TRAINER'S EYE #146 - "Once In A Blue Lunatone" ft. Boloscar

Meet Boloscar, a shiny hunter, Twitch streamer, and Pokémon GO Community Ambassador with a deep love for costume Pokémon and building community. In this episode, Boloscar chats about growing up with Pokémon, how he got his memorable name, and what it’s really like juggling content creation with community advocacy. It’s a fun, honest look at the highs, challenges, and heart behind being part of the Pokémon world. Tune in and hear how one Trainer’s journey helps bring fans together, one shiny at a time.

Sources
Opening Song: "Forget You" by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay

Transcript

Boloscar: 0:00

My name is Ker and this is my Pokemon story.

David Hernandez: 0:42

Welcome to as the Pokemon Ball turns, where we interview people about their experience with Pokemon. My name is David Hernandez. I'm joined by a BOLO scar, a shiny hunter, a Twitch streamer, and a Pokemon Go community ambassador BOLO scar. Welcome to the podcast. I think this is gonna be the first time I've ever had somebody, both community ambassador and a content creator.

Boloscar: 1:01

Yes.

David Hernandez: 1:02

Yes.

Boloscar: 1:02

hi. Thank you so much for welcoming me to the show. I appreciate it. I, I would just want you to know, very, very excited. A little nervous. I'll be honest with you. I think we already talked about this before the actual thing actually started, but, I'm definitely very, very excited to go ahead and share my Pokemon story, a bunch of other things that I have to talk about and stuff like that. But David, man, I really appreciate it, man. So

David Hernandez: 1:16

Yeah,

Boloscar: 1:16

really very excited.

David Hernandez: 1:17

well, here's what you gotta learn is you gotta realize, you just gotta embrace it. Like for me, I'm always nervous. I'm never really comfortable for those who know I have anxiety. So like I say, I just learned to embrace it. Like I'm just always gonna be fearful no matter what my mind tells me. So

Boloscar: 1:30

Oh, absolutely.

David Hernandez: 1:31

now I know this is something I wanted to dive into and you teased it to me a little bit, but what is the meaning Boloscar. For me, it sounds like it's maybe a mix of a name and something else. Like what's the story behind that before we dive into anything Pokemon related?

Boloscar: 1:43

so it actually is my name, Oscar is, my, my legal name. the whole Boloscar thing basically. So it, a lot of people always say like, BOLO Scar or Boker or something like that. It's actually bolo a bo Boker, like Oscar, like the end,

David Hernandez: 1:55

okay. Or.

Boloscar: 1:56

Spanish you would say Bokar. So like, I guess you could say like, it has two different ways to say it, but truthfully, the English way sounds a little weirder. I get it. A lot of people say bolo scar instead, which is, I get it. You know, just the way it sounds.

David Hernandez: 2:08

Sound like it's a little nerve in that one. I don't know.

Boloscar: 2:10

Exactly. But like, so a lot of my Twitch streamers, sorry, a lot of my Twitch viewers and a lot of my community members just call me bolo. It's just a lot simpler stuff like other than that, I'll go ahead and give you the origin of it. So I just want a quick shout out to my friend Nick. by the way, he also got married two years ago. I went to his wedding. Congratulations, my man. I'm still proud of you for that. my friend Nick back in

David Hernandez: 2:26

Back in seventh

Boloscar: 2:26

this is like, he was like my best friend ever. Like, he was one of the coolest guys ever. We used to play Xbox together and stuff like that. And he was like one of the only people in my grade who actually was very, very open, open to play video games, you know?'cause I think

David Hernandez: 2:37

around that.

Boloscar: 2:38

I think video games are starting to be like a little more normalized. Oh, that's kind of cool to do. Instead of being like, oh, hey nerd. You know? know. So like, it was during that whole like, I guess you say, you know, time of, you know, period of time Seventh grade. I meet him, you know, we really, really start kicking off as friends and stuff like that. We go to each other's houses, play Halo all the time, stuff like that. All that good stuff. And then, around this time, this is where the word YOLO started coming back into the, the mix of things, I guess you could say. And as a firm believer, I'm just gonna be be honest with you, David, I absolutely thought this word was the stupidest thing ever. Like when, when I had somebody explain this whole thing to me, I was like, there's no way. I'm sorry. You, you only, look, I get it. You know, whatever. Anyway,

David Hernandez: 3:16

the motto, man. Yolo.

Boloscar: 3:17

Yeah, there you go. It's

David Hernandez: 3:18

It's the motto

Boloscar: 3:19

and

David Hernandez: 3:19

now.

Boloscar: 3:20

it. But like

David Hernandez: 3:20

Back then it was just like,

Boloscar: 3:22

it also, it was

David Hernandez: 3:22

was also a year after.

Boloscar: 3:24

came back as a word and it was like abbreviation of swagger, you know? So

David Hernandez: 3:28

So,

Boloscar: 3:28

you know, it was like the whole weird, that weird, anyone can relate if you're in middle school, that whole weird middle school like jump or everybody tries to make, you know, go on, go off on a trend. Anyway, Nick knew how much, I absolutely hated the word Yolo, and he used to make fun of me all the time. Every single second he got in doing so, he messaged me on Xbox and he told me, oh my God, Oscar, get in a party right now, bro. I made something free. I was like, oh, okay, fine. So we hop into a VC And we're talking and he he says to me, dude, I

David Hernandez: 3:56

I,

Boloscar: 3:57

did it. I made up says, I know how much you hate that word. I made up your own word. And I was like, OO, okay, well, where's this going? And then he was like, so it's like Yolo, but it's better. Imagine bolo. So at that point, I'm literally looking at my TV screen, with my coke in my hand and my, you know, my chicken Uggs in my desk and I am I'm just wondering what what the hell, mean? You know, like, because what what I thought meant, it still means this, be on

David Hernandez: 4:32

on the lookout, or something like that, right?

Boloscar: 4:33

you know, the whole, Hey, put a bolo on this guy. No. So like, He ended up telling. well, no, Oscar, trust me. Gimme me a chance. He ended up telling me, and to this day, this gets everybody, when I told them, well actually David, I'm gonna ask you this first. What do you think it means?

David Hernandez: 4:45

Balo scar.

Boloscar: 4:46

Just BOLO in general?

David Hernandez: 4:47

Balo, let's see. Well, my, one half of my body tells me it means bowling in Spanish and then the other half of my body tells me it's some kind of Mexican bread. So that's my, one of those are my, those, one of those are my guesses.

Boloscar: 4:59

Well, the Mexican part is, is right. I am Mexican. So you got that part right.

David Hernandez: 5:03

Alright.

Boloscar: 5:04

I'm gonna get through the nitty gritty. So bolo means in his words. only love Oscar.

David Hernandez: 5:11

Hey, that's actually a very good, you could run with that.

Boloscar: 5:15

So

David Hernandez: 5:16

thought about that? Yeah.

Boloscar: 5:17

know what's funny? I really did. And like the funny thing is when I first started streaming, everyone used to always ask me what BOLO meant. And I would kind of spin it in a way where I would go off of another story saying that like, there's, I love wrestling. I don't know. And I don't know if you know that or not. So one of my favorite wrestlers ever is, CM Punk. And a lot of people don't know. What the CM and his name means.'cause everyone thought it meant Chicago made punk.'cause he's from Chicago. It's not, apparently CM means Chick Magnet because he was a part of the Chick magnet tag team before he became, you know, his own solo guy. And he never tells anybody this because he loves people guessing. So I never told anybody this because I love people guessing what it meant, what it means and stuff like that. But then I also spin it in a way where like, oh, it's my stage name, it's Oscar Bola Bolas, my last name. So, you know, I just kind of like, I kind of sp spun it that way too. But yeah, it's just such, it's such a dumb thing, but at the same time it's also genius. So I probably should maybe rum it a little more. You're right David. I, I do agree with that.

David Hernandez: 6:11

Now I know that, you know, you grew up in the nineties and you talked about how you originally were playing Pokemon Go. Is that your first experience with Pokemon or does it even go back further than that?

Boloscar: 6:19

It It does go back further and, a lot of people don't even know the stories. I'm actually very excited to get into this.

David Hernandez: 6:24

alright, let's, let's see, where does it start? Let's, yeah,

Boloscar: 6:27

So all brings really my brother. So my my. a nineties, he's a nineties baby. He was born in 90, born in 93. He basically grew up with the entire Pokemon Mania essentially. So he experienced, of course the TCG, the anime coming to the states, the video games first, getting released on the Game Boy and stuff like that. And, yeah, he was here basically for all of it. And my sister wasn't really too into it. I mean, she knew about Pokemon, but like it was mainly just my brother. My mom would tell me stories constantly of like driving him around from like mall to mall, city to city, just to hopefully find a pack of cars on the shelf because what he used to tell me. were sold out almost everywhere. Like the whole Pokemon Mania was no joke. Mm-hmm. people that I even talked about this to, you know, who did grow up in the nineties, they said the exact same thing. It was no joke. You would barely even find any kind of Pokemon merchandiser media anywhere at a physical store that wasn't already like, smashed up by other kids. And like, I feel like I kind of missed that whole experience by the way. what he used to tell me was he used to wake up Up every single Saturday morning. wb watch new episodes, the of the anime. And then, you know, of course when it moved the Cartoon Network later on, he used to watch basically all that. for me, my first experience with Pokemon when I was four years old, and I actually went with him to a video store because that was actually, I believe the same year I believe when the Tios and Lajas movie came on. VHS and a lot A lot of, probably didn't remember this. If you bought a, apparently like a first edition copy of the same like VHS case, you get an exclusive tios and laia holographic card inside of the, of the VHS case. lo and behold, I actually got it and he got so so'cause I knew he much, he loved Pokemon, but I got it because I thought it was cool and my mom used to kind of like, prioritize me. Like, you know how it is, younger siblings get most of it, you know what I mean?

