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Speaker 1: Ten players dropped out of matches. Ten players. I might

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Speaker 1: I'm not playing in this heat. But during matches it

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Speaker 1: I'll play him out like a game of Monipodi. Let

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Speaker 1: I won, I win, you lose, You lose, just like

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Speaker 1: Where's the boom Bap? Call up Kane? Put Kane on

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Speaker 1: trash Young mc mac miller passed away. Talented dude young,

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Speaker 1: Uh we didn't get to do the fantasy football follies

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Speaker 1: Fucked up? Man, that should really offended me man for

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Speaker 1: And all these so called fans that talk shit and

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Speaker 1: man ringo star. Big Daddy Kane is our ringo star.

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Speaker 1: Big Daddy Kane is Jimmy Hendrix. Big Daddy Kane is

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Speaker 1: games for at least twenty five bucks each. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: send out the links as it gets later in the week,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna do our very very best, uh too.

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Speaker 1: Put out a fantasy football follies for Week two with

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Speaker 1: Tommy Gunns the Gunner a k the gun Slinger, um

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Speaker 1: NFL ship man. What kind of you know? I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say this right now. I hate to say it. I

427
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: hate to say it, but the Patriots will be in

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl barring injury. Every season, we we start

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Speaker 1: the season by going, will Tom Brady still have it?

430
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Speaker 1: Will this be the year that he completely falls off

431
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: a clip? Well, based on Week one of two thousand eighteen,

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00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen season. Uh no, he's not even on

433
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: the cliff. He hasn't even driven up the mountain yet

434
00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: first quarter Tom Brady Rob Gronkowski, Hey, it's like fucking clockwork. Uh.

435
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Speaker 1: They they played the Texans, who were spotty. A guy

436
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:13,479
Speaker 1: to Sean look like look like shit? Okay, um, Khalil

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00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: Mac they're saying, probably had the best half that any

438
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: defensive player ever had in a game Chicago played Green Bay.

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00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack was completely upstaged because Aaron Rodgers wasn't playing good.

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00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: He got injured, was carted off the h the field,

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00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: came back through three touchdowns in very dramatic fashion, and

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Speaker 1: did what Aaron Rodgers does. He didn't fall off a cliff,

443
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: and Khalil Mack is worth every single penny that he

444
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: wanted to get from Oakland but had to get from Chicago.

445
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: Impact defensive player, um my guy Brandon Marshall. YO. Look

446
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: to pick up Brandon Marshall as a wide receiver three.

447
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: He looked good, he was moving around, scored a touchdown,

448
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: had about fourteen points in fantasy football. Brandon Marshall is

449
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: a Seattle Seahawk. Look to pick him up off of waivers.

450
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: He was completely ignored by everybody, including myself during draft season.

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Speaker 1: Do not sleep on Brandon Marshall, Chris Thompson is a

452
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Speaker 1: fucking savage. Redskins running back. Sa Kwan Barkley had a

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Speaker 1: great he had a very good first day the Giants.

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Speaker 1: I was frustrating and Andy Reid seems to hate Kareem Hunt.

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, you fuck you? What is your fucking problem

456
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Speaker 1: with Kareem Hunt? The guy had a great first season,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, because of his greatness,

458
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Speaker 1: you stopped giving him the ball. Fucking tricks. I love

459
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: Tyreek the Freak, okay, but you need to feed Kareem Hunt.

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00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: What's your fucking problem with Kareem Hunt? Andy Reid? Huh.

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00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've got a mustache anymore or not,

462
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: but you need to give the ball to Kareem Hunt.

463
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: He's the first round pick for a lot of us.

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Speaker 1: Fuck this well, you're running back touchdown by committee. Faith

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Speaker 1: this faith that feed Kareem Hunt. I'll be on your

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Speaker 1: ass all year, you fat fuck Andy Reid? You do

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Speaker 1: you understand me? I will be on your fucking ass

468
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: all season long. Your two clicks away from getting a

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Speaker 1: fucking video rant next week. You better feed Kareem Hunt,

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Speaker 1: you fat fuck you. It was a very good week one.

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Speaker 1: By the way, tonight, if you're listening to this today,

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Speaker 1: uh September eleven, September eleven, Man, it's crazy if you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this today, UM, I will be on the

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Speaker 1: Colbarts Show, uh, you know, with Stephen Colbert, wearing the

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Speaker 1: exact same suit that I wore the last time I

476
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: was on the Stephen Colbert Show around the same time

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Speaker 1: last year. UM, I plan on bringing the noise. I

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Speaker 1: plan on uh bringing the noise, um curse free. They

479
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: beat me, censored me last year. They told me to

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00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: get rugged, they told me to get roared, and they

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Speaker 1: they they cut, they cut a lot of my ship.

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Speaker 1: But this year, I'm gonna play it smarter. They want

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Speaker 1: me to go full uh full dingo. I'll give it

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Speaker 1: to him full ding I'm gonna be on uh Colbert

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00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: uh the eleventh, um promoting a typical. I know a

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00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: lot of listeners of the Iron Wrappers stereo podcast have

487
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Speaker 1: watched a typical. I get all the d m s,

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Speaker 1: all the social media, all the Facebook. Although I am suspended,

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Speaker 1: I still got my messages that fun. I'm suspended off

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00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: of Facebook. I got about twenty one more days in

491
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: the whole um, but all the Instagram, all the Twitter.

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00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. If you haven't watched it, I would

493
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: love to hear your thoughts. Don't be disappointed when I

494
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: don't go full dingo. It's a more calm, reserved character.

495
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: But I think you'll love the show. I'm very proud

496
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: of it. Um, and you'll see me sniffing around the

497
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: press tour coming up. Um. It's crazy. Twenty five years ago,

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Speaker 1: November ten, somebody brought that to him. I'm not one

499
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: of these people are like, like, oh, twenty second anniversary. Oh,

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00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: this happened seventeen years ago. But twenty five years ago,

501
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: the movie True Romance came out and somebody posted a

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Speaker 1: clip of video from three at the premiere of True Romance,

503
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: like a minute long clip, and you could see me

504
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: in the clip. I'm like the only one who like,

505
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: can't sit still. I was so hyped to be there.

506
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: I had never been to I had never been in

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Speaker 1: a movie that big, and we had a premiere, was

508
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. There were celebrities there, the cast was there,

509
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: there were other celebrities. There were so much hype around uh,

510
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: True Romance and Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott and the

511
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: cast and Christian Slater and Patricia Kutt and Brad Pitt

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Speaker 1: and everybody. And when I saw that clip that got posted,

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Speaker 1: I was just like, damn twenty five years ago. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I talked about that movie a lot. It

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Speaker 1: was everything um that it. You know, you would imagine

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Speaker 1: it would be. Um. And the fact that people still

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Speaker 1: uh love that movie and talk about that movie and

518
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,959
Speaker 1: celebrate that movie is Uh. It's not surprising because there

519
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: was so much I don't know working in its favor

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00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: when we were making it. But it's definitely something that

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate, and uh, you know, hope I get

522
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: to make some other films that last the test of time,

523
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: like True Romance. But it's crazy that it was twenty

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Speaker 1: five years ago. Alex Jones, you fuck he's shutting you.

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00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: You did something wrong, asshole. This isn't a conspiracy by

526
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: the left wing and the Dems. You did something wrong.

527
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: You made defamatory, discriminatory means spirited comments. You fucking now.

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00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: Apple shut you down. You fuck good good, that's what

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00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: you get. I have no problem with them shutting him down, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Apple,

530
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,959
Speaker 1: shut that piece of ship down. Shut him down for good.

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Speaker 1: I got no problem with it at all. Uh And

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00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: before we get to Ronnie two K. Ronnie two K

533
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: is the guy guys like a cult figure in the

534
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: video game world. Ronnie two K from NBA two K.

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00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: It's coming up on the Iron rapp Wars Stereo podcast.

