 What is good? It's your boy, Steven Selle, your energy source. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to the channel. We're everywhere. I'm everywhere. If you're new, this is what we do. We love dunking. We love life. We love enjoying. I like to make content. I love entertaining. I have so many different dreams I want to achieve, which is actually what I get into in today's episode. But if you're new here, hit all those buttons that make me do good. I appreciate it. And if you enter that content, I really enjoy creating content that inspires you and entertains. I'm trying to narrow it down to just those two things, but I just love it. Having had a great conversation today is a great example with my man, Anthony Hamilton Jr. We've gone back and forth on Instagram. The second I saw his content, it was electrifying. He's a freak athlete. He's a track and field athlete at Clemson University. I asked him how we got into dunking, how we got into track, all those different things and what his big dreams are. And he's very creative as well. And we have similar passions. So I hope you guys really enjoy this conversation. And Anthony, if you're listening, thanks again, really appreciate it. I'm honored before you blow up too big for me, but you have a super bright future. Great conversation. Look forward to having you back on in the future and seeing what else you accomplish. And if you guys have any comments for me, who you want to see on the podcast, I'd love to get an idea. And also if you guys can help me out with that, that'd be awesome because if you guys blow them up, whoever you want to see, that'd be so awesome. Anyway, thank you guys for listening. Who? Thank you all for listening. Enjoy. Hit all those buttons. You know what to do. I appreciate you. If not, I don't care. I'm still going to do it. I enjoy this. Have a good one. Toodle-loo. Enjoy your day. Go after it. Don't forget to attack your dreams. And why not? Because life doesn't really matter in the end. I'm just kidding. Toodles! What's good, dude? Thanks for jumping on so quick. Do you mind if I just record right from the jump? Figuring more organic the better. This is awesome. What's up, dude? So tell me a little about what's your day like? What's happening today? Tell me what's going on. What's good? Today, so I'm just recovering from that. I just got up and was cleaning my room and stuff. Just little college stuff doing homework. Dude, that's awesome. Well, great to meet you, dude. Hopefully one day I get to meet you in person. This thing's kind of, you know, we can't really meet too many people who travel. But thanks again, dude. I've been watching your stuff. I don't know since when, but ever since I've been like, dude, it's been fun to watch. I love the hype. Love the energy. You know that. And so, yeah, tell me a little bit about college. Where you're at. What's your status with that? Man, so yeah, as you know, I know you know, but I'm at Clemson and I run track here. I mean, right now I'm just staying with social media, just doing videos, just trying to build a platform for afterwards. Obviously college athlete, I'm working on my craft here with that. Probably going to try to proceed with that later on in the future as well. You know, I'm just, I'm living in a moment, bro, you know, just seems like it. Yeah, just taking it a day at a time, just meeting people and making connections. And stuff like that. Just be ready for later. That's awesome, dude. So when you, you ran track, did you always do that? Like ever growing up like high school and all that? Oh, bro, I never ran track as a kid. What? Yeah, so it's funny. I always, I mean, not really that many people know this, but so I played basketball my whole life. Obviously, you can tell I love basketball. I played at Division III school my first year at the high school. And then I just walked on the track team. They've been, they was like asking me like, we need you to run track. We need you to run track because I was stuck in jump. So I was like, I ain't never jumped before. I'm not going to college sports like that. You know, I don't want to get just like demolished out. So they saw you playing basketball and just said, we need you to jump. Exactly. They said that and said that they wanted me to come out and jump. And I went out and then ended up breaking the school record within the first few months. So I was just like, OK, I can get pretty good. I can jump a little bit. Yeah, just, you know, I can learn a little bit. And then I just proceeded to transfer here. And then now I just been going crazy with it. That's awesome, dude. So you didn't jump at all in high school, nothing like that. Just started tracking college. Yes, sir. Wow, dude. And then so then when you were playing basketball, did you always try to push the limits dunking or is just part of the game? And then now dunking is a little bit more of a priority or not really? Yeah. So as you know, like there's so many kids. And I was that