Mastering Sports Betting: A Deep Dive with Rico Knows

In this exhilarating episode of the Wits and Wagers Podcast, we're joined by the renowned expert, Rico Knows. Dive deep into the world of sports betting as we unpack strategies, tips, and secrets to thriving in the industry. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned bettor, this conversation is packed with insights you won't want to miss. Tune in and elevate your sports betting game! #SportsBettingMastery #RicoKnowsTips #WitsAndWagersInsights

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
So theoretically, for me, Iam the information and I am the book
too. I'm the textbook. I'mthe answers to the quiz. You still
got to take the test. Inother words, you still got to put
in the numbers. You still gottamake your bet the way you do.
So what I started doing is alot of people are caught up with what
is your record against the spread orsomething like that, right, Like,

(00:21):
for the last two weeks, myrecord against the spread on weekday games is
over seventy three percent following time.Melody right, Melody right. I don't

(00:47):
ran up a bag of straight cash, boy, you know I done ran
up to a plug. You know, I comparing a fast now recking with
five tange whipping that move sane.I didn't ran up a bag straight cash
for you know I did. Idone ran into a plug. You know
I could turn fat. I'm workingwith freshtane. When out being in Nadam,

(01:17):
Vegas, I'd be bothering like theLaers could have played for the rights,
got the odds. It's not ana situation. It's your favorite fantasy
for that riky fontane and I'm backat it. Man. You know what
it is to all my cash crew. I want to say thank you guys
for tuning in to Fontane's five today. But without further do I have the
man with all the pigs. Hehas the record for it to show the

(01:38):
one and only mister Rico knows how'sit going, brother? Thank you for
having me, man, I'm excitedto be here. Thank you, Thank
you man, Thank you for joiningme. Man. Uh, it's been
a while, man, I've beentrying to reach out to you for about
a week or so. When wefinally got connected and I was able to
make this happen. Like I said, my name's Rico. Your name's Rico.
I'm an Army I'm a maybe ven, you're actually in the military.

(02:02):
This seems like a match made inheaven, made destined to happen. So,
like I said, I want tothank you definitely for coming on into
the show. And I guess myfirst question would be, how did you
even get into what you're doing hereon social media as you take in TikTok
by storm. Oh, thanks forasking. It's a long story and it's
gonna be kind of weird. SoI'm in the military right and I've been

(02:23):
in the Army for over twenty years. I'm a Master Sergeant first Sergeant an
E eight and I'm running my unitand I'm doing my things, and one
day a guy walks out to meand he says, yo, top,
there's somebody on the internet acting likeyou, pretending to be you and trying
to date women on the internet.And I'm like, yo, what are
you talking about. So we goon the internet and we find out African

(02:43):
scammers are cat fishing women all overthe world using my pictures. And I
thought, man, I felt sometype of way about it. I thought,
this is ridiculous. They're using mypictures, They're defrauding women of money,
They're ripping them off. All thesewomen are falling in love with fake
profiles. And I said, II want to make a social media account
to tell the world and all thevictims the truth, to be like,

(03:05):
hey, I am the real Rico. I am not in love with you,
I'm not interested in you. Sorryyou felt for the scammers and the
fake profiles. And I did thaton TikTok. I made this TikTok page
and it was like Rico with abunch of numbers after it. And I
was just making videos like anybody elseon TikTok just maybe thirst, traps,
dancing, talking, laughing, whatever, it is, just chilling like an

(03:25):
even normal person. And then onenight last December, I saw a Barstool
sports page article or video came upand in the comments, one guy wrote,
coach Prime is not an x's ando's guy. He's going to fail.
And I felt some type of wayabout that, and so I hit

(03:46):
reply. But instead of letting myTwitter fingers do in the talking, I
did a talking video like this andI just went in and just started laying
out all the information. And whenI did that, I went to bed.
I thought nothing of it, andI woke up the next morning and
I had like three hundred thousand viewsand it had been shared all over the

(04:06):
internet and they were like, thisguy knows sports. Listen to this guy
blah blah blah. And the onething you want to do when you start
talking sports, or you give asports take, or you give your opinion
on anything, is when you readthe comments, ignore the positive ones and
ignore the negative ones. Look forthe ones that are asking you for more

(04:27):
information. In other words, heyRico, what do you think about this?
Oh? If you think that aboutcoach Prime, how do you feel
about Jimbo Fisher, And little bylittle the traction becomes people run to the
Internet to ask for your sports takeon a particular issue, and that monster
kind of fed itself, and bythe end of December, I was a
full blown sports guy. By thatpoint, I was just talking sports every