David Hernandez: 8:02

you got all the attention? Yeah, I'm sure.

Boloscar: 8:04

So I was definitely, I was definitely the younger sibling. Shout us to Patrick by the way. So anyway, Patrick, if he's listening to this, that's my brother Anyway. so I I got that I, I was nice. I gave him the cards because he obviously wanted the cards and we watched the movie together. Movie's very, very good. By the way. Probably like one of my favorite Pokemon movies. Other than that, I mainly grew up with the anime when I was a kid and I really, really was super into the show. As for the video games, I didn't really get into the video games till I was like, almost like, nine or or 10. almost into my teens and stuff like that. So like, I wasn't really too exposed to the video games as a kid. The only Pokemon game that I was really kinda exposed to was like the original Pokemon Stadium two and the N 64 and then Pokemon Revolution on the we. And of course, obviously Smash Brothers with all the Pokemon characters and all the trophies you can collect on that. Obviously I was. Way into that. And as for Pokemon, for Pokemon Go, obviously I have a channel I run, I've run channel for Pokemon Go, and I do mainly Pokemon Go content. I used to do specifically the shiny hunting and a bunch of other play throughs and game plays. I mainly move the Pokemon Go because I was always super in the Pokemon Go, especially after the pandemic. After the pandemic, I really got back into the game and thanks to my fiance actually, she really kind of like, she actually decided to download the game on a whim, at a just pure boredom. And then I told her I used to play that. So yeah, we'll play it together. And I feel like a lot of people can kind of relate to this once you actually have somebody to play with or like to kind of like, you know, share that joy, joy of something with it makes it a whole lot better,

David Hernandez: 9:20

I wanted to touch on something real quick. So, you know, you said, you know, your fiance got back into Pokemon Go and that's what led you to get into it. So was it just the fact that you would follow her and she would be playing, like, how did that dynamic work at the time?

Boloscar: 9:32

Man, it's so weird.

David Hernandez: 9:34

so,

Boloscar: 9:34

sh I just want to clarify right now, rose, that's her name. She's not really like the biggest gamer there is. So, like when she moved into my house when we first started dating, you know, we were just sitting, we were sitting down together. I think I was playing over watching and we're watching iCarly on, on my, on my other TV

David Hernandez: 9:49

yeah. Hey, that's a good show though. Yeah. That's a good show though. Yeah,

Boloscar: 9:52

what, what a good date night. But,

David Hernandez: 9:53

right.

Boloscar: 9:53

so, we were, she just got bored. She just got bored and she downloaded Pokemon Go just on a whim.'cause you know, she used to play Pokemon, you know, when she was like a teenager on a three Ds and she wanted to get, you know, see what Pokemon Go was all about because she, she had never played it. And I told her all the stories back in 2016. I, like me and a couple group of friends used to like run across town for a dragonite run across town for a snx and stuff like that. Like how 2016 Pokemon Go is 110% to this day, super unmatched in levels of experience like. I love hearing people's stories of when they're telling me that like, oh, dude, we would run, literally run all the way, like across Dallas Houston, because we heard rumors of like, oh, that's a hotspot for like snl ES and Dragonite, stuff like that. It like, you don't get that nowadays, you know?'cause almost everything's kind of like, not really spoonfed to you, but like every, it is a lot more contrived. You know what I

David Hernandez: 10:38

Mm-hmm. I was gonna say,'cause for those who don't know during 2016, like, you know, it's a cliche. People say like, oh, it's like world peace, right? It's the first time the world really felt like world peace, but it was the first time I think we've ever got to experience. The unknown of a video game because nowadays we're spoiled by leaks. We're spoiled by, data mines we're spoiled by already knowing it before it comes. But Pokemon Go, we had no idea. It was all a mystery. I think as a society or a group of people, we really welcome the idea of for once not knowing what was gonna happen with the franchise we had grown accustomed to, and that traversed both the hardcore fans as well as those who probably came back to the game, to the franchise.

Boloscar: 11:17

Absolutely. Oh, 100%. I mean, like even like older couples that I talked to, It's amazing that Pokemon Go or just the Pokemon IP has such the power to bring so many diverse people together. I'm like wide age groups and stuff like that, that just love the collection aspect of the game. And they have so much good, I, I love hearing like why people like also play the game. Some people are just in it for the PVP, some people are just in it for the collection aspect, shiny, you know, all that good stuff. And the couple that I hang out with, Wesley and Shelly, they, they're an older couple, but like, man, they are so wholesome. Like, they remind me of like if I was, if me and me and Rose are gonna grow older, we'll probably be, we'll probably be like them. I'm not gonna lie to you

David Hernandez: 11:53

They're, they're your aspiration for sure.

Boloscar: 11:56

They, they go out every single weekend just by themselves, just to go grind, do raids and stuff like that. And I think I, by the way, I just think that's the, like, the most adorable thing ever I really do.

David Hernandez: 12:04

Mm-hmm.

Boloscar: 12:05

you know, just seeing people like that, like I said, wide age groups and stuff like that, enjoying a game that we can all, you know, or relate to, put a differences aside. It's amazing man. Like Pokemon, Pokemon Go has that power to do that. And I feel like the Pokemon IP as a whole is one of the, truthfully, like one of the more special games out there that really kind of allow people to actually have like those similar experiences, you know?

David Hernandez: 12:25

Now, you said you started initially in 2016, so you were part of that mania. Can you give insight to like what it was like, what did you do and where did you go to kind of play Pokemon Go? Do you remember? What do you remember from those days?

Boloscar: 12:35

As you said, world peace. But, so my biggest memory really, I used to just play for my house in my neighborhood. And I know that sounds kinda lame in hindsight, but like, y'all also gotta understand when these things are spawning in every single corner of the map and you have no No idea where, spa. When when I first a Bulba store, I was was, I don't I dunno why the be, it was like finding the golden ticket or when I found a venom off, literally just like a, you know the other side side, I don't even like venom off, but when but when I saw the phone I was I was like, I don't I don't, has this, this would be such a cool flex. So, you know, I, I went out there just like randomly. It was so addicting. It would, like, the collection aspect of it was just so addicting and it was so like, brand new at the time though, like, it was so much fun. Like, I would go out in these weird places that I never thought I'd, you know, I'd ever go to. And I'll, I'll be real with you. maybe a couple of places I probably shouldn't be at, you know, construction sites wise. But, man, like, it was a whole new world. It's not what it was now. Now it's definitely, it knows what it wants to be. yeah. it was like, you know, thrown to people. People could figure it out. But that's what made it fun. The fact that we didn't know more about it. We didn't know. Really what could spawn, I mean, you heard the rumors there. Rumors, oh, hey, there might be rumors that there's mu, you know, lingering in the wild, nobody's found it yet. Or, Hey, somebody found a wild mu two under their, you know, near their barn or something like that. Hey, come over here. Let's go get it. Obviously it wasn't true, by the way, but you know, don't fall for that.

David Hernandez: 14:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Boloscar: 14:01

my God, dude, it's like, what a different world. It was like, seriously.

David Hernandez: 14:03

So for April Fools, I actually did an article about the top 10 myths of US Pokemon fans have believed in our history. One of the ones that I touched on was at the time we didn't know where Dito was. Ditto was one of the empty polka dick slots for Pokemon Go and still is for some people. Let's just be honest. But we had no idea. But one of the rumors that were going around of how to unlock ditto, and it was such a crazy reach in hindsight, but this is just the mindset of what it was back in those days. They literally thought, or we thought, some people thought. That if you did some kind of, pattern on the main menu at that time because of the same colors that are on the pester ball from Pokemon Snap, that that was the secret to unlocking ditto.

Boloscar: 14:47

Really?

David Hernandez: 14:48

obviously wasn't true, completely false, but that was the mindset of being in playing In those years, we had no idea of how legend days were gonna work. We didn't know if, like they were just super rare. We didn't know how Ditto came out. We just had a lot of unknown possibilities and it was that unknown possibilities that made Pokemon Go as engaging as it was back in those days.

Boloscar: 15:12

Mm-hmm. hundred percent. like, like you said with the whole like rumor thing and stuff like that, we all believed it, but it also kind of like brought us back to like the, back in the day, like the whole playground rumors were like, oh, hey, if you, if you bring a, a mu two called mu three inside Saru Cave and find, you'll find a PIKA blue, which is really just a mar. But obviously it was the most famous part of like the most famous playground rumor back in the day. It was the whole peak blue thing. But, yeah, no, you're right man. Honestly, it is just like, like I said, different world. The rumors made it also more interesting. I mean, to be fair, I did quit the game like a couple months afterwards.'cause like content-wise it was pretty stale.

