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Cory Cotton

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first: 2024-12-02
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“Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I think. Anytime that you share, especially a fate, but then also interest with other people that are like-minded, that's a very natural progression of friendship and allows for a much deeper friendship and obviously beyond. So I think it's been cool to see that progress over the last, I mean, gosh, like 14 years now, something like that.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they were like kind of sports guys, they were into sports and playing sports. And I think you also joined the Bible study group, right?”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, they were cranking that soldier boy as I walked in the door. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know about these guys. Maybe going to do something else tonight. But no, it was, that was my first introduction to them and they got a little bit cooler after that.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yep. So he went down to AM. And then when I got down there, he introduced me to the twins and Cody. And the first time I went with Gary, he was like, hey, let's go to these guys' house. I want you to meet him. There's some cool guys. They're super cool. Yeah, super, super cool guys. I walk into their house and they have the Solja Boy dance up on their projector and they're learning the dance moves. Soja Boyja Boy.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Brotherhood that we had in high In our own separate lives, then that's how essentially we met these guys, combined that with basketball. Yeah. Tyler, you come to Texas A&M the following year, in the fall of 2007. How'd you meet these guys? How did you even come into contact with them? Because Texas A&M is a city. It's massive.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good question. I think. Combination of both, right? It was a little bit how we were raised, I think all of us had a really good experience. Growing up Say in the church, but really, I just mean with our faith. And because of that, we met people that felt the same way, and there's just a bond there. It doesn't mean that we weren't really good friends with other people that didn't necessarily believe the same things as us.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talk to me a little bit about that because there's a discipline in going to that every week or more than once a week. Was that connected to just the way you were raised or was it part of a discipline like getting up and exercising every day? I mean, tell me about why you guys would go to Bible study every week. It's a good question.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think we just connected on a fun friendship level first, but we all had the same hobbies. His main sport for sure was basketball as well, so we pretty quickly formed an intramural team and we hadn't met Cody yet. We ended up meeting him through playing basketball up at the rec center in our illustrious intermural career. Also, had a Bible study that we were all a part of together. So those two things really kind of kept us connected.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you meet Garrett, and he's just a cool guy that you kind of start hanging out with. You guys have a lot in common. I think we just can't.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Alright, so fall of 2006, Corey, you and your brother show up at College Station and you, I guess you find a place to live together, right, in like an off-campus house. And you're just, you know, your regular students there. And tell me a little bit about how you started to meet, because you didn't meet Tyler right away. I think first you met two other guys who would eventually become part of Dude Perfect. How did you meet those guys?”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Duck Lab was a nice, that was one of those where I didn't have to do a lot of studying beforehand. Showed up. DCN using ECA. Wow. It's like, man, this is the easiest class I've ever taken in my life.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I started off. I was going to go be a dentist. My uncle, my dad's oldest brother is a dentist. And I was like, man, that'll be cool. I'll go do that and started on that path and got to a little class called Organic Chemistry. Figured out, okay, well, there's a duck identification lab that's part of this wildlife and fisheries major. And I was like, man, I'm all in on that. And it was a whole lot less math and English classes and a whole lot more wildlife and ecosystems. And I didn't really know what I was going to go do with that. I kind of thought maybe like Game Warden or something along those lines or ranch management or something like that. But I just knew that I enjoyed that a lot more than. Being a dentist”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You are a good student, you worked hard, and what about you, Ty? I know when you went on to Texas A&M, I didn't even know this was a major. I didn't even make a major. I mean, it is a Texas A&M was founded as an agricultural school, but I didn't know you could major in hunting and fishery. That was your focus. Is that what you thought you would do something in like commercial fishing or ranching? Like, what did you think you were going to do?”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“30,000 people. This is AM huge stadium. Kobe walks across and it takes them a long time to kind of say his whole jaw and Kobe Cotton Suma cum laude and everyone claps and it's William Corey Cotton. It's just as short nothing after it. And so it's these little moments that I think about. But we enjoyed competing. And honestly, it's been a fun dynamic.