(04:50):
day from that point forward. Thiswas last year, and once I started
talking sports, I would wake upin the morning, something new would happen
in the world of sports, whatever'strending that day, and there would be
someone in my comments underneath my videossan Rico talk about this, talk about
this, talk about this, andlittle by little I started, you know,

(05:10):
really getting momentum, and I thinkin April, TikTok reached out and
said, hey, we would liketo pay you for your content if you're
willing to make your videos this durationof time under these specifications. And that's
what I started doing it. Andthat's when I kind of looked at it
and I thought, Oh, mygoodness, I think I can do this

(05:30):
for a living. And I startedmy sports I guess my sports content creation
and journalism page, and then Itransitioned over to YouTube around that timeframe June
May June, and between the twoI've been doing all right, That's what
I've been doing from that day forward. So it just started this past summer
and I just every single day.You just keep grinding. And I gave

(05:54):
up a six figure job. Igave up a job. I'm a cyber
expert for the military, I saidhigher, and I'm not gonna work and
I can do all these other things. I have all the accolades and requirements
and certifications to have any job inthe world that I want, and I'm
not doing it. I'm going aftermy dream job, which is what I
do every single day. Now.That's awesome, man, That's it's good

(06:15):
to hear, because, like Isaid, it was an inspirational story for
me. Obviously, I've read ordid my research on you, and I
noticed, like for me personally,it was out of just wanting more for
myself. Like you know, militarywas a great step in stool paid for
my college. It was obviously,you know, I got a lot of
physical and mental toughness and stability andstuff like that through the military, even

(06:38):
that little four years of me beingin there, I was able to take
a lot away from that that I'veimplemented into my life. You know,
being on time, being held responsible, all these types of things are are
essential for being successful. And Ilearned a lot of those things in the
military. But for me, it'sit's about having more, having something that
like, I know, you gotthree kids, four kids? How many?

(07:00):
Fortunately I have four kids. Iused to have five, but my
oldest son passed away about seven yearsago. Okay, I'm sorry to hear
that, brother, for sure,But yeah, so I you know,
and and you know, I wantsomething I can pass on to my you
know, my kids, something thatI've built, something that you know,
somebody can't just come and take awayfrom me at any time. And you
know, this avenue was sports bettingand just the sports in general, and

(07:24):
the SoC social media managing and socialmedia content creating and all of these things
offers a lot more for mobility foryour average you know, minority in America
today than it is than it wasin the past. And and I've taken
advantage of it, and I'm tryingto build something too. So, like
I said, it's inspiring to hearyour story and see where you are,

(07:45):
to know that it could happen likethat overnight. It's very, very very
interesting for me to uh, tosee not well, I want to say,
man, I want to be veryclear. It it feels like it
happened overnight, but it didn't.Man, this is a lifetime of preparation
and commitment to the craft. Right. So I will be talking about a

(08:07):
particular subject or topic or player,and then I can make a point of
reference to somebody from the early twothousands or late nineties or eighties, and
he'll say, where in the helldid he learn that from? And it's
just been a lifetime of accumulating information. And I didn't know that I was
preparing for this profession, but Ihave been indirectly, subconsciously doing this thing

(08:30):
my whole life. Like, don'tget it twisted. I didn't just get
lucky. I've been ready for this, right. I was a sports writer.
I was a journalist in the latenineties early two thousands before I joined
the army. So I was aneighteen year old kid writing for a newspaper,
which is unheard of in today's dayand age. But I was doing
it without a journalism degree. I'vealways been special in that regard. And

(08:54):
then I can just retain a lotof information in numbers and when you apply
that, it feels like, oh, this just came out of nowhere.
This guy just got lucky. No, there's some skills set involved, and
I am very flexible. My pagehas transitioned and turned throughout the off season
and even within season all different ways, and it's just changed, you know,

(09:16):
from first initially giving my opinion onthings, then assessing and grading the
transfer portal, then looking at highschool players and prospects, then giving spreads
and takes on games. It's like, just keeps going and all all I
can tell you is this, I'mbuilt for this, like I'm ready for
it, right, And that's mymindset. But if I had just stayed

