Faze Clan_S Massive Plan To Take Over Esports And Entertainment

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What's up, you guys? Welcome to Courtside Club.

I'm Rachel Demita and I'm joined today by FaZe Seabass,

a.k.a. my co-host for FaZe One The Warehouse.

And we are actually in the FaZe One Warehouse right now

where we have essentially been living for the past month.

It's been a crazy ride. None of us have slept yet.

But thank you so much for making time, coming on Courtside Club.

Yeah, no, anytime. In fact, for the viewers at home,

this is day one.

This is day one out of FaZe One.

And this morning, I felt pretty weird. I didn't know where to go.

I didn't know what to do.

It almost felt like there was an obligation pulling me to come back here anyway.

Yeah. Well, it's crazy because we did chat before we got on this show, FaZe One.

And you had a very clear vision of what FaZe One was going to be.

And then I luckily, you know, through audition processes

and talking to you and talking to production,

I actually was able to become the host.

Which was, thank you guys again for giving me that opportunity because it was so much fun.

Did FaZe One live up to everything you were expecting?

Oh, it was a lot more.

Everything that speaks to the element of, you know, how much our fans enjoyed it

and the talent of the creators that we had,

that I think I was relatively expecting it, like exceeded expectations.

But I think I knew it was going to deliver that on its own.

Just because of the talent pool that we already had out there applying,

where it truly blew me away was the production.

Yeah, same.

Because when we walked in on day one and met the crew, met the staff, saw the design,

went into the control room, talked to everybody, saw their vision,

it all started to become so much clearer to me.

So that blew me away. That I couldn't have predicted.

Yeah, that was crazy.

For those of you guys who aren't familiar with FaZe One, what that is, what we're talking about,

essentially what we did was a 24-7 live stream

Yeah, that was crazy. for those of you guys who aren't familiar with FaZe One, what that is, what we're talking about, essentially what we did was a 24-7 live stream

for those of you guys who aren't familiar with FaZe One, what that is, what we're talking about, essentially what we're talking about,

to find the next FaZe Clan member.

And it's a project that Seabass has been, I mean, how long have you been working on it?

About a year and a half.

What really differentiates a recruitment challenge is you know there's a timer.

When this ends, there will be a new member and I have a chance to be that person.

And in the previous three, we had picked up five people each time.

But if we do it every year and every time we bring in five people,

that's a lot of people every year as a baseline.

And once we landed on that, from going from five...

From five to one.

Just that concept.

Just that concept.

Just getting one.

That was what actually took the hardest work or took the most amount of time, was just

getting there.

But everything else we built on top of it, the reality show, the production, the prize,

everything came after that.

The prize?

The prize was insanity.

Like, you don't even see that on the biggest network television.

So you guys, they won $1 million in crypto, presented by Moonpay.

Our trusted partner.

Honestly, Moonpay was amazing.

$250,000 sponsorship with Ghost, which as you might be able to see behind me, we're

in the kitchen right now in this warehouse that we've been in for a month.

And there's Ghost energy and Ghost products everywhere around this warehouse.

We've all tried all the Ghost products at this point.

And then a new car, a new Nissan GTR, then obviously joining FaZe, which has a lot of

benefits in itself.

So like that prize.

And to me, when I heard that, I'm like, that's kind of wild.

It's hard to wrap your mind around.

And we also saw with the contestants, but I don't think they recognized it until our

first couple eliminations.

They were just having fun in the warehouse.

But then you think about like, you hand one of these kids to me because they're like young

in their 20s, early 20s, you hand them a million dollars and say, okay, now what are you going

to do?

Like, that's kind of insane.

And the fact that we were able to even give that prize away.

Oh, I know.

I know.

It's more than American Idol, Got Talent, Big Brother, you name it.

That's not what you get on a reality program.

It's yeah, over over $1.3 million.

How many people submitted to be a part of FaZe One?

I don't have the hard number, but thousands.

It was tens, maybe hundreds, a lot.

Why do tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people want to be a part of FaZe?

And it's also a testament to something that's been around for 12 years.

It's not the new hottest thing.

And as you know, with trends now, like they just cycle.

Why do people still at this point want to be a part of FaZe this bad?

Because most of the kids here, I would say, or all of the kids here, they cared about

the money, but they were more so here because they want to be a part of FaZe.

Like they want to be a part of FaZe first and then the money was second, you know?

It's so cool.

I know.

It's so hard to even, even for me, it's hard to, to, to fathom and conceptualize.