David Hernandez: 15:44

Sure. But,

Boloscar: 15:44

I'll I'll never forget. those four months I'll never, ever like let down.

David Hernandez: 15:49

And then the rumors still kept going, especially when you considered the legendary raid. When they debuted. I don't know if you had a chance to play the during that time, or were you still out of it?

Boloscar: 15:56

I was still out of it, but I was watching videos. actually, unfortunately, I watched the video of the first ever Go Fest, you know, the one that was like a

David Hernandez: 16:00

Oh yeah,

Boloscar: 16:02

So,

David Hernandez: 16:02

I was there.

Boloscar: 16:03

if I'm being honest with you, I was actually co I was actually, I was actually considering downloading the game'cause I heard about Go Fest and then I watched all the videos of Go Fest being a complete disaster. Then I was like, wow, okay,

David Hernandez: 16:13

Okay, well, so here's the thing though. So despite how the negative press it was because I, you know, like I said, I was in Chicago 2017.

Boloscar: 16:21

Oh, you were there.

David Hernandez: 16:22

I was there, I was literally, at ground zero. I was there at the first raid. You know, I was there when this six seven was, right? Yeah. I don't regret it, as crazy as that sounds. Like I said, the game didn't work for shit. The, I was sweaty, I didn't, hadn't eaten an entire day. I was dehydrated. Probably. I don't regret it because I guess in that pain I, I got to experience something that very few people got to, I guess know about. And you know, of course Pokemon goes come a long way to live events. I still remember fondly of trying to, seeing the first ever raid, seeing the egg pop up and we're wondering, and you got like hundreds of people literally crossing six lanes of traffic. As for cars, this is moving traffic. There's not a light. People just slammed on the brakes when they see hundreds of people crossing because we're seeing the first ever legendary raid.

Boloscar: 17:10

Wow.

David Hernandez: 17:11

So do I, you know, do I wish I could have played the game? Absolutely. Do I ever regret it? I can't say I do.

Boloscar: 17:18

I say the experience definitely like, you know, helps it too. The experience of being there at a live event definitely is like, in my opinion, probably like of the things you remember the most besides the event itself. Right.

David Hernandez: 17:28

Yeah, it is. And then I still have the Lugia they gave up and it's the rarest lugia because for those who don't know, it's actually one of the only ones that pops up with the costume. And I've always wondered like, what do I do with that? I don't know. Like I've always take, I've always wondered if I should trade it to people who want, want it, but then I'm like, I still think about it to this day, like I don't know what to do with it. I still look at it. It's a titled Go Fest because I mean obviously I got it from Go Fest, but I still think about like, what do I really want? I want to, I don't like to Who things you know

Boloscar: 17:57

Yeah.

David Hernandez: 17:57

that Lucia is there as a memory. I always have the memories in my head. So if I can give to somebody who would appreciate it, I would love to, but I haven't really found that moment or Right. That person at the, at the, I haven't found the right time to give out. And someday I will. I just don't know where or how.

Boloscar: 18:13

Honestly, man, like for me, if I was, if I held that thing,'cause here's the thing, like now looking back, all the stuff that I missed, I would possibly like, you know, keep it for the collection and stuff like that. But for me, I'm a collector. I love holding things, stuff like that. Especially when they're like sentimental. But also also the experience of like, hey, this is special for this specific mo moment. Even though, yeah, the event was, you know, riddled with flaws and stuff like that. The experience and the memory of this specific item that you have or Pokemon in your, in your case, really kind of is kind of special in its own right. I'd say just keep it, man. Seriously. That's awesome.

David Hernandez: 18:46

Well, not the decision that future David's gonna have to worry about. I just keep pushing it off like, uh, everything else he does.

Boloscar: 18:51

I'll remind him. Don't worry.

David Hernandez: 18:54

I wanted to touch base back on, your experience, initial experience with Pokemon. You talked about how you were growing up watching the anime, what arc was ash in when you first started watching anime, and what do you remember about those episodes you watched? I,

Boloscar: 19:07

it was from the very beginning actually. So what I choose up Pikachu, of course. When he goes into the, the second episode where he is in the hospital, Pikachu's injured,

David Hernandez: 19:13

oh, okay. So it's Indigo Plateau Arc real quick. Okay.

Boloscar: 19:16

It was from the straight beginning and I watched it up until like. Half of the ho in anime. So Oh, okay. what got me was, I think really it was, it was think it was like the final episodes leading up to like the movie, I guess you could say. Like, you know how like in one of the episodes they teased like me two, like, you know, shooting out of the rocket base and stuff like that. You see it's armor and like, they just tease it, but they don't really show it. You know what I mean? that one probably stuck out to me the most.'cause I was like, oh dude, what, what is that Pokemon? That's cool. You know? But also, to this day, Hoho at the end of episode one, I think that one probably still lives in my head because of how like mysterious, but also like, it's one of those things you see as a kid and you just wanna see more of, you know?

David Hernandez: 19:53

It's one, like I said, it goes back to just the mystery behind Pokemon to where you wanna, you wanna have questions. Oddly enough, we wanna see it, I guess, resolved, but we also want to have questions of potentially more.'cause I think that's what makes Pokemon so addicting is that there's always potential of more coming out. There's always potential of more story, more Pokemon, more lore that's not been explored.

Boloscar: 20:13

A hundred percent. I'm a firm believer of the old saying that, you know, some of the best questions are usually the ones with no answers. You know,

David Hernandez: 20:18

Yeah.

Boloscar: 20:19

like, interpretation is everything for me.

David Hernandez: 20:21

Yes.

Boloscar: 20:21

the inter inter, the interpretation of seeing the hoho is basically like saying that, Hey, there's a lot more on the horizon that, that we haven't shown that that's what it really showed me. And of course, lo and behold, we got gen two, you know?

David Hernandez: 20:32

Now, when it comes to Pokemon, what do you like to collect? Like what does that look like for, I guess, give us some insight into that.

Boloscar: 20:37

honestly, when it comes to physical media, obviously I collect the games. I've been trying to get a complete inbox collection of most of the games. Unfortunately, ever since these past three years, it has been very, very difficult to find most of'em for a reasonable price. I've kind of gave up on that idea, entirely. In terms of Pokemon Go and stuff like that, I've been really trying to get a bunch of costume Pokemon that I missed out on. I'd say like 2020, like past, there was actually like a costume s eye with like a lit wig hats that I didn't raid for at all. And I really, really wanted.'cause I love SI say one, one of my favorite Pokemon ever. So that one I'm still trying to get. Armor Mu two was also a big thing too. And luckily my brother Patrick, actually never stopped playing Pokemon Go.

David Hernandez: 21:19

Oh, really? So he played throughout. Okay.

Boloscar: 21:21

he played throughout, even throughout like what people consider to be like the most boring time, you know? him and his, him and his friend RJ and a bunch of other, other friends, dude, they did everything. They did the clone raids when those first came out. The, the, the first, here's the thing. So I remember, armor Mutual came out two different times. It came out once in 2018, then it came out again same year, but it was during like the anniversary for the first movie, whatever. So like, I think it came out twice and then they released the clone Pokemon as well. Correct me if I'm wrong about that on the conversation, I guess. But like, I I remember, like me all about this and he said we said that was like the only time they ever saw like, hoards of people hoarding. Just like one single like area in like in a raid that was, that was not in 2016. And he said that the experience alone was awesome. And he has a bunch of them. Like I even asked him for one, luckily I got lucky, lucky with him, which is pretty,

David Hernandez: 22:05

I was gonna say if he's gonna trade you, and I was like, dang, that'd be such a teaser. He's like, I gotta Pokemon. You want, I'm just joking,

Boloscar: 22:10

I know I told him Yeah know, I told him he's a jerk'cause he has like 25 of'em. And so I was like, can I at least have one bro? Like I'll give you anything, you know, because

David Hernandez: 22:16

dude.

Boloscar: 22:16

he, he loves Snx. So I act actually, funny enough, he was at a trip during the wild area tour. Right. And they had that costume snla

David Hernandez: 22:24

Yes.

Boloscar: 22:24

missed out. He missed out completely. And I ended up getting four shiny. So I was like, okay, I'm put your name on one of'em. I got you. Don't worry about it. I got, so I got him one, I traded him. He gave me armor. Me too. And I'm good to go. We're good

David Hernandez: 22:33

Oh my God. So you said you collect the costume Pokemon. What is it about that gets the costume Pokemon that appealed to you that you want to collect?

Boloscar: 22:39

Honestly, uniqueness. It's the uniqueness, but also it's an added flare to an already existing Pokemon that I might like or I just honestly do enjoy. I think for me a lot, I know a lot of people don't like the constant Pikachu. I disagree. I think the constant Pikachu are very, very festive. I mean, Pikachu is the mask offer, you know, obviously.

David Hernandez: 22:55

Sure.

