TKOR Beginnings
When we started, The King of Random, it wasn’t even called that, nor TKOR. It was a youtube assigned mixture of numbers. We had no comprehension of what it would become, how big it would grow, nor how it would become our lives. We did have an idea that it could; that it was possible.
We sat together; me on the floor and Grant at his second hand desk, the one right there in the photo. He asked me, ‘Are you ok if this gets big?’ I don’t know what it was about the energy in that room; but it was big.
There was a resonance that kept moving, getting bigger and seemed to be calling us to create. He knew it somewhere inside as his eyes sparkled with intention. When I looked at him then, my stomach made a twirl. I felt what he already knew.
There was nothing that could stop him from making those first hundred videos. That was the original goal and idea. We were just gonna make 100 videos and then call it good. That couldn’t be the end though, I knew that.
It was like there was a furnace of desire burning in him that could not be satiated but by the fuel of completing another video. There was no satisfaction at the completion of each video either, other than new open space to make a new one.
With the completion of each video, the desire in him only grew bigger till it seemed like a fire of insatiable proportions. He worked tirelessly. He posted video after video, putting his whole heart and soul into each one.
The first posted project video was Sept 30, 2010. That’s not when the channel started though. The first video that currently shows as the first video, was posted Feb 26 2010 of him and our boys and some friends playing at what we dubbed “the ninja gym.”
It was his first filming passion, not for growth, but for fun. I think he instinctively knew that this would not be what the channel was for. He left it up as a legacy of himself though, and the reason that gave him the courage to start.
It became the first step in the journey of completion and knowing that he could do it. Just a few months later, the first of what would become, ‘The King of Random’ or ‘TKOR' was posted and the legend began. That wasn’t really the beginning either.
That part of the beginning, including the name, didn’t come until a year later when we bought our first house. Now he really settled into what he wanted this to become. Those videos were all just haphazard, and a proof of concept for him.
That’s all what brought us to the floor of our dining room. This dining room that we’d turned into our office; now we had all the evidence needed. It was also the moment when Kip Kay was interviewed and said he was making money on YouTube…
From here, the name was given to our channel. Our channel went from a slew of numbers that marked the day and time, to the channel that we created. The name Grant gave it, that would become his legacy: The King of Random.
At the mention of that name, we both looked at each other and laughed. It felt perfect. I didn’t know that I loved what he said, but it just felt right. I agreed, and he turned to his computer and made that change.
It was one of those moments that you look at each other and feel like… that was big! What just happened!? It felt like everything was about to change; yet we had no idea what to expect, just that there is this knowing that something was beginning.
So the moment that the channel began is varied, but the creation became more real with each starting moment. It was the beginning of many years to come. It was the beginning of thousands of videos in all their evolving forms. It was the beginning of millions of followers who watched and wanted more.