kid before that, like, it's just amazed by dunks. Right. When I went to the first NBA game, I just wanted to go to see dunks. That's all I wanted to see. Like I was just, you know, I couldn't dunk. So I was like, I want to see a dunk. I want to see it done. So I mean, I was just always like mesmerized by dunking as a kid, I guess you could say. And when I seen I had the ability to do that, I was just like, oh, I'm about to take advantage of this. You know, then since then I just I fell in love with it, making videos and being creative and stuff. And it just worked for my benefit. Yeah, dude, I love your videos and I want to get back to that. But I have to ask, when was your first dunk? I was 14. I was a freshman in high school and eighth grade though. Everybody know me as the kid that could just grab the room like, because no one can grab the room. How tall were you at that age? I was like, honestly, I was like five, nine. I wasn't I wasn't that tall, bro. I was like five, nine, maybe five, eight. But after school, every day, they'll be like, can you go grab the room real quick? How did you catch it off the dribble off a lob? Oh, my first dunk, I had it on camera. It was off, it was off of a lob. So it was post that I either see that. Yeah, so it was off of a lob and then I had one that was off the dribble. I did two in the same day. They were so weak. They count. Was it hype as hell? Anybody go nuts? I mean, or they kind of expected it. I was like, I don't know. It was like probably my tenth try. So I was like, I'm about to do this today. And I didn't really realize it until that night. I'm like, damn, I got my first dunk today. That's wild. Yeah, on the little Android and everything. I thought I would play. Okay, so then fast forward, you're jumping at Clemson. And then when was when was your first exposure maybe into the sort of like the dunk social media where it was kind of like its own thing? Did you have like a moment where you saw somebody or someone's platform, something like that? I feel like because I'm like, I'm not the type of person that like, I don't scroll on social media that much. I don't like, I don't look around that much. I don't even watch TV. I don't play video games. I don't do none of that stuff. So I was just making videos. And there was one particular video. I was in LA fitness where I had my first throwing and that I think went on overtime. I think that's the only page that posted that that time. Wow. So you were just posting yourself, not really thinking too much of it. Yeah, I wasn't. I was just posting because I thought it was cool. So it was my first post and overtime posted it and it went viral. And that's when everything started. I'm like, okay, I can probably, you know, I'm standing out. There you go. Yeah. And then, and then, is that when you learned how to dislocate the shoulders back? Bro, after, bro, I don't know where I got that from. That's inherited. I think it's gotta be. Ask your mother or something. Yeah, exactly. Bro, I think it was two years ago. Yeah. I think it was two years ago. The first time I really realized like, okay, yeah, I can, I can do this. Like if you go to extension. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That's like high jump. The way those slow mo's go, it's like, it's going back, going back. I don't think you're going to get injured with your shoulders. It's ridiculous. But those, yeah, those hype me up. Those, but nothing better than like catching it like that. And then you bang it. That's, you got to bang it. You can't, like you say, it can't be weak. Exactly. So now you got your platform going and I love on your YouTube and all the different things. So tell me a little bit more like what your, you have any goals for that? Or I see, because some people create because they see it as lucrative, but you, when I watch your videos, I'm like, there's a lot of energy. I know a lot about energy. And I could see that you like the creative. Tell me about what you love in the creating side of things. Well, with YouTube, um, to answer your first question, I started that during quarantine because everybody told me to like, and I just been lazy about it. Yeah. I first started, I just use my camera. I use my phone, my iPhone. I just, I was filming off of editing off my laptop and stuff. And the goal with that was just to just build, just to let people know that I'm here to help to grow and to prepare stuff that I want to do for the future as far as training, exercise, sports, stuff like that. You know, just to have fun with it. Like, I feel like I have a personality that can be televised, you know? Yeah. People need to see that, you know? Yeah. So I started with that. And then, um, quarantine was the best time to start it. Um, it started doing really well. I only had a hundred subscribers before, before I posted my first real video, just shot up after that. What's it at now? It's at, um, thirty-seven. Dang! Dude, that's awesome. Yeah, bro. So in like five