Discover the fascinating life story & 6 Dream Team Pokémon of PHILLYBEATZU: how he sold his Funko POP! collection to buy a PC, how he took a huge risk abandoning his medical studies to pursue YouTube, how he wouldn't be where he is today without his wife, how he's about to release a movie - and how he now lives his childhood dream working officially with his favourite franchises.

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👋 My name's Charlie Merriman - Merri by name, merry by nature! My passion for Pokémon has made me a host & commentator for its Video Game Championships Series, and beyond that I love taking on all kinds of challenges & adventures in the games which I stream and make videos about right here on this channel. Come join in!

🎧 More than 90 episodes of the show now available featuring a broad range of people in the Pokémon community including MANDJTV, WOLFE GLICK, AUSTIN JOHN PLAYS & many more - enjoy!

All episodes so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0M4tSxPGQg&list=PLwf6eLFz9YAQfrHjSGoMIAE5hflGIkiyV&pp=gAQB0gcJCWMEOCosWNin

Listen on Spotify - 15,000+ audio downloads! https://open.spotify.com/show/5JdoxYzR6lr7DBN0lihdQJ?si=5ee2f7a52fd14c27

We're now in Season 2! Guests: CandyEvie, Jrose11, Bonstevawich, SophChan, PhillyBeatzU, Chi-Chi, Joshua Lorcy, AuraLaur, PKMNcast, Brian David Gilbert

🎥 RELATED EPISODES

Austin John Plays - https://youtu.be/OWBHRSiuvJ0

Lee 'Osirus' Provost - https://youtu.be/WeHr0XzoTRA

partyarlie - https://youtu.be/dHIaIejjDcc

Joe 'Serebii' Merrick - https://youtu.be/kJOrUziQL0A

MandJTV - https://youtu.be/rCm8-J1qBXQ

Watch my documentary about commentating the epic 2025 Pokémon Europe International Championships here - https://youtu.be/G8ctBWLskoI

Catch Philly's fantastic content and keep up with his latest - @PhillyBeatzU across socials

🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Welcome! 01:47 Growing Up 07:47 Philly's 1st Dream Team Pokémon 11:03 Selling Funko POP!s to buy a PC 21:07 Philly's 2nd Dream Team Pokémon 23:25 Leaving medicine for YouTube 30:02 Philly's 3rd Dream Team Pokémon 31:26 "My wife is my greatest supporter" 42:16 Philly's 4th Dream Team Pokémon 43:49 Nintendo & NYC 56:55 Philly's 5th Dream Team Pokémon 59:28 Working with gaming companies 1:07:55 Philly's 6th Dream Team Pokémon 1:09:47 Philly's Complete Dream Team & Partner Pokémon 1:10:17 If Philly were a Pokémon, what would he be? 1:12:01 What's next for Philly: Cardbound 1:15:24 What advice would Philly give his younger self? 1:16:52 Philly's Rapidash Round Teaser 1:17:31 Get involved!

🙏 A HUGE thank you to my channel members & patrons at the time of uploading for supporting the channel: ashthekarp, Jacrepid, CaseyPKMN, 19TokinToken, pokemontrainermike1, Shad0wFeevke, BroseidonLive, 0megasoul, wolfganghahn2490, elliefawnx, KayDeeVGC, GymLeader_J, indiepctv, AddiRockART, dmfried858, Infernape Shinjo, Oliver Evans, WiiMik3; Ben Kyriakou, Casey Kort, Possumbreath, Morten Schødts Pedersen, AerialAC

Click on the relevant links above to support me directly and see/hear your name here! Thank you so much either way for listening 🙏

Music by Tom Hiom

Logo by Lee 'Osirus' Provost

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