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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Busting Your Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: episode of Busting with the Boys. I am your host

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Speaker 1: Will Compton. My co host Heayoluwan. He is in training

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Speaker 1: camp right now. He just had a preseason game. He's

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Speaker 1: got a job on this week's episode of Busting with

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Speaker 1: the Boys. I sit down with my guys, Blake, Lawrence

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Speaker 1: and Audi Koalik. They are founders. They are entrepreneurs of

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Speaker 1: their company Open Doors, which we're gonna dive into.

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Speaker 2: They talk. We talk all things n I L, which

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Speaker 2: is name image likeness.

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Speaker 1: The reason this is a great episode is because I

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Speaker 1: they're great friends of mine. We banter, we cut back

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Speaker 1: and forth. There are mentors of mine, great friends of mine.

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Speaker 1: Audi Kanalik, he was a kicker. We played on Nebraska together.

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Speaker 1: He played in the league for a short period with

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. And by short period, I mean you know,

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Speaker 1: I think preseason. Uh with Blake, my boy Blake. He

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Speaker 1: played linebacker in Nebraska with me, with myself and Lavonte,

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Speaker 1: and he had to tired because he had too many concussions.

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Speaker 1: That's not funny. That's not funny. That's just a buses

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Speaker 1: balls all the time. About that but this is a

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Speaker 1: great episode. Before we get into the episode, we need

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Speaker 1: to shout out, PBR. They took care of the boys.

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Speaker 2: Hey they did.

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Speaker 1: They not take care of the boys this weekend first

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Speaker 1: class bro, I'm talking hosted the boys. Well, we got

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Speaker 1: to take different, can't. We got to do whatever we wanted.

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Speaker 1: We got to see the bulls. We got to be

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Speaker 1: able close with the bulls. We got to shoot camera

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Speaker 1: angles from the shark cage which is out there in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field.

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Speaker 2: We got to shoot when the bulls are taken off.

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Speaker 1: What do they call that, the shotgun the shotgun cage,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. We got to be here, yeah it

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Speaker 1: sounds that sounds good. We got to be up top

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Speaker 1: the aerial view. But anyway, shout out PBR. Some other

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Speaker 1: house cleaning, not housekeeping, some house cleaning items. New merchandise flags.

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Speaker 1: Get your flags ready to be in the stands, hanging

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Speaker 1: in your dorm rooms, hanging in your.

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Speaker 2: Main caves, your lady caves.

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Speaker 1: Because I know we got some Tier one We got

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Speaker 1: some Tier one chicks to watch the boys, dude, But

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Speaker 1: get your new flags, fly them all around the stadiums nationwide.

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Speaker 1: We also have new Hawaiian shirts that you guys have

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Speaker 1: seen a lot of cool stuff new those new row pads.

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Speaker 2: There's like over one hundred left. Get in there, Get in.

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Speaker 1: The store store dot barstool sports dot com and click

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Speaker 1: on brands. You'll see bus with the Boys. Click there

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Speaker 1: you'll find all of our merch. But continue to buy

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Speaker 1: our merch. Also, this weekend, Saturday, third preseason game the Boys,

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Speaker 1: we're having our only one and only preseason game, our

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Speaker 1: dress rehearsal.

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Speaker 2: We are throwing a tailgate and watch party at Acme

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Speaker 2: Feed and Seed.

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Speaker 1: That is this Saturday, August twenty eighth.

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Speaker 2: The Boys versus the other Boys.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we can Yeah, we can say names. Well,

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Speaker 1: I just know we can't advertise with the logos. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Boys versus the Bears. And so we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: at Acme Feed and Seed. The bus will be parked

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Speaker 1: on Broadway. We will be on the corner First and Broadway.

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Speaker 1: The bus will be on Broadway. So if your listen

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Speaker 1: to this right now, you might not even be going

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Speaker 1: to watch the preseason game, but you might be going

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Speaker 1: out downtown to Nashville on Saturday evening. Saturday night, the

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Speaker 1: bus will be parked on Broadway if you want a

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Speaker 1: photo with it on the outside, not on the inside.

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Speaker 1: But the boys will be there watching the game, having fun,

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Speaker 1: slinging merch, doing some giveaways. I don't know if we're

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Speaker 2: So yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now let's go to the episode bus with the boys,

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Speaker 1: open doors, big cocks, tedy kisses.

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Speaker 3: Like you are the biggest athlete investor that could have

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Speaker 3: even landed. There's nobody better than you.

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Speaker 1: I've truly been trying to invest though since Come on now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to hear you say it.

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Speaker 3: I would say, probably day one, Yeah, hey, let me

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Speaker 3: get in, let me get in.

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Speaker 2: You would never let me.

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't want to take like most of your salary.

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Speaker 3: Well that's probably what it is. Yeah, it probably was.

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Speaker 1: You probably felt bad, like at the beginning, did it

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Speaker 1: always was it always tough, like not allowing.

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Speaker 2: Like close friends and family.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's about not allowing. It's just like

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Speaker 4: the timing has to work out the right way. It's

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Speaker 4: like it's not like as a company, you're not just

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Speaker 4: always taking on money. There's like periods of time when

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Speaker 4: they have to like they have to be a part

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Speaker 4: of You have to find a lead investor, and then

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Speaker 4: it goes through the process. So when someone's like, hey,

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Speaker 4: let me invest, it's like, well, if you if you

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Speaker 4: ask the question at the right time, it might actually

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Speaker 4: happen right right. But if you don't, then it's like, hey,

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Speaker 4: I know you're interested, and we're going to come back

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Speaker 4: to it when it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Got you, So as we get started, because I'm actually

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Speaker 1: gonna have to enter, do you guys, you know, because

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Speaker 1: you know, the superstar athletes where everybody knows who's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Be on the bus.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, Like, I know you guys aren't gonna

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Speaker 1: you guys don't understand right now, but if you click

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Speaker 1: gonna learn a lot in this episode.

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Speaker 2: But we have these are the founders, is it? Are

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Speaker 2: you know?

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Speaker 1: I don't I know you guys have an ego? Are

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Speaker 1: you guys both co founders? Is that what you guys say?

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Speaker 1: The founders of Open Doors Blake Lawrence and Audi Kannowik

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Speaker 1: ADDI you are from Bosnia?

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Speaker 2: Bosnia? Originally? Yes, Blake is from Kansas City, Missouri or

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Speaker 1: That, Kansas. And I played with these dudes in college.

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Speaker 1: So we were all at Nebraska together in two thousand

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Speaker 1: these dudes throughout Nebraska. We've done the GPPs, the workouts,

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Speaker 1: And these dudes are like real ass entrepreneurs. You guys

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Speaker 1: are running pioneering this whole nil market name image likeness

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Speaker 1: in college obviously, people see college for what NCAA. But

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Speaker 1: you guys, you guys do stuff where open Doors is

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Speaker 1: partnered with who, NFL.

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Speaker 3: PA, NFL PA, MLBPA, NBPA, WNBPA, NHL, PJ Tour, LBCA,

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Speaker 3: Team USA. Yeah, the majority of professional sports organizations use

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Speaker 3: open Doors in some way.

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Speaker 1: And you guys, your platform has essentially been built to

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Speaker 1: pioneer this NIL movement that is now happening and throughout

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Speaker 4: Well, and that's something we always say, and Blake's said

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Speaker 4: this time and time again, like NIL is not new

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Speaker 3: So this has been around for a long time.

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Speaker 4: We've been helping athletes, professional athletes monetize their name imaged

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Speaker 4: like foundationally, this is why we built the company. It

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Speaker 2: Yeah, explain what open doors is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So open Doors's most innovative and compliant way that

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Speaker 3: athletes can monetize their name. Imagine likeness. So you see

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Speaker 3: Somebody had to reach out to that athlete, pitch them

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Speaker 3: their taxes, and that whole process is very complicated. Open

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Speaker 3: doors is a software that automates all of that. Right, So,

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Speaker 3: if a brand or fan goes to open doors dot com,

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Speaker 3: with any athlete is as easy as booking a trip

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Speaker 3: on Expedia. Right, Like you just you find the athlete.

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Speaker 3: There's fifty thousand of them in one place. You say, hey,

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Speaker 3: I want to send Will Compton an opportunity to do

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Speaker 3: an appearance for my business. You click Will, You click

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Speaker 3: appearance and say all off from ten dollars, because that'd

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Speaker 2: A lot of my shit's usually free. Like sometimes I

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Speaker 3: is you talk about student athletes starting to get paid,

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Speaker 3: you know, the student athlete. Let's say about pro athlete endorsements.

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Speaker 3: There's about five thousand pro athletes in North America that

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Speaker 3: move the needle with like athlete endorsements, right, and now

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Speaker 3: that NCAA student athletes are able to make money through endorsements, Like,

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Speaker 3: there's now five hundred thousand student athletes in the market.

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Speaker 3: So the market got one hundred times bigger two weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: and so open doors is getting a ton of ton

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Speaker 3: of traffic. Like every student athlete the country is signing

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Speaker 1: But for allow the rules, Right, when did you guys

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Speaker 2: I know? And in the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: In the first couple of weeks, there's more than five

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Speaker 3: thousand endorsement deals been just facilitated through open doors. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 3: five thousand in the first two weeks.

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Speaker 1: And you have so you have forty thousand. You have

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Speaker 1: forty thousand athletes signed up right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, student athletes. And each one of them like they

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Speaker 3: they're just gonna turn like flip the switch and get

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Speaker 3: the deal. So like every as we're sitting here, there's

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Speaker 3: probably one hundred new student athletes that are getting their

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Speaker 3: first deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. That's I mean, what's what's it look

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Speaker 2: like if as.

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Speaker 1: People continue to sign up, like say you had say

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Speaker 1: every how many student athletes are there?

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Speaker 3: There's five or thousand student athletes. So if every student

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Speaker 3: athlete in the country made an average of uh, let's

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Speaker 3: say two hundred dollars a month, okay, that would be

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Speaker 3: one hundred million dollars a month in endorsements, right, that

496
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Speaker 3: is going to flow into this market, and somebody has

497
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Speaker 3: to manage it, you know, somebody has to make sure

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Speaker 3: that that dude is getting paid for that thing, and

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Speaker 3: it's not a recruiting inducement, is not a pay for

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Speaker 3: play scheme, like he's not getting paid by his coach, right,

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Speaker 3: So like unlike the professional athlete market, like this is

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Speaker 3: super regulated, you know. And then again in the ninety

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Speaker 3: percent of student athletes won't have an agent, but one

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Speaker 3: of them will have an app, right, and that's us,

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Speaker 3: Like we are the tool that they're using to monetize

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Speaker 3: their name, image of likeness. And what's wild is like

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Speaker 3: we started the same just to help one athlete, help

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Speaker 3: two athletes, help three athletes, but now we're on a

509
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Speaker 3: path here. It was like this should be the standard

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Speaker 3: for every student athlete, every pro athlete, like for the

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Speaker 3: rest of their career to do this, right, wild?

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Speaker 2: That is wild.

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here thinking like you, you were bringing up

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Speaker 1: the agent stuff, like what do you see a lot

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Speaker 1: more agents now getting in this strategy getting in this

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Speaker 1: atmosphere of collegiate sports.

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Speaker 3: The economic model didn't make any sense, right, So you're you're.

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Speaker 1: Essentially saying you can you can, like brands, why sit

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Speaker 1: there and negotiate with an agent when they're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to hold the leverage of a player, when you can

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Speaker 1: just go on this when you can essentially just go

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Speaker 1: on open door saying's like, we don't you guys are

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Speaker 1: the middle man yourself.

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Speaker 3: We don't replace agents, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, if you're a

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Speaker 1: brand wanting to spend like.

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Speaker 3: We we would repair like what an agent would do,

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Speaker 3: or like I just like there's so many of these Okay,

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Speaker 3: the economic model of being an agent. Imagine you're at

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Speaker 3: Nebraska and you're pulling in two hundred dollars a month,

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Speaker 3: Like for you, that's real money, oh, no question, But

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Speaker 3: an agent would what take ten twenty percent of that?

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Speaker 3: So what agent is gonna get out of bed and like, man,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna workout tail off and make ten bucks this month.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're saying like that, that makes sense because it started.

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Speaker 4: We're it all started was like two is eleven. Like

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Speaker 4: I had my short time in Carolina. I remember being

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Speaker 4: in the locker room and back in Nebraska, Blake and

539
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Speaker 4: I were helping athletes get deals, like some of our

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Speaker 4: former teammates, right, and I'm in the Panthers' locker room

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Speaker 4: and I know like my agent cared about me, but

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Speaker 4: it didn't make sense for him to go and find

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Speaker 4: a local Charlotte sponsor who would want to work with me.

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Speaker 4: It just didn't make sense because it was even if

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Speaker 4: it was a three hundred and four hundred dollars deal,

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Speaker 4: I had a small audience. What's he going to make

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Speaker 4: forty bucks on that when you can go spend the

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Speaker 4: same amount of time for starting linebacker and get a

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Speaker 4: fifteen thousand dollars deal. So I can't be mad at

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Speaker 4: the agent. The problem was access, So we're like, hey,

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Speaker 4: let's build a platform that addresses the access problem. Let's

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Speaker 4: let's let like why our only Peyton Manning and the

553
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Speaker 4: Tom Brady is getting all the endorsement dollars. It's not

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Speaker 4: that brands like don't want to work with the niche athletes. Like,

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Speaker 4: for you, you've got a really passionate did you have

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Speaker 4: a one hundred k yet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think we did.

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Speaker 4: Oh shit, norats Mans, You're now that that next year, right,

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Speaker 4: But it's like, you know, it's like, it's not.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't.

