Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - Are Robots Taking Over?! Marques Brownlee x Dude Perfect

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

The GOAT of tech, Marques Brownlee, joins the show to talk about how he built one of the biggest tech channels in the world, starting with reviewing a simple remote when no one else was doing it. Marques shares stories from interviewing icons like Kobe Bryant, Barack Obama, and Elon Musk, and dives into the future of robots, AI, and humanoid tech. He also talks about his career as a professional Ultimate Frisbee player and reveals a hilarious Almost Athlete moment. Later, Cody breaks down his NBA All-Star Celebrity Game performance and what went wrong in his matchup against Tacko Fall, while the guys answer wild voicemails about socks with sandals, eating pizza with a fork and knife, and whether Bigfoot could actually be real. If you’ve got a question, hot take, or your own Almost Athlete moment, head to AlmostAthletes.com or call [phone] to be featured on the show. Presented by Intuit Turbo Tax. Chapters:  00:00 Introduction  01:20 Garrett’s Almost Athlete Injury  05:05 Marques Brownlee Introduction  10:30 Technology Boom  13:05 Are Computers Going To Take Over The World? 14:20 How Marques Got To Interview Kobe Bryant 20:30 Do You Think Reviewing Products Can Be Detrimental? 32:30 How Marques Found Ultimate Frisbee  41:45 Tech vs Sports: Which Is Bigger Game 51:50 Marques Brownlee’s Squad Games Draft  56:35 Almost Athlete Moment  01:01:50 Cody’s NBA Allstar Quest 01:14:55 Voicemail #1: DAD QUALIFICATIONS  01:16:50 Voicemail #2: Are Socks & Sandals Okay?  01:18:10 Voicemail #3: Can you Eat Pizza With A Fork & Knife 01:19:10 Voicemail #4: Is Bigfoot Real?  What to do now: 1. Smash that LIKE button  2. Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a DP podcast moment  3. Drop a comment with who YOU want to see on Almost Athletes next! Subscribe for more!    https://www.youtube.com/@almostathletes    • • • • Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Tune in weekly to hear the dudes’ hottest sports takes, great debates, interviews with your favorite athletes and entertainers, and hilarious BTS from all things Dude Perfect.  New episodes drop every Wednesday.  Follow along on all platforms.   Listen to the pod on your morning commute or wherever it finds you: Apple: - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almost-athletes-with-dude-perfect/id1834502483 Spotify: - https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm31JIbp6td7QtYsPU?si=6423db3118ac497f Follow Almost Athletes to keep up with the Dudes!: https://www.instagram.com/almostathletes https://www.tiktok.com/@almostathletes https://x.com/almostathletes_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been floating around my friend group, because again, we're old enough to have watched Terminator. And are we going to get overtaken by robots? Good question, Garrett. Yeah, I think everyone doesn't want to ask. I mean, it's the question everybody's asking. It's Wednesday, yeah. I mean, I would love to give some flowery, like, yeah, no, everyone's fine. Everything's good.

The truth is... Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, a Wave Original, presented by Intuit TurboTax. Follow the show on all socials at Almost Athletes, like and subscribe on YouTube. or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. We're your host. I'm Sparky. I'm Corey. I'm Cody. Yeah, no G. No G. Let's talk about it. Eye injury. He's a pirate. Dude, before we start, I need a hat. You do? Huh? Wow. Coming unprepared. I had a hat on and I took it off and I'm regretting it. Oh, I know why you're putting that on. We got a big Burnley game today.

Run the game, so you guys already know the result. We don't know the result. Okay. Yeah. Burnley will shock the world. You're being a good fan. Dude, you look awesome. You look silly. It's not. This is in overseas. You know what else looks silly? Your performance in LA.

We'll talk about that later. We'll talk about that later. But first, where's Garrett? We had an almost athlete moment. J.B., show the picture. Got a text last night around 1.45 a.m. Yes, I was up. No, Garrett is out.

Bad eye injury. He's in the ER, ma'am. We don't have a story yet, right? No, no story. I'm going to guess contact lens, just based off prior history. Maybe he's contact lenses haven't got along too well over the year. Maybe he's sleep with his eyes open.

I see, I think he was yawning. I sleep with my eyes open. Fingernail scratch. Are you being for real? I'm being for real. My fan every morning I have to put eye drops in my first thing. You sleep with your eyes open? I'm not a choice, unfortunately.

I can't control myself when I'm in an unconscious state, Corey. That's crazy, bro. Anyhow, Garrett wanted me to tell, first of all, Texas fans, congratulations for the win in College Station. And he also added that the refs were horrible in the Burnley game. These are the two things. There's Gary right there. That doesn't look that bad.

I don't know, man. That eye is more red than... I think to go to the ER for that. You think that's a... Little amount of redness? Hey, now, listen, you're not the one right now to be talking about ER trips. Cody, wish he could have gone to the ER in the middle of his game. Just got yanked.

How are y'all doing, though? Everything? Swell. Underutilized word, dude, I like that. Yeah. Let's do that more. Swell's a proper word after a 3-7-1. Shout out, you're just putting on for that area code.

I don't know who the 3-7. 71 was 3.7 rebounds one assist. That's good. If you're from the 371 comment below. He got taco. I had fun. We'll talk about that a little later. Also this week, my six year. Oh, that's right. A little louder, please, goodness. Six years in the Duke of family. I rolled in a bogey kind of clap. I wanted the birdie clap. Who do you give credit to for coming on the team? Cody Jones actually. Yeah, Cody Jones was the, uh, I slid in his DMs. You did, man. And I was like, man, who's this weirdo? It was a good text back by me.

That was a good text back by me. Sorry you had to congratulate yourself there. It's kind of like having to remind people it's your birthday. Yeah, that's tough. I was hoping the team calendar would speak for itself. But it's all right. In six years, let's be honest. Six years is kind of a weird year.

It's an in-betweener. Yeah, there's some longevity to it, but it doesn't hold as much weight as like a tini. You know, once you had a decade, it's a little different. Coming up on today's episode, Cody is going to share all the behind-the-scenes stories from his NBA All-Star Weekend Quest video. And later, you send us some great voicemail questions.

our favorite segment, we'll get to those. One last thing, goo also. Sean Niswanger, I don't know if you all had an almost athlete moment this weekend. Play the picture. This is tough. What makes it tougher is the setting also. 100%. Shooting at the range with the girlfriend,

whack. Oh, he put his eye under the scope. A little too close to the scope. So he's using her rifles, what I heard. And he was having to lean forward because it was not long enough for him. He's with the father-in-law too. No. Technically not father-in-law, but you know what I'm saying.

Future. No, I think he was going to ask. And he's with her and he does the lean forward and right to the eye. If you have any thoughts of asking the big question to the father-in-law, that is not the day to do it. Very first shot too. Not actually get selfieed by the rifle. Ready set ER. Like I said in the DP group chat, I told him, man, you got to go around telling people,

I'm the left winger for the U.S. gold medal winning hockey team. You should see the Canadian. That's what I told Goud to say. That's a shout out Gout. Goutu was also the lead editor of Cody's Quest video. He made, so if you were part of that video, you're getting banged up right now. You tell you what. His eye looks like that from editing the video. It's going to be an awesome episode, but first we're really excited to talk to the goat

of tech. And I'm not talking Texas tech. We're talking technology. YouTube's Marquez Brownlee stopped by. It's an awesome conversation. So let's get right to it right here, right now on almost athletes. Losing the hat. Our guest today is pretty much the goat when it comes to tech content on YouTube. He has over 20 million subs, billions of views, multiple streaming awards, and is also a professional ultimate frisbee player. You may know him as MKK. B-HD, give it up for Marquez Brownlee. Thanks what's going on, brother. Doing really good.

Yeah, man. Well, welcome. Welcome to the career. Did you ever think in high school? Because we get asked us all the time. Well, is this what you wanted to do? Did you want to be a YouTuber in high school? Kind of, yeah.

How old are you? So I'm 32. Okay, so you were like right on the like, because for us in high school, YouTube wasn't a thing. You know, like. True. Yes. So we didn't have the like, we're going to grow up to be YouTube.

We were like, we're going to grow up to be firefighters. you know yeah that's an era and that's shifted now all the kids want to the youtube yeah correct so i it's uh but like reading your intro here like did you ever like those were some of the dreams you know 20 million did you know i guess you dreamed about having one million that was that was it that was the dream one million subscribers well good news brother yeah kicked your coverage that's for sure yeah to garrett's point was it more of like a happy accident that youtube happened based off your passion for yeah tech side or was it the YouTube passion that happened that the tech took over kind of you know what I'm saying it was both so like I started in 2009 and I remember in like 0708 oh 9 in high school I was watching a lot of

YouTube videos but that was like pre-partner program so being a YouTuber as a job wasn't real yet so I didn't grow up thinking oh I'm gonna be a YouTuber but I did watch a lot of videos then you fast forward so I start making videos and you know kind of happenstance I got a laptop I started doing these tech things here and there and then it slowly starts being more of a thing. Like, there are a couple YouTubers at this point, and there's a partner program now, there's ads, and suddenly it's a career, it's a real thing that you can do,

and I just happened to have been doing it for a couple of years up to that point. So it felt natural to just kind of keep doing it. So were you always a tech guy? Like, you loved it? Yeah, yeah. It's a passion of yours. Always a bit of a nerd, yeah. That's amazing. So what was the first product you ever reviewed? First product I ever reviewed? Like were you just like, I'm going to make review videos? Yeah, I think my first review probably I didn't call it a review, but my first tech video was

So I got this laptop in high school I'd like spent all my allowance money on it. I was obsessed with it And I'd watched every video on YouTube that had ever been made about it and no one had talked about the PCI Center the PCI slot with the media center remote in it And so I like took it out of the PCI slot and I like did a webcam video explaining the remote like in case you didn't know it comes with this remote that was a video. And that was, I guess, technically, my first review. Did it go, I mean, were you proud of it?

