Speaker 1: From my arm radio Common Enemy Contendum with TV. It's
Speaker 1: the hay Pal podcast. Hey Pal with Jared and David.
Speaker 1: Oh do you hear that deep breath? That's because I
Speaker 1: have to sit here with you and do another Haypal podcast. Wow.
Speaker 1: I thought that was the sound that you make because
Speaker 1: of your broken heart. Why do you have to do?
Speaker 1: You have to This is a public forum. Look, you
Speaker 1: realize you really suffer from the same problem, right, but
Speaker 1: you don't worry about her public breath. It hurts. It's painful.
Speaker 1: It really does hurt. I can't you know when I
Speaker 1: face time you that's private. Yeah, this shirt on microphones again,
Speaker 1: you're giving away private information? Is true? Oh oh see,
Speaker 1: it hurts, It really does. What doesn't hurt is when
Speaker 1: we get to do Haypal podcast and have on all
Speaker 1: these awesome guests. That's true. I'm so excited. Even though
Speaker 1: the last time I saw you, you had me eat
Speaker 1: some sort of concoction. It wasn't chicken, it wasn't tofu,
Speaker 1: it was so It was soy, David, and it's healthy
Speaker 1: for you, and you can make soy chicken. Well, there's
Speaker 1: no chick. Listen. My friend Sandy, she was like, you
Speaker 1: gotta try this place. I was kind of skeptical, like
Speaker 1: you were. It was, it was tasty, it was good,
Speaker 1: you know what. I felt good afterwards. See, that's all
Speaker 1: that matters, right. Our goal in life is to attain
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have Our producer Kyle put up a
Speaker 1: picture of himself on the website. Was when people go,
Speaker 1: they see what we're talking about because we mentioned him
Speaker 1: so much. But our goal in life, Dave, is to
Speaker 1: eat healthier and feel good so that we can start
Speaker 1: looking like Kyle Tequila. There you go, like, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do about our heroines? That is so true.
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Speaker 1: I'm a white Hispanic Catholic Russian Jew, So if I
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Speaker 1: call it? What do we call the other day when
Speaker 1: we were faced, I'm a want know, we called it
Speaker 1: Ryan Rottman hair. Oh he's got Ryan Rottman here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were that was like the ultimate goal. They got
Speaker 1: it all like, that's why we do a podcast and
Speaker 1: they're in front of the camp. It's amazing. I know.
Speaker 1: I took a deep breath, but I am um, I'm
Speaker 1: excited about our new guest, our next guest. Yeah, our
Speaker 1: new guests, our next guest are Pal. I'm excited about
Speaker 1: our pal as well. How cool is it? He's a pal,
Speaker 1: He's a pal, and he's an incredible talent. He has
Speaker 1: one of the most incredible skill sets. It's not human,
Speaker 1: it's not of this earth. What this man is able
Speaker 1: to do with the basketball by beating thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of people across America to be selected to the and
Speaker 1: One Mixtape Tour. He has some of the best moves
Speaker 1: on the court you have ever seen. Everyone on the
Speaker 1: streets and in the gym's knows this man. Please welcome
Speaker 1: to the hay Pal Podcast The Professor. How you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, man, Thanks for having me on. Man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the love. No, I appreciate you letting me,
Speaker 1: letting me bug you, letting me text you, and you
Speaker 1: go and I'm I'm in Like within a day. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. Just text him yesterday and he's like, was
Speaker 1: he dribbling a ball? When he texts, were you dribbling? Grace?
Speaker 1: I was actually just coming from dribbling. Okay, okay, man, listen,
Speaker 1: everything you've ever had to be a part of or anything.
Speaker 1: I know you're you're get down man, So it's all
Speaker 1: out man, Yes, sir, well, I appreciate it. That's actually
Speaker 1: a great first question. We weren't even gonna ask this first,
Speaker 1: but just like and look, so the audience knows you
Speaker 1: know me and I call him Grayson, will call him
Speaker 1: the professor. I know him as Grayson. We've shot commercials together,
Speaker 1: we've actually auditioned for movies together. We've we've we've been
Speaker 1: through the ring or to get you go again? Talking
Speaker 1: about yourself, all right, let's let's let's include Dave. Dave
Speaker 1: feels left out. No, I'm not talking about me. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the guests. I don't care what you've done.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about what Grayson's done has done. So, Grayson,
Speaker 1: you've been You've been an actor and and a professional
Speaker 1: basketball player. So how much time, uh, do you have
Speaker 1: to put into the professional basketball of it all? Like?