(09:37):
in one vein in one lane andbeen unflexible or unwilling to adapt and keep
going, that would have probably kindof marginalized my growth and my you know,
the scope of which my influence isnow. I know every kid in
America. I know every college playerin America. Right, I got so
many coaches and players reaching out tome in TMS. You think they would

(09:58):
reach out to a game or abetter or somebody who set spreads and a
tapper and talks like that. Theyprobably won't reach out to gambling guys like
that every single day. But becauseI assessed one of their teammates from a
high school film, they feel reallygood about talking to me right, and
there's that trust and that bond.So it's a it's a huge just contantnation

(10:18):
or combination of avenues and opportunities,all all crossing and intersecting at the right
moment. And I'm blessed. I'mblessed. But it didn't happen overnight.
Man. I want to be veryclear. I want to I'm no,
no, you didn't offend me.I just want I want people. I
want people to watching to understand thatI kind of marginalize the grind. Okay,

(10:41):
the grind is this Before I evermade a dollar doing this, I
posted a thousand videos on TikTok andthere's another thousand that no one's ever seen
that I made hidden because they werenon sports videos. And there's another thousand
on YouTube and I live stream everysingle night, and some it was to
ten people into thirteen people. Sonow that I get two thousand watching my

(11:05):
videos on YouTube, I don't itdoesn't really move. I had my first
million view video on YouTube last month. This last week, two weeks my
channel's growing amazingly. Dude. Thatdidn't happen like that. It ain't happen
overnight. I've been grinding. I'mtelling you, guys, the key to
all this is like content wins out. If you want to win, if

(11:26):
you want to be great, youjust got to make a lot of content,
and a lot of it's got toflaw fat on the face, like
fall flat on its face. Butthe one thing that you can't take away
from me is like I put inthe effort. If you ever want to
see what results look like, Iam the direct reflection of what you put
in is what you get out.Like that's real. I'm grinding. I
don't know what you do for forlike your daily day to day life,

(11:50):
what you do outside of it.I'm okay pumping it out. So I
am in here one hundred percent doingthis, okay. And I'm telling you
when I put in twenty hours ofwork in a day and then I go
look at my revenue and for thatparticular day, I made thirty eight dollars,
I feel some type of way aboutit. But instead of saying I
can't make it, I push evenharder. And then some days, I

(12:15):
mean some days. I've had somereally good days. But this is my
grind. This is what I'm doing. And if you don't have that luxury,
Let's say you got too many bills, you have too many responsibilities,
You're not ready. You need tokeep preparing until you are ready. Like
I've been preparing my whole life forthis. I had to had to get
myself straight so I could be allin. If you're not all in,

(12:35):
if you half faster, you won'tget there. But that's what I think
about my first chapter in the bookthat I wrote that I written and started
line that DFS is. The firstchapter is called Betting on Yourself and it
and it encompasses all the things thatyou talked about, which is I went
to the military. I got alot of information. Then you know,
then I left it in military,and then I which is building my business

(12:56):
and having it being centered around informationthat I'm consistently given from a sports aspect
of what we do. But Itotally agree with what you're what you're saying,
and it's hits home and it's sogood to have somebody on that can
definitely reinforce the thought mind process andthings that I've been trying to implement,

(13:18):
you know, because like I said, it's tough when you're putting in eighty
hour work weeks and you're you know, just sleeping three four hours a day
and you're like editing videos and allthe things that I do for myself individually,
it's gotten me to the point where, you know, once I'm able
to, like you said, nothappen overnight, but once things start to
speed up and snowball and things getyou know, moving for me, then

(13:41):
I can then step away and say, hey, I understand how all of
this stuff works for me. Ican pay someone to do the things that
I need to do, and thenwe can and then I can continue to
grow. So that's kind of beenmy main focus over the over the of
the last year actually, so I'mdefinitely good. Firstly, I want to
say thank you for your service.Secondly, on privige, yeah, keep

(14:03):
grinding, because I also I doeverything myself, and I have a huge
operation and an amazing amount of contentthat I pump out. But the way
I do it is just me.I have my significant others. She helps
me with a lot of things,but I am on my keyboard, on
my computer, on my phone.Almost twenty four to seven grinding, and

(14:26):
some people think, oh, Iwant to make like I see guys,
they see the dollar signs, theysee the money at the end of the
day, and they go, yo, Reco, I want to do what
you do for a living. Yeah, I don't know if you built like
that. I don't know if youcan get up every morning and grind the
way I do. I'm like,I'm doing videos at four or five in
the morning because I'm I'm infatuated withmy craft, right. It doesn't feel
like work to me, so I'mon it all day. But I don't
know if you have that drive youmentioned it earlier. Just being an I'm