I was, yeah, proud enough to make another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, these guys look back at some of their videos and they're not proud. Oh, no, like, I'm, yeah, they're not good anymore. Right, sure. But in the moment, I was, like, happy that I did it. But in that moment, were you still trying to figure out, like,

the creative out, like, the creative direction for your channel? Were you like, no, we're all review? Or were you still like, No, I still kind of like maybe doing some stuff over here. Yeah, I didn't have a direction as much as I was just like, I had seen a bunch of other videos. So I was like, let me make one of these and see if it's fun and make another one. And hey, this is kind of fun. Let's keep going.

It was really the passion behind it that made it work. I tell kids all the time, because you probably hear it too, that when you ask kids, what do you want to be when you grow up? So many of them nowadays are hit you with the content creation. What would be your advice to somebody trying to get into the content creation world? because mine, first thing I like to lead with something I hear Ty say all the time is you got to be passionate. You better love what you're doing or it's going to show. Yeah, 100%.

And it's hard to like explain. Yeah, the glasses were funny. Oh, man, incredible. We've come a long way. I saw the reflection. I said, let me take that off. No, it's so good. Today, okay, in 2026, I agree you need the passion, but sometimes it's hard to understand, like, what does that mean?

You think you care about something because you've watched a lot. I actually equated a lot to sports and maybe this will hit home because I brought this up to other athletes where it's like let's say I want to be a basketball player if I am comfortable going to the park every weekend and just playing

just hooping for free and learning and getting better and just playing against other people who are playing for free that's a pretty good sign that I care enough about it that if I had the opportunity the luck, the ability,

the dedication to turn it into my job that I could do it it. But if you aren't already really excited to go to the park and play, you probably don't have the drive that is necessary to turn all those things into your job. And it's kind of the same way about being YouTube. I hear kids say like, I want to be a YouTuber, but like, I don't have the money for that. I don't have the equipment I need for that. But they have a phone in their pocket with a 4K camera. And it's like, if you want to, you can just do it right now for free and start. and maybe someday eventually get lucky and be able to turn it into a job,

but I think that's a good way of, like, feeling the passion is you just do it. Well said. Well said. I think back to like 2009 where tech was at that point, I grew up with dial-up internet, where I grew up, middle of nowhere, Texas, really didn't understand. You're still on dial-up up there. Still didn't understand, like, the PlayStation Network and stuff,

getting to college absolutely blew my mind. You as a tech guy from when you started to now, you've seen the craze. Are you all on board for the tech craze? I'm sure. It's obviously played into your hands nicely, but just how far we've come in the last couple decades. Does it blow your mind as much as it does mine?

Yeah, it's like everything is tech now. I remember when I first started getting into cars and people were kind of confused that the tech guys getting into cars, but a car is just a computer on wheels at this point, and it feels like that's kind of the theme. Everything is just tech whether you like it or not. So, yeah, it's come a long way. And now it's kind of hard to not be into tech.

in some way. Even if you're just a kid like scrolling on TikTok, it's like, well, you're also thinking about your algorithms and like the phone you're using and all these other choices. Like, there's just tech everywhere. So as a guy who's been a little reluctant

to jump in the way modes, am I good? Am I good to jump in those self-driving cars like the Uber's? They're fine. Because if you tell me I'm good, they'll feel a lot better than some drivers I see driving the streets.

That's actually facts. That's actually facts. If you're worried about like danger, the Waymo is super safe. Yeah. It's playing the stats game. It's playing the stats game. But if they drive like a grandma,

It's like it's the other people around the Waymo you have to worry about. Sure. The Waymo is not going to do anything crazy. I always thought fear was just a, it's a funny thing because like, you know, you fear, you know, I cannot stand. I fear helicopters. You know. I do too.

And it's just like, but at the end of the day, you're way more like, you're putting yourself in a car that's going, you know, 80 miles an hour down a highway with a thousand other people and a thousand other decisions in a moment that you could, you know, have a, you know, statistically, it's just as dangerous. It's just funny how, like, you don't. care about statistics when it comes to fear, you're just like, I feel more safe in control. Yeah, it's a feeling. So I think everyone wants to know. AIs had a pretty interesting week. I don't know if you've seen some of the articles. It's been floating around my friend group,

because again, we're old enough to have watched Terminator. And are we going to get overtaken by robots? Good question, Garrett. Yeah, I think everyone just wants to know. I mean, it's a question and everybody's asking. It's Wednesday, definitely. I mean, I would love to give some flowery, like, yeah, no, everyone's fine, everything's good. The truth is, yeah, it's like, it is replacing a lot of jobs.

If you're asking about us, content creators. I'm not really, I'm not really care about jobs. I'm more care about, like, are we going to be run, is our species going to be run by robots? Oh, entirely? Oh, I don't think. I agree with you, but there's some people out there that think,

that are like Terminator, you know, they're, have you seen Terminator? Do you know what I've seen Terminator? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's a ton of other, like, iconic movie moments or like pop culture Forecasting of like what do you think this like computer is gonna do? Are the computers gonna take over? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I think they're gonna take over

But I do think I like to think about like people like people like humans like humans Yeah, and I think Emotion, maybe this is maybe this is naive, but I kind of I feel like people want to like as far as like content creators like are we gonna be a place? Well, I think people want to watch Human-made videos and there is a bit of a novelty moment right now where it's you see an AI video you're like well this is crazy and they get a lot of views and they're like very interesting but I think at the end of the day we still value like human created stuff personal connections I think of that sort yeah it is scary though I mean we're at a time we're we're a little vulnerable in the sense that jobs content creation it's all all up in the air

a little bit you mentioned uh athletes Kobe Barack Obama is a person you've been is he an athlete well yeah Oh, Barack. Have you seen the jumper? I've seen a 20 on a bad day. I've seen a 40 on a good day. Have you ever been starstruck by any of the celebrities you came encounter with? 100%. A lot of time.

Yeah. Kobe was my first ever interview. Wow. What an opening interview. How did you land that? That's a great question. So I'm doing these tech videos. I'm sort of in the software, a little bit of dabbling gadgets here and there.

I get an email from Nike that says, hey, we have an opportunity to dig into the tech behind Kobe's new shoe. He's coming out with a new shoe. This is farewell tour season. This is Kobe Bryant. And it's basically like, you want to come to the Staples Center, interview Kobe,

and, you know, talk to him about the tech in the shoe. I was like, well, I've never thought about the tech in the shoe before. But let me just say yes. Let me just say yes. We'll figure it out later. We'll get there.

I get there. I see the shoe, you know. And then so basically it's like the, yeah, it's a staple center. There's like a, he's doing like a little circuit. So I get there. There's like four other stations set up. And I've got like my crew

and the tripod. on the camera. They're like, all right, Kobe's going to walk in this door. He's going to do this interview. Then he's going to do this one. Then he's going to do this one. Then he's going to do yours. Then he's going to do a phone interview on the couch and then he's going to piece out. So that's, you got the time to set up to just get ready for when he's coming around the circuit. Okay, great. So he walks in. It's Kobe. It's 40 other people with like black suits on. Like, yeah, this is Kobe. He does interview one. I'm like a little nervous. He does interview two. I'm like, this is really, they're really going to let me interview Kobe. Okay. He

get to interview three he walks up he shakes my hand super super nice like he's clearly been briefed on me so he's like i you know i've seen what you do this is good stuff like awesome interview he kind of carried it actually because i'd never interviewed anybody so i'm just kind of like shivering asking him questions and he's like carrying it but like he's super nice uh i talk about the tech in the shoe i actually learn a good amount about it then he does the the couch interview and then i i realize that i haven't taken a picture with him yet so i'm like do i think i get a picture. Yeah, yeah.

And then, you know, I got a picture with it. And then that was it. And then, yeah, that, yeah, definitely starstruck, I would say. Humbling experience for sure, man. You started with a banger in Kobe. Yeah. Marquez, I got a question for you. I got a couple, but I want to start this.

You were talking about robots a minute ago. Yeah. I saw some video floating around of some guy standing on like a, you know, a conference room stage. And he was clearly flexed. And he's like, hey, I was no big deal. I was hanging out with Elon the other day at Tesla HQ. And he said, my takeaway, after seeing their robots,

What's the robot called? The optimist. Yeah, optimist. He goes, my takeaway is I'm in there, and Elon looks at me, and he says, no one will ever remember that Tesla made a car was his line. And he said, this guy then said after his interactions with that whole thing and seeing everything it can do, he thinks there'll be a one-to-one ratio specifically of the Tesla robots to people in the world, which is obviously both of those statements are crazy. Yeah. Do you think in, I mean, let's just simplify it in our lifetime, do you think, do you think, that robots truly become like one to one with people. It doesn't have to be his, but have you

seen enough of that? Do you know any take on that? All right, a lot to unpack there. One, I will say Elon is a phenomenal business person, and he does say a lot of things. For sure, no doubt. And I think a lot of people who are potentially invested in Tesla will love hearing those massive statements of scale. Like, we're a car company now, but we're a tech company, we're an AI company, big, big, big. So that's Elon talking. I get that. But I've also had maybe a hotter take

on humanoid robots, which is I don't think they're good idea at all. And here's why. I don't think anybody can clean the house as good as I can, so I agree. Okay, so that's actually kind of where it comes from. Like the human-shaped robot, right? We're picturing like a five-and-a-half-foot tall,

like head, bipedal, arms, fingers, all that stuff as like a robot that walks around. And it seems to make sense because we've built the world for the human shape, right? I've said this before on our podcast. But what if the robot isn't the person-shaped robot? It's the thing that the robot was going to do. For example, the dishes, right?

