Digital Social Hour - Nick Dais On Near Death Experiences, Best Sports to Watch and Sports Betting | DSH #195

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

On today's episode of the Digital Social Hour, Nick Dais gives his favorite sports to watch, the weirdest sports bet he ever made and the most he won on a sports bet. BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] APPLY TO BE ON THE POD: https://forms.gle/qXvENTeurx7Xn8Ci9 SPONSORS: Articulate: Visit articulate.com/360 to start a free 30-day trial of Articulate 360. Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

professional sports better and podcast host nick dais let's go i like that intro man professional sports but i think i'm an average salary for an nfl running back that has won a super bowl is under three million dollars but the game has changed so the running back gets devalued and it's super unfortunate because the reason why i say i'm so hypocritical is because if you're a running back yo hold out it's expected welcome back to the digital social hour guys got an amazing guest for you guys today professional sports better and podcast host nick dais let's go i like that intro man professional sports better i think i might have to add that to my linkedin page man i mean you said 61 last time we spoke so that i'd consider that a professional level yeah nfl has been i don't bet as i don't bet as many games you know i mean like a lot of

people bet the monday night game because it's monday night football dude we're at the bar we gotta bet it i don't really do that i have to really like a game in order for me to bet it and also i stick to five games a week five games a week it's what i do a lot of the contests out here and even some online where it's basically five games against the point spread and it's a long-term investment i'm a i'm someone who i like tournament style things like when i play poker i like tournaments i don't really like cash games and whatnot so you know you do a hundred thousand dollar buy-in and it takes you through the whole season so i'm kind of invested for the whole year and it's best record

at the end and last year i hit 61 but over the last seven years eight years now coming up that i've been doing veterans minimum my podcast yeah i'm roughly around 60 that's amazing man so you like the long-term plays you're not betting like on the actual game usually no i am betting on the actual game too but what i do is so i have those five picks against the spread that i do every week and then i bet them because i'm a degenerate and i also like to make some money i bet i'm also at the sports books i shop the lines and try to find the best numbers before i make a play nice and do you bet on any obscure sports or do you stick with like just football basketball hockey baseball the main four i guess so the reason why i'm smirking right now is because so i have i have what i call my

my money in the sense of i have this one app for one of the sports books that i call it dumb bets you and i are at the bar we're having some beers and you're like dude let's throw a crazy parlay i'm like i'm in you know i'm not gonna not ruin i'm not gonna ruin a good night a good a good vibe but then i have like my serious bankroll where i'm betting bigger money on the games that i actually like yeah so as far as obscure i once bet on madden simulators during what is that so people playing madden professional madden players they would match up you could bet on that during the pandemic bro you were able to bet on a lot of weird because people needed their fix so they were legit sports books that were offering madden simulators so they take you know user 191 against user 202 and maybe they're professional madden players and you can

legit bet on it with the point spread the over unders it was some crazy on i feel like those could be rigged easily yeah yeah because you never know if the two are in cahoots right you could just plan and someone to win you know what i mean yeah and then you bet the other side that's a great question dude because especially when it's the electronic stuff i feel like those are a little bit more sketchy yeah madden's like a small world like you know all the top players madden so you're probably friends with a ton of them yeah for sure and also the craziest thing is you know you were able to bet on electronic horse racing twice that was another one you could do like when i go to casinos and i'm you know i come to one pretty much every day but i never ever play on electronic games i like to physically see

the dealer yeah i don't think there's an edge i know there isn't an edge but just mentally for for my sanity as i'm playing i would like to know that all right sean's the dealer here it's not some virtual person dealing the cards yeah and i feel like mentally i have an edge even though i don't i know i don't but it just makes me feel better knowing that there's an actual person they're dealing the cards or spinning the roulette wheel for sure it is a comfort thing because i've played the the blackjack machines here that are on the computers and it doesn't feel as safe for some reason it doesn't and it also doesn't feel as fun too no some of the big you know gambling i truly believe i've been

doing it for so long dude i've been i've been sports betting since i was like seven years old but the gambling stuff i've been around it my life. I come from a family of gamblers and now it's easier to have this conversation because it was kind of frowned upon and like, oh, you're kind of a betting and gambling. But the one thing with the casino games is you don't really have a big edge on a lot of them. Right. And shout out to today's sponsor, Articulate. I know all of you want to hit revenue targets, get that new launch done, scale your business. Well, making sure your team knows what to do and how to do it, well, that's a huge part of that. I'm sure you all do different kinds of training. I'm sure you've probably used tools like PowerPoint, Zoom, et cetera. And I bet you

