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“You’re going to learn this real quick, Ryan, the mute button I used on Around the Horn should’ve applied to me all along…” - @TonyReali
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Every interview I do I start my guests with a 90-second rapid fire to get them warmed up. You know, sports show, gotta have a warm up. 90 seconds, soccer guy.
This was the first one I cut together and I can tell you right now, what Tony lacked in speed he made up for in enthusiasm.
But he will not have the Halftime Heroes high score…
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Do we think pro athletes fold their own laundry?
Feel like there’s a show in there somewhere…
“X NFL Superstar Does Household Chores”
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“What is @TonyReali’s Top 10 for Around the Horn panelists?”
I finally got to ask the question I’ve wanted answered for the last 25 years…
The response was thorough, calculated, and everything I could’ve asked for and more out of a former Stat Boy.
What did he miss?
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“The consistency will come very easily if you know what you’re doing every single day.”
For 23 years @TonyReali knew what he was doing every day when he showed up to work.
Then that all ended and he had to find a new path forward…
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He studied up on being a creator for more than a year.
Experimenting, tinkering, and revisiting old ideas.
He eventually teamed up with his wife as a business partner to launch a media company debuting with his new show, “The Real Deal”
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I spent my entire childhood watching @TonyReali after school.
We welcomed him into our early-2000s, sports-obsessed household with open arms.
20+ years later it was incredibly special for him to take a chance on a complete nobody for an hour-long interview about his new project.
Episode is out now on YouTube: piped.video/tsHXz3VEtwc?is=SShi…
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It’s 11:14pm on September 3rd
I said I’d post a new video on the 3rd of every month in 2026
After an hour of futzing with the final edit and an hour of processing and exporting…
The video is up.
The show goes on.
My biggest one yet 👀
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In the last week I’ve interviewed 2 creators with a combined following in the millions and doing well over 100MM views a year 👀🫡👀
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New episode is now LIVE on YouTube with the insanely talented @AlecCutter 🫡
A former @zagmsoccer player turned filmmaker.
• In 2016, he picked up a camera for the first time.
• In 2021, his short film “Nando” got into Tribeca
• In 2026, his documentary “The Root of the Game” about the biggest amateur soccer tournament in Brazil got picked up by Netflix.
Decent little decade for the kid…
His story is incredible. From shooting videos of Brooklyn cafes to make a portfolio, to renting a $40/month room in the favelas of Rio, to launching on Netflix in the lead up to the World Cup.
He had a vision of something he wanted to make and he made it happen.
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Full convo now live on the Halftime Heroes YouTube 🫡
Toss a comment of what you want to make that doesn’t exists
piped.video/LtnIcRjCsrc?is=RM3t…
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