We put the dishes in a robot that cleans them already. Yeah. Instead of the human-shaped robot with the hand cleaning the dishes, we feed it to the robot, and that's a more efficient version of it. And I just feel like there are so many, this is the self-driving car argument, too. Would you rather have a human-shaped robot get into your car and hold the wheel and drive with the same blind spots with the same lack of visibility or is the car the robot? It has the cameras. It has way more visibility. It has more compute and that's the robot instead of the human. I think as you go around and look at all these use cases,

you kind of split into one of two directions. You either think that it's the humanoid robot that's going to do everything and that is a nice pretty picture to paint if you're making that product or or there's going to be lots of smaller robots doing all of the tasks potentially more efficiently. And I think I've split in that direction, but I do see a lot of companies doing really interesting stuff. Boston Dynamics, every time I see a video from them, I'm like, oh, my God, this is crazy. I love that take. You're saying that basically we're limiting the robot by forcing it into the human factor, because that's what we're comfortable with, which also weirdly we're not comfortable with it at all. Because everyone sees eye robot and all these things and freaks out about it.

So actually, I like that take a lot. Yeah, yeah. You see, like, the people like to dream about the future. And whenever we think, like, Jetsons, we think I robot, we think of the human-in-shaped robot. Like, that's got to be, like, human-to-robot. This is the direction we're going. But I actually think that the function of the human-shaped robot is,

is, like, restricting it too much. Like, we have a dishwasher robot. That's great. Well, I know one human-shaped robot that needs to happen. Do you know what it is? Umpire. Ruff. I knew it.

I know it so well. Absolutely. Yeah. too well. Referee robots, bring them in. But doesn't have to be human shaped. It doesn't have to be human shaped. I think playing basketball,

we're more comfortable seeing a human shape. Totally. Referee. But if it was a whatever shape, it's fine as long as it makes fair. The correct calls. And unbiased calls. That's so unbrand for you,

yeah. It's so on brand. Tennis is a good example. I mean, the lines, like, it's, you don't, nothing, you're not looking at anything. It's just instant. Yeah.

You don't need someone with arms and legs to see the line. That guy barely does anything anymore in the chair. Okay, Marquez, heavy hitter. You review products that companies spend billions building. Do you ever feel the weight of knowing that your 10-minute video could shape the course of the trajectory of that company? Yeah, I think the way I phrased it, because this has come up now a couple times, is that the weight of the published button is heavier than it used to be. Yeah.

Yes, so I think I'll use an example to sort of paint the picture. You've probably seen the Humane AI pin or the Rabbit R1 some of these like standalone AI products where I gave it a review or even the Fisker car I gave it a review and then six months later the company was dead Did you do that? And I don't think that My 10 minute video is single-handedly Changing the trajectory of any of these companies Mostly because what I believe is gas on the fire

Exactly we're maybe accelerating it a little bit But we're all reviewing the same product and if you go back back to before I reviewed that product and see what other people said about it. Also not nice things. And then after what I said about it, still also not nice things. So like, I do feel the weight of the published button because I want to get it right. I want to make sure what I'm saying is accurate and factual. And that's why I'm diving in and trying to paint the best picture possible. And I also have a little more sympathy because I've made products now. So I feel like I understand the development process and some of the weird decisions that you can maybe just dismiss as stupid.

I could actually think, actually, I think I understand what they're trying to do here. So there's a little more of that, but at the end of the day, I'm not killing companies. It's the products that are killing them. Allegedly. I like it. Mark, has it ever hurt to be the smart guy of the group? I'm getting a vibe that your test scores are off the charts, and I'm the smart guy around here, so I'm always answering questions. And sometimes it's tough being the smart guy. Would you agree? I try to surround myself with smart guys. Yeah, fair. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's good. Yeah. Known video game lover. Also, Carbuff, first, game. I'm an avid gamer.

It's been wild to see the gaming scene come to what it's been now. What's your favorite game of all time and where do you think the future of gaming is headed? It's a great timed question because I had one answer. For a long time I've said

Need for Speed Most Wanted is my favorite game of all time. But I don't know if you've seen these backyard baseball ads. Oh yeah. There's no way that's just an organic game. I promise this is organic.

Oh, you mean like me seeing it? No, like you liking backyard baseball? I love back yard baseball. Dude. I played a lot of backyard basketball. This is crazy because I've been on a campaign here for, I don't know, going on a month now, I think, of I'm trying to get into the game. Yeah. I'm trying to like, no, I want to be like a character.

I tried to temper expectation. Like, Garrett, that's like top of the mountain top, man. Yeah, that's really. Because I feel like I'm a better hitter than Pablo. Easy. Whoa. Okay. And so, no, we literally just did a gaming video yesterday of the brand new.

We got to play, we got to play the game. Got to play the game. All right. You got to tell me as much as you can. It's off camera, that's fine, but I need to hear everything. Oh, I'll feel you, brother. You got tidbits. It's fun.

It is awesome. I was nervous. I was nervous because I love the game as a kid, and now I'm like, I have all these memories of it, and I went back and replayed some of it because they put it on that switch or something. Yeah, they put it on that. iPhone has it too. Yeah, so I was like really excited about that. Now I'm seeing there, like, relaunching something, I think, this summer, and I'm like,

that's the game. Oh, my God, don't mess this up. Please be good. Please be good. Demo out now in July, it goes live. And I'll tell you that 2D to 3D hits different. It does, man. And I won't ruin our gaming video.

Let's just say Keisha Phillips put it on a performance. Yeah. Keisha performed very well. I'm excited. Okay, so you're like an old school. Like you go back to gaming from like Oregon Trail days. Like you... I played Oregon Trail.

Yeah. Didn't we all though? Wasn't that on the school computer? Yeah. Is that just me? That was. Dude, I paid attention in school. Even in the 80s, it was.

Yeah. You have been mini-clip games in school? I had Nip Polyne. For sure. Manytrip. They banned minicclip.com. I was devastating. Rood.

A mini clip, dude. That's so... So that's your... What's your favorite, like, console that you play on? So I would say I was a big PC gamer for a long time. That's, like, what I grew up on. And it was probably because my parents didn't let us have a video console. You build your own console.

Like, you were that... Yeah, yeah. Like, I had a... At first I had a pre-built Dell, then I started building my own stuff. So, like, I got into also... I guess it's like the realism of the game that I really liked, because as I look back at the old titles I was playing,

this is going to sound so stupid. But you ever heard of 18 wheels of steel? No. This was a truck simulator. Okay. I'm a big farm simulator guy, so I get it. These are pre-simulator days? Yeah, this is like arrow keys on the keyboard, but like the better your GPU, the more accurate the truck simulator would be.

You'd be in the truck or like on top of the truck or whatever. You could modify your truck. You're running routes. You're driving for hours. It's kind of ridiculous that I'm saying this out loud. Sure. This is a PC game that I played. And like, yeah, need for speed was less realistic.

But like I would love. So I played Tiger Woods PGA Tour games up to like the 90s. These are early 2000s. Same thing, like the better the GPU, the more grass I could see. And like the better the, you know, the character looked on screen. So that's what I grew up on.

I eventually got a console. It was like the PS3 pro was my first ever console. So then I started getting a PlayStation stuff. I still play NBA 2K to this day. But yeah, I grew up on the PC. What about the future of gaming? They're talking about like everything kind of becoming PC.

In a headset. You know, yeah. Is that where we're headed? I think so, because that kind of It continues down the theme of realism. So if there was 18 wheels of steel today, it would be in a headset and with a wheel and pedals, and you'd feel like you're in the truck

and you'd look around and see the roof of the truck and the mirrors and everything. I think that's kind of the theme. Like, people want to be immersed and feel like they're in it. The rumbled strips as you veer off out of your lane, yeah? All right, let's talk about cars, because I'm a big car guy. Let's do it.

A favorite car you've ever driven. God. McLaren P.1. McClearn. Pretty, like, easily. Mine's like a Ford Ranger. easily. And I only got to drive it for an hour, but like, favorite I've ever driven is the P1. This isn't need for speed either, Colonel. This is real real.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where the dreams come from. Right. Okay, you can't have whatever car you want. I mean, I used to have the Model S plaid, and it was a really fun car, but like, I just, I honestly missed just the gas engine. And got rid of it, went back to gas, because, like, there's still a lot of tech in a gas. Do you, like, do you get that way when you're... Like I saw Ferrari just release their new all-electric... The Luce. And that's like...

My wife kills me for saying this, and she's like, you'll never get one. But my dream, ultimate dream car, Ferrari. I'm a Ferrari guy. I got so many thoughts for you. You're not a Ferrari guy. No, I got thoughts. I'm not... I'll let you keep that dream, though.

Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. So I just... But it would have to go to get... Like, I don't think I could go... electric Ferrari. Yeah.

No, you're not alone for sure. So, like, all right. I actually have this weird, like, I grew up in the exact right timeline where my first car was like a Camry hybrid for a couple years, and then I had a Tesla. And I never really developed an attachment

to the gas thing. Okay. Like the engine. And so I had a couple Tesla's. I had the Rivian, and then I finally, like, started testing a lot more cars, and a bunch of them were gas cars. and then I was like, oh, I get it.