(14:54):
gonna say a minority, right,I'm a Mexican American man. My father
didn't graduate high school. My fatherwas a structure worker, but he was
the best at whatever he was.I thought he was the best construction worker
I ever saw. And then hewas a DJ at night, just trying
to make extra money, and Ithought he was the best DJ I've ever
seen. So my pops is likeeverything to me. So every single show
I do on live stream, Ialways start the episode with saying I do

(15:16):
this with my father, shout outto you. Pops every single night,
and he's watching me every night.He's in the chat with me every night.
People don't know this because he's notthe focal point of the show,
but my pops. Hey, Iam grinding, and I truly believe that
if you put everything you got intosomething, if you're working, if you're
built for it, you'll succeed.So I'm inspired by you. I hope

(15:37):
you do great things. I'm beingreal. I appreciate it, man,
definitely, And like I said,I'm definitely inspired by you. I see
it every single day. I followyou. I actually I actually sub to
your to your TikTok. The otherday I sub to your tik tie And
now you know, I've been lookingon the lookout for what you say and
things that you do. You probablybe responding to some of your videos,

(16:00):
some of your takes, hopefully youknow. Hopefully I agree with most of
them. You know you know howit goes, man, So I'm excited
about it. A memorable moment inbet, Well, that's what I wanted
to get to. You mentioned thatyou don't bet, but your information is
so solid. I don't understand whyyou wouldn't bet, because the money is

(16:21):
good the money is good. I'mmaking really good money providing information to people
who bet. Let me put itto this, Yes, I could make
more, everybody, says Rico.If you made your own if you bet
on your own stuff, you'd berich. Firstly, I live in Georgia
right now, it's illegal. Idon't break laws. That's number one.
Number two. I bet my reputationevery single day, I really do.

(16:45):
I bet my reputation if I missed, if i'm If I don't have transparency
within my picks, if I don'thave clarity and I don't have conviction,
it could go south in a hurry. I think there's a lot of shady
things going on when it comes topeople's ellan list of picks and information and
them being not very transparent. Inline, I can tell you that sometimes

(17:07):
I get new followers and new membersbecause you got to be a member on
my YouTube to become an MVP,and those members when they join my channel,
I can tell the ones who havebeen on the wrong end of the
stick. Sometimes they'll see stuff likewhere's the record, where's the this,
where's that? And they keep askingme for all this, like to prove
myself to them and if I haveto do that with each individual person,
it's exhausting. So we do itonce a week. We post the record

(17:30):
once a week, and we giveeverybody full transparency to see everything. But
it's a level of trust and commitment, and it's why I go live every
single night. If you are amember, you can talk to me every
single night and Q and A allday long, and we can have that
discussion everybody. This offseason, Ibet my entire reputation. I had three
really big claims this offseason, whichwas, I really believe Colorado is going

(17:55):
to beat TCU. I believe Coloradois going to be an amazing team on
the offensive side of the ball.Here I said they're gonna beat TCU.
I think they're gonna beat Nebraska,and I think Texas State is going to
beat Baylor. I think Duke isgoing to beat Clemson. I went all
in on three different games on zeroweek one, and I was right on
all of them. And that's becauseof my assessment of the transfer portal and

(18:18):
the rosters and just knowing talent,and everybody just kind of went sat back
and said, you're crazy, you'recontrarian, you're just trying to be different.
You don't know what you're talking about. And I even went so far
to say Tcugh was winning five gamesthis year. I stuck to my guns
and didn't care what anybody said.This is a returning national championship runner up,
And I said, I don't careif they lost eight draft picks and

(18:40):
they replaced them with B level talent. I do not see this team being
dominant. Gimme Colorado, Give meColorado. And that's probably my greatest claim
this season, but there'll be manymore. I'm not worried about it.
I'll pick Yukon to win win MarchMadness, so I feel pretty good about
all right. Well, look andlike I said, man, we're gonna
We're gonna do what I do.Obviously, I do the major sports.