536
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 1: We're talking about players that got upset with him about

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00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: their player rankings. I mean, he's all immersed in the

538
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: NBA and hip hop and music and all that ship,

539
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: and it just it. Literally. I saw him at an

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Speaker 1: event in New York and it was like kids were

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Speaker 1: like bowing down him. They're freaking out for him. He's

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00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: the face of NBA two K, which is a multi

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00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: multi million dollar video game. And if you haven't played

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00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 1: NBA two thousand nineteen, just going in the next season.

545
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm in the game. You'll see me, the gringo man

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00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 1: Dingle pop up in the fucking game. Okay, I'm a coach.

547
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: It's crazy talked about the way I look in the game,

548
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: which is weird. I look weird. This Nike thing is

549
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: still going and I think we have one of the

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00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: craziest crackers in the world. One of the craziest crackers

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00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: in the world. The mayor of the city in Louisiana

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00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: called Kenner k E N N E R A guy

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00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: named Benzon z A h N. He's a white guy

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00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: with absolutely no lips. The craziest cracker of two thousand eighteen,

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00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: maybe definitely top five craziest crackers of two thousand eighteen.

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00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: He has banned kennor recreation program. So let's say, like

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Speaker 1: boys Clubs y m c A s local football clubs

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Speaker 1: from buying from buying Nike products in the town the

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Speaker 1: city of Canada, Louisiana. This freak is so upset by

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00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: the Kaepernick Nike just do it ads that he's banning

561
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: Nike from being worn and purchased, not Warren being purchased

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00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: in the facilities of Kenner. This guy's fucking nuts, and

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00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: he's a mayor of a city in the United States.

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00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: Do you know that when you got guys like that

565
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: as mayors of cities in the United States, it makes

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00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: me think I should seriously think about running for some

567
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: sort of office, because if I had some good people

568
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: around me, sound like Trump, get the best people, I

569
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: think I could do a better job than this fucking

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Speaker 1: lunatic benzon Take this fucking guys the shouldn't be the

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00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: mayor of anything. He shouldn't be. This is insane. People

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00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: are still yo. Like I said the other day, Usually

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00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: with the news cycle today, twenty four hours, thirty six

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Speaker 1: hours at the most seventy two hours a story. They

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00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: happen so fast. That's why the boom boom boom, I

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00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: am wrappor stereo pockets. There's so much ship going on

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00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: and on and on and on and on and on

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00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: and on. Not Nike and Kaepernick. It goes right to

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Speaker 1: the soul, to the guts of the racist in America.

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00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with flag. Not flag bullshit.

581
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: You can't bullshit a bullshitter. This is just say it.

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Speaker 1: You don't want any black people kneeling in front of

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00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: the flag. How dare these black people kneel in front

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00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: of these flags? How dare they have the audac city

585
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: to have a thought of their own? That's what this

586
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: fucking Kaepernick thing is about. I don't give a shit

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00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: about what anybody else is saying. That's the heart and

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00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 1: the crust of it. Why are these black people kneeling?

589
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: How dare they have the audacity to even have a

590
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: thought of their own? They're lucky to even be making

591
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: money in this country. This is what these crazy motherfucker's think, period.

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00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: There's nothing to do with respecting the flag or any

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00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: of that ship. Because if people were kneeling because of

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Speaker 1: all the homelessness in the United States, no one would

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00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: say shit. If people were kneeling because of all the

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00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: the amount of straight cats and stray dogs, no one

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00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: would say shit. No one would say a fucking thing

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Speaker 1: if they were kneeling because of the lack of funds

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Speaker 1: for public education system in the United States, no one

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00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: would say shit. And we all know it all right. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm in New York. Okay, I'm here here in New York,

602
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: back in New York. Mr New York is back in

603
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: New York. Coming up next guests Iron Rapports Stereo Podcats,

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Speaker 1: NBA two K. How do you go from being a

605
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: regular Joe Schmo and NBA two K to the face

606
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: of NBA two K with over a million Instagram with

607
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: over a million Twitter followers, with a Rolodex with every

608
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 1: single all star in the NBA. Find all that and

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00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: more from my man Ronnie two K. Coming up next

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Speaker 1: on the Iron Rapports Stereo Podcast, The I Am Rappaport

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Speaker 1: Land of Disruption. Download the I Am Rappaport app today. Alright, alright, alright,

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Speaker 1: it is time the I M Rapports Stereo podcast with

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Speaker 1: my man Ronnie two K. I don't even know your

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00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: last name. I don't need to know your last name.

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00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: No one needs to know. No one wants to know.

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00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: You've sort of taken on a cult figure, like you

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Speaker 1: have a cult dish, like when I saw you in

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00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: New York at the at the event, Like when you

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00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: walk through the room and there's like gamer people or

624
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 1: even like the ball players, Like it's like the tide

625
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: of the room changes. So my first question is who

626
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Speaker 1: is Ronnie two K? How did you become running to

627
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: two K? When did you like, like, what do you

628
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: do with two K? That's his first question. I'll try

629
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Speaker 1: to figure that out. Um. I have been in two

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Speaker 1: K for over ten years. It is such a great

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Speaker 1: company in the work for so much fun and you know,

632
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: as the NBA has grown, and our video game has

633
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: just skyrocketed. You know, Like when I first started, we

634
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: were selling right around million units. A couple of months ago,

635
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: we announced that we had hit ten million for two

636
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: K teen and I mean like cumulative, like based on

637
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 1: multiple years of selling our game, we're one of the

638
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: biggest game video games on the planet. And that's pretty

639
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: amazing considering a sports annualized game. And we continue to

640
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: grow every single year. A lot of a lot of

641
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 1: games that are sports like they kind of flatlined because

642
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 1: how are you to sell somebody on a news story,

643
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: um and try to get them to purchase the year

644
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: over here. And we've just kind of done a remarkable

645
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: job on that. Our our development team pushes the envelope.

646
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: They see all of these things that are impressive, and

647
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: they want to continue to push as far as I go,

648
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: you know, Like I started, before I worked at two K,

649
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: I was just a huge fan of the game. Like

650
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 1: I was like, just like you could just say, anybody

651
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: else like I two K five, I was in the

652
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: top ten and the leaderboards, Like that was how I started.

653
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: I got hired to be a forum person. This is

654
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: back before so to you and I were just talking

655
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: about Twitter. Two thousand eight was when I seven was

656
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: the beginning of Twitter, right, so, like there was no

657
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: social media. Really he still needed a Facebook, uh college

658
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: idea to be a Facebook, to be on Facebook. Um,

659
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: So as social media grew, we saw a kind of

660
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: a need to develop that the NBA has done such

661
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: a tremendous job in social media, so we've needed to

662
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: do a tremendous job. So I kind of um oversaw

663
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: that department and what we're doing on social and digital marketing,

664
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: and then this role kind of just happened, you know,

665
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: Like I was the age of a lot of these

666
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: basketball players coming up. I related with them on so

667
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: many levels. Cars, girls, clothes, you know, like, and I

668
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: think it just kind of naturally happened. There was a

669
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 1: kind of a breakthrough moment when we had Michael Jordans

670
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: on our cover for NBA two k eleven. All of

671
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: a sudden we had celebrities at our party, and it

672
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: was like, WHOA, what is going on? And then when

673
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: he was did he bring in the celebrities? Yeah? I

674
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: mean having a guy of that magnitude, he is the goat, right, Um,

675
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: he everybody just had to come to the event. All

676
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden had celebs and everybody's like, we need

677
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: to get content. What is content? Right? Like back then,

678
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's trying to get content, and so they

679
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: they like, here, Ronnie, take a microphone, go interview these guys.