months, that's the big, that's big. That's really, yeah. YouTube's tough, man. It's a lot. It's, yeah. It's tough to gain, uh, subscribers on there, but it's just staying consistent. I feel like it's the hardest part. Always, yeah. That's what I like about this. That's why I wanted to jump on this call with you soon because it's, I want to make videos. It's tough with the quarantine. It's also tough with rehab mode. Like trying to, I'm not really dunking right now. So I've done a lot of tutorials, but I want to like bring more content that's consistent. That's new, you know? So I feel like these are kind of like kills two birds with one stone. New content. Meet new people too. It gives me an excuse to talk to you. Oh yeah. It's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome. And I always, I wanted to meet you in person, bro. I love you. Yeah. I feel like we could do videos and stuff. It's love, bro. Yeah, for sure. Dude, so what was it like when you were hanging with T.O.? I saw that recently. Oh, bro. That was just, he's funny as hell, bro. Like he's like, it's like being around one of, like my brother's out here. Like he has energy. Like you could tell he's an athlete. You know, you could tell the difference between somebody that. Yeah. Somebody that just, you know, just around, I guess you can say. Right. He's like, he has good energy. He's super humble. Yeah. Like that's, I'm building a closer relationship with him. And he just like dropping jewels on me and giving me keys to like, if you, if you want to do this, you got to go this way about it. Don't do this. Don't do that way about it. Please. Wow. Dude, it looked really awesome. Yeah. Like anybody that's throwing you lobs like that, spending some time, you just know that there's something special about them. That's really fun. Exactly. Dude, so like for some people that are creating content, they're athletes, obviously you're an amazing athlete, but you also grow your social media like really well. Like somehow utilize or optimize what you do. Do you have any tips or quick tips for people that are starting their own channel, starting like that? Cause you came on my scene pretty quick and I haven't, I see a lot of people, but you combined your athleticism and your creativity really well. Any tips that you help, you think helped you the most? I feel like with all social media, not even just YouTube, it's just like everybody has their own image of something like that. You have your own picture of what you want to do. You have your own creativity. And I feel like first things first, you just have to figure out how you can show that to people. Once you do that and you stay consistent with that, I feel like you're, I wouldn't say fan base. I'll just say like supporters base cause I don't like saying fans, you know. Yeah, it's weird. It's listening to you like your supporters base will start to grow and people that are on the same journey as you or that wants to do the same things as you probably, you know, they'll follow you and then you'll continue to just build and it'll just go up from there. Like there's no going down from that. And it's doing what you love. I love that. Exactly. Exactly. So would you have a favorite platform right now that's out there out of YouTube or Tik Tok or Instagram? I love Tik Tok bro and it's so. Me too. Me too. So toxic bro, but I love Tik Tok bro. And it's like. Yeah. It's just, I feel like it's a lot of rated R content on there. There's a lot. And I love it though, but I say Tik Tok is first Instagram second, Twitter third and then all the personal stuff. I mean, that's, you know, how that is. Yeah. You have any pro dunker goals or basketball goals? Like trying to play somewhere for real, like a pro league or anything like that, or a pro dunking type thing. Any goals like that? I mean, really bro, I just want to be like, I want to be in like entertainment. So. Yo, me too. Actually, that's what I've noticed about Tik Tok. I love, keep going. Exactly. So it's like just, just having cameras around myself and showing people that like I jump high because I'm more of a jumper than a dunker in the way. Yeah. Like I can pull out some dunks out of my bag, but I'm not like Chris Naples. Like. I had a, I had a funny joke one time. It's like, I don't want to see like three behind the backs and like rattle. Yeah. Just see somebody fucking smash it, but like they do it around the neck, round the tooth, whatever the fuck. They barely get it in. Exactly. That's not me. I like the, I like the power. And I liked it. Like you said, just get high as hell and it's just an art to dunking. So I mean, my goal is just like, obviously doing like commercials, TV shows, TV series, YouTube, just stuff like that. Like fun stuff. I agree, man. I'm in the same boat. I love that. So that's kind of like what I try to map out my life is make these platforms lucrative, but then find a where I could just do what I like to do, like entertain wise. That's why I love doing this podcast. So I wanted you to have on because I knew you'd have similar things. That's what I could tell is like the creative energy, the fun. You just want to have fun. It's like, throw the cameras on. Let's just have fun. Maybe we'll do something together. Me and you eventually. You're freaking amazing. That'd be so great, dude. You're for it. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, you're like, you're like seven hours away there and that's, that's an easy flight. Are you all the way up north? Yeah. I'm, I'm in Clemson, South Carolina. I'm on the board. I'm two hours. I'm thinking, I don't even know where Clemson is. Yeah. So I'll learn it. But I'm two hours away from Atlanta. Two hours away. Yeah. I'm like, I'm right in the middle. I can go anywhere. Yeah. Dude, I would, before we got on this call, I was actually looking up reaction videos. I was thinking about making one today and we talked about that earlier. I was like, maybe I saw you doing that. It looks so much fun. I'm like, man, I'd love to be there. Like reacting to things. I think that's where it's at for us is like, because there's so much content. It's like, it's just so much fun to do. You know, that's what I, when I watch a video, I want to share it with friends and I have crazy reactions, not because I'm trying just because it's like, I get filled with energy and I think that's great to watch. God, to be so much fun. I've been trying to stay on the wave of like adding more stuff. Like I don't want to just do workouts on my YouTube. Yeah. That's why I've been doing the interviews. I'm trying to do reaction videos. Like I'm trying to be there in the lifestyle, you know, just trying to be there and so it's not like. It's a tough balance because it's like you have to do what the algorithm likes meaning like what your subscribers already like, whether it's the workout to the jumping or the athletics, but then you want to do what you like so that way you have a good base of like people that like everything. It's tough. It's tough. Exactly. Yeah. We're just trying to build and add supporters to that base so that I can grow as a influence. Dude, we got to think of something to do together. Maybe it's like we do this once a week. I don't know. That's a lot once a week to come in, but in the future react to something because you're on zoom. You could do like screen recording. I talked about that with one of my friends. I think it might have been Billy actually. We go on zoom. We watch like some dunks of the week and we all do it. There's so many kids out there that like want people like us to react to their stuff, whether it's good, it's bad, it's like analysis, like stuff like that stuff. Exactly. It's cool. I love that. And I was watching this just a comedy podcast last night and I was cracking up and it's just I wish something like you want to watch it with friends. It sucks to watch it alone. So it's like reacting is kind of like you're kind of watching it with somebody. And that's what I get when I watch other people react to things. I feel like I'm with them. Exactly. So it's like reacting is kind of like you're kind of watching it with them. Exactly. So it's a weird, it's an interesting thing. Dude, who's the highest jumper? I'm cutting right to that. I guess it's going to be Ivy Court Cortland. Up there. The Cortland is the highest jumper on the planet right now. Okay. All right. All right. That's my boy though. No, I got to have him on too. We've talked about it. He's got his podcast. I've listened to a couple of it. I'm going to have him on as well. That's another guy I'd love to meet have fun. He always has these stories that crack me up. So yeah. We go back and forth on Instagram as well. It's so much fun, dude. What was it going to say? Do you have any vert goals of like what you want to hit or your head to hit or anything like that? I feel like one goal that I want to reach jump-wise is probably top of the backboard. Dang. That's one thing I feel like. I feel like. Do you know what that would equal? That's like 13 feet. 13 feet. I feel like that's something I don't know. It's something. And what's your reach? My reach is 7'11". Okay. So. 7'11". 84, right? 95, 13 feet. I can't do that on my head. That's a lot though. But I feel like. That's a lot. We'll just go with that. How many inches you got? A lot. That's a lot. Yeah. I'm going to try to work on that. I'm just 121. Usually like you're. Jesus. I feel old as I'm 27. Okay. Good Lord. I'm one of the youngest out here doing this stuff. Man. So I feel like. When I'm in my prime. From the 8th. In 10 years from now? Yeah. Like when I'm in my prime bro. 10 years from now it's going to be ridiculous. I know. Imagine. Be like young Myree. You know. Remix. Oh man. He's like 35. Getting bigger and stronger. Jumping high. He's Benjamin Button of the Dunk World. That's crazy. It's crazy. All right dude. What are you guys playing for? Do I have a plan for the rest of weekend? I feel like I'm just going