Speaker 1: Do these moves and everything come natural? Or is it?
Speaker 1: When you're like an actor, you've got to be in class.
Speaker 1: You then when you get on set and you know
Speaker 1: that you're gonna film a movie, you gotta prepare for
Speaker 1: that movie like no other. Like what what are are
Speaker 1: there similar parallels there? I think it's definitely parallels. I think, um,
Speaker 1: no matter what you do, you're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: committed to the craft, you know, to do anything at
Speaker 1: a high level. Right, So being committed to craft was it.
Speaker 1: But I think there's also people different have different gifts,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, like, I know, my
Speaker 1: gift that I discovered when I was very young was
Speaker 1: I was really good at emulating moves, you know. So,
Speaker 1: like my very first move I ever learned was that
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson crossover in fifth grade. And I was like
Speaker 1: four ft nothing and I could like cross grown man,
Speaker 1: you know. So I immediately realized that was a gift.
Speaker 1: But it didn't mean I didn't like work at the
Speaker 1: craft religiously. So I think I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of both, you know what I mean. But I
Speaker 1: think you can't negate the hard work. Was that from
Speaker 1: studying Ai That particular move was you just picked it
Speaker 1: up from watching him or watching other people in the gym.
Speaker 1: My parents actually got me the skills trainer, which was
Speaker 1: more innovative at that time. So this is like or
Speaker 1: something like that. This dude was a skills trainer kind
Speaker 1: of like today, right, everybody in the mom's skills trainer
Speaker 1: in basketball, but this dude, he was really good at
Speaker 1: teaching the footwork of off the dribble moves, really everything.
Speaker 1: But like he's specified on that, and Alan Iverson had
Speaker 1: had been on the scene probably for like two or
Speaker 1: three years. We kept doing this crossover. So the first
Speaker 1: movie actually taught me was like in and out. Then
Speaker 1: it was in and out crossover, and then it was
Speaker 1: like that Iverson crossover. And so I was a fan
Speaker 1: of Iverson, but him him breaking down the footwork and
Speaker 1: really showing me, you know, having good coaching is valuable.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so let me ask it like this, then,
Speaker 1: if if it's not you, and it's just a normal
Speaker 1: person and they'd come to you and they had no
Speaker 1: skill set in acting and no skill set in basketball,
Speaker 1: which one? Which one do you think is gonna be easier?
Speaker 1: Which one do you think is gonna be harder? Where
Speaker 1: would you direct that that kid? Oh? That's because I
Speaker 1: think that, Um, I think naturally, like most people will
Speaker 1: probably say acting, but I think the skill of acting
Speaker 1: is very estimated. You know, like like you said, I
Speaker 1: do acting in basketball. I consider myself more of an
Speaker 1: amateur and acting and more seasoned than basketball. And that's
Speaker 1: because I haven't had as much time to dedicate to
Speaker 1: that craft, you know what I mean? Whereas I liked it,
Speaker 1: but my passion was brilliant hoops. I almost want to
Speaker 1: say I would shoot for acting because sometimes the athletics
Speaker 1: thing for everybody, right, and just say that even though,
Speaker 1: but that learning curve would be tough too, So I
Speaker 1: would say it's really hard to even choose one. I
Speaker 1: would choose one. I would choose acting just because it's
Speaker 1: not I think more people could be suited for that
Speaker 1: and even get by if they're not great. Whereas athletics
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, competition is gonna be the bar and
Speaker 1: some people gonna measure up, some people aren't. It is true, well,
Speaker 1: because you know the professor, I keep going to go
Speaker 1: Grayson the professor, his his career has been Dave kind
Speaker 1: of that similar as to like what actors try to
Speaker 1: how they try to make it. You know, he had
Speaker 1: to go in audition for how professor, how many how
Speaker 1: many people do you think that you beat out for
Speaker 1: that spot? And like I want to say, it was
Speaker 1: like two thousand three yeah, or um gosh It's hard
Speaker 1: to say. I would say that there it was a
Speaker 1: thirty three city domestic tour and five thousand people maybe
Speaker 1: try it out each city, I'd say, like each shitty. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's basically as if like, you know, you let's
Speaker 1: just take uh, what should we take David? Like Twilight?
