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OK, so we good. All right, all right, all right, podcast, one tweet is live, so I'll not live. No, live right now. Like live to tape. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

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Yeah. Now put it down. Yeah.

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I think he thought we were talking to him or talking to each other, but that's good. That's what the producer dude. So I can set the stage. Josh Richards myself. Probably the weirdest combo de porn. I sense your crowd's not going to know. That's the weird thing.

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I'm always with you usually whenever I do anything. Everyone knows who I am. I know you're not going to know who I am.

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No, they're both vice versa. They're probably going to think like they saw you flirt with their grandma at the retirement home or something. Yeah, that's tough. That's what I'm thinking.

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But yours are going to probably think like this kid doesn't play hockey. Is that all of there's a chance they're not going to like you.

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Your crowd may not like me. Who fucking knows? But so I'm going to try this podcast. I don't even know how it came about is very odd.

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Very, very odd. Came from the Chase Hudson thing.

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Yes. So you got there was a beef with him on Twitter. I talked about it. I'm like, what's going on here?

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And then your guy, you're you're like, you're Michael Michael who's like we say in the car, one of the weirdest dudes I've ever met.

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And he'll probably become like a focus because you've been around now and he he is your business manager. Is that what your business partner? Business partner, biggest name dropper of all time.

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I'm not a namedrop guy and I don't know anybody's fucking talking about, but he set this up.

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What are we thinking would be officer's name of it?

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I think that's what we were going. Yeah, like best friends, even though I like clearly. Yeah. We've been best friends for, what, three days now? Three days. Three days ago.

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Two days ago. So to give the background for your crowd, I'm Dave Porter and I started barstool sports. Been around for like two decades.

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I've seen everything on the Internet to me. You've been doing it actually longer than I thought.

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But you're tick tock guy to me. Yeah, 100 percent. Yeah. I mean, for Dave's fans, I'm Josh Richards. I've been doing social media for four years now. Started with the tick tock thing, moved into YouTube, and then I'm doing a lot on the entrepreneurial side, getting equity in companies and starting my own energy drink and you energy.

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So yeah. And I tasted it. It's pretty good Michael being your guys. Like let me send you a shit ton of it's like I got so much fucking drinks I don't need any more drinks.

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No, Michael, Michael is going to be in on you about that.

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You're going to have forty cases.

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Trust me, I know Michael's going to get thrown out of fucking window as this relationship goes on. I mean, do it, I get it. But so yeah. It's two different worlds in and probably so we did.

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If we're backing it up when the little hottie and four little hottie is a tech talker who is dating, I always prowls around Daimyo.

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Daimyo. Yeah. Demirel, Charlie, Charlie, who's like the queen of tech talk. Basically she was the first I remember she was in the Basel offices. I want to say like six months ago and someone told me, I don't know who that is next.

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I know she got ninety million followers.

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I saw videos of her. It's like she's the Beatles when she's walking around. So this came out because now they were dating little hottie. You dresses like an asshole a little bit.

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Yeah. For he's like an emo. You dress like an email weirdo for those people listening. But he was dating her number one girl.

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He does. You laugh, but that's how he dress. I mean. Yeah, yeah. That's his style. He dresses I think they call it boy boy. It's like emotional boy.

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I think so they were dating then he was trying to hit on your girlfriend. Yeah.

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And it became a big thing big enough where it transferred from. Talk to people talking about it on Twitter.

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And that's when I, I'm like, what the fuck's going on? And that's how this all started.

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And then we did the extreme live and I had no idea what to expect because my interpretation of ticktock is like I have nothing in common with him.

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I probably won't like them. I thought the are instant live like went pretty good.

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I'm like, oh that's normal. Do like I can like talk don't normally. Yeah. No definitely got traction.

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We were definitely feeding little Harry some shots left and right. Yeah. Well I'm a little bit right. We want you to fight them of course as there's no way, I mean we're not live I assume we agree live as we say, fight.

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There's like a video out of you. Like you will know that you throw punches.

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Yeah, they know they're so you're on TMZ, you don't give a fuck like don't seem to care. It's there. I mean, I think it's like we don't condone like just going around and fighting.

