WEBVTT - #352 - Grayson "The Professor" Boucher 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.120 What's up this this Grayson Bouche better knows the professor. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.680 Check me out on the Bootleg kV podcast Let's go 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.240 boutleg kV Podcasts. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:16.320 Special guests here, Street Hoop, Legend, TikTok Legend Now, YouTube 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.479 Legend now Cofresser. Hey, let's go. Man. Glad to be 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.800 here to see man. Yeah, it's crazy because I remember 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.560 watching you back in the day, man, like, uh, you 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.520 know when I was a kid, I loved and One's mixtapes. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.880 I remember, uh, you know, obviously rest in peace to escalade, 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.320 uh big bro, skip to my lou who ended up 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.560 in the league, Raypah, Austin Hot Sauce. Yeah, there was 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:43.120 all these guys that were like celebrities bros. Yeah, and 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.000 then like the and One shit influenced so much shit 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.280 in culture because like without and One, there's no NBA Street, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:50.760 you know what I mean. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.920 The baggy shorts. Yeah, the baggy shorts. Just like there 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:56.280 was just so much that, like. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.120 You know, I feel like, uh, and then an One 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.000 ended up in Walmart, you know what I'm saying, which 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.440 kind of made it uncool. But yeah one, yeah, you know, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:04.200 new ownership. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.800 I think it changed hands five times or something since 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.040 I was there. Yeah, so it's in the hands of 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.440 ownership now that you know. Has it been Walmart? I 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.839 guess they probably they're winning a lot of fun, They're 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.280 making a. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:15.759 Ton of money. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.640 You're seeing what Shaq did, right, So I think it's 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.160 Shack and and One is like the two head sports 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.080 brands of Walmart. So I'm sure they kill it from 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.040 a financial standpoint. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.959 I was gonna say, you were eighteen when you started 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.120 doing A day and one stuff, right, Yeah, in O 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.520 three oh three. So how did you initially because obviously 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.319 you're very good at basketball, So at what point in 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:34.880 time did you say, well, I don't know if I 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.840 can make it to the league, but this is something, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.560 This is like an ulterior or not an ulterior, but 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.160 alternative route I can go to be a professional hooper. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.080 Uh So, So initially when I came out there, I 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.160 was really like a fan. It just kind of happened 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.640 on accent, but always trying to make the NBA, right, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.360 But I was actually a benchwarmer at a community college, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.560 so it wasn't it wasn't gonna happen. It wasn't looking 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.840 great for me at that moment. But after my freshman 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.880 year year in college, I improved by like three hundred percent, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.200 Like it's crazy. I finally hit the weights. I'm playing 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.920 every day with guys who were going D two and 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.800 D one. I already spent all my time hooping, but 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.760 now I'm doing three days, you know what I mean, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.000 Like literally make five hundred jumpers before class. Go to 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.959 class two thirties, open gym, hit the weights, come work 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:23.880 on your game again in the evening, either at a 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.400 different n stop or right there's a NonStop. So I 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.760 dedicated even more time to the grind and improved. I 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.560 didn't realize how fast you could improve. By the end 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.400 of that spring after my freshman year, I was like 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.520 the best player in the gym, you know what I mean, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.400 with my with my teammates and stuff like that. But 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.000 then and one came, and the year before I went 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.519 to and one, the first the first nationwide tour. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:46.760 They had it already poppular. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.359 Yeah, they had Season one on ESPN already. I'm a fan. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.600 I'm actually wearing and one head to toe before him 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.080 even on there, like culturing it. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.799 Trying the moves everywhere I go. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.800 So I go up there as a fan just to 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.480 watch but I knew they had to open run because 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.400 I had played the year before and I got to 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.640 play one game against the players. I think I was 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.440 going against like sick witted at the time, headache and 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.360 those guys were up there. So hopped in the open run, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.959 got some moves off, some people were going crazy, got 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.840 voted in to play against Team and one. And mind you, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.359 I'm not even thinking the route of street Ball. I 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.400 actually don't even think I belonged there, to be honest, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.720 because it was such like a hood in the city. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.320 Right, you know what I'm saying, Like you're just like 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.639 scrining little white eighteen year old kid. Yeah. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.440 I was just talking to half Man, Half Man, Half 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.880 Amazing the other day and he was telling me, you know, 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.480 we were talking about the street Ball versus the NBA debate, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.960 but remember he was in the limo. He's like, Yo, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.200 we need to see that commercial member the Hood All 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.320 Stars versus the NBA All Stars. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.280 I had a pair of those Vince Carters. I think 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.200 they were called the half Man Half Amazing. The Vince 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.480 Carters were like the and ones that were like one 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.680 one half color, one way and the Taichi. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.080 Yeah, those they gave they gave Vince Carter that name 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.240 from him, though from I didn't other word half man 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.040 half amazing. Yeah, I think Kenny Smith took bit. He 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.040 knew half Man made the street baller. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.240 But gave it to Wow. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.240 Yeah, I remember he was a little upset about that. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.240 But anyway, we were talking about that the debate. But 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.680 you know, I didn't think I was a Hood all 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.440 I didn't think I could be in the mix with 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.160 the Hood All Stars. So like I'm doing it from 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.919 a fan standpoint. You know, I played next thing. I know, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.600 I'm going back and forth with Hot Sauce in the 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.120 main and one game, and then they asked me to 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.719 go on tour. So mine kind of happening on accident. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.719 But I did try to pursue the NBA up until 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.919 two thousand and seven. Played in the CBA, which was 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.640 like the G League. Yeah, and then the original G League, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.880 the original G League. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:35.760 That's how high I got. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.839 But then, like man, the politics of the game though, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.080 I lost some good when I. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.160 Got in the game when they I think they got 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.520 to me there for ticket sales. Yeah, because you were 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.039 a name bro like you ended up kind of being 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.880 like the like kind of the face and won for 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.680 a minute, you know. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.480 Yeah, so I got there. I think it was like 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.919 a ticket sale thing. But then like I got a 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.200 little time, especially when the starting point guard it was 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.599 actually step On Marbury's brother, he got injured for like 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.640 three games. So started for three games. One of them 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.960 I had over twenty points, like seven assists. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:04.120 Ye. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.560 The other two I had like fifteen and five or 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.320 something like that. We lost one in one two. But 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.039 when that dude got healthy, man, they put it right 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.520 back in the lineup, even though we weren't winning a 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.280 game before that. So it was like the politics of 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.480 the game, you know, people looked at street ball actually 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.760 in that time, it was like it actually wasn't real basketball, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:21.480 so it didn't fit. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.080 Do you think it like worked against you because people 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.960 perceived you as a street baller and not an actual 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.400 like you know, professional Yeah. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.359 Yeah, when it came to the conventional game, it was 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.360 a bad thing. Skipped to my lou even you know, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:35.960 who played in the NBA for over ten years. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.080 It took him a while to get in though. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.320 Well he had to let go of his street ball reputation. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.440 I remember my year getting on the tour two thousand 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.320 and three was the last time he even played any games. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:45.800 He just stopped playing on the tour. And he had 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.000 a solid career too, and he had some good years 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.360 with Orlando and Houston. Like, yeah, he was good. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.640 But it's cool because it's actually funny how it works 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.120 because back then it was a bad thing to the 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.120 NBA high ups. Now the All Star the Hall of 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.120 famers of today grew up. Why want so Like when 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.240 I meet you know, like Paul George or Kyrie, they're like, oh, yeah, 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.880 you're to watch you back inspired by you, But yeah, 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.880 I love it. It's incredible, grew up off you. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.800 That shit's so crazy. It's it's wild too because like 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.800 think about like NBA Street, they took so many of 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.280 your guys's moves and put them into that game. Did 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.120 they ever like tap in with y'all like or like, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.000 because they really took y'all's moves and like literally it 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.640 was just, I mean, a legendary video game. But I 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.880 can only imagine. It's almost like with the Fortnite dances. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.039 Some of these dancers. You can turn off Fortnite, the 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.720 dancers are in the game and they getting credit, Like, 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.240 did y'all get any credit for any of the NBA 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:35.760 Street shit. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.080 Uh, people would mix it up, you know, like they'd 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.960 ask us, they think it's our game. So we had 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.080 two games too, so. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.320 We remember Street Hoops. They weren't great. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.000 Yeah, I think what happened was I remember the games. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:47.320 Yeah. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.600 I think with Street Hoops they probably saw that and 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.760 we're like, oh, we could do this better. Put the 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.560 NBA stamp on its probably goal. But then we came 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.320 we didn't add one Street Ball. I actually thought that 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.680 was decent. With Activision, that was. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:06:59.839 A more I don't know if I played that one. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.919 Yeah, so that one was a souped up version, but 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.720 it was right around the buy out from Anywise, I 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.920 don't think got the marketing boost, and I don't they 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.360 were going to do a part two, but it got 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.280 bought out. Yeah, So I think honestly, they just saw 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.480 the wave of it and the NBA smart for them 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.120 to capitalize on the street side of things. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.440 Yeah, it's crazy because the tour was like I got 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.160 to go to one of the tour stops and it 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.880 was in an arena. It was packed the fuck out. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.080 You guys had like it was it was like what 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.320 was like touring because it's almost like being on the road, right, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.200 like if you're in the league. But it's a little 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.120 different because you guys are kind of like the new 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.440 h Harlem Globehouders in a sense, you know what I mean, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.360 Like it's an entertainment. There's basketball, but there's also like 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.280 we have to entertain all these people. Would you guys 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.200 like let each other get your shit off? 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.240 No, it was always a real thing, and it was 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.520 always like real defense being played playing strangers, so we 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:51.160 didn't know them. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.240 Yeah, because it was tea man one versus whoever was. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.000 Best of that city in the city, right, yeah, yeah, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.800 so they'd be but it was it was actually like 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.640 a very high level competition game. You know, there's a 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.680 lot of like myths of what level the N one 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.680 players were, but like it's a pro level. You know, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.120 this is above college. This is like a pro thing. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.120 So we would play dudes who played overseas, We play 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.040 like street ball legends in that city, and it was real, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.600 you know, Like that was the beauty of it though, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.680 was like there was even times where it didn't go 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.160 our way, but most of the time eighty ninety percent 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.040 of the time we'd go crazy. And honestly, that original 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.680 group was like special for the talent level was crazy. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.040 It's crazy, man, for you, you've had such a great 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.240 like resurgence because I feel like, you know, I was 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.480 just an NBA con and my sons. I took my 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.840 kids there and they're both they both played basketball and 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.719 they're both like wrapped up. And I didn't know there 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.760 was like this YouTube world of basketball like YouTubers. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.959 Yeah, I was the first YouTube hooper on. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.600 Accident, yeah, said, I didn't know. And we met some 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:53.199 other community. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.000 What's this white kid named jess just t Jazz t 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.600 Jazz Tristan Jacks. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.520 That guy, like my kids freaked out because he's walking by, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.080 and I just I don't know who the fuck this 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.160 guy is, right, So I'm just like, hey, buddy, apparently 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.280 my kids know who you are. You might if they 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.040 get a pick. He's like sure, sweet kid, Yes, I 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:17.520 didn't realize this dude's lit like yeah lit yeah, yeah, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.439 Like I had no idea because I'm on YouTube. I 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.440 look up a channel. I'm like Jesus Christ, Like it's 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.760 crazy that basketball related content is so big now and 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.439 what you do is so like perfect for today's landscape. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.360 Like for you, like you've you've kind of been the 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.440 only guy I've seen from the era of an one 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.680 that I watched that is successfully transitioned into being extremely 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.800 successful in today's climate. Like for you, like, was it 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.960 on accident? Was it on purpose? Like explain to me, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.400 like kind of like the run you've been. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.560 On a little bit of both, you know, like and 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.920 one ended in Uh oh wait, well you got to 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.199 think I'm only twenty four or twenty five years old, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.440 So like I feel, like I said, playing career right. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.320 But I found out YouTube when it came out like 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.240 four you know, like we would even go overseas and 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.600 people would approach me and be like, you know, show 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:07.200 love or whatever. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:07.880 Now out of habit. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.880 I'd say, hey, thanks for checking out the show me 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.439 our ESPN show, and they'd be like, oh no, I 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.480 saw your stuff on YouTube. So I started looking into 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:15.360 it about four. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.080 H five because your clips are up there. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.079 Yeah, So they would rip our clips from the show 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.040 channels make a compilation millions every single one had millions 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.880 of views. So I got a homie who was an 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.600 editor who's from like, you know, my home city, and 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.640 I paid them a little bit st from I'm from Kaiser, Organs, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:33.479 very small. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.800 Town organ man yeah. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.400 But anyway, well I live here twenty years but from 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.120 Oregon originally. But anyway, I tried to flood YouTube to 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:43.439 get bookings. You know, you used to be able to 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.959 get a DM on YouTube, So I started trying to 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.120 flood it like that. But then when and when ended 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.200 in eight started my own channel because YouTube adsence just 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.559 came out, I think eight or nine. So I started 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.679 my own channel. Oh nine, you're up, you're early. Yeah, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.680 And I was like knowing that I could get international 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.080 bookings because while one went down in the US in 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.640 popularity once I got bought out and not on ESPN overseas, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.720 it was like and social media and that, you know, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.959 before social media couldn't really keep up with the narrative 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.920 of a different country, so they're thinking it's still like 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.400 topped off. So I would play like and one, you know, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.640 Brazil and one Africa, and yeah, I was doing these 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.200 one off games. So I built YouTube to get live 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:23.960 show bookings. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:24.679 Wow. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.080 But then twenty thirteen I went viral and I got 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.480 a million subs in like one day. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.120 What the fuck? What video was it? 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.240 It was a Spider Man basketball I dressed up as 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.640 Spider Man suit and I played people one on one 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.640 at the park, and I think and it did it 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:40.520 for like twenty minutes. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.200 But I made every shot. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.360 Every trick worked, So it just was perfect edited that 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.600 joints us a three minute video. But you know, back 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.640 then it was so it was a six million a week, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.840 but back then that was like fifty million a week, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:52.199 you know. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.320 No, no, no, it was a lot harder. And then 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.480 the views counted for like a lot more and the 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.360 ad sense was much better back then. Yeah, yeah, it 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.000 was way different. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.480 So yeah, so just for for that six million a week, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:08.040 I could hit it by every mediality that you know, CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:09.000 you know, so. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.840 For you like like that was kind of did you 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.800 realize at that point in time that there was the 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.520 real money was being a content creator? 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:22.120 It started to be clear, It started to be clear. Yeah, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.640 you know, I was just thinking such like a hooper though, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.360 you know, like back in the and one day when 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.000 it ended and all that, I was just thinking, like, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.360 you know, am I still pursuing the NBA? Where am 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:32.079 I going to hoop? 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.760 Now? Going overseas on kids going to Gili? 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.560 Yeah, not knowing as I'm uploading, I'm doing my job. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.040 We're good, you know, but it took a viral spike 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.800 to turn it into a business like real fast. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.240 You know what I'm saying. You're like, oh, this is 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.240 this is it? This is it. Yeah. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.760 And I thought about it even back in the day 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.599 when I first heard about YouTube, because I knew it 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.840 was in a few other countries because internationally they'd recognize 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.560 us from it. And I remember saying to myself, I'm like, oh, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.160 this is like TV. This is like I said, free distribution. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.360 But then when it came to fruition as a business, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.200 I'm like, oh, literally, it's TV, like like way higher 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.160 than you know, we never thought it. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:08.640 Would be like today, right, it's like the go to. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.679 But what about TikTok? When did TikTok really take off 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.880 for you? Because you got a shit ton of followers. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.600 Were trying to go crazy on TikTok. Yeah, it's great. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.560 Could you can you make money on TikTok? I know that, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.840 like you can. You can get it like when it's monetized. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.800 I've had people tell me once you monetize your TikTok, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.640 they start fucking with your algorithm. No, okay, here's the truth. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.000 You don't really make. It's like YouTube shorts, you don't really. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.840 You don't make much because the YouTube shorts you'll be 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.600 like I got I got an interview clip that has 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:40.760 like three million views and I think I made twenty 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.240 nine dollars. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.719 Yeah something like that. Yeah, I've done thirty million. It 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:44.840 made like not a couple. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.720 Of like yeah, right, it's like what do we do it? Yeah? 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.400 Yeah, No, my TikTok I got three and a half 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.400 billion views and I made eight thousand dollars. So it 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:53.800 pays a little more on YouTube shorts. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.720 But yeah, but it's a commercial for your YouTube channel 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.240 kind of right, yeah, and my thing commercial for your brand. Yeah. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.120 And when when I started take off on YouTube and 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.680 pressing to social media, I started realizing the value like early, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.680 you should be on every platform everything. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.280 Anything that drops. I signed up for the Dame like 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.040 just in case, you know. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.560 Yeah, and when it's new, pressing and go hard because 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.880 you know they're pushing everything. Like so with YouTube, I 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.400 would think I was actually a year late to you 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.280 to TikTok. Yeah, to be honest, but once I got 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:24.960 on my first video, I didn't put no effort in. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.560 It got like five and a half million views. It 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.800 was on Halloween. I was dressed as a Joker. My 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.560 cousin was Batman. So the Joker movie song was trending. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.880 Yeah, so we just did I did a little dribble 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.680 as the Joker, like nothing, not. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.920 Even anything crazy. Yeah, but it just went crazy. But 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.400 like five and a half million views. I was like, oh, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.120 there might be something here. Yes, I should use it. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.840 You know, it's crazy because you watch like I just 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.720 watched The White Men Can't Jump video, a movie with 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.240 Jack Harlow, which was actually a lot better than I 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.240 thought it was gonna be. Do you ever have you 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.960 ever had a point in time where you were hustling 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:00.880 people at the park? 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.560 Oh, I live White Man Can't Jump today? 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.560 Like still, I know you do it on this on 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.720 like TikTok. Will you like show up like dressed as 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.800 like a McDonald's employee or something. But I mean, like 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.360 when the cameras aren't rolling, like maybe you're in a 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.320 different city or you're like you know what, Oh, I 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.040 see what you're saying. Now, have you ever like pulled 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.520 up to the park and been like I'm gonna just 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:20.720 it's almost like being. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.360 A pool shark, right, Well, somebody there is gonna know 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.280 me now now they will. Yeah, but you've never done 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.880 that in like ever old just period, just hustled somebody 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.840 out of somebody at the park because they just assume 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.680 you're like the geeky white dude, And well I grew 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.520 up doing it. I mean I feel like I grew 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.160 up doing that literally and then up until I don't know, 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.240 I think as of like twenty fifteen. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:43.960 Though you're too famous. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.840 Yeah, I only play if we're rolling for you the vlog, 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.040 if we're rolling for social media, Like I won't even 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.560 do open runs or nothing only because of injury risk 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.760 though you know thirty nine right now hurt, Yeah, yeah, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.320 you get hurt, then you can't do your grind. It 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.680 actually doesn't make any sense the older I get. It's 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.640 just like the league, right, you pay too much outside 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.880 these when I tell everybody, like it's really easy to 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:07.480 watch the Big Three and be like he still got it, Like, yeah, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.720 he still got it for a half court game once 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.840 a week, But I don't know if he's still got it. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:12.640 For eighty two games. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.800 It's a lot different, right, People have a lot of 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.400 spin past the normal like hooping age, which you're right 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.760 that eighty two games brutal, Like I just saw Jay 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.880 Rich get up at Big Three and like almost hit 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.240 his head on the fucking rim again. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.480 Yes, but can he sustain being healthy for a whole season? 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.440 You know it's hard. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.640 But like, for like, it's hard for me to stay 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:33.720 healthy doing YouTube. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:34.920 Yeah it's crazy, you know what I mean? 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.360 But it's been good and honestly, like that's the cool parts. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.720 My lane is kind of unexplored because once you're about 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.720 thirty five playing in the league, right, it's too many 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.160 miles for your body. It's gonna be hard for you 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.800 to sustain unless you're like a Vince Carter or Lebron, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.640 you know, world class athlete. But for me, like I'm 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.920 you Donis Haslim who you know, it's kind of like, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:54.840 oh he kept going, he's kind of like a coach. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.120 Yeah no, but I mean, heyde was insane athlete, right. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.760 Sane athlete? Yes, and one of the guys you did 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.240 not want to throw hands within the league. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:02.800 Oh yeah, true, sorry. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.760 Like him and Zebo growing up, Like, I don't know 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.399 if you would ever want to fight either one of 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:06.879 those guys. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.520 Yeah yeah, But you know, for me, I feel like 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.960 I'm just as quick as I wasn't oh five, Like. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.560 It's crazy because you could have went like you probably 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.760 could have win a few different directions, right, you might 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.720 have could have went the Chris Brickley direction and like 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.800 trained guys, and he's done a good job of like 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.920 doing content and also like obviously training players. But kill it. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.560 I think like the YouTube wave is I mean, it's 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:28.880 it's it's it man. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.720 Yeah, I love I love entertaining, like entertainment production, even acting. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.280 I've acted for twenty years. I never had like heavy 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:35.879 prominent role. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:36.879 What the movies have you been? 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.679 Was re saying that hustle, you know, Adam Sandler's had 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:41.560 like cameo. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.359 What's what's the guy's name? Fucking the dude that looks 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.840 like you? Kind of Oh, you're talking about the lead? 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:56.240 Herr go what's his name? Something? Go be her Gomez. Yeah, 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.800 some shot. It's no, it's not even that I'm blinking. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:17:59.320 I'm blinking. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:17:59.679 You know. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.919 It's goss. It's something gomes. It starts with an H. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.960 I don't know, mess goo google it held up, it's 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.400 it's I know he has honcho' it's honcho or wan 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:12.080 Sho is his name? 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.080 Hearing a Gomez? Yeah, I know his last name. I 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:16.880 don't know his first name. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.760 There is Wan Sho, Wan Show or Han Sho. You know, 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:21.920 he's a cool cat man. I feel like he's my bro. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.000 I should know. Any Edwards is a great actor too. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.320 But they both did their Yeah, they super did their thing, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.840 and that that was really dope. Other other films I've 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.119 been in, like like a When I say acting, you're 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.680 doing like fifty to one hundred commercials for any brand, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:35.159 every bring. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:35.480 You can think of. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.080 But then also, uh, I first moved to la O six. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:40.920 I actually had a lead role in the movie. It's 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.280 called Bald Don't Lie And it never got released. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.080 Damn. That's gotta be tough. Did you get paid for it? 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.439 I got paid for it, yeah, but not much. You 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.960 know indie film, right, But you're like, damn, I just 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:51.600 want it for me. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:52.960 Can I get it on it? Do you have it 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:54.360 on DVD or something? Yeah? 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.119 I do have it, but we're trying to release it today. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.000 We're trying to get it released now. I met up 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.200 with those producers for the first time in like fifteen years. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.920 Yeah, why not put it on two B or something? 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:03.920 That was our thought for the resume. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.800 Yeah, Like, dude, that we made the movie, like yeah, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.560 like it's gonna lose it, like unless it's like horrible 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.359 and you're gonna get canceled because you shot at a No. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.600 Six and you know no, I mean, we're not gonna 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.240 win no Awards. But it's not horrible. That good basketball, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.160 Yeah yeah, but they're making some good basketball movies recently. Yeah, 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.040 a lot more too, because you used to only get 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.440 a basket when we were every few years. 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.159 I just watched this one on Disney Plus when my 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.440 kids about an Asian dude trying to dunk. It's called 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.120 Chang Chain Can't dunk. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.040 Or God it was actually not I didn't even hear 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:35.160 about this on Disney Plus. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.520 It's about this Asian kid who goes viral on YouTube 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.800 trying to uh document the process of him trying to 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.159 dunk because he has a bet with another kid at 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.680 his high school that he can dunk, huh. And then 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:52.119 he ends up faking him dunking for the YouTube vie. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.200 But then he gets all out for and to apologize. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.040 It's actually really good. It's a Disney original. Check it out. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.040 Oh it's Disney Wow. I'm telling you, you guys, you 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:03.920 and this other fucking guy we just talked about. You 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.080 guys are making this basketball shit like popping a whole 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:06.520 different way. 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.479 Bro, trying to man, trying to go for it. I'm 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.800 actually trying to hoop till twenty thirty four. Fifty years old, dad. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.640 That I mean you probably go till sixty because they 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.440 guess what that yes, what that means? 