Boloscar: 22:55

But like, I think the constant Pokemon for any, like the starters too, I'm still waiting Niantic for a costume mud kit. If it's gonna happen, I hope, you know, I'll be the first one to wake up at 10:00 AM I'll be waiting all day for it, hunting all day for it. That'll be me, literally. I'll make a whole video on it. Other, other than that, I think the costume Pokemon also have so much personality. I don't know why. Something about adding a certain different little, like gimmick to a Pokemon that's already, in my opinion, pretty cool, I mean, who wouldn't want it? It's almost, well, like it did with a freaking, oh my God, the Roy and the roulette like those are already cool Pokemon, but the fact that they gave'em little costumes just made it even better, you know?

David Hernandez: 23:27

Now you said you want a Mud Kip costume. Do you have an idea of what kind of costume you would like to see Pokemon Go do with Mud Kip.

Boloscar: 23:35

Yes, I will tell you. So I'm gonna tell you the fantasy and then I'm gonna tell you what the probably are gonna do.

David Hernandez: 23:39

Let's do it.

Boloscar: 23:39

I think the fantasy would be this, it would have my little green pixel glasses that my little avatar has.

David Hernandez: 23:46

So, sunglasses, mud, ki. Okay.

Boloscar: 23:47

yeah, sunglasses, mud ki or you know what, they could do this, and I think it'd be very, very cute if they do like a May or Brendan hat mud kit, like for Hoen. And so like they have the protagonist from Hoen, if they do that, I wouldn't be mad about that either.

David Hernandez: 23:58

Why don't they do that? Actually, they did that for cno. Why didn't they do that for Owen?

Boloscar: 24:02

saved it for the Pikachus and, and then they didn't do the costume versions of the, you know, the, the Hoen starters. I don't know. I don't know why, because we all, we also have costume versions of like, you know, the, the cancel stars and stuff like that. So I'm like, you know, just bite the bully. Give us, obviously, obviously give us gen two, but give us Gen three, two, you know what I mean?

David Hernandez: 24:17

earlier you alluded to how there's some costume that, or just inaccessible at this moment, you know, specifically the most famous one is the costume U2. And for you as a collector, you know, you want the costume Pokemon. How does it feel, I guess, to not be able to access some of the earlier costume Pokemon? And I mean, is that, that's gotta be kind of frustrating, right?

Boloscar: 24:35

It is frustrating, especially as, like I said, I'm a collector. It's frustrating because I don't know why they haven't re-released them because they all, they always still exist in the code. They're still there. They existed at one point. If they were exclusive, I'm pretty sure Niantic would be like, Hey, one time only, one weekend only. This is it. You're never gonna get it back. They never did. So it's frustrating, especially for a lot of like, you know, players that got back into it, like post covid and stuff like that, that we can't really access that unless we know somebody, dear, dear to us, who are willing to give us that. You know what I mean? I think the most frustrating thing really is the fact that like, but at the same time, I do love exclusivity and rarity, but. Pokemon Go has definitely proven that nothing stays, nothing stays rare forever. case in point, most of the, the pseudo legendaries, every single suit of legendary comes out. Every single go fest. Everyone thinks it's rare when it comes out'cause they have the raining for the Shinies. And then lo and behold, next year as a community, you know?

David Hernandez: 25:30

you alluded to that you're also community ambassador. What made you kind of wanna become a community ambassador? Like talk about your community a little bit?

Boloscar: 25:36

Yes, actually. so for those of you who, who are tuning in, this is actually the first time I've ever been public of me announcing that I'm an ambassador. So I've been keeping this under wraps because like, I've been, you know, I've just been waiting for the right time. But honestly, what a perfect time to be and be on as Pokemon terms of David here. so yay. For, for, for, yeah. You got the first scoop, David. Let's go.

David Hernandez: 25:56

Alright,

Boloscar: 25:57

So, what really, really made me wanna be an ambassador is the fact that I feel like I'm a natural leader. And my mom, I, I love her to deaf and I still do. so she used to tell, she used to tell me all the time, never be a follower, always strive to be a leader. And, You know? it always meant a lot to me because, you You know, I. Saying no is such a hard thing for some people to do. Also saying yes is very easy to do, you know what I mean? and like, I would I would say say no. it came to like, you know, being asked to go to parties in high school, you know, doing this and that, you know, obviously you probably get the whole picture what I'm trying to say here. But like, for me, and when it came to my community, just feel like the leadership really wasn't, it was there, but it wasn't fully there, you know what I mean? during events, I get people just like to look at their phones, not really interact. I get that, you know, everyone's entitled to that, obviously, you know, I'm not gonna force anybody to talk to me. If they don't wanna talk to me, that's completely fine, but I'm also not gonna shy anybody away. If they wanna ask me a question, I'll definitely, you know, give you 120, 100 20% of my, my, my attention. it was literally during this one time, it was during one of the gmax raids. where nobody was communicating in our group. Like nobody at all. And me and my girlfriend were looking at each other like, are you serious? Come on, people. Like, we gotta come, we gotta communicate more here. You know, we're, we can potentially all lose these, lose these raids, you

David Hernandez: 27:12

You know, so

Boloscar: 27:13

kind of kind of just yelled out who's who's in group three, you know, like saying. everyone kept saying, Hey, who's in group five? who's in group one? I was like, who's in group three? You know, here I am yelling, you know, I'm like, everyone caught onto it. Even the community ambassador, uh, he saw, he was like, oh, damn, okay, well, oh, there we go. get, get people's attention that way anyway, throughout the entire day.'cause like, man, like, it's also the fact that I just, absolutely hate the dynamax, the Gigax, feature. I think it's possibly the most flawed feature in Pokemon Go right now, but we probably get to that later. but I really, really want people to get their money's worth because a lot of people are spending money on particles which are not cheap. And also these raids are also not a guaranteed victory. They're really not. And a lot of people just need to realize that when they're going, when they're going into these raids. So I was directing people, I was telling people, Hey, make, make sure you do at least level this guy up, this guy up over here if maybe full attack, if you're gonna tank, I can tank for you. I explained to them the whole mechanics of how, how healing works, how tanking works, you know, how attacking works the whole nine yards. this actually kind of like goes back to my old gaming days where I used to do Rays in destiny. So I used to like lead, I used to lead ray groups in destiny all the time. So you

David Hernandez: 28:17

So you have a history in it? Yeah.

Boloscar: 28:18

hundred percent. so I used to do that all the time and during this specific day I did that the entire day. And one of the biggest highlights, and I really wish I got this on camera, we had a group of, 35 people. Everybody else died. Except for me and one lady, we were the last two left on a sliver of health, both of us. And we were just telling each other, dude, we gotta communicate. If not, this is all for nothing. So me and her next to each other, sitting down, tapping our phones, I told her, okay, let me dynamax. I can tank. I'll take the last hit. If I go down, you can take it down. And lo and behold, it all worked out. We did it, we clustered it up literally on a sliver of health, two Pokemon left, possibly like one of the greatest moments. And I really, really wish I got that on camera, honestly. But, after that whole like taking charge and leader thing, I actually got messaged later on, on a campfire asking me like, Hey, have I ever thought about, you know, helping out the group in certain ways and stuff like that. Maybe like hosting events in here and there. And I told him that I've always been interested in it.'cause I've even told like, you know, my, my fiance rose about this and like. been really interested about it because only the fact that like, well, for one, I'm making concert for Pokemon Go, and I'm always, I'm always playing Pokemon Go. So there's one, there's one reason two, I love community interaction. I love like telling people like, you know, I can help you with this raid. I don't mind helping you with the raid at all. Let's go ahead and do it. I, I love community, like, you know, stuff like, you know, community, like, like work in this community. They work towards one certain goal. love that. I don't know why. It's just, it makes me happy. And, you know, push, you know, one thing led to another. We talked about it and stuff like that. And then, he basically offered me the opportunity and made me moderator by the way, Chas, everybody there, I love you guys. Hope you guys are watching this. but ever since then I have been trying to, basically I love the whole saying that like, you know. actions be louder than the words. So I like to basically like, you know, show people that I like the hostess groups. I don't want to like, you know, have any negativity here. If there's any new players, I don't mind giving you any tips. You know, stuff like that.'cause I feel like a lot of people, like they look at new players and they're like, oh dude, no, no way. But then like, not realizing that, dude, we all started like this man, we were all brand new. And there are still some people who did not know, still probably don't even know like how some mechanics work. there are people that have been playing the game for years that I knew had who did not know what stab means. Same type attack bonus, and some people don't even know how it rates work and stuff like that. I kept telling'em, Hey man, this is, this is, this is how this works, this is how this works. And again, with Dynamax being, you know, the big hot topic right now, there was another opportunity for me to basically like, you know, share that knowledge, you know, and I really love the aspect of helping people. So that's basically like how that whole whole thing started.

David Hernandez: 30:44

So you talked about how earlier, you know, you were shouting to get people organized. You didn't have like the label of being the leader. You didn't have the experience, you weren't even the one running the group. What compelled you to even want to do that?'cause it would've been easier just to let people figure it out for themselves. What made you kind of wanna step in?

