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Cory Cotton

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  1. “I mean, you guys were like, you know, you got on Jimmy Kimmel. You were, you know, you were getting attention. Meantime, Ty, you're like Laying Sod Monday to Friday.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Was tough to continue to try and outdo yourselves, right? I mean, this is back when all we did were trick shots. And so the bar is simple. It's make it better than the previous video. And what that usually means to people is farther or higher or something that just feels like a totally different concept.”

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  3. “In the meantime, you are thinking of new kind of tricks and stunts to do, right? Because they had to be better than the previous one. How do you beat an airplane shot, especially without a budget?”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Well, I wish it was a central location. The reality was these guys were grounded here in kind of the Dallas area, right? They're married and their families are here. So Kobe and I were in Austin. It is a about a four-hour drive. Yeah. So it's kind of past that easy drive status to where it's like, oh, this drive is pretty rough. But we probably drove it at least once, if not twice a week, for four years. This was what kind of way back we think of as absolute, you know, the grind years, no question.”

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  5. “So let me understand this. Texas is a very big state. You guys would drive once a week somewhere to a central location and film something to put out.”

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  6. “Yeah, so I had done an internship at a landscaping company in Prosper, and I went back to work there. I was laying sod at the beginning on a maintenance crew. Eventually, kind of oversaw our residential department and a little bit of our commercial maintenance stuff.”

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  7. “The other guys were working on a job, right? Garrett was working in an architecture firm. You guys are working for your dad's church, Corey Wright, you and your brother And I guess Tyler, when you graduated the next year, like you went and worked for a landscaping company”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “We were up in Dallas. So, I mean, at this point, not like we had a lot of brand deals or opportunities anyways, but when we did, we would just tell companies that we were so busy with speaking engagements and things like that during the week that if they wanted to do a branded dude perfect video, it would have to be on a Saturday. The brands are like, what? There's no way you're that busy during the week. We're like, yeah, yeah, it's going to have to be Saturday when in reality I was still in school and the other guys were working on a job.”

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  9. “And you would just gather every week from different, like, because you're in Austin, Tyler, you were in college station. Where were the other guys?”

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  10. “I think they probably did. And so we started getting calls from different groups and agencies and production companies and brands. And so we just realized that this is a whole thing. Like this is a world that is available to us. And so Kobe fielded a lot of that stuff. And then I was editing everything. And so we lived at our house while the other guys and their wives at this point had real jobs.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Yeah, especially once that GMC thing happened. I think GMC or the production company probably is who really won the award for that. And it turned out to be that we didn't scam them, but in some sense, right, they got a great deal from us because it just got a ton of publicity. It was a great, great video over a year.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Yeah, not even remotely. So we had gotten paid by GMC, and that was essentially it. We'd made some ad money, but, you know, it's probably sandwich money at that point. And, you know, that was cool. And that definitely was opened our minds to the fact that this could be a real job. And so I think that gave us enough motivation to try and keep it going after school, but we didn't know how it was going to work. And so my brother and I kind of took the mantle of the weekly stuff. Kobe did a lot of the business calls. And then I did a lot of the editing or all of the editing at that point.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “So, again, five of us and three of the guys, not Koby and I, were either getting married or had already gotten married by the end of school, and so we basically had to kind of make a decision on how we were going to handle the continuing do perfect stuff. And so my brother and I decided to move back to Austin, which is where our parents were living at the time. And so we lived at their house with them and took the free option so that we could work on dude perfect during the week.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “Corey, you and Cody and Garrett, you guys graduate, right? And Kobe too. And you went off to get a job, like a real job, right?”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Yeah, I think that my senior year was a little bit different in the fact that people started to recognize us around campus. And, you know, when the guys would come back in town to film something and we'd have a basketball goal in the back of the truck like everybody knew what we were going to do. They're like, oh, nice dude, perfect's going to film something. And, you know, people in our classes and stuff would know and they had seen the video. So there was a little bit of a small, I guess, celebrity status to it, but even then it still wasn't like a major thing at that point.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “I mean, you guys were still in college. Some of you graduated because I think Tyler would have another year of college, right? And so this is May of 2010. You were in a commercials for the World Cup, for the NBA Finals. At that point, I have to assume that people at least on campus knew you guys, knew who you were”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “It took us like five minutes to actually confirm. Okay, we did make it because nobody could even talk at that point. And it was, I mean, that had to be like one of the most surreal moments in DP history as far as just not expecting a shot to happen. And then second try out of an airplane swished it. It was just like a complete opposite emotion from after that first shot.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “When we come back in just a moment, how Tyler, Corey, and the rest of the team keep Dude Perfect going while keeping their day jobs, a decision that at first nearly runs them into the ground. Stay with us, I'm Guy Ros, and you're listening to How I Built This. Hey, welcome back to How I Built This I'm Guy Ros. So it's 2010 and Tyler is up in an airplane for Dude Perfect's first sponsored video. And he can't quite tell from up in the air, but it looks like his second attempt has actually gone in.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “So we come around for the second pass finally after what felt like forever. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm just going to drop it earlier and see what happens. It's probably going straight through the windshield of the new GMC Denali pickup truck. And I dropped the ball, and it looked like it was like pretty good timing, but the plane keeps going, so I can't really see. And all of a sudden, like the radio, all I hear is just...”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “For sure, and we'd never had people waiting on us either to film us. Like it was always just us. And I didn't care if the other guys had to sit down at the ground at Kyle Field and throw up a couple more rounds of rebounds.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  21. “You're probably stressed out, by the way, because it's like a professional crew of people, and these are like hardened experienced production people. I'm sure you must have felt like, oh God, I don't think they realize how long it's going to take.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “No control over this. I just got to drop it earlier. And I'm like, okay, here we go, you know, round two, but I'm like, golly, this is taking forever because to reset the shot, the pilot had to take like a pretty huge loop to get back around. And so Just picturing how long the Kyle Field shot took to get rebounds. Well, this was like. I mean, after we shot the ball, it was another like three minutes just to get back around to a point where we were even able to attempt another shot. So now I'm starting to do the math in my head. Like, how many, what am I going to get? 30 shots at this before it's sunset.”