You know, the, the, the true honesty is I think that you would get a better answer from

someone else than you'll get from me because I'm so close to it.

Because even what you just said, it's not that I disagree, but in my head, it's hard

for me to wrap my head around that, right?

Because I've, I've been so close to it for 12 years, I've never wanted to join because

I've always been here.

Yeah.

Right.

So for me individually, it is harder to wrap my head around it.

And just the reality of, of how many people in the world use us as, as a symbol for, for

not only aspiration, but, but also validation.

You know, when we, when we started our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our,

our company started, we started, uh, our, our business.

It was not a business.

It was a brand, it was not a brand.

It was a YouTube channel.

It was a group of kids who all met online, didn't know each other in person who created

a YouTube channel together to upload their Call of Duty highlights.

That's what phase clan was 12 years ago.

Um, but that's what was the, the anniversary we refer to May 30th is just when we opened

the YouTube channel.

I wasn't for full context, I wasn't there on that day.

Uh, I became friends with them a couple of months after.

that. Um, but, but at the time there was no revenue source. There was no brand. There was

no one doing that that was succeeding or doing it by profession. It was just a hobby and that's it.

We did it because we liked it. We weren't trying to make money. We just thought it was cool and

we just wanted to do it. It was our hobby. It was our passion. We were students, high school

students who met online and I was in Canada. Some other guys were in Florida, somewhere in Boston,

all over the world. Somehow it got pretty popular pretty quickly. And we were one of the first

people to get partnered on YouTube when they opened up that application process. And we weren't,

we were one of the first to start receiving sponsorships from people, you know, brands on

the internet who, who were, were future minded and understood that's where the viewership was going

was, was young.

Internet collectives and wanted to put their brand behind that. So we were one of the first

to get sponsorships. We were one of the first to help empower our own creators to get their

own sponsorships. And this was all a chain effect of, of, of over 10 years ago. And ultimately what

we did is we provided a future for the people who were doing it. And then we, through that,

we were able to create a foundation to provide the same opportunities for all the creators who

came through. Everyone who became a member of phase now was able to,

to make it their living in a much more significant way than us. We were just getting by. But once we

truly broke through the people who came through phase started to make real money, started to

retire their families, started to buy homes for their families at 16. Yeah. And then as the years

go by those kids who started to make a living for themselves out of nothing began to inspire

the next generation of creators to do the same thing.

It started with a very small group that we were able to empower and enable a create a future for

the people who came through phase clan. And then the members were able to inspire the next

generation of creators who now are able to make a living regardless of their affiliation with phase

clan. And now they currently are inspiring the next generation to do the same thing. Obviously

it's a, it's a status symbol and they feel cool about it. And they grew up watching us

and, and they, they want the respect and admiration and notoriety that comes with it.

But also ultimately it tells them you made the right decision pursuing this. And it is,

it becomes more objective than subjective at that point. They can sit back and, and reflect on all

the moments that, that they sacrificed and, and really challenged themselves and put their eggs

in one basket, the basket that they believed in instead of the basket that people told them that

they should, and it worked for them. And that's what joining phase clan represents to,

to the hundreds of thousands of people that want to be part of it. At least that's my interpretation,

but also something that makes phase so great is that anyone you ask will have a different answer.

It means something different to everybody. Well, I've been a fan of phase for a while,

but mine comes in less about the gaming. I understand that the gaming is still like a very

important part to phase, but it's adapted into so much more. And I'm most interested in that

crossover that you guys have done.

With sports, with the lifestyle, with the vloggers, just being overall creators. And I know

you started on YouTube. Now there's a heavy emphasis on Twitch, but there's, you know,

we talked about it last night. There's Tik TOK, there's Instagram, there's all these social

platforms. There's these kids excelling in different ways. And so I was just so interested

in how you guys took gaming and kept growing it. You still have that hardcore group who just

watches phase because they want to see you win all of the games. And so I was just so interested

in how you guys took gaming and kept growing it. You still have that hardcore group who just

watches phase because they want to see you win all of the games. And so I was just so interested

in how you guys took gaming and kept growing it. You still have that hardcore group who just

watches phase because they want to see you win all of the games. And so I was just so interested

in how you guys took gaming and kept growing it. You still have that hardcore group who just

watches phase because they want to see you win all of the games. And so I was just so interested

in how you guys took gaming and kept growing it. You still have that hardcore group who just

watches phase because they want to see you win all of the games. And so I was just so interested

in how you guys took gaming and kept growing it. You still have that hardcore group who just

watches phase because they want to see you win all of the games. And so I was just so interested

