What’s up? I’m here with Jesser. We’re about to eat his ultimate cheat meal. But first, we got to get a workout in. Yes, sir. Bucket. Damn. Oh my god, I straight up air. Jesse Ryell, aka Jesser, is the biggest basketball creator on YouTube, scoring buckets of views. He’s filmed with some of the most elite athletes in the world, and he’s done wild sports challenges on his channel. His partnership with the NBA has granted him special access to games and events that he brings his viewers along for the ride. He even has his own lifestyle brand, Bucket Squad, that sells apparel and basketballs. And I have gotten so much clout at my local park by showing up with the bucket squad ball. You can check him out on his YouTube channel. Jesser. All right, Jesser. We are in your home gym/slamball practice park right here. Slamball practice. I’m excited to see what’s going on with the trampoline. Uh, run me through a workout though. What are you typically doing in here? Usually I actually do start with a trampoline. My favorite method of warmup. Uh, and usually I always train with my trainer. So I pretty much just I’ll be your trainer today. Let’s go. I have a much lower day rate. You can pay me in food. I got to cook. I’m just saying it’d be nice if someone returned the favor for once. No one cooks for me. I literally made you I made you the greatest meal ever. I You really did. You smoked that. What was that dish? Beef Wellington. I made this dude beef Wellington and it was perfect. So I’ll take the trampoline. You can take the jump rope. Wait, hold on. Can we switch? Cuz I want to jump. I haven’t jumped on a trampoline since I was 9 years old. Dude, what? I don’t know when would I have encountered a trampoline in my adult life. I feel so whimsical, Jesse. I feel so whimsical. You guys are bouncing. They’re just standing there. Well, what do you This is it. You just like What kind of look do you have on your face? Like, do you look still serious? Well, I usually have a lot of music playing. It’s just like you could do a little dance. I mean, what’s good trampoline music? If you really want to get serious with it, you could do like some one leg like you could you could do some hard bounces. All right. So, band will really just, you know, pull it apart. Do you train like a basketball player? Do you train like a dude who’s trying to look good, feel good? We definitely do some movements that are like basketball focused. It always changes. Like it it depends on what I’m trying to do. Like there was a point where I was like, “Oh, I really want to get a 40 inch vertical.” Like imagine if I’m doing crazy dunks in videos. What’s your standing vert? Probably like 24 in or something. I 24 and 1/2 was my highest measured. And I was like I was squatting 550 lb. I was, you know, hang cleaning 365. And I thought I was insane. Yeah. But then jumping literally like a twoft vert. So we just hit our bands. Let’s do some push-ups. And we can hit the bench press. Yes, coach. Let’s go. One. Damn. Two. Bro, you are an athlete. I’m not as young as I used to be. You have to do all clap push-ups now. My shoulder immediately started hurting when I did that. One time a guy was spotting me on bench and um he said, “Let’s go.” But as he did that, he spit in my mouth. But the weight was already up and I didn’t want to lose it. And so I just hit the rep. I’m not going to do that, but I’m just your mouth. Literally was like, “Let’s go.” And just a whole gob of spit. Like Oh, brother. Sorry. Come on, Jesse. Come on. Hit this weight. Bro, that’s disgusting. Yeah, it was the weirdest moment of my life. Maybe a spit actually gave me energy, you know? Like it kind of That’s some like intense gym bro right there. I’m not going to do that. If it happens, I’ll go to the side. You got it. Keep those scaps retracted. Hit and drive. Let’s go. Easy money. Come on out. Little warm up. Let’s go. Boom. One time I was bench pressing alone in a shipping container. In a shipping container. Yeah. Yeah. My hamstrings started cramping and I didn’t know what to do. So I literally let the bar rest here and I couldn’t roll it forward cuz it was, you know, such tight quarters. And so I just went and I literally just like just it was like a mother whose child was trapped under a bus cuz I was like you either live or die right now. Oh my god. Jesse, we got 185 on the bar. This is NBA combine weight. The most useless test of an NBA player skill. But it’s still really funny watching a 170 lb 611 Kevin Durant not be able to get one rep. If you get one rep of this, you’re officially better than Kevin Durant on the bench press. Talk to me. Houston Rocket. Sign him up. Lift off. Three, two, one. It’s a lot heavier. Come on now. Hit and drive up. One, two. Earn that contract, baby. Three. Drive. Drive. Drive. Drive. Come on out. Easy. Go. Four. Five. Up. You got 10 on you. Six. Hit. Hit and go. Hit and go. Seven. Drive. Drive. Drive. Drive. There it is. Eight. Up. Up. I’mma call it. Eight. Right now on the scouting report doesn’t have that dog in it. Wouldn’t go for nine. I’m going for Lou Dort numbers right here. Big Lou, you’re my dog. I’m going to predict 32. This looks like lightweight. Oh, I lost count. I hope you’re counting. Eight. Oh my god. Slow down. I’m already slowing down. 11 12. Oh, you are a beast. I’m already sweaty. Push. I haven’t actually pushed myself. Let’s go. In a long time. Let’s go. I got one more me. Jesse, you want me to spit? No. No. [Music] No. Take it. Take it. Take it. Let’s go. I started laughing. What do you say? All right, man. We’re out of the official bucket spot court. I got the Shack shoes on from Walmart. Crazy for that. I’m going to be honest. I feel like that’s lowkey dangerous. Like for your ankles. Yeah. Yeah. I did sign a waiver so I can’t sue you if I go down in your court. But Shaq, I’m coming for you. All right. So, let’s just hit like a we’ll go like a cross a tween behind the bat. Cross tween behind. Cross between. [Music] No. Okay. Double. I lost it. You’re You’re doing too much. I lost it. I lost freestyling. I’m seeing defenders everywhere. Now we’ll do it backwards. Ready? Oh, I don’t know. Okay. Okay. Wait. No, you’re nice, bro. My coach used to always yell, “Josh, don’t dribble. Don’t shoot.” You’re doing twins behind. You need the cross. That was good. I’m I’m proud of you. Oh, that’s it. Thanks, Josh. I don’t think some NBA players are dribbling like you. You think I can make the league 100%. I a4 assists per game. Yeah. Call me the black hole. Ball’s coming in, ain’t coming out. You got it. Got the cone, the defender. So, hit a move on him. All right. is. Then hit this cone. Okay. And then go in for the leg. Okay. Okay. We’ll do that. You better be able to get past the cone. Oh yeah. And I’m going Oh yeah. And then I’m going behind. And one. Yeah. And one. Let’s go. Let’s go. I like the the sounds, too. The sounds are important. Yo, here’s the thing. Wait. W I got to get one more. 100%. This is a your generation thing. My generation, we didn’t do this. I think it’s in. One more. One more. One more. You’re on the fast break. Foot on the line. Get Get your knees into it. That’s as good as it gets. Let’s go. Bring on the JV team. Where they at? All right, man. The handles are warm. The jump shots wet. Now we got to play the most important basketball game of our lives. The game of horse. Horse is like the most classic basketball game ever. A true test of manhood. Yes. We’re shooting a video for your channel where we’re cooking a really expensive steak. I think loser buys the steak. Oh, 100%. Let’s say less. Say less. Say less. Say less. All right. All right. We’ll start with a layup. No way. No way. I’m going hit that next. All right. I’m going granny free throw. Okay. Take this back. 1958. Will Chamberlain, San Francisco Warriors, Rick Barry. I’m going to go I’m just going to go home. I’m going to redo that. I’m going to redo that. I’m going to redo my move. I know I can hit this. That’s Let’s go. All right. So, basically, you got to dump and throw the ball under your leg and catch it. I got it. Okay. I played basketball before. Wait. Ah, no. I forgot I’m playing against a pro, dude. This is cheesy ass moves. Oh, just a shot from right here, but you got to have your legs like this. That looks so elegant. No way. No way. I kind of wanted to try that. That looks fun. Dang. Finally. Finally, we get one. Wait, that’s lowkey sauce. All right. Thank you. So, you do have Damn. Thank you, young man. That is low-key sauce. Here we go. Oh No. Oh, you made that. Okay, I got an ace ace ho. All right, it’s got to be little Timmy Duncan turnaround fade off glass. You’re 100% making that. Nice. That’s old head. I knew you were. That’s old head move. Utilize the back for it, gentlemen. We wear a suit on game days. Damn it. No, I hit it. I hit it. Turns out it’s also a pretty easy shot for most. It’s got to do the old between the legs layup. Okay. It used to be difficult in my day. Banks open. Banks open. Damn. I’m not even I’m