>Brendan: "His Ice moves were doing zero damage, I was looking at the League Official saying 'don't stop the battle'" but he did."
>Rogan: "Yeah but, you know he had to stop the battle. A lot of things looked bad about that battle. You were reacting instead of thinking ahead and predicting. Your commands sounded very unsure. They didn't sound like an ace trainer's trainer's commands. You could see the way the gym leader was commanding his Pokemon it was very clean, very calm, he's a bad motherfucker. I was worried about you, can tell you that."
>"Yeah-"
>"I worry about you, your commitment, not to training or giving it your all, I think you have one ."
>"...I disagree."
>"You disagree? You're looking at how you can't do this forever, and that's a dangerous place to be in Pokemon training. You're smarter than most trainers, problem with smart trainers is you think about your Pokemon getting burned, getting poisoned, getting frozen, how many critical hits have they taken, how many have they got coming, when does the damage start showing up in their lives?"
>"..."
>"The reality of your skillset? I don't see you beating the Elite Four. I don't see you beating the Pokemon World Championship, I don't see you beating the Ace Trainers, I don't see you beating the Frontier..."
>"..."
>"You came into Pokemon battling late in life, you're a clever guy, and you can do a lot of things because of that, but there's a reality of mastery of Pokemon... If you had a battle with a Dragon type trainer how do you think you would do?"
>"Straight Dragon? I think you'd be surprised."
>"You think? I think you'd be surprised. I think he'd fuck you up."
>"..."
>"There's a bridge between you... and the best trainers in the world, that I think you can't cross."
>"Joe you know you're my boy but I don't necessarily agree with everything you're sayin'..."
>"You lost the battle, and that Leader looked stiff as hell and you couldn't close the deal on him."
>"..."
>"I'm sayin it with love, 100%"
