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Speaker 1: And we back. Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the No Dunes podcast on the Athletic Network. I'm Jay

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Speaker 1: Skeets along with our super producer jd. We got a

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Speaker 1: special guest today. Rolling through his Twitter bio, says he

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Speaker 1: convinced half a million people that he was cool enough

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Speaker 1: to watch. That's actually him being humble. He's an NBA

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Speaker 1: two K YouTube star. He's one of the hosts of

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Speaker 1: the Through the Wire podcast on host so Highlights. He

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Speaker 1: goes by King of the fourth Quarter. It's Kenny Beacham, Kenny,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you jumping on today.

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Speaker 3: This is insane. I just got to get an intro

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Speaker 3: from Jay Skeats. It's crazy to even think about.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, saying seven hundred and fifty thousand doesn't have

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Speaker 2: the same ring as half Amelia for the bio, so

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Speaker 2: he's gonna keep it a half a million to eventually

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Speaker 2: hopefully I can get it to one million.

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Speaker 1: Just round up already, man, say a million. No one's

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Speaker 1: gonna actually check. Don't want to get there, man. I'm

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Speaker 1: so pumped to have you on. It's been something I

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Speaker 1: wanted to do for a while now. We were talking

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. It was talking of maybe getting

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Speaker 1: you on a trivia podcast, which I think we have

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Speaker 1: to do in the future because you know your stuff. Man,

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Speaker 1: I gotta give it to you. I've been doing this

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Speaker 1: for a long time. The guys I do the show

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Speaker 1: with they obviously know a ton about the NBA. But

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Speaker 1: I've been watching your videos recently listening to your podcast

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Speaker 1: as well, and I'm like, damn, there are other people

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Speaker 1: out there that know maybe just as much as we

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Speaker 1: do about the NBA. You guys know your stuff. I

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Speaker 1: tweeted out earlier this week just how impressed I was

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Speaker 1: with your work, ethic, your passion, your content. It is

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Speaker 1: top notch.

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Speaker 3: My man, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I got so many questions. I want to throw you away, okay,

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Speaker 1: cause I'm fascinated about how you go about creating your

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Speaker 1: content making a living out of it. And we will

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Speaker 1: get to the Through the Wire podcast and other sports

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Speaker 1: media opportunities opening up for you. But let's start with

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Speaker 1: that baby, your NBA two K YouTube channel, Kenny, right

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Speaker 1: off the top. I'm not much of a gamer, okay,

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Speaker 1: especially anymore. It's passed me by, So can you explain

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Speaker 1: to nubes like me? I obviously know what two K

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Speaker 1: is I think I'm in the game for crying out.

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Speaker 1: Yes you are, Yes, I'm one of the annoying social

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Speaker 1: media things that pops up. But can you display, like

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Speaker 1: explain the different factions within two K, because I know

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Speaker 1: what you do is like my league, or you focus

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Speaker 1: my team and or my Yeah, part explain that to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I focus on my league, which the general concept

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Speaker 2: two K decides Okay, this is.

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Speaker 3: Enough for you. You can start over now. So that's

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Speaker 3: why I focus on because I feel.

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Speaker 2: That the the overall idea of building a team is

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Speaker 3: And I have like a this fan base that's just

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Speaker 2: And when I started making these videos, I had no

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Speaker 2: And then I found out that there are also NBA

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Speaker 1: Not playing really the game itself, right, You're doing simulations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm simulations, so I'm building my entire I usually

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Speaker 2: So there's my career where you control yourself, you create

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Speaker 2: And then you can also take that player and play online,

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Speaker 3: So Mike Park, you can squad up.

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Speaker 3: The world with your creative player. Those games are fun.

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Speaker 3: I'm just not that good at online gaming in general.

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Speaker 2: So the fact that I am a gamer and I'm

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the wildest part to me. So you're honestly

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Speaker 1: not that good. No, when it comes to actually playing

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Speaker 2: I'm better at like the first person shooter type games

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, it is my president. That's my president

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Speaker 1: right there. You know, do you follow the NBA two

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Speaker 2: I tried to the first season because I actually had

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Speaker 2: So I'll come in and talk to some people, watch

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Speaker 1: Did you also just say the Knicks won a championship and.

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Speaker 1: I thought this was supposed to be realistic. That's okay.

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Speaker 1: you do all these really cool and really creative challenges.

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Speaker 2: So I tried to make myself as realistic to myself

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Speaker 2: tune in. So doing a normal Utah Jazz rebuild, it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you come up with all these ideas?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I do have like a brainstorm a period

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Speaker 2: Because at the end of the day, that's that's pretty

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Speaker 1: What made you decide to launch a YouTube channel? And

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Speaker 3: It's similar to like a vitamin shop.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I was working at the vitamin shop and

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Speaker 3: And I did that, and then my next paycheck was

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Speaker 1: Why do you think your videos resonate so much with fans? Well, like,

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Speaker 3: But mostly I want to be in sports media more

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Speaker 2: Okay, the idea of being a gener manager, I feel

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Speaker 2: of trying to build a team.

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Speaker 1: You talked about your production sort of schedule, what a

442
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Speaker 1: day's like. Did you have a goal early on and

443
00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,840
Speaker 1: even to this day of like a video a day

444
00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,439
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Like you know, like at the

445
00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,280
Speaker 1: beginning of that week, you're like, I want to have

446
00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,160
Speaker 1: X amount of things up or is it just sort

447
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:21,760
Speaker 1: of flying by the seat of your pants a little bit?