pretty surprised by that. Wow. That’s a crazy shot. All right, let’s go. Left hand. Let’s go to Torres. All right, then we’ll end it with a half. Yes. Son of a I got one. You ever seen White Man Can’t Jump? So, you were watching Bob. GG. He’s down. You agreed to buy $1,000 steak now? I got you, man. Let’s go. GG. You got to leave the tip for lunch then. All right. Bring out that cheat meal. Yes, sir. My goodness. There’s more, dude. There’s more. There’s Thank you, dude. Cheers, man. Cheers. This is insane. But we got the root beer float. We got the mint chocolate chip milkshake here. We got the Long Island iced tea. That’s an aggressive choice. We got the Wagyu sushi A5 torch. A little bit of gluten-free tamari on top. We have the chicken tenders with the sauce. I’m going to tell you what it is. We got like a raisin cane sauce, ranch, barbecue, spicy curry aioli, avocad buffalo, 100% ketchup, honey mustard, pesto, spicy sweet chili. We got the brisket sandwich. We got the brisket mac and cheese, cheesy bacon truffle fries. Oh, and an In-N-Out onion wrap burger. Bro, this is too much. This is too much food. Tell me where you want to start with this, dude. And everything’s free. We took We took very good care. I know. Sorry to the chefs for for that. I know how annoying that is, bro. I mean, let’s go for the mac and cheese cuz I pretty much never eat mac and cheese because I’m gluten-free now. Um, we got the brisket. Oh, man. Mac and cheese. Yeah, he asked me all the cheat meals and I feel like I did a good job. You did a really good job. It had a very clear point of view. Like you’re somebody who loves chicken tenders and mac and cheese, bro. This is insane. We worked out kind of hard. That was like about as hard as I can bench press. First of all, that mac and cheese is absolutely phenomenal. Dude, have you thought about the fact that you’re legitimately one of the most famous basketball players on the planet? Does that like I don’t know about that though, cuz like if you think about it, like I mean I know your your job is to be a creator. It’s to be a YouTuber. It’s running a media company. You’re an entrepreneur. all that, but like a lot of that is because of you playing basketball. That is true. And that’s but that’s like a very new thing in society. Does that does that title kind of like freak you out? It kind of does cuz like when you ever think of like the like most famous basketball players is everyone is so amazing at basketball and I’m like so like obviously compared to NBA I’m like not even close but I’m so mid-tier. So that thought uh it like doesn’t compute like it almost doesn’t make sense cuz like I’m like it’s one the funny thing about that is though is like all the people in the basketball community know I’m like a mid-level hooper like compared to the basketball creators but I feel like all the YouTubers I know that are in other niches, they think I’m this basketball god. Like they think I’m so good. And even some of the kids in the comments are like Jess, why aren’t you in the NBA? So, like the perception people have of me as a basketball player, certain people like they think I’m low-key goated, which I’ll take. I’m not gonna deny it. I’ll like play it up. Anything you would say about you in basketball is literally the same thing with me in cooking. You know what I mean? Like you view you as a god cook. That’s what I’m saying. But ditto with when people are like, “Why aren’t you in the NBA?” All I get from people is, “Why haven’t you opened a restaurant?” I’m like, “Oh, cuz I would lose myself and everybody else so much money doing that.” That is one of the coolest things when like a kid comes up to me and they’re like, “Oh, Jess, you inspired me to play basketball.” I’m like, “Me? Why would you inspire me to play basketball?” Like that always is such like a a surreal feeling. Mhm. Go for the Wagyu sushi. Where’s Can’t believe we have chopsticks for this meal. Yum. This got to be like my favorite item. I think I might go all the way to the spicy sweet chili out there. Why not? We cheated today. Stupid. That’s so weird. But like it works. What was behind the truffle fries? Truffle fries. This is a uh this is a controversial pick. See, I don’t know if people usually do truffle fries on top of the the the cheese and bacon, but I feel like whenever there’s like parmesan uh truffle fries on the restaurant, those are always busting. Like they’re always so good. But I think the truffle may not make as much sense. But we’re going to try it. Maybe we’re going to try. I most places aren’t doing fresh truffle on it. This is a lot. All right, here we go. [Music] No, this is so good. I know you guys are so jealous watching at home. I wish you all could try this and everyone behind the camera. I feel like almost mad like we’re just having all this food. Yeah, it’s kind of weird. Know that we always have a ton of leftovers and everyone eats leftovers, which also sounds kind of weird cuz you deserve more than leftovers. I’m sorry. Please don’t mutiny on me. Oh my god. Do you try and like eat healthy? Like do you do you train like an athlete? Do you treat yourself like an athlete? At times of the year, I definitely do, but it’s I’m really bad at like consistency over like months. So, at the beginning of the year, I was so inspired by Brian Johnson, like his whole routine. So, I was on like his meal prep service and No way. Were you really? I was on his blueprint meal prep service. I was on like the pill stack. I was taking his like longevity. I was on everything. I dude, bro, cuz you don’t understand. I went He had this like creator dinner at his house and I was just like so inspired by it. And then it was like January 2 and you know how inspired you get in January like start of the year. So we had like the whole red light like all the lights in my house would turn like red at 8:00. I was going to say it was like 8:30 and like the whole routine and my body felt like amazing. Never felt better in my life. How hard do you put your weight? Eat. I want to eat a chicken tender. These look phenomenal. Especially with all the dipping sauces, man. I mean if there’s a cane sauce, how do you not go Yeah. Yeah. Wait, I got to I kind of like the chopsticks cuz I can get a longer reach, you No, I only got a 78 in here. Bam. Oh my god. Is that from Canes? I know, man. Everything’s gluten-free on the And to have a crunch on the gluten-free fire. I don’t know how they did that. Okay, we’re going. Shout out. We got to go to these. Who can skins? I can reach you. What? Don’t. Yeah. Yeah. God bless. Like Loki might even throw some barbecue sauce in there. Why not? You’re a sauce guy. Crazy, Dude. Sauce is essential, dude. Agreed. I’m curious about this Long Island iced tea. Yeah, dude. This is I forgot I asked for this. This is like six different kinds of liquor with like a splash of sour mix and coke. Yeah, cuz I feel like if you’re going to get a drink, it’s like why are you eating a drink to get a buzz? Right. And this you get the buzz to pass this. So it’s like But there’s nothing worse than when you order like a drink and you like like Oh, I feel like I’m got more sober from it. Yeah. Now I just got to pee and I’m like I’m at the Jester creator basketball challenge. No, I just want like a giant cup of tequila. No, this one is stronger. This is This is This is We’re not I’m not driving home, man. We have to finish these, right? I’m not going to do that, man. I got nothing to do. So, you shot with a lot of NBA players. What has it been like to actually get the support of the NBA to do that kind of stuff? Cuz that’s a crazy new development, right? Is like the NBA is now like acknowledging that creators are important to them. I would pitch them the craziest video ideas. I was like, “It’s NBA 70th anniversary. Like, I want to go to seven playoff games in Yeah. seven playoff games in 5 days.” And they’re like, “Let’s make it happen.” And that’s like coordinating 11 flights, hotels, and all the different cities and like they try to like solve for yes. Like how can we make what you want to make happen? So it’s just surreal. Like in the act that was probably the craziest week of my life and literally it’s like it’s like you got the NBA and then you got all 30 individual teams or like their own companies. So it’s just like so much coordination between all of them and then like they were just able to have like the craziest hookups. Like I’m shooting half court shots at a timeout. I’m shooting the t-shirt gun at one arena and then like I’m backstage at another. And it was just so surreal to get that content and really just being like a fan of the game and like be able to like dab up Curry. Yeah. As he’s walking by, I’m like living the craziest dream. It it it’s so surreal. And then over the years I got to play in the celebrity game. Um which is always like contest the bucket list playing the sled game. What do you think is like the actual psychology behind why the videos are so popular? Cuz I feel like sports