Speaker 1: You know, the breakdown has just come out for Twilight
Speaker 1: and everybody wants to be in the movie. You know.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like that, so that you know,
Speaker 1: Rob Pattinson had to go beat out all these people,
Speaker 1: So what is the professor? The professor had to go
Speaker 1: beat out all these people? So what what is your
Speaker 1: preparation you know, to go into that, because we already
Speaker 1: know you can hoop, right, but now what you have
Speaker 1: to do is you have to stand out. It's just
Speaker 1: like an acting like Rob, you know, knew that he
Speaker 1: could act, right, there's a lot of good but now
Speaker 1: he has to go into the audition audition room and
Speaker 1: do something that separates himself and raise another level. So
Speaker 1: what did the professor do, you know, for his let's
Speaker 1: call it the audition, you know, and what was your
Speaker 1: what was your mindset? Then? Um? So I was just
Speaker 1: coming out of one year at a community college, and
Speaker 1: funny enough, actually played three minutes a game at community college,
Speaker 1: like I walked on, the last man on the team,
Speaker 1: no scholarship. And it's funny because my career was kind
Speaker 1: of looking like a joke at that at that time.
Speaker 1: But I always had a passion for the game, so
Speaker 1: it was the only thing I knew was the only
Speaker 1: thing that was fun to me. So I never stopped
Speaker 1: putting mad hours into the game. And I remember in
Speaker 1: junior or in community college, they mayn't even step it
Speaker 1: up with more practice. So I would get up in
Speaker 1: the morning, I had just shoot, like I'd like make
Speaker 1: a five d jumpers before a practice, like early in
Speaker 1: the morning, six am, and then we would have open
Speaker 1: gym or something like that around two to thirty, and
Speaker 1: then around five would get in the weight room and
Speaker 1: like I personally, just on my own, would come back
Speaker 1: in and just just shoot jumpers or do whatever I
Speaker 1: had energy for at the end of the day. And
Speaker 1: so you know, you're looking at like five to six
Speaker 1: hours a practice on a you know, on like a
Speaker 1: school day, and then I would still hoop on the weekends.
Speaker 1: And I had kind of like lived my whole life
Speaker 1: doing that. And it was interesting because I was kind
Speaker 1: of like a late bloomer. So after my freshman year
Speaker 1: at community college, I got like three better in the
Speaker 1: stretch of like a few months. But I think it
Speaker 1: was just because my maturity was late. So I always
Speaker 1: had good offensive skills, but I really would shy away
Speaker 1: from contact on defense and being physical. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: right after my freshman year, it just clicked for me
Speaker 1: and I got a little bit scrappy and I was
Speaker 1: like actually a good defender. And so the ani Onal
Speaker 1: Mixtape Tour came along, and it was almost like my
Speaker 1: kind of like life dedication to the craft just paid off.
Speaker 1: It's like that whole like when preparation meets opportunity for success,
Speaker 1: the whole thing just kind of like ran together during
Speaker 1: that trial to two thousand three, Whereas like I hadn't
Speaker 1: had the opportunity before because it's not quite everything clipped,
Speaker 1: so you weren't so you were just gonna go in
Speaker 1: there and go, I'm just gonna be me. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna try to do anything to stay because you know,
Speaker 1: like like these actors out here, and we know so
Speaker 1: many of them, uh you know some of them are
Speaker 1: like I don't. I don't try to impress or do anything.
Speaker 1: I'm just me. And then some are like, no, I
Speaker 1: try to find a way to stand out in the
Speaker 1: room because they see so many people got you. Um.
Speaker 1: So I was actually going there as a fan of
Speaker 1: AND One. Funny enough, like I had went to the
Speaker 1: game when they came to Oregon Portland, Oregon, like the
Speaker 1: year before that. I live an hour south of Portland
Speaker 1: in a little small town, So I went the game
Speaker 1: the year beforehand, and I saw they had an open
Speaker 1: trial and I played. I actually got to play against
Speaker 1: a few of the AND One guys. But they weren't
Speaker 1: doing the Summer Long. They weren't doing the summer long
Speaker 1: contest for a contract winner. So this next year, I
Speaker 1: wasn't aware of the Summer Long contest. I wasn't aware
Speaker 1: of that, but I was aware that they may have
Speaker 1: a trial. But if they didn't, I was cool just
Speaker 1: watching as a fan. So my mind really kind of
Speaker 1: like whatever, like let's just go have a good time.
