WEBVTT - Greatest March Madness Moments with Josiah Johnson 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.680 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.200 Welcome to another episode of the Greatest. It's March, so 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.560 we're thinking in March madness. Today we're talking March madness. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.560 I'm joined here by my co host, my wife, Megganey. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.720 What a sad phrase? What my co host, my co host, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.920 my wife, my wife, my co host. You wanted dad 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.720 order dint um No? I didn't necessarily um And we 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.280 picked our guests today because he's our only friend who 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.640 is a former college basketball star. That's like the one 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.599 thing that's like one of one billion things about I know. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.400 But but that gives him. We could have had any 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.879 old Joe Schmo come in here and say, oh yeah, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.519 I'm true TV. I watched this now. This man's been 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.320 on Trip TV. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Josiah Johnson. Thank 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.320 you guys so much for the glowing introduction. I wouldn't 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.800 really say star I was. I was there a star 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.880 of NBA Twitter. You are the top, you are at 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.280 the Apex. I feel like, yeah, I'm just trying to 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.680 obviously just get my name out there, stay stay relevant, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.280 talk about things. I like, you're getting your name out there, man, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.679 I know You're like, I'm just trying to just like everyone, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:22.679 every name, everything, and I kind of cracked the algorithm 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.880 of Twitter. I'm sure I'm trying to figure out Instagram. Now. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.520 That's the one thing that really is like it's tormenting me. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.000 I have because is there a way to monetize Twitter anymore? 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.400 I mean, you know they're they're definitely direct and indirect 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.120 way as I kind of operate them both. You know, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.560 It's one way that I feel like someone's got to 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.399 do is you could just I mean you do the 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.800 work of like nineteen little kids who run these social 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.280 media departments on Twitter, and I often let them know 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.560 that they're not doing Ship like that. I'm just saying, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.640 I pick up the pace, Guys, how am I getting 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.520 this off? You literally got a family, two kids, Like 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.840 if they can see where I'm tweeting from, where they're 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.840 tweeting from, Like they go into these nice offices like 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.200 nice free just feel with Ship. I'm at the crib 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.000 going barbecueing one handed, like just you know, staying on 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.280 top of stuff. I've seen people ask you recently how 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:11.160 you pick like the gifts me and you're respond you 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.520 were just like, my brain is just good. I look, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.280 I watched a lot of television growing up, so a 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.000 lot of my references are kind of from that like 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.680 early nineties two thousand's range, so which, you know, it's 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.679 tough because a lot of kids nowadays, like SpongeBob and 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.680 all that type of really just over my head. But 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.320 I just kind of missed that boat, like that was 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.519 my little Brothers kind of generation. So I'm becoming obsolete, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:30.799 but I'm trying to get in with the young kids. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.200 I was just trying to stay stay on top of 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.640 what's going on. You stay obsolete, but like, and maybe 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.560 that's because I pay attention to so much, but now 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.560 I think you were the first person started bringing back 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.040 like come to America scenes as as memes, and then 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.000 I'm now seeing other people pulling from that movie. Janice 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.640 obviously Nike. He has a whole campaign for sure based 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.400 off that movie, like he needs to break some bread 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.000 because yeah, I mean, look, I think at the end 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.880 of the day, like we grew up with all those movies, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.079 Like I literally went to the elementary school with John Land. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.160 It's a daughter who directed the movie. So I just 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.360 had always had an affinity for Eddie Murphy movie stuff. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.079 Like that. I was in the John Singleton phase when 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.679 he passed away, was going ahead with the John Singleton names. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.000 It's just kind of whatever I think, like when people 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.440 looking at it's always kind of a deeper meaning to 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.919 the stuff I'm doing. Sometimes it's just like this is topical, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.560 let me get it out. Other times it's like, Okay, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.679 there's there's actually a method to this madness. One out 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.799 of five you do, I go, oh, he's wrong for that, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.880 But I want to do like you really you've got 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.200 the pulse. You gave the one of one of my 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.440 favorites recently was you gave a warning like I'm about 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.519 to drop the most out of pocket one tomorrow and 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.640 it was the Crusoe. Yeah. If people who know, no, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.520 it's just a it's it's been able. You've been able 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.680 to use it like four times in the last few months, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.520 and it's hilarious. I think. The thing I always tell 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:40.800 people and this is this is a trick of the 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.000 trailer I'll