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So what happened with this fight. So pretty much what happened is this, this guy punched one of my friends. Right. And that's why my friend was being an idiot. He was. So we deserved to get punched.

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I mean, I don't think he deserved to get punched because we calm the situation down like he he went and, like, threw a cone in the air and it landed on this a traffic cam, like a little trivial.

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And then I walked up to the girl with my two friends and we started talking to her and we were apologizing. We're like, our friend is drunk as fuck. He's being belligerent. He's an idiot. And then she forgave us. We keep going. We're trying to get in our Uber to go to this.

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I think, like we were going to someone's house and then this guy walks out of. Yell like scream at Mel's Diner, famous L.A. diner, and he he's he's yelling at us saying who hit his car? And then our friend responds and says it was him. And then he just comes over.

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And how old is this guy? This guy was probably I mean, he had a full beard, like, I'm talking like maybe more impressive than your beard.

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I mean, that shows the age when you're like how old it's like, well, I could grow a beard. Yeah. I mean, he was old. I can't grow beard. Right. So, like, I mean, I think you're 22. You can fucking grow a beard. Fuck. So maybe he 35. That should give you a sense of the difference there.

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I do a full beard as well as fuck and do the fucking facial hair. That's what he was. I mean yeah he was probably 35.

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He was like was he a big dude. I think he was probably over 200 pounds.

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Oh so big dude. Yeah. He's probably 200, 210. OK, yeah. So that happened. He throws a punch and then you guys all like piled on him.

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Yeah. We get we brought him to the ground that was he like were there any injuries.

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Oh nothing serious. Like we talked to the guy after that. So he said yeah. So we talked to the guy and like we it was a weird conversation, but pretty much we we settled things like everyone was calm down and then we left and that was it.

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So, yeah, that that was the punch. The video. I don't even know what we started that, but we were well, because we were talking about the face time and little Huddy. Yeah.

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From my perspective and I'm sure it's the same as yours why we're doing this part and everyone's like, what a weird combo are they doing this for us? It's like we Bastable has been around forever. Twenty years. I remember, like I saw on MySpace that you want to date myself. I remember people being like, yo, you got to get on MySpace like OK then Facebook, then Instagram and now Tic-Tac comes along.

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It's like, all right you how many followers you got on ticktock. Twenty two million. Twenty two fucking million.

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And how many you got to shit on Instagram to get like seven over seven million on. Yeah.

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So you're one of the and it's one of those things. I have no idea. I don't know the answer. You may actually have thoughts like how many of you can. You're like my hands. I always move me, I got my hands. I like look like I'm fucking moving chess pieces.

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But for me it's like, all right, Basel has been good. This thing relevant. There's this entire new audience that may not have any fucking clue who we are when we go to Brazil, like, huh. This is a new audience for us and probably for you. Same, I think reverse no.

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Hundred percent. I mean, I was telling you this story like we did the live stream and then I was walking down the street like maybe a week after, a few days after.

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And there was a group of like twenty five year old guys, which is not my demographic at all. And they came up to me and they're like, you were the kid that was in the barstool podcast, not your Josh Richards, your tech talker.

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I was for you guys. So I mean, so that's kind of the genesis of how that came about.

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There's two audiences that probably don't know, and then we'll find out if we can make an interesting moving forward.

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So I came down to L.A. this weekend and first I was telling Michael before he came in Basel so different in the sense we're in New York and it's East Coast and like so I've been here like last night I met I had, like, dinner with the boys. They love you, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I did like Impulsive the Jake Paul podcast.

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So, I mean, Logan Paul, I can just be like running around and there's all these influences that I know who they are.

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I remember like I remember when Logan Paul came up. It's like, who's his bike?

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I don't even know if mine was, but we've been following it in New York. There's not like you can't do that. Like if you came to New York, you can come to Basel and like people come through our cause all the time. But there's not like the tick tock.

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There's so much fucking more going on. I don't know if it's good or bad, just different. Like everyone's doing shit with each other. We're in our world, like, I don't do this. I even like when I did the Logan. Paul is like, you never collab with anybody, right? I'm like, not really. And that's one thing, as you've heard me and Mike talk again, Mike being his manager, it's like why you meet this guy.

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Why don't you guys I don't give a fuck about anybody.