680
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: You're probably closest with them. And from there it's just

681
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: every single year we've had more, we've vested more and

682
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: more in culture, which has allowed me to be a

683
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: big part of that and and kind of pushed the

684
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: envelope culturally as well. Okay, was that a good? Was

685
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: that good? Now? Now? So what would you say? I mean,

686
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 1: you do a bunch of things like now in two

687
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Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen, the the twenty game just came out

688
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: two K nineteen. So for your ten years at the company,

689
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: if you had to say what you do now? What

690
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: do you do now at two K? Like, I mean,

691
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: I know it's a hard answer because you don't just

692
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Speaker 1: do like, oh I do this, Like what what is

693
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: your what is your role at two K? There are

694
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: a million things now, that's a really fair question. There

695
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: are a million things that I'm I'm hard of working

696
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: with our great marketing team. But I would say that

697
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: I'm most responsible for working with influencers and being an

698
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: influencer myself. So and that world, right, Like being at

699
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: those events with those guys, getting them to think about

700
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: two k by thinking about working with me. That's such

701
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Like having these influencers talk

702
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: about our product to get bigger and better influencers. That's

703
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: sort of what I'm kind of masterminding right now. Okay.

704
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: And then when you say influencers, who else are influenced

705
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: besides like Lebron James and like certain NBA players are

706
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: obviously these they're they're stars, But that's beyond an influencer

707
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: their stars. Who are who are some other influences? You're

708
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: an influencer, I'm an influence. But you understand the reason

709
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: I actually point out you is because in the basketball world,

710
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: the people that are talking basketball that when you think

711
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: of basketball, you immediately kind of mentally go towards them,

712
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: you know, like we have we scanned Travis Scott, Cuebo

713
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: and Litl Yadi. Why do we scan those guys? It

714
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: was because they had such like Quavo I'm sorry, One

715
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: Savage and Little Yatti bet on a game of two

716
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: k uh. They bet like eighteen thousand dollars and one

717
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: of them lost one game of two K a team right,

718
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: playing against each other, playing against each other? Um who won?

719
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: I believe twenty one Savage one because it was a

720
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: huge article about it. Then you know like Drake and

721
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: Murder Beats right, Murder beats Uh produces all of these guys,

722
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: Why do we work with him? They made nice for

723
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: what that the number one song of the summer playing

724
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: two K of those huge articles Like that's actually how

725
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: they curated that that song. Um, that's what we think

726
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: of as an influencer? Where and then who are who

727
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: are some other lesser known but big influences besides like

728
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: again these guys are stars, like you know, like this

729
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: person and that person, like this person on Twitter and

730
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: that person? Like who are like who are some of

731
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: these other people? Like if you say your top three

732
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: people that are not stars, but they are influencers that

733
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: have like a voice specifically in two K. Yeah, we

734
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: have some great YouTubers and even those guys have kind

735
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: of grown, Like when we when we first started doing

736
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: a guy like Chris Move, Chris London. Now they're NBA influencers,

737
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: but they started at two K. Um you know, they

738
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: had a tend a hundred thousand followers. Now they have

739
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: over four and a half million, both of them, and

740
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable they've had that. They all they did was

741
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: play my career and narrate it with some personality, and

742
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: people kids started watching it. You know, Like Chris Move

743
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: visited us right around the time that you were in

744
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: the office last and I took him to in and

745
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: Out and both of us were getting swarmed. And this kid,

746
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: did you ever, I didn't even want to be on YouTube, Like,

747
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: he didn't want his face on YouTube. He just wanted

748
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: his voice on YouTube. And now he's he like when

749
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: he's playing a game. Yeah, that's so he's narrating his career.

750
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: He never put his face on there. The only reason

751
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: he ever put his face on there is because I

752
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: believe his PlayStation wanted him to do a gig with

753
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: James Harden, Like they were like all the people in

754
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: the world that we could put in there, we're gonna

755
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: have you and James Harden playing. That's putting him on

756
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: that same platform just kind of it's kind of amazing.

757
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: We're trying to do that the same this whole influencer

758
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: thing where we scan guys like you, also guys like Yaudi,

759
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: but then Chris Move and these different sets of the industry. Um,

760
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: it's because we feel like somebody is going to relate

761
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: with each of those buckets. And influencers love talking about themselves,

762
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: so for them to get the opportunity to talk about

763
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: themselves in two kids great for us. You did you

764
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: did you ever imagine, like you say, you like, like

765
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: that you'd become a celebrity from this, like in your

766
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: in your wild dreams, like when you're like just into

767
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: the game and like ten years ago and now, like

768
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: I say, like you know, when I was at this

769
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: party and like you know, Instagram, like you know that,

770
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 1: did you ever think that this? I mean, with social media,

771
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: it's like everybody could sort of have some sort of celebrity.

772
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: But did you ever like think like this is what

773
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: it was going to turn out to be? No chance,

774
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: no chance at all. Um. But you know, like as

775
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: I you know, invested myself in NBA events, went to

776
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: a lot of basketball games, went to UM kind of

777
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: these events with a lot of NBA players, and they

778
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: started designating me UM. It sort of was natural. I

779
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: definitely didn't see it, but I definitely did see the

780
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: growth of our brand because I always saw a quality,

781
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: quality game that was so innovative in in a way

782
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: that other games weren't. To be the face of it

783
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: is such a blessing. But at the same time, just

784
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: all the all the work that's gone into that kind

785
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: of that like growth, it's just tremendous, and I think,

786
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, like it's cool that people associate me with it.

787
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: The very next day at that event, all of a sudden,

788
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, I have this Instagram video of me walking

789
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: into our events and people lose like there was this

790
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: line to get in and it didn't matter what you were,

791
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: the first person, line of person line. All of a sudden,

792
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: that line just deconstructive and they just kind of converged

793
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: on me. It was really mind blowing to a lot

794
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: of the people in our office. But I am recognized

795
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: like multiple times a day, and I never, in my

796
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: wildest dreams thought that would happen. Are you a nerd? Like? Like,

797
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: because like now you're like the people that work at

798
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: the game are like stereotypically nerds, but now like you're

799
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: like Rannie two case, so you're like the cool yep, no,

800
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: So that's well, you were up there at Nevado and

801
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: working with the guys that put the work at at

802
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 1: Motion Capture, and they're so smart, but they are so

803
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: nerdy as well. It's it's totally nerded out, but the

804
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: technology is amazing, and like it allows us to do

805
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: such crazy stuff. I'm an extrovert introvert, I can totally

806
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: turn it on. Like, look, I go clubbing with these guys,

807
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: all these NBA players and celebrities and stuff, and I'm

808
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: I'm this one character. But I really like sitting at

809
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: home and doing nothing as well and just playing two K.

810
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: So like I'm able to be both. I think that

811
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: the funny thing about the position that I'm in is

812
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: it it's a very weird skill set. You gotta like

813
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: be in control. You're gonna be passionate, but not overly

814
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: passionate to the point where you're gonna spout off and

815
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: say something dumb. I mean, when I have that platform

816
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: and I am the face of two K, there are

817
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: so many things I could do that would be bad

818
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: that I've just mostly avoided. You know, are you afraid that?

819
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: Like right in this day and age one and there's

820
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: so many things you can do. It's the political climate

821
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: that we live in. I don't touch politics, and it

822
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: looked to be smart. I'm not even interested in politics.

823
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: But but you're better off that. But there are so

824
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: many people that could have my exact same skill set

825
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: but then also be passionate about politics. And that guy's gone.

826
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 1: That guy would not have lasted, you know. So it

827
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: takes a very very unique set of skills. Um, and

828
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: it also takes a heck of a lot of work.

829
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: Like I'm always on the road, I'm always trying to

830
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: figure out ways to sift us into other conversations, Like,

831
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,399
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The biggest thing about our product is

832
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: there's only so many basketball fans in America right, Like

833
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: we are going to reach that cap. That's inevitable. But

834
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: international growth is huge. So you know, I was in Greece.