give you guys on Twitter, especially if people 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.160 like relate and resonate with a good video, then find 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.200 other ways to repurpose when we use it, because you 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.480 already know that it's a hitter, so just whatever topical trending, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.280 Like I had that Chris Browne in my mind and 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:53.800 think about you. Obviously, you know you work in House 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.920 of Highlights Bleach Report. I know there's a level that 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.760 you guys can't cross. There's a threshold that that's somewhere 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.880 up somewhere like now you can't post that ship Like yeah, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.440 so that's the level I try to go to because 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.520 I know I can operate alone here. But that's why 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.360 I was like when I went over there, They're like, yeah, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.240 we're gonna do stuff like this, like you know, post 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.360 memes with captions, and I was like, literally, teenagers can 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.680 do this, so I don't want to be responsible for that, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.560 thus creating like new me or like you know, uh, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.359 shooting my own stuff and stuff like that. But the 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.200 fact that, you know, I get embarrassed sometimes when like 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.240 companies i've worked with can't beat one guy who I know, well, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.320 I operate under a different system, then I do it. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.880 I obviously I to love and just for fun and 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.400 I love the community, but also I know, like I 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.479 don't have to get my stuff approved by anybody, So 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.320 there'll be times I'll come in Lebron or whoever, maybe 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.560 he's my favorite player. Obviously haven't, but it's like, Damn, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:41.840 I got this funny joke in my head. I can't 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.839 really let it die. I got a tested let me see. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:45.640 Sometimes I've been over the line. I've had to delete 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.000 those tweets. Definitely had people hit me up like, yeah, God, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.960 like this is this is too much. It's like there's 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.520 like five to eight people that I listened to who 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.520 are like too much. Like generally I'll go to my 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.280 boot first. She's like, you know, she's like, roll with it. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.280 I'll put it up. But sometimes be like, yeah, you can't. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.240 You can't get that. Megan does the same thing for me. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:01.800 I showed her a stand up clip last night. She 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.679 was just not that funny. No, that's not what I said. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.440 I did not say not that funny. I was like, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.520 I don't like the beginning, you know, like unfortunately a 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.800 stand up clip you have, it has to come out 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.840 of the gate funny immediately. If there's any riff raff any, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.839 just sort of like people are not so I was 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.720 just trying to give you the God's honest truth. We 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.720 do it with my outfits. I'll be like, I like 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.960 I'm gonna wear this on television and he's like, I 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.360 don't like that, and it's like, okay, well it works. God, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.240 that's why you guys were together. I'll hear getting it. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.440 This is where marriage is. But you gotta be honest 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:35.960 with each other because if you go out and the 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:37.720 dress is a hitting and you get roasted for it, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.640 who's the first person you're pointing the finger out? And 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.480 that's why I say. I was like, the comments, they 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.320 can't you give them targets, Like it's just we we 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.360 know now what the we can almost predict with all 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.720 the comments are going to help each other in the game. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.080 So like you literally know, like with people like if 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:52.719 I do this, I'm gonna get at least eight of 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.960 these comments. Like I know, like if I posted video 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.480 shooting on the Warriors, I'm gonna get at least like 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.280 eight fat shaming because I don't really care because I'm 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.320 sexy and I don't really you know, I love my body. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.520 But it's definitely like you know it's coming when a comment, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.320 I'm not prepared for it. That's what I'm like, who 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.000 you got me? Sometimes it'll I mean, a man made 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.680 fun of my knees, Like I was like, I'm prepared 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.640 to be like fat ugly dumb bitch, but he just 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.360 wrote dem knees though, And I was like, tanna hurt 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.880 me so bad? I do have fucked up knock me. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.080 That was a compliment, It wasn't. I mean the thing 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.080 his years at least are vague. Like I was doing 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.680 that Twitter show with Omar and all my comments were 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.880 like I'm gonna murder the dude in the blue hat 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.600 and it's like that who has nothing to say about 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.719 my takes the type of I mean, when someone can 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.400 respond to like a live show like that. At the NFL, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.600 they were just sending me eagles. You know these are 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.159 crazy people. Yeah, it's I mean, the thing is like 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.880 when you really break them down there like little kids 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.359 sometimes and that's a whole ship. And then when you 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.120 really call him out and check them. Because I've had 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.479 to happen a few times where I've had to dig 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.920 deep and be like all, I know this person lived, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.360 just in case they really want to give Then it 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.400 kind of quickly changed like I was just kidding whatever. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.159 It's like nowadays, like this cloud thing that they're on, right, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.800 they want these cloud coins, so they got to go 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.840 out there and really try and insult you. Like I 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.480 remember seeing it on YouTube back in the day, and 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.520 I thought that was bad. Like nowadays, it's like ship 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.760 that wish cancer in your whole family. It's like, you're like, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.920 but the video of guy's fans of a podcast that 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.560 I'm a host of will come after. I had to 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.120 like delete a comment last week because I started fighting 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.320 with somebody who is a fan. But they just didn't 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.440 like something, not even the I said. But I didn't 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.960 like how they were coming after this girl until and 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.800 then I went after It's like, what am I doing? 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.440 I make money? This is crazy. This is the job 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.320 guys for some of us. So that's why we can't 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.320 really funk what y'all like we want to. Well that's 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.440 the thing. It's like these kids were like that sucks 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.000 is unfunny, but it's like, oh, it's unfunny, or like 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.200 you can think that, but I have you know, you 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.320 have had a short comedy Central and the head writer 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.000 for all most of y'all who sports like original series 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.200 in the past couple of years. Like, great, you can 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.520 say that, but my checks are coming in every two weeks. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.000 I mean, look, I know sometimes I put up ship 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.800 that's whacked. That's a part of being funny. Like you 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.960 were saying, you show Megan the video may not be 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.840 you know, she's gonna be honest with you. Sometimes it 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.480 doesn't hit, but I learned from all that's a part 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.080 of the process. Like look at lebron he makes one 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.400 out every two shots gets you literally the Hall of Fame. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.880 You go fifty for fifty or fifty's you know, comedy 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:17.240 is kind of in that level. You got to maybe 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:18.560 be a little bit better, but you're gonna have some 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.800 ship that you may think it's funny that nobody else did. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.080 I don't really give a funk. I just do it 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.360 kind of for me. I mean honestly, like there's a 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.880 lot of these players people like them because the highlight mixes. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.840 You know, we can't like chop up our stand up 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.000 sets or our scripts to take off the parts that 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.040 we don't know hit every time, you know what I mean. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.720 But yeah, you and also to I wanted to mention 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.760 that to get this podcast, we actually recorded the first 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:47.240 pilot with you. Thanks. Someday we'll just will release it 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.120 to the highest bidder. Yeah, I feel like like the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:58.240 first Dad in Full House, Like yeah, the black vin 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.480 but it's got to come back. I don't know, and 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.480 she's honestly, I kind of saw it with her now 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:09.400 because there's been some bitter turmoil for years and surrounding that. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.040 I've heard about that for sure. Um what was it? 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.080 What was the topic? Greatest comeback? Greatest comeback? And we 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.840 haven't been like we guys, do another one. And it's 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.280 like that one was so good. You had really really 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.480 funny picks. Yeah, yeah, you're probably the coolest person I know. Oh, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.480 thank you very much. So I something about a rap influencer, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.959 but do you know, I do know one rap influencer 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.800 who's have you ever heard of Fake Shore Drive. It's 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.120 like a Chicago rap blog. His name is Andy Barber's 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.800 very He's like he's like the Chances guys, Kanye guy, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.319 and he's just a white boy from Anderson, Indiana that 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.360 is a family friend. He's kind of like a You 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.320 and Wob but for hip hop okay legend. So he'll 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.439 like bring back like videos and drop like the craziest 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.480 fact or like yeah, he'll pull up some performances that 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.320 you just forgot about. That that's the thing as we 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.040 get older, that's think I really love in life because 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.840 we've seen so many beautiful moments in our life, but 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.880 you don'thinitely forget that ship and yeah wait that was legendary. Oh, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.079 especially I feel like in sports. Yeah, I mean that's 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.720 kind of what the topic. I mean, that's kind of 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.960 like the point of this whole show. But then especially 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.560 the topic that we chose today, we wanted to have 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.280 you on. You played for U C l A two thousand, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.560 two thousand five, so played in the tournament Sweet sixteen twice. Yeah, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:29.040 we were there getting it. Yeah, do you guys get 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.560 goodie back liked? Because for bowl games? You know, I 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.319 did lots of football players in college and they would 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.880 come back with out back bowl slippers exactly. And like 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.400 I remember there were PlayStations with like the guy code 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.520 sticker on them. Do you do they do that for 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.840 March Madness? We get broken off like that? Like, So 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.640 the thing about March Madness is, so you have your 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.840 conference tournament, which when I was there, I want to say, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.880 I don't know if we when the tournament come back, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.560 but it was right around the point when I was there. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.360 So you get a tournament to get for that. And 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.760 I was like, DVD player or something like that, something 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.599 that you could generally either use it for nest a 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.440 couple of hundred bucks just to be transparent, and then 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.600 uh and then for the tournament. So you get one 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:08.920 for the opening round and if you go to like 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.280 the sweet sixteen in the final four. Obviously we were 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.200 todd to school at that point. So Adidas like, you know, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.320 you're the hot commodity. You're the one that's getting them, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.120 get them all the airtime and promo, so they would 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.559 give you as much as they could. You get like 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.840 duffle bags full of stuff. Damn well, you flipping your 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.720 sneakers at all. Sometimes there's actually a funny story. So 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.800 I was my freshman year two thousand and oh one, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.240 we had the Adidas. Then we were like one of 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.600 Kobe's main theater school, so we got probably like twenty 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.600 pair of Kobe So I sat on these things literally individually. Yeah, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.360 twenty pair of each. Don't you remember which ones? It 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.640 was a Kobe one. So before the Mottle boots, like 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.199 the year before that, we got moon boots too, but 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:41.880 nobody's really working with them. Ones are kind of moon 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.520 boots too, a little bit. They were they were heavy. Yeah, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.360 but like Audie Design or whatever whatever, like sleek, but 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.120 we got like twenty pair of that years. I just 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.800 literally had them in a garbage back chilling in my 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.080 house and I started to bring him out again. Obviously 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.960 the legend, but like they're all falling apart, like the 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.840 glues all pulling off. They've literally been chilling in garages 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.760 and ship But yeah, so the answer your question, and 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.319 we got lace all the time with like stuff just 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.679 depending obviously, when you do good, you get all that stuff, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.200 and when when not, you know you don't. But yeah, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.440 tournament time, you're getting laced. Okay, well, so take us 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.640 a little bit more background. You when did you start 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.640 playing your your dad was he played for the Bucks? 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.079 He played, he's a professional NBA player. Yeah, he played 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.440 for a number of years, the five time All Star. Yeah, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.600 I got if Jersey retired last year. It was so 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.800 cool when I told my dad that I knew his son, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.640 my dad was like, wow, like it was so cool 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.240 to him. He's got major love in the Midwest from 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.280 like the seventies and eighties, like they weren't getting like 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.559 nationally televised game, so like a lot of people is 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.040 funny cause he's from l A too, But a lot 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.120 of people kind of and other other spots don't don't 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.160 really remember him as much as they should. But you 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.160 go back to the Milwaukee Midwest anywhere out there and 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.000 you say his name is like Woralthy. I mean, if 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.000 you're getting your jersey retired anywhere that Yeah, he was 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.600 a legendary player. And he also played. He played my 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.320 older brother played. You said that they actually both won 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:05.880 national championships there. God damn, I didn't like you know, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.600 you go to u c l A events, it's literally like, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.800 you know, dude, that one like championships all four years 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.480 of college or they're standing on you and like what 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.080 are you supposed to say to them? And then I'm 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.640 just like, you know how many TV shows that you created? 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.920 And then exactly becomes a lot smaller. So that's not 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.440 it's a nice But that's why I like about you 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.560 is that you know you're sort of you're beginning to 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.120 a career in show business. Was you were playing a 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.680 lot on Jersey Chasers, you know, kind of you and 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.240 your buddies roles as the bench warmers on a on 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.160 a national college basketball team. So basically, when we got 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.600 the whole legend of Chamban high shows a result of 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.040 of our experience of U c l A. And when 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.400 I was you know, we would sit on the end 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.640 of bench have these crazy funny as conversation to ship 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.120 during games you're dealing with like you know, sometimes nashally 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.120 televised games of time outs for like three hours long, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.680 so games are like three hours, just like boring a ship, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.280 so you're trying to occupy your time. But from that, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.439 we started the Jersey Chaser blog because we were just like, look, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.079 we want to be the voice of athletes, like a 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.880 lot of people were getting athletes were getting shiped on 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.080 back in those times. So we did a bunch of content, 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.920 funny videos Kobe the Brown Puppet, Parrty and stuff like that. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.000 Ended up getting a TV show in Comedy Central as 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.839 the result of it. So I sa it worked out, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.520 Everything worked out how it was, and that was pre 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.840 NBA Twitter. Yeah. I really feel like the Jersey Chase, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.920 especially a lot of the ship that's that's flying now, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.240 we were doing like ten twelve years ago, like I 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.000 was making me it's not even realizing. I was like, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.720 it would be funny if I just slaped Mr Miyagi 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.720 on this video and had him saying something crazy but 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.920 not realizing like how the game would shift and change. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.080 But I think all of that prepared me for now 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:26.400 and just really how to go out there and get it. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.320 Because we were doing it. It was like we were 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.120 just like three dudes chilling at the crib, like trying 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.080 to entertain each other, like all right, let's voice this 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.040 ship over and drop a video and see how it performed. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.600 But stuff started hitting, and then you know, it's been, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.360 you know, great ever since. Did you, like, I mean, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.360 did you do theater acting or anything like that when 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.120 you were growing out? Yeah. So I'm from l A. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:46.720 Like my dad played for the Clippers. He had a 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.120 lot of money. I got to live in Bettle Air. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.760 So when you watch like Fresh Prince of Battle Air, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.760 that was more or less my life. Our career wasn't 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.680 that that dynamic is there's But I went to school 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.920 that school called US which is right on U. C. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.040 L As campus for elementary school. So I was in 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.720 school with like Jason schwar Its men just like you 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.800 know so, but like we would take like film classes 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.680 together in the summertime, and I gotta find this movie 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.360 we have it on VHS, but he actually wrote this script. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.400 It is probably like a fourth grader that met him. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.160 It was like it's like a lethal weapon like Buddy 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.720 Cop movie that me and him starting. So yeah, I 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.760 was like, I've been taking like film classes all that 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.120 type of stuff. Obviously my dad has been acting as 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.000 a kid. I also went to school with the Debbie 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.400 Allen's kids, so we would go from school to the 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.640 set of Different World, Like that was just like every Friday. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.080 I thinking Thursday's they taped or whatever it was. But 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.080 as like so just being around it and not really 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.560 know what's going on, but these sets are cool. Was 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.120 there a hierarchy of like whose parents were cooler? Like 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.040 athletes were cooler than the actors? I think because when 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.720 my dad would show up this stuff and literally I 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.360 was at us and this is like Jeffrey Kassenberg's kids, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.040 like you can just really rattle off names, but they 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.760 would show up at events and they would be like 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.040 my pops because you know, like they anybody could be 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.520 a good business executive than anybody, but you know, it's 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:59.000 a lot harder to have a forty in vertical and yeah, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.680 just like physically cooler, you know, taller, jacked, so he 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.600 would show up kind of looking sweet, like you know, 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.040 in his old league look, and there's like tons of 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.280 respect that they definitely bowed out. Verton Fleming's daughter was 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.840 my friend and yeah when and he had a twin brother, 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.480 and so they were the Fleming twins would just like 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.840 be around Indianapolis. But like when Verne would come to 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.160 watch his play basketball. Oh A thrill, A thrill you guys. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.400 I had a different childhood. I think my one friend 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.880 who said his dad was Turbo from American Gladiators is true. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.200 I don't know if it's true. He got expelled like 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.960 four weeks later, and so I mean, why would somebody 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.960 Turbo feels like, you know, like I don't. Yeah, I 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.840 guess it's like who would brag about that? But I 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.600 was the one kid who was impressed by it. It 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.040 was a pre internet. There's like no way to prove. Yeah, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.160 do those guys have that listed on their IMDb? Like 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.920 I was Turbo on American Gladiators. Absolutely, American Gladiers was killer. Yeah. Yeah. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.800 I used to watch the reruns on US. Mike Adam 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.160 Lee was the host, one of the two hosts, and 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.480 I've worked with him at w m a Q in 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.960 Chicago and people would come up like this was two 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.720 thousand and seven, like still coming up to him to 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.119 ask him to sign their Mike Adam Lee trading card 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.480 from Gladiators and he was on the Bear like he 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.480