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Yeah. Generally, right. You were talking to me and you were saying how like you're not a network guy. Correct? You're a guy. That's just you do your thing and you make your videos and then people come to you. Right.

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And so this is different, but good. And I was actually kind of asking so is gone in my head, like, how many of these ticktock guys are going to make it like ticked off won't last forever.

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It may last.

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But you know how many people so what you did when you said, all right, I have seventeen million or whatever you said on tick tock and now seven million is Ram, that's somebody who can move their audience with them.

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How many of those people do you think there are?

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I mean, I think that there's going to be maybe five kids from tick tock that total. I mean, I think there'll be five guys in the probably be about five girls. I think. So that's so small.

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Out of every four like every tick tock. There's that's crazy. That's it.

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So when I go on tick tock, it's one of the things like I'm pretty much like if I go out in New York or East Coast, almost depending on the city, but 75 to 80 percent like I get recognized instantly, like.

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Right, Dave. Hey, Dave, tick tock. I'll see people. It's like, whoa, this fucking dude has or girl has like two million followers. Does that mean or is that like anybody know who they are. It's so like it's so different than it used to be.

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Right. Because I've been doing it for so long now. So I remember like if you had three years ago, if you had a. Followers on tape talk it was musically then, but if you had 100K you were a known person like that was a lot like in the street, people would be like with only 100000 followers.

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OK, now it's to the point where people can have five million followers on ticktock. No one will know their names.

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How do you judge who's like for me against the content? It's the content, because some people make videos where people like them for their videos, but not necessarily them. Do you see what I'm saying? They're like Hsueh boys. We try to show our personality. We try to be like, do you? Yeah, I mean, like so I was a douche bag.

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I was at the sway house for those, you know, and and I thought it was like a Zoolander skit in the beginning because I'm like, what are you guys fucking do? They all got their shirts off. They're all in great shape. It's like a very boyband vibe.

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It's like, oh, we wake up, we work out and we eat protein shakes. I'm like, no, really, what do you do?

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Is like, that's what we fucking do. It was a Saturday afternoon college football. I'm looking at my line. You get the dude from The Bachelor who's like awesome looking to it's like just it felt like a boy band vibe. So, like, I didn't know until we spoke.

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I didn't have a vibe on your personality at all. I was like, I don't know what this kid is going to be like and it is going to be like normal is going to be you say play hockey, which to me is like, oh, he's a sports guy. At least we have that kind of in common.

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So is like I don't I don't I don't know. I can't tell you maybe a douche bag.

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People think I'm a douche bag, but no joke for people. We just drove me and Frankie back to our hotel. You got like a Mercedes that ninety nine bazillion percent of America can't afford. You like it's one of three hundred.

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That's a douche bag thing to say. And then you drove a hundred and ninety miles per hour.

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I thought puke like it's such it's a quick fucking car. Quick how fast. You're eight. Seventeen or eighteen. You're eighteen.

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Driving a car worth three hundred grand. What is it. Is that how much.

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A hundred and ninety in like a fucking twenty. That would cause most people like this guy's a fucking asshole.

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I don't get that vibe from you when I'm talking about if I just sabeg this kid fucking sucks.

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That's what I think happens. I think people in the outside always see me and they're just like, this kid's a fucking dickhead. Like I don't not like this, but once they actually meet me and they start talking to me, are we vibe on something that I was like, oh, I fuck with that guy. He's a cool guy.

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Like, yes, he I don't get in. I sometimes go with me. It's different than that, but I don't get it. I feel like you can kind of tell when you meet somebody like that or just how they are like, oh this kid kind of sucks or he doesn't. Yeah I haven't like I haven't got like an arrogant vibe from you, but you do fucking arrogant stuff. Does that make any sense.

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Yeah. Yeah. I think it's like, I think it's one the lifestyle we live like we're blessed enough to like we have someone paying for our house, we have someone giving us these cars. Like all that shit wouldn't be happening if we hadn't worked hard to get to a certain point and then get people to sponsor.

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Right. Right. Like if we were paying for rent, we probably would be living in a place that was ten thousand dollars rent instead of fifty five thousand.