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Speaker 4: It didn't feel fair that all the top athletes were

563
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Speaker 4: getting all the deals, and the brands really did want

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Speaker 4: to work even with the one hundred k athletes, actually

565
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Speaker 4: probably even more than that, but they just they had

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Speaker 4: the issue of access. How do I get a hold

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Speaker 4: of them? Do I don't want to negotiate this, like

568
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Speaker 4: because it's not really a big span, but it would

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Speaker 4: be advantageous for the athlete, And so we're like, we

570
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Speaker 4: need to solve that problem. So we started solving that

571
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Speaker 4: problem back in freaking twenty eleven, twenty twelve, And what

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Speaker 4: Blake was saying when the NFLPA called us, They're like,

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Speaker 4: we need this problem solved for all two thousand of

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Speaker 4: our active players. And then here we are ten years

575
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Speaker 4: later and we're trying to solve that problem for five

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Speaker 4: hundred thousand student athletes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah fuck man, yeah she yeah she not even only

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Speaker 1: the five hundred thousand student athletes, and also the ones

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Speaker 1: you still work with, like yeah, all the pro guys too, but.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the cool part too. It's

581
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Speaker 3: like to know that, you know, you can log in anytime,

582
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Speaker 3: like to open to and you just you can see

583
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 3: the deal flow, right, and it's like, Okay, the largest

584
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 3: car company on the planet just send out five hundred

585
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 3: endorsement deals to every Olympic athlete, like every Team USA

586
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Speaker 3: Olympic athlete. You're like, that's cool, right, And then the

587
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Speaker 3: next thing you scroll down, it's like, oh, a food

588
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Speaker 3: truck and Lincoln Nebraska just paid the All American volleyball

589
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Speaker 3: player to be an ambassador for the year. Oh that's cool,

590
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 3: you know, and you just keep scrolling and you get

591
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Speaker 3: to a point where it's like, oh my gosh, like

592
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Speaker 3: that's Alex Morgan getting paid real, real money. Just drop

593
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Speaker 3: a post on Instagram and you know, you build this

594
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Speaker 3: tool with a dream like that, cool things can happen,

595
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Speaker 3: and then eventually you have a team around you and

596
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Speaker 3: you just get to see it kind of come to life.

597
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Speaker 3: It's like its own little thing. Yeah, it's like this bus, dude,

598
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Speaker 3: this bus at one point was a dream of yours,

599
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Speaker 3: you know, and like now you get to show up

600
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Speaker 3: and there's people here operating this thing and you're like,

601
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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, like this is bigger than me.

602
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Speaker 2: This is big.

603
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Speaker 3: It's it's it's a living, breathing thing. Now you just

604
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Speaker 3: got to like kind of guide it, coach, you know.

605
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

606
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's hard.

607
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Speaker 1: Like everybody would want to sponsor probably you know, a

608
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Speaker 1: niche of a team or like a group of a team,

609
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: or a position group or the entire team, but it's

610
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Speaker 1: hard when you got to work with probably you know,

611
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Speaker 1: all those different agents, all those different people, and you

612
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: have no clue of the guys who have like small

613
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: little followings, but they do some damage and it's not

614
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Speaker 1: worth it for that agent to be sticking out their

615
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,959
Speaker 1: neck because like you were saying, your agent would only

616
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Speaker 1: make you know, twenty bucks off of like a four

617
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars deal.

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00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: Well, and think about like the the nuance that exists.

620
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Speaker 4: Like so most of the time, even early on brands,

621
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Speaker 4: it's not about just working with one athlete, they want

622
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Speaker 4: to work with ten athletes, and if they're all represented

623
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Speaker 4: by different agents, that's ten different marketing reps or agents.

624
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so like its just different negotiating.

625
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Speaker 4: Yeah, saw real quick, different contracts. So then it becomes

626
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Speaker 4: a headache. Now you're like, I don't even want to

627
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 4: do this because that's too much. Or let's say nine

628
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 4: athletes were miraculously easy to work with, but the one

629
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Speaker 4: agent is just being like it's tough. And again, it's

630
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Speaker 4: not the agent's fault. They're negotiating on behalf of their athlete,

631
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Speaker 4: and they may they might feel that the athlete is

632
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 4: worse than they should be or vice versa, right, and

633
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 4: it just slows down everything. So then a lot of

634
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Speaker 4: marketers just would just not want to do it because like,

635
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 4: I don't I don't understand athlete marketing. It's it's it's

636
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Speaker 4: too confusing. I don't want to go down the path

637
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Speaker 4: of having to negotiate way too much of this. And

638
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 4: so we're like, okay, we'll create a tool so that

639
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: all these parties can feel informed, they can do it quickly,

640
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 4: and when it's all said and done, it gets executed

641
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 4: and no one and the athlete literally just pulls their

642
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 4: phone out, they click approved, put their phone back in

643
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 4: their pocket.

644
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Speaker 3: Everyone's happy.

645
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

646
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: So to explain what essentially happens, like us at bus

647
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Speaker 1: and we use open doors like we use when we

648
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Speaker 1: get all of our content and gets strapped into open doors.

649
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Speaker 2: I get a text.

650
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Speaker 1: Once the content all the boys get done making the content,

651
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: I get a text on my phone. Your folder's ready

652
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: for all the content we've made from us with the boys.

653
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: I click on that folder. It takes me to or

654
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: folder and it's got all the clips, all the photos,

655
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: anything I might want to post, and I can sit

656
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: there and click on a photo, or I can click

657
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: on a clip and I can hit tweet or Instagram

658
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: and I can make the caption right from there from

659
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: the app and then it goes right out to the platform.

660
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: So that's how it helps us on busting. But how

661
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: it works for like the athletes, how what we're sitting

662
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: here talking about. They get a text and you can

663
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: hit approve. So if Busting with the Boys wanted to

664
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking at Jack. Jack's a student athlete.

665
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: The Bust with the Boys wanted to sponsor Jack throwing

666
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: some merch throwing fifty bucks. We see we would go

667
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: into open doors dot com. We would see based on

668
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: what we want to get accomplished that Jack's are our

669
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: player or a group of players that we find like,

670
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: these are the guys who want to hit because this

671
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: is these are the metrics, is how well they do

672
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: in that city.

673
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: This is the reach we want to have. I click

674
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: on Jack, a couple other guys and send out this

675
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: deal to them.

676
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: It goes through. It filters through your guys of software.

677
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: The only thing that happens for the athlete. They get

678
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: a vibration in their pocket, just like a text message

679
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: they get. A text message comes from a Lincoln, it

680
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: comes from a Nebraska number four h two. You open

681
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: it up and it says open doors has a deal

682
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: for you. Go check it out. You click on the link,

683
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: it takes you. It takes you right to it. It

684
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: shows you the tweet that you're gonna have. It shows

685
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: you the caption that's going with it. It shows you

686
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: the graphic. It shows you everything you hit that it's

687
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: worth fifty dollars and some merchandise. You hit accept or decline.

688
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: If you hit accept, it says thank you, we will

689
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: take care of the rest. It goes out for busting

690
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: with the boys at the time stamp. We picked it

691
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: at the day, we chose the daytime.

692
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 2: All of it. It's seamless for both sides.

693
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: The athlete benefits and gets the money in their bank account,

694
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: and then obviously the merchandise gets shipped to them. If

695
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: they hit the cline, they hit the cline and nothing happens,

696
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: or you can edit it and make the caption your own.

697
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 2: But did I anything.

698
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 4: I'm is there sitting here trying to think of I'm like, damn,

699
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 4: you want a job salesmooth it up?

700
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And every year in Nebraska, where the season starts

701
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: or a spring game happens, they target the alumni to

702
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: do a spring game post. It comes in as it's

703
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: for free, so we're always doing a sell it for

704
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: the boys, shouting the boys, and there's always a graphic

705
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: with like, you know, spring game is fifty one days away.

706
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: And I'll be like, oh, that's a corny caption, so

707
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: I'll edit the caption, hit accept, and then literally the tweet.

708
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: I could be chilling all the daylong and the tweet

709
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: would have been out there and you know, you just

710
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: did they take care of.

711
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 3: It for you, and you know What's Will was like,

712
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 3: I love how you say that. And there's a lot

713
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 3: of people that listen, they watch this show and they

714
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: see you Will, they see Taylor, and like, you are

715
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 3: the one percent of athletes that understand how to properly

716
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 3: market yourself. Like you're active, you're on social media, you're

717
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 3: saying the right things, right place, right time, and the

718
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: majority of athletes aren't natural marketers, you know what I'm saying.

719
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 3: Like that was one of the things that we had

720
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 3: to learn over those last decade too, was like you know,

721
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 3: the old thing like if you build it, they will

722
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 3: come right. Like every startup founder is like, oh, we're

723
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: gonna be billionaires in a day, you know, like you

724
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 3: no doubt this idea.

725
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 2: Let's figure it out. We're rich tomorrow's.

726
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 3: Getting a rocket shift, yeah, you know, And that's not

727
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: how like you got to go through fits and starts

728
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 3: and realize like that these athletes are like, hey, why

729
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 3: aren't these brands like jumping on these athletes? And then

730
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: you would go to the athletes feed and they haven't

731
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 3: like tweeted or posted on Instagram in a month, you know,

732
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: And like imagine you work at ESPN, You're trying to say, hey, man,

733
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 3: this is the best show. You should advertise in the show,

734
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 3: and like, oh, let me watch it. You turn it on,

735
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 3: it's static, Like no one's gonna buy advertising on a

736
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: static TV, right, So what we realized, like we had

737
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 3: to find a way to like help athletes figure it,

738
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: Like you got to market yourself, man, Like you gotta

739
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 3: you gotta photos, videos, content, Like you gotta be pushing

740
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 3: that stuff out all the time, and like that's the

741
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: secret that everyone that's listening here that behind the scenes

742
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 3: of your favorite athlete most likely is this open doors

743
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 3: app that's like hand delivering them photos, videos, content from

744
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 3: their team, their league, they're they're alma mater, so they

745
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 3: can be more active because nobody's going none of these

746
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 3: brands want to work with athletes unless they have something

747
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 3: to say and they're saying it. And like again, most

748
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 3: athletes aren't natural marketers, Like Will Compton is an anomaly,

749
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 3: he's a he's a he's a free wee.

750
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just hit one hundred k followers and.

751
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 3: He's this guy is the most natural marketer.

752
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: Well I remember too, Like you're wanting to make content

753
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: for the athletes. So also, like in my open Doors folder,

754
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: I have all my Washington photos, all my Tennessee photos.

755
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: I did that for you.

756
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: You did all my Oakland Raider photos, all of it,

757
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: all those different folders, and then obviously all the bust

758
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: and assets that we have.

759
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 2: But well it is.

760
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 4: But like I'll just the last thing. I'll add on

761
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 4: on the common because I think it is important. It

762
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 4: is like we we realized that, like not all athletes

763
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 4: are marketers. But consistency is the one thing that you

764
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 4: you can't like. As long as you're sharing something, you're

765
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 4: going to be growing, right, So like the worst thing

766
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 4: you can do is not share anything.

767
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 2: And because you're worried about it, Yeah, about something, you

768
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 2: just post.

769
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 4: Exactly, just post a photo like I like I'm I

770
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 4: would say, I'm like social media introvert. Like I don't

771
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 4: share a lot. I know what my brand is. But like,

772
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 4: once I figured out, like the things that I like

773
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 4: to talk about is I like to champion other people.

774
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 4: I like to champion my teammates. I like to talk

775
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 4: about when other people are winning. I love that shit, right,

776
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 4: If our company is doing something exciting, I love that stuff, right,

777
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 4: And so you just double down on those things, and

778
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 4: like imagine if you had a folder. It was just

779
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 4: you and your teammates. You could literally, like every week

780
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 4: just post that, or go and and and make fun

781
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 4: of one of your teammates, right, or do something right.

782
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 3: That's content.

783
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 4: You're not talking about yourself for those for those athletes

784
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 4: who are again more on the introvert signs, like, dude,

785
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 4: social media is not for me.

786
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 3: It's like gues. It might not be for you, but

787
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 3: your fans they do care about what you're doing, and

788
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: this is the only window of opportunity. Yeah, exactly. You

789
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 3: think about this, like, man, I cannot believe that Will

790
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 3: Coff is still playing in the NFL. You know what

791
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 3: I'm saying That isol day one recruiting trip, I said this, dude, Yeah,

792
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 3: that's this dude. Dude, remember when Callahan got fired. You

793
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 3: were committed before, Like you weren't committed to bo right, yeah,

794
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: correct was committed to Yes, And like then they're like, dude,

795
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 3: there's a beast to keep them.

796
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 2: We got to keep them.

797
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 5: Four star, four star, you know. And I'm like, yeah,

798
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 5: you came in the dorms me and were roominate. We

799
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 5: had that like that super double and then you came

800
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 5: in there. Yeah, that's super double and you're like, dude,

801
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 5: but mister Ai though, like I might go down to missoo.

802
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 5: I'm like, dude, stop o my god, yeah out stop

803
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 5: it the hometown state, you know, like will get that

804
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 5: raspy voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah you do, dude. He's like,

805
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, put them at teeth, Yeah, dude,

806
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 5: they were. They were a classic. You left those in

807
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 5: yeah down there, so we'll pick them teeth up. She's

808
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 5: but you know, like you imagine though you're still doing it.

809
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 3: And like we were. We were playing at the same time. Bro,

810
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 3: we started together and like I haven't been a football

811
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 3: player for twelve years, you know what I'm saying. But

812
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 3: because the concussions, well yeah, I mean I had some

813
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: concussion issues, right, you would have been in the league

814
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 3: a little oh first. Yeah, it was beasting you in practice.

815
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 3: I knows what I'm saying. Like this, guys, how.

816
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 2: Much could you bened one thirty five? How many times I.

817
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 3: Got it like to eleven one time?

818
00:35:59,120 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 2: Dude?

819
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 3: I was so hey, I was so weak.

820
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Blake was like the only dude who had the

821
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: body were like the tight the tight fit shirt like

822
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: looked like a T shirt.

823
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 3: Right, That's what's the what's the strength coach that he's

824
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: at Tampa Bay. Now, uh wait coach wait away coach Wade? Yes, yeah,

825
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 3: waye dope. He he told me every day he say, hey, Lawrence,

826
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: you're skinny fat. I'm like, what is That's brutal, that's

827
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 3: pretty dadbod. Like that's like when dad bod was not

828
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: a thing yet, Like you had a dad bob when

829
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 3: you were like when you're like nineteen, I'm trendy and

830
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: you didn't have children or a wife. I was dad

831
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 3: bottom before dad was actually pretty cool.

832
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

833
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: No, just pounding the gatorade chicks trying to get big.

834
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, we did. Used to pound some Gatoray chicks.

835
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 3: I used to put in my pockets. Uh when you

836
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 3: way in dude, if you were underweight, remember we underweight

837
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 3: to roll.

838
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:48,479
Speaker 2: Yeah.

839
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 4: That's the most brutal about Dobson saying he's like, yeah,

840
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 4: we should have never made you guys do that.

841
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah he does. He does.

842
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: He's like, but you guys are so like he talked

843
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: about how what the culture was like they got there

844
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: and they had to just do some extreme as ship.

845
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

846
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 4: Oh they did it right though. I Mean I gave

847
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: him a lot of compliments and like we needed to

848
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 4: get her ask kick. That's how you get people to

849
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 4: like fall in line and actually do things and commit.

850
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 2: And they met yesterday, did they really?

851
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 4: Man?

852
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

853
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 3: Y and dude he yeah, he liked you guys. Fuck.