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, I was a good student. Kobe always squeaked me out slightly when we graduated college. He squeaked into suma cum laude and I was nothing, right? I was just right below that to where they don't say anything. So alphabetically his name comes right before me. And so, you know, in front of.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was definitely at least a leading candidate in my mind. So my brother and I went to school together. We pretty much did everything together. I mean, I'm sure that some twins go the opposite direction, but we enjoyed, you know, hanging out together and stuff. So that was never really a question of if we were going to go to the same college or not. So we went together. We both worked at the Apple Store seasonally, off and on in high school and college. And so I'd say there are two kind of top career paths for both of us where we're either going to go into some sort of sports ministry because we both love basketball so much. Or we were going to work, try to corporately at Apple. And that's why we chose to be communication majors, speech com majors at Texas A&M.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, so both of you did not grow up knowing each other, but both of you would end up going to Texas AM in College Station. Corey, what was your kind of thinking? I mean, you were 18 and ready to go to college. Were you thinking, yeah, maybe I'll do what my dad does and be like a spiritual leader? Or did you have other thoughts in your mind?”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, there was no high school football in my career that is accurate. I was a basketball guy. I will say that my brother and I were, I mean, we were like your typical obsessed short. Basketball kid. I mean, if you went and looked at my whole childhood, I had, what was the NBA's old slogan? I love this game. My mom painted, I love this game in the whole basketball NBA font on our wall, and it's so funny looking back now, especially now that I have young kids, because I genuinely thought that I was going to the NBA. I mean, if you ask me fourth grade, seventh grade, eleventh grade, I probably no joke would have told you at an absolute minimum I was going to play college basketball. And I mean, I was not kidding the type of playing time even in early high school that it takes in order to get there. And it's just so funny looking back. But I just loved it so much.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow. Corey, you were also a high school athlete, but I've seen you, and I've seen you evolve over the years, and you are a much slimmer man than Tyler is. So I have to imagine you did not play high school football.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never really felt pressure being the quarterback. I would get nervous before the games, but I mean, as soon as you took that first snap, you forget about all that other stuff. I just, I love competing. I loved taking my guys out against your guys and see who comes out on top, at least for me, I didn't think about the people in the stands or anything like that. I just focused on my guys and having fun. And I mean, those looking back, those were by far Friday nights playing football were by far my favorite memories.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I'm just curious as a 17-18 year old kid, that's a lot of pressure to be the quarterback. Everyone knows you. They're all coming to the games. How do you deal with that?”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was all about Friday Night Lights football. I mean, all the shows are pretty accurate as far as that goes. Literally, the whole town would come out and watch those football games and stores would close down and things would get moved. Other school activities would get postponed. So it's just a little different feel than it is now with how many people are living in this area.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's really important, right? It's like a really Big deal in Texas, especially in small towns where they don't have professional teams, and Tyler, you play, like, you weren't just on the high school football team. You were the quarterback, right? That's a big job”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I would venture to guess that if you were to pole people in Texas about their faith, that high school football would rank pretty high up there.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I say that I was an above average athlete. My dad always, he was always telling me, you know, teaching me about mental toughness and hustle and how that can overcome a lack of talent in a lot of areas. And so I played everything. I mean, I played a lot of hockey, played football, basketball, baseball, track, golf.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember vividly going back when I was four or five, six years old. My dad and my uncles and cousin and grandpa, they'd all be at the house gathered around just the biggest speaker in the house, you know, singing like four inches from each other's ears, trying to nail their parts. And I remember laying in bed at like 10, 11 p.m. at night and just hearing them blast that music downstairs. For the older generation and a lot of those Southern Baptist churches, they were celebrities, I guess you could say.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And Tyler, from what I understand, you grew up in Prosper, Texas, or just outside. And from what I understand, your dad was also involved in the faith community. He was kind of well known, I guess, because he sang in a southern gospel music group that your grandfather was also involved with. Is that right?”