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That makes sense. So it's part of the just us being lucky. I think also being an 18 year old or eighteen year old, if I have a nice car, I'm going to go fucking.

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Yeah, that's fair point. It's like people who probably fucking hate you are to a degree jealous. It's like, well we don't get to do that. And I mean I do this.

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So Basel the back story like I, I started it delivering a handing out newspapers outside subway stations, moved home, didn't have a fucking cent, couldn't afford a hamburger.

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I've made now more than I ever dreamed and I'm pretty upfront about it like people know and they get mad about that by saying just fuck.

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Yeah. Right. And when I was poor I was poor as fuck. And now I have like in my mind, I don't know what ticktock money is, but like for me, I like fuck you money that I never thought I'd have. I still want more and I'm open about it. I could see that. What about so you're saying the sponsors. You're so young so harleigh.

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I can't imagine like when I was 18, I had like a fucking paper route.

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Are you rich? Are you already rich? I'm doing pretty good. Yeah.

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I mean, I wouldn't send fucking money because I think fucking money is like you're talking hundred dollars million. So that's what I got. Right.

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So you got fucked. OK, so I don't know if it was like the same payments on paper a little bit.

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But you're not there. No I'm not. I'm not 100 million. Not now. And what are you making. Millions.

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Yeah, I'm doing it. That's crazy. So at what point it's we talked a little bit. It sounds like your dad was like pretty smart, like and just hearing you talk for like five minutes like. All right. He's got like a grounded, like family. How involved are that?

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It's almost like because at some level you got to think and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but let's say a year like the record stops or something like something changes, like when you're an influence or whatever I always worried about.

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We've been doing it now for like two decades, but we built it around. But you're you know, so if people go out on the Josh Richards brand, are you set like, dude, does that keep you up at night at all?

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I mean, so it used to a lot, I would say about eight months to a year ago. And then I started talking to Michael and I met him and I was like, people in this industry are treated. So unfairly, like creators, they have no union, they don't have someone like fighting for them. So what would you have a union for, though? I mean, like, I went on two tours that summer a year ago and one, I think gross, like anywhere from a male to three million dollars.

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I got paid seven hundred fifty dollars total. Total. So like, I made fucking nothing.

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Were you big. Were you already like. I was I was probably one of the top five biggest people in the tour. And then we go on another tour and like we see them marking up our merch numbers. We see them like doing all this sly stuff in the background to make extra money, like selling extra tickets at the door. Right. Right, right. Yeah.

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Just stuff shady. Yeah. Shady shit. And so when I talked to Michael, that's where we came up with kind of like creating Talent X, so we co-founded that together.

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So you're in on that. Oh yeah. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah. No Talent X was me and Michael and then there were two other co-founders along with us and we went into that and then started super interesting.

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So all right. So that's part of it.

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So are all the how's that work then? Are you like are you going to cut it this way, boys? Or is that like all one thing together?

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No. So like Hsueh we all own. And by the way, for those again, it is the weird part of this podcast.

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The Sway House is like the biggest male tech talk house. So it's you. It's Bryce Hall.

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Blake Rae, no back. Jaden Hossler. Love Anthony. I mean, the list goes on. It's a boy. Kiyo Oh, I didn't know you had that many.

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I mean, it's so fucking weird now because there's three different houses right now. And fuck those kids living at the Studio City house. Kids are still living on my rent, so I need my fucking money back.

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But there's there's Anthony.

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Vinny, I think the kids I haven't really met him yet, but his seems like Jordan. And there's like another one all living at this one house that me and Jayden used to live at. And that's where we saw you.

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Part of the pitch. Then if you find a kid like, oh, this this guy, he may he may be somebody we can blow up.

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Are you trying to get him in sway? Are you like a recruiter? That's how it used to be. Like it was me and Michael testing kids. It was me. I used to study the algorithm before you page like hours a day because I would always then be able to know what videos would get likes and which ones wouldn't. And that's when I was really in my growing phase. So I knew how to just pump out million like videos back to back to back.

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And I do five a day. And then I would see these other kids that are starting to blow up. And I was like, OK, if I give them a little bit of direction, they can be huge. Or if the sway boys help them without the sway effect.

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Yeah, yeah. That's what we call like Basel is similar.