Like before I was like, why would anyone want a gas car? Like, it's clearly better to have an EV as quieter, as fast or all the efficiency stuff, but like, oh, I get it. You feel the emotion, the car talking to you, all that fun stuff, right? So I think a lot of people, especially people buying Ferraris,

have, they're basically buying a power train. They're like, I want to buy the naturally aspirated V12. I want to buy the V10. I want to buy the Twin Turbo V8. That's the, and then the car around it, and the rest of the stuff is like, it comes with the car. But like, when you're talking about buying a Ferrari,

you're buying the power train. And so an electric Ferrari is very confusing because it's a Ferrari, but what are you buying if there's no soul or no sound? So they have this incredible challenge on their hands where like it seems like electric cars are the future of cars, but if you're Ferrari,

you got to maybe have an injection of soul somehow. They're talking about doing like gear change simulation and like noise simulation and trying to feel like a gas car, even though it's not a gas car, but at that point, buy a gas car, right? I know, it's weird.

It's weird. It's, uh, yeah, I'll always, we'll see how it, we'll see how it is because if it works, then I feel like the sports car in general is kind of the gas will kind of die, and it will kind of all go.

I'm so curious about that, because that was what made me, so I switched to a Porsche as my daily driver because I wanted a sports car. And there are, the electric or? The 9-11, the gas car. Yeah.

So, there are lots of really, really good electric SUVs, electric crossovers, electric trucks, but they haven't nailed the sports car yet because that's all about lightweight and soul and emotion and all that. And the EVs just don't do that yet. And so there's a couple announcements here and there, like Tesla Roadster is supposed to come out. That's not out yet. There's a couple other like smaller EVs. There's also a $2 million dollar remack. Like that's not attainable. So there still really isn't a like definitive electric sports car. Nobody's nailed it yet.

No. So maybe Ferrari can nail it and then the door is open, but I think a sports car is still gas. Yeah. I think I need to get one on the company card. They're May 2026,

and I'll review it. Let the people know. Yeah, dude. Maybe we should start just reviewing electric cars. Yeah. I recommend it. I recommend it.

That's where I started. I mean, the whole car chain. When you review a product, is it a loner? I mean, cars probably, but like just a regular, you know, call it an iPhone. Pretty much everything.

Yeah. It is a loaner. Send it back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, most people don't know that, I think. Because I get a lot of emails, like, anything you'd like to give away? Yeah, I got my iPhone.

I got my iPhone. I just bought personally. Yeah, I'd like to keep my personal iPhone. Yeah. Are you an iPhone guy? Are you a Samsung? I carry an Android phone and an iPhone basically at all the time. That's PC of you, making them all happy.

Do you everyone says that, but it's true. I really have both. Do you think, oh, I bet. Do you think there will ever be what I call the greatest, the greatest divide in our country today. We're never going to solve this. Is the green, first blue, and the blue.

It is. It's truly. Do you think we'll ever have a merger? Where we can come together as one, Americans. It's crazy. The two text threads. I don't think we're going to get there.

But I think it would solve a lot of the world's problems, personally. I agree. I don't think people overthink the world's problems. I think if, honestly, if we can just combine Android and Apple, you'll see just, Just unity like you've never seen. American will feel real again.

So it's crazy. I talk about this all the time in videos. When you go to other countries and you talk to people from other countries, they're like, what are you talking about? Like, what do you mean the blue bubble versus green bubble? Because everybody just uses whatever. And because Apple has such a stranglehold here, especially on younger people, they lean all the way in to like, I don't know if you've seen articles.

There's like a pure pressure that comes with it. Like iPhone users. Totally. are the ones pressuring out the green bubble. Oh, we fired people here because they made a green. Like Apple made a green. Exactly. No, I mean, it's.

We hold it over Luke said all the time. It's truly a divide. We give people 10 days. You either go blue or you're gone. You're gone. It's the real test. It's tough, man. Yeah.

Yeah, you know, as long as Apple has their way, they will keep that as strong of a divide as possible because it's what. Disappointing. I was thinking you were going to come and be like, nope, this is the year. Apple has. No, you'd have to convince Apple.

and they're not going to. It helps them. That's disappointing. Yeah. Well, I know Tim Cook's probably a avid, almost athlete listener, so. Hopefully he takes this with a, you know, you really put some thought in this. Right. Well, brother, are not all brains.

You got some athlete in you, too. Play for the New York Empire it is in the Ultimate Frisbee Association. How did that come about? Is that an ultimate, it was a passion of yours? Yeah. Yeah. So how long you've been playing and how fun is that? Had a kid asked me the other day.

How long you've been playing Frisbee? And I thought about it. I said, I've been playing since 2007, so almost 20 years. And I said, oh, that's crazy. I was born in 2008. I was like, what? Yeah. So I've been playing a long time.

So the origin story is I went to a school called Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. And that is where the sport was invented in 1968. So by the time I got there in 2007, there is a program, there is a legacy, there's coaches, there's a whole thing. They travel to tournaments. they play against college teams, and it was just one of the sports you could play. So I picked it up, I loved it,

played all four years, actually played JV, then played varsity, and then played in college, and I've played for pro ever since then. And there's a whole world of Ultimate, like I sometimes struggle to explain it because there's professional Ultimate Frisbee,

which is actually kind of a new development with the league and teams in each city, and we travel and compete. Then there's also Club Ultimate Frisbee, which is more of like, we think of a soccer club, like an area team and area tournaments and then regionals and then nationals.

So it's a little bit different and it's much older and much more prestigious, but I like to share the pro stuff because it's designed to be shared. It's like buy tickets, you know, there are highlight packages and social media and all this stuff around it. So it's the easiest version to share,

but I think it's sick. We're almost athletes here. So we are hard hitting on like, what's a sport, what's not a sport? is Ultimate Frisbee An almost sport Or a sport Like do you

Would you put it up with against like Let's say pickleball It's probably in the pickleball category Ultimate Frisbee Where it's like there is a professional Pickleball league Are those like the ultimate athletes Like

Do these athletes go and play other sports? Oh yes Okay so that's interesting It's like professionally There's so many dimensions to look at it is, man. If your question is, are the best athletes in the world playing Ultimate Frisbee? Mostly no, because it's not as big of a sport. There's no big contracts. Nobody's full time. But if the question is, do you have to be an athlete to play Ultimate Frisbee at a high level?

It's unquestionably, yes. That was the question. So, okay. Yes, definitely. And if you watch highlights of the sport, I think it's the most highlight, dense sport, period. And I think that's maybe a hot take, because, like, basketball, you have transition. You have, like, constant offense and defense all the time. But so does Ultimate, and also the disc floats for a long time. And you see crazy dives and crazy plays like that all the time. That's just one of many things you will see watching a single game. So that's my hot take.

That's why I think it's really watchable. And it's super easy to share because stuff like that happens all the time. Is it an Olympic sport? It's not. So it's one of the World Games sports, which is essentially the Olympics for sports not yet in the Olympics or were previously in the Olympics. From what I'm seeing on camera,

and this is going to offend some people, this is more athletic than the luge. Yes. I buy. Yeah, I buy. 100%. The hand-eye, the cardio aspect. I feel like it should be an Olympic sport.

I think so. Wow, Gary, you were doubling down. Previous episode, you got so many comments in the comments about your luge tape. Just double down, brother. I'm an almost sport guy. I can't luge. No, I get it.

I can't lose, and I can't play ultimate. So I can make fun of both. Yeah. No, there's an elephant. I also think there's other, like I said earlier, there's multiple dimensions of it. Like, another one is, what's the normal age of someone in their prime in the sport?

Like, you look at golf. Yeah, you can be 40 and a lot of the best in the world are 40, which is really, really interesting. I'm excited, I'm about to hit my prime, dude. Exactly. And I'm going to be a full-time golfer when I'm 40. But I think you look at ultimate,

you look at our knees out there, I feel like prime is like 27, you know? Yeah, right around the same. We just played it in a squad game video, and I, would, I died. I mean, you got to have cardio, hand eye coordination. It, it's, yeah, you do got to have some hops. Like, it, it takes a lot of athletic ability to play. Yeah. I was miserable at it, so, um, I got some tips for you if you want to. I think, I think I'm retired at this

point. That's, um, yeah, that ship has sailed. Yeah, that ship sailed for me, but my golf career is about the peak. What other sports did you play growing up? I know you're a big basketball fan. I know you're a golfer. Like, did you grow up playing both of those? That was a, Yeah, mainly it. I played a little youth basketball. My dad was coaching the classic, like, yeah, try for a year or two. I played golf since I was 10 years old, and I had like, I dabbled in the cross for like a season, but it was basically golf and Frisbee. So sick. What's your handicap?

Yeah, I was a handicapped these days. My current handicap, so I don't play enough, but I just went on a golf trip with the boys. I would say I'm at like a 12, probably. But like when I played competitive junior golf in New Jersey for a while, and I got down to single digits as like a youth golfer. To me, that was cool. That's awesome. Being able to say that. I think the single digit handicap, if you don't play a lot,

it's one of the worst things, man. Because like you go through your winner, you don't touch a club, and then you go play like a game versus your buddies and just get absolutely hammered. Yeah, you need reps. Because you're like, you're playing a guy that's a 14, and you're probably a 12 or 10,

but you have a five handicap and it's like... That's going to hurt you. That's not fun. Yeah. Yeah, I say the same thing now. Like I play a lot of Frisbee now. So I don't get the, because it's the same season. It's like summer.