854
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 3: I was a projects like this dude. I was like

855
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 3: just so little, but I don't know I did. I

856
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: would go in to get the chocolate milks. I get

857
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 3: him out of the fridge. You know, we had pockets

858
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 3: and shorts. I would go down there like mosey down

859
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 3: and I'd have two chocolate milks in my pockets and

860
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 3: we would weigh in the hawks. And then there was

861
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 3: that closet right there, so I would weigh in and

862
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 3: I'd make weight, and then I would duck into that closet,

863
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: take out the chocolate mousk and just chuck them into

864
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 3: that closet. I did it all summer, and then one

865
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 3: day the trainer was going in there to get like

866
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 3: the pads out, and she came out gagging, you know

867
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Speaker 2: Boys. Back to the episode, Sure we went off on

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Speaker 2: a tangent.

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Speaker 1: What were we h you're talking about? You're talking about

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 3: You're still playing Oh my yeah, building, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about Like there's a small moment in tip

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Speaker 3: You've played over. Man, it's over before you know it.

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Speaker 3: Like so, you know, one day, I'm a starting linebacker

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Speaker 3: in Nebraska. The next day can never play football again,

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Speaker 3: you know, and my career is done in a day.

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Speaker 3: And like from that day to this moment, like I've

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Speaker 3: dedicated my whole professional career. Audio has two to make

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Speaker 3: sure athletes understand this doesn't last forever, Like you have

933
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Speaker 3: you're gone, So get as many as you can, like

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Speaker 3: because you're out of there before you even know it, right,

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Speaker 3: And like if you do that for every athlete on

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Speaker 3: the plan, like then everyone's gonna win, you know. And

943
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Speaker 3: like you've done it. You found a way to trick

944
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Speaker 3: all these NFL teams and as sign and you the

945
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Speaker 3: play and then you get to one hundred k ten

946
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Speaker 3: years later. I mean, like it's a it's a Cinerella story,

947
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Speaker 3: c that is. But you're playing the long game, you know.

948
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Speaker 3: But we got to do that, and I think, I

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Speaker 2: They have to.

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Speaker 3: It's not and it's not like, yeah, like.

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Speaker 1: Audi, how long did you play? Did you only play

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Speaker 1: a year or two years? Audi was a kicker? Audi,

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Speaker 1: the unbelievable kicker. I mean kind of heard us big

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Speaker 1: to change.

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Speaker 2: We won't talk about that.

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Speaker 3: Oh you don't.

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Speaker 2: The Panthers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you transition right away into being a.

961
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Speaker 4: Well we had well, so Blake and I had started

962
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Speaker 4: our first company. It was a social media agency in

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Speaker 4: twenty ten.

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Speaker 3: That yeah, I heard that. Where did you hear that?

965
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Speaker 3: I heard that?

966
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Speaker 2: Facebook? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I don't know why we chose Actually I do know.

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Speaker 4: It's a very That company still exists. Yeah, bro, so

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Speaker 4: we sold the company in twenty fourteen, but it's alive

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Speaker 4: and well right now, Like it has probably like I

971
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Speaker 4: don't know, twenty employees and they carry on. It's kind

972
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Speaker 4: of weird to walk by like and see the office,

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Speaker 4: yes and not knowing start of that company.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you started that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that that So we started that company. And

976
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Speaker 4: I had like a dilemma and I was telling you

977
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Speaker 4: about at this maybe at some point, but like I

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Speaker 4: think as an athlete, the one thing I think every

979
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Speaker 4: athlete is taught their entire life is to not quit, right,

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Speaker 4: So the transition from wanting to be an athlete and

981
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Speaker 4: and like making a decision to do something else is very,

982
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Speaker 4: very difficult because you feel like you're quitting something, and

983
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Speaker 4: then most people are forced into quitting things.

984
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Speaker 3: And I think this is why.

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Speaker 4: Also, like sometimes people just they hang on for too long, right,

986
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Speaker 4: Like if you don't make it in that first year

987
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Speaker 4: in the league, usually it's like, dude, you're probably not

988
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Speaker 4: going to make it, right or if you.

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Speaker 1: Haven't played, like it's like if bomb hanging on to

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Speaker 1: the dream and I don't and I don't get a

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Speaker 1: call for another year and it's still July, and I'm like,

992
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Speaker 1: I gotta be ready.

993
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you're like you're like doing like you know,

994
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Speaker 4: we've had teammates former teammates, but I think a lot

995
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Speaker 4: of athletes go through this where they're like, yeah, man,

996
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 4: I'm just like trying to make a team right now,

997
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Speaker 4: Like I'm staying super busy.

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Speaker 1: I'm like.

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Speaker 4: With what And they're like, well, you know, I'll just

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Speaker 4: get I just got to work out in I'm like,

1001
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Speaker 4: and then what do you do the rest of the day, Like, well, nothing,

1002
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Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, what are you doing?

1003
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Speaker 2: Right?

1004
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 4: Like, it's not it's not coming back. And I think

1005
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 4: that that is a tough part because it's it's the

1006
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Speaker 4: quitting thing, and you're right, right right, and it's a

1007
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 4: psyche thing, right you like, I don't want to quit.

1008
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Speaker 1: And you find those rare examples of it working out,

1009
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Speaker 1: like for the majority, for the most part, ninety percent

1010
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: is done. After that happens exam, you have like a

1011
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: you know, your invincible stories, and that's where guys get that.

1012
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 4: Opportunity because they only cover the success stories, dude. They

1013
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 4: only cover like the guys that that you know hung

1014
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 4: on and they freaking made a team, and it's great.

1015
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 4: I think that should exist in sports. But for the

1016
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Speaker 4: most part, I think when you're hanging on for that

1017
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Speaker 4: long and it's not like moving forward, you are not

1018
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 4: starting to transition into reality of life. Like being in

1019
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 4: the NFL is not a real thing. Like making twenty

1020
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Speaker 4: grand a week whatever it is minimum now, it's like

1021
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Speaker 4: that's not real life, right, So when you start to

1022
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Speaker 4: have a real job and you start realize how much

1023
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Speaker 4: it takes to make forty thousand dollars a year or

1024
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Speaker 4: fifty or sixty, like, you're like what So I'm I'm

1025
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Speaker 4: on the side of like you should start to realize

1026
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 4: that a little bit sooner than trying to hang on

1027
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Speaker 4: to something and whatnot. But that you know, that's kind

1028
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 4: of like beside the point. But like I had this

1029
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 4: dilemma where I got back My last workout trial was

1030
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Speaker 4: with the Buffalo Bills.

1031
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 3: It was in December, and uh going to kick in

1032
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Speaker 3: Buffalo in December?

1033
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was like, I literally I remember I

1034
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 4: called my my my wife now twenty twelve and I

1035
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Speaker 4: called Shannon my my wife and we're dating that and

1036
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Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't even know if I want to

1037
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 4: make this team because I'm like, this place would sucked,

1038
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Speaker 4: you know.

1039
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Speaker 3: It was just like it's just you knowing buffalo and

1040
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 3: I yeah, yeah, so sorry.

1041
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 2: You don't want to get jokes blamed on the table probably.

1042
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.

1043
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 4: Now I'm when I get a bunch of people attacking me,

1044
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 4: but no, like I so, but I remember I came

1045
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 4: back and we had our business going at the time,

1046
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 4: and I had this like moment where I'm like, I'm

1047
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 4: done with these workouts, man, Like I'm done trying to

1048
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 4: make a team. It was becoming more and more difficult

1049
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 4: to try to lead people and a company when you

1050
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 4: had like a side thing when it was like, Okay,

1051
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 4: I'm I'm trying to build a business, but also like

1052
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 4: if I get a call from somebody, then I might

1053
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 4: go and do that. And so me and him had

1054
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 4: the conversation and I was like it was but it

1055
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 4: felt good that like I made the decision to stop, right,

1056
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 4: And I don't know if I would have gotten a

1057
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 4: call again. I'm gonna call my agent and I was like, hey,

1058
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 4: if I get any more inbound calls, just let him know,

1059
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 4: like I'm done, right.

1060
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 3: He's like, well, what about Canada? I'm like, I'm not

1061
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 3: doing Canada, Like it's just not my jam.

1062
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 4: And I'm super thankful looking back that I made that

1063
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 4: transition because one we had something, but two it felt

1064
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 4: more like I was in control of the situation, the

1065
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 4: story and I got to I got to kick in

1066
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Speaker 4: the league. Like it was like, first Bosnian player to

1067
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 4: ever play in the NFL, Like that was. That was

1068
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 4: a proud moment, right, And did.

1069
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 2: You're the first Bosnian player I ever played in the NFL.

1070
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 3: It's like a super fun fact, right, Yeah. Yeah, it's

1071
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 3: a dope thing.

1072
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 4: I mean, how many Bossians are can actually even have

1073
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 4: an opportunity to Ye, if there's ever another BOSSI of

1074
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 4: plays in the league, it will probably be a kicker.

1075
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like, yo, what's up? What's going on? First?

1076
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Speaker 3: So first?

1077
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Speaker 4: But yeah, that was but that was that was a

1078
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 4: kind of a cool thing looking back at it now.

1079
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 4: But like, and I was giving you some credit earlier,

1080
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 4: I think you've had the best. You're like in the

1081
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 4: middle of this transition from athlete to entrepreneur like business

1082
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 4: owner like podcast because it's like it is, you're like

1083
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 4: in it halfway, you're over here, but then you're doing

1084
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 4: things and like you're doing it like the way. Yeah,

1085
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 4: Like you've been investing in your own brand for a

1086
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 4: very long time to be able to do it, and

1087
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 4: it's very clear that you like there's a there is

1088
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 4: effort there, there's skill there, there's obviously like the actual

1089
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 4: like talent that you have there. So I think that's

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00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 4: really cool and it's it's something that other people could

1091
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 4: look at as a playbook and actually try to do

1092
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 4: and replicate themselves.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to get better at accepting compliments and everything,

1095
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: but you know, you guys have I'm having too many,

1096
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: and I'm starting to get like.

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00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 4: You know, a podcast like and it's so funny how

1098
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 4: you give someone a compliment and that you're just waiting

1099
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 4: for the next roast, Like.

1100
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: I know, like we do got to just be.

1101
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: Better, Like Taylor and I are trying to consciously be better,

1102
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: like when we're you know, we had to think yesterday

1103
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: like all right, let's hurry up.

1104
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 2: And stop talking about that. Yeah, yeah, I feel you though.

1105
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: Man, It's like it's always been tough because a lot

1106
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 1: of times guys don't like with all of it, everything

1107
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: we're talking about right number one, it fires me up

1108
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: that you're like, it's gone in a day, Like your

1109
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: window of opportunity is so small. It's like athletes are

1110
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: brands too. That book, you guys know the book, Well

1111
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: read that book in.

1112
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 2: One day, the only time I've ever read a book

1113
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 2: in one day.

1114
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 3: Lots of colors.

1115
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's pop up book.

1116
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: Gives a pop up book, but phenomenal book, and it

1117
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: just breaks down the moment of time that you actually

1118
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: have as an athlete. It's like like, look, you got

1119
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: your unicorse, you got your you got your quarterbacks, you

1120
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: got your ones that they're always gonna make the big money,

1121
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: like the one percent of the one percent of the

1122
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: one percent, but everybody else, Like you got to find

1123
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: your niche. You gotta find your voice, like whether you

1124
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: want to be in it or not, like you're in

1125
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: the game of social media, you know, and yeah, you

1126
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: don't have to care about it. If you want to

1127
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 1: do other stuff, like you know you want to I

1128
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: don't know, but you want to do other stuff, it's fine.

1129
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: Or if you want to think like what am I

1130
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: trying to say here, Like if you're not about it,

1131
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: it's all good.

1132
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 3: Not everyone has to do this, right, but if you

1133
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 3: realize what you have you should consider like using sports

1134
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 3: as a springboard into whatever you want to do.

1135
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: Right, Like, if you have interest, you need to understand

1136
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: that this stuff is a tool, and you only have

1137
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: a finite window, the average window, Like it's not even

1138
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: the pro guys. It's like if you play in college

1139
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 1: or even high school, like you have a very small

1140
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: window to use it as an advance for you.

1141
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 4: This is something I like, Like I think LinkedIn is

1142
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 4: completely like under utilized or misunderstood.

1143
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 2: And I think I'm misunderstanding because I'm not I want

1144
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 2: to fou So imagine this.

1145
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 4: When you are at Nebraska, You've got that end on

1146
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 4: your helmet, on the side of your helmet. You have

1147
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 4: a lot of leverage, right, So like if you wanted

1148
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 4: to meet with anybody in town, they're gonna do it

1149
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 4: because you're a player, Like you have a frickin jersey on.

1150
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 3: You're one of one. There's no no one like you.

1151
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 4: So if I'm a student athlete, I'm getting a LinkedIn,

1152
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 4: I'm connecting with everybody in the community. And let's say

1153
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 4: I care about engineering or I'm big into advertising, I

1154
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 4: would connect with everybody in the community. Everyone that went

1155
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 4: to Nebraska who's an advertising and I'd be like, Hey,

1156
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 4: just want to connect with you. I'm a current student athlete.

1157
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 4: I would just love to connect with you on here.

1158
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,320
Speaker 4: Maybe sometime I'd love to pick your brain on something.

1159
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 4: You're literally amassing this network and at any given point,

1160
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 4: let's say in the spring, you get some downtime, you

1161
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 4: can go and grab coffee with that person, and now

1162
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 4: you have you've been building your network. When you're done

1163
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 4: playing sports, they will remember you. And you got to

1164
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 4: literally almost build like a network and a resume of

1165
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 4: people that you can go and work with right away. Well,

1166
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 4: when you graduate and you don't have the leverage anymore,

1167
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 4: you don't have the helmet anymore, it's harder to get

1168
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 4: that coffee meeting.

1169
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 2: Oh it's different.

1170
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 4: It's different because it's not that I don't know. It's

1171
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 4: not that like people all of a sudden don't care

1172
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 4: about you. It's just like it's just different.

1173
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 3: We all know that.

1174
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just is what it is.

1175
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: Like you're playing a sport, like if I'm a fan

1176
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: right of the Titans, and I'm a diehard fan, like

1177
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 1: and you're watching the Titans and celebrate, and then you

1178
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 1: see one of them where.

1179
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 2: You get to have engagement with one of them, like.

1180
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: It just hypes you up, regardless if they're in an

1181
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: alumni it's just different. It's not that they don't, it's

1182
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:48,720
Speaker 1: not that it's it's.

1183
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 3: Just it's just different. Yeah, I think that's one of

1184
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 3: the things like to what we're doing. Like a lot

1185
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 3: of these kids are signing up for open doors and

1186
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,479
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, I'm gonna get money. I'm gonna get money,

1187
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 3: you know. It's like, yeah, it's right. If they use

1188
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 3: openers to get an endorsement deal, then that is so

1189
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 3: so awesome. Like in reality, they're gonna build audience so

1190
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 3: they can get a job offer, right, Like that's as good.

