Featuring, and this is not a joke - Congressman Maxwell Frost. EDITED BY OPTML MEDIA Patreon: ► / mbtyugioh Twitter: ► / mbtyugioh Discord: ► / discord #MaxwellFrost #MBT #Yugioh
“THIS…is The Yu-Gi-Oh! Congression Series!” In all seriousness, I’m so happy you had this opportunity, and no one could’ve done it better! Fantastic video! ❤
Each week I duel another member of Congress. We then spin a wheel of policies we both have proposed. The winner of each duel gets to put in place that policy regardless of votes.
Why congressman? Why not congresshuman, congressperson, congress-representative, representative, congress member or something? Same with fireman, policeman, actress, waitress, Filipino, Filipina, etc.
@@nicbentulan Because he's a man in congress? It's just a gendered word, it's not that big of a deal, a woman in congress is a congresswoman and an NB person in congress is a congressperson. If you want to fight for gender equality, there may be more important priorities than the use of a gendered word in the comments of a yugioh video. (which also makes this answer pointless but whatever)
when -ussy became word of the year 2022 according to The American Dialect Society, did any conservative congresspeople act like it was the downfall of civilization? I feel like they must have right?
Really enjoyed the duality of Joseph and Jilian doing their interviews. Also: the fact that Frost is both an earth machine player and pushing a railway project is just perfect.
This was awesome. I especially loved that Jillian got to interview him too. Great conversation all around and great to see a young politician be a young person.
@@adamismail8311 To be fair, sometimes young politicians can feel like they are old people in young bodies, because politicians tends to age people’s souls.
My favorite moment was when Frost played Swords of Revealing Light and Joseoh looked at the camera like, "I'm about to lose to someone who plays Swords in main/side."
Until you can come up with a better way to make politicians fix the major problems of our time, that doesn’t involve shoving it into their faces, we are going floodgate every chamber of politics
I am so proud of seeing him come this far, it is indeed huge for Maxwell Frost that he gets to play Yugioh with the one and only MBT, so proud of my boy. For comparison, not even someone like AOC has gotten to play with Cimo! Huge day for the democratic party of the USA, a country I am not even a part of.
I am unsure his take on Ukraine but I assume he supports sending them Liebe's and Gustav Max's to protect their soveirgnty so they have the ability to build Switchyards
I had no idea we were getting a high speed rail from Orlando to Miami that also connects to Tampa. As a Florida resident that's triangulated between Tampa and Orlando, that'll be such a nice way to go to Miami without the need of driving a half dozen hours. That aside, this looks like it was a super cool opportunity for yourself and Max to connect over a similar hobby while also talking about some larger issues in this country.
I was expecting him to OOGA BOOGA normal summon blue eyes white dragon. But when he dropped that blind going 2nd Urgent Schedule I was like “ok ok I see him I see him”
Beyond just "wow this whole thing is incredible", MBT came very prepared for this. Excellent questions, fantastic dialogue. It was way more than just Frost plays Yugioh so let's play.
I can't believe they got a congressman for the new season of Prog Playoffs! I can't wait to finally see some Brent Thug representation in our government.
"My favorite card is Machina Citadel" Wow, this guy is batting for the narrow audience of "Earth Machine Players in Florida", of which there must be like, 3.
In this series, 1 random member of congress and myself will be opening 24 booster packs or 1 box of a core Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set. We will build a deck and play a best 2 out of 3, and the winner will introduce one new bill to be voted on. HOWEVER! Each episode, we will open another box of the previous set that was released moving in reverse chronological order, constantly downgrading our decks before dueling each other at the end of each episode. This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Congression Series.
There genuinely could not have been a better duo to do this, between Joseph's dorky charisma and Jillian's genuine political interest and background as a political scientist. Absolutely delightful! Also, very polite of Joseph to not trigger DPE popping DPE 7 times. :)
the portion of the interview where he was talking about how he loved the game so much that he was playing on the center console of his car using his knee as the graveyard, man that hit me hard. card games bring us all together
i've played against my bro's earth machine deck for years now, thinking I knew what the deck offered, but the spice Frost brought to the table was protagonist levels of unbelievable. WHAT A MATCH.
There’s a ton of jokes that can be made here sure but being serious for just a second, this is such a cool video and one of a kind when it comes to yugioh content for sure, props to mbt for doing something this absolutely amazing
Those three games really highlighted to me that casual lower powered back and forth Yu-Gi-Oh is a lot more interesting to play and watch than Meta games that end in round 2/3.
if you like back and forth matches you should try out literally any other card game, having resources like mana in runeterra/magic the gathering force even meta decks to take 5+ turns each before they win
wow! i wasn't expecting Jillian to get a shot at interviewing too! I think its safe to say that this was one of the best videos you've ever made MBT. i think you really did a great job at not only using your passion for the game as a way to connect younger people to real world political discussion, but also in framing the game with the two different interviews. I think you and Jillian asked smart questions and made it not only entertaining, but informative. i knew nothing about Congressman Frost before this, but this helped to fill me in on some key bits of information. I only hope that more people like him will be in charge soon.