Boloscar: 31:02

I don't know if this is gonna sound harsh, but it really is just the way I felt at that time. I. It's just because not everybody, even to this day, is prepared for the Jmax raids. Mm-hmm. again, if it was regular raids, I probably wouldn't have done it. Everyone knows how regular raids work by this time, you know?'cause we had more than enough people to do'em. Sure. jmax rays are so unbelievably frustrating. And the fact that you can spend 800 particles, and by the way, you have a chance to beat it. But not only that, you're not even guaranteed to catch it. Such a stupid mechanic, and I just want everybody to have fun with it because Nazi did a very, very poor job of even explaining how GeneMax works. I mean, it was so poor to the point where like the first weekend that they did it, 40 plus people couldn't even beat the, the Cantos trio, you know?

David Hernandez: 31:46

Right.

Boloscar: 31:46

And until they release it the second time where they absolutely giga nerfed them, then, you know, obviously they made'em a lot more easier. But at the same time, really not fun, and like, what really kind of compelled me. Like I just really wanted people to kind of get their money's worth and their enjoyment outta these raids, because unfortunately, there's one of the few things that Pokemon Go that you're not really guaranteed the win, you know?

David Hernandez: 32:06

You know what's very ironic with what Jesus said? It

Boloscar: 32:08

Mm-hmm.

David Hernandez: 32:08

is the same way legendary works when they debuted.

Boloscar: 32:11

Really?

David Hernandez: 32:11

So back when Legendary raids debuted, we had Arto and Luga. Arto wasn't the bigger issue. It was actually Luga. We would have people 15 to 20, which is the max fail, these Luga raid all the time. And that's when you started seeing the uprising of RAID leaders because you would have people waiting like 10, 15, 20, sometimes 30 minutes of people showing up because Luie F you know, you know Pokemon Luie is a defensive tank. And back in those days, the best things we had, or I think Jian, what else? gang guard. And that was about it. We didn't have a zap toss, we didn't have Charron. We had basically what was available, the best canto and Jo to, and this is not Riku, we didn't have Riku at the time, but you had the same issue. You had players who were primarily casual at the time. They were just. Catching stuff, or maybe they were turning to the game and you had people failing. Like I said, that was everywhere. But it's ironic that even here, we're talking six, seven years later. You've got the opportunity with DMAC raids, same issue. I agree with you. Like I said, they could have been implemented better, but it created leaders like you to step in and gave you opportunity to be able to become a union ambassador.

Boloscar: 33:29

Hmm. yeah, that's basically a a like honestly that's probably like hitting the nail on the head really. I mean it was really just like that and stuff like that. But also to be fair, I mean, it's my only day off work too, so I kinda wanna make it worth it

David Hernandez: 33:41

Sure, sure.

Boloscar: 33:42

time all the time. So dude, on a miraculous chance I had just that Saturday off. Right. I was really going in there wanting to make Make my my day finally got a Saturday off and off. how long's I was gonna make it. 100% worth it.

David Hernandez: 33:56

Yeah. And like I said, I'm not gonna excuse Niantic for what they did. Like I said, they could have done it better. I think they should have started with Evie and Pikachu. Let one of us pick the starters. So give us an option where each team's different and then we would've had something to go with all the other rates. But like I said, the experience, oddly enough, is still the same. It's just that, it's just, it's, the history repeats itself. It's ironic. That's kind of what I'm pointing to. Oh, and I forgot, TA was actually the best con counter all the time. But again, not everybody had T tars

Boloscar: 34:23

Yeah, because it wasn't larva like a rare spot at the time. Right.

David Hernandez: 34:26

that too. And then plus T tar wasn't raids, but if you didn't have a raid party, if you never raided with anybody, you're not gonna have them. So you had people with jolt on, you had people with electrodes, you had people with gang guards, mistri, all Pokemon, that God forbid you bring into a raid nowadays, they're gonna look at you sideways. But that's what we, that's what people had back in those days. So it's just interesting to see how history repeats itself.

Boloscar: 34:48

It, it, it's funny, honestly, now you mentioned that. Yeah, you're right.'cause like, I remember seeing a, a lone Spiro get the final hit on a guino raid one day. And I remember, that little Tim, I, I was gonna say little Timmy definitely was the proudest man. His, his little shiny like cp like 26 Spiro, know, just a clutched up this raid for us. Hey, Godspeed.

David Hernandez: 35:09

Oh yeah, that's true. It's a, I didn't think I'd ever see a Spiro Save array. That's interesting.

Boloscar: 35:14

That was hilarious. I'm not gonna lie you part of it's still the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life in Pokemon, honestly.

David Hernandez: 35:18

Oh my gosh. I was curious, you know, we've talked a lot about Pokemon. What's your favorite Pokemon? We've never really touched on that.

Boloscar: 36:09

Oh yeah. So, I really, really have one specific Pokemon, but I also have kind of like two, and I'll be honest with you, if one didn't exist, the second one would be possibly my favorite. Pokemon.

David Hernandez: 36:17

Okay.

Boloscar: 36:17

my favorite Pokemon is Mug. I love Mud Kid. It's a. My favorite starter. Not only that, I used to play through Pokemon and Sapphire all the time, just with Pacifically Mud Kip and stuff like that. I don't know why like ever since I was a kid, and by the way, this is like I said before, I, before I even played the games, I actually, as a kid, I went to Toys Russ with my brother and he used to get a bunch of Pokemon Merge, obviously, you know, a bunch of Pokemon, you know, cars, stuff like this. right there on the shelves and I really, really wish I had a picture. I saw it. I saw the greatest thing I've ever seen that ever graced my eyes a mud ki plushy.

David Hernandez: 36:52

Nice.

Boloscar: 36:53

And I thought this was the best thing since sliced bread as a kid. So I begged my mom, mom, that's what I want. And everybody looked at me like. What the heck is that? Like, and like it's a mud kid and like my brother knew what Mud Kip was, but he was like, ah, nah, it is just mud ki what's so special about it? Oh, I told him it's mud kid. Okay. That's what it is, man. So, yeah, I brought it home. I took it to school with me. That mud kid plush, I took him everywhere actually for like a very, very short period of time up, I think up until I was like in second grade. to this day it has a sad story. I actually don't even know where this plus she went. I think it's actually still in my grandmother's storage in, in her, in her backyard. it, you know, it's, you know what's funny, it's one of those toys that used to play a, a lot as a kid, but then it mysteriously goes away. You have no idea what happened to it. Ever since then, Maki was probably my favorite Pokemon ever. My second favorite. I know a lot of people, will know this about me, especially if you look at my profile picture on everything. It's my Luna Tone. Luna Tone sticks out to me because it's simple and design. obviously Luna means moon in Spanish. and that really kind of connects me already.'cause like I, grew up, you know, with a very, very heavily Spanish speaking mother who only spoke to me in Spanish. And I guess you're curious David. So as a kid I used to just Understand. never speak it.

David Hernandez: 38:02

I can, I can relate to that fully. Yes.

Boloscar: 38:04

yeah. So like now I'm fluent, but I'm not like a hundred percent. I'm saying maybe I'm like at least 70% fluent. like, as a kid, for some reason Ton always took out to me. And like even now in Pokemon Go, I even have like a hun of it. I almost have a shun of it. So hopefully one that will get a shun.

David Hernandez: 38:18

That blue eyes are pretty, pretty though. I, you gotta admit though, that blue eyes on the shiny luna tones very pretty.

Boloscar: 38:23

that's what gets me and it gets me because of the old saying once in a blue moon. That's why I love it so much. It's simple.

David Hernandez: 38:29

I just got that today. I didn't think about that. I never thought about that. No. You think I'm gonna sit here and think about, oh, why is Lone, lone, shiny lone represents a once in a blue moon. I don't think about it.

Boloscar: 38:42

Yeah. I don't know why. It just, it always reminded me of that old saying, so I was like, nah, this, this shiny is genius, dude. I love it. It's great. And also it's, it's body. It's a little lighter too, like, almost like it's a full moon glowing in the sky. I think it's genius, dude. Seriously. Like, yo, we

David Hernandez: 38:55

And this is what I love.

Boloscar: 38:56

just on Luna Zone now.

David Hernandez: 38:57

This is just, like I said, this is what I love about Pokemon. There's so much more depth. Like I said, for me, it looks like a moon for you. You get a quote out of it. Where else are you gonna get that from Anyway? That's the beauty of Pokemon. There is death that people don't realize until somebody points it out. I've never connected those dots. I kid you not, I've played Pokemon since day one. I've never connected the shiny, mute, shiny lu tones. I, it's a once in a blue moon. I've never, it's never come to mind.

Boloscar: 39:24

Wow.

David Hernandez: 39:24

this. I love this franchise so much, man. I, I can, yeah. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, yeah,

Boloscar: 39:28

to lone, by the way. Let's get it.

David Hernandez: 39:30

yeah. Yeah. So.

Boloscar: 39:32

Oh my God. But, nah, man. Honestly, like those two Pokemon to this, like to this day, stick out to me. yeah, I, I'd say part of that'll, I'll leave it at those two.

David Hernandez: 39:40

I'm, I'm gonna make that podcast title. I'm gonna see if Pokemons used that ones in Aton. If they haven't I'm taking it. Yeah, if y'all, if y'all see the title and it's still there. That's why. So.