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dude if you and i are out and we see a craps table craps is probably the best game to play with a group of people because everyone's involved yeah and you go and you know 100 200 you have fun with it i i truly believe that sports betting could be fun gambling could be fun also as long as you know your limits and you know your limits and you know that it is also a gamble a lot of the table games it's left a chance right anyone that tells you that they have a strategy and roulette is an idiot there is no strategy yeah it's all feel it's all i always bet the number 10 can't tell you why other than it's my favorite number yeah i don't look at if it's hot or cold i'm a one spin and go guy for sure fifty

dollars on on black 10 usually if it hits it hits it's hit twice in the a hundred attempts that i've had on it so i'm definitely down you want 1500 when it hit uh yeah i think it's a 36 to 1 payout so it's around it's around that much yeah a lot one of the prop bets that never made sense to me because i feel like you could just rig it easily is the the gatorade color yeah there's actually a couple of sports books where especially when you're looking at the super bowl there is a misconception that those props are available at every sports book and it's not the case those are considered in a category of exotic props okay meaning a lot of the sports books, especially the big ones that you see advertised, they call it box score analytics.

Meaning if you take Tom Brady over 212 passing yards in the Super Bowl, you could go and look at it. It's clearly there. Whereas Gatorade, it could be subjective. Was it Gatorade or was it water when it's clear? There have been incidents where it's something that's a known commodity. If I was the Gatorade guy for the Patriots, I could easily be like, yo, Sean, it's going to be red, bro.

Yeah, maybe 500, and I'll tell you what color it is. Yeah, or not even. It's just like, yo, you're my boy. Go to the sports book. They're giving it at 8 to 1. I'm the one that makes the Gatorade. It's going to be red. So there's been incidents like that. Halftime song opener.

There's been times where you'll see a song and it's 20 to 1. And then two days before the Super Bowl, it's minus 150. Why is that, Sean? It's because it's a known thing. It's like when people know for a fact who the number one pick is going to be. It's something like that. So those props are considered exotic props. And a lot of people feel the way you do

where they don't understand how you can bet on that. One of the biggest bets that I ever made, dumbest bet ever, was when the Super Bowl 50 was in Santa Clara in San Francisco. And it was minus 300 that they were going to show alcatraz and the golden gate bridge like together and i was like dude it's the it's like the only landmark

in san francisco the golden gate bridge and it was in the middle of the third quarter that they flashed it i ended up getting paid but it wasn't at a legal sports book it was like those sketchy offshore online ones yeah because it's also subjective right like do they show the bridge directly in the middle or was it just off to the side there used to be a controversy when this all started back during one of the patriot super bowls where one of the props was is giselle going to be appearing on the screen at any time and they spotlighted robert craft and they showed the lower third patriots owner ceo and giselle was in the background that was the only time that you saw

giselle so again it's subjective all right a lot of those bets that you were referencing they're subjective yeah do you ever do super safe bets like did you see that one guy that bet 100k on victor going number one in the draft and he only won like 200 bucks or something yeah i mean i'll only do that just to mentally see a green ticket kick ass but i'm like on a little bit of a losing skit i'm like we you know we just need to see one go in the hoop right i'll do something like that but for the most part you know you got to be really careful man because there's been times where someone has live bet someone minus 1500 they put 150 000 on it to win 10k and then doesn't go your way and then you're down 150k so there is no there's no such thing as a lock in sports betting right though everyone likes to throw that word around there's

no such thing as a sure thing there are a couple of things that are close to it like the nba all star game 20 of the last 22 years has gone over the the win total the point total excuse me because they just it's a glorified pickup game yeah they don't try yeah they don't try so that's probably the closest thing to a lock in sports betting do you think certain sports are rigged this is always such a polarizing topic dude because i like to believe no but then you have the tim donahue incident yeah then you have i'm a big soccer fan juventus they're a team in syria and italy they got hit hard with a scandal in the mid 2000s really yeah and it was really interesting dude because they're like a traditional powerhouse right like they're one of the richest teams in europe especially in italy i think the owner of