to catch up on my schoolwork. I'm going to train a little bit. I'm about to shoot a YouTube video of my teammate again. Just you know just. Doing some like maintenance stuff. You know getting. Nice. What are you going to school for? I'm a sociology major. I started out. Oh wow. But I wanted to move. Into something that would like. Correspond my schedule. Because. Yeah. It's like we're training every single day. Health signs. You have to internship. You have to go here, here and here. So I was just like I was just doing sociology. How similar is track training to just jump training or basketball? Um. It's. Basketball. This is this is one because I trained for both. So. I mean obviously. But basketball is more focused on like. Your agility. Like. Muscle memory. Type of thing. Um. I feel like track is. Everything. It's sprinting. Jumping. Um. Just leg strength. Core. Everything has to be strong for you to be able to perform what we're tracking to. You know. And it's very easy to get exposed out here. And I figured it out. I've seen it. With my own eyes. Like if you BS. Do your work. Or. Yes. With your diet. You will get exposed out here. Yeah. He's not a joke. Those details man. That's what I love. I'm not competing with anybody about myself right now. But it is. It's like those little details give you a little bit of an edge. And when you think about like people competing. I mean. I can't imagine. That's really awesome. I love that though. I always tell people have a goal that. Or for you it's track. It's like the. Or whatever your sport you're playing at a high level like that. It forces you to have like a healthy lifestyle all around and just makes everything better. It's awesome. So I got a random question. But who's someone. Famous. Not famous. Huge. Not huge. Whatever that super inspires you to have his life maybe. Something like that. Whether it's entertainment wise or athletics or a combination. I. That's a tough one. Yeah. I can. There's two different answers to that. Yeah. That motivates me is my mom my mom motivates me the most. And that's what I'm doing before I do it for my mom my family just so I can give them a life that they deserve. No. Just you know. Of course. Yeah. Take care of them. Buy them houses. Whatever they want. It's obviously not about materials. Things I want them to have stuff like comfortable. Yeah. Let them relax. So that's somebody that motivates me. Somebody I look up to. I'd say. That's a tough one. Bro. Yeah. That's a tough one. I just have like. I have my own. I'm just tunnel vision with I know what I want and I just stay in my own lane. I don't really. Another question. Kind of like to be veer off that one. Instead of saying I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like a very veer off that one. Instead of someone that sort of motivates your inspired you. What about someone that like you do feel similar with like T.O. You said felt like almost like new home already. Is there anybody like that that you haven't met yet that you feel like you guys would just like click right away. Kevin Hart. Surely. Really. That's awesome. The hardest month. I love thinking about that because it just gets me excited to live and it's just like those There's so many more possibilities than you think if you just if you believe about it me believe about it believe in it All right, dude. Well, I appreciate it. We'll talk soon I definitely love to have you back on and also Hopefully we'll meet meet up at some point make some videos after this quarantine. That'll be so fun. Yes, sir Hey, bro, I appreciate what you're doing. I love this stuff, bro Of course, dude, do you have a podcast yet? Because if you haven't planned out help you out with it because the energy you have The information you have the the journey you're on I think it's a great thing to do because it's so easy to set up once it's set up You have people it gives you access like look, I got you on I don't know if we would have just talked on the phone Maybe in the future But like the other people that I like I've talked to all three different things if you're doing it's a really lucrative thing You're young, you know, yeah I'm gonna think about it, bro. I might think about it and start that stuff just to add it on to the Why not do everything? That's how I got to where I'm at I'm not where I want to be but I'm in like this Beautiful place doing what I love a job that I love Creating what I love and it's just like I did all these different things not really knowing and then you Pieces show up and that's how I got this entertainment. I just love this piece of it You know talking to people And creating things at the same time. It's the best Well, I appreciate bro. We're going to tap of course and I'm gonna see you soon We're gonna plan something out, but I appreciate you having me. All right, ham. We'll talk soon, brother Good to meet you brother. Take it easy That's the anthem right there Trying to make an intro ends it up making an anthem