Boloscar: 39:53

That gets me, man. I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm kind of surprised. I'm, I'm kind, I'm kind of happy I blew your mind with that, honestly. So now hopefully you'll be a Luna tune Enjoyer like the rest of us now, and by the

David Hernandez: 40:02

Yeah. I mean, I've never hated Luna Tone. Like I just never had that kind of connection with it, and that's what I love about doing this podcast. People blow my mind with some of the ways they interpret Pokemon, and I just, it doesn't, like there's 1000 of these guys. I don't think of every single one of them. So I, I get these moments all the time. And people, like I said, if you think this is made up, this is acting. I'm not that sophisticated. I don't get paid enough to act. Okay, look, I get a couple dollars on a Patreon. That's about it. This is, it ain't worth me trying to fake this. This is, like I said, this is real, this is raw. Like I've never thought of. This is, this is perfectly genuine. My mind is blown right now. I'm not editing this part by the way. This part's going in just how it is. So,

Boloscar: 40:44

be offended if you did. No, like this is great. Like a whole five minute section on

David Hernandez: 40:49

oh

Boloscar: 40:49

By all means. You already made my David.

David Hernandez: 40:50

yeah. Who else are you gonna hear? Have a five minute section of Lone, tell me a YouTuber, a podcaster, a alive, and I'll call you a damn liar. Okay.

Boloscar: 40:59

I'll tell you one, the Cru the cruise ship. I

David Hernandez: 41:00

You heard?

Boloscar: 41:01

heard of him.

David Hernandez: 41:02

No,

Boloscar: 41:02

his fair Pokemon is Luna Tone. And I remember this'cause I remember Wesley and Shelley, the people I mentioned earlier, they told me about, oh yeah, we watched this one, one video of a weird, some weird guy. And he was asking for a luggage trade and he was giving him like a really rare, like a legendary or whatever. And all he wanted was just a lone. And then we were like, whoa, that's kind of base Whatcha talking about? How is that weird? That's based, he wants a lone like, come on now. Like,

David Hernandez: 41:28

that reminds me of something I did. I think it was, I think it was probably my second or third go fest. I posted a message. I was my friend Ruby, I got him credit for this'cause he's actually the one that fit me the idea. I was going to go fest, it was one of the Chicago ones I can remember which one it was. And he said like, how cool would it be to have a shiny Pikachu that knows surf from Hawaii? And I'm sitting there, I'm like, that's a good idea. So I posted the message. A couple of the groups, especially the Chicago ones and all that, you know, the ones that are getting for Go Fest is by chance anybody from Hawaii coming to Go Fest that's gonna have a shiny surf in Pikachu. And I didn't expect to get a response'cause a Hawaii, I didn't know how people play Pokemon. I've always heard it's been kind of a ghost town, but B, I didn't know like what's the chances, right? I get a response and this guy says, I have a shiny surfing Pikachu and I'm coming from Hawaii So we set up a trade and I meet with him and he says, I really thought that you were like a bot, or that you were a troll. Like who's gonna ask for a sure surfing peek at you? And I'm like, dude. I didn't think nobody was gonna respond. Like I was hopeful, but it was like one of them like, ah, if it happens, it happens, great. If it doesn't, it doesn't. But I wanted it just because I thought that was such a cool idea.'cause A, I'm never gonna be in Hawaii long enough to catch a shiny peek at you. And B, it just seemed like a cool idea to have, especially during those times and even still to this day. I still had to peek at you, by the way. And it's just such niche topics, stuff like that, that you don't think about.

Boloscar: 43:05

That reminds me of every single lucky trade that I do. I always ask for a shiny mud kit,'cause I'm trying to get a shunda mud kit and everybody looks at me. So funny like. like, I'm like, I want a legendary Zac Fromm. Are you just want a mud kit? Is that really all you want? And I'm like, yeah.

David Hernandez: 43:22

Yeah, that's the Pokemon franchise in a nutshell. You get the most oddest things like, but that's what makes it so great is you get, you get things you don't hear before and people collect things differently. They got the numbers, they got the shinies going on.

Boloscar: 43:35

I think I love hearing people's stories of like their favorite Pokemon and why, and you would hear like, obviously like you would hear Trish or you would hear like something like vanilla light. And obviously you're scratching your head why, but once they explain it, it's actually a lot more like wholesome. I'm telling you man, like some someone's gonna say starly and I'm gonna be so mad. Like I, so I'm gonna give you like the lower the rundown why I hate Starly

David Hernandez: 43:55

Yeah. Let's, I'm curious, like why'd, why do you hate Starly so much?

Boloscar: 43:58

well,

David Hernandez: 43:59

has it done to you?

Boloscar: 43:59

I'm

David Hernandez: 44:00

I'm

Boloscar: 44:00

you

David Hernandez: 44:00

so.

Boloscar: 44:00

It has, attacked me personally and mentally. So, BDSP releases, brilliant diamond shining pearl. I'm shiny hunting the starers, I'm shining hunting, actually, church week pacifically. And I kid you not, how do I manage to get five full odds, uncatchable, Starly's, and not get the twig at all? Just like, like, like that is the most absurd thing that has ever happened to me in my shining hunting career. And by the way, I did get the church wig. It's like, it's a pretty funny reaction. You probably go. You should, if you watch it, by all means. I appreciate it. I dunno that, guys, just for context, I'm hunting on two different games. One game gets four starleys, the other one gets only one five in total full odds. One out Out four one out of 4,096, and I go up to to 11. encounters for the church wagon in total. Ooh. Yeah, that's, rude. Yeah. So to this day, I will I'll never, forgive Starly for putting me through that torment.

David Hernandez: 45:46

you know, we talked about the Pokemon Go, but we haven't really touched on your games.'cause I know you said that came in later. did you stick with the games throughout, or did you kinda have a break and come back through Pokemon Go? I,

Boloscar: 45:54

I definitely had a break. the first one I ever picked up and played was Pokemon Gold.

David Hernandez: 45:58

okay.

Boloscar: 45:59

Pokemon Gold is my first favorite Pokemon game I ever touched, ever played consistently. I even deleted my brother's, say five by accident. Didn't know it

David Hernandez: 46:04

Damn, you vicious.

Boloscar: 46:06

sorry, sorry. But it, to be fair, it had been years since he played it. Luckily he still does not know up until this podcast, so we're good.

David Hernandez: 46:13

Oh my God.

Boloscar: 46:14

So, yeah. Yay. Ano another revelation. Let's go. Anyway. so play Pokemon Gold, loved it. Absolutely did. and then I took a break a couple years later, and then I finally picked up, Ruby and Sapphire. the reason, it's kind of weird how I actually picked up Ruby and Sapphire. I actually saw a friend still playing his game. Boy, sp in like a, you know, in. school. And then I told him which Pokemon game is that? And he told me it was Ruby Sapphire. So he might borrow it for a bit. And this is back when like the wholesome thing of like having friends at school that will let you borrow Game Boy games. You can easily, you know, put it in your bag, you know, bring it back, bring it back the next day or the next week. He lemme borrow for the weekend. And lemme tell you right now, absolutely possibly to this day is still like one of the funnest experiences I've ever had in a Pokemon game. I just think Hoen as a whole region is super vast, but also super unique. I know, I get it. IGN too much water. I hated that. But like, I still love, I still love the games. I really do. O obviously that's where I fell in love with Mud Kip too. More, besides it being just, it existing in my head, but, nah man, it's like for, I was really, really into like the old games. I didn't play CNO until much later. This is like back actually real, I'll be honest with you. I took another break and this is like up until I was like 16 or 17.

David Hernandez: 47:20

Mm-hmm.

Boloscar: 47:21

picked up a cinema game and played it. I played Pokemon Platinum, and I just wanna, for the record, I didn't wanna touch a diamond or parus of how slow they are. That's just, you know, the main reason I didn't pick them up. But I did love the anime. I picked up Pokemon Platinum, played that, I played Gen five later, Shortly after that, I didn't I Gen six up until, 2018, so it was very, very late. and then I picked up Sun and Moon when actually I met my fiance. So that was back in 2019. So, and then of course, sword and Shield, me and her actually went to the midnight launch for it. So

David Hernandez: 47:54

Oh, nice.

Boloscar: 47:55

in time for Sword and Shield. we went to that midnight launch. And by the way, for context, that was actually the last ever midnight launch before the pandemic, So it meant, it meant a lot to me personally. We

David Hernandez: 48:06

we played it together all the time.

Boloscar: 48:07

of course when the DOC came out for the, I believe it was the Crown Tundra with the Dynamax Adventures with, by the way, dynamite Adventures is one of the best ideas Pokemon has ever had. Please bring it back in some capacity in the future games. It is such a great idea.

David Hernandez: 48:19

Mm-hmm.

Boloscar: 48:19

I'm begging you. Other than that, I'm basically all caught up now. I played Garland and Violet all the way through both games. as much as I really have pretty strong opinions on Scarlet and Violet, I, I love the games still, honestly, pretty much to their entirety in the whole series.

David Hernandez: 48:33

And just for the game context, what do the games, specifically just the main series games give you that maybe you don't find in Pokemon Go? And what do you kind of, I guess, enjoy playing about them that keeps you going back to'em?