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, it was really fun. I know people have different kind of opinions of what it's like to be a pastor's kid. I feel like usually it goes either really well or really poorly, but ours was on the good side for sure.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So we definitely grew up playing tag in churches and got my finger jammed in a door that Kobe slammed on me as we're playing tag. And we always felt like everyone was looking at us, right? I mean, we're just the pastor's kids. So you're there. Everyone knows us. We don't necessarily know them. But, you know, you've got all these people 50 years older than you walking up to you and rubbing your head and, oh, man, you're getting so much bigger and it's all that kind of thing.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Corey and Kobe. Just one letter apart. What I'm wondering. Yeah, I was like, wow, your parents called your brother Kobe and called you Hori. And your identical twins, but that's actually your middle names”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Texas, not far from Dallas, and just a few hundred miles from where they all met at college. The five dudes are Cody Jones, Garrett Hilbert, two brothers, Corey and Kobe Cotton, and Tyler Tony. And there was no way I could speak to all five of them in one sitting, but I did speak to two, Tyler and Corey, whose twin brother Kobe is also in Dude Perfect.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Television deals and even a few food products and partnerships with big brands. But of course, like any great business story, the rise of Dude Perfect as a powerhouse brand was a slow burn. More than a decade in the making. For years, they drive halfway across Texas every weekend to shoot videos and then pull all nighterers to edit them. And this was long before YouTube became a way to make decent money. But one of the things that's made Dude perfect so popular is that they're actually nice guys. They're not mean. They don't get into beefs or boxing matches with other YouTubers. They don't swear. And their videos, despite what I said above, actually look effortless. But as I say, and as you will hear, that effortlessness takes a hell of a lot of effort. Due to Perfect is based in Frisco.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How perfect producers are stunningly complex tricks, a basketball hurled from an airplane into a hoop far below, a hole in one golf shot off a multi story roof into the hole a thousand feet away, a bowling ball being hurled from a moving car at dozens of pins for a perfect strike, and none of it is faked. It's all real. It might just take a hundred or even a thousand tries before it works. Sometimes one shot for a single video can take two weeks. As of this recording, Dude Perfect has nearly fifty seven million subscribers to its YouTube channel. The guys are among the biggest YouTubers in the world and it's a big business with tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue, a massive live show that sells out stadiums and arenas.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This last voice is Corey Cotton. You'll hear more from him in a moment. What you need to know for now is that these five guys who call themselves Dude Perfect are among the most popular entertainers in America among three to fourteen year old boys and girls, which is why my kids insisted on asking questions of their own.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You might be surprised to discover that I don't spend much time on YouTube. Okay, of course you knew that. I'm an early middle aged dad with a busy life. So the fact that I even know the names mister Beast or PewDiePie or the Paul Brothers has everything to do with having two boys who are approaching their teenage years. And among all the clips they'll show me, I've been consistently entertained by a group of five guys who perform outrageous athletics dunts and go by the name Dude Perfect. So when we decided to interview them for this episode of the show, I had to give up my mic for a few minutes to some wild eyed fans who were hanging around the studio, my children.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Welcome to How I Built This is a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Guy Raz, and on the show today I have a bunch of college friends turn their backyard basketball rivalry into a viral video and then a viral entertainment franchise. Dude perfect. One of the most popular channels ever put on YouTube.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We are coming around. I'm like, this is the airplane shot. This is the first one we ever take. 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? And it was kind of starting to rain. I remember 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. So I dropped the ball out of the side of the plane and”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And when you're ready to launch, you offer code built to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Loans issued by Celtic Bank and serviced by Stripe. All loans subject to credit approval. Hey everyone, it's Guy here. So, our team is taking a little time off for the holidays here. So we thought we'd bring you one of our favorite interviews from a few years ago. This is with two founders of one of the most successful YouTube channels ever Dude Perfect. Now since 2021 when we first ran this interview, the channel has gone from ten to nearly eighteen billion views and it now has over 60 million subscribers. We'll have a few more updates for you at the very end. So be sure to stick around. But for now, enjoy the show.”
2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2024-12-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT