Dude Perfect Faked Weekday 'Speaking Engagements' to Hide Being College Students
Tyler Toney · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney · Sep 20, 2021 · at 1:00:20
Tyler Toney, co-founder of Dude Perfect, recounts how the team hid their day jobs and school schedules from early corporate sponsors to negotiate weekend filming dates.
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“When we did, we would just tell companies that we were so busy with speaking engagements and things like that during the week that if they wanted to do a Branded Dude Perfect video, it would have to be on a Saturday, and, you know, the brands are like, what? Like, what? There's no way you're that busy during the week. We're like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna have to be Saturday, when in reality, I was still in school, and the other guys were working other jobs, right?”
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