Boloscar: 48:43

Really two things. It's really the story aspect of it, and also just like the, the thrill of a play through going on an, a new adventure with a new team of Pokemon, or even the same team of Pokemon just reliving. Reliving some days, you know what I mean? Reliving like the glory days or reliving some memories and stuff like that. That's really what kind of gets me. Pokemon Go has an advantage where like you're making your own story as you go

David Hernandez: 49:04

Mm-hmm.

Boloscar: 49:04

really, but also like it's an adventure throughout, you know, matter where you go. And that's one thing Pokemon Go will be absolutely unto with that. It's just, it's and its own league, that aspect. But the main series games, man, they're, there's so much magic to them. Shiny hunting especially, and the experiences of like getting a full lot shiny or even like a shiny charm, shiny, or just better yet experiencing a new part of the playthrough that you might've missed in your first play through or initial play throughs. make it a lot more like intriguing, you know?

David Hernandez: 49:32

you and your fiance, it sounds like, you know, y'all did the midnight release together. Y'all played Pokemon Go together. like, how do y'all spend time together playing Pokemon? Like is it through Pokemon Go? Is it through Pokemon still? Like what does that look like?

Boloscar: 49:43

is mainly both actually. So, I never mentioned this actually. I actually quit streaming full-time back in 2023. so I can pursue actual Pokemon Go content. we were always streaming together. Pokemon, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Dynamax Adventures, or even with Scarlet and Violet came out, we were all doing shiny hunting on that. we did basically the whole nine yards with that. we quit because it was mainly personal reasons, but also really'cause Twitch kind of like changed all their algorithms and stuff like that. We really kind of didn't really, really see streaming as, as you can say, maybe a formidable future, you know what I mean? going on to Pokemon Go, we would always sneak outta the house late at night, even when we were like still full-time streamers. Playing Pokemon Go for like hours on end in the middle of the night looking for Shinies. You know, even when the glaring birds first dropped, we were so mesmerized by them that we literally would dedicate 15 minutes a night just to go out on a, a short little car ride and a short little route just so we can do our daily instance and stuff like that. And we would always be super in the Pokemon Go. We would always play it all would do Go fest. the first ever Go fest, first ever canceled tour, all the tours and stuff like that. We always did everything together. And this is when we didn't even have a camera in our hand. We, we didn't have the camera that I use now. We would just play casually, but we were all super into the game one thing led to another and then this is when I finally had it with streaming and I kind of basically put my foot down with streaming and I would just really couldn't do it anymore. I just really. I got so bored of it, really. And like I said, a couple of the personal things really this me for another time. we went out, the Adventure week when they really shiny Tyrunt around shiny Amaura, rose's, favorite Pokemon ones is Shiny Tyrunt. I love Tyrunt as well. It's one, one of my favorite fossils, possibly my favorite Fossil, like hers. the first 30 minutes of the event we were doing our usual route grinding. And I get it. Wild spa and I get it. And I was so happy. you know, the luck just kept on going. And I told her, I kind of sat her down when we were eating. Why don't we try something new? Or why don't I try something new? Why don't We ever make concept of Pokemon Go. Have you ever thought about it? And then she asked me, like, I'm surprised you haven't thought about it up until now.'cause I mean, you've always played the game more than I, I mean, we played the game together, but like she even said in her own words, I played the game more than her and I'm very, very passionate about it and stuff like that. Especially keeping up with events and stuff like that. Mm-hmm. then, well, we ended up, taking a, taking a, I guess you say taking a risk. little did I know I was literally pumping up video after video after video. It was so brand new to me, the whole vlog style, making videos while also going around the whole world. And like, you know, doing Pokemon Go and telling people like a little bit about myself, but also how I played the game and stuff like that. It is something that possibly saved my entire love for, content creation. mm-hmm. hold it super near and dear to my heart. I possibly would've been, done if Pokemon Go and the content creation that I was doing for it didn't pop off as it did. and this is now doing it full-time as opposed to doing it super part-time.'cause as I mentioned, I don't work full-time anymore, thank God.'cause I was working literally seven days in a row and I would dedicate some days just to play Pokemon, but I would I would only have like two a two hour session. to like a, a usual four to six hour session that I would usually do. I'm appreciative. I'm so glad that, and I

David Hernandez: 52:40

I

Boloscar: 52:41

this, who's listening, that risk.'cause you never know where it could lead you. that risk and here I am, honestly, happier as can be. and I made I return to streaming. I'm streaming mainly just variety games, Pokemon here and there and stuff like that. But I've even had a second channel, which I'm gonna be uploading more gaming stuff, gaming related news and stuff like that to it, which I, I love video games. I dunno if anybody can, anybody could tell. But this whole conversation, video games as a whole, I'm a huge fan of, I love video games, I love everything about'em and stuff like that. I've always loved talking about video games with people and stuff like that. I also also used to be an eSports coach, very, very briefly, in my old job and stuff like that,

David Hernandez: 53:16

Oh, wow. Okay. Mm-hmm.

Boloscar: 53:18

very like big passion, really like, you know, telling people about video games, talking about video games and stuff like that. And I don't know, like when it came to Pokemon and Pokemon Go and all this other stuff, I thank Pokemon Go and the Pokemon franchise for keeping my love alive for content creation.'cause I would've been done literally a long time ago.

David Hernandez: 53:33

What is it about Pokemon Go specifically? Like what do you like to try to capture when it comes to doing content creation and how do you try to implement that into the videos or the streams that you do?

Boloscar: 53:43

honestly, it's really about all about showcasing for me, like showcasing that there's still fun to be had in a game that obviously, you know, a lot of people are kind of like, I'd say maybe a lot of the veteran players, a lot are burnt out on, But there's so much more to it in my opinion. Like the places you can visit, the places you can see, the places you discover just by looking at your map. And you would never ever go there, ever. I mean, dude, I had no idea there was a huge campus that is also a church, like, literally like right down my road and it has a bunch of poke stops there and apparently a bunch of people go play there and I would've never known about that place. And it's been there since I was apparently still in diapers. So like it's been there for years and I've been living in Plano all my life, you

David Hernandez: 54:21

Right.

Boloscar: 54:22

So you never would experience those kind of like places without games like Pokemon Go to actually take you there, like by accident really? If I'm being honest with you. And that's what makes it interesting for me is like everything happens by accident.

David Hernandez: 54:33

accident.

Boloscar: 54:34

Pokemon Go is a very, very like happy little accident for me, but also like a little like accident accidental addiction for me

David Hernandez: 54:39

Mm-hmm.

Boloscar: 54:40

like. just love the collection aspect when it comes to content and stuff like that. I love the showcase, like the Pokemon, they were like present in the wild, you know, things that you could possibly power up in the future and stuff like that. I even did a whole video like telling people, Hey, power up these Pokemon and also give some good advice for Dynamax Pokemon in case people didn't like Dynamax. Didn't dyax Pokemon too much. Especially they're super expensive to power up. They really are. I told them that find a friend, trade them because they are half the cost to power of for future ax, Pokemon Bond or future dynamax rates. And I love giving some little tips like that.'cause I've even had a lot of people say, I mean, sure it seems simple in your head, but to somebody else that means everything, And I love that. I love that feeling, man. It's so good. And I guess another thing I also love showcasing, really, it's just my love for Pokemon Man, like we're all nerds at the end of the day. Like, look, the game has its flaws. That's never been a, that's never been a secret, we can all find enjoyment in something that is, yes, very, very flawed, but brings so many people together. And the community that I built is wonderful because we all love this game we all have our opinions, and I love hearing people's opinions. Well, some opinions, I'll be honest with you, like,

David Hernandez: 55:45

Some more than others. Yeah, I'm sure.

Boloscar: 55:47

there you go. Like, but like, man, Pokemon Go is a whole new beast when it comes to that. It has the most dedicated fan base of any other mobile game, in my opinion. And it just lives alive in so many people's heads because so many people made it a part of their daily lives, you know?

David Hernandez: 56:00

Earlier you said you just became a community ambassador, fairly recent, within like a month or so, you know, now you hear content creator. What has been the kind of the, I guess, feedback you've received becoming a community ambassador? You know, are they welcoming that you're both a c content creator and ambassador? Like what is that like? Like how's your community responding to that?

Boloscar: 56:17

So I'm gonna be real.

David Hernandez: 56:19

Sure.

Boloscar: 56:19

of the people that I'm friends with now didn't even know I did content, but they did see me around with my camera'cause I'm always walking around with my camera. know, some some of the feedback I received. It really, really has. and Obviously, like I've heard some things that, you know, is more of like a cause for like, I mean, I really don't really see why people would think that, but at the same time, I get it, I've received maybe, and this is just more of anonymous, anonymous tips from friends that I've had, that people are saying that like, I becoming in a community ambassador just to elevate my channel or am I becoming a community ambassador? You know, to actually help out the community and just, you know, do Pokemon Go as usually as anybody else would do. Honestly, I kind of

David Hernandez: 56:57

I kind of hate

Boloscar: 56:58

because people, it, it's very, very natural for people to very, very quickly assume things. You know,

David Hernandez: 57:05

Sure.