Speaker 1: But when I did see there as a trial, I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, cool, I signed up, and in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, there's nothing to lose. I don't I still
Speaker 1: don't look like a hooper, So like nobody ever really much,
Speaker 1: and so you were like the sixteenth seed in the
Speaker 1: in the West regional bracket and you're just the whole career,
Speaker 1: so like, get on, I can't wait to give it
Speaker 1: all I got and try to show out. But I
Speaker 1: really was just going up there with like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do me. There's nothing to lose. Nobody thinks I'm
Speaker 1: good anyway, So let's get it in. Don't go anywhere. Hey,
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Speaker 1: What's the the origin of the Professor? How did that
Speaker 1: come about? Who? Who coined you with that nickname? How
Speaker 1: did it happen? It's such a great name. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's actually, um, it was on that and we'll make
Speaker 1: it tour that first year. I think after a few games. Uh,
Speaker 1: Duke Tango, who's famous for giving out a lot of
Speaker 1: streetball nicknames, guys like Skipped to my lu Escalade. His
Speaker 1: list goes on main Event like all these names. He
Speaker 1: he had gave me the name the Professor because he
Speaker 1: said I was schooling people on the court. But I
Speaker 1: think he also thought that I looked I looked like
Speaker 1: a professor. I think like with the way my hair
Speaker 1: was at the time and how I looked, right, he
Speaker 1: looked intelligent and edgecated, was his takeaway. It's like the
Speaker 1: school and people on the court thing worked, but was
Speaker 1: it was about the look more so? Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: gained instant fame now Instagram and all that wasn't around,
Speaker 1: so you don't know how many people were actually, you know,
Speaker 1: following you and all that stuff. What was that like
Speaker 1: to then like all of a sudden, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you know, listen, you auditioned, you got the part right,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, like people are recognizing you,
Speaker 1: and what was what was that like? It was there
Speaker 1: was a lot of emotions running at that time because
Speaker 1: you know, I was virtually I was like eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: I really was like twelve mentally, like I was old
Speaker 1: with the late bloomer. So for me, it was a
Speaker 1: lot to take in because on one hand, it was
Speaker 1: like a dream come true because Skip to my Loo
Speaker 1: and Hou Sauce were as much or more my I
Speaker 1: don't Michael Jordan Allen Iverson. So now I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: like playing against them, I'm on their team. Literally, like
Speaker 1: you said one summer, it just happened. And then on
Speaker 1: the other hand, it was kind of weird because I
Speaker 1: was very overwhelmed with being a mainstream star, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I couldn't even I didn't even
Speaker 1: classify it as mainstream. Back in the day, We're on
Speaker 1: ESPN five times, and like that's as much fewership as
Speaker 1: an NBA thing, you know, and we had just as
Speaker 1: much press. And it's funny too, because I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't picture it like that, but I did start to
Speaker 1: be overwhelmed with like, oh, we go to the mall,
Speaker 1: it's a little too overwhelming, you know, Like every time
Speaker 1: I step outside my house it's a picture time. My
Speaker 1: neighbors are spying on me my backyard. You know. Certain
Speaker 1: things like that were really overwhelming. But I got used
Speaker 1: to it after like a year or two, you know,
Speaker 1: just just got put up on games for some of
Speaker 1: my teammates and stuff. Who's the greatest player outside of
Speaker 1: the NBA that you've ever seen yourself? Greatest player ever
Speaker 1: that you've been around outside of the m outside of
Speaker 1: the n B A dang uh. Definitely, I would say
Speaker 1: for me, probably one of my teammates I played with. Gosh,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say one. You know, I could say
Speaker 1: um Ao Bone collect there or these guys in their prime,
Speaker 1: right like Ao bone Collector or I would go with
Speaker 1: one of those guys only because they were they were
Speaker 1: street ball legs and they did what they did on tour.
Speaker 1: But if if they went to uh Summer Pro row
Speaker 1: with NBA players, still kill it, like Boone was a
Speaker 1: two time MVP at Brucker Park and it's heyday, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And Ao um Ao won a
Speaker 1: championship in the d League and then when you know,
Speaker 1: played with the Sixers for a little bit, a little stint,
Speaker 1: but not really like on On. So yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: for sure Bone Collector, because I've seen the respect I've
Speaker 1: been around a lot of NBA players and seen them
Speaker 1: on the court and in the respect that they have
Speaker 1: for him, you know, when he was in his prime,
Speaker 1: when he would show up, it was it was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. Is he the one that I
Speaker 1: did the commercial with? Or is yeah? So Bone was
Speaker 1: all ball up? Um? I think, yeah, So he's the
Speaker 1: one that crossed me and then like it froze on
Speaker 1: me and my ankle. I think it was you know
Speaker 1: when I first stop Boning. I was amazing. I'm like, like,
Speaker 1: I knew Ai was quick, but I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: the quickest person I've seen with the basketball, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like he was he had that kind
Speaker 1: of speed. Now, what would be your top five? If
Speaker 1: you had to pick a top five NBA team just
Speaker 1: to start and play, uh past or current? Who would
Speaker 1: be your top five? Oh? You're talking about just just
Speaker 1: five dudes? Like, who's my team? Starting with? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put Magic at the one. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: put Jordan at the two. Huh wait, you're not putting
Speaker 1: at the two? Entertainment team or what? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: We'll do team next. Yeah, we can do an entertainment team.
