out, I was like, oh my God, this is finally it.
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We finally get to use the Pokemon that we've caught and powered up for Pokemon battles and this is what we've wanted in Pokemon Go for so long.
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just having that aspect be implemented into the game.
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I was like, I'm like, this is probably not to be cliche, but it's like my calling because if we're able to do this with our augmented reality game with other people, I'll have so much fun with this.
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that's how we got into Silph Arena.
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and like the first tournament I actually ended up losing not badly, I was doing pretty well for the most part.
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But I ended up making a wrong switch that the kid that I battled against like he gave me so much crap for and I'm like, yeah, I'll show.
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Yeah, sure.
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But um, But, but, um, it was, just knowing the potential because just seeing how many people, even people who hadn't played Pokemon growing up and Pokemon Go was their first exposure to the entire franchise, they came in and participated and they brought like really random teams, some people brought three Skarmory's, three Whiscash, and I'm sure a lot of people would remember that because, we had all balance teams.
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People who knew about team building had balance teams, other people just built whatever in, that was the fun of it.
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You could battle, that's what we wanted.
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I was like this has so much potential, like I wonder what it's gonna change into and then Go, battle League came along and that's where everything took off, right?
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before we saw self, like in the championships, regional championships, world championships.
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we also had Go Battle League, which was of course it's the official ranked format for battling in Pokemon Go.
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but having that blind pick three and go in type of format, it's not, still not very satisfying I wouldn't say at all, but it's still like that aspect of oh, we have a ranked format and I get to play with Pokemon that I've built in real life.
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So that's where it's fulfilling to me because it's like my childhood dream to become a Pokemon trainer, a Pokemon master, or like at least one of the best.
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And being noticed for that at least a little bit now is very, very fulfilling.
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Do you have a favorite league you like to battle in?
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At this point, it's very back and forth because of course, when PVP started, great League was, and is the most accessible league for all trainers because of how small the CP limit is at 1500, but with how diverse the metas become, like there's so many Pokemon you can use now, but of course there's same, still the same consistency of like things like Registeel, Galarian Stunfisk, Noctowl, Lanturn, Medicham, et cetera, but that's what happens in any competitive format with any kind of game where you have to battle each other using teams or a certain deck or anything like that.
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but Great League is still, it's still pretty special to me, but I think I actually might be switching more towards Master League despite not having that many Pokemon ready for it just yet.
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I'd like to keep battling or if I can keep battling with the Pokemon that I built, I'd sure love be able to do that in Master League at least.
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So when you started, content creation, it was around 2019, which is around the same time PVP debuted.
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When you started doing content creation, did you like base your content around pvp or was it something entirely different?
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it was actually gonna start off as let's say back when PokemonGo started, I actually saw other content creators on YouTube.
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That's where I started, learning more about it because growing up I was like, I had a digital blue, that I used to record videos on, it was like a little recording software for kids.
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and I remember editing videos in there, editing clips together.
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