 What's the word y'all welcome back to Kenny for real doesn't like I'm sweating. I might be sweating, bro These lights you see these lights these lights get real hot And it's hot you know I'm saying so I might be sweating recording this video But it is what it is if you know around here subscribe There's a channel where I sit down and talk about things in my mind And it's usually basketball related a hundred percent of the time it is basketball related subscribe if you're new I'll leave a like today's episode is going to be more of a dialogue. I mean it's always a dialogue I may have the camera in the microphone But I'm always in the comment section So I would love to hear your opinion on these topics because I don't know if I'm in the majority of the minority When it comes to these topics and today's topic is those daytime sports talk shows and maybe sometimes not daytime But you get I'm saying the shows that have talking heads Talking about basketball baseball football, whatever it may be. I want to preference this by saying this is not a shot at a specific network specific show or specific people because they come down to these people sometimes they are just actors They're doing what they have to do to pay the bills whatever and other times like these guys have grinded their entire lives to get in the spot That they are in we're talking 20 30 plus years to ever even get on a panel where they aren't or they are on TV And at the end of the day that has been my dream for as long as I can remember for as long as I can remember So I'm not knocking the people because I know they put in the necessary time to get to the point where they have their Own show and having a show especially if it's daily is hard to be entertaining Every single day it just is especially to that magnitude So when I was younger it was my dream to be on TV and even to this day I'm 24 years old It is still kind of my dream to be on TV talking about basketball and having people listen Even though now things that things that may be changing man and when I'm gets a 30 years old Maybe it's completely different where nobody cares about being on TV because I think TV is a dying media Right dying form of media and maybe people just want to have YouTube channels with people listen I don't know I don't know how it's gonna go But this moment of time I still think that being on TV gives you like this next level of legitimacy, right? It's like a it's a stamp for you like man. You really doing your thing if you're on TV when in reality I'm sure there are plenty of plenty of YouTube channels that are pulling way more numbers than like Those daytime TV talk shows, which is crazy to think about anyway When I was younger, I there was just this is what I did every single morning from the age I was what 10 to the it's my junior year high school I would wake up an hour and a half before school I would turn on the TV and there were two different channels that we had on You see the Nickelodeon because Nickelodeon was fire or it was ESPN Those are the two channels and when I turn the tune into ESPN I would sit there I would watch and I would just watch and watch and watch because you got to think about a 10-year-old me Wanted to be those guys on TV talking about basketball I wanted to have my opinion heard to the hundreds of thousands and at this point Maybe millions of people that were watching these shows So I looked up to the people that were on these shows because at the end of the day They were doing what I wanted to do and I did it every single day when I woke up And then when I came home from school when I was doing my math homework ESPN was on or Spongebob It was no in between it was one of the two and that's just what I did every single day And I was like halfway through high school and eventually I just stopped those shows in an interest at me anymore And then I started to take the time to focus on my own stuff, right? I wanted to try to make my dream a reality so that that's there was a period of time I completely stopped watching and I haven't really watched since if I'm strolling through Twitter and I see a one-to-two minute clip of somebody's show I'll click on to see what's up But for a long time I didn't watch a single episode of these shows and for there was a for a few reasons Hey, I wanted to focus on what I was doing be I just think it lost to me I think it lost me and good on them They had me for seven years or however long it was of every single day So shoot longevity wise y'all had a brother, but eventually it lost me and I didn't really find it interesting anymore I started to see the formulas and the formulas started to get boring You know that that's what it boiled down to and then there's a time when I was younger We're like who whatever this guy said on TV. That was my opinion about basketball, you know, I wasn't doing my own research I was 10 years. Oh, I was 11 years old. So whatever Colin Cowherd has said that was gospel to me You know I'm saying and then eventually, you know, you get to high school You start thinking I mean you're thinking for yourself before that you get to high school you start to do your research and stuff and then That opinion of that same host is doesn't hold as much weight anymore because oh, I looked this up Bro, that's not really the truth or I watched that game exclusively and in detail and what he said It's really ain't true. So that's what the point. I really got to in my life But the past couple days has been on my mind as I saw a clip on Twitter And I was like, there's no way this whole set that and there's no way this is the representation of their entire show There's no way this 32nd clip really showcases the entire show. So after game four of the NBA Finals this year I let out some time to watch all of the major shows on major networks You know Fox ESPN all of these places that have their their shows You know the shows I'm talking about without me having to say like their names I watched all of them for the first time in years for in its entirety to see hey Was 17 year old me right or wrong about those situations or have they changed since that time and the answer of it? I was right and Nothing has really changed and I think that's a problem and again. This is open dialogue. So let me know This is just my opinion. I do not enjoy those shows. They are not very entertaining to me At all and there's a reason why reason one is The formulas that you see again, it is very hard to have a a fun Successful everyday show. It's hard. It is extremely hard Especially when you're just talking about sports and you're in a studio So again, I'm not discrediting the people here, but there is a formula that just absolutely drives me crazy and that's Person one on the panel absolutely hates everything Person two on the panel loves and everything and then they debate debates are always good for entertainment But it has to be it has to be more than I hate this I love this going back to game number four remember in my post game interview not interview my post game video I talked about LeBron James He had a period of time in the third quarter where he scored or assisted on 12 to 14 straight points for the Lakers It was a great moment for LeBron because we hadn't really seen him take over a game like that And though it was in the third quarter and not late in the fourth like like they'll put him on the top of the pedestal Put him on the top of the pedestal 12 to 14 points scoring and assisted on is still incredible So I was watching one of the shows that we won't mention the name of and in person a that hates everything went for eight straight minutes of just dogging LeBron and It's gonna suck because everybody's talking about LeBron right now because it's literally the finals But this is not just about LeBron. Believe that person a when a straight minutes of dog and LeBron then person B had his eight straight minutes of loving LeBron, and they met each other in the middle and No matter what person ages couldn't say a positive thing about LeBron person B would say all LeBron Hey, mr. Freeth on the fourth court is I think that's a real stat person B will be like But well, he wasn't trailing in the fourth quarter Person A would be like well the score was 83 to 83 and he had two big free throws person B We're like, but he wasn't trailing like there. There's this there's a this okay again debates are very very good for their fun But it has to be like logical debates in it If this man is telling you LeBron a mr. Freeth on LeBron is literally been a below average free throw shooter And he ain't missed one in the fourth quarter regardless of the situation. That's impressive Regardless of the situation that's impressive and it's funny how things change for person A To do whatever he can to discredit the person that person B loves You know and that that's his formula. It just gets played out The next one that we see all the time is the goat debate. Oh My god, if I have to if I have to tune into another goat debate I'm gonna lose my mind at the end of the day This is this is my opinion about the goat without even saying any names at the end of the day If you think that person A is the goat There is nothing that person B can say to you that will change that and vice versa That's just the way it is. Everybody has their own goat So the fact that every day two times a week, whatever it may be They're still talking about this goat conversation and it's not going anywhere is it's tiresome It's tiresome and maybe it's something. I don't know they're looking back at the analytics and oh snap We had a 50% spiking viewers when we talk about LeBron versus Jordan So let's do that every single day. Maybe that's the case, but for me as a person That's just curiously want to see which all up to the goat debate is played out It just is bro It's just it's not fun anymore because there's nothing you can say when somebody has their mindset on the goat as a Thing that is very opinionated. There's there's no specific stat They can show you who the greatest basketball player of all time is you can bring stats into it But there's not like one legitimate stat So no matter what you say if you believe that Jordan is the goat nothing LeBron does can make him the goat That's just the way it is or vice versa if you think LeBron is the goat Well at this point Jordan been retired for a thousand years So he LeBron will be your goat and that's cool. It doesn't matter who your goat is. So let's stop Let's stop having a conversation every single day Let's have it at the end of every season. How about that? Oh LeBron about to win another champion Okay, let's bring it back into the to the conversation But doing it every single day. Oh, maybe I'm not giving them enough credit doing it a couple times a week is tired Some it just really is it just really is and then It's multiple things like that or other shows We're like a single person like like this show again This person Colin Calhurt. He is on air for like three hours a day And maybe it's not that anymore back in the day when I was watching he was on air Multiple hours a day just talking about sports and that's admirable to have people listen to you for that long But there comes a period of time where like some of the takes that are thrown out there are just idiocy It's just dumb. It's just dumb for the sake of of clicks And I think that's maybe where the disconnect is between the the consumer The consumer and the people that are doing it and behind the scenes at the end of the day You need very good ratings right you need very good ratings you need people to talk about your show You need people to talk about you to stay relevant So saying stuff that you don't necessarily believe to get people talking on Twitter is a real-life thing It is a real-life thing and if that's what it takes to pay the bills I'm not saying stop doing what you're doing But there are people out there like me and a lot of people watching this video that see that but like bro You're just talking They're just talking they don't believe a single word that they're saying they just know that if they say it They might be trending on Twitter Which means that somebody might click that 30 second link and that 30 second link has a 15 second ad attached to it Then boom we made some money and boom we got more people that are maybe willing to listen to our show and Again now now that I'm done talking about that. I'm gonna say here I don't know what the recipe is to make a daytime show back to entertaining for me personally And that's something that I'm having a conversations with my my guys because we're we're in a process of doing something really big And this is a big portion of it You know, this is a big portion of it Is there a way to have a daily show that talks about sports without clickbaiting without crazy takes just you talking about it? There's a small market of people that would love to watch the X's and O's But those those people don't speak for the majority So maybe you have a segment where you go over X's I don't I don't know what the recipe is For it to be good again I'm just saying what they're doing right now just isn't really great And I would love to hear your comments or what you think the next level of sports media should look like Because I personally believe that these shows of the talking heads given bad takes Eventually people most people are gonna catch on and then they might go to obscurity obscurity. I Think that's what might happen and Then it's up to us the next generation of people that'll try to get it to media to figure out What the next thing is what do people want that's not killing your own character? I will not Take my word for this y'all if I ever get to the point where I have a successful show I will not get to the point where I'm having outlandish takes for the sake of ratings. I Won't do it. I can't do it Because y'all that have been here with me from the very beginning know that that's not Kenny And y'all would be able to count y'all would be able to see that And talk about it and be like man Kenny has changed. I don't want to be that guy and I never will be that guy Okay, I guess all I want to say I think I don't know maybe there's still stuff wrong with it But I'm more curious about the comments of this video more than anything. So be sure to leave a comment Let me know what you think. I'll be down there reading. Thank y'all for watching. Peace