Speaker 1: Magic at the one, Jordan at the two. Gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: always conflicted. At the three? Is it is it Lebron
Speaker 1: or Larry Bird? To go Larry, I'm gonna show respect, o.
Speaker 1: G I'm but Larry Bird at the three, even though
Speaker 1: I do classify Lebron's and the top players of all
Speaker 1: time top five or whatever. For team's sake, I'm going Magic,
Speaker 1: Jordan's Bird, Kareem abdul Jabbar at the four and shock
Speaker 1: of five. Yes, yeah, not a lot of people do that. No,
Speaker 1: that's a great team. That's a dominant team for the
Speaker 1: most the most dominant. You know, well, I think I
Speaker 1: think people and nowadays two and part of it is
Speaker 1: where we're at, you know, age wise. But a lot
Speaker 1: of people forget how lethal Kareem Abdul Jabbar was. I
Speaker 1: mean they just even on the inside, on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. And people say he's the goat
Speaker 1: because there's like the scoring records, he has six rings
Speaker 1: and all that. It's not a bad argument. And uh,
Speaker 1: and though I think he was a five, you know,
Speaker 1: put him at the four I think would seem fitting
Speaker 1: today's NBA. But also I would think about the team dynamic, right,
Speaker 1: A lot of people would say they would want, uh,
Speaker 1: Magic Jordan's, Lebron and Kobe all on the same squad.
Speaker 1: I just think that was tough, right, You need like
Speaker 1: team guys. I think nineties those guys could play team ball, right,
Speaker 1: Dream Team, the first Dream team though they were all
Speaker 1: mega stars. Yeah, they knew how to fit a roll
Speaker 1: and make things work. Yeah, I agree. No, that's a
Speaker 1: great team. The only the only other person I think
Speaker 1: in that mix I always always is Tim Duncan. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I always bring up Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan with Tim
Speaker 1: at the four right, you couldn't exactly alright, you can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with Jason Terry and Jason kitt What what
Speaker 1: are you trying to throw some baths in there? He is?
Speaker 1: He is, Hey Navinsky is a beast though like the
Speaker 1: new the new version of Yeah for sure, professor. Do
Speaker 1: you remember I don't know if you remember this, I remember,
Speaker 1: But do you remember where we first met? First encounter,
Speaker 1: first encounter? Gosh, I want to say, let's see if
Speaker 1: he gets a drum roll please, producer before before the
Speaker 1: league day? Yeah, all right, we we met. I knew
Speaker 1: who you were, but you we we we weren't like
Speaker 1: you know, running It wasn't like friends that introduced us.
Speaker 1: And we said how to each other and we talked.
Speaker 1: We end up talking in between scenes for like an
Speaker 1: hour back and forth on the semi semi pro set. Wow.
Speaker 1: Was it really on the semi process? Yeah? Because I
Speaker 1: was friends with Josh Broughton and he brought me up
Speaker 1: there and uh, and that's where we first we had
Speaker 1: first met on that on that on that movie. Wow.
Speaker 1: And then we saw and then we saw each other
Speaker 1: in the E League, and then that's what we're like, Oh, hey,
Speaker 1: you know and but um, but yeah, you've so he's
Speaker 1: been around obviously, you know, you've been around entertainers that
Speaker 1: that that can ball. So I think it's a great question,
Speaker 1: day Bo. Who who do you think is your five
Speaker 1: top five entertainment team? And we're talking about entertainment, were
Speaker 1: talking about actors themselves, are talking about like roles like
Speaker 1: Team Will for the one. I love that. That's that's great,
Speaker 1: that's civic. Yeah, we've never heard anyone do that. You
Speaker 1: should do. Yeah, whatever you want, whatever you want. Dang okay,
Speaker 1: I would say, um, we're gonna go, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's wrong with that. We're gonna Team Wolf at the one. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go Kyle Watson at the one, above the
Speaker 1: Team Wolf at the two because Team Wills the two, right,
Speaker 1: he jumping over people. We're gonna go, uh dagn who's
Speaker 1: at the three? We're going Wesley snips, Oh man, can't jump?
Speaker 1: Excuse me. We're going Jesus Shuttle's Worth at the three. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have the three. Um, I don't know what's Julius
Speaker 1: Irving's character in the movie he was in I can't
Speaker 1: remember the fish movie. Right, Um, we're going with him
Speaker 1: at the at the full and then we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with Shock from Blue Chips at the five. Wow. I
Speaker 1: like that team a lot. Don't go anywhere. Hey, Pam
Speaker 1: will be right back after. A word for our sponsors
Speaker 1: entertainer was if I was just that to do actors
Speaker 1: like in bas him on the skill, I didn't know
Speaker 1: a lot of actors really hooped like that, Like Jared,
Speaker 1: you gonna have to be my top five for sure
Speaker 1: on there. I would say, Wow, Chris Brown's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be on there, Chris Brown. I think Chris Brown,
Speaker 1: by the way, is he's incredible. Like Chris is a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine. I've seen him playing a lot of
Speaker 1: celebrity games and he just schools people. I mean embarrassing
Speaker 1: it could play for sure. I think that, Um, in
Speaker 1: those environments he flourishes, right because he's not really expecting
Speaker 1: the high level. He's got a lot of that. There
Speaker 1: was just gifted, you know, yeah, which is basically the
Speaker 1: nice way of the professor saying he can't step on
Speaker 1: the court with him, though with curds of you time
Speaker 1: like he's a physical defender. I didn't expect that too,
Speaker 1: Like it was definitely a can who no doubt, keep going,
Speaker 1: keep going. I can't believe Jared made the list partially
Speaker 1: because he's not really an entertainer or a celebrity or
Speaker 1: even know's be honest, I don't know that many guys
Speaker 1: that could hoop like that, like like entertainers. I mean
Speaker 1: R Kelly. They said, could who I seen R Kelly
Speaker 1: on video? I've never seen him in person. R Kelly
Speaker 1: is not bad. He's got a good jump shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bow wow, never seen and play basketball. But I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't assume he was like a hooper like that.
Speaker 1: There there were some guys in our league that we
Speaker 1: played in that we're pretty good. Um Nana from Coach
Speaker 1: Carter is really good. It is solid solid. Steve Howie,
Speaker 1: if you remember Steve Howie from the show Reba and Shameless,
Speaker 1: he was really good. I don't know. Actually Julia White
Speaker 1: was solid, like better than I thought he would be
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, Jaliel's death, Yes, Jaliel can play. Oh
Speaker 1: and you know you know who? Uh professor is? Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan's Michael B. Jordan's good that's right. That's dude, that's right.
Speaker 1: I remember he was up there. We were in Santa Monica, yeah,
Speaker 1: back in the day, and I was thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm like this, whose name is Michael Jordan's. I'm like thinking, like,
Speaker 1: how are you supposed to brand? And come on, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: your name is Michael Jordan. I was like that, that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that would work. But boy was I wrong.
Speaker 1: It worked, but it worked. So let me let me
Speaker 1: ask you this. Um. You have obviously studied the game
Speaker 1: of basketball immensely and you have a great respect for it.
Speaker 1: Who if you could be in the room with I
Speaker 1: want to ask you two part. Who if you could
Speaker 1: be in the room with one person, asked him any
Speaker 1: questions and study study them? Would it be on the
Speaker 1: athletic side? And who would if you could just snap
Speaker 1: your fingers and they'd be in the room with you
Speaker 1: and you could study them or even go to work
Speaker 1: with them for a day. Asked him any questions? Would
Speaker 1: it be on the entertainment actor side? Oh that's good,
Speaker 1: that's good. Um, on the athletics side? Um? Snap? And
Speaker 1: by the way, I I welcome past or present like
Speaker 1: that they could be they could be have passed away
Speaker 1: or living got you, I mean, I think I think
Speaker 1: snapped fingers, we gotta talked to m j C was good,
Speaker 1: you know, like for for sure, for certain right, I
Speaker 1: would love to see what his viewpoint is on even
Speaker 1: smaller ball things in basketball, right, like did you ever
Speaker 1: watch and one? You know what I mean? Like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That would that would be a
Speaker 1: good combo. I think that'd be fun um entertainment. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe like a Denzel Washington or Leonardo DiCaprio. I think
Speaker 1: I think those would be some some great dudes to
Speaker 1: draw from. I think, um, you're being generous by putting
Speaker 1: me in the acting category. I I you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I don't even consider myself an actor. I would like
Speaker 1: to go back into that world. But the one lead
Speaker 1: role I had a movie actually never even came out.