the team owns ferrari so it's not like it's one of these like mid-tier clubs that come out of nowhere like leicester city right leicester city in the premier league biggest upset in sports history five thousand to one dude one hundred dollars won you five i remember that one it was in 2015 if they were to come up with a scandal i'd be like yeah i kind of could see it because they're going up with manchester united and chelsea and all these billionaire owners but juventus was like basically the yankees yeah of that league and then they were rigging games what they would do is they wouldn't rig their games but there's a thing in soccer where if you accumulate a lot of yellow or red cards your players miss games like down the road so what they would do is they would

go to sean who's the referee of two teams that are playing each other but juventus is going to play ac milan next week so what they'll do is they'll give nick a yellow card so he misses the juventus game because i'm ac milan's best player and the Juventus gets the benefit through that because now Nick isn't playing against them. So they weren't really rigging the Juventus games. They were rigging the games prior to playing Juventus. And then they got sent all the way down to the fourth division in the Italian league, and they finally recovered. But you're talking about an eight- to nine-year run

that they were no longer in the top league in Serie A. That's crazy. And you mentioned you're big into soccer. What do you think about the World Cup coming up? talking about a eight to nine year run that they were no longer in the top League in Syria that's crazy and you mentioned you're big into soccer what do you think about the World Cup coming up do you think the US has a chance to make a run dude I put out a video after they failed to make the World Cup in 2018 yeah and I said congratulations to the 2026 World Cup champions the United States of America and it still gets it's my first viral video and it got like over 200 000 views on youtube and i still get hits on it to this day and the reason why i say that is if you look at the history of the world cup it's only been about nine or ten countries that have

won it and seven of them have won it in their home country wow the u.s is hosting it it's the second time that they're hosting it and truthfully dude we actually have a really good team now we have a very young team all our players are playing overseas the mls is still a young league but it's kind of looked at as the retirement home for a lot of aging guys they just signed leonel messi and it's grown dramatically in the last 30 years it's only a 30-year league you're looking at the english premier league has been around for like 100 years right you know la liga in spain over 100 years so the talent pool has definitely closed but all our main players sean they're playing on big name teams in europe and the biggest difference is when you're a kid and you're 16 17 years old

anywhere else in the world as a soccer player, if you're good enough, dude, your parents are taking you out of school and putting you in the academy. And then at 17, 18, you're playing professional soccer. Over here, dude, if your parents took you out of high school at 15, 16 to go play soccer, they'd be like, you guys are really stupid. You're going to ruin his future.

But it's because our culture and society, we value the education system. And rightfully so right like you should at least be able to get out of high school in my opinion college different conversation for another time but when a kid graduates from college in the u.s and they go to the mls they're 21 22 years old when they play someone from europe dude they've been playing professional soccer for five six years so that's why the gap is so different but now a lot of our big players bro they play overseas and they're playing on like ac milan chelsea arsenal man city it's not the san jose earthquake yeah no it's definitely leveling up it's cool to see they've

gotten a lot better even their b team is winning games now yeah they don't even need to have their full roster and they've been on a run where they've beaten mexico like seven straight times which you know that's their big rival yeah the conca calf you know you got jamaica and costa rica they kind of have their their moments but through the years it's been mexico versus the u.s and a lot of the mexican fans are not happy about that because they're getting dominated now too dude and the u.s team now they got a forward and ball again he he his rights were between nigeria the u.s and england and he claimed the u.s which was massive because now we have a center forward which is like the only thing that the men's team really needed but dude i'm really optimistic about them really winning the world cup in 2026 it's dope dude i'll never forget how good the mexican

goalie was oh yeah what yeah. What's his name? Ochoa. Yeah. Dude's a legend. Dude, icon. I have nightmares about him blocking insane shots. Penalty kicks. Just like the swag about him. Yeah, he's one of those guys that are going to live on forever.