835
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 1: Uh we introduced you honest in Greece in his hometown

836
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: this year. It was that wasn't an accident. It was

837
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: because we're trying to develop a market there. And then

838
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: a lot of my focus now is in fashion, hip

839
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: music culture. Um, I'm trying to extend beyond the we

840
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: this year we talked about greater than fifty is of

841
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: course the dimensions of a basketball corps. That was kind

842
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: of the lens that we try to put everything in

843
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: this year, um and it was about working with fashion

844
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: guys and scanning them in. We have this very cool

845
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: thing coming up. I can't talk about it very much

846
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: right now. Come on, talk about with a fashion guy

847
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: that's going to introduce, um some shoes that are going

848
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: to be the rage of December, and he's gonna do

849
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: it digitally through our game for the first time, so

850
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: that the shoes will be in the game. Fashion with

851
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: like the the the NBA, it's like a runway show.

852
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: Like guys like show up to the game knowing they're

853
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: gonna get photographed. You know, they have competitions within themselves

854
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: against themselves, who's the craziest dresser, who's the best dresser,

855
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: who's the weirdest dresser, whatever the hell is going in

856
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: the role working on their personal brands. Right, and tattoos,

857
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: So when did two fold question, when did tattoos have

858
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: to seriously be taken seriously? In two K like, dudes

859
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: take their tattoos seriously. You showed they want the tattoos detailed,

860
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: And when did you like this have to like become

861
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: like part of the game. I have a funny story

862
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: about that. There are so many players that show up

863
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 1: to get scanned, so we do it. We we take

864
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: that scan rag, the thing that you walked in with

865
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: all the l our cameras. We take that on the road.

866
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: We're getting second year guys, guys that we haven't we've missed,

867
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: and then mostly the rookies because and we also do

868
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: it at Summer League and some places where the rookies are. Um.

869
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: But there's so many times where are a guy will

870
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: get scanned and the next day be like text me

871
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: or DM me and say, hey man, I got scanned yesterday,

872
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: but I just got a new tattoo or I just

873
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 1: got a new haircut, and I'm like, I lose my mind.

874
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: Like we just like spend so much time investing in

875
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: your look and you just changed And he's like, well,

876
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: I changed it because I wanted it to be in

877
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: two K. That's what they're thinking about, you know, like

878
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: they're getting tattoos to time it with with being in there,

879
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to stand out. You know. We have

880
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: the neighborhood feature, which is our open world thing, and

881
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:35,959
Speaker 1: it's become so much not about basketball, Like now there's

882
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, we have dodgeball and all these events, but

883
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: the bigger thing is what people wear and what people

884
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: look like. It's about standing out in that mode. I

885
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: mean our tagline is they will know your name, and

886
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: that could not be more true. Everybody wants to like

887
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: define themselves and look kind of crazy and that's what

888
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: separates and that's what the AMBA players are doing. That's

889
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: where they're getting it from. Do they do they get

890
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 1: to have say like, Yo, I want to be wearing

891
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: this sound I want to be wearing that, and like

892
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: if they're wearing a Supreme shirt, do you have to clear?

893
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: Like what is the sort of process? Uh? In terms

894
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: of their say what they have say? And then like two,

895
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 1: k going to like like what is the clearance process? Well,

896
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: obviously have to clear music and all that stuff. But

897
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: with sneakers and you know, designers shirts, is that a

898
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: whole thing too? We have clearances. There was we have

899
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 1: to um make sure that everything is a basketball shoe.

900
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: So like previously, you know, we had we wanted to

901
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: put easiest in the game. There is no easy basketball shoot.

902
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: I think there will be based on Kanye's little teasing

903
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: a few weeks, but we can't put easies on the court.

904
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: We you know, we can put them in like neighborhood

905
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: cut type experiences, Sam with clothes, you know, we do

906
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: physical drops. You know, I just signed Don c as

907
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: one of the influencers, will probably put his clothes in

908
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: the game in the in the coming months. But we

909
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: also want that phenomenon of limited runs. Right, so this weekend,

910
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: for example, we're releasing short shorts and like, this is

911
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: the only weekend you can get them when what do

912
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: you mean in the game. In the game, if you

913
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: missed this weekend, you'r s ol like you're you're not

914
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get them. And we do these

915
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: drops all the time with the designers. We have some

916
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: things planned, um where it's a limited run. It's just like, look,

917
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: if I go on Saturday, is the Sneakers app, it's

918
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: got the newest off whites, Right, if you miss them,

919
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: you're out of luck. And we're trying to kind of

920
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: be authentic and got that demand. But it's digital, which

921
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: is kind of silly as well, like we could make

922
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: a million digital items. We want that urgency. We want

923
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 1: people to literally think that they have to be in

924
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: our game all the time. And they literally is it true?

925
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: Like if they don't get the whatever drops no more,

926
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: that's it, that's gone. Who what players are the most

927
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,919
Speaker 1: uh particular about Ronny? You gotta put this, you gotta

928
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: put that game? Like like what what are the guys

929
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: that you've dealt with that are like really caring about.

930
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a bunch of what would be your

931
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: top five? Last year I had over two hundred people

932
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: like think about, think about what other brand could do this?

933
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: We had two NBA players put out their rating by

934
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 1: asking for So the mechanism we do it is I

935
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: I do a call out, Hey NBA player, if you

936
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: want your rating, come d m me. I'll give you

937
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: a screenshot with your rating. Last year we had two

938
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: players do that. That's damn near half the league. It's incredible.

939
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: There's no other brand that could kind of facilitate that thing.

940
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: And then all of those guys, as soon as I

941
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: send them to the screen, they're like, Oh, I just

942
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 1: got this new tattoo, I just got this new hair.

943
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: When I say, it's literally everyone they really really care,

944
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: you know. I was. I had DeAndre ad In the

945
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: number one uh NBA draft pick this past summer on

946
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: my stream on Thursday night and he was like, honestly, uh,

947
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: being in two K is just as big as being

948
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: in the league that he he said that on the broadcast,

949
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: which is so authentic, but at the same time like,

950
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 1: are you crazy? Like it's part of the dream almost,

951
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 1: it's it's if you grow up dreaming nbah, it's one

952
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: A and one B, That's what it is. And then

953
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: I thought about it a little bit more and I'm like,

954
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,399
Speaker 1: I realized, I'm like the kids about to turn twenty.

955
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: This is our twentie anniversary. He doesn't know anything better, right,

956
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: So it's it's wild like some of these stories that

957
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: we hear. Now, now your phone out of the twenty

958
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: All stars, do you have all these people's numbers on

959
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: your phone? I have at least eighteen of them at lee.

960
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: Who are the other four? You can get it? Can

961
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: you get in touch with them like that? Some of

962
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: the oldest? Oh yeah, for sure. You should see who's

963
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: texting me in the last week. And it's not just

964
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,439
Speaker 1: NBA players, it's also the who's who of Hollywood and

965
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:38,439
Speaker 1: and hip hop. Like today, for sure, today I've had

966
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: Travis Scott called me, Cuebo call me, who else. I mean,

967
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: I had Katie called me like four times. What do

968
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: Katie want? He's a friend, He's a friend of the

969
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: Iron Wrap, that's my guy. He wanted VC, he didn't

970
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: for some reason, his shipment didn't show up his postal shipment,

971
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: so like he wanted codes and then he wanted his

972
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: head in the neighborhood. It's like, it's really pretty wild.

973
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: So okay, just today, I've been texted by Caleb from

974
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: Stranger Things, Boy, Wanda, Quevo, uh, Little Yatti, Harrison Barnes,

975
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: DeAndre Aiden, Shiggy Show, Chris Berkeley, Travis Scott, Ryan Hollins,

976
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: Paul George. This is just today. You know, fuck Adrian,

977
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: which Will Daikowski Like you could seriously like start like

978
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: a whole like trading you knee hurts. You know, I

979
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: had a lot of insight into the Kyrie situation last year.

980
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: I knew things that she wouldn't believe. I mean again,

981
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: a lot of this whole thing only operates because you know,

982
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: they trust me and stuff like that. But um it,

983
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: it is pretty wild, like some of the stories and

984
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: some of the things, and sometimes you hear things in

985
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: the meeting and you're just like that is complete BS.

