4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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On this episode, we have a really great discussion with two of the most prestigious members of NBA and NFL media: Taylor Rooks of Prime Video and Mina Kimes of ESPN!
Taylor and Mina get into so much, including their media backgrounds and lessons, what it's been like for Taylor in the first season of the NBA on Prime Video, advice they'd give to people getting into media, the upcoming NFL playoffs, and much more. Let's go!
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| 0:29.6 | Welcome back to The Young Man in the Three. |
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| 0:54.5 | Today we have a very special episode, two friends of the show, Mina Kimes and Taylor Rooks, never been on a pod together. So this is their first time doing any sort of interview or public appearance. Two great friends. We talk football. We talk media. We talk life. We talk everything. Really cool conversation. I think you guys are really going to enjoy. |
| 0:57.5 | Without further ado, here is Taylor Rooks and Mina Kimes. |
| 1:04.2 | Mina, Taylor, two favorite people. |
| 1:07.5 | Try to do this in L.A. unsuccessfully. |
| 1:09.3 | What's up, guys? |
| 1:10.5 | How do you do it? Amazing. Happy to be here virtually. Happy to |
| 1:14.5 | see Mina's face. I have not been lucky enough to do something with the lovely Mina Kimes yet. |
| 1:20.2 | So I'm thrilled about today. I feel like I only see Taylor like at Super Bowl at like NFL events. |
| 1:29.0 | So this is fun because yeah, we that's also like so true that most people I feel like in football is we only see each other in cities other than the ones where we live and like for big events. |
| 1:39.5 | Right. |
| 1:39.9 | Like you're more likely to hang out with someone in L.A. at the Super Bowl than actually in L.A. |
| 2:01.9 | Completely. Especially when one is east and one is west. Yeah. Well, yeah. I'll also say objectively, you are two of the busiest in the best possible way, the busiest people out there. Like, Mina, I think about Mina, I was in Kansas City earlier this year. And Mina's like Monday Night Football. |
| 2:18.5 | She's Monday Night Footballed up. This is her thing that I'm going to I go to a Monday night football game. I'm like, Mina, are you? I'm not supposed to say this. What you say for the game? You're like, no, I'm going to the airport. You're like, can't pit her down. She's just like she's here. By the way, I do a version of that too, but you guys, this is the reality of your life is you have to be in nine places at once. Yeah, but I was going to say, Tommy, you're kind of king of camp pen down. Tommy will text me like, all right, I've arrived in L.A. And then he's like, I'm gone. The next day, he's like, I decided to go to a premiere. |
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