Speaker 1: And then I had a bunch of little roles like
Speaker 1: its semipro, like I was like an extra or whatever.
Speaker 1: But that's like most of Jared's roles, So it's all good.
Speaker 1: I actually appreciate you even calling them a role for me. Hey,
Speaker 1: you've got that role Hurricane Season. I remember I audition
Speaker 1: for that. I never see those people ever again. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Hurricane season was cool. I mean, didn't come out the
Speaker 1: way we wanted, but you know, it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: the acting game is a tough game. It is. It is. Hey,
Speaker 1: at least it was all record, right. I mean I
Speaker 1: look at I've been a part of I think two
Speaker 1: or three projects and never saw the light of day
Speaker 1: and had significant roles in them. So I actually thought
Speaker 1: acting was gonna be a thing for me at a
Speaker 1: certain time. I think when we first met, I was
Speaker 1: still kind of like trying to do that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But yeah, it's a it's amazing now
Speaker 1: that I've jumped onto the other side of the fence
Speaker 1: and I produced movies now to see like what all
Speaker 1: actually goes into it and how how much it takes
Speaker 1: like it like, honestly, it exhausts me. If I didn't
Speaker 1: have my partner like I would be, I would have
Speaker 1: quit a while ago. I would be done because it
Speaker 1: all is just it is so much like I left
Speaker 1: acting because I was like, man, I want I want
Speaker 1: to see results more like I want more control and
Speaker 1: to see results. And then you get over to the
Speaker 1: producing side and it takes a million more things you know,
Speaker 1: at least when you when you're an actor, you audition,
Speaker 1: you get the role, you get to go film. It
Speaker 1: like producing is like you're working on this thing for two,
Speaker 1: three or four years. It's crazy, huh. And I totally
Speaker 1: feel you a hundred percent. I'll be working on a
Speaker 1: project that's a basketball when I was trying to get
Speaker 1: off the ground for like two years. Now. We ain't
Speaker 1: even got into pre production, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So from funding too, from idea to funding too, you know,
Speaker 1: pre post and all this as a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: it is a lot. So before before we go into
Speaker 1: the segments, we got two segments that we always like
Speaker 1: close it out with. I want to ask you this
Speaker 1: and it might catch you on the spot, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: Is what is the one question if you could if
Speaker 1: Denzel said, okay, I wanna I'm gonna be in the
Speaker 1: same room with the professor and he's allowed one question,
Speaker 1: only one, what is the one question you would ask
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington Um, you know, to be honest, I would
Speaker 1: show him the current project we've been trying to get
Speaker 1: made for two years, and are you interested in being
Speaker 1: an investor? That is a that is a that's a
Speaker 1: beautiful answer. I like, yeah, he's grinding. The grind never stops.
Speaker 1: For sure, we're grinding. Yeah. So we have a couple
Speaker 1: of segments on our show. One of them is called
Speaker 1: the Spelling Bee. I'm gonna ask you both the question.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see who's gonna be the hay Pal spelling
Speaker 1: Bee champ for the day. Okay, so I'm gonna ask you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Jared. You want to go first? Or
Speaker 1: you want Jared to go first? Well, I suck so
Speaker 1: it it's not gonna matter. But no, let let Jered
Speaker 1: go first. Said it all. I am also terrible at spelling. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jared Mark Cuban was on the show and he'd beat me.
Speaker 1: Jared the word for the spelling Bee they palse spelling Bee.
Speaker 1: This episode is can't use your Phone Apocalypse. I'm planning
Speaker 1: to give you that one because I would have just said,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's over. Um, can you use
Speaker 1: in a sentence place, um apocalypse? Thank you? What's the
Speaker 1: what's the what's the origin? Um? I'm looking up the origin.
Speaker 1: You have to look up the origin. I can look
Speaker 1: it up on my on my al right, I can
Speaker 1: use my phone. All right, I'll go for it. I'll
Speaker 1: go for it. A p ce Oh wait, sorry, I
Speaker 1: know Kyle's laughing at me. A p o CEO L
Speaker 1: y p s E apocalypse. Bam to you, professor that origin?
Speaker 1: Did you get that? No, I can't say it. You
Speaker 1: have to spell it as well. The origin is Greek.