986
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:59,919
Speaker 1: I know it's BS, but um yeah, you know they're

987
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: there's very few people that have this cross section of

988
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: context and I'm super lucky that that I have that.

989
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: But it's also been you know, come out of friendships

990
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: and nurturing the relationship and and doing all of that. Um,

991
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,959
Speaker 1: the player ratings, this is something that like Twitter all

992
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: the time, Instagram, How does the player ratings? How do

993
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: they get attributed that the right word? How do they

994
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: get distributed? How do they get figured out? Okay, so

995
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: I don't do that, which is the biggest thing, Like

996
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: I don't actually work on the ratings at all. I

997
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: I can definitely offer some advice to the guys that do,

998
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: and I like usually what happens as an NBA player

999
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: will build up a case and be like, look, I

1000
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: had this free throw percentage. I just dealt with this

1001
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: with Andre Drummond. He's like, my free throw percentage went

1002
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: up a ton last year, and it did. He was right,

1003
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: And he's like, I think my writings should be better

1004
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: in that attribute, which would make my writing better overall.

1005
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: And he was right. So you know we did, we

1006
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: did some tweaking. UM, But day to day, I mean

1007
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: there's four hun We dynamically change it every single day,

1008
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: so it's a massive, massive task. But when it comes out,

1009
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: like when when they announced it, like all summer it's

1010
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: been this one, that one, Lebron's, Russell Westbrook, you know, Kuzma,

1011
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: you know I there was a few people that were like,

1012
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, what, how does it is? It all stat driven?

1013
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: Is there? So there's there's about I think it's like

1014
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: thirty one mini attributes, and it's both tangible and non

1015
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: tangible things, but they're all based on reality, right, So

1016
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: there's like mental i Q. There's mental I mean, I

1017
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: think it's a lot over the reputation and some of

1018
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: that time it's not fluffy. But at the same time,

1019
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: like what are you doing i Q wise on the

1020
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: core um, I was about to shut it something I'm

1021
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: not gonna do right off the on the court and

1022
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: off let's just say Game one of the NBA Finals,

1023
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: somebody's i Q rating at the end of that game

1024
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: was was not great and j R. Smith did his

1025
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: did his thing go down dramatically? I'm sure it did

1026
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: that day Like that was just a gaff And I

1027
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: love j R. I know, I know him really well. Actually,

1028
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: he texted me yesterday about pro am. Um, he's such

1029
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: a great guy and like that was just one of

1030
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: those things. I'm totally I actually get where he was

1031
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 1: coming from. But on TV, Man, that looked bad. I

1032
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: mean that took on a life of its own at

1033
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: that game. I was at that game. You have Gold States, No,

1034
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: I don't, and I should. If anybody from Golden States listening,

1035
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: they should give you this. But you have hookups, doll. No,

1036
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,920
Speaker 1: I mean I have season tickets so I love basketball.

1037
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: I actually buy my own season tickets. I know. It's

1038
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: very hard to believe. For gold State court game, you're

1039
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: not on the court. No, I thought I saw you

1040
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: on the court. You well, yeah, that one that one day.

1041
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: I do a lot of stuff for them promotionally, like

1042
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: that night that I saw you. We gotta get you

1043
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: on the court. We gotta fix that. But I was

1044
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: doing something for Make a Wish the night that I

1045
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 1: saw Yeah. Um, so they I mean their staff is

1046
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: world class, like their organizations world class, which is why

1047
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: they're doing so well. All right, No, but let's work

1048
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: on that though. If you can help me out with it, man, Yeah,

1049
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 1: I just want to come to a game or two

1050
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: maybe three, um so, but the player ratings who else

1051
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: was like, yo, well you saw Kuzma's reaction. You brought

1052
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: that up right he oh, he looked upset and he

1053
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 1: was really upset. You know what's funny? Um Blake Griffin wrote, like,

1054
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: when I gave him his rating, he just sent me

1055
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: a d M question mark and then he went out

1056
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: on Twitter and he said dot dot dot and he

1057
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 1: put out the rating since then, And this is what

1058
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: people don't see that, but I see it every like

1059
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: people fans post pictures of him versus Jason Tatum. Jason

1060
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: Tatum has been the icon, the poster boy of wrong rating.

1061
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 1: Like everybody's after Jason Taitum. His rating is an eighty seven,

1062
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 1: and everybody's like the second guys are tough because all

1063
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: three of the rookie the rookie dear candidates Simmons, Mitchell,

1064
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: and and Tatum got an eighty seven. And so all

1065
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: the veterans are like, what the heck, We've been doing

1066
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 1: this for years, you know, you gotta put us at

1067
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: that level. And then all the young guys are like, wow,

1068
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: that happened really fast, right, So that Tatums and especially

1069
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: controversial because his season's tests. I think he averaged thirteen

1070
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: point eight or something like that. His numbers were not

1071
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: that great, but he had a heck of the playoffs

1072
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: and he he had the ascent you know, late in

1073
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: the in the season, he got more minutes and that's

1074
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: why his rating so high. But every picture that there

1075
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 1: was a lot of them, Blake Griffin versus Jason Tatum,

1076
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin's in eighty six, Jason tatums an a seven.

1077
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: I think Blake average twenty one point six or something

1078
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: like that. He liked every picture that was like, why

1079
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: does KUZBA have a better rating? And I'm like, dude,

1080
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: you're Blake Griffin, why do you care so much? But

1081
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: they do. It's like it's another badge of honor. I

1082
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: really think that some of these guys equated to like

1083
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: an All NBA team or no. I I know that

1084
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: sounds wild. And what they legitimately do they seriously case,

1085
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: seriously care and to a level that's probably completely unhealthy.

1086
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 1: But you know, and the funniest thing is, you know

1087
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: what you want a better rating. It's dynamic, go ball up.

1088
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 1: So so as season goes, it changes. The first day

1089
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: of the season, if somebody has a huge game. I mean,

1090
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:04,439
Speaker 1: we don't change it that fast. We want a little

1091
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: bit of a sample size, but like it changes very

1092
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: rapidly and often it's dynamic. It's it can change every day.

1093
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,959
Speaker 1: Who's the top top five players rated now as of now? Yeah,

1094
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: it's h Lebron's number one, Katie's number two. Uh, I

1095
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: think it goes Hardened number three, and then it's Westbrook

1096
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: and who's the last one? Stuff is six and Jeff

1097
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:38,439
Speaker 1: is five. I feel like I'm forgetting someone oh kuai. Yeah,

1098
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: that one was tough because because obviously we don't know

1099
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: what we're gonna get with him, and we don't. I mean,

1100
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: is he gonna be happy? Is he going to be healthy?

1101
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: Like we have no idea, but happy healthy Handy the

1102
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 1: happy healthy. Yeah, we're gonna have all three h is

1103
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: for him to have a monster year. But I mean,

1104
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: the guy is super talented and let's hope. You know,

1105
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: he's very clearly wants to be in a certain city

1106
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: and we're happening in the Sidnet. So yeah, all right, um,

1107
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 1: let me these are questions that I got from the fans.

1108
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: Um some of them we we answered what what what

1109
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: athletes got the most mad at his player rating this year.

1110
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: Just over your time at two K, whether you dealt

1111
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 1: with them or not, like what athlete you know. It

1112
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: was like really like it was like memorable, how upset

1113
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: and frustrated they were well last year, um, John Wall,

1114
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,439
Speaker 1: and this is just this story never ends, like so

1115
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: I gave him his rating. Okay, So me and John

1116
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: were buddies, like we like we'd see each other parties

1117
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 1: all the time, to each other up. We were good friends,

1118
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 1: like and uh, I sent him his rating last summer.