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Like find somebody who may be talented, get them in the pipeline, draw 100 percent. We clearly on a Basel is like we monetize those. Well I don't know how you do it like Basel be like all right. I call her daddy.

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That podcast's, it's fucking huge. There are basically unknown.

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We signed him to a contract there with us three years. At the end of three years. They can go fuck and do whatever they want. We can resign them. That fell apart.

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That's a big because I'm assuming it happens with tech talkers.

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It happens with us. I heard you guys talking. I was the name. But as people grow, it's like, oh, they'll do anything, will be in your videos. They get big and they change how they look at the world. One hundred percent.

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I mean, there's so many people like that come to us. Right. And they'll start filming at our house. And I think we've gotten better at, like, not letting this happen. But they would just use us for videos like they would they would come sleep over there and make videos with us. They'd always be like in our videos, getting their videos, getting our videos.

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And the thing that sucks about that is and you don't really know who's out to get you anymore and then who's just really trying to be there and like be your homie vibe with you. Right. That fucking sucks. But yeah, we'll usually some people are like two years one.

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All right. So it's it's sort of a similar similar business model. US like Zine will blow you up. We're going to monetize.

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You want your here and then if you if we keep it great, if you want to go be a star and do something else we like each benefited from the relationship.

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Yeah.

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And I mean I think that the dope part about Swayze that we all push each other so much and I mean it's kind of like what would happen if there's one podcast is going to push the other part. Yes. It's just like when Bryce I first started posting with Bryce, like I was pushing him and then Bryce post with me and he pushes, are you guys competitive with that?

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Like who's got the most, like, followers?

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And yet, yeah, every day it's like who who had the better take talk. Like who had the better YouTube video.

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I think me and Bryce are in the YouTube like more. We're really trying to like grow that out and become established as you tubers because we're not tech talkers.

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Like we're really like our attitude isn't the same as the other kids that every tech talkers like. I want to be a model and an actor. It's like so does every fucking other person in the world.

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Right. Like there are like the calm to talk. I feel like I've seen. So I don't like I have a ticktock page is just we have people who just cut up my old videos and put it up there, although the one we made today will probably end up I was fucking pumping iron.

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My skin looks like a baseball glove compared to fucking you guys.

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I'm not I mean, I don't know. I could probably work at a better time than, you know. No, I mean, I get the tan. I got like forty three year old skin versus fucking all these young pros. But it yeah.

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There is some comedy but you've got Yeah. You've got to like differentiate.

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I mean were you actually worried about this tech talk a bad thing.

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Just because I'd moved to you two, I was pretty confident we had our trailer deal set up, so we were kind of making sure no matter what happens, we were going to be fine.

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Got it. So, yeah, you want to diversify beyond it to just label. Do you care when people just like duties? Tick tock.

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I don't really care. I think it fuels me to think that lets me know like I haven't done enough yet to be not called the tick talker anymore. Right. Like if I'm trying to get to the point where someone calls me on YouTube or they respect me as an entrepreneur instead of a tech talker or a wiggle dick or whatever you want to call wiggle Dikkers, my term.

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I know I made that up because at first for when I saw it, all I saw was you guys just shirts off Wiggill Dick.

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And it was that song that everybody was doing. I know what you're talking. And the crazy thing about tech talk, it must be the algorithm. You do the same song like a hundred fucking times. Oh, yeah. Like that's an algorithm thing.

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And the thing is, is like tick tock just keeps pushing it to like they will just make sure that video does so good when that song is trending like you will just then the creators post five ten videos to that audio is.

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Yeah girls that's the thing for somebody. It's like the girls are wildly sexualized. They're like how old is girls.

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Like fucking sixteen, like basically gyrating sex every two seconds. Like are I going to get off this thing? Right.

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It's also how you must have a gazillion fucking girls who slide into DBMS. There's a few.

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A gazillion because I know what my I have a shit on in and I'm like not a sex symbol guy. How do you what platform to use for that tech talk or Instagram. I mean if if I were to use it.

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We know you're using it, you know, hypothetical.

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So for you you aren't officially dating this girl, NASA, who's like she's a big tech talker that you blew up. Correct. I mean, I don't take credit for blowing her up. She we we. How many followers does she have when you met her?