Does he still play or is he retired now? He still plays, but he's not as good as he once was. I think he's like close to 40. Yeah, he's got to be older. And his time is coming to an end with the national team. But he's still just, you know, you'll think that he's really old and then he'll he'll save two penalty kicks in the game this guy could still do it man what sports do you love watching at home versus in person do you like watching at home more usually bro i get so much shit for this

one it's the nfl i hate going to nfl games same dude a little bougie i like going to primetime games and one of the reasons why is because the nfl product is so good dude like you have your red zone you have your sunday ticket you know i'm a big better and fantasy player so i have all the apps open i'm on my couch don't call me from 10 a.m to 5 p.m on a sunday i will not answer don't text me that's my alone time and it's so good on tv dude and then when you go in person you realize that the average football game dude i don't know if you know this it's about 15 minutes long that's it the amount of time that the ball is in play from snap to whistle if you accumulate that over an entire game comes out to about 15 minutes.

It's nothing. And if you think about it, it's really true, right? Like, you know, quarterback hikes the ball, hands it to the running back. He picks up two, three yards, plays over, right? Yeah. So from snap to whistle, play is what? Five, six seconds? Mm-hmm.

And then there's a 40-second play clock that they run down so yeah the game is a 60 minute game but really it's not like basketball where the ball's always in play right it's not like hockey where the puck is always in play it's not like soccer where for 45 minutes we know the ball's gonna be in play football's a really short game if you really think about it and the tv product is so so good that i don't want to miss anything when i'm going to a one o'clock game yeah and you can't see honestly i mean i was in the nosebleeds granted but i'm just not a fan of going into football stadiums oh dude and also like the last thing you want is you know we all have jobs and families or you know you you go with your significant other to a game and like

chad and kyle get into a fight behind you or they start heckling you because you're wearing a different jersey you're like dude i paid 300 for these i don't want to get into a fight and one of the things that irks me the most dude and you know i train martial arts and i do jujitsu i hate street fights i hate seeing videos of dudes just getting flatlined really you see some of the videos of people in stadiumss where they get punched and then they fall down like four flights of stairs. Jesus. Man, that's catastrophic, dude.

Yeah. You're hammered and whatnot and you're heckling people. It's so dangerous, but I love seeing people get knocked out in the octagon because they're trained fighters. You know what I mean? They know what they signed up for, but it's dangerous going to games too, dude. Yeah. If you're going up against the Eagles's dangerous going to games too dude yeah if you're going up the going up against the eagles you gotta oh not a team i hate not a team i hate more in my

life too so i'm glad that i'm actually upset that you mentioned them but you're a giants fan yeah big johnson man man that rivalry is it gets physical man it does and also just you know i'm 32 years old i feel like my generation of giant fans we hate the eagles more than any franchise i've been talking about this for years now it's like dude they've ruined victor cruz's career ended in philly every time the giants go in there they just get smoked by 30 they played them in the playoffs got smoked by 30 eli manning would go in there it looked like he was a deer in the headlights could never make any passes and you know he's one of the best quarterbacks that i've ever seen from my team i mean without a doubt

but it's just a house of horrors dude and they're known the philly fanatics right they're known for they booed santa claus yeah they they cheered when michael irvin got stretchered off the field like that's what they're known for it's a hostile place so yeah the fans are pretty rabid also why do you think eli manning gets so much hate i think it's because he's payton manning's brother i think anytime you have siblings in a sport one is always going to be better than the other and that's probably the closest sibling rivalry not even rivalry just siblings in sports that both accomplish a lot of the same things granted Granted, Eli Manning didn't win a regular season MVP. Peyton Manning is arguably the best quarterback of all time in the sense of how he plays the position. The most accomplished is Tom Brady with the Super Bowls.

But Peyton is older brother. Peyton was the face of the league. Peyton was, he did it a lot cooler and cleaner and more flashy. Where Eli Manning, I think, never threw a spiral in his career the ball always came out like you know craziness and he ended up winning two super bowls as many as peyton did and it wasn't always pretty with eli dude would get slaughtered by new york media dude growing up in the east coast and in new york city it's like it was never good enough and i think that's why he gets a lot of heat like seth curry i think is a great basketball player but he's steph's younger brother so it's like you're always gonna be that thing where you're

not gonna be as good as as the older sibling or sometimes it's the younger sibling too but i think that's why he gets a lot of heat man i love that analogy it's got to be tough on you mentally to be always someone's shadow almost exactly and that's why when you do accomplish it's odd but you're not paying yeah yeah it's like nothing you do is good yeah it's literally never won two super bowls and people still question if he's a hall of famer like you know what i mean yeah and it's a ridiculous take that people have um i think if you win multiple super bowls you're automatically a hall of especially if you're the qb especially if you're the qb and, you're automatically a Hall of Famer. Especially if you're the QB. Especially if you're the QB. And also, dude, I think a big part of people's excellence in professional sports is your