448
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,760
Speaker 1: But is there like structure to that level? You know

449
00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:24,120
Speaker 1: what I mean?

450
00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,960
Speaker 2: Sometimes there is structure, sometimes there isn't. I feel like

451
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,240
Speaker 2: the days or the weeks where I don't put a

452
00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,399
Speaker 2: goal on myself, I'm usually the most productive because somehow

453
00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,720
Speaker 2: I get in my head like, oh I wanted five videos,

454
00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:38,240
Speaker 2: but somehow I've only got three done.

455
00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,520
Speaker 3: I failed this week.

456
00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,320
Speaker 2: So instead I'm just like, Okay, can I get something

457
00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,359
Speaker 2: done today? If I can, then let's do it. If

458
00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,119
Speaker 2: I can't, then no harm done?

459
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Speaker 1: Right. What's your favorite part about creating these two K

460
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Speaker 1: videos or any of your videos?

461
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:56,520
Speaker 3: For that, it's a flexibility. Mostly. I just love being

462
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Speaker 3: able to decide.

463
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Speaker 2: When I do upload and when I don't upload. Uh,

464
00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,640
Speaker 2: it's just it's really just the freedom of it.

465
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,240
Speaker 1: Are you like one of these guys that's like making

466
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,080
Speaker 1: these videos at like three in the morning, Like, are.

467
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,679
Speaker 2: I feel I feel like I am my best version

468
00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,439
Speaker 2: of myself when I need sleep.

469
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's because.

470
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,080
Speaker 1: You're like, well, just a little loose, a little loopy.

471
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's just something about it.

472
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,960
Speaker 2: I love recording around those times of the day, but

473
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,080
Speaker 2: it doesn't always work that way.

474
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Speaker 3: You know. Sometimes I do want to most of the times, I.

475
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 2: Do want to go to bed with my girlfriend, you know,

476
00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,200
Speaker 2: so we can get to bed together.

477
00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,320
Speaker 3: But just something about the three am two am.

478
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,119
Speaker 2: Time, it's just like it's still myself, but it's just

479
00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more loopier version of myself.

480
00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,480
Speaker 3: And then those are the times where like people clip.

481
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Speaker 2: Parts of my videos and tweet them out and I'm like,

482
00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,080
Speaker 2: did I really see it?

483
00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:44,439
Speaker 4: Say that?

484
00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when the memes are created exactly exactly. What's

485
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Speaker 1: your least favorite part of your of your job, which

486
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,320
Speaker 1: this is your job, What's something we're just like at times,

487
00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,199
Speaker 1: you're like, this is a little taxing because we I mean,

488
00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,720
Speaker 1: as much as we all love our jobs, and you

489
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,159
Speaker 1: and I have pretty incredible jobs, you know, there are

490
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,120
Speaker 1: parts that you don't like about it. Sometimes. What would

491
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:04,360
Speaker 1: you tha.

492
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,440
Speaker 2: Like, uh, the brainstorm an idea part, because there are

493
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 2: times where there's not much for me to to create,

494
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,160
Speaker 2: especially like this time of the year, because we're getting

495
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,639
Speaker 2: to the point where the next version of two K

496
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,399
Speaker 2: is going to come out. So like all of the

497
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,960
Speaker 2: challenges or the ideas that I have are like run low.

498
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,399
Speaker 2: And I mean again, I'm lucky that like my fans

499
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 2: can send me ideas. But sometimes it's just hard to say,

500
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,159
Speaker 2: like hey, if I if I want to do this

501
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 2: much this minute videos a week, it's hard to sometimes

502
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,239
Speaker 2: come up with that. And then I've had times I'm like,

503
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 2: I'm just going to take a week off, you know,

504
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:43,639
Speaker 2: just just refresh.

505
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to in anything creative. I think you

506
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,119
Speaker 1: have to do that. And this one this has been

507
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 1: a weird season probably for you as well with the

508
00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,640
Speaker 1: NBA season because you and we'll get to you through

509
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,360
Speaker 1: the Wire podcast, but it's like we've had no time off.

510
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 1: I mean, you're still creating podcasts through the Wire. I

511
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 1: know that, as are we with no it's really weird.

512
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,640
Speaker 1: What what's the best random generated name you've ever come

513
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: across in two command?

514
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,439
Speaker 2: Jadedan's probably not gonna like this, you may have to

515
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 2: bleep it, go ahead, but there is a player named

516
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Speaker 2: Dick Rose.

517
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 1: I think, okay Rose, all right, brother of Derek.

518
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,679
Speaker 3: I guess exactly. So I traded for him and it

519
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 3: was like a package deal.

520
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 2: I traded two players for two players, and I think

521
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,679
Speaker 2: the main person I was traded for was someone along

522
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 2: the lines of Shay Gilges Alexander and this guy Dick

523
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 2: Rose is just a part of it.

524
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Speaker 3: And I just saw d Rose.

525
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 2: Sometimes two K has it where you can't see the

526
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 2: picture that's generated with the player.

527
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,120
Speaker 3: So my mind, I just.

528
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 2: Picked up Dereck Rose. He's my favorite player of all time.

529
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 2: So I got Alexander and Dereck Rose. But instead I

530
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,679
Speaker 2: look at my roster, there's a point guard named Dick Rose,

531
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, this is uh, this is not

532
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 2: what I expected.