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Oh yeah, 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:19.760 I'm training a lot. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.440 Yeah, I try super active, So train twice a week 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:25.720 with like functional movement training, a lot of core stuff. 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:27.120 It's like the same kind of training. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.200 That you still look like you're fucking eighteen. By the way, 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:31.480 humble man, they say black that hey, they say black. 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:33.359 Don't crack, gingers, don't crack. 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:39.040 My goodness, We're trying, man, trying, Thank you, bro. But no, Yeah, 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:41.439 functional movement training. I live in marine. I run the 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.760 water like three times a week, and then I hoop 0:23:43.800 --> 0:23:45.879 on top of that. So if we're going hooping, the 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:49.520 functional movement training plus running, it's very active on a 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:51.880 weekly basis. So even if don't hoop that much, still 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.679 gotta stay moving, you gotta. That's one key to longevity. 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:57.160 Is just like even if you run and you don't 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.880 get a good cardio sweating, at least you moved movement. 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:02.119 You just got to stay due. He can't take long breaks. 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:04.520 Yeah for sure. Yeah. I was gonna say, back in 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:09.040 the day Peak in one, was there ever any sort 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:14.240 of like because you guys were super hot man and 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:17.080 I always wondered how like guys in the actual league 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:21.000 felt about Yeah, was ever any like obviously, yeah, I'm 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:22.840 sure there was like love, but was there any like 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.320 haters in the NBA that just like like, was ere 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.880 any like fucking and one NBA beefs going on that? Yeah? 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:30.399 I think yeah, there was a little bit. You know, 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:33.000 it's funny. I'm shooting a video tomorrow talking about this 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:36.040 exact subject right here, Like no, Lie, I was on 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:38.439 kg's podcast a couple of weeks ago, yep, and we 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.760 had a little snippet came out on Instagram about it, 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:43.640 and it like I didn't Yeah, it went crazy. 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:44.560 What was Kg's hand? 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:47.639 He was basically saying, some of my teammates they were 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:50.439 eating dinner somewhere at the restaurant New York, and the 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.439 topic came up of them, you know, getting at the 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:55.760 NBA players and KG he was like, man, he's like 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:57.400 I was about that. I wanted to see what's good, 0:24:57.440 --> 0:24:59.040 you know what I mean. Obviously they're in the league 0:24:59.040 --> 0:24:59.879 at that time. 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.720 Like some like unfilmed Super Game where like Kevin Kevin 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.800 Garnett and like fucking Stephan Mowberry show up to like 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.840 a park in Haarleam at three am and Battle. 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:12.160 At Howard though. 0:25:12.240 --> 0:25:14.959 No, you know what's crazy though, when when have Amazing 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:17.439 was gassing that up? Though back in the day, Like, 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:19.919 think about it, we were on TV more than the NBA, right. 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:20.399 The ESPN. 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:23.520 Sure think if they actually did, if that game actually 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:26.080 was for real, like that would have like we might 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:27.720 have had to have a foot think about we sold 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:29.720 out the garden just an and one game, right, so 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:32.520 what would have and one versus NBA All Star game? 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:36.280 Crazy and just a theory game, especially in like three 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:39.040 or four. Oh my, we might need a football stadium 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:40.960 me and have Man, we're just talking about that. 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:44.320 Yeah, it's crazy to think, Like, you know, I'm just 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:46.560 glad to see because you know, when I was a kid, man, 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:50.840 basketball was so and it's big now. But it's just 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:54.199 dope to see like today's generation have whatever version of 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:56.720 like and One was to me to them, you know 0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:57.280 what I'm saying. 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:00.200 That's what I'll try to keep it going because you probably. 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:04.600 I have such a wide range of fans. Oh super 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:07.239 because you have like guys that are like me who 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:09.480 is old and watch you as as when I was 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.560 a kid, and then you got like my fucking nine 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:14.199 year old knows exactly who you are. I showed him. 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:16.359 He said, oh, you're gonna interview him. He's at basketball 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:18.440 camp right now. Otherwise he'd probably be here. But oh, 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:20.960 you know, it's crazy you have like such a like 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:23.159 it's probably hard for you to go too many places 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:25.920 without getting stopped. Yeah, oh no, Yeah, for sure. 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:28.159 It's a blessing though, Like if I look at my analytics, 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:32.280 it's like twenty percent eighteen and under, twenty percent eighteen 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.040 to thirty five, twenty percent, thirty. 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:35.280 Five and up. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:37.199 I even got people fifty five and up. There's a 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:39.879 ten percent you know. So yeah, it's a blessing to 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:41.879 have a wide demographic of doing it just for a 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:43.200 long time for you. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:45.520 Uh, obviously, see you want to ball to your fifty 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.280 But what are other things you're trying to like do 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.520 to kind of just expand like the empire. Yeah, obviously 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:53.080 you got merch, you got stuff you're selling, but like 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:55.320 give me kind of the breakdown on Noble Hooper dot com, 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:57.080 Global Hooper dot com. 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:00.359 Yeah, so, uh, when you talk about expansion, I'm actually 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:02.440 trying to produce a movie of my life story or 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:04.680 I play myself. So I've been working on that. 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:05.280 For a couple of years. 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:07.720 Get that film soon, because you're the strike don't help, 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:10.439 you know what I'm saying. Strikes fucking everything that's not helping. 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:14.720 But except for TV, yeah maybe I think you can still. 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:16.480 Get a TV movie off and the tag won't be mad. 0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:18.840 I'm inside. Yeah, I don't know. So if you're in SAG, 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:21.480 you should not. You're on strike. You are on strike. 0:27:21.600 --> 0:27:23.600 I heard there like it's like gang shit, like you 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:24.800 cannot cross the strike. 0:27:25.040 --> 0:27:27.800 It's real, it's real, it's real. So so now we 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.399 respecting all that, but you know, trying to put more 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:31.879 of a foot into the acting world. I don't think 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:33.920 i'd ever stop my YouTube channel just because, like you've 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.919 seen even a list stars a influencers also, and I've 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:39.440 seen even like big YouTubers go mainstream or do something 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:41.679 mainstream and then have to come back to YouTube and. 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:42.880 It happens actually a lot. 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:44.760 Then the Alborim's all messed up. It's not like it 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:46.760 was before. So I don't I don't ever want to 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:49.400 let um off the gas. Personally, I just think controlling 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:51.800 your own narrative is a beautiful thing. You're your own 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:54.040 boss over there. If people don't want to give you 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:55.280 work elsewhere, you still. 0:27:55.119 --> 0:27:58.120 Got that, and it's it is TV. Like the number 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:00.520 one used that on my TV is YouTube. Yeah, I 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:02.119 mean it's number one streaming app in the world. Like 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:04.520 I'm I don't care about Like, I don't watch Netflix 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:07.840 most unless like some show drops, like I just watched Quarterbacks, okay, 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.119 but I'm always on YouTube. My kids are on YouTube. 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:12.480 Yeah, me too, me too. If I'm not if I'm 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:14.080 not watching Netflix, it's YouTube. 