Seeing Joseph in an actual suit when I’m most familiar with him in a tie dye tank top or Jean jacket with a bedazzled American flag hat was a little strange to see.
From my point of view is that Jillian is a political scientist and her partner is game content creator so there is basically no incentive to do a interview to shot down someone's leg. Her questions is genuinely good and kinda bipartisan unlike media who clearly heavily side to whoever they payed to.
This was absolutely fantastic. So amazing. Thank you Joseph for being such a high caliber member of the community to even be able to get this close. :) Not even just about Yu-Gi-Oh. You got an incredible interview the first part of this. :)
Incredible video! MBT really is the perfect person to do this kind of stuff. Perfect way to represent the community, gj. Can't wait to see Farfa play someone from the royal family.
It was honestly your Best video so far. Jillian was explendid, Frost was on point, and you...were quite prepared. Good questions, good timing, and a good game. Well done Joseph. Now back to the bussy schedule 😉
@@flapskeygo MBT clips is direct competition, and does get way more views. Any instance of progrussy getting better statistics are 100% due to it having earlier access/content not uploaded anywhere else. Mbt and friends also I guess, but it gets videos like 2 days later
MBT couldn't get an official collab with konami so he lobbied for an interview with a sitting congressman in order to get legislation passed mandating his inclusion in the next official yugioh reveal
This is incredible, really nice to see younger members in government. def gonna like and comment because i wanna see bigger connections to younger individuals who often feel excluded from politics when their views arent represented
Ngl Maxwell's earth machine machina deck is pretty goated. The MD number 97 with Hope and number 100 tech, Swords of revealing, Dracosack, Crusher run (which I'm sure none of us heard of), like damn
It's too messy and seems to lack Anger Knuckle, a card that ties the whole deck together. It will become goated once he cleans it up a bit and fully becomes junk enthusiast.
I think this is the best yugioh video of all time. Congressman Maxwell here both played amazingly and answered Jillian’s questions all in spades with no issue! MBT and Maxwell heavily going back and forth was amazing. MBT and Jillian gave some amazing questions and dialog. Just a fantastic video and I love every bit!
MBT's out here going, where no YGO anime ever dared to... seriously, of all the ridiculous shit that DM and GX specifically got up to, I am shocked there has never been a "Dueling congress" storyline to my knowledge in YGO.
This video does a tonne of work in terms of summarising how far you've come in your Yugituber career so far MBT. The conversation with Maxwell felt casual, yet informative and meaningful, the questions you asked were very balanced and carefully crafted - not many people could have found themselves presented with this opportunity and grasped it so well. You should feel very proud of this!
(13:38) As a Floridian duelist I LOVE this. Also about the train track to the 3 MAIN REASONS to go to Florida.❤ MBT is a real 1 for this. Please make that state better. Too many Californians building their “I’m moving away from taxes” home though 😅
This is peak Yugioh. I need for more of this to exist. Yugioh players of America, start running for positions of government, I *WILL* vote for you if you make it known you play.
Ditto. Unless they use Blackwings. Then their opponent will have to be on the level of a Marjorie for me to NOT vote for said opponent; F*** those birds.
Fantastic interview. This is amazing that you are using your platform to have these kinds of conversations and put yourself in these spaces. All while doing it with the games we love. Hats off to you for this, great stuff as always
Genuinely glad there's a video like this here today. I'm very frustrated learning that congress is /still/ having hearings about that stupid fucking laptop, and that actual issues are still getting ignored. Not much we can do I suppose.
goated content right here, great work! Also, we need to make Maxwell say: "You're third rate politicians with Fourth rate policy" while on the House floor.
Not the video I was expecting! We need more people of our generations in Congress. It's good to see! Also he got me thinking about some strat for my own deck. That Gizmek seems real handy.
This was a great duel! Great job on organizing this as well as a great down to earth guy. MBT this was very well done. Maybe now we can convince him to have all Bills to be passed through a D-d-duel
Amazing fucking video. This channel really does prove that RU-vid content like this has so much more potential than people give it credit for. First of all the entire thing is just so incredibly funny and of course Joseph is aware of this, but both of them are so charismatic, as well as played a great game. The best thing about the entire thing is the Jillian content tho.
Regardless of what party or idealogy you… get down with I guess? This is an outstanding individual and model for members of any branch of government much less the house of representives
Thank you MBT, for caring enough to do the interview at the beginning and end of the video. It was important to hear Representative Frost's opinions and motivations.
I was already super stoked when you announced this "collab" as a stream, but seeing how well realized this video is mind blowing. I'm not even from the usa, but it's still incredibly nice hearing that someone from my age group has managed to land such a big opportunity to participate in politics, I really wish maxwell the best in his endeavors!
That was wild, not only did they get in a neat interview, but we got to see an a real live US Congressman pull Rank 8 shenanigans with Earth Machine. Gonna be hard to top this one.
@@3zhay okay? That is indeed the word for when two people talk and one is generally asking questions of the other, yes. Are you offended that I said chat in place of interview or something?