1191
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 3: And like if you're a kid and you walk out

1192
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 3: of Nebraska with twenty thousand followers, like one of those

1193
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 3: people was going to offer you a job, right, Like

1194
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 3: you're that that's how that should work. And that's again

1195
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 3: like trying to springboard off for that. And so we're

1196
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 3: we're it's fun like being what we're doing. But then

1197
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 3: anyone that's listening, like I think that you who was

1198
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 3: on the bus yesterday, I'm just gonna throw off you know,

1199
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 3: this is right? Dale Junior was on the bus. Dude,

1200
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 3: do you remember like the very first time that you

1201
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:36,879
Speaker 3: had a Twitter exchange with him?

1202
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1203
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 3: I was gassed. I was geeked out.

1204
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 2: Man.

1205
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 3: I was running around screenshot and my dude, Will Compton's

1206
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 3: talking to somebody cool, you know, and like you're saying

1207
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 3: you were, I was hyped up for you because you

1208
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 3: in that moment you had to realize, bro, that you are,

1209
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 3: but you're talking to him. Why is not talking to you? No,

1210
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 3: but like that's a and then you at that moment

1211
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 3: you had to realize, oh, dang, like I can use

1212
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 3: this platform for this. He was on your bus, on

1213
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 3: your podcast in your city and it all started on

1214
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 3: some Twitter exchange.

1215
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1216
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 3: Like that's the power of an athlete actually leaning into

1217
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 3: this stuff.

1218
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 2: Dude. Yeah, no, no, weird. You're right, that is weird.

1219
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

1220
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:22,879
Speaker 1: And because I always go for like when you say

1221
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: it's just different, Like the thing I always say is

1222
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: you're better looking, your jokes are funnier. You can shake

1223
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: more hands when you're in the league, like or when

1224
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: you have a jersey on, or when you're wrapping something

1225
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 1: of like quote unquote status, right, and the minute you're

1226
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: out of it. It just it all goes the other way,

1227
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: that's right, whether it comes off as you trying harder,

1228
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,720
Speaker 1: a little more desperate.

1229
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 4: All that stuff like, yeah, you don't have that as much,

1230
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 4: right because like when you're in the league, like, you

1231
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 4: have leverage. So then whoever has the more more leverage

1232
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 4: can in the relationship can come off maybe a little

1233
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 4: bit more desperate or they have they have a motive

1234
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 4: to want something from you. When you are when you

1235
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 4: have all the leverage, and you show humility and that

1236
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 4: you're humble, that you're just grateful for people, remember that,

1237
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 4: and then later when you don't have the leverage, those

1238
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 4: people will remember how you treated them, how you made

1239
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 4: them feel, and you'll be able to work with them, ye,

1240
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 4: or you'll be able to do something. And that's I mean,

1241
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 4: if you think, I mean we like this is all

1242
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 4: about like at the end of the day, it's all

1243
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 4: about what Blake was saying. It is like hyping people up,

1244
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,440
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1245
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:32,600
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1246
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 4: you have leverage, then even after it's gone, people will

1247
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 4: still want to do things with you.

1248
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:42,800
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Speaker 2: Back to the episode, Andrew Hawkins, like we interviewed him

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Speaker 2: in one thing. One tip he gave.

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00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: Everybody was like when he was in the league, he

1303
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: at the end of every year, he'd get about fifty

1304
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: jerseys and any meeting, any conversation he wanted to have,

1305
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: he would whether you had the meeting already or one

1306
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: of one, he would send him a jersey with a

1307
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: written note on it. So that was like a memorable thing.

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00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: So that way he always had them in their network.

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00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: Because it is like if you want to relate it

1310
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: to anybody, like anybody in life, as they're going through stuff,

1311
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: everybody negotiates, like at some point or another, we're always negotiating,

1312
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: and it's all about having some kind of leverage or

1313
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: having some kind of want to fill some need and

1314
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: in this finite amount of time as an athlete, as

1315
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: a student.

1316
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 2: Athlete, whatever, you have that limited time to use it

1317
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: as much as a tool as you can because you're

1318
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 2: trending this way.

1319
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: And then when it's over, you hope you've built a

1320
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: network or an audience the way they're explaining athletes or

1321
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: brands suit to where even as it goes down because

1322
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: you're done playing, you're still able to keep it.

1323
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 2: You know, the old hockey stick whatever, it's fucking.

1324
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's it's it's scary, dude, like the whenever,

1325
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 4: like the last graph, the graph, real tough word, real.

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00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 3: Tough rocky stick graph, whatever, graph.

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Speaker 5: God damn it, Blake, you made me lose my train

1328
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 5: of thought here. But no, I was because then then

1329
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 5: when it's done, it it drops. If you have zero,

1330
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 5: if you have zero, it's like, uh, I think about

1331
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 5: it this way. It's like, it's scary. So you the

1332
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 5: last Bowl game happens, and it's it's so interesting whether

1333
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 5: you win the game or you lose the game. But uh,

1334
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 5: there is a ton of mixed emotions in the locker room.

1335
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 5: Everyone gets back in the locker room if you're a senior, right,

1336
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 5: so you're looking around, and there's some people that are

1337
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 5: crying because they're like, this is the last time they'll

1338
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 5: ever play the sport again. There's some people who like

1339
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 5: they know they're going to have a shot at the

1340
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 5: next level, so they're just kind of like it's just

1341
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 5: another playing with the boys.

1342
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's just kind of like that.

1343
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 4: There is then there's some people who are uncertain. There's

1344
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 4: some people who are like, man, this was the coolest

1345
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 4: thing that's ever going to happen in my life. That's

1346
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 4: a sad thing to say, but there's some people that

1347
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 4: have that mentality, right because whether you were at Nebraska

1348
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 4: or freaking Ohio State or Clemson, I don't know, but

1349
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 4: like those things are definitely going through people's minds. And

1350
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 4: so then whatever that feeling is, because it's it's almost

1351
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 4: like a timetable. After that bowl game happens, after that day,

1352
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 4: it's almost it's on the decline, right. The lead up

1353
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 4: to the draft is kind of like everyone still has

1354
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 4: hope because free agency happens, you might get drafted.

1355
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 2: Ohough. The whole the whole thought is usual need to

1356
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 2: get in camp.

1357
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 4: Exactly, I just need to get in a camp and

1358
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 4: but it's just on this like slow, slight, like steady

1359
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 4: kind of decline and it's crazy. Then if you then

1360
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 4: run into people in the summer who nothing happened, it's

1361
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 4: like the leverage is completely gone, and that's when you

1362
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 4: want to be like, hey, but what else have you

1363
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 4: been doing to build your brand?

1364
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 2: Right? And even that person, you'll feel the energy from

1365
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: them too that nothing's gone.

1366
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 3: It's gone.

1367
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Speaker 1: And when you haven't built blossom and I talk about it,

1368
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: but when you haven't built like a Plan B, it's

1369
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: like that whole mindset. Don't ever have a Plan B

1370
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: because of deters from Plan A, Like i hate personally

1371
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: hate that advice, just because I've always thought about like

1372
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: what's going to come next? So that way, whenever you transition,

1373
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: there's something like you're just not you just don't have

1374
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: that energy about you, that nothing's happening, that you're at

1375
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: the peak.

1376
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Speaker 4: And yes, it's not going to be there anymore, Yes dude,

1377
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 4: it's you are sad to say, but like you can

1378
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 4: be in the nile right, Like you're like, well, if

1379
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 4: I if I'm planning for a Plan B, then that

1380
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 4: means I'm not one hundred percent in for plan A.

1381
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 4: But it's almost scared. You're you're almost too scared to

1382
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 4: admit to yourself that a plan B is A is

1383
01:00:58,520 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 4: a good decision.

1384
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 3: I just I guess I think that.

1385
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 2: You because you had to make that call.

1386
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 3: Well absolutely, I was building a Plan B, Plan C,

1387
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 3: Plan D. I'm like, yeah, I don't know what's going

1388
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 3: to happen, but yeah, I gotta be ready.

1389
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 2: When I was on.

1390
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: Dressed and I had my poaz thought. But when I

1391
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: got my first house, I said it. My signing bust

1392
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: was five thousand dollars being drafted. Guy, I remember putting

1393
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: in my account. I'm like to talk with my mom.

1394
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,919
Speaker 2: She helps. We were like on the Stave Ramsey Kick.

1395
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 3: You go by a Bentley what you do?

1396
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm like, I got to make this

1397
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 2: last war.

1398
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: Yeahs, yeah, I got this for three months and I'm

1399
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: like thinking, like what the next that's going to be

1400
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: like thing?

1401
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 2: But anyway, go ahead.

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01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: No.

1403
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 3: I was gonna make fun of Audie for being a kicker.

1404
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 3: So yeah, the second he's never done that.

1405
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 2: He's never.

1406
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 4: If we're on if we're on a call together, he's

1407
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 4: bringing that up, and I'm like, dude, we've already talked

1408
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 4: to these people.

1409
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, because oh, I played in the NFL. Is like, no,

1410
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 3: you kicked in the NFL. That's the difference. And then

1411
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 3: he'll be like, oo, what's the NFL stand for? Not

1412
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 3: for long? And I'm like, I, dude, already came the

1413
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 3: joke a joke. I came w on this bus to

1414
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 3: tell those jokes to the world. Okay, that's just that's

1415
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 3: you're taking the right jokes are great.

1416
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yo, I love seeing the authenticity from this too.

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01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you having questions on that, Like, you

1418
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: guys have clearly been like best friends since the Links apartments.

1419
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 1: When we're at the Links and Blake can't come out

1420
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: and play video games with us because his girlfriend at

1421
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: the times pissed off at.

1422
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 2: Him, you know, he's like, yeah, he's like, you know,

1423
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 2: you know, but my girlfriend likes dude.

1424
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 3: I would have beasted you in Halo though. Yeah true,

1425
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 3: I know, yeah you're a weak but.

1426
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: But you guys being best friends this long, like navigating

1427
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: your partnership and growing this business together, like what growing

1428
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: pains has or been?

1429
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: Like what advice would you have? Like make it a

1430
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 2: two part question too, because I have.

1431
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: Like questions for any young listeners or athletes listening that

1432
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: have like these inklings of interest on how to start.

1433
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 2: But let's start there.

1434
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 3: Hey, I would say, like anyone that's listening now obviously

1435
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 3: knows you and Taylor in your dynamics, right, and I

1436
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 3: think that sometimes you guys are your goop balls one

1437
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 3: hundredercent of the time, right, But like it is obvious,

1438
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 3: and he gases you up every once, and I'll give

1439
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 3: you a comment like that you balance him out, like

1440
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 3: you're running the show, right and you get to both

1441
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 3: get on the mic, but he probably shows up and

1442
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 3: you're doing a lot of work, you know what I'm saying,

1443
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 3: Like in this in this relationship, like I'm more the tailor, right,

1444
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 3: like I get to show up. Audi is the like

1445
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 3: we are a complete like yin Yang. You know, Audi

1446
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 3: is an absolute operator. And I'm over on the whiteboard

1447
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 3: like thinking about god knows what, like some crazy ass ideas. Yeah,

1448
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 3: I'm doodling like exactly that my job is not drawing,

1449
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 3: not doing any work. Yeah, I really don't.

1450
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 2: I really don't know.

1451
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: Literally, I'm a senior in school and they're running heard

1452
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: that the first one they were alluding to earlier, the

1453
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: first business you guys, Wilt and uh. Blake is in

1454
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: my business law class, one of my business classes, and

1455
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: Blake is like the guest speaker, and he's doodling the

1456
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: entire time to explain it throughout his speech.

1457
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 2: He like speeches and doodles.

1458
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 4: That's like, no, man, we're It's a balance though, Yeah,

1459
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 4: for sure. I think the early the biggest misconception is

1460
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 4: that we're actually friends. Like I don't know why, No,

1461
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 4: it's I think we've had We've had ups and downs.

1462
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 4: I think we had early in our journey. We had

1463
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 4: two businesses that we were running when we were two

1464
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 4: years in the herd that when we started Open Doors

1465
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 4: and Blake being the visionary and me being the integrator. Right,

1466
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 4: the traction thing is like I know how to execute

1467
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 4: build teams in scale, and he knows how to take

1468
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 4: things from like blank sheet of paper to something right.

1469
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 4: And so we had like a two year journey where

1470
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 4: we were running separate companies. We were sort of in

1471
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 4: the same office, kind of partitioned, and then we lived together.

1472
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 4: So he would come home at night and he would

1473
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 4: try to brag to me and he's like, dude, I

1474
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,479
Speaker 4: just closed you know a three hundred thousand dollars round

1475
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 4: or fund rains from friends and family, and I'd be like, yeah, man,

1476
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 4: but I closed one hundred thousand dollars contract. So I

1477
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 4: was like, making money is way harder than raising money, Okay,

1478
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 4: So chill like, yeah, you give me money, Yeah, make

1479
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 4: money create value.

1480
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 3: That's weird. You don't know anything about that. So so

1481
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 3: we would have this this competition took over revenue this quarter,

1482
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 3: and we were up one hundred and twenty percent of

1483
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 3: our audise numbers last quarter, so you.

1484
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 4: Know, and we know what he's competing. He's comparing those

1485
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 4: numbers to COVID last year. Dude, of course the numbers

1486
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 4: were down. Don't handicap me, bro Okay anyways, and you

1487
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 4: get like you.

1488
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 2: Got you got a lot of hype issue too.

1489
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 3: It's like being in ticket sales at the Titans, like yeah, dude,

1490
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 3: ticket sales are up this year. It's like, yeah, no

1491
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 3: one went there was the game last year. A lot

1492
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 3: more people in the games, the ticket sale guy, you know.

1493
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 4: And so I think, so I think that that to

1494
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 4: your journey where we were running separate businesses and uh,

1495
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 4: we we had like we both owned the business. So

1496
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 4: there was like it was mutually beneficial for us to

1497
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 4: succeed uh in in both areas. But then like when

1498
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 4: we came back and got to run openers together, like

1499
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 4: I got to use my strengths, Blake got to use

1500
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 4: his strengths, and we also got to see kind of like, hey,

1501
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 4: you're really good at those things and I'm really good

1502
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 4: at these things, and that's what we should do. So

1503
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 4: I think when when you can sort of understand and

1504
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 4: respect each other's strengths and then double down those things,

1505
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 4: that's when you can have a really good partnership or.

1506
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 3: A good like strength. Not everyone plays quarterback, right, yeah,

1507
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 3: like you got to have a kicker. Yeah, okay, when

1508
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 3: the kicker is making all the money. That's what's going

1509
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 3: on here.