availability. Dude played 15 years, didn't miss a start. I think that's a big part of your greatness. LeBron James, 20 years, been arguably a top five guy. Pretty much every year. 19 of the 20 years. Maybe his rookie year he wasn't. But then after that yeah exactly it's like man there's something to be said about longevity and greatness being

consistent for that many years dirk novitsky colby duncan it's like dude these guys have been great for that long yeah that in itself should just prove that they're on another level dude how many athletes have you had a chance to speak to or or maybe interview on your show or even just been a fan of you're like bro i wish he stayed healthy almost all of them to be honest yeah paul george like so many dude a ton of them thousands of them yeah and then when you look at guys that for 15 plus years they're every game man they only sat out because it was load management. It wasn't because they were injured.

I think that's a massive part of your greatness. Absolutely. It's underrated. Now, what do you think of this whole incident with Saquon Barkley not reaching a deal with the Giants? Fully expected, without a doubt. And there's not a take that I have, Sean, in sports that I'm more hypocritical about. The running back position if you're a running back hold out get your money your shelf life is three to four years that you're at your prime and a lot of these teams they do what they're doing to these guys now

they draft them high or they'll get them in their prime they'll run them to the ground and then they're like oh it's time for you to get paid let's lowball you this is this is what happens to the running back position every single time there's a big name running back it happened with alvin camara happened with zeke it happened with derrick henry eventually you're no longer that guy and what happens is early on in your career you're the guy and then eventually when it's time for you to make 12 13 15 million a year which is what your market value should be the running back position has been devalued because we just saw the kansas city chiefs bro win the super bowl and their running back that got 80 of the touches was a seventh round pick wow out of rutgers it ain't exactly a football powerhouse

right i'm from rutgers you are let's go shout out to rutgers east coast i know how much they suck though but you know you're not going to rutgers to find the next big star is what i'm saying you know you go to ohio state you go to alabama you go to michigan and they won a super bowl with a seventh round pick there's been teams over the last decade the average salary for an nfl running back that has won a super bowl is under $3 million because it's become so pass heavy. The quarterback is making north of $40 million if you have a certified alpha. What does the quarterback do? He throws it. So the wide receivers now are making more money. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to have probably two wide receivers if they could keep them that are going to make north of $25 million,

T Higgins and Jamar Chase. But the game has changed. So the running back gets devalued. They're going to have probably two wide receivers if they can keep them. They're going to make north of $25 million. Tee Higgins and Jamar Chase. But the game has changed, so the running back gets devalued. And it's super unfortunate because the reason why I say I'm so hypocritical is because if you're a running back, yo, hold out. It's expected. I was like, yeah, no, he's going to hold out. Josh Jacobs on the Raiders. Austin Eckler.

He's led the league in touchdowns, bro, and back-to-back years. You know how hard that is? And they're like, yeah, we don't want to pay you it's like what the it's just it's just wild how the running back position has been devalued but if i'm an owner if i'm a gm i'm doing what they're doing but for the player the player side of things bro hold out get your money because this is what happens is what they do to running backs so do you think the giants could go without saquon he's a massive massive part of their offense like he's undoubtedly the best player on the offense however the running back position you have to also look at the organization where brian dable and joe schoen who are the head coach and the gm they come from buffalo buffalo hasn't had a really good running back at all during their time in Buffalo.

This was a team that went to the AFC title game. They're winning their division, but they got the stud quarterback. They got the stud wide receiver, and they built everything around them. So can the Giants win without Saquon? I want to say yes, but I think he definitely undoubtedly makes them a way better team. For sure. Have you ever hit any nasty parlays, like five or 10 teamers? Yeah, I've hit a couple. Dude, there was a weekend in Vegas, March 2022. I came for Colby Covington, Jorge Mazdal. That was a headliner pay-per-view at the