533
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 3: And then that itself became a.

534
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 2: Huge meme on my channel, where like people who made

535
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 2: Twitter accounts dedicated to this Dick Rose.

536
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's only a recent video too. I don't know

537
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: if it was recent. I can't keep tracking all your videos.

538
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: But instead of Reggie Miller, it was like Riggy Miller,

539
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: that's just an error in the game. Or was there

540
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: another guy?

541
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

542
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 2: So like two K, you can download rosters that other

543
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 2: people have created, Okay, And Reggie Miller is not a

544
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,920
Speaker 2: guy that has signed on his rights to two K,

545
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 2: so there's he hasn't been in the game two early

546
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 2: two thousands, so you can download a roster. If you

547
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 2: want the all time greatest pacer lineup, you need Reggie Miller.

548
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 2: So some guy created his version of Reggie Miller but

549
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 2: spelled it riggy gotcha.

550
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 3: And then that also became a huge meme with a channel.

551
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Speaker 1: That's very funny. It feels like correct me if I'm

552
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 1: wrong yourself and the NBA two K community have like

553
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 1: a love hate relationship.

554
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 3: Oh yes with the game.

555
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, why is that? Like, you guys obviously love it.

556
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 1: You're playing it all the time, You're doing what you do,

557
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: But there does seem to be like like fix this,

558
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: change this. Why don't you guys listen to us? Is

559
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: that is that fair?

560
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: It's very fair? And the reason is that they have

561
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 2: corn at the market right it's this is the only

562
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 2: NBA related basketball game there is. They had a little

563
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 2: bit of competition with NBA Live, but eventually NBA Live

564
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 2: decided to stop making what we call simulation version of

565
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 2: basketball and start making more like NBA Street type games

566
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 2: where it's just like super fun or NBA Jam type games,

567
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: and two K is the only simulation version. So they

568
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 2: could basically put out any type of product in US.

569
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 2: NBA fans that love playing video games are gonna buy

570
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,199
Speaker 2: that version because it's the only version of basketball we

571
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 2: really have, And because of that, we feel like us

572
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 2: as creators and the people that are also in the community,

573
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 2: we feel like there's a lot of things that could

574
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Speaker 2: be better about the game that maybe the company isn't

575
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: really taken care of.

576
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Speaker 1: Do you think they're receptive to complaints or suggestions. No,

577
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: they're like are they just it's like, guys, you're gonna

578
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: buy the game, Just relax.

579
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 3: That's the way we feel.

580
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 2: We feel like they just they don't really love the criticism,

581
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 2: like they're I don't know.

582
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 3: I want to say. Community manager's name is Ronnie. Ronnie Tka.

583
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 3: You've seen him in like the All Star games and

584
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 3: things like that.

585
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 2: He has a way of like he also live streams,

586
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: and people go into his live stream to talk about, hey,

587
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 2: this creator said this about the game, and he'll somehow

588
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 2: insult the creator that says of them about the game

589
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 2: instead of trying to to really change what the things

590
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 2: that are wrong with the game. But ultimately, I can

591
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 2: I can say the Game of two K is fun.

592
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 2: I love it. It's just could be a lot better.

593
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 2: Just the point that a lot of us creators are

594
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 2: trying to.

595
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: Say, Yeah, there's one video in particular that I watched

596
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: where you were like giving suggestions things you would change,

597
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: things that could be better in terms of the simulation

598
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I actually laughed out loud because

599
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: I had no idea. No one let me know about this,

600
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: by the way, so I'm gonna be a little upset

601
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: with all the listeners that also watch you. But you

602
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: were like, you know, we got this social media part

603
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: of the game. I like Jay Skeetz, but I don't need

604
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: know what virtual Jay Skeets thinks of my team. Yeah,

605
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: laughed out loud, like.

606
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: It'll be tweets like, uh, let's say Jimmy Butler had

607
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 2: twenty five, It'll be Jay skeets Jimmy Butler was on

608
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 2: fire last night.

609
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 3: And it's cool, delightful, it's cool.

610
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 2: But it's just like nobody really goes over to the

611
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 2: social media tab to read what you and Task is

612
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 2: in there as well.

613
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think all the guys, I think Trey is

614
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: for sure. I don't know about Lely, but he might

615
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: be Yeah.

616
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might be as well, so it's actually it's

617
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 2: actually cool to see that, but it's just.

618
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 3: Not something that a lot of us really pay attention to.

619
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: No, see, that's you're right, it's cool the first time.

620
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe even that's embellishment, but it's like the first time,

621
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, and then you do not care ever

622
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 1: again to see a fake tweet from a virtual me

623
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: talking about a virtual team.

624
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 3: If it was more insightful, then I wouldn't mind.

625
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: You know, you're putting it on me.

626
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 3: You know, it's just with his magic Johnson side tweets.

627
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: Love to write my own tweets, send them to rounding two.

628
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: Start putting this in the game. This is what I

629
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: would say, dropping bombs and people get excited. Oh my god,

630
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: you said you play or you did? Do you play

631
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: other games?

632
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 3: Yeah?

633
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: So right now into into the Call of Duty war zones,

634
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: just because that's like the number one thing I find

635
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 2: myself playing, Like mL BE the show a lot, even

636
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: though I'm not a big baseball fan. It's just something

637
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 2: about the game that's pretty fun. But those are pretty

638
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 2: much it. I feel like most of the time i'm online,

639
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 2: I'm mostly just talking to my friends and what we

640
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: consider like the Xbox Party more than actually gaming.

