pygame "font not intialized"

[Quentin Bock]

my code is almost identical to this so I hope it's okay that I don't
include all of my code
error message:
font = pygame.font.Font('freesansbold.ttf', 32)
pygame.error: font not initialized

Tutorial Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWpgLFMI7w
Timestamp to this part of the video:  1:55:08