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Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney (2021)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

Intro

This chapter explores the origins and evolution of a successful YouTube channel centered around creative sports content. The speakers share memorable experiences and discuss how innovative content has driven viewer growth and channel popularity.

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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to How I Built This early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Ah, and here we have travellers in their natural habitat enjoying guaranteed 4pm checkout at fine hotels and resorts booked through Amex Travel. And they don't even see what's coming at them.
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We're
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in. We got the table. Yep. With Resi Priority Notify, they're alerted when hard to get reservations open up.
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Reservation for two? Save the best for last.
Speaker 1
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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 have never, I've never dropped a ball out of a plane. Like who knows?

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