ufc i'm a huge ufc fan i have evidence of this because people don't believe me when i say it i hit two four-leg parlays a six-leg and a nine-leg parlay what and sean i hit every single bet i made that weekend i i love to bet props in the ufc right like a lot of people like parlays but you could find a 12 to 1 prop on someone to win by submission yeah you hit that that's basically a you know a five to six leg parlay for the most part and i was hitting knockout first round for this guy submission round two for that guy it was crazy and as the card is going on i'm drinking more and more i'm drinking more and more beer and i'm telling my buddy nick who i was with i was like dude when the main card started we had all favorites left i was like we might win like

twenty thousand dollars he's like no way i'm like i don't know if it's the core is light that's hitting right now but i feel really good about this. And after every fight, dude, I'm grabbing. I'm like, I can't believe this. And, dude, we hit. I had $21,600 worth of tickets cashed, like needed to be cashed in my jacket pocket, walking around Las Vegas Boulevard, blitz at 3 in the morning. And did you lose it? No, no, no, no.

I won it. Oh, thank God. I got nervous there. No, come on now. Awesome. We can take it off you. The way you were going with that story. lose it no no no i won it oh thank god yeah no come on we could have it off you the way you were going with that story no no but but it was really dumb because at one point i went to take off my jacket and just leave it behind the chair and then i'm like am i going to do right now i can't have that happen wait so how much did you put up to win 21 oh dude like 300 bucks that's it yeah a 50 um nine like parlaylay that paid close to like 2300 parlay was like 100 bucks and then the other

ones were you know i had a three leg parlay of knockout knockout submission and 25 paid like 2k and then we had another crazy one like dude it was nuts we we did a hundred dollar parlay where we took the nine fighters and that paid like 11.1 jeez it was crazy man it'll never happen again yeah i like how you only use your fun money on parlays because most people they use their regular money on it and they get carried away and oh dude they just get wrecked i don't get a lot of heat on social media but when it comes to sports betting picks when i post my five picks i could go four and one and i'm like oh dude four and one that's i'll take four and one all day the rest of my life yeah every week and i'll get

five to six people be like oh dude you don't know i'm like let me guess you parlayed yeah well don't parlay bro because if you go four and one sean and you bet a hundred dollars let's just use a hundred dollars because it's the easiest number for us to reference you go four and one you hit for four hundred dollars you lose a hundred dollars you're still up three hundred dollars yeah by straight betting them that's why professional bettors they straight bet they hate parlays right i do what you said parlay is fun yo here's 20 bucks man let's go sean who do you like tonight to score over 30 i like paul pierce i like well not paul pierce paul george i like and bead and harden all right let's do it here's 20 bucks whatever Sean, who do you like tonight to score over 30? I like Paul Pierce. I like, well, not Paul Pierce, Paul George. I like Embiid and Harden.

All right, let's do it. Here's 20 bucks. Whatever happens. That's fun. I'm not expecting to win it. It's fun. I think sports betting is fun if you do that. And yeah, the serious money, I straight bet it.

I love that. I want to touch up on your pods before we wrap up. You've been doing it for eight years. You were ahead of the game. What have you learned throughout that whole journey journey because you've really persevered for a long time dude i think uh perseverance persistence are the two words i would use to describe me in in all aspects of my life especially when it comes to content creating because i know the stuff is good it's just figuring out the algorithm right i know you you've been in the game too for a while

now too and it's like well now the algorithm wants this and then two weeks from now it changes so i've just been consistent with it man and and i don't like to take no for an answer i'll shoot my shot i guess i'd rather hear no than than not ask because in the end it's still a no right so why not ask it's being consistent it's it's building an audience of a couple thousand people that listen to every show and that's been able to take me to here where i record my stuff here at the blue wire studio being a part of blue wire getting my foot in the door with v sin and it's like yeah would i want millions of hours no everyone but it's it's understanding that that small that small portion of people that when i tell them hey man can you go and tag sean because

i want to get them on my show they'll go and do it right so in 10 minutes you get 50 mentions of at nick days you'll be like who is this kid but i have that audience that'll go and do it that's cool when someone tweets out like oh i want to go on a podcast whose pod should i go i go to the discord or i'll put it on my instagram like hey reach out to sean tell him i want him on my pod they'll go and be like at veterans minimum and it's like yeah dude like it's 30 40 people spamming you all in 10 minutes you're gonna notice that yeah you're gonna see that so it's i tell content creators this all the time like don't ignore your fan base don't ignore your supporters do we all want hundreds of thousands yeah we all