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  23. “So at this point, I'm like, okay, well, that's fine. It was, you know, I'm just going to drop the ball earlier. It was like the only thought I had at this. But I was the only thing I thought I could do.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “And so, Ty, you're up in the plane, and you're trying to make this shot from 100 plus feet up. And Corey, presumably you're here on the ground, what was going on there? So I'm down at the bottom at this point, and the crew, like Ty said, is just deflated. I mean, this is going to be a big time TV commercial. They're all dialed in, ready to go, and that first shot missed by, you know, like Tyler said, a couple hundred feet, if not, you know, 80 yards. I mean, it was like insane. There were some cows way far away, and the ball almost hit a cow. And I'm like, oh, gosh, this is about to be the most embarrassing day of our lives.”

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  25. “And the guys come on the radio on the walkie-talkie, and I could just tell like everyone went from this like super excited, like this is going to be incredible. I can't believe we're going to do a shot out of an airplane too. This is most likely never going to happen because it was about like 150 feet past the goal. The worst miss probably in the history of Dude Perfect at that point. Furthest from the goal, like not even close. And so you could just tell the energy was just way down at that point.”

    2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “When I put my hands out the window, I was like, oh gosh, that kind of hurts because the rain was like spitting behind the propeller and it just felt like a bunch of needles going into my hands when I stuck my hands out the window to drop the ball. So we are coming around. I'm like, this is the airplane shot. This is the first one we ever take. I drop the ball out of the plane, out of the side of the plane. And we're moving so fast that I can't really tell where the ball goes after I drop it. Yeah.”

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  27. “And I just remember once we got up in the air and we kind of go for this first pass, not getting ready to take the shot yet, but I looked down and I'm like, oh my gosh, they moved the truck right underneath the goal. I'm like, what are they doing? And they hadn't moved the truck at all. It just looked a lot closer to the goal from up in the air than it was. And so I'm like, oh my gosh, this is going to be like I have no control over where this goes. I've never dropped a ball out of a plane. Like, who knows where this thing is going? And so we come around for the first pass, and it was kind of starting to rain. I remember.”

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  28. “So I get up in this plane and I'm talking to the GMC guys, and they're like, hey, just keep in mind, like, we don't want to hit the truck because the serial number on this truck was like zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero four. And it's like, you know, we've only got one of these in the US, the other two are off somewhere else, and the other one's like getting finalized or whatever. So they're like, hey, don't, you know, whatever you do, don't hit the windshield or the hood and put like a massive dent in this truck that we only have one of. So the truck was sitting probably, I don't know. 30 feet in front of the basketball goal where it could be seen in the camera. Okay. And so I'm like, that's fine. That's like, it's way far away from the goal. I'm not going to hit the truck or whatever. But thanks for the vote of confidence to put that in my mind right before I go up in the plane.”

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  29. “And so the idea was you would have a basketball hoop in the middle of a field and you would fly low over it. And Tyler, you were the one who was going to take the shot.”

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  30. “Out here. God, this is a crazy event. Like, man, it's early for all these people to be out here. That's weird. And we walk in, and as soon as we walk inside the flap of the tent, people start looking at us and clapping. And we're like, oh my gosh, they're here for us.”

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  31. “That's right. They basically asked us, hey guys, if y'all could attempt any type of shot, what would it be? And just off the cuff, we throw out, oh, I mean, we'd love to make a shot out of an airplane. And so, like Ty said, then, you know, the eyes got dotted and the T's got crossed and all of a sudden we roll up in a van to Austin and there's this huge tent with at least 50 to 100 cars.”

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  32. “So we show up It was down around Austin, and they had a couple of, I guess there were a few different videos that we were going to try and do that we were going to post on our YouTube channel. And then they were going to use as NBA Finals commercial. And then they were going to use another one during the World Cup as a commercial. And so we show up to this place in Austin. We were doing an airplane shot.”

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  33. “Yeah, I mean, you're not far off. GMC calls and they wanted us to do. First of all, just the fact that somebody wanted to pay us to make a video. That was mind Us. We are like, we are scamming these people. This is incredible.”