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I think like three hundred thousand. And how many did you have? I think like five million.

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OK, so I mean you blew up but that's fine. I mean that's that goes a lot.

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She was probably fucking using you. That's fine. What are you not. Are you dating. What's your name.

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We're not dating. Oh she's my ex girlfriend. We're so cool. Right, right.

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So you're you're communicating with girls on fucking somehow. How are you doing it? I mean, like DMS I guess. For what platform. Instagram. It is Instagram. What's the average age of girls.

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Financial Times. They're usually college girls. Yeah.

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Yeah I make sense. Yeah.

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It's quite a life. No. Yeah, it's pretty dope you know. Go into your DMS fifty sixty hundred. It just keeps going. Yeah.

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I mean I even girls that I know who I like older like. Yeah we like these Tick-Tock I was like and I'm almost a fan like what are you talking about.

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Just fucking they probably don't even play fucking sports and stuff. There's a few that don't Bryce he can't fucking play sport for his life really.

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He can wrestle. I'll give him that. He's an insane wrestler the least. Like somehow he has no balance in sports besides wrestling.

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I always have a question for you, for guys like this, like did you go to a public high school where you guys.

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Yeah. So like what are your high school friends like?

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So started off I was like I was going into high school being like a pretty popular kid. Right. Like I didn't do social media at this time. I played hockey, I played soccer, I played lacrosse like I played all the big sports in my town and from Canada where it can.

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Yeah, yeah. Outside of Toronto, small town called Koeberg like fifteen thousand people at the time.

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So going into that year, dumbest decision I've ever probably made, but not before my fuck. Before my ninth grade year, I decided to post musicalized. Right. And it was because my sister was doing them and then people were commenting on our musically.

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It's just like it didn't look like it was like a ten times cringe.

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Your version of ticktock, OK, it's like so bad. The worst videos will still pop up every once in a while, like my old take over. And what were you doing in them?

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It's just like holding the phone in, like lip synching and like moving your hand, but it's like it's sped up. So it slows the audio down when you film it and then it speeds it up when it posts. It just did never look at those. You won't want to do the podcast with me anymore.

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It's so bad. I've seen a lot of videos and we're still here, so that's actually a good point. So yeah, but no, started doing that, went to school. It was instant bully like I mean I probably deserved it. I would have liked who is bullying you.

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I mean every senior I knew all the seniors before I knew like every grade just because one my dad worked at the school and to like I told you, I played sports. But even my own friends, like, they would give me a hard time. But it's a little bit different coming from your friends. Like, of course, they're going to make fun of you, but mainly just like slurs, calling me like gay and stuff like that. And then as well, just just call me a pussy.

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That's pretty much it.

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I can see that, I guess. I mean, how physically could I. Yeah, I don't I want you to slurp.

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I'd be like, you're a fucking loser like that. Yeah. I'm only doing like what. What I started thinking, like as I was getting made fun of, like at the start, I was pissed, right? Obviously I'm like, what? What the fuck? These are my friends. And then I like, kind of look at my content a little bit.

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And I knew what I was doing. And I was just like, oh, you know, what if I was if I wasn't this kid in this kid went to my school, I would bully the fuck out of this kid.

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So when did it turn from you just doing it? Your sister's kind of doing it's like there may be something here.

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I got a video that blew up, like the worst timing again.

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But the day before school started, I posted a video and it got like I think like two million views, got like two hundred and seventy five thousand likes. I was used to like getting 500 likes. Like that was the biggest thing I've ever had. 500 likes. This really blows up, gets me twenty six thousand followers overnight. I wake up, I see it, I'm hyped and I literally start my high school and that's when it was like at that point I was like, oh it's too fucking late.

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People are already branding me as this musically kid. Now if I quit then I'm just going to get made fun of for, like, quitting you. So like, might as well just keep going.

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And when did you go from Toronto to L.A.? About eight, nine months ago. I moved out here.

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Oh so recent. Yeah, yeah. No, I first came out and looked at like we were all staying in this house. I came out January 5th. I stayed for like two weeks and then I went back home and then I came back out again after that probably February 5th.