(19:03):
I do basketball, football, andbaseball major sports, the professional sports.
I don't do college, so Idon't assess, you know, the transfer
portal. I don't know too manytoo much about high school athletes coming out.
I kind of just stick to thepros. Once they get to the
pros on my radar, and thenI'm on them, you know. So
that's kind of what I do.Could you share a strategy or tip something

(19:27):
that like, if you were atbetter, you would definitely be implementing that
could help you know my followers,your followers be better at actually gamble.
So something I do that's a littledifferent from other people is I don't assess
how teams performed against the spread athome versus the road. I use none

(19:48):
of that data to influence my picks. My picks are based solely on talent
versus talent. How do how doesthis player compare the this player? So
I'll look at a wide receiver groupand compare them to the DBS they're facing
that week. I'll look at theoffensive line versus the defensive line, and
I will compartmentalize the matchup for whatit is. Now. There will be

(20:11):
times where I go back and lookat tendencies or maybe probability of a particular
scheme being successful against another scheme.So an example would be what type of
defensive front do they run? Andwhat does this offensive coordinator do to that
defensive front. So if you runa three three five defense, I'm going
to rip it apart and go findother examples of when they demolish that.

(20:33):
And that's kind of how my approaches. It's talent based versus talent. I
do not care what Vegas thought ofthem the last time they saw them.
Vegas is not the expert. Tome, I am the expert. So
I analyze talent on teams, playersand coaching staffs versus coaching staffs, not
Vegas tendencies and some other shit peopletalk about we go all the public moneys

(20:55):
on this team. I don't carewhere all the public money is. I
know where all the talent is.And that's what I stick to you,
And that approach is very unique.It's very different, and it's been advantageous
to my followers and myself. Yeah, I've looked, like I said,
I'm very much an analytics guy,so I'm always trying to follow the numbers
I've you know, I I guesswe would call that the eye test in

(21:17):
my you know, in my kindof like you know, how I assess
the game and a lot of thetimes or my gut feeling, like if
I know a team is like yousaid, it's wonderful against attacking the zone.
They run slot receivers that sit downin pockets like a Travis Kelce those
type, and you know the Patmahomes how they eat zones alive. If

(21:37):
I know that, personally, Itake that into the assessment of you know,
you know, when I'm taking propsor if I'm thinking that, you
know, Kansas City can beat theteam by that much. So I definitely
understand it, but it's not thesole focus. So hearing you say that
that's the sole focus and it's workedout for you, it's definitely refreshing.
It makes you want to just,you know, kind of just go buy
what you know and use your ownexpertise to make these beds and then live

(22:02):
with the consequences, you know whatI mean. Things that I'll point out
to you NFL versus college is there'sno salary cap in college, so there
is no parody to that extent.In the NFL. You're against the professional
every single day, so the chancesof your wide receivers being otherworldly faster than
the dbs is not real. Butif you go look at a matchup like

(22:25):
FIU, their defensive backs of someof the slowest I've seen in all of
college football. So the media,as soon as I see FIU playing,
I go look at the wide receiversand I say, oh, they can
stretch the field on these guys.And beat them deep. And I already
know who's gonna go for yards andgo deep and beat them. Last night,
we did the same thing with Syracuse'sdefense, knowing they weren't fast enough
to keep up with Virginia Tech's runningback and quarterbacks, so they're going to

(22:47):
catch the edge. And all nightlong they just kept catching the edge.
So there's speed advantages. And Ijust want to tell you, in college
football, ninety percent of the time, the more talented team is going to
win the game. Okay, coachingcannot bridge that gap. No matter how
good of a coach you are,you can't bridge the talent gap. You
can do that in the NFL,not in college. If you have the
better players, you're winning the game. It's just night and day, and

(23:11):
there's nothing you can do about it. That's why there's great coaches at the
FCS level or at k State ChrisClimbing, great coach. A bunch of
three star athletes made them good enoughto win the conference. But the minute
you show up and you gotta lineup against Bama, you're losing my forty
because you don't have a single guyon your team better than a single guy
on their team. It's the realityof the situation. You can't bridge that

(23:33):
gap with offseason workouts, you know, weight training and lifting and all this
stuff. It's just there's too manytalented players on the other team. Nice,
Nice, Well, I want toI want to say, like I
want to, I guess you knowit's crazy because you don't You don't bet,
so it's good to get your takeon what you perceive, you know,
as far as actually betting, andyou give picks, but like I

(23:55):
said, you don't actually make thesebest yourself. So I guess a lot
of my questions that I have herefor you it's kind of centered around that.
But you're answering them perfectly, SoI appreciate you answering them perfectly.
What another one of my you know, you know, solidarity is kind of
a thing that that that most betteris running too. It's like, oh,
man, I gotta find these pigs. I gotta you know, I