1119
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: He was I believe an eighty nine. I believe he

1120
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 1: was an eighty nine, which is a great rating, Like

1121
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: I think they were uh eleven nineties last year. So

1122
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: that puts him in the top four. Sure, and that's

1123
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: a right, right, Like yeah, you don't I don't know

1124
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: if you put John Wall's top ten. He's close. No,

1125
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: he's close, but he's I don't, I don't know if

1126
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: you put him in the very top ten. So anyway,

1127
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: he was so upset and he tweeted, you know you

1128
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: a joke, like he just tweeted that and he got

1129
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: picked up by everybody. And then there was another chapter

1130
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 1: that involved a porn star. I won't get into that

1131
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: um and then he like, so I had courtside My

1132
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: only courtside experience at a Warriors game last year, of course,

1133
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 1: was against the Wizards. I'm sitting there, he knew the

1134
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: guys literally sitting next to me, came and dabbed him

1135
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: up and pretended I wasn't even there, and he's blocked

1136
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: me on Twitter Twitter, and like literally I didn't do

1137
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: anything besides besides give him his writing. What's his rating now?

1138
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: I think he's right around the same writing. He's an

1139
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: eight eight something like that. You gotta step it up.

1140
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 1: I mean, John Wall's dope. But like the Wizards, you know,

1141
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: they got out there. I mean, it's a part of

1142
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: it's about the team. Look, they're all comparing each other.

1143
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: The problem is the ratings thing they can they don't

1144
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: handle it right. The issue is they all compare their

1145
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: number to another person's number, and they always compare it

1146
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 1: to the most contentious person. So last year, the most

1147
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: contentious person was Carl Anthony Towns. He had a ninety one.

1148
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: So John Walls, like, am I really worse than Karl

1149
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns? But then Kyrie was a nine too, So like,

1150
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's a bunch of statistics and you just

1151
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: gotta take it. Ready. We're not puffing it at all.

1152
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: You know, just because you're gonna be mad doesn't mean

1153
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: that we're going to change it. It is what it is,

1154
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: and some people just handle it better than others. What

1155
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: are some of the most uh crazy, possibly scary stories

1156
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: you've heard from obsessed fans, not not players, like fans

1157
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: like like were or were you were, just like, yo,

1158
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: this guy deserves a free game. They love the game. UM.

1159
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: So we had a kid, Uh we have this my tomode.

1160
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're aware of it. And there's this um

1161
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: the ultra rare card is called a pink diamond and

1162
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: one of these kids like was on Twitch and I

1163
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: kind of just surprised him and showed up in the

1164
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: Twitch stream and he's like, you know, tomorrow, I'm thinking

1165
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: about proposing my girlfriend all this stuff. And I was like, um,

1166
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you should. You know you're a

1167
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: big two K fan. I always watch your streams. You

1168
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: should you should record that. You know what the kid did,

1169
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: He took the girl up to a mountain, opened up

1170
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 1: this ring and it was a pink diamond card. I

1171
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, Why is this girl saying

1172
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 1: yes to you? That's a terrible thing to take, taking

1173
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 1: it too far your obsession. And he recorded this whole thing.

1174
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: It's it's on on YouTube and I think it's got

1175
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,759
Speaker 1: like a few hundred thousand views. Our fans are crazy

1176
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: in such a good way, but like sometimes like the

1177
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: passion for this game, you know, it's just taking to

1178
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: another level. What is the thing that they complain about

1179
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 1: the most that you have no say, no doing about

1180
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 1: what I don't have nothing to do with development at all,

1181
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: you know, Like I'm My job at two K began

1182
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: and still is to be the biggest fan of the

1183
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 1: game at two K, which also includes, you know, getting

1184
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: feedback from the fans issues that we have and relaying

1185
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: into the team and thinking about how we can be

1186
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: better next year or even that year. Um. But you know,

1187
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: we there was a few years ago, as our game

1188
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: grew faster than I think any of us fathomed, we

1189
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 1: had online issues. It was years ago. We've completely rebuilt

1190
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 1: that system, but for a few years it was a

1191
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: trouble spot because we had grown so tremendously fast. Um,

1192
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,719
Speaker 1: And you know I always got there was a hashtag

1193
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,439
Speaker 1: blame Ronnie like that was literally a hashtag and uh

1194
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 1: but I have nothing to do with any of the

1195
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: development stuff. I'm obviously a contributor and the develop development team,

1196
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: and I have such a great can you throw under

1197
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: the bus at your like, is there another person like

1198
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: two K Jack or two K Frank or two K

1199
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:07,480
Speaker 1: Mike or two K outfit them? Okay? All right? Um

1200
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: how long does it take? We're in two K nineteen

1201
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: now how deep into two K twenty, which will be

1202
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 1: the twenty first game, are you now, like? How far

1203
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 1: in advance we've already started working on it? Like most

1204
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:23,719
Speaker 1: games bare minimum, even annualized titles take fourteen fifteen months

1205
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 1: to develop because and especially at the pace that we

1206
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: go and are again are I know, I keep complimenting them,

1207
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: but our development team in the summer literally and you

1208
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: saw some of this twenty hours a day, seven days

1209
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: a week. They sleep at the office, they are grinding

1210
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: all summer long. But they're working now on twenty already.

1211
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, all of this art design, it doesn't just

1212
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:46,640
Speaker 1: miraculously happen. It's definitely put in, you know, designed in

1213
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: the brains of some exceptional people. And that takes time. Um,

1214
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: so it's already begun. Obviously we're still you know, making

1215
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: tweaks and fixing nineteen on the fly as well, but

1216
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: we're already you know, thinking about twenty. We have some

1217
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 1: very very aggressive plans, especially with our career mode. Um

1218
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: give me something, Ronning, give me, give me one one

1219
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: of these plans and send send free Fall. I think

1220
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: we had I think we learned a lot from this year,

1221
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: you know, like the neighborhood. Last year was a um

1222
01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 1: the open world, the first time we did in an

1223
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: open world, right, and all these guys are living in

1224
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: a town together, And this year we added a lot

1225
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: more elements that were outside of basketball. I think next

1226
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: year you'll see like even more kind of integration into

1227
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 1: the story stuff, which you are such a big part

1228
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: of it as as um one of the actors. I

1229
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: just think that that's going to live together a little

1230
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: bit bigger and better. But again it's so early that

1231
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 1: specifically it's very tough to talk about, but just conceptually,

1232
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: I think you're just gonna see a lot more connection there.

1233
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:50,679
Speaker 1: And and then at what point, like do you start

1234
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:53,640
Speaker 1: deciding deciding covers, Like obviously, Lebron this year is a

1235
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 1: no brainer. You know, like, actually, let's talk about that

1236
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: for a second, Lebron. I'm mean, look, we could you

1237
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: could put them on the cover every year for the

1238
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: last point eighteen years, sixteen years, I'm sorry, every year

1239
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 1: we could have put them on the cover. What a like,

1240
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: what a masterful stroke to do it this year? I

1241
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: mean the guy, when did it get decided? It was

1242
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 1: a plof no, no, no, no no. We have to

1243
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: kind of think about that stuff, like even before the

1244
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: All Star Game, which is tough for us because look,

1245
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 1: there's a lot of production stuff that goes into making

1246
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:29,519
Speaker 1: a cover and getting it at retail and all that stuff.

1247
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 1: There's a lot of planning that It's video games is

1248
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,959
Speaker 1: a very very very big business, you know, like the revenue,

1249
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: it's it's wild how much money is involved that our partners, partnerships,

1250
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: everything that's involved in it, the pr of it. Um.

