Today on the Colin and Samir show, we have a very special interview. It's with one of our very close friends, Paul Rabel.

Now, if you don't know this about Samir and I, we both played lacrosse growing up. We were huge fans of lacrosse, and our first business together was called the LaCross Network, which was a YouTube network dedicated to the sport of lacrosse. And Paul Rable is known as the LeBron James of lacrosse.

Yeah, I think if you told my 14-year-old or 16-year-old self

that at one point I was going to be podcasting with Paul Rable,

it would be crazy if you told me that at one point

we'd be filming documentaries with Paul Rable, that would be crazy. And if you ever told me that he would be a groom you told me that at one point we'd be filming documentaries with Paul

Rable. That would be crazy. And if you ever told me that he would be a grooms him in my wedding,

that would be crazy. But all those things are true. And all those things happened. And we got to know

Paul through our first business, the lacrosse network. Now, what's really interesting about Paul,

when we met him about 10 years ago, lacrosse as an industry was in a very different place.

It was not possible to make a career as a professional lacrosse player solely off playing the sport.

The rookie wage in Major League lacrosse at that time was $6,000.

That's how much a professional lacrosse player got paid.

But lacrosse was Paul's passion.

And in order to make it work, he actually took to YouTube and started making videos about

lacrosse, found an audience there, started incorporating brand deals and sponsorships.

And he laid the roadmap for what it looked like

for professional lacrosse player to actually make money in this career. So we met Paul right

as he was uploading to YouTube. And we partnered with him to start making YouTube videos together.

And that's when we got really intimately familiar with Paul as a person, his work ethic, and the

similarities between an athlete in a sport that didn't have much coverage and a content

creator, both of which had to tell their own story. Traditional media was not going to cover

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