641
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: Do you like Twitch this stuff when you play those

642
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: games or are used to.

643
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: But then Twitch told me that that they weren't gonna

644
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 2: partner me, and that kind of turned me off to

645
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: the entire platform.

646
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: Honestly, Yeah, well, and what does that mean for someone

647
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: that really.

648
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 2: Has So there's two different versions of I guess three.

649
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: It's just like a normal streamer. There's an affiliate and

650
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: then there's a partner. The partner you get like the

651
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: check mark, and then the reason I wanted to be

652
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: a partner, it's not for the lousy check mark, but

653
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 2: mostly because you can have up to I.

654
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 3: Think thirty emotes.

655
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: So like right now on my Twitch channel, there's like

656
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: four emotes where it's like, hey, if someone subscribed to

657
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 2: the channel, you put this in chat. But basically, what

658
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 2: I wanted to do was have these thirty different emotes

659
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: that are very where you can use across the Twitch

660
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: platform that most people know that you're coming from my channel, right,

661
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Speaker 2: And I had so many ideas, but Twitch told me no.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, I'm not mad at Twitch.

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Speaker 2: It's just like it's a grind to become a partner

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Speaker 2: more than anything, gotcha and maybe I'm kind of spoiled

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Speaker 2: that like every other platform, like I was TikTok verified

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Speaker 3: The twitch is like, no, you have to put a

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Speaker 1: But I'm Kenny, God damn it, partner me. Well that's

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Speaker 1: You said you game with your buddies. Does that include

700
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: the through the wire guys? Are these guys gamers as well?

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Speaker 1: They are? You guys are fun.

702
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: We all are.

703
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Speaker 2: So that's kind of where our friendship grew. So we've

704
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: met each other high school. Freshman year, we played on

705
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 2: the same basketball team, but after the basketball season was over,

706
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 2: we didn't really stay in connections with each other until

707
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: we found out that we all had an Xbox and

708
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Speaker 2: then we.

709
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Speaker 3: Started playing some games together.

710
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Speaker 2: Then now we get to the point where like I'll

711
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Speaker 2: wake up in the morning, if i don't have any

712
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Speaker 2: work to do, then I'll hop on Xbox and hey,

713
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: and my friend Mike is there, Pierre is there, and

714
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Speaker 2: they will all just sit there even if we're not

715
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Speaker 2: actually playing games, just kind of just like talking to

716
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Speaker 2: your friends. So our entire relationship. It's like, we give

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Speaker 2: thanks to Xbox for honestly.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah wow, I mean your yeah, your relationship and

719
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Speaker 1: then maybe even now into your careers with that exactly,

720
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Speaker 1: you guys getting paid from house to highlights. Who's the

721
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Speaker 1: best gamer of the.

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Speaker 3: Bunch, It's definitely me.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just saying if we looked at statistics

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Speaker 2: from all the games we played, I would have the

725
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 2: best statistics and every one of them, every one of them.

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Speaker 1: Who's the worst?

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Speaker 2: Then I would say Derek is the worst, mostly because

728
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Speaker 2: he's the one that probably plays the least. Okay, it's

729
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Speaker 2: just it takes a lot of time to be okay

730
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Speaker 2: at some of the games.

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Speaker 3: And again I'm not good at the game, so that

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Speaker 3: tells you that they're even worse.

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Speaker 2: So it's just I'm probably just have the most time

734
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Speaker 2: played in comparison to all of them.

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Speaker 1: How long have you guys been doing the Through the

736
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Speaker 1: Wider podcast? Now it's been you've been, it's been a minute.

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Speaker 3: It's been.

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Speaker 2: This is our third season, this is our third NBA

739
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Speaker 2: season covering. It started off where we just where we

740
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Speaker 2: had a group chat again where we just debate basketball.

741
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Speaker 2: And one thing that we found out is that me

742
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Speaker 2: and Pierre, who's actually my cousin, we disagree on so

743
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: many things right. And I had already had this platform

744
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Speaker 2: for YouTube. I think at this time I had like

745
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand subscribers, and I just hit the group

746
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: chat like, hey, do you want you guys want to

747
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Speaker 2: record a podcast?

748
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: And they said yeah.

749
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Speaker 2: So literally that day I went out to buy all

750
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Speaker 2: the microphone equipment. I bought the mixers, I bought everything

751
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: necessary for us to actually start the podcast, because once

752
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: I had a yes, I wanted to make sure that

753
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Speaker 2: nobody decided to change their mind. When they saw me

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Speaker 2: by the equipment, they knew it was time to get

755
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Speaker 2: to work.

756
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Speaker 1: And that then snowballed into you getting you know, basically

757
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Speaker 1: picked up by House of Highlights to do their official podcast.

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Speaker 1: You guys do a video version as well. You post

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Speaker 1: that You've obviously I assume liked that experience.

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Speaker 3: It's going well amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have help with that then, Kenny? Or

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Speaker 1: is that like, are you the JD of that?

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Speaker 3: I am the j D of the post?

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Speaker 1: Don't They offered it to us.