how many titles 34 34 titles yes so i mean there are there are pro gamers who are also freaking

killing it you know and like and i think that that's dope but i think because i've never been

a professional gamer it's hard for me to even really i think that's fire it's hard for me to

relate and it's not i'm not necessarily going to want to go to belgium to watch them live i'm going

to celebrate with you guys because it's cool but then there are hardcore fans who watched every

single match that they had i'm going to watch the creators like kaylee by the way phase kaylee

probably my favorite phase member after sea bass you you can admit that it's kaylee i love kaylee

um but somebody who just has the coolest personality and she games but i'm drawn to

her personality even more than her gaming ability so that's why i think you guys have been able to

reach an audience that's so much broader where a lot of esports teams or mcn

or just even video games in general the culture around it hasn't expanded on it you know there's

a there's a very niche audience for each of these games or each of these creators and that's what

you guys continue to do and then we added a reality show on top of it the relationship that

that phase clan has with gaming is one that by nature of life evolves it has to and that's why

it's so important for us not to ever move on from that but to show the world okay now

gamers are here gaming is a living gaming is an industry you can create online and have that be

your living your career but as you mentioned but what else do you bring to the table it's not i can

game but okay i game what else do you do what else can a gamer do in the world what other talents and

abilities do you have when you're not gaming and then oh by the way we bring it back to the

game and you can still whoop anybody right those are the people that that interest us those are the

people that are the future of what not just phase clan but the internet is going to be that's where

it's going right is is you have your gaming ability and and to be clear i'm more talking

about the creator side of the world not esports and esports esports it's like whoever is the best

on the sticks like you're the one you know to be very clear before it's a sport yeah before our

audience comes at us with pitch twerks i'm not talking about our our counter-strike roster this

is solely a creator focused conversation which is only half of what's going on in the world and

phase clan is um to discuss the merits of of what it takes to be an esports pro would be take an

entirely different conversation but speaking of sports and what you're saying if you look at i

think the nba as an organization has done the best maybe i'm a little bit biased because i do the most

work with the nba but they have done the most into building their players and their teams into

brand identities as themselves and that's what gets more fans involved with the nba like they've

there's all these players doing different commercials and music and all this and the nba

has really highlighted that and i think that that's the way to continue growing gaming as

as something that's not just like oh you're stuck in your mom's basement which was that was the

stigma of of a gamer for however many years now it's a really cool thing and to continue to grow

that to a broader audience will just take us getting to know the personalities of these

creators and and the culture and everything around it yeah we understand a first of all it's

still cool as hell to us too and we on our own time are doing and watching those same things

um we we are just putting our resources that they see in other places because we're working on

growing so many more new routes we're not tearing those down to build new ones we're just building

more in other places you're still taking those titles when you when you get you guys are still

going to every tournament and and going for it

the dub every time 34 will turn into you know what 40 in a couple months i don't know how quickly

you guys accumulate these titles but you're still chasing that as well exactly and it's it doesn't

go anywhere you know just because you want to put on a reality show um doesn't doesn't uh doesn't

take anything away from from uh from our interest in in the core of ultimately what phase clan has

always represented yeah to someone and i think that that's what what makes my work

so exciting is that we have to satisfy all those voices at once and ultimately put something out

there for someone who isn't following us yet okay we've done all these things maybe you didn't see

it or maybe it wasn't for you what would be how do we add you to that group right while still

putting they're putting something for the person who just started following us and who followed

us three years ago for something and who's been rocking with us for eight years for something and

who subscribed to us 12 years ago how do we make sure you're still getting the content that you

want to watch and we're still getting the content that you want to watch and we're still getting the

content that you want to watch and and it it's it's a very hard job but that's also what makes

it so fun is it's it's is just the challenge last time we chatted we played among us we don't have

a crazy amount of time even though i need a rematch and among us but i would like to take

a halftime break if you're down yeah and i know that you're a sports guy i have a game

of start bench cut okay for you let's do it start bench cut you're from toronto

the raptors the leafs and the blue jays all right so the part that's easy we're starting the jays

that's we're starting really we're starting the jays um i was with you when the leafs were in

the playoffs and you were oh i know you were about to like not host our show because you were like

i'm so upset over this game or the game's about to come on like do you know when we'll be done

like and you're like i know you're so passionate about it i'm so excited about it i'm so excited

about phase but the leafs man i my my relationship with with all those teams and the sports they play

is different but i i i truly love the blue jays the most although the person running the sport