(24:18):
do a lot of my research bymyself. I don't really reach out to
a lot of other people for research. Do you find that being by yourself
helps you to be a better researcher, or be a better gamble, or
be a better pit chooser, ordo you find, you know, working
with other people, having you know, information come from different sources as a
as a you know better product foryou, which which one works better for

(24:40):
you? So I want to beclear in my statement here I am a
source. I'm a source of information. So when people go out and say,
well, I read on this websiteor this website or this website,
or I check these stats, Iwant people to say, well, you
know, I checked. Rico knows, and here's what he said. I
want to be the source, notone of the many people talking in a

(25:03):
group trying to come up with asolution. I don't work with anyone else.
I don't take anyone put in Idon't google search people. I don't
know content creators. I could careless what they've got to say. They
people talk about other people who pickgames. I don't know anyone in the
community. Don't care. And Ifeel that same way when I was talking
about sports. I don't know whohas a podcast, I don't know who

(25:26):
does it. I don't care.I'm doing my own thing. I have
an agent and he told me,hey, Rico, I'm gonna get in
touch with the following companies and seeif they want affiliation. With you,
and he gave me a list andI said, who the hell are they?
Like, I didn't know, andit's and to be honest, I'm
ignorant to that aspect of the jobbecause I'm so entrenched with content creator yeah,

(25:48):
eye information. The best thing Ican do is pull up a sports
book, pull up a game,and then go and do my research on
that game and do it in avacuum with no other interruptions. I put
some music on and I get towork. And this is why we're so
well on weekday games is because Idon't have a lot of games to assess.
It's one or two games, andI can really go in on those

(26:11):
teams, go back and rewatch alltheir tape. Like when I make a
pick, I go back and watchevery single game of every single team playing.
I don't care because I got themall recorded. I use YouTube TV,
I use ESPN plus I can findall the games, watch them again,
and I'm only looking at one sideof the ball at a time,
and I'll just go and I canget a game done in like forty minutes,

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So I can put in eight hourson this matchup and get it one
hundred percent right and That's how Iget down. But on Saturdays, who
is it tough? There's sixty fivegames play every single weekend, and I
cut it down to about twenty fivelocks, twenty five leans and locks twenty
five games I assessed. So I'lltake the whole slate and I'll tell my
followers, hey, we're not bettingon any of these, and sometimes it'll

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be the most popular games and I'llsay, no, we can't make any
money here. They're too close there. It's a it's a it's a coin
flip. Don't do it. Anybodytelling you this is a lock the they're
just they're trying to sell you somecrap. We're not betting on this game,
and we'll go down. I dominategroup of five games. Vegas doesn't
know group of five teams like Ido any of the smaller conferences. I
feel really good about my percentages there, so I don't use anybody else's input

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but my own. You listening,if you're obviously you're listening, it is
Fontas five. If you're remember,you gotta chant Rico knows out his car.
I've been following him, like Isaid, for the past four or
five months. The College Information I'mgetting from him is other otherworldly. He's
picking amazing. Uh. Like Isaid, I was there when you picked,

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When you picked Colorado over TCU,I followed, I got money.
So I'm just saying I definitely appreciateyour content. To anybody listening on my
platform. This again, this isthe guy that you definitely want to check
out and and where can they findyou? Like? What? What?
How do? What's the applute?If you want to see my content,
turn on is because they're copying allof my content. Uh. Just last

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night, sam Acho did a halftimeseries during the game. At halftime,
he made a video or he dida promo for the best two way player
in America not named Travis Hunter.I made that video last week and to
see them stealing my content kind ofbugs me. But it happened. I
don't get credit for it, butthey steal my content. A lot of
guys do. There's another one thatjust came out just a couple days ago,

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and it's talking about the parking ticketsat Colorado. Just a lot of
people steal it move it to Twitterbecause I'm not on Twitter. Okay,
okay, that makes sense. I'monly on TikTok and I'm only on YouTube,
so TikTok and YouTube search Rico.Nos, you can't miss it.
But the problem is is these guysget on TV. They have producers.
People are watching my stuff. Theytake it and they put it on the

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TV. Give me no credit forit. It's okay. I think I'm
better than everybody. And if youyou know, if you don't have that
kind of self belief, self belief, like you won't make it. You
ever watch CON's documentary. Kanye's documentarywas so inspiring to me because that man
believed in himself, himself, anybodyelse real belief that right, I've lost.