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Speaker 2: We we kind of decided to turn it down. I

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Speaker 2: don't remember why we decided to. It was like very

767
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Speaker 2: early in the stages with House of Highlights, but somehow

768
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Speaker 2: we decided that, hey, Kenny could just do it all himself,

769
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Speaker 2: and maybe it's better for a House of Highlights. They

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Speaker 2: don't have to have another guy onto the team. But

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Speaker 2: it's it's the House of Highlights. Connection has been more

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Speaker 2: than I could have asked for. The team that they

773
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Speaker 2: built over there is better than any team I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: We have a diverse group and everybody just plays their

775
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Speaker 2: role perfectly. And I give I give a lot of

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Speaker 2: credit that to to Doug, the general manager. He found

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Speaker 2: us on the ground floor with our podcasts and the

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Speaker 2: story goes. He emailed me like, hey, Kenny, like your channel,

779
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: love your podcast from GM of House of Highlights. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: that's that's cool, but like it's it left the door

781
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: open to so many questions. Are they listening to the

782
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: podcas in the offices or is he just a personal fan.

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Speaker 2: So I just replied back, like, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I love House of Highlights because everyone loves House of Highlights.

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Speaker 2: It's like one of the best accounts in the world.

786
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Speaker 2: And then a few months go past and I'm listening

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Speaker 2: to jaj Reddick's podcast. Jaja Reddick had a podcast where

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Speaker 2: he had Omar Raja, who is the founder of House

789
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Speaker 2: of Highlights, on it, and in that podcast, Omar mentioned

790
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Speaker 2: that they're about to branch off into the YouTube world

791
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Speaker 2: because at this point they were just an Instagram accountant.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, I have this YouTube channel. I've

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Speaker 2: already been in contact with the general manager of the company.

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Speaker 2: So then I sat down with my guys. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: we need to formulate this email to let them know

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Speaker 2: that we want to be a part of this this

797
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Speaker 2: YouTube team. Whatever they decide to do with YouTube, we

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Speaker 2: can do that. So we formulate this whole email because

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Speaker 2: at this point we were just an audio podcast, you know,

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Speaker 2: we didn't have the visuals. So in the email, I

801
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: tell Doug like, hey, I just bought the camera equipment.

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Speaker 2: We're about to go full video. I have experience with

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Speaker 2: making YouTube videos. Here's my resumes. You already all you know,

804
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: if you're a fan of the channel, we would love

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Speaker 2: to work together. And then we got to email back

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Speaker 2: maybe a week later, He's like, let's hop on a call,

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Speaker 2: and it.

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Speaker 1: Was wow, that was it. Wow, that's pretty amazing. So

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Speaker 1: now three years in then with House of Highlights.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, sortlights yeah.

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Speaker 1: Right right right, and the video portion, that's when that

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Speaker 1: kicked off because you said I do this, you're going

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Speaker 1: into YouTube or you want to expand into it. We

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Speaker 1: could be like sort of the official podcast right exactly

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Speaker 1: of the thing. That's incredible. So do the other guys

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Speaker 1: Pierre Mike there, like is that their job? Are they

817
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Speaker 1: like they twenty four to seven podcasters with Houseglights or

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Speaker 1: maybe they do other things.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, they are twenty four seven podcasters. Derek

820
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Speaker 2: has like he does so many different jobs. He did

821
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Speaker 2: like door Dash Uber. He's just he's just a guy

822
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Speaker 2: that needs to stay busy, which is which is really cool.

823
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Speaker 2: So he just had a bunch of different jobs. But

824
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Speaker 2: the rest just podcasts. You know, we have our brainstorm

825
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Speaker 2: sessions for each episode. We record each episode and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well tell me this. Do I know your friends?

827
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Speaker 1: I'm friend with the guys I do the show with.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter if you're friends, and maybe even

829
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Speaker 1: it's heightened when you're friends in a creative you know,

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Speaker 1: element in a creative setting making a podcast, that's what

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Speaker 1: that is. I mean, are there are there beefs of

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Speaker 1: like what we should talk about, you know, how we

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Speaker 1: should go about it? You know, like that must happen, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just when you have so many different personalities

835
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 2: trying to have one end goal, it's gonna happen. We

836
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Speaker 2: butt hits all the time on the route that we

837
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: want to have for each episode, but we usually since

838
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Speaker 2: there's four of us, we just somehow find a way

839
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Speaker 2: to find a a middle ground to whatever topic or

840
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Speaker 2: if this is where we're covering, this isn't newsworthy, but

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Speaker 2: this is Those are just like the the overall things that,

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Speaker 2: like you said, you go through as well, but we

843
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 2: just always find a way to make it work, you know,

844
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 2: and even sometimes those like heated conversations transfer over to

845
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Speaker 2: the podcast and I think that's those are the ones

846
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: that the fans love the most when we're actually like

847
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Speaker 2: in heated debate all.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent, I mean against speaking from experience, people

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Speaker 1: love going du leean tasks. Hate each other, well, they

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Speaker 1: don't hate other. Well, they were really going at it

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Speaker 1: about Ben Simmons or whoever you know, and you're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were arguing about, you know, their opinions on the

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Speaker 1: team or a player, and it's like, you're right. People

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Speaker 1: love that stuff. I mean again, that's just like that's

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Speaker 1: what everybody does with their buddies anyway, exactly. You know,

856
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Speaker 1: in talking hoops, people get they're opinionated, they're fired up.