rob manfred hates baseball um which takes away my interest to some extent but um that's the easy

decision for me the bench cuts harder um i'm really really falling out of love with the sport

at the moment um really just due to their lack of ability to play and their lack of ability to

protect their players i think the sport has a significant significant problem with player

safety with player security with inclusion uh and i there are too many deep deep-rooted issues

in the nhl to correctly take the league in the place that it needs to go they've had some serious

sexual assault problems recently that they've done nothing about the problem i have is that

people can take runs at guys that aren't trying to fight them and just just

elbow to the face and it's not a penalty it's not it's it's a legal hit and there's nothing the

league is doing about it they watch they watch players headhunt their stars and do nothing it

really takes my love away from what is such a beautiful game um so right now i would cut

i would cut the leafs just because of my current state of of this uh of disagreement with the

places the nhl is in all right so start blue jays

bench raptors cut leaves next up call of duty fortnite league of legends

um see this is tough i don't think league deserves to be cut but it's it's just not my game i don't

play it i don't watch it i don't understand it so um i'm benching call of duty uh and i'm i'm

starting fortnite and that's well i wasn't expecting that yeah i but again it's just a

personal question like

it it's all contextual but me where i'm at in my life after having played call of duty for 10 years

i'm still great the thought process and and individual mechanical talent that fortnite

brings to the table to me just is so much more interesting despite despite all the flaws that

they have god i don't have enough time to sit here and talk about everything epic games does wrong

um but i still personally enjoy fortnite i need to see steve ass's burn book

where you just go in on everybody you have everybody and every

uh company you have issues with my flight and you just want them to do better no yeah for another

day for another day okay this one might be the toughest faxity kaylee and temper oh i can't do

that well those are the three that we had on phase one on our show we had regular phase member guests

and faxity kaylee and temper were were three of them all right well i'm i'm gonna have to cheat

i'm gonna cut tommy only because i have the best relationship with him and he and so i know he

won't care i love tommy very dearly but i i i uh i'm cutting him only for that reason uh i think

he's fantastic um i will bench faxity solely because he yells so loud that if he's on the

bench maybe i won't it won't burst my eardrum we can hear fax from down the street there were

times that we were filming and he was in one of these soundproof rooms doing whatever and i could

clear as day like the conversation that was happening and i'm trying to host and i'm like

getting sidetracked because i hear him screaming i want him on the bench yelling at the other team

yelling at the ref okay yelling at the crowd actually he would he'd be fantastic he'd be

great for that i just i mean it's smart to start kaylee as well because she's the most intimidating

of all she deserves it they all do yeah all right now it's time for the second half

i want to dive a little bit back into phase one just because obviously we got

to spend a lot of time in there together and there might have been some things that the stream or

anybody watching didn't get to see one of those it's not a it's not a great conversation to have

but i think it's something that made this show what it is and it was like our covid problem

that we had so we had people on the show get covid to where we had to shut down that was my

first time in this whole two years of covid in productions where something like that has

happened and it's crazy because it was on the the tail end of what we thought was a pandemic

coming to an endemic right how did you feel when we basically and i'm sure you were part of that

decision to be like we have to we have to shut this thing down we have to push pause like what

did you feel in that moment i think everyone just kind of knew like the the day before it happened

we had like a three hour long meeting of all right here's all the things we're changing the show goes

no one disagreed and then the next morning we we we got some more news and we got on the call and

there wasn't even anyone still attached to that plan it was everyone just knew we just it was

just a feeling it was just a gut feeling we just knew that we couldn't keep going so we we pressed

pause we all went into quarantine we had a group zoom meeting to tell the contestants um when we

shut down all 22 were back in the competition which ended up to me in a way

there was a silver lining with all of it i know it wasn't the way that we had planned it

but i was so happy to be able to see all 22 get their fair chance at this competition because

they've been grinding at it for however long but that initial zoom meeting that we had when we told

contestants like you know what you guys were gonna have to be in a hotel for a week for 10 days for

you know and the look on their face was like but we all grew closer

in that time yeah oddly enough you were in that quarantine as well what was it like

for you were you stressed did you feel no to me it was okay but ultimately i'd been there before it

was just is what it is it sucked but and nope like it in no point in my mind did i think it was

what we had to do was a worse outcome than stopping the show like not return so because i knew it's

like all right well this is what we have to do in order to get to somewhere that i want to go

um at no point

did it really get to me um yeah i mean it was unfortunate it was what it was but i think as

you alluded to as well we got a lot of things out of it that we wouldn't have otherwise not only the

the like the community and camaraderie of all the people but even some moments on the show like

people might not know this again just to go under the hood a little bit originally there was never

going to be a moment where they were all in here no when we came back we were like well we only

have five days not only do we not have enough here to evaluate who we're gonna eliminate but

we don't even have enough time to build that into the show let's give them a night all together we'll

judge from that and that ended up being like the best night we had it was good yeah for us for the

people at home it was i was so glad that we had that night where everybody was here um and then

second i think it also made for much better television when that we did the elimination

the next day because all 22 had just spent 24 hours together yeah in addition to a previous week

Right. Where before they were going to shake hands and maybe never see that person again.