It's like the warm months. So I do not get enough reps of golf. So like I would say like at this very moment I could play to a 12 or something. But if you gave me a whole summer, boy. Yeah. The Tiger Woods game back, you mentioned it earlier, back in like the 04, 05. Yeah. It made golf scene.

I didn't play golf growing up. I started in college and it made golf feel so easy. Like you would just get up on there and you're just putting shots to two inches. get to the green, you're like, where's my tiger vision? I can do this. Easy. You go on to the course and you're like, this is really tough.

Yeah. That is so, yeah, it's true we don't think about it, but it's true about it like every sport. Like when you play 2K and you like make your character and you're like a dominant 7-4 like whatever, you can do anything. Yeah. It's not that easy. Like it's actually really hard.

Same thing with the golf game. Yeah. Like I felt incredible. I could read the wind. I could exactly dial it in and hit shots to an inch every time. Well, the new 2K, we just, we just play. Well, it's not new, but the current 2K, we just played. We went to the All-Star game, and we were doing an NBA, the three-point contest.

And I will say, they don't make it easy in the game to make a three-ball these days. We were on a bigger monitor, so the latency was really bad. I mean, dude, I could not time it up. Do you play 2K currently? The golf one? The basketball. NBA, yeah. Yeah, okay.

What's your build? What's your archetype? I started, so I used to have like a big, small forward, but now I'm just like, I build myself, which is maybe kind of silly because it's like I'm 6-3. I'm probably just like relegated to like Kyrie, which is fine. I can do like cool things as a 6-3 guard, but I think back in the day I'd make like a 6-10, like stretch 4 who could shoot, dribble, everything. That's a dream. But yeah, sometimes I try to make a...

We thought we had that with Cody Jones, but he's just a 6-6 guy who can't really, he just shoots threes. Well, I got a two-way three-point timer that's ready to participate whenever you want to hop in the rack with me, man. I love it. Yeah. April 15th, it's tax day, Sparky, and it's going to be here before you know it. Have you done your taxes yet? Absolutely not, G. I'm still trying to figure out if I can claim my PlayStation as a dependent and write

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to NFL's 20. Wow. So significantly more. 383. Yeah. Apple makes 20 billion sometimes in a week. Sometimes. I can't say the same. Yeah.

Okay. That was a relatively easy one. We're going to go a little bit harder. NBA finals game seven, which is tough because if it's like a New York versus in LA, that viewership's going to be up. Or an iPhone launch live stream. I mean, if this is an NBA Finals game seven,

we have lost it as a country. Wait, okay. I got some context on. Do you guys know number? for NBA Finals Game 7 viewership? Because I kind of know. Yeah, I've seen some recently too. It's probably like 18 million.

Ooh, really. Okay, then it might be close. Because I think I've seen YouTube numbers for an Apple iPhone event live stream. It'll be like in a 10 million range. Ooh. I think NBA is around like an 8, like a 14 to 18 million for game seven.

Yeah, the fact we're specifying game seven specifically, I'm going to go with NBA Finals game seven viewers. That's a good, yeah, good call. Game 7, I think. But it's close. Game 7 locked in? Yeah. Yeah.

That is correct. 20 million viewers versus 6 million. Wow. All over that with the 18 mil call. Wow. Yeah. Ooh. That's great.

This is a good one. It's a good question. Cristiano and all those Instagram followers, which is like, what? 400 million? That's about right. Yeah. Or total PS5 units sold. I mean, it's got to be.

PS5 is newer. Yeah, it is. It's got to be, there ain't no way 400 million people have. It's run all those followers. Yeah. And for context, like the most popular smartphone of all time was less than 200 million sales.

I think it's got to be the followers. I think you can say all gaming consoles, new gaming consoles, and it wouldn't be. Might be true. Instagram. It would still be Ronaldo's Instagram followers. Ronaldo, IG, final answer.

Yeah. 600. That's an unfair thing. So you're saying he could give all of his phone. I'm just kidding. I do love those videos where it's like Those videos like this guy's worth Two billion dollars and like if he gives everybody

Everyone in the world one dollar I'm like You guys don't know how to do math It's bad sad YouTube daily views are total From the total iPad sold So from the beginning of the iPad To now which you know they sell a lot I've bought every single one of them

Okay Everyone there's a lot of iPads I well I buy a new iPad every year I don't need it I just love it that brand i just like taking the thing off the screen really yeah yeah we all yeah i mean just to be honest what he did i really dive into the tech behind why i need a new one it's just uh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's just honestly it's nice it's fun to feel that off yeah it's crazy yeah it's nice i'm

gonna say tube daily views by a mile here youtube okay i don't know it's hard to figure total ipads sold but i feel like it's hundreds of millions youtube daily views it's oh Over a billion. A billion views a day, really? It might be, yeah. Let's go YouTube Daily Views. I think it is that. I just wonder what the number is.

Five billion. Billion views per day. I'm all over these numbers, by the way. It's a lot of iPads, though. That is a lot of iPads. And I'm at least 18 of them. Yeah, 18 million of the 500 million. That's also not counting shorts.

So shorts is 200 billion a day. 200 billion a day. That's not including shorts. Wow. We are, in that crazy? That number just released, and we were talking about it as a company, our CEO actually, Texas, this. It was talking about just like, I mean, the people are consuming shorts, like, to really lean into the shorts. Do you lean into the YouTube shorts?

Yeah, it's clear that the demand is high. Yeah. And we're trying to be the supply, but wow. So, 200 to 5 is the ratio of shorts to long-form. Yeah. It's crazy. That's crazy. Eye-opening numbers.

All right. This one will be interesting. total Super Bowl viewers or total active iPhone users worldwide and these are both going to be I think the total Super Bowl viewers are Was that 30 million? What's the number of a Super Bowl these days?

I have no idea actually That sounds about right Maybe even a little north of that I thought it was like a hundred and like The Bad Bunny thing was like in the 150s Was it? 100 million plus you think Total active iPhone users worldwide

Is definitely over 100 million I think in the U.S. It's 100 million. Let's go total active iPhone users. Yeah, I feel like if that was World Cup final, it rivals it a little more. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Yeah, let's go iPhone. Active iPhones. Correct. Yeah, we're smoking. We're nailing these numbers in.

1.4 billion active iPhone. LeBron career points or number? That one I can give you both numbers. Yeah. LeBron's at 42,000 points. Impressive. And number of apps in the app store is, Over million?

It's millions. It's millions. Yeah. Number of apps. Number Vaps. That's so crazy. Yeah. Do you see where him and Cooper have like identical.

Yeah, identicals that. Uh-huh. You see an NBA guy? Yeah. Oh yeah. You and Nets guy? No, unfortunately, no. Who do you like?

Actually, I watch more players than teams. Yeah. Dad's a Knicks guy. I feel bad for him. That's how the new generation is all players and not teams. Yeah. Yannis, Steph, Wemby. I was a big Chris Paul fan for a long time.

Sad to see him go out like this, but James Harden for a long time. Okay. There's your list. LeBron, 42,000 points, app store, 1.8 million apps. So not really close. Sure.

And that's not a shot at you, LeBron. No. That you don't have 1.8 million points. Yeah. You see the highest scoring father's son duo in NBA history? Is it him and Brani? It is.

Is it true question? Bronny's Audeau. Stephan Dell are not close to Bronnan and Brony. It's ridiculous. I'm trying to think who else would be. up there. That's as close as you're going to get. How far? How many points does Steph have? It's got to be close to 26. The 20s.

There it is. It is 26. Step was hurt by the fact that he spent four years at college, which is just not normal now for kids. He entered the league of what, 22, 23 compared to these kids coming in at 19 nowadays. It's crazy. That's a crazy list for Dirk to be where he's at. Yep. Yep. It just people, man. Put some respect on Dirk's name. I think it's crazy how high James Hardin is on that list.

He's also like top three and threes. Isn't he number two? Yeah. I think so. Maybe it's efficient. Like when you talk about best threes of all time, people usually don't say James Hard enough. Twitch Monthly Active Users or MLB Annual Attendance. That's doing the MLB dirty right there.

What are the numbers on these? Annual attendance for an MLB? I mean, I think each park is going to average around two and a half, I would say, annual? Million. Yeah, so time. at by 30, so you're looking at like 70 something million? Yeah.

To Twitch monthly active users. I mean, I still think it's Twitch. Yeah, it's going to be Twitch. But what is Twitch is monthly active? It's not, I mean, it's big, but it's... Is it 70 million? Oh, it's big. There it is.

Oh, wow, they doubled them up. Wow, you could have nailed the MOUB. We should be doing overrunners on these. Pretty good at that. 70 million, okay. It knows his MLB of 10 years. Well, I just know that because, you know, you always get at the end of the year

the made up number where it's like, we've had 87 straight sellouts. Right. And we just crossed over the 2 million mark. And so that's how you get that number. It's just,

I'm a math guy, you know, big numbers guy. This is like those interview questions where if someone's like how many trees are there and you have to just use your brain and try to figure it out.

Sure. Like we kind of did the numbers. Yeah, you just kind of just, it's problem solved. Yeah, it's problem solved. Kids need to get off their phone

and just, you know, that's what I'm saying. They need to experience the world a little bit and you'll get you'll be able to answer these questions. I don't know what you're doing this summer, brother, but more than welcome to join us on tour, squad games.

Squad games. Yeah. Tell me about it. Do you be interested in this? So basically what it is is we have five guys. We're like a team. And we started this video series and it's like the five of us as a team and we played the Savannah bananas.