1510
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 4: But we've had I mean we've had we've also I

1511
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 4: would say, I would also say we've had we've had our.

1512
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 2: Like give me, give me a.

1513
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: Give me a moment in time you guys are probably

1514
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 1: both thinking about and Neil Nog and where it was

1515
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: like rough sledding between your guys' partnership and friendship to

1516
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: where it's like hey, who's doing this? Like I you know,

1517
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: you had to navigate waters and learn about yourself to

1518
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, now we're finding these strengths of

1519
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: each other, not like you were good at this over

1520
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: in your job.

1521
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:56,880
Speaker 2: I'm good at this. We both figured it out down

1522
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 2: our way.

1523
01:06:57,280 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 4: Like I think it was like early on it was

1524
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 4: just so as I tell the story, it feels clean

1525
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 4: like it all happened like that, but it didn't. It

1526
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 4: was like we have to go through the learning pains

1527
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 4: of understanding that and then you reflect and you kind

1528
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 4: of look back at it. But like, I don't know

1529
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 4: if there was like a moment in time where I'm

1530
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 4: just like me and him, will we definitely do get

1531
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 4: in arguments right where.

1532
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 2: You know we see the bantering. I can see yeah, no.

1533
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 4: We do like, yeah, fun this, you know, we'll we'll

1534
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:24,960
Speaker 4: have that. But I think that's what that's what's good

1535
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 4: about it. I think I always tell Blake the best

1536
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 4: times are when he is not in the weeds of

1537
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 4: the business right because he likes to come in and

1538
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 4: disrupt and the ideas are good, but like sometimes you

1539
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 4: need to let things kind of flow and you let

1540
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 4: need to trust the team. We'll kind of get there.

1541
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 4: And then same thing like sometimes he can come in

1542
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 4: and like it can actually help that department or that team,

1543
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 4: so it works really well. I'm just saying, like, here's

1544
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 4: what happens. Like I have like twenty ideas a day, right,

1545
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 4: and like I go in, dude, go yeah, I go

1546
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 4: do it all. This is a good one. And like

1547
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 4: I walk out of there and like I'm like.

1548
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 3: Dang, dude, I think already liked that idea, and like

1549
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 3: you can like look over your shoulder and he's just

1550
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 3: ripping up the paper. You know, He's like okay, because

1551
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 3: I'll forget about it by the time I walk out

1552
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 3: the door. That's right. That's that's what it is to

1553
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 3: like have a balance, you know, because every person how

1554
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 3: many people since you had your first recording of a

1555
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 3: podcast have started a podcast? Well it's how many, dude, millions? Yea,

1556
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 3: and they don't get to episode three, right because you

1557
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 3: got there's the difference between people who have things and

1558
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 3: people who want things or people who do things. You

1559
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, You are doing this. I remember

1560
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 3: when you called and said I'm gonna do a podcast, right,

1561
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 3: and I was like, hell, yeah, Like when you get

1562
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 3: it going, let me know, because like, dude, everyone now

1563
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 3: being founders, you're a founder, entrepreneur, like people probably coming

1564
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 3: with you all to odd, I'm gonna do this. I'm

1565
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 3: gonna do this. I'm gonna do this, and like you

1566
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 3: check in out, I'm doing it.

1567
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:50,640
Speaker 2: You do this.

1568
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 3: Like I'll tell you when our very first company, we

1569
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 3: were having beers over it. Remember right was it Turtle Creek,

1570
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 3: you know, all the turtle creaking Lincoln. And I'm over

1571
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 3: at Audi's and we're having a six pack and we're

1572
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 3: just you know, about to crush and go down O

1573
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 3: Street and Audie's like, yo, dude, going into senior year.

1574
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:11,639
Speaker 3: He's sitting there, He's like, hey, man, I don't want

1575
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 3: to I don't want to work for anybody. Like what

1576
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 3: what should we do after I'm done playing ball?

1577
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 2: What should we do?

1578
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 3: Because we were always idea dudes, you know. And I'm

1579
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 3: like I don't know, man, I'm doing this like social

1580
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 3: media thing, like I was getting paid to tweet for

1581
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 3: a company, you know, like that was my job as

1582
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 3: an intern. And I was like I don't think I

1583
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 3: would do so not just for this one company, but

1584
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:30,639
Speaker 3: for everybody. And like we started bullshit and going back

1585
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:32,640
Speaker 3: and forth and like we just finished the six go

1586
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 3: down to the rail and forget the night. Right the

1587
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 3: next morning, I wake up groggy, and I checked my

1588
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:39,679
Speaker 3: email and box and Audio sent me a one page

1589
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 3: business plan. He said, let's do it. That's why we started.

1590
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 3: Heard at if if if he doesn't exist, that's an idea.

1591
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 3: That's that's a six pack and the night on O

1592
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 3: Street and just and a rager at the rail. You're

1593
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 3: probably there, shirt off back of the club. Yeah, man, guy,

1594
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:58,719
Speaker 3: you would on the side, you would, you would.

1595
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 4: I am fully convinced that COVID started in the back

1596
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 4: of the rail like somewhere somewhere in there.

1597
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 3: Just not not not a good place.

1598
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Speaker 1: I remember because Blake he has he's always been an

1618
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:12,879
Speaker 1: idea man, and he's always wanted to do the entrepreneur

1619
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: rout and everything, and so I'm always like, I'm around

1620
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 1: these dudes a lot. So I'm I'm low key with

1621
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:21,720
Speaker 1: my like young spirit as well, like always asking like hey, like.

1622
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:23,200
Speaker 2: What are you doing? And he's talking about I remember

1623
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 2: when you brought up Twitter diaries.

1624
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, my Twitter diary.

1625
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, you thought it was going to be a hitter too,

1626
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: A dude, You're like, you know, people could look back

1627
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: at their tweets like he's had idea like you do.

1628
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 3: You're like aary my Twitter diary dot com. I can't

1629
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 3: get access to the domain, but basically take your tweets

1630
01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 3: and turn into a hard copy book, put it on

1631
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 3: your coffee table.

1632
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 2: It's pretty good.

1633
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 3: He was actually gonna do that fourteen ninety nine, my

1634
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 3: Twitter diary dot com, Uh just getting no shots. Yeah,

1635
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 3: don't go there, it's broken. Yeah, but no, that's what

1636
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 3: you Everyone has ideas. Man, you got to go do it.

1637
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 3: You gotta go do it. And like right now we're

1638
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 3: sitting here, like we have sixty nine employees at Openers

1639
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 3: sixty nine and those are people like that their livelihood

1640
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 3: depends on like this.

1641
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:09,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good number. We're not hiring any same. Well, no,

1642
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just saying what he's saying. It's yeah, yeah,

1643
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 4: I would say, well, because so the way I think

1644
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 4: about it is like most like great businesses, like the

1645
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 4: idea initially sounds dumb at first.

1646
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 3: It just always how it is. Right, So, whether it's

1647
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 3: my Twitter diary or or when we.

1648
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 2: Were bussing with the boys, felt dumb as ship.

1649
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like that, but then it becomes really trendy.

1650
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 4: Like when we first started our company, I don't think

1651
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 4: we were ever saying, oh, we want to be entrepreneur.

1652
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 4: I don't think that the word entrepreneur was like a

1653
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 4: thing back then. It was like we're going to try

1654
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 4: to solve a problem. Yeah, and we're gonna run, We're

1655
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,599
Speaker 4: gonna build a business exactly. Then you get another one,

1656
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 4: and then entrepreneurship as a word became trendy. Everybody wants

1657
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:50,839
Speaker 4: to be an entrepreneur, right, same thing, yeah, exactly.

1658
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 3: That that made it made everyone like, oh man, I'm

1659
01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 3: just going to go in there, and you know, mister

1660
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 3: wonderful isn't give me all this money? Yeah, Like dude,

1661
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:59,839
Speaker 3: what are you talking about? Right? Same thing with podcasts.

1662
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 3: I think podcasts are super trendy right now.

1663
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 4: Everybody wants to start a podcast, but to actually have

1664
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 4: an operation to create true like engagement entertainment, the business

1665
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 4: model behind it, like the licensing the merchandise, like that

1666
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:18,799
Speaker 4: takes actual skill set and effort and strategy and planning.

1667
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 4: That's the whole thing that place is talking about. Like

1668
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 4: you have to go actually do it. But when we

1669
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 4: were starting, we're like, hey, let's just solve a problem. Yeah,

1670
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 4: and see how many people have that problem? Is anyone?

1671
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:31,600
Speaker 3: Is anyone else doing anything about it already? And like

1672
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 3: like how can we get it going?

1673
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? What for you guys?

1674
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: Like getting stuff going and off the floor, Like for

1675
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: people out there that like have ideas and they want

1676
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: to learn about like growing business like me in particular,

1677
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: like you guys have both mentored me Audi more so

1678
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:45,600
Speaker 1: than like.

1679
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 5: For you.

1680
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't, dude, bro, you always give me good ideas.

1681
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 1: But it is true the way you guys, the way

1682
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,799
Speaker 1: you guys do talk about your dynamic in the office

1683
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: is like I feel like the dynamic of mentoring I

1684
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: get as well, Like we have ideas and if I

1685
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,840
Speaker 1: need to go to like execute and put operating stuff

1686
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:04,719
Speaker 1: into plays always.

1687
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 3: If you want to actually make real money and like

1688
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 3: scale things, you come to me. If you want to

1689
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 3: get distracted teachings of Will I turn on television on

1690
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 3: Sundays and I say, taught him everything.

1691
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 2: He knows he does. He tries to ride that all

1692
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 2: the time.

1693
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 3: Well it's true, man, you're on the bench most of

1694
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 3: the time.

1695
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 2: Do you have that one photo? Mean on the bench?

1696
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 3: Hyeah, give that one photo? Man, I was really good

1697
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 3: at standing on the sidelines too. Taught you everything you

1698
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 3: know with.

1699
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 1: With uh starting getting all this stuff off the ground,

1700
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: like outside of schooling and education. Like me, a lot

1701
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 1: of my stuff that I get is through books or

1702
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: through like mentoring, like you guys, like asking people who

1703
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: are doing things that I would like to do or

1704
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 1: pick their brain? Like what types of uh tips or

1705
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:45,519
Speaker 1: advice do you have for people like that? Like where

1706
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:47,280
Speaker 1: did you figure out a lot of this operating stuff?

1707
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 1: Is it always through school or is there books? Is

1708
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 1: there philosophy? Like what are some of the learnings that

1709
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: you've had?

1710
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 2: Well?

1711
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 3: I think first you need to figure out whatever, what's

1712
01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 3: your like learning vehicle?

1713
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 4: How do you learn? And what I mean by that

1714
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:01,560
Speaker 4: is like do you learn by reading books? Do you

1715
01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 4: learn by talking to people? Do you learn by doing?

1716
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:05,759
Speaker 4: Do you learn by watching?

1717
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 6: Like?

1718
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 4: So once you figure that out, because some people are like, oh, well,

1719
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna go read a bunch of books, I'm like, well,

1720
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 4: what do you do with that information?

1721
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 3: Are you able to actually apply it or whatnot?

1722
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 4: Like I my most exciting times and still to this day,

1723
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,560
Speaker 4: is when we set very ambitious, aggressive goals for a

1724
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 4: quarter where I'm asked to do something that we've literally

1725
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 4: never done before, because I get to go through my

1726
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 4: learning process, which is I'll go dive in on a

1727
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 4: let's say we want to build a certain strategy that

1728
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 4: we've literally never done before. I like to go and

1729
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 4: read a bunch of material on that thing, and I

1730
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:40,160
Speaker 4: might buy two or three books. I'm not going to

1731
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 4: read them from front to back, but just pattern matching

1732
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 4: that stuff, applying it, getting the right people to buy in.

1733
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,719
Speaker 3: Like I just enjoy that experience.

1734
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 4: And it's been like that, like even in the early

1735
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 4: days when we're like, hey, we don't have a we

1736
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 4: don't have an HR process, when we get like five employees,

1737
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 4: or hey we need to we need to go fire somebody.

1738
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:00,680
Speaker 4: And for me, I'm like, Okay, well I want to

1739
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 4: do it the right way. I want to be prepared

1740
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 4: so I can execute this the right way, so then

1741
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 4: I'll go through that process.

1742
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean no, I'm just saying, like, like

1743
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 3: today we're flying in Nashville and I asked all you

1744
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:12,160
Speaker 3: a question, like and he pulls out a book that

1745
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 3: like looks like an old tattered like Bible, you know,

1746
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 3: and he's got writing in the columns, he's got highlighted,

1747
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 3: he's got posted notes in it, and like this dude

1748
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 3: ingests information, stores it and can pull it up like

1749
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 3: a like a you know, encyclopedia, like a Wikipedia page

1750
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 3: like and but he learns from reading and applying and

1751
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 3: then applying, you know.

1752
01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 2: And yeah, you were talking about pattern matching. What do

1753
01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 2: you mean by pattern matching.

1754
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 4: It's it's like you're not supposed to For example, like

1755
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 4: if you want to become really good at investing, you're

1756
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 4: not going to go read a bunch of investment books

1757
01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 4: because they're just going to have like principles. It's like

1758
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 4: just being back in school again. It's better for you

1759
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 4: to look at case studies of people that have done

1760
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 4: great investments, or companies that have gone through some or

1761
01:16:56,680 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 4: historical things that are maybe super niche or a specific

1762
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 4: subject like I don't know history on a certain vertical.

1763
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 4: That's way better than to go and just try to

1764
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:11,080
Speaker 4: learn the fundamentals, because that's just that's so educational. That

1765
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 4: doesn't So when I say pattern matching, I'm like, okay,

1766
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,440
Speaker 4: we as a company right now, we have seventy employees

1767
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 4: and we sixty nine employees.

1768
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 3: He loves that.

1769
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:21,600
Speaker 4: He said we shouldn't hire anybody for a while, so

1770
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 4: we have sixty nine employees. I'm like, are you five

1771
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 4: years old or what? But anyways, so then I'm like, okay,

1772
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 4: I'll look at like where do we want to be, right,

1773
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:32,680
Speaker 4: I'll look at where where do we want to be

1774
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 4: as a company? And then I will go and find

1775
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:38,400
Speaker 4: and and talk sometimes to certain people who have literally

1776
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:40,840
Speaker 4: gone through that process and done it before. So I

1777
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 4: just have validation in my thinking and I have way

1778
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 4: more confidence in all the decisions that we make.

1779
01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: Like you're basically like a quote that you've actually told

1780
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: me two success leaves clues.

1781
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you're just finding a blue that's right, and

1782
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 2: then you just have matching the.