Speaker 1: The origin is Greek. So oh c A L y
Speaker 1: p s. I'm not gonna put an e. It might
Speaker 1: be an E. I don't know. But see what's all right?
Speaker 1: You are both incorrect. Professor by the way, which we
Speaker 1: have to change his nickname now because he can't be
Speaker 1: a profess sword if you can't spell, So we have
Speaker 1: to come he. We have to come up with a
Speaker 1: new nickname. And b you should have gone with the
Speaker 1: E the E at the end of apocalypse. He would
Speaker 1: have been right. He would have been right. A p
Speaker 1: o c A L y p s E. Oh. So
Speaker 1: we'll find a new nickname for you. Pal, you could
Speaker 1: I know, alright, Jared, you take it away. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: we we like to do a little thing called the
Speaker 1: the hey Pal penalty box. So we just put you
Speaker 1: in the penalty box and we ask you a series
Speaker 1: of of questions they are silly, they are goofy, they
Speaker 1: are often stupid. But just whatever, first, quick answer, yeah,
Speaker 1: quick answer, whatever, whatever comes to your mind. First we
Speaker 1: accept there are no losers in this one, correct, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna first start with Dave or Jared. I can't
Speaker 1: do that. Excuse excuse, guys, your boys, Sir, he is
Speaker 1: in the penalty box. It's his answer. He's the guest.
Speaker 1: This is this is why I shouldn't do a show
Speaker 1: with a freaking Mavericks. Yes, that's the first thing that
Speaker 1: came does alright, alright, he took a long time, by
Speaker 1: the way, so that's not saying that you had a
Speaker 1: lot of commentary after that one. I'm like, wait, is
Speaker 1: that the question? Like uh kauseam or space Jam, space jam? Alright?
Speaker 1: Blue chips? He got game? You got game? Uh? Isaiah?
Speaker 1: Or ai yet? All right? Childhood or an adult? Wow?
Speaker 1: And I'm assuming that you're sponsored, so you can't really
Speaker 1: give the true answer. But prior to sponsorship, Nike, Adidas
Speaker 1: or under Armour, are you good Nike all day? Nike
Speaker 1: all day? There we go, it is always Nike all day.
Speaker 1: You were out of the penalty box, Professor. You have
Speaker 1: made You've made it out of the penalty box and
Speaker 1: now you can go join the rest of the team
Speaker 1: on the ice. Well listen, uh Grayson A k A.
Speaker 1: The Professor, We appreciate you so much being a part
Speaker 1: of the Hey Pal podcast and on behalf of Deavo
Speaker 1: and and myself. We just you know, that was awesome.
Speaker 1: We we really appreciate you coming on board. That. Congratify
Speaker 1: your success. Man, that was fun. Hey likewise, appreciate you guys. Man. Professor, Well,
Speaker 1: are you gonna still let him call himself that? Uh? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: even though he couldn't spell the word apocalypse, which is
Speaker 1: a difficult word, by the way, it's not an easy
Speaker 1: word spell. I don't think I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I think he was trying to give me a gimme
Speaker 1: because he was like yeah, because he said, like, because
Speaker 1: he's so intellectually advantage. Yeah, well he knew, he goes.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna put the E in there, even
Speaker 1: though I know there's a fair enough um we should
Speaker 1: consider him maybe the second champion of but no, really
Speaker 1: impressive guy, Incredible what he's accomplished, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think any time that you can do something, I mean
Speaker 1: he obviously loves basketball and to be able to find
Speaker 1: a career doing that, I mean, how many people on
Speaker 1: this planet can do what they love. He's not an
Speaker 1: NBA player and he found another way to do that.
Speaker 1: That's pretty awesome. I'll tell you what, I'm not one
Speaker 1: of them because I don't love doing these with you,
Speaker 1: nor do I with you. Yeah, no, he's awesome. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. I went and looked up his his Instagram
Speaker 1: and I was like, whoa. I mean, he has millions
Speaker 1: of followers, three million followers. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: see like, you know, maybe like five seven, eight hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: and then I saw that. I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's still a lot more than you. It's a lot
Speaker 1: more than me. Um closest out, Dave, Dave, Dave for
Speaker 1: all the listeners, Dave has been a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: been a little iffy thing that I get to intro
Speaker 1: the guest and you know what, Dave take us out
Speaker 1: with that music by to bring us home strong. Dave,
Speaker 1: it is just always great to be here, not necessarily
Speaker 1: with you, but talking sports, talking entertainment. This is the
Speaker 1: hay Pal Podcast. We will see you next time. See
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