do but those 500 those thousand those 2 000 people that listen to your content yep all the time it's basically like having 20 30 50 000 downloads of listeners yeah that's how i view it no i love that so on my instagram i thank 100 people a week that repost my clips i would do more but i get blocked from messaging that many. And on YouTube, I try to respond to as many comments as I can. Dude, there becomes an instant connection, man. Like I remember the first time I had an athlete

like repost something of mine, just like a tweet. I was like, that's dope. And to have, to even think that someone would feel that way. Like when I repost someone's stuff, they're like, yo, I can't believe you replied. I was like, you can't. I was like, of course I reply, you know? Like, but I can imagine with you,

with the millions of followers that you have, it's probably, it gets overwhelming sometimes. I literally get blocked on Instagram. It's happened to me a few times. Cause when I think, I guess you can only message a certain amount of people in a short timeframe. So if I think like 10 people in a row,

I'll just start getting blocked. But on YouTube, I try to, there's so many comments on blocked yeah but on youtube i try to there's so many comments on youtube but i try to reply to a lot of them you know you know you can make someone's day by just replying yeah you know i i don't i don't think of myself highly or anything special i love to have fun i love to goof around i like to poke fun at myself too and to think that someone would be appreciative of me responding to a comment or a tweet is yeah it's wild to me but also like i put myself in their position yeah it's a little thing so i learned that trick from gary v actually because i think he spends 10 minutes a day responding to

dms and stuff who's the one person that you like mark out to use the wrestling term like you use lose your they replied to you they replied to me probably elon musk wow okay i've seen so many of his interviews like i love the way he because the thing with super intelligent people is they can't articulate themselves to the general public usually but elon's able to do that which is a huge skill to have i love that pick mine would be lebron i'd probably be in my top three lebron dude because i mean we're how old are you again 26 yeah i'm 32 so like he's the first mega star of social media yeah and he's the first dude that i could remember his first game against the kings like i remember like i literally watched his entire career you have yeah that's nuts and to be able to comprehend it too you know like i saw i saw

jordan play the knicks in 1997 bro i was six years old i don't really remember i just remember being there i couldn't tell you like what he did or whatnot i'd have to go and you know fake flex that i remember that game but with lebron like dude i remember everything i remember the 20 25 29 straight points he scored against detroit you know i remember the wars with the celtics when he went to the heat and the you know the wars continued and winning the tie like everything bro he's the first mega star and to be great for 20 years like we were talking about earlier on this episode is just wild to me and what's the bad mistake he's made he made the decision where he donated a ton of money to the boys and girls club anyway like that's the thing he gets the most heat for but and going to the

heat and going to the heat yeah but he opened it up man because now everyone kind of just i say i would never buy a nba jersey nowadays because dudes signed five years 230 million and then they're like yo i don't want to play anymore yeah nick what's next for you man what guests you got coming up what you working on right now we're in the process of gearing up for the football season we got the nfl preview show that drops every year. It's going to be the ninth one, Sean, that I'm doing. So it's like the flagship episode of Veterans Minimum. That'll be coming out.

I don't know when this is going to air, but it's always Labor Day weekend. It's that Monday. It's the longest episode I do, dude. How long? Close to like four hours. Straight? Straight through. Straight through.

No. Yeah. Tossing back a couple cold ones too so we get a little spicier as the show goes yeah it definitely helps but you know the reason why it's so long all my episodes are about 45 to an hour i think that's a nice sweet range there but this one is you're breaking down 32 teams you're breaking down predictions and yardage leaders and mvps and all that stuff so it's a it's a huge deep dive it's basically that man and you know i had you on my show too that did really well and i appreciate you for that

yeah hey you guys can go and check that one out too but it's at veterans minimum is the name of my show not a veteran by the way it's just a play on where i always get that i'm a veteran but it's uh it's a play on words in the sports world when the guy's about to retire they want to still play, you know, chase that veterans minimum. Every league has one. And, yeah, man, at NickDayis10 is my social media. And I'm doing a lot of dope, dude.

So just follow along and you'll be excited. I'll be keeping an eye on you, brother. Thanks for coming on. Thank you for having me. Thanks for watching, guys. See you next time.