1251
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of very four people that work

1252
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: for us. Even though I'm the face and I get

1253
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: all the praise and and the complaints, you know, I

1254
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 1: work with some exceptional people. But to to talk about

1255
01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:59,839
Speaker 1: Lebron specifically, like how I mean, shut up and dribble

1256
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:02,719
Speaker 1: all the stuff, all the stuff that he's been involved

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01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:06,840
Speaker 1: in the production, you know things, and it's I mean,

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: there could not have been a better year in the

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01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: last ten years of Lebron's career than this year to

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 1: put him on the cover. Yeah, I agree. I agree

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01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:16,600
Speaker 1: with the shut up in drivel, with the playoffs, with

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01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: the school and then the trade. It's crazy like like

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01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 1: that would be the third thing because there's been so

1264
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: much Lebron and and and it's been all positive and

1265
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: so impressive. Did you did you notice how back in

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01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,639
Speaker 1: February when we started working on this cover that somehow

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01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: he still didn't have a jersey. Uh well, you guys

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01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,640
Speaker 1: were sort of planning, of course we were. Now we

1269
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: made that mistake last year. I don't know. I've had

1270
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: one tweet get over a hundred thousand retweets and it

1271
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: was one word. It was it was whoops. Last year,

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01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 1: when you know, Kyrie got traded to the Celtics, I

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01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: just put the cover out and I said whoops because

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01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: it was too late. I mean it was a eleven

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01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: days before our game. There's no change trade. No, you

1276
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 1: can't do that. We did change it, like we did

1277
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: change it a few weeks into this in the game.

1278
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: Uh well, no at physical retail, which is like the

1279
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,639
Speaker 1: next pressing or whatever. Yeah, so that the next print

1280
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 1: went went to retail and Kyrie was in a Celtics jersey,

1281
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: but the first covers he was in the Calves jersey

1282
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: because it was eleven days before our game came out.

1283
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: There's there's going to be a religious experience in Los

1284
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:27,599
Speaker 1: Angeles the first time Lebron James takes the court in

1285
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 1: his Los Angeles Lakers jersey, in his uniform, like I

1286
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: imagine Laker friends, It's going to be literally like a

1287
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 1: religious experience. It's gonna be like something you never see.

1288
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm not a Lakers hater. I like I like the Lakers.

1289
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 1: I love Magic Um, and I like a lot of

1290
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 1: these players on this team. So it's not like one

1291
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: of my teams that I rant about. Can he be

1292
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 1: embraced on the level of a Magic or Kobe just

1293
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: because he didn't start there. I'm going to tell you something,

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01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: he might not be embraced the the history of it,

1295
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: my years in Los Angeles and being around celebrities, and

1296
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,759
Speaker 1: being around hype and Star Wars release and this movie

1297
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: release and Leonardo and the Titanic I've never seen and

1298
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: social media adds a whole other layer to it. The

1299
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: way that the NBA has handled their social media. It's

1300
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:22,839
Speaker 1: just and but there's I've never seen such a frenzy

1301
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: about a star, whether it's an actor, whether it's you know, Madonna,

1302
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:30,680
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, Prince, like just call him a star in

1303
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: my years of Los Angeles. So I think listen being embraced,

1304
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 1: it wins that title. They don't care where, but I

1305
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: when he comes out in that jersey, it's gonna be

1306
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: people Laker fans or we're in that Staples Center. Like

1307
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: the last thing that was like that was like Kobe

1308
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: his final game. So when he comes out now there

1309
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: is a tweet picture of you standing next to him

1310
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 1: where they're getting the photograph and you saw him in

1311
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: his Laker jersey. That wasn't just him in the Leger jersey.

1312
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: That was him in the Lakers jersey for the first

1313
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: time ever was at our shoot. Crazy is that? So

1314
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: you saw that just for you, Like you've seen him

1315
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: in video games, you're a fan. When you see him

1316
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 1: in the Lakes, it's so weird. It's so weird. You're

1317
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: one of the first people ever to see him in

1318
01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 1: the Lakers jersey so weird. Did he what did he

1319
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 1: say when he put it on? Did he say that?

1320
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:23,719
Speaker 1: Because I mean I'm sure he maybe had warn't behind

1321
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: closed doors, but maybe not. I have no idea, like

1322
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that much time to just be like

1323
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,920
Speaker 1: jerseys and stuff. I mean it was pretty impressive, Like,

1324
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is larger than life as it is.

1325
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: But then obviously, um, having seen him in that purple

1326
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: and gold, I mean, it's it's it was remarkable. That's

1327
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,599
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. I gotta be honest with you. It almost

1328
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 1: looked fake. Well in that soture, he looks like a

1329
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 1: wax but he kind of is built that way, like

1330
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: he looks like larger than life. He looked like a

1331
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: wax figure. Yes, but I mean the lighting in that

1332
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: in that area is amazing and that like that yellow

1333
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: like it's a I don't know it just he looks.

1334
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: He looks great in that jersey. So I think I

1335
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:07,000
Speaker 1: think that he will get embraced. Let me ask you.

1336
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: I know this is you're supposed to be interviewing me,

1337
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 1: but I got a question for you. If he wins

1338
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: a championship on a third team, where do you stand

1339
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 1: on the on the goat conversation, I mean, or is

1340
01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 1: he already there he's If he's not, it's never gonna

1341
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: be resolved, you know, Michael with his the six for

1342
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 1: six the time he played, you know, for me, like

1343
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: I'm as much as I is, I you have to

1344
01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: have that conversation for me personally, like I wasn't. I

1345
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: can't remember who it was. I think it might have

1346
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: been Michael Jordan's, it might have been Charles Barkley. It

1347
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: was in the nineties when I heard an athlete say, well,

1348
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: you know this is my team or you know it's

1349
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: my team, and I was like, growing up, you never

1350
01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: you say there's no there's no there's no I in team, right,

1351
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember like hearing that, like hearing

1352
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 1: a player referred to as my team, you know, it's

1353
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 1: my team now, or maybe Barkley was saying, you know

1354
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:08,679
Speaker 1: it's his team now, and I was like, as a kid,

1355
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: it's against everything that you're taught in team sports. So

1356
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: now it's a lot in Cleveland, a lot. I mean,

1357
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 1: he's done, but even before him, I'll play Lebron for

1358
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 1: a lot of things, you know what I mean, I'll

1359
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 1: get on but like you know, so for me when

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01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: you talk about the teams were like obviously you say

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01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:30,439
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's the goat whatever, but like it's like the

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01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 1: rules are different, the times different. Whether he's the goat

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01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 1: or the second goal or he's something. He's some he's

1364
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: some sort of goat. He might be not the number

1365
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 1: one goat, he might, but he's definitely like a goat

1366
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: at the front of the goat cage, you know, if

1367
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:50,799
Speaker 1: there's goats the thing like he's. I mean, like his

1368
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 1: his playoffs last year was so nuts and that team

1369
01:18:56,040 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: was pretty bad. The Lakers are better than them them now,

1370
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: So I don't know what people are talking about. I

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01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: going to the West. They're making the playoffs. I think

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01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 1: they're going to be I think it would be a

1373
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: four or five scene. I don't care what seed they are,

1374
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They're going to the Western Conference final.

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01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: That's my prediction. Well, I mean, it's just how how

1376
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: the tournament lines up. If they get a four or

1377
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 1: five seed, they're facing the Warriors in the second round

1378
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna be in trouble. Body what you're saying.

1379
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:24,839
Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to be formidable, but just general basketball,

1380
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: because you know so much about it, obviously, Lakers, Golden State. Um,

1381
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: if we have to say right now, based on what

1382
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 1: we know, what are your four teams from the West.

1383
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,879
Speaker 1: If you're making a pick, just on everybody's healthy, everybody

1384
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,240
Speaker 1: makes you it's easy. What are your four Western teams?

1385
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: I think, no doubt it's Warriors, Houston, and Okay, see,

1386
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 1: the fourth team becomes a little tricky, and I guess

1387
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,360
Speaker 1: then you have to take l A. I mean right

1388
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: around that pack, but a little bit outside of it.

1389
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:59,960
Speaker 1: Definitely Utah. Um, something's wrong with Minnesota. I don't know

1390
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,599
Speaker 1: what it is. Something's wrong with them. Um, that's probably

1391
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: about it, am I forgetting anyone? And then in the East,

1392
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: what are your predictions based I honestly think the Celtics

1393
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,200
Speaker 1: run away with it. I really do think it's gonna

1394
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: be close Philly like so, I think they're still going

1395
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: to have some problems, Like they're still gonna have some

1396
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: problems with outside shooting. Like I know Reddick is key

1397
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:27,559
Speaker 1: to that team. They've just got a lot of guys

1398
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 1: that like our ball dominant and inside. So I don't know.