1783
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 3: Pattern absolutely, and you have your own spin to it

1784
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:58,559
Speaker 3: and whatnot.

1785
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 4: But like, imagine every choice that you make, the more

1786
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:03,640
Speaker 4: confident that you can be in it, that you have

1787
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:08,679
Speaker 4: the self assurance, you're like way more decisive. That's speed, dude,

1788
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 4: because then you don't you're not hesitating like, oh, I

1789
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 4: don't know if we should do this. It's like it's

1790
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 4: all about speed, dude, And especially for us, like right now,

1791
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 4: it's like you should choose speed over efficiency in the

1792
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 4: face of uncertainty. And that's literally what we're going through,

1793
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 4: which is like we got to go really fast. We

1794
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:26,439
Speaker 4: want to win the market. We feel like we're a

1795
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 4: leader and we want to own that, and so we

1796
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 4: don't really have time to be like, well, what if

1797
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,639
Speaker 4: it doesn't work, or maybe we shouldn't do this it's

1798
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 4: about going.

1799
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,599
Speaker 3: To town for a perspective. Well, the first two months

1800
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:40,640
Speaker 3: of July, we have tripled the amount of business in

1801
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,760
Speaker 3: one of our products than all of last year in

1802
01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 3: the first two weeks of this month. Like I'm telling

1803
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 3: like that's insane, right, Like I'm into Like a year ago,

1804
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 3: there was fifteen thousand athletes that use Now there's fifty thousand.

1805
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:59,639
Speaker 3: Were you go, dude, I love that? Man ya well

1806
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 3: god damn yeah, you know.

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01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,759
Speaker 1: Me too, Well, yeah, you will just retaining the information

1808
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 1: And that's his reaction, mouth open fuck dude.

1809
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like that's that's the real deal. Hey, you

1810
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:13,839
Speaker 3: know me, Like we hired twenty seven Audi hired fifteen

1811
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 3: people in the last like sixty days, fifteen people. We

1812
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 3: got to hire eight more in the next thirty, right,

1813
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,640
Speaker 3: and and like that that is all. That's a lot, right,

1814
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 3: Like you think about that's a person. That's the life

1815
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 3: they get to get them to commit believe, breathe like

1816
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 3: and and like that's the type Like you move fast

1817
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:32,680
Speaker 3: sometimes because market opportunities are market opportunities, and like we

1818
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 3: have a chance to help every athlete right now, that's

1819
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 3: what we do, you know, And you talk about learning

1820
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:39,680
Speaker 3: behavior like, how do I want to Can I get

1821
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 3: my fair shake?

1822
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 5: Yes?

1823
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:41,120
Speaker 2: Absolutely?

1824
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1825
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, cool. Nod's talking about he's a philosopher.

1826
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:46,440
Speaker 3: It's like a LinkedIn advertisement.

1827
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 4: Man, Yeah he is alier. Dude, I love that that's

1828
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 4: a philosophier. Let's go geb Is. I don't know how

1829
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 4: you learn, Blake, Well, once you walk. I went through

1830
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:57,639
Speaker 4: that because I know I'm.

1831
01:19:58,040 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 2: Maybe he would benefit audio benefit.

1832
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna start talking and

1833
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 3: then I'll find my way to how I learned. Yeah. Yeah,

1834
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 3: I would say, like, will.

1835
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:07,719
Speaker 2: Do you have a book?

1836
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 3: Like have you written a book?

1837
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 2: I read a book?

1838
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 3: You have not written a book?

1839
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 2: Written a book?

1840
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 3: No, but you know you've learned a thing or two, right,

1841
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 3: and so like one of the things is if you

1842
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 3: think about your favorite people that have taught you so much,

1843
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 3: like have they written a book?

1844
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 2: Yes?

1845
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: They have the favorite people who've taught me stuff like

1846
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: the thing about has has It's like I'm sitting here

1847
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: read Compton the second written a book.

1848
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, but you've learned a lot from

1849
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 3: that man, right, Like what I'm trying to say here, yeah, right,

1850
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 3: And that would be the top seller.

1851
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeh, bous on the process.

1852
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 3: Compete every day, dude, That's that's the myma.

1853
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:44,639
Speaker 6: Nos.

1854
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:46,640
Speaker 2: You open it up and it's focused on the process.

1855
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 3: And like a hundred slides of the same thing, same thing. No,

1856
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:53,320
Speaker 3: But I like, so what I'm trying to say is

1857
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:55,599
Speaker 3: that there's there's a lot of things that I learned

1858
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 3: from people. Right, I want to go find another founder

1859
01:20:58,479 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 3: that has been in a similar situation where like maybe

1860
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:02,919
Speaker 3: they're running low on cash, they got a big market opportunity,

1861
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 3: They're head of marketing is about to quit, and they

1862
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 3: got to get a you know, five new people to

1863
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,560
Speaker 3: come in and try and fill his position, right, And like,

1864
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 3: I don't know where you find that in a book,

1865
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 3: but if you go and like talk to five founders,

1866
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 3: like they're gonna three of them are going to have

1867
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 3: a situation that was at least similar, like you know,

1868
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:21,600
Speaker 3: and and most people have a similar experience. If you like,

1869
01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 3: strip away the industry, strip away the actual problems, and

1870
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 3: just say, hey, here's the emotion I'm feeling. Have you

1871
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 3: felt that emotion? Tell me about the time in which

1872
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 3: you felt that emotion. How did you get through it?

1873
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:34,680
Speaker 3: You know, because another part of this business stuff is like, yeah,

1874
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 3: there's exce's and no's, but there's the like the Johnny's

1875
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 3: and Joe's. Right, that's that would be in's book too, right.

1876
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 2: No solid, you should just stood on it.

1877
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 3: Actually yeah, but I'll take it. But there are there's

1878
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:49,680
Speaker 3: those things that a lot of building a business or

1879
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:53,640
Speaker 3: building anything is it's deeply emotional, right, like it is

1880
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 3: you're invested in this thing. It's a part of you.

1881
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 3: So you can go talk to people that can tell

1882
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,400
Speaker 3: you how they felt when they went through something similar.

1883
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 3: Then you can extract like that too, because a lot

1884
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 3: of it is like just reassurance like am I doing like?

1885
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 3: Am I doing this right?

1886
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 2: Like?

1887
01:22:08,160 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 3: Am I am I think in the right way? Like

1888
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 3: are we treating people the right way? And like at

1889
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 3: least you can learn from other people's experience, which maybe

1890
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:16,680
Speaker 3: you just can't extract that from a book, right, So you.

1891
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 1: Do a good job of navigating finding the right people

1892
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 1: have probably been through a similar.

1893
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 3: Exp I love talking about you, look up to you. Yeah,

1894
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 3: I love about man, and I audio knows that dude.

1895
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 3: I'll get on a call with somebody like and they're

1896
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 3: just just like one little tidbit saying oh, man, did

1897
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:31,519
Speaker 3: you know what this dude did, Like he sold his

1898
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 3: company for twenty million, you know, and and here's what

1899
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 3: he did when they were in this situation. And like, dang,

1900
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 3: that's crazy because that dude's never going to write a

1901
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 3: book and put that story in there. But now I

1902
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 3: have that story that can like inspire me to try

1903
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 3: something like that too.

1904
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 2: That's right, that's good.

1905
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:46,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I learned it is.

1906
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:48,560
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like also like the things that

1907
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,799
Speaker 4: we really care about. Like so for me, for example,

1908
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 4: we talked about hiring. So I think that building a

1909
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 4: team is more of an art than a science.

1910
01:22:57,720 --> 01:22:57,840
Speaker 2: Right.

1911
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 4: But somebody who doesn't really care about hiring or recruiting,

1912
01:23:01,479 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 4: which is a very difficult thing to do, right, Like

1913
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:05,600
Speaker 4: you building a team, this is a very hard thing

1914
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 4: to do. These guys have to they have to give

1915
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 4: a shit. They have to have ownership mentality. They have

1916
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 4: to show up when you're not here, They have to

1917
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,640
Speaker 4: set things up, they have to care about what you

1918
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 4: guys are trying to build for it to look and

1919
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 4: feel and turn out great, that has to be the

1920
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 4: right team. And for me, that is an art, Like

1921
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 4: I can get on an interview Blake, Blake will be

1922
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:26,800
Speaker 4: part of interviews with some people and he'll like, yeah,

1923
01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 4: that person was great.

1924
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 3: I'm like no, like because to me, it's more of

1925
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:30,720
Speaker 3: an art.

1926
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 4: I'm literally interpreting everything that's going on, how they're answering

1927
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 4: certain questions, how they showed up, like what they said

1928
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:40,560
Speaker 4: their background was. And that's because it's something that I

1929
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 4: care about.

1930
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:41,639
Speaker 2: Now.

1931
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 4: There might be some other things that are a little

1932
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 4: bit more of a science where it is more about

1933
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 4: the principles or sort of the rules around and whatnot,

1934
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Speaker 4: But like, you are definitely more of a anybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

1936
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like hell yeah, there's a five star you know.

1937
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Speaker 3: It's like that guy, he's a walk on you, but

1938
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Speaker 3: you wanted to work here, you know, Like the vision

1939
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Speaker 3: like he sees it like higher him. He's like he

1940
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Speaker 3: wants to wear that in on his Yeah yeah yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's like yeah, you know for sure like that is.

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Speaker 3: But to me, I that's what that's the balance though,

1943
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Speaker 3: you know, because for me, anybody that believes in a second,

1944
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Speaker 3: like in the Vision, I'm like, get on board, do

1945
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 3: let's go. You know, I want to win the game.

1946
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Speaker 3: Well that's what I'm saying, Like, you gotta you gotta

1947
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Speaker 3: build a team. Yeah, that's right, that's right.

1948
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for you, what's winning the game?

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Speaker 3: Uh well, so I think about building a team, and

1950
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 3: for him, like what's winning the game? Yeah that's a

1951
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:35,280
Speaker 3: cool question.

1952
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well he said that. I'm just saying I was.

1953
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Speaker 4: I was more talking about in context of like building

1954
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Speaker 4: a team. But if you asked me what went in,

1955
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Speaker 4: that's that is a deep question.

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Speaker 1: I know. We we'll say, we'll sit back and talk

1957
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:46,720
Speaker 1: about this ship all the time. All of us will

1958
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:49,680
Speaker 1: just kind of sit around because you just have different angles.

1959
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 3: Like what's the game for you the most?

1960
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know fully yet.

1961
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Speaker 1: Like for me, it's all in like it's broken up, right,

1962
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 1: it's just broken up into different priorities. I feel like

1963
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Speaker 1: winning the game for me right now career wise, like

1964
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Speaker 1: I'm currently getting to do that. And I guess seeing

1965
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Speaker 1: this through and I guess what's seeing it through means

1966
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:23,160
Speaker 1: to me is I don't know, Because every every year,

1967
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 1: probably every six months, we might see another level of potential.

1968
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Speaker 1: We're starting to get into our tap into that we

1969
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Speaker 1: had no idea, that we had really no idea that

1970
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Speaker 1: it was coming. And so then you fall in love

1971
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Speaker 1: with something different that's going on with it. Man, that's

1972
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 1: such a good question, dude, it is.

1973
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Speaker 4: It's a great question because it's hard to answer because

1974
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 4: I think if you are way too set in what

1975
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:47,759
Speaker 4: your answer is, I don't know if you're trying hard enough.

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Speaker 1: Right right, right right, because you feel like, oh, I

1977
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 1: won't know.

1978
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 4: You want it to be fluid, Like you know any

1979
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 4: entrepreneur that's or let's say you're running a business and

1980
01:25:58,160 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, the end game is, don't want to

1981
01:25:59,479 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 4: sell this company. I'm like, dude, you're not going to succeed.

1982
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, right, because you're already thinking about an exit, right,

1983
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 4: and there might be a time where you should think

1984
01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 4: about that, but like you'll know when it's the right

1985
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 4: time to think about that. But like, if you start

1986
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 4: something with an exit in mind, how are you supposed

1987
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Speaker 4: to actually make that thing great?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 3: But here's right thing, hey yeah.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 3: One of my favorite things is all advice is autobiographical.

1992
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:24,800
Speaker 3: You're just talking to yourself in the past, because like

1993
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:25,639
Speaker 3: somebody's listening.

1994
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 2: Like no, I started to slow down.

1995
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Speaker 3: Autobiographic, Like all advice is autobiographicals and like you're just

1996
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 3: talking to yourself in the past, Like, if you ask

1997
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 3: me for advice, I'm all I can do is reflect

1998
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:37,639
Speaker 3: on my life, right, And it's as if I'm looking

1999
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 3: at myself in the past and myself asked me the

2000
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 3: same question, Like I'm just talking to myself. Anyone you

2001
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:44,760
Speaker 3: ever ask for advice in the life, they're just talking

2002
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:48,879
Speaker 3: to themselves, right, and they're just trying to find something familiar.

2003
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 3: And if you're asking for advice from somebody that's never

2004
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 3: been in your position, like why are you asking them

2005
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 3: for advice anyways? Right, So all advice is autobiographical. So

2006
01:26:57,640 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 3: somebody's listening, it's like you, no, I started a company

2007
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 3: with the goal to sell it, and they sold it, right,

2008
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,559
Speaker 3: And that person is always going to say, yeah, hey,

2009
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:07,599
Speaker 3: if you start something without a goal sell it, then

2010
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 3: what are you doing?

2011
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: You know?

2012
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:11,040
Speaker 3: Like what we get to talk about and our our

2013
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:13,040
Speaker 3: journeys is we're in the middle of it, you know,

2014
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:18,040
Speaker 3: and we'll be able to say what success is are

2015
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 3: the way to success will be in our eyes what

2016
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 3: we did right, But there's never the same path to

2017
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:28,880
Speaker 3: the same outcome. And I just I just think about

2018
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 3: that sometimes because like I know that you and I

2019
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 3: just you set a big hairy, audacious goal. Right, you

2020
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 3: say you want to help every athlete, And I was like, so,

2021
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:40,680
Speaker 3: what's what's success for you guys? You know it's like

2022
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:43,600
Speaker 3: we'll have has have we literally helped every athlete like

2023
01:27:43,680 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 3: has has every athlete in the planet downloaded open doors

2024
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:49,639
Speaker 3: and used this tool? Oh no, there's another one. Okay,

2025
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 3: not there yet, right, So like it's just like the

2026
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 3: pursuit of an impossible goal is ultimately gonna Like that

2027
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 3: is to me that what this journey is, like whatrepreneurship is.

2028
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think too, like the identity you build like

2029
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:04,679
Speaker 1: in it, like all the principles and stuff you've talked about,

2030
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 1: Like even if that goal doesn't hit. So say my

2031
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: goal is you know, ten years in the NFL, and

2032
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: I don't get ten years in the NFL, it's like,

2033
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:14,320
Speaker 1: well you lost the game.