Boloscar: 57:05

of like, actually like, you know, kind of being, maybe putting two and two together. But I understand that.'cause honestly, if I was in their In their shoes or you know, thinking about another guy who was doing the same thing I did, but he was wanting to become an ambassador. You know what, I probably would think the same thing. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna knock anybody for it, but I'm just gonna be flat out, honest and tell everybody here that, like, I never took this position to elevate my channel or elevate my content because I gain nothing. I gain no satisfaction from doing that. The only satisfaction I gain from doing being a community ambassador is being a community ambassador. Like being a leader, being somebody that you guys can depend on, hosting events, being your friend, talking to you, and stuff like that. And honestly. I just love interacting with people. Like I'm very, I'm a very, very social I love. love talking to people. I love getting people's stories out. I love also like, Hey, do you need help with this rate? I'll help you out with this rate and stuff like that. I hope, hopefully I'm not coming off as like, you know, weird as saying that, but like, it's just that, like for me, I, never really saw me becoming an ambassador and also doing content on the side as a way to elevate my channel because truthfully, it's not about that. Yeah. I do the channel for fun and I think personally, once you stop doing it for fun, it just stops being fun in general, and that's personally why I kind of like took a step back from Twitch is because I started treating it too much like a business. And once I started treating it too much like a business, I stopped. Because you started develop, developing like that kind of like toxic mindset, you know what I mean? So like, that's where like I'm at now, and again, I don't, I don't fault anybody for asking these questions. I, I love when people like, you know, wanna ask me questions about this, stuff like that. But I just want everybody to know here that I did not become an ambassador. The, any way, shape, or form to elevate my channel, my channel's still relatively small. I mean, 900 is a lot, but it's very, very Very small most channels. And I still consider it to be pretty small. And I'm blessed where I am right now. I think I, I thank God every single day and I literally thank my opportunities every single, day that I get, that I have the the opportunity. to do this every single day when I can and when I, you know, when I will basically, you know,

David Hernandez: 59:04

So oddly enough I get that as more of a podcaster than I'm at community.'cause I run the Facebook group within DFW. I've run it for the past five years. I've been a community leader since probably 20 17, 20 18 in certain ways.

Boloscar: 59:15

okay.

David Hernandez: 59:15

And you know, the community ambassador program's fairly new. I've elected to not, I. Pursue it. That's been pretty open about it. I don't know about the podcast, but at least locally, and part of it is that, you know, I want to keep the brand of the podcast and the community ambassador separate. I don't want them to mix together. I understand the expectations that are placed there. Some of the stuff that I wanna talk about would probably be frowned upon. And I'm just being honest. You know,

Boloscar: 59:40

Yeah,

David Hernandez: 59:40

if you ever ask me in person, you know, I'm happy to talk about this, but I also do that because kinda what you said earlier. I remember back when I was in high school, we had a shirt for senior year and the one who organized her, her name was Ms. Vox, loved her to death. She was very just a sweet woman. She had this shirt she made. She said, why read the, it said, why read the back of the shirt when you can instead, follow or basically lead and see so much more. That was kind of, I butchered it like hell, but that's kind of what it was. Yeah,

Boloscar: 1:00:07

I, I.

David Hernandez: 1:00:08

and I've always stuck to that. It's always been something that's kind of been in my mind I'm like, that makes so much sense. Why follow when you can just lead and see so much more? I've never believed that I need a community ambassador title to be an ambassador. I've been doing this stuff for a long time. I don't need it. Like that's more for people who are maybe more newer to the game who are trying to build communities. I don't need that title anymore. Like I said, I have six to seven years of both good and bad mistakes. Like I said, I'm human. I've made mistakes in stuff, some of the stuff I've done, but I've always preferred to lead by action because a lot of people can talk big talk. But when it comes to like boots on the ground when it comes to actually doing stuff, that's when you see who's really a leader. For example, as the poker ball turns, I give wristbands to the communities here. They don't have to pay for it. I wanted to be able to, when we built Tip Addison, I wrote a blog on it for on my website as the pickle ball turns.com encourage you to read it. I put it point blank and you can ask. The community leader is there. Y'all don't have to pay for these wristbands. Yes. Does it have my branding? Absolutely. But the reason why I wanted to do that is I wanted to be able to order for some incentive for people who came to collect. That was it. I still don't, I don't, I still don't sell'em to this day. if you come to Community Day, you're gonna get the wristband for free. And I do that because I want, as a brand to be involved within the Pokemon community. I don't wanna be seen as somebody who's out of touch or somebody who's like a figurehead. I wanna be like, yeah, he gets out the wristbands all the time. He's involved with the community. I've always wanted to be engaged. That's why I try to attend these events as much as I can. And I think it's important, and I say this because I think it's important now, especially with everything going on, both in conation as well as the real world, that us content creators, whether you're a podcaster, a streamer, a. YouTube or whatever you are. I think it's more important that we are involved with these communities to be a light as well as also to help guide some of these leaders who do the hard work. Like I said, all I do is just I do wristband. That's it. I don't do anything else. I go and help out when I can. they do all the hard work. I just show up and give some wristbands for the community so they can have some free swag and they can do it. That's all it is.

Boloscar: 1:02:21

it's all in love for the community too. I mean, like it's all for the experience of like, hey, well, being welcoming to the community that you already are a part of, you know? I mean,

David Hernandez: 1:02:28

Exactly,

Boloscar: 1:02:28

get that a hundred percent.

David Hernandez: 1:02:29

on that note, that's gonna be an interview. I did wanna ask one final question.

Boloscar: 1:02:34

Okay.

David Hernandez: 1:02:34

So I actually did know that you are a wrestling fan. So my question is this, if you had to choose six Pokemon, that would be wrestlers what? Six Pokemon. Would you choose

Boloscar: 1:02:45

Oh God. Okay. Obviously easiest one. Part of my favorite, one of my favorite Pokemons ever, everyone knows this about me. I love freaking hacha. Hacha is obviously like Raymond Cereal. I mean, that's, that's basically what it is. Halla is Raymond Cereal. A hundred percent. I'd say. Let's see here. For me, realistically, macho instead of macha, I just think, honestly, the forearms is kind of weird, mm-hmm. think macho actually looks more like an actual, like, you know, wrestler than Macha does.

David Hernandez: 1:03:10

That's fair.

Boloscar: 1:03:11

personal prep. Honestly, I've always thought macho look like z from a, from a street fighter. So

David Hernandez: 1:03:15

Okay.

Boloscar: 1:03:15

where I kinda like put it on, Hama. Sumo Wrestler also a big guy too. I think he also looks like a e Honda from Street Fighter. So another reason I like him too. so there you go. So yeah, Hama, macho Oh man. Who would else would be a cool one That has to be like a really dope one. everyone's gonna be like saying in the conversation below. Oh, you should have said this one. I want, you know, hang on. That's my list. Hang on. Oh, man. let's see. I got the three down. Okay. Honestly. Okay. Could you say Rio? Really? But Rio is more like, more like, you know, Anubis. Like, would you, would you say Rio?

David Hernandez: 1:03:47

Hey, this is your list, man. I'm not gonna judge you.

Boloscar: 1:03:49

Yeah, fine, fine. I'll put Ari on there for now.

David Hernandez: 1:03:51

Yeah,

Boloscar: 1:03:52

car is cool. five. I'm gonna have to say honestly, kunk. Kelder, I gotta put perspective. My boy Kunk DER's, kunk DER's work. you know, he's, he's holding those really, really two big, cylinder blocks and honestly I probably couldn't do that in real life. I think he's pretty cool. What kinda he

David Hernandez: 1:04:06

you still there? Yeah.

Boloscar: 1:04:09

oh my

David Hernandez: 1:04:09

Oh my God.

Boloscar: 1:04:10

it cool. It has to be

David Hernandez: 1:04:11

yeah.

Boloscar: 1:04:12

Honestly, you know what's funny? I'm was gonna do like, just base of appearance. I'm just gonna say right now, Andino, I'm just gonna put this, my last answer. My original Garina and my original, oh my God, my original platinum copy. I named it the Undertaker. Because he's from the underworld. undertaker is po possibly my favorite wrestler. That's not C Punk or John Cena. Also, John c is a bad guy. Now it hurts my feelings, but at the same time, it's so cool. It's so, it's so cool. Remember, I want your soul. Other, other than

David Hernandez: 1:04:40

right.

Boloscar: 1:04:40

yeah, I'm at the C Guino. Why not just, just, just for the memes. I, I, the undertaker. Guino will always be in my heart. That Guino was so cracked in, in platinum, dude.

David Hernandez: 1:04:49

Bo, thank you for coming on the bookable terms. Before you go, if people wanna watch your content, if they wanna connect with you, where can they go? By all means, please plug away,

Boloscar: 1:04:56

Oh, by all means, guys. Yeah, follow me on Twitch tv slash ker. I basically go live almost every single night now. And of course, guys, my main channel, youtube.com/ker. Basically the, the place to go. And of

David Hernandez: 1:05:06

and of course,

Boloscar: 1:05:07

channel. Now, if you guys go to my subscription below, sorry, description below, it should be youtube.com/bolo for the absolute gaming channel and all the variety stuff that you probably do wanna see. Other than that guys, that's basically, oh, also I do have TikTok too. boss, if you guys wanna follow me on there. Other than that, man, basically all I have for you. Yeah.