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And then that's when I was I'm always curious, like when I started Basel, I remember my my dad specifically just he didn't get the Internet. My dad's the type of guy still to this day.

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Like, if he sees an article on the Internet, like, he's like, hey, I want to read this. I like, fax me.

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Like, he'll print it out. In fact, he doesn't understand anything. So you still have a fax?

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My dad does. He does fax it to er I don't have a fucking fax. I'm not that fucking. Oh my dad.

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My dad who actually so we have our own radio station, we have like barsoum on Sirius XM like he has. I gave him basically his own radio show to yell at air. That's like my dad.

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But so he never got it in the beginning. He supported it, but he didn't what the fuck I was doing. And as people start recognizing me, he'd be like, hey, how's that guy?

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I know who you are is a bastard. Pozible, what were your parents thinking? It's funny because I've never even said this story before, actually. So awesome. Exclusive for the podcast.

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But my dad, I remember when I first started it like very start three to four weeks in and my dad started seeing in his paper like this money was coming in and he was so confused. Right. So he came up to me. He was like, I know why.

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What's the paper like? How why were you getting money in your paper? Live streaming? So I would go live on musically and then people.

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So we set up like a twitch thing where people can like donations. Yeah.

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So then I was making this money. He was super confused. I don't really know where I was making this money. You probably thought I was like selling drugs. Right. So he came up to me to have this conversation. He was like, so what are you doing? Like, I also heard about these video app, like, what is this? And he was talking me about it and I like showed it to him and he looks at the phone and then looks back up at me and he's like, this is kind of gay.

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And then I was like I was like, yeah. And then he was like he was like like, I don't I don't care. Like if you're gay, it's finally like, supportive. Right.

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Right. That's how my dad is. But he was just kind of like it is kind of gay though. And I was like, yeah, I know.

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And then like I just kind of kept going with it. I explained, like, to him, like my vision was money. Right. I saw that you can make money off this app and I didn't want to go fuck and work at a ice cream shop or like Tim Horton's like, fuck that. Right. If I can sit in my basement, turn on a camera and play video games are like, fuck around with my friends and make more money than they are, why the fuck wouldn't I do it?

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So how important it sounds like obviously, even back then for tech talk, do you just have to be like really good looking? Is that like can you can you survive on tech talk if you're not like a good looking I mean, if it's funny.

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Yeah. Is comedy catching up on comedy.

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Yeah. Comedy is picking up a lot right now. And like especially I think as more people got on it, the app started becoming a lot more of like high like high school college app before it was like I feel like a middle schooler. Right. Right. So now there's like my whole for you page dark humor, just every single video on there.

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And that's because I think that's what you like. But yeah, there's definitely so much different content now than when it used to be.

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And it used to be like you only really blew up if you were a good looking like third trap video maker.

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What do you think of and I've seen it while I've been at the house. You Tick-Tock is no doubt like that's the buzz social platform.

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People don't even know what tech talk is like tech talk. You get all these brands, all these people, and everyone wants audience. And you guys are like kind of the top, whether it be, you know, the hype house, whatever, with, like Charlie and those girls and Ray, you guys are all interconnectors over the house. It's like, oh, this guy's fucking Addison.

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This guy is fucking it's all connected. Literally all connected. Yeah.

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Okay, so you guys are kind of the top of a pyramid that right now is the top of the top of the pyramid. And everyone, I assume, hit you up and they want to like I got to be honest and like, who's who's the guy who did the roast? John Ross. Joe Oh.

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Jeff Ross, Jeff Ross, yeah, I've never met him. I think he's very funny on the Comedy Central roast when they said he was doing it, I almost packed my bags. I could get out of here this bad for my brand.

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Like, these are guys who are no longer very relevant trying to get relevancy through the tick tock people. Yeah. What is like what's your take on that like people and say, hey, Dave, that's what you're doing. I'm not like I think we are some back.

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I still think barstools like wildly relevant, but some of the people that like are not relevant are trying to get relevancy through No.

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Hundred percent. I think you see it with also like, like these Disney kids, like there's a lot of like X Disney kids that will start hanging out at these houses or like they'll start posing with these tech talkers out of nowhere and everyone just kind of like, like what the fuck is going on.

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But it's just people trying to get back at it.

