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Hey, what's going on Hot Ones fans?
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Sean Evans checking in and in case you missed it, Kevin Durant hosted a live event at YouTube Space in LA last week.
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We made the rounds with YouTubers like Ryan Toys Review and What's Inside.
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Regrettably, I'm sure, he also chose to invite Hot Ones.
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The setup's a little bit different this time around and since Kevin didn't get to do a plug, I'm going to do it for him now.
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Check out Kevin Durant on YouTube.
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Lots of cool BTS stuff, plus he's doing it his own way and we respect the hell out of that around these parts.
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Well, without further ado, here's Kevin Durant versus the Wings of Death. All right, KD.
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Nice to meet you, my man. What's up, brother?
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So, we're here at YouTube Space in LA.
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You've gone through What's Inside.
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You've gone through Ryan's Toy Review.
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But now we're really cranking up the heat here with the Wings of Death. yeah.
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How are you with hot food?
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Are you a spicy food guy?
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You could say that, yeah. I am.
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Well, we'll find out if you are, really, right?
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And to the Hot Ones fans, man needs no introduction.
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MVP, eight-time All-Star, NBA champion.
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But can he handle Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage?
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We'll find out today, Kevin. You ready to get going? Yes, sir.
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Before we start, I don't want to put too much pressure on you, but Kevin Love came in here and he cleared the board, got on top of the wings.
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No added pressure, just want to just want to put that out there.
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Just want to put that in your head. I'm good. You're into it. You like it? Yeah.
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So, there are a lot of milestones to chase when you're an NBA player.
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The trophies, the banners, the rings.
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But I think the most underrated thing is the hip-hop shout-out. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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When you think about all the times that you've been name-checked in rap lyrics, which one's your favorite?
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Oh, that's a um great question. J.
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Cole shouted me out in his last album, which went double platinum. That was pretty cool.
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Drake did on his last album. Busta Rhymes for us. Yeah. Yeah.
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A lot of my friends love that one, so yeah, you listen to these guys and they throw your name out there.
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It makes you feel pretty established.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan, man, and that's always been a part of culture to me.
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So much so in fact, don't you have a uh studio in your basement?
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I heard you have a studio in your basement. actually. I enjoy making music.
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Just like um see basketball courts in a lot of these guys' homes, I enjoy making music, so I built the studio in mines and it's been fun, man. So much fun.
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Well, I can't wait for the mixtape.
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Are you ready to move on? Yeah. We all know that one.
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So yesterday, you went to your YouTube community tab and you asked for questions for your Hot Ones appearance.
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So this one is all about the fans.
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The first one's from @bogar.
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What's been the best thing so far about your off season?
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Uh the best thing is just knowing that you're a champion.
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Knowing what it takes to get there.
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So, just try to follow that same blueprint year in and year out.
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If you could play with any NBA player in history, who would it be and why?
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It probably have to be Wilt Chamberlain.
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Or I'll go Magic Johnson. 20,000 points. Magic.
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We was next level, so yeah, I'm a huge Magic fan.
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All right, so this next one is from Kevin Julius.
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Who is your celebrity crush growing up and who is it now?
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Man, uh You had a lot of them. Yeah, I did. Big list. Yeah.
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Uh Beyoncé was really a it Beyoncé was During your formative years, a real influence. Now, it's no, not now.
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Um but now I don't even know, bro, to be honest.
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You might want to take advantage of the platform. You know what I mean?
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Cuz you dropped out of the league.
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Yeah, but let me look at my phone or something first.
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Man, I got so many that I love, but it's it's just uh I'm just You're putting me on too much under the spotlight, man.
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I have too much pressure on me right now and I'm pissed that I can't get this take advantage of this moment. That's on you.
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It's a blown opportunity, KD. One more for you. Hey, KD.
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When you won the championship, who was the first person you called? Uh my godfather. Yeah. Called him back.
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He was back at home in Maryland.
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He taught me how to play the game.
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So, that must have been a big moment for him. Oh, yeah, for sure.