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  34. “I read that in 2010, you got a corporate sponsor, GMC, that came aboard, which sounds, that may sound to a lot of people like, oh my gosh, you got a corporate sponsor, but oftentimes it's like, hey, we'll give you $10,000 to make a video and we want to put our logo on it, right? I mean, that's what that probably something like that meant at the time.”

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  35. “Is chill, just super fun, but you guys were getting attention the media outlets were interested in you. I mean, you were a bunch of college kids making these cool, fun videos. So presumably you were sort of seen as a novelty act or just like, right? Something like that at the time?”

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  36. “I don't think there was a cadence even at that point. I think it was still so early on, even at that point. We still had no intention of like, oh man, if we play our cards right, you know, this could be huge. I mean, we were, I guess, a little bit small-minded and didn't see like the big picture until a lot later down the road.”

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  37. “All right, so you've got this LLC, but this was still early days, right? And you guys are in college, but presumably you kept making videos. What was the cadence at that point? After that, that shot that you make in the stadium, there's a demand. So did you guys say, you know, we got to do this every week or we got to do this every month? Or did you think?”

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  38. “Technically, we had each made one cent, but I had the incredible foresight to say one day we will each be able to take this money that we made from people watching our videos and we will be able to go buy a sandwich with it.”

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  39. “I think so. It's changed over time, kind of how that partnership program works. Now it's a little more automated if you there's some very low threshold if you are able to achieve X amount of views, then you can start to advertise against your stuff and make AdSenses. So Google owns YouTube, right? So it's Google AdSense is kind of the piece that people make money on. And so I think back then it was you had to have X amount of followers or X amount of views, but then YouTube itself would kind of contact you and say, do you want to opt in to be able to advertise? So we did. Yeah. But of course, I mean, we are talking almost no money whatsoever. I think it was probably four or five videos in. Ty comes running into the living room at some point. This is when we're still at college. And he said, guys, we've officially made it. I think we just made collectively enough money to buy a sandwich.”

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  40. “All right, you're still in college, you're still college students, and I guess you get contacted by YouTube, right, at this point. This is 2009. They're like, hey, do you guys want to be a YouTube partner? Like, is that what they asked?”

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  41. “I think it was right after that shot had happened and that video had done pretty well. My brother and I were back home with our family and it was right around the masters. I mean, I remember. And Kobe and I were kind of sitting on the couch watching the golf tournament and Kobe looked at me and he said, you know, we should probably see if Dudeperfect.com is available. Like if we're going to go for this thing, we should maybe make it official. And so he logged on to whatever domain company. And for $9.99, we snagged DudePerfect.com. And so I think that was it kind of solidified it in our minds as like, okay, this is a thing.”

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  42. “Alright, you guys get all this attention for this video and clearly the gears in your head start to turn, thinking maybe there's something bigger here because that year you actually set up an LLC, you file the paperwork to set up dude perfect LLC, who came up with it, who went to the team, to the other five guys and said, let's just register a business here.”

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  43. “Yeah, well, even going back to the first video, that was a decision that we actually had to make very early on because we had a shot in the original backyard video. The first one we ever uploaded, it hit just in front of the rim, but hit the net, looked like a swish. And we were like, we could totally put this in the video. And literally no one would question it. And this conversation came up and we just said, like, look, if we are truly going to say that everything we do is real, then we can't have one fake shot or we lose all credibility. But then it's like, okay, well, if you faked that one, then what else did you fake? And so we decided from that point on anything that we do is going to be 100% real, 100% authentic. And this is going to be what DuPerfect represents going forward.”

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  44. “Love that. I mean, it's so it makes total sense because if you did fake it, and people said it was fake, then you might have felt bad because you're like, oh, they found us out.”

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  45. “Yeah, I mean, there's like Corey said, there's definitely a part of you that's like, why would you not believe us? But then it was also just a testament to look what we pulled off. Like there's professional athletes. Are out there saying this can't be done, and we just did it.”

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  46. “There is a little bit of pride of like, hey, come on, people, like, we're capable about this. You know, Ty's an athlete, he can do this. This is real. But there was also a piece where we were like, hey, if that's what it takes for people to talk about it at this magnitude, you know, go for it.”

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  47. “Wow were you initially kind of sad about that? Like, oh my God, it's not fake. Did you feel bad when people were saying that”

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  48. “I think Carmello Anthony was the one who was on the top 10 desk at the time when the Kyle Field shot. Was blowing up, and he was the one they asked, and they're like, Carmelo, is this real? And he was like, No way, not a”

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  49. “Yep, we're just sitting there at a burger place and look up at the screen, and they're playing it over and over, and people in the restaurant are pointing at it, and it was just one of those like, whoa, moments. It was pretty cool.”

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  50. “It was a life changer for people. Yep. And so it turned out honestly to be the same thing for us. It had been shared as the main kind of clickable thing on Yahoo's homepage and about two hours it had gotten about 2 million views. And because this one was so shareable, it just instantly went bananas. And not only did it get a lot of views, but”

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