We've played good, good golf. And it's like basically like all sports encompassing competition. So we play like basketball. Oh, whatever. So like the way it works is like our team, if Dude Perfect won the toss, we get to pick first, we'd probably pick basketball, a three point competition going up against you and whoever you want to join. And if we win, the loser gets to pick the game.

So you could go ultimate. Sure. And then now it's one, one. And it's the best of seven series. And so we're doing a whole tour on this summer where we're going to go compete in front of 10,000 people a night. And yeah, we'd love to have you out, dude. That sounds fun.

Okay. So we'll talk offline. Yeah. You know. Yeah, we'll talk about this. I do think after seeing some ultimate frisbee highlights, I think you have the athletic ability to compete with us. I appreciate that.

We'll definitely have to, we'll fill in on this. We'll fill in on a backyard basketball or baseball. What you guys have seen, I need to know everything. If you had to pick a squad, though, who are we picking? I mean, it could be literally anybody. It doesn't have to be famous people like teammates from Ultimate. Oh, just athletes that I would pick or anybody. Anybody.

Like if you want to, you know, throw a spelling bee in there. I would pick, I would pick Steph Curry because he just seems to have the hand-eye coordination to be. That's a good pick. Good at whatever sport gets picked. Or not argue with that. Yeah. He's got a tough team to beat already. Yeah.

And then give me a Wembe because he's going to be good at something that no one else is good at. So whatever sport we play, volleyball, basketball, whatever it is. Well, we would go against him in broomball and he would be terrible. Interesting. Do you know what broomball is? Was it a broomball? On the ice, hockey on ice with your feet. With your feet.

Okay, yeah, yeah, see, you pick the right sport. See, we use. This is also about problem solving in your head. This is broomball right here. Really fond. Oh, man. Are you in sneakers? Yeah, you're in sneakers.

That's tough. It's a game predicated purely on heart and effort. Yeah, that is baby deer type. Yeah. Whimby, Steph, you got two left. I want a Russell Westbrook. I need a bulldog. Yeah.

Someone who's just going to grit his way through. All NBA people, man, you're really... I just, the phenotypes. Like, I got a bunch of different types. Yeah. And maybe I'll pick a non-basketball. You don't have any ex-teammate from the Ultimate Frisbee Days? It's like, dude, that guy.

Oh, just a freak athlete. I mean, yeah, give me literally... I'm going to say a name that's going to mean nothing to you, but I'll go someone like Quinn Hunziker or something, who's one of my 2013 New Jersey Hammerheads teammates who could basically just jump over anyone. So he's out, yeah, very athletic. I like your chances in the best to seven there, really.

I think you're killing us. I was, yeah, we got, we get to pick the twins and Cody. Yeah. Going up against Steph and Wimby. Yeah, it's gonna be tough. Fairst that's a mismatch, Russell Westbrook. I was hoping you pick like a Mark Rover. With all due respect, Mark's a great athlete.

Don't get me wrong. Yeah, he's not a more of a one-on-one nightmare to be Russell Westbrook. Totally. Yeah, for sure. You got some, Cubs? So we've interviewed, we've interviewed, we've interviewed mostly athletes at this point, right? that's just the circle that we've run in.

I just think it's so fascinating that you've talked to all these tech giants, right? Zuckerberg, Elon, Bill Gates. I was just curious, just your take in general being around those guys. I think people often ask us, like, what was it like meeting these athletes? And obviously you've interviewed Kobe and plenty of them.

And I'm always reminded that they're just normal people that we've put up on this pedestal. I'm curious having not talked to those folks myself, like what was your perspective in having the chance to talk to some of these giants in tech and really some of the richest people that have ever lived. I'm just curious

what those interactions were like, your takeaway. Yeah, yeah, I'll throw back to like the, like I said, the first interview I ever did was Kobe. The original reason

I got into interviewing people was I just wanted to bring in someone who might have a unique perspective on some tech. So after that, I had Neil deGrasse Tyson on and then we talked about

some other random tech. Then I had an athlete and we kind of went back and forth and then I had some tech CEOs who I assumed. would have pretty interesting nuanced takes on tech the way they use products that they're involved in making, stuff like that. And I think I got a lot of valuable stuff at first, but then once you interview like two

or three tech CEOs, then the rest of the PR teams sort of catch on and then they sort of start volunteering their CEOs. Kind of turned into more like PR answers. So I think at first when I got people with no agendas, it was really insightful. I think I talked to maybe three or four that were like, Especially like the product people, those are the most interesting people to talk to. People who have a direct hand in like the tradeoff between different features they could have put in a product and why they chose one over the other. That stuff's really interesting to me.

So I got like, I would say product people would be like R.J. Scarange, who's the CEO of Rivian, real product guy. I interviewed Elon back in the days when he was like really heavily involved in Tesla's factory. and we did a factory tour. He was pointing at all the different things, like product guy for sure. And I think even Satya from Microsoft was pretty in depth with product stuff. And I think a lot of the other guys

are like ruthless business people. So it was like, I got a nice friendly PR interview from them, but it didn't really reveal anything interesting because we weren't talking products. Like if you watch my Tim Cook interview, no offense to Tim Cook, but he's not Steve Jobs. Like Steve Jobs is a product guy, and Tim Cook is the $500 billion of,

revenue guy. So it's a big mix, I would say. But I think in general, that's what I found most interesting. That is. That is fascinating. Yeah. Well, before we let you go, we are called almost athletes, and that's because we are definitely almost athletes. Did you ever have a moment in your sports playing youth, golf, Frisbee, where you had an embarrassing fail or something like that that made you reconsider like, oh man, I'm definitely not an athlete. Definitely not heading the pro route. You ever have one of those moments? We've all had them. It's so funny. Okay, this is a great phrase because I have a couple that came to mind. One was like when I played youth basketball.

I don't know. I didn't watch that much basketball back then. And so I think I watched dribble handoffs at the top of the key and thought that that was just a teammate taking the ball from the other teammate. So I had a moment where my teammate was dribbling across the top of the key

and I just took the ball from them. And they were like, that's not what you do. And I was like, all right, I'm not going to throw here. The other one was I played the cross for a season and I'm not billed for that. So I remember pretty distinctly like I was a midi and if you play the cross, it's like the guy who like kind of plays a little offense, little defense,

mostly just runs for his life to try to get the ball to the other side. And just getting absolutely flattened by some defender. And I remember like I was running this way and then instantly I was facing the other way and I was face down on the dirt. And I was like, I don't know how I got here we are here, but here I am. Yeah, and I was like, yeah, this is not for me. You know, it takes like one of those to make you reconsider. Yeah, I was like, I don't think this is my support.

The dribble handoff to classic. Yeah, that's funny. And tell the viewers where they can listen to your podcast and see some of your videos. Yeah, if you want to find me, most people know me as the tech guy. So we have a podcast actually. It's called The Waveform Podcast. Where we just sort of chat tech like this all the time. Cool.

But I think we should have more sports on our podcast. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. And when's that show? Is it every week? Also on YouTube every week, you could just search Waveform Podcast. It should come up or anything, MKBHD. Cool.

Yeah. That's good. Well, appreciate you, brother. Everybody give it up one last time, Marquez. Yeah, man. Thanks for having me. We love DoorDash on this show. We talk about it all the time.

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You guys have blown us away. With feedback, it seems like everyone is unbelievably excited about this. Specifically, with this book, we're doing something called Talk Shop Live. We've done it before in the past, Absolutely loved it. The way it works, it'll be March 9th, 6 p.m. Eastern. All the dudes will be there. We will be signing books, hanging out with you guys, answering all your burning dude-proof it questions. And the way it works is simple. If you buy a book while we're there on Talk Shop Live, there is a 100% chance it gets signed. No matter how many you buy, which that's a little scary of a thought for us in our hands. But that's how it works. So we're excited about it. We love you guys. We're pumped for y'all to read something that we've put a lot of effort into. And we know your families are going to love it. Fun for. kids and adults, just like everything around here. Good announcement on the book, Corr, I'll definitely have to jump on that. Cody, before we get to the actual game, let's rewind weeks in advance and let's take it back.

Let's talk NBA All-Star Quest video from the start. Let's talk about it. You're trying to avoid, you're trying to deflect Cody, but it's going to talk about it. I'm here. The bright lights are still shining. Do you ever eat a taco again? Or is that off the menu? I have not had a taco since.

It's been about three weeks. Zero tacos. Every time you eat a taco going for, there's going to be a bad taste in your mouth. I don't disagree. You loved tacos, too, in your past life. Breakfast tacos are my favorite. Tough matchup, dude. I mean, let's just call it what it is.

Let's call it what it is. You didn't get any free favors out there. Taco took you to Taco Town. And you ended up with 371. Unique way to shout out the 371 area code. What is that? We got to know. We got to know.

What's the 371? J.B. 371. Because Cody's putting down for the 371 baby. It's going to be like Hershey, Pennsylvania. And I'm here for it. What is going on? Her Lovio.

You've got a Latvian. friend too, don't you? The big guy. Yeah. I've been to Lovia. That's all. I have been to Lovia. Was that for the smell and taste stuff? It wasn't. This was a long time ago. It's for a mission trip. What a place. Oh gosh. Can we get Taco off the screen here?

Yeah, that's nightmares. He made you look like you make I look. I look, me look. We took a good picture. We'll have to find it. It's me and Cody and Taco. And the levels of height, there are levels. And you bumped into your first ever. tallest NBA player of all time.