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Speaker 1: How dare you say this? Let me tell you why

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Speaker 1: you're wrong, blah blah blah. So yeah, oh that's good

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Speaker 1: to know. I mean, I just I think it's interesting

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Speaker 1: to me because like, you go from doing everything by yourself,

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Speaker 1: a creative thing with your YouTube videos, like and you

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Speaker 1: do it all, and then now you have all these

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Speaker 1: other people, of course that have their own opinions on

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Speaker 1: how he it.

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Speaker 2: It was a big transition because I was so used

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Speaker 2: to being like the guy that made the decisions with

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Speaker 2: my own things. So it was definitely a big transition

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Speaker 2: to get to the point where I was able to

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Speaker 2: allow my co hosts and even like some of the

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Speaker 2: producers of House of Highlights, to have a say in

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Speaker 2: what we do. At the end of the day, I

872
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: don't know everything, and everybody has their own bit of

873
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: knowledge that that can be more useful to whatever we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Last couple of weekends, All Star weekends, I should say,

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Speaker 1: you guys have taken the show basically on the road,

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00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: although the last one in Chicago. You didn't have to

877
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: travel far for that one. But talk about those experiences

878
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: and just how exciting I'm sure that was for you guys.

879
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: I know when we started doing that, you're actually taking

880
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: the show on the road and there are people who

881
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: come to see you, want to take photos. Is that

882
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: something you guys want to continue to do?

883
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, the first one was so scary. I

884
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: was so nervous to perform, to perform, I guess is

885
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 2: the word in front of a crowd. And that was Charlotte.

886
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 2: So last All Star and I'm sure you guys were

887
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 2: there as well. It was like rainy the entire weekend

888
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: and we had Bleach report. We had like this tent,

889
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: and the tent was like there at a basketball court.

890
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 2: They had gaming situations, and then we had our little

891
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 2: corner whereas where we were performing and we had a crowd,

892
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 2: but it was raining and the doors had to stay

893
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 2: open for like fire hazard purposes.

894
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: And it was like forty degrees, so we were like freezing.

895
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: I was holding the microphone and you would think that

896
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 2: I was like nervous, but at this point it's just

897
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: I'm just so cold, and so we had to put

898
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 2: together so there.

899
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we did a pretty good job.

900
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: The fans really loved it. We gave up like.

901
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: Free free clothing and free jerseys and stuff. So that

902
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 2: was our first All Star appearance, and this year it

903
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 2: just got rented up to a whole another level because

904
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 2: this was our home and at this point, we were

905
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: like the focal point of the entire house of highlights.

906
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 3: Like brand at this moment.

907
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 2: So they rented out this entire thing where it wasn't

908
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 2: just basketball courts here and other reasons to be there.

909
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 2: Everybody that was there were for us, So we packed

910
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 2: out the house.

911
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: It was so fun. We had Kobe White on the show, which.

912
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 2: Is one of my favorite bulls, and We're supposed to

913
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 2: have a few WNBA players for something that came up

914
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 2: in their schedule. But the entire experience of being live,

915
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: I think it's something that's incredible. I think its something

916
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 2: that's credible because this year we had like the Twitter

917
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 2: Show and it was broadcast across the world, and never

918
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 2: did I even recognize the crowd while we were up there.

919
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 2: I was just so in tune with my co hosts

920
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 2: and the ideas that we were flowing out there. And

921
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: that's when I was like, this is exactly what I

922
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: want to do for my entire life.

923
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: You get that, itch man, It's exciting for sure, live

924
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: anything is very exciting. It's nerve wracking too, but that's

925
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: it's like a good feeling, I think. And then when

926
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: it's all done and you got through it, you're like,

927
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: oh my god, that was awesome exact So what do

928
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: you want? You want to do more of that?

929
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: Then?

930
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, what does Kenny want to do? Like

931
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: in terms of sports media?

932
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: So we planned on going on tour this season, but

933
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: everything got shut down, like right before we were four

934
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 2: hours away from our flight to Philly for our first

935
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: official live show.

936
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 3: Are you serious?

937
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: We got a call from our producers, like you know what,

938
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 2: they shut down travel, We cannot go anywhere. So like

939
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 2: COVID nineteen, we were this close to being on the

940
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: flight during the beginning of the COVID nineteen thing.

941
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,240
Speaker 1: But hold on, were you just gonna go to Philly

942
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: and then back or were you gonna do like a tour.

943
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 2: We're gonna We're gonna go Philly, New York and then

944
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 2: home and then we also had places like Houston two

945
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 2: weeks later and.

946
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 3: Then here and there.

947
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: So we were really getting started for our tour and

948
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 2: that got shut down. Uh, but that that is what

949
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 2: I want to do. Like I don't know, maybe you

950
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 2: can say something about this. I don't know where the

951
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: future sports media is going with like the internet. I

952
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: don't know if it is TV still like where you

953
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: want to be or or anywhere else, but whatever, like

954
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 2: the prime location for an audience of sports media that

955
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: I want to be right at the front of that.

956
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: Nice. Well, you guys are well on your way. What

957
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: about interviewing players and stuff like that. I mean, you said,

958
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 1: Kobe White, I know you've talked to Trey Young before.

959
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,919
Speaker 1: It feels like you've you have an interest in wanting

960
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: to do more of that too.

961
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 2: Yes, So the beginning of January so to the year

962
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty, I was promoted to the face of

963
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: the House of Highlights brand, which is pretty cool to say.

