pygame "font not intialized"

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On 2021-03-12 at 17:27:36 -0500,
Quentin Bock <qberz2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

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