has only gotten more and more serious. Like now if you want to play college like you have to play a you have to be playing travel ball year round. There’s more money in sports. Like do you think there’s this element of joy that we’re kind of missing in sports a lot of the times? I mean sports media is just expanded so much like you can have entertainment in sports and like even sports video games. Like you can have so much just I feel like sports is competition and people just love competition and then I just try to do it with my videos in a really fun way. uh things that are like just crazy sports competitions or just things that are like super interesting. And also I think it’s cool like just like a regular player. So like people seeing me like it’s more relatable like going in trying out for an NBA team like oh this is just a regular dude doing this or like feel like when the kids watch me it’s like most of them are probably just as skilled as I am. So it’s like kind of cool to have that person to watch that’s not always like oh he’s like almost an unattainable level. Like you watch Victor Webbyama you’re like I can’t beat him. There’s no one on the planet that’s like, “Oh, I want to grow up and be Victor Weapon.” Like, there’s a 0% chance that happens type thing. You got to eat the barbecue sandwich. We got to get to the main course. But I was talking to uh Hank Green, the YouTuber. I don’t know if you know him, but he like founded VidCon. Like he’s he’s OG, super super smart. And he was talking to me about that phenomenon of people seeing themselves in YouTubers and people seeing like mainstream celebs as unattainable. He said if Beyonce and Jenna Marbles were in the same room, a fan would go to Jenna Marbles and say, “Holy crap, that’s Beyonce.” You know what I mean? Like they wouldn’t approach Beyonce. They’d approach Jenna because they see her as like a friend. I feel like it’s the same thing with like you and WBY, right? I feel like it’s cuz like famous people, like traditional famous people, it’s like we really don’t know that much about them, but it’s like for me, I I grew up watching YouTubers like I would watch like KSI was my favorite. And it’s like I knew who his mom was cuz his mom was in the videos. cuz I knew who his dad was, like his brother, like and just all like the little details about their lives. And I did the same like with my videos, especially when I like used to vlog every day. It would be like it would be just so raw and just like you would know everything about me. Like I basically like daily vlogs for 30 days cuz I was like I wanted to be a daily vlogger, but in that I’m showing like everything. I’m showing my mom. Like I was literally like crying on camera. Like I would cuz it’s like you’re showing everything in a daily vlog. So, it’s just like it’s like I’m almost like giving people like an insight on my life that you would almost like like like let’s say your best friend like you might not even see them at their lowest like when they’re crying cuz you like put that to yourselves but it’s like if it’s just me and the camera it’s like you see someone at their lowest so you really know them. It’s like the the parasocial but I think that connection makes you like feel like they’re your homie. Dude, this this you don’t even miss the gluten. You don’t even miss the gluten. I can’t believe the bread’s gluten- free. This is like one of the only things we didn’t uh homemake. This is blood so barbecue the brisket. Dude, they they they’re fire, man. They do incredible work. They’re what do you say? Busting. Busting. This is busting. Mhm. Busting. Busting. Busting. Busting. But it means like No. Oh, yeah. I guess it does. I guess it does. I guess it does. But I never thought like about you just say. Yeah. Don’t do it at the same time. It’s not good. Oh yeah. We got the onion wrap. Oh, we got the hat. This is a crazy Listen. Okay, let me explain the onion wrap. Go ahead before you judge me. I got to put the greasy hat on. All right, so In-N-Out, I grew up in Southern California, so In-N-Out is my comfort food. Like the lettuce wrap at In-N-Out is so OD. They give you so much lettuce, and I just love onions. And then I found out you could do an onion wrap. Um, can’t really eat it like a regular burger. I mean, yes, you could do that. Yeah. Do you knife and fork it or do you I lowkey knife and fork it and throw a bunch of ketchup on you? This is Wait, I’m just dipping it straight in the ketchup. Yeah. I usually don’t hold it