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:17.359 So yeah, so you're essentially you're like you want to 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:19.320 just kind of dip your toe into like producing like 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:21.960 original content or being a part of like movies on 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:24.080 a bigger scale. Yeah, as well as still keeping your 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:24.439 foot on. 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:27.000 The mainly acting a little bit of producing. Yeah, for sure. 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:29.800 But also for me, it's funny as long as I've gone, 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:31.080 you know, start my YouTube channel. 0:28:31.080 --> 0:28:31.520 Oh nine. 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:34.439 The weakness of my brand has actually always been infrastructure. 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:36.680 I didn't upload enough, and now as we get further 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:38.200 into it, people upload way way more. 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:41.600 Essentially, how often are you are you dropping content? 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:44.000 Now we're gonna go four to six times a month. 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:46.280 But I've always I've always been like kind of like 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:48.920 mister beasts where you take a lot of time for 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:52.720 video treated like a TV show where everything's perfect, good, sound, amazing, 0:28:52.720 --> 0:28:54.640 consopt and you're aiming to break the Internet. But we 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:57.040 sometimes I want to get one or two of a month, right. 0:28:57.120 --> 0:28:59.520 And while that, while that was good, don't get me wrong, 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:02.000 is good, Like I think there's a more, a better 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:05.600 from a business standpoint. What's your most viewed YouTube video? 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:08.440 Eighty three mil views? 0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:10.120 But what what what were you doing? Oh? 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.520 I went to Laguna Beach and I played a trash talker. 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:15.320 It was actually the first, my first trash talker video 0:29:15.320 --> 0:29:18.040 I came up with that that turn in the trash talk. 0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:21.280 The dude was just talking crazy. I was. 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:22.840 I had been up there for like three hours of 0:29:22.880 --> 0:29:24.920 playing at the Laguna Courts, you know, the Laguna Beach, 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:31.040 and this dude came up and he was just he's 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:32.440 trying to discredit everything I did. 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:34.160 And then he was trying to do exactly who you were. 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:37.000 I don't think he did. So he didn't know I 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:40.200 don't think so. Maybe maybe, but I don't think so. 0:29:40.200 --> 0:29:42.360 So then he was like giving the dude a hard 0:29:42.360 --> 0:29:44.480 time to guard me. Maybe he knew them, but he 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:46.880 kept he kept saying after every bucket, I would get like, man, 0:29:46.880 --> 0:29:48.440 you gotta do this, doude this, and he's like, all 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:50.479 you got to do is watch his hips, and so 0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:52.840 he's like, man, I got next, and I was like, 0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:54.520 I said something like, well, maybe we should get a 0:29:54.600 --> 0:29:54.880 ones in. 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:56.280 He's like, yeah, let's get the ones in. 0:29:56.400 --> 0:29:58.160 So I was like all right, cool. So he finished 0:29:58.160 --> 0:29:59.720 that game and I was like all right, man, trying 0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:02.360 to do it, and then we matched up one on one. 0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:06.920 He was a little bit heavy set though, so midway 0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:09.000 through the game, a little winded, I did a move, 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:11.040 went between his legs, snash it. I didn't even touch him. 0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:13.400 He's smack. He like smack hit the pavement. 0:30:13.480 --> 0:30:16.840 Right then, like two plays later, I did somewhere up 0:30:16.880 --> 0:30:19.880 faked between my legs between his legs, snatch it. He 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:22.520 broke his shoulder. He like he like reached, he threw 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:26.040 his shoulder out of the socket. So the game didn't 0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:27.680 That's why I got eight three mil views. The game 0:30:27.720 --> 0:30:28.440 didn't even end. 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:29.520 We couldn't have. 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:30.440 Wrote a better script. 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:32.320 Holy shit. Yeah. 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:35.280 So so when we edit it, we go to the edit, 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:38.040 we told the story of how the game happened, because 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:39.640 that was one of my critiques. We don't play good 0:30:39.680 --> 0:30:42.120 enough competition, right, It's like I play anybody in the 0:30:42.120 --> 0:30:45.480 Street Street Bowl. So we told the story of why 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:47.920 that game went down. But then we realized, oh, like, 0:30:47.960 --> 0:30:50.040 you gotta do this every video, we gotta tell us. 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:53.240 The story to the thumb was a zoom into the 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:56.880 ankle breaker. So it kind of that laid the it 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:58.800 that paved the way for how I need to do videos. 0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:00.800 And even the title I had money in the title, Yeah, 0:31:00.800 --> 0:31:02.480 to play the game for a hundred bucks or whatever 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:03.320 it's trash talker. 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:04.240 Wow. 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:08.080 Yeah, eighty three million. Yeah, I think that was twenty sixteen, 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:11.440 and that's fully monetized. Oh for sure, twenty sixteen. 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:15.480 That's sure, Yeah, that's yeah, a lifetime analytics on there. Nice. 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:17.880 Is it safe to say you've surpassed her and one 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:21.320 pay as a YouTuber by like ten or thirty times 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:21.640 by now? 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:21.880 Yeah? 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:24.000 Yeah, I was gonna say somewhere around twenty ten. 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:25.959 I mean, not to get in your pockets, but back 0:31:26.000 --> 0:31:27.800 in the day, like what was what was the pay decent? 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:29.840 Like like, if you guys are hitting the road, it 0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:30.360 was decent. 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:33.000 Yeah, I don't mind. I think my first contract ever 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:35.960 with an one eighteen years old, was like seventy K. 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:39.040 Sixty seventy k not bad for an eighteen year old 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:41.640 kid professionally playing hoops back then before inflation hit the 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:42.840 fucking not bad. 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:44.600 Yeah, I wasn't bad. But then as we win, it 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:45.080 went big. 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:51.000 So we did, you know, multi multi year six figure deals, 0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:52.440 Like by the time I left, I think I signed 0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:56.360 a two fifty k a year. Yeah, two fifty k 0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:57.800 or something my last year. But then we would make 0:31:57.840 --> 0:31:59.640 money outside of an one two, so. 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.280 You could go do that. Then you can go do oh, 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:03.080 I'm gonna do an appearance. I'm gonna go playing a 0:32:03.080 --> 0:32:04.280 game in China or Africa. 0:32:05.000 --> 0:32:09.000 Yeah, so I think my last year, I think one 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:10.960 of the years made eight hundred K or something like that, 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:11.920 and so that was cool. 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:13.920 But just hooping, just hooping. 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:16.240 I think maybe millions of dollars the whole run, the 0:32:16.240 --> 0:32:18.280 whole run, of course. But after saying like for a 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:20.480 single year, for a single year, I was like, Also, 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:22.000 I thought I was rich. I thought my money would 0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:22.520 never run out. 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:25.960 Was everyone's pay scales different? Do you know? Or like? 0:32:26.000 --> 0:32:29.440 Because obviously there's bigger names, smaller names, like because I 0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:30.920 think when I think, when I think of you, I 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:33.960 think a hot sauce, I think, I think escalade, I 0:32:34.000 --> 0:32:38.200 think of half and half amazing. I think of who else. 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:39.880 And you're probably different. You watched it, you know the 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:42.960 casuals they say, like me, hot sauce, and then it's 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:44.440 either like Skip or escalating. 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:50.280 Yeah maybe Ao, Yeah, Ao was dope. Yeah yeah, damn 0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:53.120 that's crazy, Yeah damn Yeah. 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:56.080 But no, it's based on marketability and skill. So like 0:32:56.120 --> 0:32:57.840 what you bring to the table on the court played 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.000 a role, but then obviously your marketability. 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Because he kind 0:36:12.360 --> 0:36:14.520 of kicked the door down for the possibility to like 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:17.760 be a like a legendary street baller. 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:20.399 So his was different though, so he actually played all 0:36:20.840 --> 0:36:22.680 he went the regular ride, just played street balls in 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:25.360 the summer, so we're like full time street ball, Like 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:26.640 I let go of school for it. 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:28.479 So his thing was he was still going to school, 0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:29.880 he was still doing everything. Summertime. 