964
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 2: So there are a few shows that I took over,

965
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 2: and one of them was called The Real where maybe

966
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 2: you seen Omar He was sitting down with different NBA

967
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 2: players and reacting to their highlights. So I am now

968
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: the host of that. And again, we had so many

969
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 2: schedule for the summer. I was supposed to be here

970
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 2: and there, here, there, I've already. Miles Turner was the

971
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 2: first player I had. He was really nice and I

972
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: just great. He opened the door for me. I was

973
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 2: so nervous for that one, and him just being such

974
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: a nice person kind of let me in like, hey,

975
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 2: these are just normal people as well. So I did

976
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: that one. Trey Young was really cool as well, and

977
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 2: then I did Pat Contan and one of the more

978
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 2: recent ones that hasn't been released yet. I had John

979
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 2: Morant via zoom and that was cool, but I just

980
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,959
Speaker 2: I could have had John Morant in Memphis. I wanted

981
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 2: to go to Memphis so bad. But those are the

982
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 2: type of things that we've been doing and it's been

983
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 2: super fun. There's a couple other shows and the work

984
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 2: that I don't think I can say yet.

985
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 3: Hopefully, when all of this is.

986
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 2: Over and we could get back to travel, those can

987
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 2: become a reality, all right.

988
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 1: So yeah, when hopefully knock on wood, things are back

989
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: to normal, you guys through the wire, live shows like

990
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: you said or like you had planned, and more interviews

991
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and more shows. It sounds like

992
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: in the works. That's awesome. Well, let's just talk quickly

993
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: about this bubble. I guess on a scale of one

994
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: to ten. I asked Big wat was this the other day?

995
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: How confident are you about the NBA is successfully pulling

996
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: this off, this NBA restart in Disney World, that we

997
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: crown a champion in.

998
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 3: I think I am as confident as it gets.

999
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 2: I don't know if it'll be like the traditional championship,

1000
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 2: because we can get halfway through with the playoffs and

1001
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 2: someone big goes down with hope God forbid COVID nineteen

1002
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: or anything. But I do believe that one hundred percent

1003
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 2: the NBA is going to crown a champion because they

1004
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 2: they kind of at this point, they put so much

1005
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: into it I feel like something dramatic would have to

1006
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 2: happen for them to shut it down. And them doing

1007
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 2: the testing last week, I think it was two out

1008
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 2: of the three hundred and twenty two players testing positive.

1009
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 2: I think that that is a pretty decent sign going forward,

1010
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 2: that that only two players came down with it. But

1011
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 2: the idea of having the employee go in and out

1012
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 2: of the bubble was kind of the only thing that makes.

1013
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 3: Me a bit iffy. But I still believe that we

1014
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 3: will crown a champion.

1015
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: Okay, which player or team or both if you want,

1016
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: do you think it's under the most pressure in the restart?

1017
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:13,479
Speaker 1: If you have to pick.

1018
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 2: NBA Twitter makes me want to say the Bucks, just

1019
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: because the idea of losing Giannis, But I see Gianni's

1020
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 2: as like a lifer. Just everything about his personality, his

1021
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: upbringing tells me that like he's gonna stay with the

1022
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: Bucks forever. So NBA Twitter wants me to say the Bucks.

1023
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 2: But I think there is a little bit more pressure

1024
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: for like the Houston Rockets, probably more than anything because

1025
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,919
Speaker 2: their window was slowly closing and though Russ the second

1026
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 2: half of the season was looking amazing, I think we

1027
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: can all agree that like a player like him could

1028
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 2: fall off a cliffs just because he is He relies

1029
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 2: so much on this athleticism to be a successful player.

1030
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 2: So I think those are the teams that I think

1031
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 2: are under the most pressure.

1032
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 3: I would I would love to see.

1033
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 2: Like a situation where the Okay, see Thunder somehow become.

1034
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: Great and they have You love Chris Paul, Right.

1035
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 2: Chris Paul is? I love Chris Paul. I just put

1036
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 2: up in my workroom. Chris Paul signed jersey. Chris Paul's

1037
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 2: is my favorite player other than Derek Grows of all time.

1038
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: Right, Wow, you love for the point guard position.

1039
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 2: Obviously, it's something about the smaller guys that I just

1040
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 2: really love.

1041
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: Do you think are you worried that he's going to

1042
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: be abusing the snitch hotline though.

1043
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 3: Chris Paul, Oh, of course. I mean, hey, I'm looking

1044
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 3: forward to that. You know. If I want to see

1045
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 3: them be successful, I.

1046
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 2: Need Chris Paul to get on the hotline and I

1047
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 2: need him to tell everything.

1048
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 3: That he sees.

1049
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: There's literally no team left because Chris Paul just snitches

1050
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: out everyone. Thunder win the championship. You're happy by the

1051
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: sounds of it. Okay, So you're you're confident this goes

1052
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: off without a hitch. I'm with you there. I do

1053
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: think the NBA have taken all the measures they possibly

1054
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 1: can to try and make this as safe as possible.

1055
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: Now it really is on the players, so to speak,

1056
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: to like fold rules exactly. And you know, we're joking

1057
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: about the hotline and snitch hot line and all that,

1058
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: but like, you know, if they want to pull this off,

1059
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: they almost have to, like I hate to say it,

1060
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: but like call each other out. If people are not

1061
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: taking it seriously and you're and you're you are not

1062
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: following the rules, then you sort of should be penalized exactly.

1063
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: You would hope people aren't making things up and stuff

1064
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: like that, and I think these guys wouldn't do that.