Yeah, that's not something you want to match up against. And he was trying. Like, I was thinking Celebrity game. We're just out here to have fun. Let's talk about that. That guy was out grinding. Can you all explain why to the viewers? I think we have a guess at why he tried so hard,

but I'd like for you all to explain that. I truthfully, I have no idea. I don't know if it was just like a competitive spirit. I heard he's been playing overseas. He is currently playing overseas, and he's literally essentially trying out for the league again. That's what it felt like. And Steve Ballmer was first row.

in his home gym and he was just like I want to get a contract and he was just three six things. Dude it was worse than that there's two owners playing oh that's also true you had an owner on your team

they had an owner on their team he is literally trying out against you it was such a tough matchup like after the game I tried to like dude that was fun like he was straight up like

locked in his post game presser mindset like I was not a friend to him yeah he was thinking that's game one we gotta be ready for game two yeah I do think it's worth bringing you up

because in Cody's defense this is a wild stat when you all said this the whole goal was for you you to get a double double double. Before Taco happened to do it against you, tough look. No one in the history of the Sleb game had ever had a double double. So we were asking you to essentially have a

worst record performance. That's why my number was 22 was for motivation. Double double. It didn't work. It didn't work. It reminded me that it was failing. Maybe it was just a number thing. Maybe if you change your number, you would have got the double double. I think if you just pluck taco out of that game, it's a different night for me. Here's what I wish the NBA would have done

was throwing our boy Bobon a bone who's also trying to still land a current. They would have canceled each other out. Jones gets a different matchup. We're sitting here talking about 27, 19, and a dub. Here's one of the biggest things that I think affected me was I was so focused on defense of Taco playing under the rim that I thought I would get 10 points just from breakaway, like layups and throw the Hill Mary?

Never happened. You probably should have. Didn't get one. In hindsight, because you also didn't get many of the rebounds down there. So you might as well have done the old Snowbird. It's true. It was fun to watch, dude. I did have fun being there.

Yeah, I had fun being there. I'm glad I wasn't in your shoes, though. There's a lot of pressure, brother. Did you take Chris Pratt's advice? On the podcast, he gave us conditioning advice for you. Did you actually go through with that? Playing in the celebrity NBA All-Star game, and I'm trying to get a double-double. Dude, I'll tell you this.

Get your stamina up. You do 100 burpees a day for 30 days. You will out-hustle everybody, because that's what it's going to come down to. So I talked to Chris Pratt a week before the Mavs came, so I had started doing my burpees. And then when I talked to the Mavs, they started laughing at me and go, stop doing that. That ain't the answer. Like, just run and play more. basketball.

So I was like, okay, well, I'm going to listen to the math over the actor. Sure. With all due respect to Chris Brad, of course. It just holds a little more weight when it's coming from the top. I will say, I don't know if we can show a clip, but the burpee that you did on camera that I saw, it was really not like a super good burpee. It didn't get very low on your drop. So that's the argument is like, do you do the push up or do you just throw the legs back?

You certainly only threw the legs back. You just threw the legs back. He said to do 100 in 10 minutes. What is it? I don't know. He's been like super jacked before so he's capable. Maybe you should have listened to him. Dude, your elbows had not been one millimeter.

That's an artificial burpee. I think a lot of people, there's two arguments. You either throw in the push up or you don't. And to be fair, maybe you just chose. You're the type of kid who when you were running lines in basketball, you didn't go all the way down to the line. If you left for yourself and I'm going a yard store maybe. And then I would finish first, I'd be like, Jones, that a baby?

And I'm just like, come on now. I have a question because your team one state in high. school, you are a good basketball player. I realized Taco Taco Jue. Yeah. What is the tallest person that has ever guarded you? The matchup you've ever had your entire life pre-taco. So my senior year, I was the fifth tallest at 6-6. So we were a big team. We were a big team. It's crazy. We had a seven-foot one guy, but he only shot threes. So he literally transferred from Plano West, Anton Korlev from Russia. He did not know how to play the post, and he was just an outside shooter. And so he didn't play ever. But he did guard me.

He was tall. Okay. I love it. Nice guy. Super nice guy. That's real tall. I love the George looking up Antoine Coralab.

I don't think you're going to find that one. That's him. First guy. Was it? Is it really? That's him. That's Anton. He went to wear Missouri State after that?

Yo, that's not a big. Click him. It's not a skinny tall guy. Seven foot. I wouldn't familiar with your game, Korolev. I apologize. That's my boy.

I also had Rex Burkhead on my basketball team. He could dunk as a freshman. Y'all were good. John Roberson went to tech, played for Bobby Knight. Good time. I bet he has some battle scars from that. You brought up the Mavs, dude.

How cool was that? As an MFFLer, I've been a mass fan my whole life. You have too. We've been through valleys. We've been on mountaintops, but to see them in person. And then to act like just full-blown kids in the Chucky Cheese was really cool. I was like, hey, you know what? These are professional athletes.

But they'll throw the nine route. Clay Thompson, by the way, probably Q1 in another life. That guy throws a gorgeous football. Dimes. It's like, what can he do? How cool was that, though? The Mavs rolling up to the office. Oh, it was unbelievable.

I think... Were your nerves actually more or higher here than they were at the game? I sense nerves here. For sure. And what you don't know is it was leg day this day. So I was gas. So everything was short. So finally, in the end of that drill, I'm like, just put more on it.

And I did. Here we go. Look, I'm just... I can't even walk. I got to give you your kudos, though, codes, because you really did put in the work for multiple weeks leading up to this. If we could have had a couple months, I really do think the outcome's different.

Because this was a late developing video, you know, and I think you would have put it in the proper time. I'm looking to maybe run it back? Run it back next year. We don't have to document it fully, but I just want to see what I can do in the event that Taco's not playing. I love that. So, yeah, it created a little itch that you want to scratch. A favorite moment of my entire life was definitely doing the Dirk fade away with Cooper. That was.

And I was glad you did the big German justice, man. You have to. He told me that. Yeah, if you do the Dirk and airball that, that's. you know, kind of spitting on Dallas is there. You've got that in your bag, though. You do, you do. You have the one-legged fade.

That's one of those shots that every time you shoot, I'm like, is that? Oh, yeah, he made it. Unblockable, too. It's great. Unblockable. And then you got to see your boy, Luca. We went out to L.A. By far, my favorite part of the whole video is the two lines from Luca.

No, no, chance. No. So we only kept like 20 seconds of his interview. He was that way for like 30 minutes. He was like, do you think I get double digit points? He goes, no chance. I go double digit rebounds? No chance. Do you think we'll win? He's like, not if you're on the team. Like, it was so funny.

You know, when I played you, it was close. He goes, not close. He was coming up. I think I'm going to match up against Taco Fall. Do you have any pointers for me? Because I know you and I, we battled. It was a close game. You took it at the end. It wasn't close. Like, what do you think? So, oh, dude. He was so good. You know what? That actually is a good sign. Because I think that means Luca sees you as a good friend and he's shooting you straight right there. He was, dude. He 100 percent was. I miss him so much. He could have been like, you know, I think you're getting 15, 13. No, he... Shoot you straight. You played one on one with that man. He's trash talking.

There is. You see a smile though? That's an organic smile. That's cool. I was jealous. I was jealous. That day, when you get to talk to Luca, we brought a crew of like seven, which we ended up not needing, unfortunately. But that was tough when Lucas security gave me the old stiff arm. Oh, did he? Oh, no. He pretty much Heisman posed me at the door. and we're like, hey, just just one or two, one or two. Listen, I'm a Mavs fan for life, but this summer, I'm going full-blown Lakers, rocking the 77 on tour. Really?

I want them to get a title with him at the king. And then come home to Dallas and do it there. Yeah. Okay, so then it was game night. All the boys are there. Allison's in. Oh, we're still going. Yeah, I wasn't done yet.

I thought we moved on. I'm already thinking about my next quest, which could be getting my pilot's license and flipping an F-18. Yeah. Really? Let's focus on the double-double first. Even if it's like an electronic. Maybe we just need to hop on two kids.

Okay, so you see a couple go down. You did some gaming videos. That needs to be your next. All right. Yeah, but overall, game, once it started, you got off to a hot start. What happened? Where did it go wrong? Truthfully.

Was it the block shot? Playing time was an issue. I think Anderson... Let's talk about that. Yeah. Let's talk about it. I thought the break from the late first to the, like, the middle of the second was detrimental. Yeah.

Because you were the hot hand at the time. I know. Like, you were playing good basketball and I wanted... Hot hand is strong. Well, at the time, let's not. We saw one go down. Yeah. And I just felt like our strategy of playing the five best at one time and then summon us out was not the answer.

We should have split us up and let us play a little bit more. But it, you know, it just wasn't meant to be. I want to call out youth coaches for this actually because that is a pet peeve of mine. When people do the line changes in basketball, I think it's advantageous for every kid to play with different sorts of kids. And to that point, too, at least when I was growing up, they pigeonhole you into like a post or a guard way too early in life. I think every kid post or guard needs to learn how to shoot, dribble, all that. You obviously didn't do much guard work. You wanted more time in the post?

Yeah. That's something that so bothers you. In case he gets a shorter guy on it, I mean, just get down low, baby. Mouse in the house. So before we take voicemails, let's put a wrap on it. First of all, shout out to the production team with the quick turnaround. Gou is my favorite editor right now. It switches by the day, but he's a special breed man.

He did that. He did the bull video. He did the Bull Quest, too. And I thought this edit was really good. So shout out to the production team. I thought you looked good out there. You just got Tacoed. Yeah.