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:34.680 It was he played community college Fresno State, got drafted 0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:37.759 Little D League, then came back up, then signed a 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:41.200 big deal, a few big deals. But yeah, uh for 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:44.640 the other guys, I mean, anything's possible, but I think 0:36:44.680 --> 0:36:47.719 a lot of guys just didn't get that opportunity or 0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:50.400 like there may be was some shortcoming, whether it was 0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:52.560 on the corridor off course, everybody's story is a little 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:54.799 bit different, but dudes were good enough to be that's 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:57.520 the myth man. They did that documentary. They did a 0:36:57.560 --> 0:36:59.759 doc on an One last year on ES. There's two docs. 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:03.560 There's one on Netflix, the one on ESPN had NBA 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:06.359 players kind of like bashing I don't even know why 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:08.240 this was in the dock if it's the an One doc, 0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:10.640 but they were like bashing the level of play of 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:14.000 and one players, and uh, it wasn't a good narrative, 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:15.680 Like it wasn't true. 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:17.480 Why do the documentary if you're gonna bash this. 0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:20.359 I didn't get it. I didn't understand it. I don't know, 0:37:20.440 --> 0:37:22.360 but luckily most people saw the Netflix. 0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:28.359 Yeah it's crazy too because I think like back then, 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:33.560 like there had to have been like for you guys 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:35.360 like to hit it, Like what was was y'all did 0:37:35.440 --> 0:37:38.080 y'all have like and one groupies was there like chicks? 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:40.919 Like who was like fucking because you know what? Yeah, 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:42.880 that was the thing. It was hip hop. It was 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:47.480 a rock star hip hop basketball tour. Yes, what you 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.920 guys had rappers on tour too? Right? Or was it 0:37:49.960 --> 0:37:50.480 different city? 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:53.560 Everybody did the halftimes like like, okay, remember we're just 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:55.759 saying Cassidy was up here. He was going but it 0:37:55.800 --> 0:37:58.080 was like dipset the locks. 0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:01.280 I think when I saw it, it was, uh, David 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:03.879 Banner and Roscoe. David Banner killed it. 0:38:03.920 --> 0:38:06.600 Bro Oh my god, Jacks in Mississippi is home. 0:38:06.719 --> 0:38:09.120 It was wild. Listen. I always say this because I've 0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:11.799 I've always watched guys do halftime shows and they'd be like, 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:13.400 it's a little different. People are getting up to go 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:15.640 to like get their drinks from like listen, oh, this 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:18.720 is lit. I saw David Banner do a halftime show 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:22.080 and he was alone standing in the middle of the 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:22.680 court and he. 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:24.719 Shut that shit the fuck shut it down. I ain't 0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:26.319 got up on the rim once. He's like, shat on 0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:29.320 the rim. It was crazy, but uh no, those halftimes 0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:31.239 went off. E forty actually killed her. Like when we 0:38:31.280 --> 0:38:33.680 did the Bay with the Bay Area, I'd play Oakland. 0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:36.840 I remember E forty came on there and they and 0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:39.840 uh oh what was it? There was these other dudes though, 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:42.600 some local group. 0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:44.040 It was like them. 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:46.400 Yeah, they hit the court and everybody run the court 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:47.880 and they had to stop it because it got It 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:50.800 was like fire Hypierra Man, Yeah, exactly, a Hyph Fierer. 0:38:50.920 --> 0:38:53.319 That was crazy. But every halftime for a one was 0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:54.200 like super Turnto. 0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:56.680 What about. What do you think about Big Three? 0:38:57.600 --> 0:38:58.480 Oh? I think it's dope. 0:38:58.520 --> 0:38:59.560 I love it. I love it. 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:02.759 I mean I don't think like some people might call 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:04.640 that like street I don't really view it as like 0:39:04.719 --> 0:39:07.560 street ball necessarily, but I think that, like, you guys 0:39:07.600 --> 0:39:09.319 have more spin after the league. You know what I'm saying, 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:11.120 You might be good in a half court till you're fifty, 0:39:11.160 --> 0:39:14.799 like you're saying so. So I think it's another it's 0:39:14.800 --> 0:39:17.720 another outlet to check out. I feel like it was funny. 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:19.719 Ice Cube was saying he felt like the gatekeepers are 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:22.799 kind of like stopping it from and I feel like 0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:25.400 that too, because he doing all the mainstream media. I 0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:27.760 think that it would benefit from having some headline players 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:31.200 though that that uh maybe could turn up from a 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:33.160 D from a highlight standpoint. 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:34.359 That's what I think I was gonna say. 0:39:34.520 --> 0:39:36.120 Like when Iverson and Jay Will and the end of 0:39:36.160 --> 0:39:38.480 the year for year one, yeah, that was ready to 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:39.160 go berserk. 0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:42.160 Yeah, and then yeah, because that made me want to watch, 0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:46.120 I was like, wait, white chocolate and Ai, which is tough. Yeah, 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:46.560 me too. 0:39:46.680 --> 0:39:48.840 But the hard thing was like, so Jay Will, he 0:39:48.880 --> 0:39:51.040 was ready played, we got injured, right, So because he 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:53.359 never came back after that, did he ever play at all? 0:39:53.760 --> 0:39:55.520 Maybe a game or two he blew out his knee, 0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:59.840 and then I knew a you know, I played Iverson's 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.799 as game he ever played, like I played with him 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:04.480 in China. It was a three game tours on my 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:07.520 YouTube channel. Really yeah, it was fire, but because that 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:11.040 was my guy. Was that twenty twelve? 0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:14.800 Wow? So his kind of fair relator in China? You 0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:15.520 were you were there? 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:18.040 Yeah, twenty twelve and well the last time he actually 0:40:18.040 --> 0:40:20.120 took to the court and played a full game. But 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:23.359 so I knew, but he barely wanted to do that, 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:25.680 and then after that he never played again. So I 0:40:25.760 --> 0:40:27.839 knew in the Big Three somebody he's hooping. I was like, 0:40:28.000 --> 0:40:29.719 are you sure would like to play like that? Because 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:31.520 at the end of the day, like you play on 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.040 Iverson's level, or like those nbals are even like me 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:37.800 talking to KG, right, they ain't trying to The stakes 0:40:37.800 --> 0:40:40.439 are too low. It feels weird, like going to play 0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:43.080 in a game at a half full arena, or like if 0:40:43.080 --> 0:40:45.080 I asked KG, would you collab on my yout he 0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:48.640 gonna be like, na, why he's already cemented that. Dude's 0:40:48.680 --> 0:40:49.160 Hall of Fame. 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:53.399 Now. It's crazy. Have you ever hooped or messed around 0:40:53.440 --> 0:40:55.480 with uh, with Jason Williams at all? With Jay Will 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:58.920 because he's obviously kind of like the you know when 0:40:58.960 --> 0:41:01.200 you were a kid watching him and Vince and it 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:03.319 was like that era, like a street ball in the leap. 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:07.160 Oh my god, yeah, crazy Iverson jay Will, Like you said, Vince, 0:41:07.200 --> 0:41:09.880 that was crazy. Yeah, we're trying to make it happen. 0:41:10.080 --> 0:41:12.120 We're actually trying to make it happen. So I did 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:15.240 a collab video with him and came to our studio downtown. 0:41:15.440 --> 0:41:17.080 I have like a half court with the LED setup. 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:19.920 We just talked hoops. He showed me his elbow pass. 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:21.200 I show an elbow pass. 0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:23.960 Yeah, yeah, I showed him a move I do, just 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:25.880 got his thoughts on it. And then. 0:41:27.360 --> 0:41:29.800 We've been trying to re so I got I actually 0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:32.000 had a little injury, but we've been trying to revisit 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:34.239 doing a hoop video and he said he was down. 0:41:34.280 --> 0:41:36.480 So like, if you guys went to the park or something, 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:37.760 totally will break the internet. 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:41.920 Just go break the internet real quick. Yes, it'd be crazy. Yeah, 0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:44.560 so we trying. We're trying. Did they ever approach you 0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:47.600 to try to play in like the Big Three? Maybe 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:49.160 by the way, they'd be smart too. 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:54.560 They asked me to enter the draft, but I noticed 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:56.840 that Skip was in the draft. He didn't get picked, 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:58.880 So like I was gonna introd, well he didn't get picked. 0:41:59.320 --> 0:42:00.920 Skip was in the draft and didn't. 0:42:01.520 --> 0:42:03.520 Yeah, some of the guys who got I mean, listen, 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:05.880 no disrespect to a lot of those guys. But I remember, 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:08.399 just I'm talking, we're talking about selling tickets, putting seats 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:09.080 and asses here. 