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I've lost some friendships, I losta belief in family members. Me
and my father actually, you knowthis is a deep topic, but me
and my father we actually stopped talkingprobably for a year, once he figured
out that I was not gonna begoing to dental school. That wasn't in
my future. You know, whenI said, this is what I love,

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I want to do what makes mehappy, I'm taking a gamble on
myself. I'm taking a bet onmyself and I'm going to put in most
energy to it. People not gonnabelieve in you self, believe in self
preservation and motivation is going to bethe thing that propels you to the next
level. So I hunt you're speakingto I need it. Keep coming,

(29:51):
give me more information, letting meknow that I'm on the right track.
Rico, I'm gonna tell you this. Anytime I get a comment in my
videos, and I get thirty thousandcomments a week, I don't read them
all. I try it, butI don't read them all. I get
a million views a day on allmy videos. And anytime somebody says to
me I love this video or Ilove this take, or you're so right,

(30:14):
they don't even understand. I loveit more than they love it,
Like I love it more than youlove it. When I made it,
I said this is about to blow, like in my mind, every video
is about to blow. Every video'sgoing viral in my mind. Now they
don't, but I have so muchself belief in me that it's about to
pop. I don't even sweat it, Like if it doesn't hit, I
don't dwell on it. I keepit moving and I keep grinding because I

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am I'm gassing all myself like I'mgassed on myself. And yes, I'll
look back a year later and lookat all the videos and go, man,
that was trash. Oh that wasterrible. I could do better,
right, I should have edited thisbetter or added this graphic, or had
this different, this that or theother. I get it, But this
is how great it is. Ibelieve there's music, music, musicians and
artists. I'm relating so many terriblesongs till we hear that good one,

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right, till we hear that onethat pops. They got to create twenty
terrible songs that are still in thestudio nobody knows about, and then one
pops and then you go, wow, they made it on there a one
hit won er. No, they'renot. They've been grinding and they loved
every song they made, and thenthis one just went. You know.
And sometimes you'll find an artist andyou'll be like, wow, I love
this song. Let me go hearall their old music, and you go,

(31:25):
where the hell have I been,I've been sleeping on this. That's
how people are when they discover mychannel. Like you discover my channel for
the first time, you're kind oftaking back, like whoa, this guy's
given sports takes and it's rough,what is he doing? But the minute
you go hit on the playlist.There's a bunch of playlists on TikTok at
the very top above all the videos, there's a bunch of playlists. You
click on story time, there's likea hundred parts. Start watching the videos

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and you'll go, hoh, thisdude's a documentary. This man is doing
research on everything. And that's howit works. And it feels so good
when things go right. But whenit goes wrong, I don't let it
get me down. Yeah, man, I got more self belief in me.
I was. I'm talking about Kanyebecause that man was selling beats out
of his car. I'm no different. I'm out here making a living off
my iPhone and that's it. Justmy iPhone and elbow grease. That's it

(32:13):
real. You know, no,man, listen, you're coming here,
Chrystal Clear. It's the iPhone too, man. I feel you, so
listen. I appreciate it, man, this conversation has been great. I
don't want to take too much ofyour time up to thank you, I
want to send you a copy ofmy book all every coup. I appreciate
you, appreciate you coming on.I appreciate you taking the time out of

(32:36):
your busy, busy day and givingus Fontane's podcast crew all the knowledge and
insight that you've given. It's beena pleasure talking with you. I've learned
a lot. Hopefully all the membersout there have learned a lot. Do
you have any last words, anythingyou want to say before we head out?
Thank you for having me. Ireally appreciate the opportunity to tell people
the story and so people can seeyou know your page and mind and just
understand that to be a content creator, you gotta reach out. You gotta

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keep working, you gotta keep grinding. But at the end of the day,
you need a community of followers,and you need a community of people
that believe in you. So Ihope you get that following. I hope
the people who follow me trusting youand start reaching out and watching your content,
because I do have holes in mygame. I don't do professional sports.
I don't do NFL, I don'tdo NBA, I don't do baseball
at all. And they're always askingme for those picks. So we can

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find another gentleman out there who couldprovide it to them. I would recommend
that they go and give your pagea look, and you know, see
what you're rocking with. So Iappreciate you for having me, but I
intend to turn you onto all myfollowers as well. I appreciate you man,
Thank you again. I can't thankyou enough for that, following on
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