1399
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of Ben Simmons game. You know,

1400
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: I hope he develops a shot because he could be

1401
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: one of the best players in NBA history. I really

1402
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: do that guy gives me so much grief about his rating.

1403
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Like literally every last year he was like,

1404
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: I'm not playing your game anymore. I'm gonna go play

1405
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: Call of Duty. I'm like over a rating, like again,

1406
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 1: like just go fix it. Um, but he's in eight seven.

1407
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:57,800
Speaker 1: He every time he texts me, he says, hey, this

1408
01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 1: is MR. Every time he texts me. I ran into

1409
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: him at a club a few months ago. He's like,

1410
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: literally he could have been talking about anything, but he's

1411
01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: like Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson Ben Simmons. I was like,

1412
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 1: what are you What are you ranting about? I don't

1413
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? He's like most most triple

1414
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 1: doubles as a rookie. And I was like, this is

1415
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: what you want to talk to me about at a club,

1416
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: Like seriously, there's all these hot women around and that

1417
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:24,439
Speaker 1: that's what you want to talk to me. Okay, all right,

1418
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: ryany tu k uh you have accultage status. Um, we're

1419
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: gonna work I say, were like I have any say

1420
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna work on getting the court side season takes

1421
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: gold Stay Warriors. I'll be visiting you for for that

1422
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: for sure, especially if I pushed it over the top. Um,

1423
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the show. I'm proud to

1424
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 1: be in the game. I love the game. I mean

1425
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to still figure out like how they like,

1426
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you had a humongous role, Like I mean

1427
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 1: that that is a big role. I mean, have you

1428
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 1: what has the sentiment been about your specific like they

1429
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, people they they're I mean people love it,

1430
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: you know what some people like you know, there's the

1431
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,799
Speaker 1: thing about Twitter. It's like you know, but in general,

1432
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 1: like you know, in my world, like people trip out

1433
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: off of it. You know, I played a role, right,

1434
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: you know. So I but I think next year, like

1435
01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: I think I have to play myself. Well, okay, I

1436
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:17,879
Speaker 1: gotta ask you a question. You're a massive Hollywood success.

1437
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: But how was the production of career? Because like it

1438
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: was great? So like it was weird. I do scenes

1439
01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: every I do scenes every year this year, So like,

1440
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: what do you think of your own acting? How would

1441
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: you rate your sock? What would you do with your

1442
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 1: your acting rating? So, by the way, I've actually done

1443
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: some shows. So I was at a many things like now, actually,

1444
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 1: we should probably talk about this. I'm an approach for

1445
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: like TV things, so like I did a little thing

1446
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:49,800
Speaker 1: for Ballers on a small little cameo there. I'm in

1447
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: a movie that I cannot talk about. I wish I

1448
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: could visit some like one of them. Anyway, I'm not

1449
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:57,720
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it. You already did it? Did you

1450
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,120
Speaker 1: sign a non disc hoping I'm hoping to do it.

1451
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it after. But but I have, you know,

1452
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: things coming up there? Yeah, as a nerd, Yeah, who

1453
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: would have Who would have thought? But anyway, when I

1454
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 1: did my scene this year, I walked out of the

1455
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: scene like I nailed the scene first take, nailed it

1456
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: except the problem No I did. They were like, wow,

1457
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:21,600
Speaker 1: that was because the problem was I had to do

1458
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:24,320
Speaker 1: it eight times afterwards, because I did so well the

1459
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: first time and then screwed up every other time after.

1460
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: But the first time I perfect right except on my

1461
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: way out, I walked through the elevator the way through it,

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01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:37,360
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, how do you do that? It's it's invisible,

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01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 1: Like you're supposed to stop, push the elevator button, then

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01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: walk out. You remember that? Um? But I it's it's

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01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:48,760
Speaker 1: all an imaginary set that I've never done a C

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Speaker 1: G I movie, Like what you know, I know they've

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01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 1: done like all sorts of movies where and and that

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01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 1: was I mean, it's all imagining. You should take my

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01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: out takes. I told you, like if I know, you've

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01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:01,360
Speaker 1: got a lot of things, but the outtakes like they

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01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: should because I was like, what the funk is going on? You? Like,

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01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: you know you're eating You're eating a hot dog and

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01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 1: you're drinking a beer. I go, well where They're like, no,

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01:24:09,080 --> 01:24:11,479
Speaker 1: you just got a gesture. And it took me so

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01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: like at one point I thought Ashton Kutcher was gonna come.

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01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: I was like, this is I'm being punched. Like I

1477
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: kept saying like what is going on? Like this is

1478
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: like what is this? You know what? I meancause I

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01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 1: had never done it and I had like a day

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01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: to do all my stuff, and I was like what

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01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: is this? Like they gave me a box which was

1482
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:29,000
Speaker 1: supposed to represent a cell phone, and they're like you're

1483
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: holding it backwards. So I'm like, how the hell am

1484
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 1: I supposed to? It's hard to get used to. I mean,

1485
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,879
Speaker 1: the cool thing about it is that you could do anything.

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01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: But but I mean the people up there and the

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01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: whole thing was cool. But like I kept saying, like where,

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01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: like where's like Johnny Knoxville or like you're on You're

1489
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 1: on these million dollar production sets. Yeah, and this thing

1490
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: is built out of like it looks like a joke.

1491
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 1: Like it looks like a joke. It does, but that's

1492
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: how they shoot like Planet of the Ages and stuff

1493
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: that's in the game. That's that's all you need. Yeah,

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01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I mean it was it was cool,

1495
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: but it just definitely takes a said all these huge

1496
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 1: actors and they're Anthony Mackie and Aldris Hodge and Ginger

1497
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 1: Goodzog and obviously you and uh I always I'm so

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01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 1: like amazed, Like you guys are so used to it

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01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: one way, and we're trying to get you to do

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01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: this c G. I think that's built on basically nothing, nothing,

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01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: and and somehow it feels like a joke and then

1502
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: they plug you in you're doing the end of it. Yeah,

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01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:33,479
Speaker 1: and you're like it's it's crazy. So it was cool,

1504
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: but I definitely you're gonna have to do it again.

1505
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: I'll do it. Maybe I do it with the broom

1506
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:40,720
Speaker 1: this year. I come into broom and you know, and

1507
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:43,719
Speaker 1: I go up there and arrast Cleveland fans. All right, Ronnie,

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01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 1: two K. I appreciate you joining the Iron Rapport Stereo

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01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:49,559
Speaker 1: podcast and uh, you know, keep doing your think yeah

1510
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: YouTube man continued success. Thank you. All right. I want

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01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 1: to thank my guy Ronnie for maybe a two k

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01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,680
Speaker 1: for all the inside all the information. Ben Simmons, my man,

1513
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:07,120
Speaker 1: you played one season. Okay, you're the rookie of the year.

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01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: Stop complaining about your player rating. I am Rapports Stereo podcast,

1515
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: the best in the business. Mr New York is back

1516
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 1: in New York. I want to hear what you guys

1517
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: think of a typical if you're listening to this uh

1518
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: today when we dropped it September eleven, and I don't

1519
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: even need to uh say what that day means to

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01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: this country, to the world, to New York. UM spend

1521
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: a moment pondering that and hoping, wishing, praying that something

1522
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 1: like that never happens again anywhere in the world. Uh

1523
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: the way uh Manhattan was attacked uh seventeen years ago. Um,

1524
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: and that's it. I am rapp Por Stereo podcast. Thank you, Ronnie.

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01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: I am wrapping poor You know where to find us,

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01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 1: Miles Jordan. Take us out of here with a banger

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Speaker 1: with a smack or something real nice. Mount can't love me?

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Speaker 1: Canp what do can't love you? What can imple? What

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Speaker 1: do can't to cove you