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We talked about this for a long time.
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So, like many players in the NBA, I know that you're a 2K obsessive. Yeah.
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When you play other players in the league, who's your most formidable opponent?
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Who's your fiercest rival?
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I played against Kyrie a couple years ago at the Olympics. We had the Xbox set up. He's pretty good.
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Besides 2K, what game do you play the most?
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Uh Rory McIlroy PGA Tour.
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I play that like 7-8 hours a day sometimes.
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Listen, me and my friends go online and play. It's so much fun.
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And then Gordon Hayward once suggested that by playing 2K, he became a better basketball player in real life.
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Do you think that there's something to that or is that just crazy talk?
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Oh, no, that's a real thing. That's a real thing. The game is so real now.
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It's like watching film almost, you know?
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Uh they have so many different modes on there as well.
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They have a GM mode that I play non-stop and I really feel like the general manager. The game is so real now.
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It makes it seem like you're actually really getting better, but you're probably not.
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Some of these bottles I haven't seen before. All new gear. Yeah.
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I know that you have Tupac tattooed on your leg, Jesus on your back, but at First We Feast, the tattoo that we're most interested in is Rick James.
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Can you talk about the decision to get Rick James permanently inked on your body? Oh, yeah.
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Rick James bring back to a time where like I first started listening to that type of music.
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I remember when I was probably like 8 years old and I heard Fire and Desire with Teena Marie and it just gave me a different feeling in life, you know?
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And I want to recreate that feeling.
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And uh I spontaneously just got a tattoo on my thigh and I think I'm really be excited about it once I get older, show my kids Rick James on my thigh, they're going to really think I'm a cool dad.
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So, it's a it's light years.
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That's what I think it is. A light years thing.
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You got You can't You can't think in the time.
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You have to You have to be looking around the corner.
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you know I had to explain it to you for you to get it.
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Talk about big it is now. You got your own sauce.
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You're not the only one out here.
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Not the only one out here, KD. After you, Waller.
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So, we have a recurring segment on our show called Explain That Gram where we do a deep dive in our guest's Instagram.
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I know that you're a little new to the I'm back on IG.
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Yeah, you're making your return. Two year hiatus.
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So, what we've done is instead pulled some great throwbacks.
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So, I'll show you the picture and then you tell me the bigger story, what's going on, okay? All right.
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First one, this looks like a good time.
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Ooh, that was 25th birthday and he just dropped um Nothing Was the Same. Oh, it was late. It was so much fun.
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What do you remember about that night? Nothing.
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That's how you know you had a good time. Yep.
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From one Bay sports icon to another, talk to me about your relationship with Andre Ward.
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When I was in OKC, uh he signed with Roc Nation as well.
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So, we we both kind of knew the same people and I asked him for some signed gloves cuz he was my favorite boxer and I didn't know him at the time.
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And then when I moved to the Bay, we just got tight and came out to support him there.
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So happy that he won, man.
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It was He's a real real good friend of mine and our relationship was growing.
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And then I have one more for you, KD.
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I don't know if this is the first time that you met Kobe Bryant.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but this is from 2007 from the USA team.
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Was this the first time that you met Kobe?
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Yeah, that was the first time.
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I don't remember the conversation, but I can remember that I was very very I was shaking.
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Kobe is a god to me basketball wise.
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So, just to see him actually know my name at that time. I was 18. It was just surreal.
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Did you learn anything from him?
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Uh yeah, when you get every time you touch the ball, shoot it.
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So, now we're moving on to Dirty Dicks, very aggressive branding. Uh yeah. What was that?
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How many shows you do a week?
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So, your stomach can't be holding up. I'm trying.
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You know, as an athlete, you push it to the limit, right? You're right.
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Sometimes as a talk show host, you have to do the same thing, especially when you just doing these interviews over chicken wings all the time.
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Everybody always wants to talk about the NBA as being so cutthroat, but I'm more into the camaraderie of the situation.
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So, what I want to do is hit you with some things, and you can tell me who in the NBA you'd go for for advice about that thing.