like that, but it’s more of a knife and fork thing. I’m not going to lie. The best part of the burger is in the middle, too. So, this is just the middle. That’s maybe the craziest sentence I’ve ever heard. The best part of the burger is in the middle, is it not? Yeah, I guess. I guess you’re right. Yeah. Like the middle is Yeah. The burger. Without that, it’s what? It’s It’s barely even a sandwich. Do you like this though? No, not necessarily. I mean, it’s as good as like cheese, onions, and beef eaten with the hands can be. If you told me this is like the national dish of a country that no longer exists, I’d be like, “That makes sense.” You’d be like, “Yeah, they used to make, you know, beef, cheese, and onion patties and just give them to factory workers, but then they stopped being a thing in 1978.” Uh, Jesse, at the end of every meal, we ask every athlete what their definition of strength is. I think it’s being strong for yourself, number one, in any circumstance, and then also being strong for other people in your life. Be being strong. I’m going to say hopefully that sounded profound, but you got to put your all into it. So, being able to put your all into it over time. That’s I keep laughing. I feel like I can’t, bro. I feel like something profound, dude. I feel like it’s such like a a question that all the athletes performing has such good answers. I’m going to stick with that. Yeah, but they’re like they’re media trained. They’re told that question in advance and then they got chat GPT writing their answer, you know? That’s what I’m going with. Being strong, trying your best. That’s good, man. That’s good. Yeah. Oh, no. What is yours? What is yours? What is What I was actually thinking about I was thinking about this cuz people generally don’t don’t ask me and then I’m almost blindsided. I think strength to me is consistently making the right decision over the wrong decision. Because I think everybody roughly knows what the right decision, the wrong decision is in any situation. Even in terms of if you’re an athlete that’s training, right? You’re like, “Do I actually do my rehab today? Do I do this workout? Do I know when to call it quits on this workout?” You know what the right and wrong decisions are? So often we make those wrong decisions. Strength is simply making that right decision more often than the wrong one in every single way. That was clean. I should have said some like that. Our hands are so so greasy. That was clean. That I like that. We definitely made the wrong decision right now. No, man. Nothing’s wrong about this. You see the pile of grease the potato skins are sitting in. Oh my god. Uh Jesse, for real, man. This has been an incredible meal. Thank you for inviting me to your house. Oh, thank you. Teaching me how to hoop, teaching me the the the intricacies of Gen Z basketball, of tricky layups and transition threes. Hell yeah. No, this was dope, bro. Anytime you got a show with food and you want me on, say less. If you need me to judge any dunk contest, that’s like a bucket list item of mine. Oh, bet. No, keep that in mind. I’m sure I’m sure we’re going to do another dunk contest. So, let’s go. Let’s cheers it out. Cheers it out. And finally, how many calories do you think were on this table? We counting like a serving size or the whole thing? Whole thing. Whole thing. I’m say 1,200. All the sauces. Yeah. Yeah. Holy I’m going to say 30 3,000. I’m say,00 89,000. No, I mean 8,900. 8,900. We calculated 14,300. If you really think about this, cuz that’s like eight servings. Without that, you’re about 8,900. But And you can keep this. You can eat this throughout the week. I’m keeping it. Fuel that body, man. Bulk up. Let’s go. Bulk up. If you want to make the league, you got to get get that loot door numbers, man. Uh Jesse, this has been awesome, man. You got anything else to plug? Where can people find you? Um uh you can find me Jesser on socials, YouTube, and uh if you want the best basketball gear in the world, bucketsquad.com. Go crazy. No, but thank you for having me. I will say if you buy one of the Bucket Squad balls and then show up to your local park, you will get so much clout from the 12-year-old kids there. I’m dead serious, man. I’m I’m like a local celebrity there. Nobody watches my cooking videos. I’m just the kid with the Jester ball. Let’s go check out the latest episode of A Hot Dog as a sandwich where you can join me, Nicole, and our guest, John Gabris, as we discuss why fast food hacks are ruining your