It's just really that same. And I hope you saw through camera how much your boy was supporting you. Oh, you were crushing it. I wanted it so bad for you, dude. I was really proud of you. I was screaming for boards. And also, my favorite play you made was risking your life down there with Taco and capsizing him. It should have been a jump ball.

I let the baseline official no courtside. Man, that was a jump. That's ridiculous. That wasn't, they made it look like that was my turnover. That is not what happened. Whenever you can dunk without ever leaving your feet. Look at this guy! That's an F1.

I was yelling Flager 1! Get him out of here. The online chatter was pretty easily summarized as, that's not fair. Yeah. I will say, I mean, I sat on that bench for almost the whole second half. That hurt.

Well, your plus minus was not. Yeah, the plus minus is lacking. In the situation you were in. But I went out, we were up 15 to 3. Yeah, you got to a great start. Absolutely. But to be fair, lethal and Anderson aren't, nobody's confusing them with Phil Jackson.

Well, see, lethal left in the second half. Never good when your coach is doing that. The guy that was promoting me left, so I was just sitting there on the end, like a regular guy. Yeah. Did you pass out water at least? You've got to do your job as a teammate.

No one was thirsty and we weren't playing. Stuff. You can't even water boy correctly. Before we hop in, though, to the voicemails. Overall, put a bow on it. Cool experience. Between the racing video that I did and this video, because I'm a basketball guy,

that was the coolest weekend of my life. The next day, me and Allison got to go sit court side at the actual All-Star game, watch Luca and everybody just have a blast playing the game. They actually gave it a go in the All-Star game this year.

That was cool. It was cool. It turned out to work out. It was cool. Go America. And you got a beachside Valentine's dinner with the gal.

That was a good night. I was worried. I was like, she's not going to go out with them. She's embarrassed to go out in public. I was worried I was. She loves me through the thick and the thin. We're proud of you,

brother. We're proud of you, dude. It was fun. supporting me and got my double double with my best bud. And maybe just maybe. We run it back next year. Me and you, baby. Let's do it. Let's do it. But now it is time for voicemails. This segment is brought to you by DoorDash. When Life Gets Crazy, DoorDash helps bring a little order to it. Send us voicemails with your questions, hot takes, family

arguments. You want us to settle. You call us. 972-805-8866. You can also find that number at almost athletes.com. Let's dive in. J.B. Play that first voicemail. Hey, dudes. What's up? Love the podcast. This is Will. New Jersey. I had a question. Because all you guys are dads, I was wondering,

if there had to be a qualification of some questions you ought to answer in order to be a dad, what would they be? Thank you. Love the pod. Okay.

I'm not sure I'm fully understanding the question. I think I do. He's just saying, before you become a dad, a good question to ask yourself is like, do you want to be a dad? Well, that's a good start.

Do you want to be a dad? That's a pretty good one. But you're saying more like, um, Can I financially? Yeah, can you afford it? Do you have a spouse to tag team this thing with? Do you like kids?

Do you have a home to live in? Do you have enough money for food? Food. Can you feed it? Yeah, that's important. If you're like two into golf, probably not a good idea to have a kid. Have you had a pet before and it went poorly?

Oh, that's good. You're on to it. I'm starting to learn. I thought that I didn't understand the question, but now I do. Do you care about yourself more than everybody else? That's a good question. For sure.

If you do, you shouldn't be a dad. Being a parent, expose your selfishness. That's definitely true. But Cody and I are definitely dads. We each have four kids. How crazy is that? That is crazy. Four feels a lot. One, my PS5 right now. Your Cinco.

My Cinco, yeah. I'll say this. Today is my, I've got seven-year-old, seven-year-old, and a five that just turned six today and a one-year-old. But yeah, every time your kid has a birthday, you just have that like, oh man, like I'll never have a five-year-old boy again. Like they grow up

and it's just, there is a nostalgic moment after moment and I'd say it's amazing. It's incredible. Is the kid worth the Father's Day gifts? Because that's why I would get into the game. The Father's Day gifts are definitely not as good as they should be. Really? I don't think so. I think mothers get it better than the fathers. I think they deserve more. That's just part of the game we play, boys. Yeah. That's a good question, Will, from New Jersey. Next.

You know, this is Abraham from That's Crazy and I have two questions. Play it up. Is it okay for socks of sandals? I'm just quitting. crox and this question because crops are they're basically just shoes, they're not sandals and I have another one. Is it okay to eat pizza with a knife and a fork? I mean, that question's here, this question.

I have a strong opinion on both. You take the first one. I'll go first. Socks and sandals, my thing on that is I think in today's age, it is almost required to wear socks with sandals. Especially at the airport. If you're walking through Terminal A and your feet are exposed, especially when TSA's asking you take your shoes off and you're just

barefoot in it? Yeah, I didn't ever think about that. Yeah, keep those little piggyies at home. I'm not, dude, the tow wrestling last week. Woo, whee. I'm not a feet guy. I'm not a feet guy. But the answer is yes, unless they're like the thong-type versions of sandals.

Like, if you got between the toower and you're wearing socks, then that's when I judge you. That's like, that's beach side, pool side. Or if you're on the beach. Yeah, yeah. If you're on the beach and you're wearing socks with sandals, then you're a crazy version. Well, on the Disney cruise, I was wearing my leggings on the beach and got lit up. I mean, that was bad thing. One of the craziest things you've ever done.

It was real hot. You need a wife? Did you just be like, honey? No. That's a horrible idea. Yes. Yeah. I'll take the second one.

Should you eat pizza with a fork in a knife? If it's messy pizza? Ah, even then, no. Very simple no. Yeah, this is a very simple no. What if it's a big New York style and they threw in all the veggies and all the meats? I've never run out. It's so heavy that you need to cut it and you got to, you got to ford that sucker.

That's when you start folding it like it's cardboard. Merito it up. It's one of those things that I'm going to judge you a little bit if you're at a restaurant using a fork and not. For it maybe, but the fact, you're sitting there cutting it like it's medium rare steak. I'm like, hey, this guy's weird. I think we're aligned. Yeah.

I agree. That's like a maybe at home you can do that behind closed doors. I wouldn't do that out in public. It's just how you get judged. Yeah, you're practicing to then get judged in public. It's also disrespectful to pizza, which just happens to be like the top of the food chain, in my opinion. It's very disrespectful. I love pizza.

It's kind of like ordering, you know, boneless wings. I get judged for that. No, that's way better. Me too. I didn't know you felt that way. What's up, baby? What's up, baby? and traditional. Asian Zing.

Lleman pepper dry. Oh, your dry, lemon pep says a lot about you. That's 3-7-1 vibes. Good question. Another one. Hey, dudes. It's Steve. I want to know which of you dudes believe in Bigfoot.

I do. Do you? It's phenomenal. I don't. I would like to be on record. Yeah, your instant no? Yeah. I'm a no, too.

But I will say you go to Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and they claim to be like the, you know, World World. Yeah, kind of like, I guess, Kansas claims basketball with naysmith and stuff. They claim Bigfoot. And once you're in there, you know, in a cabin and you're posted up a little bit, you let yourself go there. No. No, no, no.

If there is one that has some maybe legitimacy to it, I was a Loch Ness Monster guy. That's what I was about to say, dude. That's worth a conversation. Yeah. Yeah. There's something in the ocean we haven't found. I just looked this up again the other day. I didn't realize.

It took how long to find Titanic. There have been sightings recently of the Leviathan Lockniss Monster, whatever you'll call it. It's like recent side. A giant squid. Future vid. We go find it. Tyler rides it. Whoa.

That's our two-minute warning. No Garrett today. Does anybody want to take the rant? Does anybody have anything? They want to get off their mind, their chest. I want to bury the All-Star weekend for good, but I don't have a rant about it.

I just don't live on YouTube. Let me do its thing. Yeah, it's going to live on YouTube. I'm sorry, brother. I'll bring something up. It's not something that I'm upset about, but it's something that should be discussed. Okay.

I think so far, quest-wise, yeah. Cody, Kobe, Tyler. Oh, I know where he's going. No Corey, no Garrett, no Sparky. Yeah. All right.

I think in the comments, I would love to see from you guys what you think the three of us should eventually do at some point. Yeah. I have some thoughts for myself. Garrett has some thoughts. I don't want to color the comments with it yet. You can ask me again on the next episode what I think would be cool for me. Sure. I'm just curious from the people.

What type of quest would you like to see from a Corey? Start. That's good. A good. A sparky. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited about that, actually. Visit hotels around the world.

Yeah. Yeah. Get my hair transplanted in turkey. Let's get a quest baby. Let's go. Come back with just luscious locks. Yeah. How about Corey can smell a quest?

Yeah. We need to get your smell and taste back. That needs to be your first quest in life. Yeah. That's good though, Corp. I appreciate that. I don't know how interesting that that Quest video is going to be to watch, but if the bar is don't get a double double.

That's funny. Maybe it's out there. It's mean, but it's funny. It is wild to think you've had two. Ty's had two. Kobe's gone to space. That's great. A normal person gets to do that.

I'm working on my third. Do you really want to be a pilot? Just full send it? Yeah. But like a fast plane, not a crop dust. Yeah, yeah. I'd watch that. I'd watch.

Ooh, that'd be scary. I don't think Allison would let you. Thanks for coming to L.A., though, and support me. I'm a lot. I'm proud of you. I voted yes, by the way. So we both did. We said it with our chest because I truly did believe.

Me too. And I truly was proud of you at the end of the day. It's a bad matchup. And we know how that works. But we are proud. Looks like our time is up. We'll be back next Wednesday with an all new episode. follow the show on all socials at Almost Athletes.

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