#166: Durant Company Partner Rich Kleiman

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Kevin Durant's business partner and former VP of Roc Nation Sports Rich Kleiman up a few blocks on his native Upper West Side! We discuss playing high school basketball around New York City, getting a scholarship to Boston University and immediately finding a different kind of “sports interest” (?) which took him away from his studies, unceremoniously dropping out of school, moving back to NYC, briefly considering getting into the restaurant business, becoming COO of a dot-com bubble website, music supervising the ESPN docuseries The Life, producing the Jay-Z documentary Fade to Black, and ultimately being recruited to work for Jay at the inception of Roc Nation. Rich's story is one of overcoming long odds, believing in himself, outworking everyone else, finding his lane and dominating it, taking chances, getting co-signs from Heavy D, Puff Daddy, Jay-Z, and John Meneilly, working with Mark Ronson, Q-Tip, J. Cole, Solange, Wale, Victor Cruz, Kevin Durant and on and on. All that plus asking Jay-Z for a raise, getting fired by Mark Ronson, walking around Soho with Amy Winehouse, explaining what he saw in Meek Mill and his team, what Kevin Durant's free agency was really like, and so much more. This episode is an amazing listen, full of inspiration; take heed of how Rich, a man with no undergraduate degree, turned his unbelievable experiences around music and TV production and entrepreneurship into a master's degree in real life. Listen now on iTunes and SoundCloud and Stitcher and everywhere else! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jeff. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well. Thank you. Do we talk about our
0:04.1	SOB show? Our secret SOB show. The fact that we had a show at SOBs in New York City. Oh my God. You know, guys, we want to let you in on a little little nugget of information that we haven't told too many people about. We haven't put out dedicated episodes to it or anything. No. Sobs on January, I'm so used to saying it, January 10th, 2018 be there.
0:24.2	It happened.
0:24.8	It happened.
0:24.8	It happened. And thank you to everyone who came out, who supported, who stayed for two hours
0:30.2	afterwards like any good Jewish goodbye and got kicked out by the staff of S-O-Bs at the end of the
0:35.9	night. We told stories about Vinnie from Jersey Shore.
0:39.3	We told stories about Harvey Weinstein. We told stories about Nick Cannon. Air India. Air India.
0:44.4	That went over very well. We performed a whole bunch of our music. It was just great times.
0:48.8	Obskill Vandal came out. We did a live version of Shark Tank on stage. Yeah, he listened to ideas.
1:29.0	And the best part was we were like, hey, if anyone has anything that they want to talk about, you want to, you want to push your Casper mattress, you want to push your Squarespace account, you want to push your podcast, come on up here and talk about it. And Jeff was like, no, no podcasts. Everybody's got a podcast and everyone wants to talk about their podcast. Yeah, we don't need to hear anybody talk about their podcast. But shout to everyone who was in the audience who had a podcast and wanted to talk about that on stage and use our platform. All 4,000 people who have podcasts. Congratulations. We know you have a podcast. Yes, but congratulations to us. Another great showing by It's the Real because that's what it said right behind us.
1:29.9	Yeah, perfect showing.
1:31.5	A perfect showing by It's the Real.
1:36.3	There's going to be a lot more shows, Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta,
1:37.1	keep naming cities.
1:39.1	Philly, Washington, D.C.
1:40.1	Grand Rapids.
1:41.6	Topeka.
1:47.5	Actually, we should mention, if you live anywhere near northeast Ohio, and we're talking Cleveland or Akron, even Buffalo and western New York.
1:51.4	Yeah, the lowlands of Kentucky, you know, any place where T. Grizzly robbed, you know, wherever
1:59.2	the nappy roots are from.
2:00.4	That's right.
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