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Cold As Ice with Ben Baller & JimmyBoi

EP 23 - Jeff Staple (Founder of Staple Design/Streetwear Pioneer/Podcaster) + In Memoriam of Jonas Bevacqua (on what would’ve been his 42nd Birthday)

Cold As Ice with Ben Baller & JimmyBoi

Ben Baller x JimmyBoi x DBPodcasts

Arts, Business, Visual Arts, Entrepreneurship

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by @Presentedby & @Klekt. You are tuned in to Behind The Baller with Ben Baller and Ben is here up top to discuss: Things going well for the podcast, Downtown L.A., The Championship Ring Game, NBA Season Starting, Lakers Opening Night vs. The Clippers, Finishing Tyler’s piece, ComplexCon, DMs from JimmyBoi EP, VVS & more. Then Ben dives into In Memoriam of his dear friend Jonas Bevacqua (Co-Founder LRG), a man who means the world to him to this day. Then it’s an honor and a privilege to have Jeff Staple (Founder of Staple Design/Streetwear Pioneer/Business of HYPE) on Behind The Baller with Ben Baller to discuss: Being similar, Ben being on Jeff’s podcast, Listening to Biggie in NYC, The Hong Kong Situation, Billionaires & Banning in HK, China, Why The Pigeon?, The Brilliance of MIke Tyson, Sneakers, The Business of HypeBeast, Reed Space, Student Loans, The First Million, Credit, Retail, Reselling & a whole lot more. Then Ben comes back for closing words on the outro that isn’t to be missed! Produced by: The Dust Brothers Music by @lakeyinspired T-Shirts for sale at BehindTheBallerPod.com/Shop Available on all Podcast Platforms, YouTube & BehindTheBallerPod.com Behind The Baller Theme Music Artist: Illegal Kartel (@illegal_kartel_mikal_shakur) Produced by: Gene Crenshaw (@yuyuthemaker) Subscribe to Jeff’s Business of HYPE Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-of-hype/id1242776507

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What up y'all you were tuned in to behind the baller. That's my guys right

0:42.1

there, a legal cartel, you know, and I was wanting some theme music and I got it.

0:49.0

Yeah man, episode 23, we here. It's Tuesday night right now. The NBA just started.

0:57.0

And before we get into all that, listen man, we lit lit for real right now. Like behind the baller podcast is fucking going crazy.

1:07.0

Me and the dust brothers yesterday we sat down with a major video production ad revenue video monetization.

1:20.0

Just all kinds of shit sat down with me. So listen man, what I'm trying to get at his video of this podcast is coming soon when sooner than I ever thought it would come.

1:35.0

But anyways, had a great meeting with these folks of all places there in Tokyo right there in the arts district.

1:43.0

You know, I'm down there all the time because when my favorite restaurants to go to is down there. And so is riff Los Angeles shout out to Ed and Jeff.

1:53.0

My little Filipino parties crazy thing never in many fucking years that I rethink that you know downtown they will come this far. No, you know, just you know, I lived in downtown for a few years. And I love the down there.

2:06.0

The wife was totally opposite of me. I grew up in the street. So you know, she just doesn't we just that's just one thing. Just don't see. I mean, there's a few things we don't see. I what she really just can't stand the condo life downtown. She just don't like it. I love that.

2:19.0

I love smelling the streets down there and everything. I don't know man. It just gives me that city feeling. You know, I grew up just west of the create town. But what I'm trying to say again is so Jay Z LeBron big Sean my boy Jay Brown.

2:35.0

They they bought and opened up a private whiskey bar.

2:40.0

The place has a real has a has a you know, as a unique feel to it. It's it's not super modern or it's not modern at all really.

2:49.0

And has a vintage feel feels like a whiskey bar feels like a little cooler version of it. They play vinyl.

2:57.0

There's like a wall of of records on their vinyl records and it's just dope. It is fly I spot. I seen the Hibiki in there the Nika. Yom Zaki, you know, that good shit. I'm sure they have McCollum and all those stuff.

3:09.0

Single barrel. You know, single mall. I mean, I'm sorry. Anyways, going on. They also open up a restaurant next door forgot the fuck it's called it's a time restaurant. But listen man, we got video coming.

3:22.0

I don't know like me personally give a fuck people do want to see it is cool like right now. I'm in some fucking boxer shorts and a mother fucking t shirt. I don't think you want to see me wearing this shit. But you will see me at a white T anyways listen is Tuesday night. It is 1017 PM. And I just watch the fucking first game of the NBA season. Lakers versus Clippers.

3:45.0

Um, you know what man listen man. I just got to keep in 100 when people come and hit it out the park, you know, especially when you get into a certain level of where we are in the game. Jason of Beverly Hills is another jeweler he's actually an allies calm right on mine.

4:06.0

There's friendly competition, but you know, it is what it is. Um, he to me now seems to be the guy to go to for the championship rings. And I won't get into specifics. But not the most recent warriors ring, but the ring before that. I'll give it to him that ring was mother fucking lit.

4:28.0

Laker rings were, were okay. Um, I would expect it's something for the fucking Lakers man. Come on. This is our team. You know what I'm saying? And, you know, you got relationship with the bus family, but damn Jay. I got a critique you know what I mean. You know, you my boy.

4:40.0

These Raptor rings would just not it bro. They just weren't they just weren't fly and and if I sound like a hater, then I don't give a fuck.

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