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I mean, I feel like being relevant is kind of like a high. Right? Like you get hyped up everywhere you go, every comment. Everyone wants to be your friend. And then once you lose it, which it happens like fucking that right instant, you're like you're missing out on that hot, you're missing out on that life.

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So you just try to surround yourself with the people that are at the top all the time.

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What we've probably gone on have probably good timing on this, what with this podcast, we talked a little bit.

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How involved? Like, did you have any were you like, yeah, I wanna do this right away?

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Or do you have second thoughts like I in your shoes. I had second thoughts. If I was in your shoes, I would I had second thoughts.

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I think that at the start, like I didn't realize how strong barstool was. I didn't actually understand the like fandom that you guys have. And like, you got to have like a cult following. Yes, it's very cool. And once I started just looking into it a little bit more, I just was like, this is a perfect fucking fit. Also, like, I'm trying to expand my audience just the same, you know what I mean?

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Like, I feel like the people that I have a hard time reaching is that, like, male, totally different.

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Yeah. And you guys reach that audience so. Well, yeah.

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My my hesitation was, was twofold and it was all the way through. It's like, all right, I get along with the dude because I've never done it.

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Like I literally, I barely I just started a podcast with bar stool for the first time. Like we have a ton of podcast but I usually don't because I'm doing a lot of the business side and it's it's all in sidebar. So, so very different than this. It's just like people don't know what's going on with us. But it was I, I don't want to do something where I don't get along with a guy and it's like I don't want to.

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I was like dreading waking up to do. It's like I don't fucking talk about nothing.

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No. And so that was one. And it's like I don't want just be like it has to be good, like I'm pretty particular with everything I fucking do.

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So it's like if we didn't get along, no audience is worth it for me. It's like that's how we've gotten here. So that was, that was the hesitation with me. That's why we came out, get along, meet, see how it goes. And I mean, who knows you're walking guys all get shirts off and you fucking handshakes. I was like, Frank, I don't know what the fuck's going on. I mean, you joined us this morning.

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So I said, that's kind of like a little I look like an asshole in the video, but it'll be a very funny video. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I don't know if people are going to choose to hate on us or hate on you for that.

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They're going to I think. Or both. Oh my God. My problem and you they'll like I think people will be surprised with you.

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Our crowd will be like OK, he's got a head on shows. And to be honest our arousal older is always you're always hesitant.

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Be like, you know, seventeen, eighteen. How much can you know about business was clear.

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You've been doing it for a long time. Yeah. I mean, no. Yeah. That's been something like I've been passionate about, like just that entrepreneurial spirit. Like I used to have a hockey T-shirt company. I was telling I think I think I told you a little bit about it, but like it it was called bezerk hockey. And I did it in, I think seventh, eighth grade, like those two years. And we just made these designs and would sell them to hockey team, sell them to kids at school.

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It was me and my one friend, Gavin Stephenson. So shout at him. And then after that it was a cross company with strings. So I was hustling, always doing that show. Right. So then when I came out here, it was like, how do I make companies that are going to make money?

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So what's amazing is the energy drink, the number one thing you're focused on right now. Yeah, I think that's the main focus. And the energy. Yeah, it's fucking I was so happy about it because, like, these energy drinks tastes like ass I had.

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It is very good like and I finally tried it and I was like, OK, this is actually going to be a good tasting energy drink. I don't have to front about it like, you know, like the bang energy promos. Everyone's like no one fucking likes bad now bang.

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But I don't like you. Absolutely. But I'm not in that yours was good.

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I don't like drink it because I don't drink those type of things but I'm good. Thank you. So. All right. So that's the first episode.

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We don't even know when this is dropping actually. Yeah. We'll figure that out. It's not I mean there's nothing it's pretty evergreen. Yeah.

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And then like moving forward sometimes hopefully you'll be in New York, I maybe get L.A. Times.

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I've not. We just do the fucking, you know, the studio stuff. You gotta get a studio in that house.

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I know we're crazy built and we'll just kind of take it. You can ask me questions of my world. I'll ask about the ticktock world.

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Stay in touch. Find out how NASA's doing. Who's fucking it. Yeah, let's let's figure it. All of it.

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All right. There it is. Episode one pays.