2034
01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 2: It's like, well, I mean I'm still in the game.

2035
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:18,000
Speaker 2: Like that's just the game has changed for me.

2036
01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:19,280
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, you know.

2037
01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:22,720
Speaker 1: What I mean. I feel like whatever you build from

2038
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:25,120
Speaker 1: the inside, like going and working inside out, like all

2039
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 1: the why stuff, all the cliche why stuff that we

2040
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: talk about, like who you are I guess as a person,

2041
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: like you just filtered to a different game every time.

2042
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fucking end game is.

2043
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:36,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't think I don't think you need

2044
01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 3: to have one. Man.

2045
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 4: I think life should be more fluid, it should be

2046
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,880
Speaker 4: just kind of you should enjoy it. You should strive

2047
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:45,559
Speaker 4: for big things. You should surround yourself with great people

2048
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:48,800
Speaker 4: and actually like and with family and enjoy life and

2049
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 4: enjoy the journey. I don't think you need to have

2050
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 4: an end goal. And maybe one day you wake up

2051
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 4: or you have one, and that's great, good for you.

2052
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 4: It's like, that's that's maybe what the disclaimer, right. It's

2053
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:02,880
Speaker 4: like we're all like we're all sharing things about like

2054
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:04,960
Speaker 4: what we have experienced or maybe heard from other people

2055
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 4: that have been appealing. When they share them with us,

2056
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh that's cool. You know, like I'll I'll

2057
01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 4: have someone tell me a story, I will change my

2058
01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 4: mind about something. I'm like, okay, I'm like, oh great,

2059
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:17,920
Speaker 4: that's I'm not There's there's nothing that I'm completely set on.

2060
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:18,600
Speaker 1: You know.

2061
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,880
Speaker 4: Sometimes people will have convictions or whether it's like a

2062
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 4: political view or religion or I don't know, whatever it is,

2063
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,600
Speaker 4: and I'm like, damn, you're that's set on that.

2064
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:28,559
Speaker 3: Give us examples.

2065
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 6: What are you.

2066
01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 3: That's craziest religious thought? Some clips really hurt you. No,

2067
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:40,680
Speaker 3: that's could you say some things we could blackmail you?

2068
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:43,760
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so that's that is.

2069
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 4: I think that's a We should all have a disclaimer

2070
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 4: under everything we say or recommend, and it I mean that.

2071
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:53,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, yeah. You said, like, I'm just trying

2072
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 2: to win the game.

2073
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 1: Obviously you were talking about it from the art standpoint

2074
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: of hiring somebody in the process that you're seeing through

2075
01:29:58,560 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: because it's team building.

2076
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:01,680
Speaker 2: What is what is winning the game mean to you?

2077
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 2: And yeah, then you threw it at me and I

2078
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:04,679
Speaker 2: had no fucking clue.

2079
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:09,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, oh, yeah, got him, hey, let me Yeah,

2080
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 3: there you go. It's realistic.

2081
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: A way.

2082
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah it man, that's that's your book you've been trying

2083
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 2: to get me on. Yeah, that's the book. We've been

2084
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 2: giving him some love.

2085
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: Tim Grover winning the book winning because it's like when

2086
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:28,800
Speaker 1: we're twenty three, Like when I'm twenty three, to.

2087
01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 2: Me, winning is like playing in the NFL.

2088
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:32,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if I knew I wasn't going to be

2089
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:34,479
Speaker 1: like a high rounder, it's like, oh, let me just

2090
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:35,679
Speaker 1: get a couple of years in the NFL.

2091
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, and that's like winning the game.

2092
01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:39,439
Speaker 3: But like you no, it's not.

2093
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 2: I think that like the.

2094
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 3: Pursuit of some of those things, like you know, you're

2095
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 3: the same, like how much is enough? And the answers

2096
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 3: are just a little bit more, you know what I'm saying,

2097
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:49,599
Speaker 3: Like the answer like when you have that next thing,

2098
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 3: you want that next thing, and so like it's a

2099
01:30:52,439 --> 01:30:56,479
Speaker 3: you spend so much time chasing something you don't realize

2100
01:30:56,479 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 3: like when you have it because you keep going. Right,

2101
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:03,880
Speaker 3: Like again, we've raised twenty million dollars for this company, right,

2102
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 3: and I remember when we first raised our first like

2103
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 3: somebody wrote a twenty thousand oars check. I'm like, god dang,

2104
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:10,600
Speaker 3: And I met I met at another founder that had

2105
01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 3: raised twenty million dollars. I'm like, good lord, Like we

2106
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:16,400
Speaker 3: just got it all figured out, you know, figured it out,

2107
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 3: all figured out. Then you're sitting there with twenty million

2108
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:20,720
Speaker 3: and you're like looking at the dude, thiss got two

2109
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:22,640
Speaker 3: hundred and you're like, to just got it all figured out.

2110
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 3: Then you eventually realize it nobody hasn't figured out. Man,

2111
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 3: I go then never goes like this has just helped

2112
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:29,479
Speaker 3: solve one more problem, one more day, one more person,

2113
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Speaker 3: and like have fun.

2114
01:31:31,760 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 2: Hmm.

2115
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Speaker 8: Shout out Showtime pay per View?

2116
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Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah?

2117
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 8: Or do I even say that?

2118
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:40,080
Speaker 4: No?

2119
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 2: No, You're right, keep going, You got it?

2120
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Speaker 8: But it says Showtime pay per View and most Value Promotion, right.

2121
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:46,840
Speaker 2: You gotta say both? Okay?

2122
01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:50,439
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Speaker 7: Back to the episode, Yeah, enjoy your own ship on

2142
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:10,960
Speaker 7: the Deep podcast, man, Yeah, the listener is gonna be like,

2143
01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 7: all right, we're our twenty startup podcast or bust and stuff.

2144
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:18,120
Speaker 2: I'm stoked to finally be an investor now.

2145
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:19,920
Speaker 3: Yes, dude, Yeah, welcome aboard.

2146
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:20,400
Speaker 2: Thank you.

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01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're thinking about names.

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Speaker 2: I said that with a little friction. Oh Rea, I've

2149
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 2: always I've always tried getting in.

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01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 3: I know you you've the time deserved to get in

2151
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 3: and said, I've.

2152
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:31,599
Speaker 1: Been a guinea pig, Like you've tried making content for me. Hey,

2153
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:33,560
Speaker 1: let's do this, okay, Like when do I get to

2154
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:33,800
Speaker 1: get in?

2155
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:35,640
Speaker 2: Like you know you don't want to get in this.

2156
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:38,920
Speaker 3: Guzzy Yeah no, no, no, Hey, hey, here's the deal.

2157
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 1: You know you don't want to get in this dang

2158
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 1: doggy And I'm just like, all right, I guess we

2159
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:47,680
Speaker 1: can't have a serious coming Doggy Yeah, that's the way

2160
01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:51,400
Speaker 1: to handle like this. It just starts getting Yeah, Doggy,

2161
01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:53,679
Speaker 1: you don't want to get in this thang bag. Really,

2162
01:33:55,160 --> 01:33:58,120
Speaker 1: you know the an emoji thing on iPhone. Will would

2163
01:33:58,200 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: only send me videos him as the Dinosaur and like, Doggy.

2164
01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 3: Can I put money in? I'm like, dude, yeah, this

2165
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:09,960
Speaker 3: is the type of investor. Yea the Dinosaur man, No,

2166
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 3: I do. So you're in. You're an angel investor like

2167
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:17,040
Speaker 3: William Earle Compton, the third and angel in my life.

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01:34:17,320 --> 01:34:17,880
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

2169
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:18,639
Speaker 2: It sounds nice.

2170
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 3: It is, dude, it is nice, But like the reality is, like, hey,

2171
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:26,240
Speaker 3: when you went to the league, you you said, hey,

2172
01:34:26,400 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 3: that five thousand dollars got a stretch? Like I have

2173
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:30,840
Speaker 3: never ever wanted to take money out of your pocket,

2174
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:32,200
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, I always want to

2175
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:34,479
Speaker 3: put it in right and and like that's the thing

2176
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:34,760
Speaker 3: is that.

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01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:35,439
Speaker 2: You never did.

2178
01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:37,320
Speaker 3: But I know, I know you're here.

2179
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:39,479
Speaker 1: Are these guys are gonna start paying me for the tweets?

2180
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:39,800
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2181
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:44,559
Speaker 2: We are now, Yeah I get some money.

2182
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 3: No, But the truth is that you know, these athletes

2183
01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 3: they go through and they get to that next level,

2184
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 3: they get that first paycheck and like oh man, you

2185
01:34:52,320 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 3: should open up a subway franchise all clothing line time,

2186
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:57,840
Speaker 3: Like everyone's trying to get in their pockets and like hey, yeah,

2187
01:34:57,920 --> 01:34:59,439
Speaker 3: let's do that, let's do that, let's do that, and

2188
01:34:59,560 --> 01:35:01,800
Speaker 3: like none that stuff pans out right, So like I

2189
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:04,960
Speaker 3: never felt comfortable saying like, hey, yeah, we should take

2190
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:07,800
Speaker 3: in like money from athletes that we know that our

2191
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:10,600
Speaker 3: entire mission is to help you, right, But what I

2192
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 3: know to be true is that your investment open doors

2193
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:15,000
Speaker 3: is gonna pay dividends, Like you're gonna it's gonna be

2194
01:35:15,080 --> 01:35:18,639
Speaker 3: worth it, like we but we have validated and works.

2195
01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:20,040
Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of people that right now just

2196
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:21,880
Speaker 3: heard about open doors for the first time. O P

2197
01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:25,719
Speaker 3: E N D O R s E dot com open Doors. Okay,

2198
01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:28,360
Speaker 3: you're gonna hear for the first time right now, and

2199
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:31,439
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, that's a great idea, you know, and

2200
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,839
Speaker 3: it's gonna be like, oh, it's a it's an overnight success.

2201
01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:36,240
Speaker 3: We've been doing this for ten years, dude, We've been

2202
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:38,800
Speaker 3: doing this for ten years. And like anybody that says

2203
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:41,360
Speaker 3: that this is easy and it happened fast like that,

2204
01:35:41,479 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 3: they're wrong, right, But now we have valid enough it's like, yeah,

2205
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 3: you can give us some of your money because I'm

2206
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:49,599
Speaker 3: gonna get you a twenty x thirty x fifty x return.

2207
01:35:50,240 --> 01:35:51,559
Speaker 2: Let's fucking go, let's code.

2208
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:55,360
Speaker 3: Let's go there, especially once you get that little intro

2209
01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:58,320
Speaker 3: video of you explaining how to how open doorse works.

2210
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do need to meet make like a piece

2211
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 1: of cool content like how it works, like if there's

2212
01:36:02,320 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 1: a way to like walk through and all you got

2213
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:07,720
Speaker 1: to do, We'll just saying but I'm saying visually too,

2214
01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:10,400
Speaker 1: like you like you go something, Hey, We'll make something cool,

2215
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 1: something cool.

2216
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:15,640
Speaker 3: If you don't, I mean, hey, like real quick, how

2217
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:17,559
Speaker 3: are we doing on time? Like I know that that's

2218
01:36:17,600 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 3: not my job to do any of this ship, but

2219
01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:20,280
Speaker 3: are we good?

2220
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,960
Speaker 2: Like you guys, I mean we're he's just talking about

2221
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:24,000
Speaker 2: time like on this podcast.

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01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:25,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to make sure like if you

2223
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:27,880
Speaker 3: want to get stories out, like we've we've talked like

2224
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 3: super hypothetical stuff, right, There's not been many tangible stories

2225
01:36:32,200 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 3: about anything in this podcast. Yeah, I mean I'm sorry,

2226
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 3: Like I'm just like, yeah, I just know what people

2227
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 3: listen to, Like I would listen to us talk about

2228
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:44,600
Speaker 3: hypotheticals of this and I don't know. I just know

2229
01:36:44,720 --> 01:36:51,439
Speaker 3: that there's stories to be told too. All right, Cool,

2230
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 3: that's the blood flowing down. I'll get it, dude, I

2231
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:56,000
Speaker 3: get it. I'm just like a good filter. Yeah, I mean,

2232
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 3: this is what you do.

2233
01:36:58,040 --> 01:36:58,200
Speaker 1: You know.

2234
01:36:59,200 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 3: So I'm on my front like, sorry, show, but it's

2235
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:03,240
Speaker 3: obvious that be.

2236
01:37:04,200 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 2: Like, hey, what do you know? It's the boy. Somebody

2237
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 2: said something? Uh Alex said urgent? Something urgent.

2238
01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:19,680
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll respond after Yeah, yeah we got flag for

2239
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 1: that bullshit.

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Speaker 2: I'll telling about it earlier.

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01:37:22,040 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 3: What I don't want to yeah yeah, yeah, on he explain.

2242
01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 3: Please let's add more content to that.

2243
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you guys have anything like you you guys,

2244
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 1: I mean, if you guys have any questions, whether it's

2245
01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 1: a story or just anything that we've all talked about

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01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 1: or they've all talked about.

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01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,320
Speaker 6: Deal you've seen for an athlete so far, Like what's

2248
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,760
Speaker 6: the most amount of money a college kid has made?

2249
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 3: Or do you think what do you think?

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Speaker 2: Are you allowed to say that?

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01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:48,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't talk about like specifics.

2252
01:37:49,040 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 2: Can you we just say player X?

2253
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:55,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2254
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: Are we allowed to just bag what is a college

2255
01:37:57,400 --> 01:37:59,519
Speaker 1: player made? And you just say, like like something that's

2256
01:37:59,560 --> 01:38:00,000
Speaker 1: been crazy?

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01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:02,519
Speaker 3: We can talk in aggregates, We can talk about.

2258
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:09,160
Speaker 2: You guys been doing a lot of Bullshiti word.

2259
01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:11,040
Speaker 5: You should just have a dictionary right next to you.

2260
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:13,719
Speaker 5: And just like we can talk about aggregates. Hey, fuck

2261
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:20,439
Speaker 5: you man, don't talk about aggreg Yeah, this is Tennessee. Man,

2262
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:21,760
Speaker 5: we don't say that, you.

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01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 2: Racist motherfucker.