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If you needed a good wine recommendation, who would you go to for a good wine recommendation?
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Good wine recommendation. LeBron. LeBron knows his wine. Yeah.
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What about for a stock tip?
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I'm pretty good with that stuff.
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I don't need nobody for that.
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What if you need a little veteran advice from someone who's been in the league longer than you? Who do you go to? Nick Collison, easy.
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For a guest verse, would it be Damian Lillard?
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Yeah, yeah, it would be Dame.
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Yeah, he's the best rapper in the league. For style tips?
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One person I wouldn't go to is Draymond.
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No help at all for style tips.
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Uh yeah, Westbrook, easily. That's a crazy name.
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They don't try to pretend they're something that they're not, you know?
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I want to I want to see if people actually buy this stuff. Made for pranks. Mhm.
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It's a dorm room pranks, that's it. Cool.
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We don't do this in my dorm room.
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Well, I was only there for a couple months. Oh.
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Yeah, I'm getting a little watery up here.
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Be careful around your eyes.
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Yeah, but yeah, that's No, they told me I can't um yeah, that's pretty bad if you touch your face with this uh Yeah, so I had to go with the nothing. Veteran move. Veteran move.
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So, when it comes to professional athlete Twitter fingers, yours are some of the most prolific.
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What are the things online, the shenanigans online that you find hardest to brush off even though you know whatever you respond, millions of eyeballs are going to see it?
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I just hate the basketball takes about my game, you know?
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That's what gets me the most.
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You tell me I can't shoot or I can't post up or I can't pass or I can't rebound well or I don't defend well or I got um Yeah, you say that, I go off.
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Your mentions right now are just filling up. Yeah, that just hit me. Now I go off.
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But I'll uh definitely try to make you feel stupid.
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I got the uh snake comment so many times, I might just tattoo one of those on my arm.
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That's the next thing, spin it.
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And then this conversation, it's actually a rather poetic segue to the next wing. How you doing, Kevin?
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I'm sweating a little bit over here.
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I can't lie, but I'm definitely see.
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So, this one is the Bomb Beyond Insanity.
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Oh, that wouldn't taste like anything.
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That's just like What is you Why do you make that?
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I think just to help me with my YouTube clout.
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I know it was harvested in the walls of hell, but I've gotten a lot of mileage out of it. We got two more.
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I know that you're not shy about your criticisms of the media, be it ESPN's bummy news segment or what have you.
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And I wonder, you know, what do the ESPNs of the world, the Bleacher Reports of the world get wrong about KD?
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Well, first of all they don't let me create my own content.
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They don't let me tell my own story.
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So, how can they tell my story without even talking to me?
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Two, that's why I'm on YouTube.
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I get to tell my own story, and it's told by me, the person that actually went through it.
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It's hard for me to kind of respect someone who criticizes if you never even been on the stage before. So, that's why I go off. Let me ask you this.
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If you find yourself in retirement on the other side of the microphone, what would you do differently as a member of the sports press?
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Well, I'mma be all about the players.
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I'mma be all about the players.
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It's all about what they want to do.
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They're pro We're a product.
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We're We're pushing the league.
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The players are pushing the league, so it should always be about the players. Sorry.
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I'm a little Nowadays, it's it's it's like a feud between the players and the media.
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It's always like us versus them, it feels like. Conflict.
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Yeah, you should just appreciate what you see, man.
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It's a It's a beautiful art form.
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It's different from We're all creative too as basketball players. It's just different. Appreciate that.
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Stop trying to compare all the time. All right.
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So, this one's Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage.
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It used to be our hottest sauce.
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It's now our second hottest sauce.
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Next to this Blasted out.
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Don't prank me right now. Find it, Kevin. Find it, Kevin. Careful on your eyes. What is that? It's a tough one.
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It's the Liquid Rage, I think. Oh. Let's go. Here we go, Kevin. Here we go, Kevin.
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So, no matter where you go in your NBA career, I know that you're still a DC guy at heart. Yep.