There was not going to be that moment. Um, so I, I know we picked a winner yesterday and picked

a millionaire yesterday, but I don't know if you'd agree with me. I still think that first

elimination was the most emotional one. Yeah. I wasn't expecting to like nearly cry

and I was holding it together and, and there were four girls in this competition

and there, what is that? 18 guys and four girls. And so I got really close with the girls and we

had moments in the bathroom. There were, there were cameras all around this warehouse. If you

think of any regular reality TV show, that's what this was cameras everywhere. And the only place

that there wasn't was in the restroom. So I, you know, whether sorry production, I would sometimes

go in with the girls and just make sure that they were okay. So I got really close to them.

So I knew any of the girls leaving, I was going to get upset.

But I also knew that they had, we had built up this kind of big sis, little sis relationship.

And I knew that if I cried, I was going to send them into a spiral. So that was actually the only

reason that I didn't let myself, I was like, you know what, you have to be strong in this very

moment for these girls, because I know that they don't want to be sent into a spiral in the middle

of the stage when they just said that they were going home on a live stream with thousands of

people watching, you know, but yeah, that first elimination was so tough. And it's, it's honestly

one of my first shows too, that I've gotten so close to the cast. I've done shows like this,

not as extensive, but it worked in a way. It just like made the show what it is. And the fact that

we were also able to be like really transparent about what was happening. Like there are many

productions that get shut down because of COVID, but you never hear about it. There's movies that

have been halted for however long, like it's just a press story and that's it. Right. And, and,

you know, it just happens, but yeah, I think we, we did a good job.

I also think it was very obvious the energy that everyone brought in on Monday after their

quarantine. When we did the Olympics, we couldn't have had a better, a better job, a challenge for

them that day. My God, it was, I like, we just talked about Faxity being loud. Those kids on

Monday, it was like, they just got shot out of a cannon. I couldn't believe the energy that we

were getting from them. And that was because yeah, they'd been quarantined together and we

didn't plan it that way. It just worked out that way. Uh,

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So what is next for phase? Obviously you, you do a massive show like this.

It's the first, it's the first reality show. Am I wrong? Yep. Like where,

where is space trending now? Obviously you have a big say in a lot of what you guys do

as a group.

Is it more TV shows? Is it leaning more into the gaming side? Is it the, what is it? Is it music?

You know, where, where's the music? It's kind of everything. I think, um, I think from this

perspective, I would refer to what happened here, not necessarily as reality show or recruitment

challenge, but really just, just new, a new version of what programming is to phase clan.

Um, and viewed through that lens, that's where we're going. Um,

what does that mean next? I don't know. Is it exactly this? Is it a show like this? Is it

a recruitment challenge like this? Is it not a recruitment challenge? Is it different people?

I don't know. We don't know yet. We're going to sit at the table

or the next coming months and, and, and put that together. Um, but it's going to be something

that satisfies the original desire. Um, that we, we, this, a similar one that we set out

with this was how can we do something we've, we've never done before that the industry has never done

before.

I actually wouldn't even dare to try. Like this was the most ambitious thing we've ever done.

Not even close. Like everybody who worked on this has told us you guys are crazy. If you think

you're going to pull this off, but screw it, I'm in. That was pretty much the answer we got from,

from the, everybody on the teams and the production crew. Like, how are we going to do this?

Let's find out. That was mostly the energy. And I think that that was so exciting.

Can I tell you something from my side? So obviously I've been a fan of phase for a while

you brief. I've been following phase one also. Cause I just thought it was cool. So I was

following on socials of what they were doing. We briefly spoke about it, but when, when I auditioned

and you guys asked me to become the host and you talked to my agents who handle all of my deals or

whatever, they came to me and they were like, do you want to do this? Like, because they didn't

get it either. And there's someone who's kind of removed. And I was like, honestly, this is,

this is one of like jobs that I've never wanted to do more. I said, this is sounds like so much fun

and like straight up my alley. And they're like, well, it is going to be long hours. Do you want

us to see like, you know, they're saying like maybe eight hour days, should we try to cut that

to like three or four? Do you want some days break in between? And like, I'm getting these

questions and they're just, you know, they're being agents like that's what they do. And I was

like, if I'm going to do this show, I want to be all in on it because I think that's what I'm going to do.