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:10.640 Yeah, and maybe Skip it want to play. 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:12.400 I didn't know the details, right, but I just like 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:15.839 I remember seeing some of the guys and I'm just like, yeah, 0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:18.919 I mean Rashan McCants was like a fringe, like make 0:42:18.920 --> 0:42:20.360 it on a roster kind of guy. And I know 0:42:20.400 --> 0:42:22.080 he's like one of the main Big three guys, but 0:42:22.120 --> 0:42:24.239 it's like, I don't know what's coming out to sever 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:28.200 you know Amari for a little bit. You know, they tough. 0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:32.560 You need to highlight guys. You need somebody to Yeah, 0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:35.400 you need the TikTok guys. Hey, what's the real It's 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:36.879 gonna go crazy to promote the Big Three. 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:38.399 Yeah, but they're not good enough. You know, I'm saying, 0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:39.560 you gotta play at that higher level. 0:42:39.920 --> 0:42:41.000 I don't keep it. 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:44.040 He's trying to keep it big boy, you know, just 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:47.120 below the NBA competition level. I didn't want to do 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:48.839 it because, like my thing was, like they're giving other 0:42:48.920 --> 0:42:49.560 dudes deals. 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:50.600 What do you mean to enter the draft? 0:42:50.680 --> 0:42:53.040 That's just from marketing so you can I'm in it. 0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:56.320 Yeah, Like I'm the most popular guy following wise. 0:42:56.080 --> 0:42:58.680 Here literally outside of Jawill and Iverson. 0:42:58.800 --> 0:42:59.879 That would have been one hundred percent. 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:02.040 Yeah, So like I wasn't gonna do it unless someoney 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:04.000 would sign me. But then also let me play how 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:09.120 I play travel Chip in the the three, I feel 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:11.239 like they could benefit a lout from some entertainment I know, 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:14.600 even like Bone Collector and White Chocolate went and went 0:43:14.640 --> 0:43:17.919 through the combine, didn't get picked up. So they're keeping 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:19.279 it tight. They're keeping it like real. 0:43:19.400 --> 0:43:20.960 Yeah, I get what he's trying to do. He's trying 0:43:20.960 --> 0:43:23.520 to essentially set up a situation where you can extend 0:43:23.560 --> 0:43:25.520 your career. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:27.600 He's trying to say, this's a Big Boy League, you know, 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:30.960 top level competition. Still it's just like just below the NBA. 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:32.040 When you're done, you go here. 0:43:32.360 --> 0:43:33.319 Yeah yeah, which I. 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:34.960 Respect, but yeah, I didn't want to do it. Just 0:43:35.080 --> 0:43:36.759 to me, it didn't feel right, like I'm not gonna, 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:39.440 you know, go to a team and be on the 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:41.680 bench the whole game or like because you know, when 0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:45.520 you get into those like the personas are like how 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:47.200 the coach and the big three would look at it 0:43:47.239 --> 0:43:49.160 and how serious them dudes wanted championship. 0:43:49.600 --> 0:43:51.719 If I try to go Victorial legs and kick that out, 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:53.080 they're gonna be mad, you know what I mean. It's 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:55.480 like we got to take him out. 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:58.080 Yeah, grit too, But I get some moves, I'll be 0:43:58.080 --> 0:43:58.719 trying to do moves. 0:43:58.760 --> 0:44:00.440 I'd be trying to turn it out. I mean, but 0:44:00.800 --> 0:44:01.759 they're trying to get the crowd. 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:03.360 What team would would be cool with that? 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:06.239 For sure? Maybe it's maybe, but as ice Cube cool? 0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:10.080 Who knows? I saw you did a video with Paul George, Like, 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:12.840 how are your relationships with some of the guys in 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:17.000 the NBA nowadays? Like obviously you're a celebrity, celebrity, like 0:44:17.160 --> 0:44:19.319 you know, outside of just being the OG and one guy. 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:20.879 You know what I'm saying, We're cool. 0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:22.880 I mean a lot of guys are busy, right, so, 0:44:23.000 --> 0:44:25.719 like I don't necessarily hang with NBA players, but I 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:27.800 feel like I've met almost everybody you know, and every. 0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:28.759 It's just shows a lot of love. 0:44:28.800 --> 0:44:31.319 I show a lot of respect to those guys for 0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:33.560 doing at the highest level. But Paul George is awesome. 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:33.680 Man. 0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:36.080 I never met him before that day we shot that video. 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:40.160 That shit's crazy. So did you did you did you 0:44:40.239 --> 0:44:41.839 end up going to did you go to NBA con 0:44:41.840 --> 0:44:44.279 at all? I was out there for Summer League. 0:44:44.280 --> 0:44:45.759 I didn't go to NBA can I should have. 0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:49.320 Summer League's fucking fire. Had a great time. I love it, 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:50.759 had a good time. I went to I went to 0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:52.640 like Summer League. One of the one of the days. 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:55.200 It was the day after women Yanna had his his Uh, 0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:57.799 it was like a slower day because my sons were 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:00.319 playing okay, and I just didn't do We were there 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:04.279 all day and like, man, everybody's just walking around, like everybody. Yeah, 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:06.360 the players will get done playing and then walk around 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:07.279 the arena like. 0:45:07.400 --> 0:45:09.840 I know you, I notice that, Like we left the 0:45:09.880 --> 0:45:13.480 arena and then like dudes, who just played that game 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:14.840 right next to us? 0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:17.640 And We're like, what the It's crazy. They didn't have 0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:20.239 a VIP tunnel over here. Nah. And then they have 0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:22.680 the two games going on like simultaneously because they kind 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:25.480 of have the two connected arenas. It's it's mine. I 0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:28.640 told my my boy. I was like, next year, we're 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:30.240 gonna do like a week of this ship. 0:45:30.320 --> 0:45:32.000 That's what we did. I did about four days. 0:45:32.040 --> 0:45:33.480 We're gonna go out there. It's gonna be like our 0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:35.239 All Star weekend. Because I'm a funk with All Star 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:36.640 week It's too much drama, you know what I'm saying. 0:45:36.680 --> 0:45:39.000 I'm good, let me go to fucking it's crazy. Summer League. 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:42.000 It's crazy. We go hang out, be a basketball geek. 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:43.600 It's turning into the summertime. 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:44.719 NBA though, it is. 0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:46.840 It's like a way for the NBA and everybody around 0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:50.360 the NBA to exist. Yeah, for summer for a little bit. 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:53.680 For two weeks. It's crazy, it is. It is two weeks. 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:56.600 But it's really about that first like week. 0:45:56.760 --> 0:45:59.239 Yeah, we missed the wave, like my home here, he 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:01.720 was here, he was there, like when Winby was playing crazy. 0:46:01.719 --> 0:46:04.120 We came three days after and caught like the last weekend. 0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:05.480 And don't get me wrong, it was still lit, but 0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:07.200 it wasn't. It wasn't like the first weekend. 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:09.600 It's crazy because because a lot of those main draft picks, 0:46:09.640 --> 0:46:10.759 you know, they play a game or two and then 0:46:10.760 --> 0:46:12.960 they get sat. You know, it's like and then they 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:15.320 got guys like what's what's the guy's named? Jabari Smith 0:46:15.360 --> 0:46:17.240 on the Rockets was hooping? 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:19.200 Okay, okay, oh huh. 0:46:20.160 --> 0:46:22.080 Shout out to my sons. Yeah. 0:46:22.239 --> 0:46:24.560 Yeah, it's still good basketball regardless. 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:27.000 When you go short. Well, look, man, obviously you got 0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:29.280 a lot a lot going on. People can go follow 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:32.160 you on TikTok and go on the YouTube channel, yes, sir, Instagram, 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:34.759 what's what's the handle? Everywhere? Is it? Just? Yeah? 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:39.120 Professor live YouTube and Facebook, the Professor on everything else. 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:41.680 Check it out global Hooper dot com. You got a 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:45.719 Snapchat show yet, yes, check it out, Professor live Snapchat 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:49.400 Snapchat money is good, It is good. Nobody nobody's complaining. 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:52.399 List. We just launched a Snapchat show like two months 0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:54.120 ago and like first. 0:46:53.920 --> 0:46:57.560 Month boom it going off Snapchat to be confusing though. 0:46:57.600 --> 0:47:00.200 There's like the shows and there's the story, no idea, Yeah, 0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:02.080 because I don't somebody running for you, right, yes, some 0:47:02.200 --> 0:47:04.360 dude in London Mark, you're smart, my guy Dean in 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:06.319 London the handles all of it, and he's like, here's 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:08.640 the analytics, this is how much we're on pace to make. 0:47:09.080 --> 0:47:11.359 And I'm like, oh, actually all sources that I don't 0:47:11.360 --> 0:47:12.360 even have the Apple on my phone. 0:47:12.560 --> 0:47:14.600 Yeah, I don't have I don't have keep, I don't 0:47:14.600 --> 0:47:16.480 have Snapchat on my phone. 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