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Which is more DC in your opinion, mambo sauce or half smokes? Ooh, tough one. Is this the tough one?
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Mambo sauce is But half smokes though, we used to cut the hash modes, like, man.
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Yeah, I'm going to go mambo sauce, though.
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But, it's a tough decision. Oh, yeah, for sure.
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Excluding yourself, who's the best basketball player ever to come out of the DMV? Kerr Smith.
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You don't know who he is, cuz he didn't play in the NBA, but he was the best.
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How do you than me, in my opinion.
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He's more of a legend in DC than I am.
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But, street ball scene, see, that's why I started playing street ball.
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That's how I know basketball, through street ball, so.
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And then, sometimes that's where you shine when it's the Drew League or it's Rucker.
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Or or uh Barry Farms or Watts, or that's where I grew up, so.
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I learned the game playing street ball, and then I started watching NBA later, so I didn't really start loving stars until I got like teenage years.
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So, before then, it was the street ball legends that did it for me.
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And Kerr Smith, who I named was the best one.
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How do you explain go-go music to people who don't know what it is?
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to explain it to somebody the other day, and I was like, I I looked so stupid explaining it, cuz it's like it's such a unique sound.
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I don't even know how to just duplicate that, like, beat box that, you know?
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So, but everybody knows what it is.
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It just hasn't hit mainstream, but it's it's deep in our culture. Tabbi Bonney or Wale? Both. Tough to pick?
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That's what I say, when I get behind a mic, I'mma change it up, so I'mma go both. Ain't no comparing.
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They both They both showing the city love, so I both love them.
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I'mma go uh I'mma go both.
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And then, what's your favorite monument?
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See, I grew up in Barry Farms, and I never really went to In DC, I never really went to the monuments. I never visited them.
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They all seemed like miles and miles away, so I've never been.
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I just ne- I don't know why, now.
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I'm thinking about so much at the one time right now.
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Well, I'll only give you one more sauce to think about.
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I can't even think right now. This is the last dab.
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It's a tough one, and we call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little dab on the last wing.
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You don't have to if you don't want to, Kevin Durant, but I think it's a good time to mention that Kevin Love did.
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I'm going a little crazy right there. This is KD. KD going in. Going in. Oh. some of that sauce. Let me switch. No, I got this. It's mine. It's mine. It's mine. All right, KD. Cheers. Cheers. Find it, my man.
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Sweating like you're at the free throw line. I love it.
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Seriously, like you just made this for the show? Mhm. Good job, man.
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I would mix my wings in that. That's the whole thing.
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We don't want to make a dorm prank sauce, KD.
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We wanted to make something that people would actually like.
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Yeah, well, I don't have to make like four at a time though cuz you can't have more than four two of those. All right, KD.
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You're a man who has climbed many mountains in recent years. An MVP award. Yep. A Finals MVP. An NBA champion.
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And let the record show, you just crushed 10 wings on Hot Ones. Nothing to sneeze at.
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So, here we're taking it back to the YouTube fans for this one last question because @nzee leaky10 needs to know, "What would you tell someone who has big dreams and goals, but they're constantly told by others that they're not going to be" and I'll censor him "ish"?
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Well, get away from around those people.
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You need to hang around new people cuz they'll drain they'll drag you down easily no matter what.
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And just believe in yourself, man, but you can't have belief without hard work.
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So, you can say you want this or want that, but you're not getting up and going to work for it every day, you just talking.
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So, hopefully that helps. It is great life advice.
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It's a pro tip from Kevin Durant.
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And what an amazing performance.
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It feels like game five all over again when I look across the table.
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Oh, I didn't know what y'all would see this.
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Man, that was amazing, dude.
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Great great great questions.
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If you ever have the courage to go through it again. Oh, yeah.
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I would recommend all my friends to come on this show.
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Can we get him on Hot Ones? Tell Steph.
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Oh, you already got him on there?
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Yeah, definitely want to tell Steph to uh uh That would be dope. He'd love it. Oh. Hello world.
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