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01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:31,640
Speaker 3: Jesus. But so, so what is here's the thing, Like

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01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:34,880
Speaker 3: most people, I'm we're knee deep in athlete endorsements to

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01:38:34,920 --> 01:38:36,360
Speaker 3: this sort of thing. You give us something, all right,

2267
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 3: all right, there's Hey, there's a gymnast. There's a gymnast

2268
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:41,800
Speaker 3: for L s U. Her name's Olivia Dunn. She's got

2269
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:45,799
Speaker 3: seven figures lined up already in endorsement deals. A gymnast

2270
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:49,040
Speaker 3: at L s U. Right, So, like everyone listens like, oh,

2271
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 3: it's got to be Spencer Rattler bringing home the cash, right,

2272
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:54,160
Speaker 3: It's gonna be Derek King making that money. Like the

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01:38:54,280 --> 01:38:57,040
Speaker 3: truth is that the the athletes that are making the

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01:38:57,120 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 3: most right now are content creators to talkers, YouTubers that

2275
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 3: just got to flip the switch and they're making money

2276
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 3: right now, right because you know, the the dude that's

2277
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:09,439
Speaker 3: gonna get paid, you know, to sell a shirt for

2278
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,639
Speaker 3: twenty bucks. Maybe do an autograph for a one hundred bucks,

2279
01:39:11,720 --> 01:39:14,519
Speaker 3: Like that's gonna stack up and rack up and be impactful. Right,

2280
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:17,240
Speaker 3: But oh, for sure, the people that want to listen,

2281
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:19,679
Speaker 3: like who's making seven figures. It's a gymnast at LSU

2282
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:23,719
Speaker 3: that's got four million followers on TikTok. It's the Haley

2283
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:26,720
Speaker 3: and Hannah Cavender at Fresno State that are that you

2284
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:30,160
Speaker 3: have thousands of YouTube subscribers and three million TikTok followers,

2285
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 3: Like those are the athletes that are winning, you know.

2286
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:34,800
Speaker 3: And that's the coolest thing is that these people you

2287
01:39:34,800 --> 01:39:37,120
Speaker 3: don't even know about it, but that those are the

2288
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:40,600
Speaker 3: and and for them there's not like a pro like

2289
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:42,800
Speaker 3: this is their moment to make that money and they're

2290
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 3: doing that. That's the cool part of an ile. Yeah,

2291
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:47,000
Speaker 3: especially people with people always.

2292
01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: Be curious about like the big like who's going to

2293
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:51,160
Speaker 1: be making like the seven figures of six figures of

2294
01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:53,679
Speaker 1: you know, shit like that. Yeah, but people don't understand,

2295
01:39:53,800 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 1: like you were saying it earlier, like I mean, two

2296
01:39:56,479 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 1: hundred bucks a month goes a long way, which imagine

2297
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:05,160
Speaker 1: getting there, like, yes, we are on full right scholarships

2298
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:07,479
Speaker 1: and people make that argument, oh, you get a full ride,

2299
01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:09,880
Speaker 1: you get the you know, you get college paid for.

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01:40:10,040 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 1: We're busting our ass doing this, like you should be grateful,

2301
01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, like we get our scholarship check.

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01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:16,080
Speaker 2: It was around what when I was a senior, is

2303
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:17,080
Speaker 2: around eight hundred.

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01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:21,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, seven and eighty dollars, And that was to pay rent,

2305
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 4: pay for rent as like after I pay for rent, utilities, phone, rent,

2306
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:29,960
Speaker 4: car insurance. I remember I would have like one hundred

2307
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,559
Speaker 4: maybe one hundred, one hundred, twenty bucks left a month,

2308
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:35,600
Speaker 4: so I needed twenty bucks to go downtown because you know,

2309
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:38,519
Speaker 4: you knew everybody, right, so so like that was that's

2310
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:40,120
Speaker 4: that was what you did. But like I think that

2311
01:40:40,360 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 4: the Schollie checks now are like sixteen hundred or even more.

2312
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 3: But it's like but the secret thing though, like that again,

2313
01:40:46,600 --> 01:40:48,560
Speaker 3: I swear if you weren't a student athlete like this

2314
01:40:48,600 --> 01:40:51,320
Speaker 3: stuff won't you'd be like, okay, I never thought about that,

2315
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:53,599
Speaker 3: but remember that subway over by home depot, like where

2316
01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 3: that you could go and like everyone knew like if

2317
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:58,559
Speaker 3: you said the right word, like you know, you might

2318
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:00,600
Speaker 3: be able to get that five dollars foot long for

2319
01:41:00,720 --> 01:41:05,840
Speaker 3: a little bit less right, and this is a hypothetical,

2320
01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 3: Like Taylor the Wan was telling me a story of Michigan.

2321
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:17,280
Speaker 3: Look at Michigan. What's true now is like for the

2322
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:19,599
Speaker 3: last two weeks, for the first time ever, like you've

2323
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 3: been able to take the burrito from Chipotle when the

2324
01:41:22,080 --> 01:41:25,040
Speaker 3: dude's like, hey, you're a baller, like burritos on me,

2325
01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:29,120
Speaker 3: because like, no, you got to do something though, like

2326
01:41:29,200 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 3: you have to do something. It's got you. You can't

2327
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:33,120
Speaker 3: just take it because that's that's you have to have

2328
01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 3: an inn ilativity. So like kids are doing like, oh,

2329
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:38,200
Speaker 3: it's an appearance, Like I made an appearance at Chipotle

2330
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:40,720
Speaker 3: and I got an eight dollar burrito, and like that's

2331
01:41:40,800 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 3: all good. Or they'll tweet out about Chipotle like Titus

2332
01:41:43,960 --> 01:41:45,759
Speaker 3: roller in town like on O Street, you know whatever,

2333
01:41:45,880 --> 01:41:49,240
Speaker 3: and but that that is what's happening, And that's the

2334
01:41:49,280 --> 01:41:52,760
Speaker 3: stuff that's like people, it's not gonna make headlines that

2335
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:54,680
Speaker 3: some do got an eight dollars burrito for free, But

2336
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:58,080
Speaker 3: for the like history of the NCA, you've never been

2337
01:41:58,080 --> 01:42:00,719
Speaker 3: able to right, just to have the option is pretty

2338
01:42:00,760 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 3: dang cool. And again it's not going to break headlines.

2339
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 3: But that's the type of stuff that I'm excited about.

2340
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:08,360
Speaker 3: But we got to get some busting ambassadors, dude, like

2341
01:42:08,520 --> 01:42:11,120
Speaker 3: I think that we should. Right now, I'm gonna make

2342
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:13,519
Speaker 3: you commit how much how much are you going to

2343
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 3: put towards building out the Busting with the Boys teams? Like,

2344
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:19,240
Speaker 3: we need some busting athletes?

2345
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:20,960
Speaker 2: You talking about how much right now?

2346
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:22,080
Speaker 5: Yes?

2347
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 3: Easy, man, No, let's talk about how many how what?

2348
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:27,680
Speaker 2: Hey? Decision like this takes time?

2349
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:31,800
Speaker 3: No, it's doesn't. It takes right now, not money. Let's

2350
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:34,800
Speaker 3: talk about what describe the perfect ambassador for Busting with

2351
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 3: the Boys. You go out and build out the team,

2352
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:38,799
Speaker 3: the squad, You're like, yeah, those are all busting athletes.

2353
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:40,640
Speaker 3: What do they tell me? What they look like?

2354
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:44,439
Speaker 2: The obviously somebody for the boys?

2355
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:48,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, grid grit, the grid buddy, Yeah, lunch pale,

2356
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:51,600
Speaker 1: guys like wolves, people who are about like being for

2357
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:53,640
Speaker 1: the boys, that embodies being for the boys. It's not

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Speaker 1: like you want people who are going to post, who

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01:42:56,680 --> 01:42:58,960
Speaker 1: are going to be afraid to get in an interview,

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01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 1: say we're all in a group at right, or say

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01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:02,760
Speaker 1: we're talking back and forth and say hey, this week,

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01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:05,000
Speaker 1: if you win, very barring that you win the game

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01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 1: and you feel good about it. Just shout out the

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01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 1: boys and say, hey, subscribe to the boys and ray

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01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:12,800
Speaker 1: five stars, you know what I mean? Or or you know,

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01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:16,680
Speaker 1: obviously you got stuff that we can give is up

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01:43:16,720 --> 01:43:19,840
Speaker 1: in the air. But the ideal person I think Taylor

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01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:21,760
Speaker 1: and I immediately think of our alma maters, like, how

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01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:24,840
Speaker 1: do you take care of those guys and get them

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01:43:24,880 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 1: on the train and get them on a train.

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01:43:26,439 --> 01:43:30,320
Speaker 2: In a way to where they're not nervous about being

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01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 2: for the boys. Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know what I mean, that makes sense. You

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01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:34,519
Speaker 3: want a lot you're trying.

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Speaker 2: To have I don't know where we're trying to figure

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01:43:36,479 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 2: that out.

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01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:41,280
Speaker 3: You trying to get like ten boys, see like yeah.

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01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:43,719
Speaker 1: There's there's there's thoughts where you get like a small

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01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:46,439
Speaker 1: group or you think, like Taylor being at the the

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01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:50,280
Speaker 1: level he's at playing football, being a pro bowler, being

2381
01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 1: at the high peak of being an offensive lineman. A

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01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: lot of these young kids, especially in college, you know

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01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:57,400
Speaker 1: who Taylor want is so they want to be for

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01:43:57,520 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 1: the boys somehow, Like.

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01:43:58,320 --> 01:43:59,160
Speaker 2: Hey, how can you be it?

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01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: So you don't know, like you know, you create this

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01:44:01,320 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: hogs like you create anything, the big boy, any of.

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01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:07,880
Speaker 2: That's the big nasties whatever it is. Yeah, and you

2389
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:08,920
Speaker 2: think about that avenue.

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01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:10,679
Speaker 1: You think about, okay, if I worked with a certain

2391
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 1: amount of linebackers, whether it be in a mentoring avenue. Like,

2392
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:15,880
Speaker 1: there's so many different options that have gone through my head.

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01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:18,519
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know what that is yet, but I

2394
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:21,240
Speaker 1: know like a lot of the athletes have already reached

2395
01:44:21,240 --> 01:44:22,840
Speaker 1: out to us, like how do we be for the boys,

2396
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:26,240
Speaker 1: And so those are obviously the types of guys who

2397
01:44:26,240 --> 01:44:29,360
Speaker 1: want people who are taking initiative that know what's gonna

2398
01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:31,960
Speaker 1: come with, like they already know about how we go.

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Speaker 2: About things, you know what I mean?

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01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:35,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, of course, So you said one hundred

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01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 3: grand that's what you said. Did I think I heard

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01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:41,320
Speaker 3: that too hard too?

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01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:44,639
Speaker 3: I think that So Busting with the Boys is gonna

2405
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:48,080
Speaker 3: commit two hundred g's to building out the busting with

2406
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 3: the boys. And this is from Wills like personal cat. Wow,

2407
01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:54,679
Speaker 3: your personal cat. You guys heard, See how that looks?

2408
01:44:54,760 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see here.

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01:44:56,160 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 1: First, it does fire me up, like part of you

2410
01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:03,640
Speaker 1: guys visiting was we're gonna be talking about those thing.

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01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:05,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we should do that for sure tonight.

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01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:07,840
Speaker 2: Man. It fires me up though, But that's a good question.

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01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:11,479
Speaker 3: I think it's not about the money. I'm not talking.

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01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 2: About the money part.

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01:45:12,080 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm talking about how you go about doing something like

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01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 1: that with a brand that we have, Like do you

2417
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: want to be selective and exclusive in things or do

2418
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:21,120
Speaker 1: you want to be like you know, Dave puts out

2419
01:45:21,160 --> 01:45:25,040
Speaker 1: the video and every athlete period you know, wants to

2420
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:27,160
Speaker 1: put barsel athlete as long as they get some merch

2421
01:45:27,800 --> 01:45:29,639
Speaker 1: which is incredible branding, which.

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Speaker 3: Is a great interesting Yeah, but there's a lot of

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01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:32,559
Speaker 3: compliance issues with that too.

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01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, big stuff like what you know about we won't

2425
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:37,360
Speaker 1: get into because we you know, it's been an hour

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01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:37,760
Speaker 1: and a half.

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01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:39,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just thought you would skip over some of

2428
01:45:39,840 --> 01:45:42,040
Speaker 3: the stuff already was talking about and we just keep going.

2429
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:44,160
Speaker 3: I thought I had a friend at the start of

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01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:48,639
Speaker 3: this podcast. I clearly don't. So you friends in my life.

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01:45:48,680 --> 01:45:52,599
Speaker 2: That's cool. Okay, what complaint compliance issues do you run

2432
01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 2: into with all that?

2433
01:45:54,280 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 3: I like teaching kids that if you didn't you bum that. Yeah,

2434
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 3: let's have a foot that's.

2435
01:46:05,040 --> 01:46:07,880
Speaker 1: Just making a huge fucking body moving back there.

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01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:14,640
Speaker 3: And then yeah, let's talk about the history of Uh.

2437
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:18,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you want to hire and fire our people? Sure?

2438
01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 2: Get rid of Garrett. Yeah, okay, sorry to cut you off.

2439
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:26,320
Speaker 3: No you no, it's good dude.

2440
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:30,920
Speaker 2: But open doors dot com here's your drop your look.

2441
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:33,639
Speaker 3: This is like anyone listening. Like you can log into

2442
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:36,439
Speaker 3: open or stuck comcreene account. You could find whatever athlete

2443
01:46:36,439 --> 01:46:38,439
Speaker 3: you want and ask them to do whatever you want

2444
01:46:38,880 --> 01:46:40,680
Speaker 3: for whatever amount of money and it will will go

2445
01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 3: straight to their phone. Like you want them to tweet

2446
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:45,280
Speaker 3: about your your your small business. You want them to

2447
01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:48,920
Speaker 3: give you a shout out like it's it's like Cameo

2448
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:54,439
Speaker 3: meets five plus. Just asking an athlete directly, Hey do

2449
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:57,400
Speaker 3: you want to support my business or say happy birthdays

2450
01:46:57,439 --> 01:46:59,720
Speaker 3: my kid? Like open doors, It just makes athletes more

2451
01:46:59,720 --> 01:47:02,040
Speaker 3: excit to the people that support them, Like it's super

2452
01:47:02,120 --> 01:47:04,800
Speaker 3: easy and uh yeah, so do that, Like just do

2453
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 3: it and you're you were gonna will confidence on there.

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01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:12,599
Speaker 1: You can just do your thing. Don't bring don't bring

2455
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:15,599
Speaker 1: this back to me. Open doors dot com. Follow at

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01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 1: open doors your Twitter handle.

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01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:21,640
Speaker 3: Blake Underscore Lawrence, Yeah your Twitter U n A L.

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01:47:21,680 --> 01:47:24,960
Speaker 2: I see follow the boys. We love you, We appreciate you.

2459
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:25,840
Speaker 2: Big hugs, Sidy kisses.

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