That's the only way to make it what it is. So you were too. There was plenty of days where we were

here for a long time and we wrapped and then you stayed afterwards in the tent, just conspiring to

figure out how you guys could stay longer and mess with the contestants and come in here and

take a hostage. And I found the clown mask by the way, the clown mask is over there on the couch.

Oh my gosh, man. He's going to grab it for me. You guys, I have to show you this comment. This

became, and this was put it on, on the show.

Like after, I know obviously you took the hostage, but did you ever put, did you ever

bring it back? Cause I wore it during one of my, um, your outfits of the day. So guys, this,

how I know this one was mine. Look at my makeup. Like this is my lip. This was my mask. I might

take this as a souvenir if there's like any room in my suitcase, but look at how terrifying this

is. Please. Like it's terrifying. I think we should have worn, when I said I meant on the

show, like on the stage, I think we should have done it on the stage. It's so good. Anyway,

uh, yeah, we pranked the contestants one night. I, I did it with some of the other

face staff members and it was really fun. Um, but no, overall it was so much fun. And

I know we're on courtside club. We did it. We talked so much about phase one, but I feel like

we're both still passionate about it, even though we wrapped the show. So I'm really glad that we

kind of got to, you know, sit down and, and talk about it. Uh, quick buzzer beaters for you before

we let you go. Break down your ideal courtside.

Fit. You're looking at it. This is a little different from your hosting gear though. I haven't

seen the crew neck. I like the crew neck. We have courtside merch. We have a courtside hat for you

too. I know you always have a baseball cap. I would say this is my, this is, this is my everyday

fit. I don't dress up or down too much from this. Jeans, sneakers, and a crew neck. Some form of

pants, sneakers, crew, or a t-shirt. This is my general style. What is your ideal food? I need

shoes though. And drink combo while sitting courtside. Um, I mean, drink, I just want to

water. I'm pretty simple. Um, shouldn't drink alcohol last night. God, I feel like crap this

morning after not having drank anything for three weeks while we were on the show. I've come to

realize how much I actually enjoyed it. Cause we had some drinks last night to, since the show was

wrapped and I woke up feeling like absolute crap, got no sleep. First thing production does. Give me

a beer. When you said wrap, they were like, but those guys were stressed, man.

I'm going to try to go back to the sober lifestyle for a while. I liked, I quite enjoyed it over the

last few weeks. Um, and I don't really drink anything, anything else. Just give me a water

and I'm good. But food courtside, it's hard to go wrong with a slice of pizza. Okay. Yeah. I don't

know if there's a safer choice than, than just a good slice. Yeah. If you could be courtside at one

event in history, what would it be? It could be a sporting event. It could be any event in history,

but you get the courtside seat. Yeah. Um, courtside,

to any event in history, uh, it would be the MTV unplugged filming of, uh, Nirvana in 1993.

You're like young for that. Are you not? So you're just a Nirvana fan? Yeah. That's cool.

Cause you're born after 1993. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I like it. One last question. If you could sit

courtside with anyone dead or alive, who would it be? If I could sit courtside with anyone,

I would want it to be, I'm assuming we're talking about at a game. So I'd want it to be

a basketball fan. Um, so who's the coolest person? I honestly Obama. Cause we'd have a great

conversation about basketball and that'd be awesome. Well, he's like a Hooper, right? Exactly.

Yeah. That would be fun. That'd be cool. Although I don't know, uh, cameras might be on him if he

was, if he was courtside at a game. I just want his take on hoops. Yeah. That'd be fun. Cool. Seabass,

thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much, obviously for sitting down here, courtside club and being an incredible

co-host for phase one. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Let's give him the hat. And then I think we're

going to, Oh, and we have an official members only courtside club hat for you can wear on the

plane. That's members only that's exclusive. It looks great. It looks really good. Honestly,

courtside club hat looks really good blue like black and white sleek members only so this is

never coming out or this hasn't yet yet there's no merch code for it yet right now it's a members

only exclusive so only people who come on the podcast or work on the podcast get that hat

so there's limited edition honestly thank you so much appreciate you i've been talking for 30 days

straight it's time to cut it off bye you guys