1065
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a crazy situation. I won't keep you

1066
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: much longer here. You send you hoop a little bit

1067
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: a little so I think I read somewhere crip do

1068
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: you have like some basketball DNA in your family? Is

1069
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: your uncle or something like that?

1070
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 2: Uh?

1071
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: My uncle played.

1072
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 2: My uncle played at Hawaii. Okay, so that's that's the

1073
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 2: most basketball we have. And right now he's training my

1074
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 2: younger cousin, who I think he's going to be really,

1075
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 2: really good. I think he's twelve years old right now,

1076
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 2: and every time I see him, he's got a basketball

1077
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 2: in his hand, and I think he's going to be

1078
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: really good. But that's the as far as it goes.

1079
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 2: But my uncle is the reason I am. It's a basketball.

1080
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: We would have like these summers where he has h

1081
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 2: he has four boys, and then I would be the

1082
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 2: fifth boy. Uh as a boy in the exactly would

1083
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 2: run up to the park every summer. We'd spend the

1084
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 2: nights at his house, and the days we're at the park,

1085
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: they will go home, eat and get ready for the

1086
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: next day.

1087
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 3: So he's the guy that ingrained the love of basketball.

1088
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 3: That's us.

1089
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: That's cool. Well we got it at some point. Set

1090
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: up a four on four game. I think there has

1091
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: to happen versus no dunks, because here's love that. I'm

1092
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: guarding you for sure, Okay, I feel like you're the quickest,

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Speaker 1: You're the point guard of the team. There. We got

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Speaker 1: a battle of the bigs in Derek versus Trey. Those

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Speaker 1: are the big guys on the squads. Who is more

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Speaker 1: of a sharp shooter Between Mike and Pierre, Mike is

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Speaker 1: definitely the sharp shooter of the Okay, okay, so Mike's

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Speaker 1: gonna match up with Lee, he's our three point specialist.

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Speaker 1: And then Pierre and tasks is does Pierre have like

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Speaker 1: a sort of a gritty game to him? Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna do the small things or he know?

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Speaker 3: Pierre is the nest player more than anything. Uh, he's

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Speaker 3: he is a pretty boy on the court. He wants

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Speaker 3: to make the flashy pass. Oh, he wants to do.

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Speaker 2: The finger roll and instead of just getting the easy layup.

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Speaker 2: That's the player that he But I can say he's

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Speaker 2: the best player of the group though, even all of

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Speaker 2: that considered.

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Speaker 1: So oh, okay, I like that Ask is a good

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Speaker 1: defensive player. So that's that might be a nice matchup.

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Speaker 3: Remind me how how tall is Trey again? Trades six

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Speaker 3: y five six five? Okay, Derek is sixty four. So

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Speaker 3: you know that's a good mats up right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Trey's a big guy. I didn't know Derek was

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Speaker 1: that tall. Other, all right, this is perfect. We'll make

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Speaker 1: this happen, you know, like get rid of the celebrity

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00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: All Star game. Look, give the people what they want

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Speaker 1: through the wire versus no dunks. Zach four on four

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Speaker 1: it'd be awesome. Well, look, I'm gonna let you go.

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Speaker 1: You're a busy man. I'm gonna I want to wish

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Speaker 1: you continued success. He's been a real treat. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming on, Kenny, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Tell the people where to follow your work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Firstly, I just want to say thank you to you

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Speaker 2: and and the entire crew. You guys have been a

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Speaker 2: big inspiration for me throughout the times, especially with you

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Speaker 2: guys using your voice for all the things that are

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Speaker 2: they're important in the world.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

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00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 2: And also with this quarantine, the fact that you guys

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Speaker 2: have been able to put together not just content but

1134
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: quality content throughout this entire time without actually having basketball,

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00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: it's admirable.

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Speaker 3: So thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you this. You're our two hundred and fiftieth podcast

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Speaker 1: of the season. That is crazy, which sounds insane to

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Speaker 1: stay out loud. And then we're gonna we're gonna clipse

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Speaker 1: three hundred for this season, no problem. But well, I

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00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: appreciate the kind of words. Thank you so much. But

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00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: where can people follow your work?

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00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 3: Sure? Yeah, at Twitter, I'm at kot for Q.

1144
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: You can type that exact thing onto YouTube and you

1145
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 2: see all of my channels. I would I'd recommend going

1146
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 2: to the YouTube channel and seeing if you enjoy the content.

1147
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 2: If so, hit the subscribe button.

1148
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: There it is. Yeah, hit the subscribe button. I heard

1149
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: you the other day saying a lot of you are

1150
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: watching this, why aren't you subscribed?

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00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: That obviously helps you out in terms. I'm sure of

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Speaker 1: numbers and getting paid.

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00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 3: In numbers and brand deals different things like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, it's the views.

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Speaker 2: Mattal way more than a subcount. But it's just cool

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Speaker 2: to have a higher number.

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Speaker 3: You know, we want to hit a million, and you subscribe,

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00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 3: we can hit a million.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he doesn't have to round up two hundred exactly.

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Speaker 1: Hit the subscribe button. King of the fourth Quarter, Kenny,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much, man, appreciate you, take care.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Race the day people.

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Speaker 3: You could say, oh every day and age happy every minute.

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Speaker 3: It's been so long that you're no mona wait for

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Speaker 3: it's happened already. It's gonna be grivy