WEBVTT - Study Hall: HOW BLACK BUSINESSES CAN BE SUCCESSFUL 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.600 An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.480 in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.840 accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.840 filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.680 some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.320 Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.120 Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.680 crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.960 one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.920 are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.000 one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.680 never return. But if you register using our CBP home 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.120 app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.240 Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws, 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.840 border and families will be protected. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.000 Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.960 We got to introduce Kezia just a Domino. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.840 It's crazy because since the last time that we we spoke, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.319 Since the last time that we spoke, you had so 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.080 much stuff going on. You had you had the campaign 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.080 where it was my black was my black receipt, my 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.880 black receipt, and and that was all over. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.000 That was on CNBC, that was on We Saw You CNN. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.880 That was everything. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.280 Yeah, so let's talk about that. I want that's the 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.280 first thing. I want to talk about that, because that 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.440 really took off. And I'm not sure how much money. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.200 I'm sure you can. I got some SATs, I got 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.759 some SATs. Yeah, you did five hundred k in three days. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.680 Let's not let's in three days. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:46.720 We did five million in three weeks and three weeks. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:49.680 Here go to economics. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.520 So what what was that? What exactly was that? 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.720 Yeah, it was such an amazing experience. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.480 I think, like a lot of people out there, especially 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.840 black people, we were watching the civil unrest unfold for 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.440 yet another time across America, and during that time, people 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.560 were really asking the question what can we do, like, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.920 how can we affect change so that George Floyd can 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.560 be the last name that we ever have to say 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.320 in relation to justice. And so I remember people saying 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.320 that maybe it looks like buying black. And though I 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.040 think that buying black is important, I think that there 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.359 are a lot of people on social media that will 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.680 promulgate the narrative of buying black, but we don't actually 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.280 know if they're putting their dollars in black businesses. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:37.960 So I thought about it. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.240 I said, what if we were to actually quantify the 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:42.360 by black movement? 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:43.320 And I called up. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.320 One of my friends who is a tech person, and 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.280 I said, do you think that you could build something 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.240 kind of like Color of Change where people would buy black, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.720 save their receipts, and upload it into a tech platform 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.320 and we could count the impact collectively. And so he 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.160 was like, yeah, I can totally build it. What's the 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.720 timeline like years, six months? And I was like no, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.520 we got like four or five days, child, And I 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.720 was like, but it's okay, we can do and remember 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.200 faith this and sustance of things pro for and the 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.000 evidence of things not yet seen. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:12.760 We can do it. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.679 So he started building a tech platform and I recruited 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.880 a couple of other people to join us, Talent. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.440 Graves, Men's Daryl Perkins, nineteen kids, who's also been on 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:22.920 your show. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.600 Yeah, we decided to just launch it on June teenth 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.600 to see if people would put their receipt where their 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.280 protest was. I mean, we were tired of black people, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.200 black men going into coffee shops and being treated like criminals, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.560 black boys being wearing Monkey in the Jungle t shirts, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.560 and people just protesting for fifteen or sixteen days. The 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.640 Montgomery bus boycott was for three hundred and eighty plus 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.680 consecutive days until we were able to exact the type 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.640 of change that we could feel generations later. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.760 And so my black receipt was just really a reflection back. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.800 So where are we at now with the. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.440 We're in faith two? 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.880 Okay, there we go. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:05.760 Yeah, what happened. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.920 People were saying, okay, but I'm black for one day 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.040 is just not enough, and we have to remind people 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.040 that we did this for seventeen consecutive days. But what 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.560 we realized to the technology is after the seventeenth day happened, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.240 people were still uploading the receipt, and so we decided 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.400 to strengthen the technology so that now when you upload 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.320 your receipt, you can see all of the other transactions 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.680 that you've made over time since June nineteenth. And then 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.440 also we've partnered in the corporate space, so Kroger reached out. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.080 Kroger is super excited to work with us to increase 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.200 their minority supplier pipeline, so there could be more black 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.400 skws on shelves. We've had conversations with other corporations like 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.520 YOP so that we can help strengthen their algorithm around 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.520 finding black owned businesses. And there are a lot of 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.560 other tech companies that are just like, hey, we're not 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.760 doing this hard black thing right, so like how can 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.160 we do that with my black receipt? 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.120 And we're like, cut a check in. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:05.560 We're there, cut a check that simple check. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.599 It's that simple. It's that simple. Now you know your 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:14.960 your inspiration for for many, for many, many people. And 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.680 it's just like anytime we speak to how the energy just. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.760 It's never to say I was just gonna say that. Man. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.760 The reason I love speaking and watching you is because 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.599 the energy is always consistent. It's always consistent. From the 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.000 second we met you. It was just like I sat 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.040 there and all I'm like, yo, I just learned a lot. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.360 I was my brain was hurting. I was like, yo, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.480 that was a lot. And so we were just so 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.240 happy to have you and your episode episode fifty fifty eight. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.560 If you haven't checked that episode fifty eight, shoty what they. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.240 Do doing themselves a tremendous the service, But I wanted 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.800 to ask you a question before we before we let 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:45.440 the public. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:46.040 Act you questions. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.040 It's like we're in the age, like you said, as 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.760 far as you know, put your money where your mouth is, 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.640 put your push, your money where your protest is. I 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.360 like that, But how do we sustain that? Like, how 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.599 do we sustain everybody's talking about buying black right, buying 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:03.400 black right now, and economic empowerment and support black businesses. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.160 But how is that something that we can sustain and 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.000 not just make it a fad, but make it ten years, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.040 twenty years, one hundred year thing. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:13.760 No, that's an. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.240 Excellent question, because buying black shouldn't just be in a 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.039 response to a protest. So yeah, we can tell you 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.919 put your receipt where your protest is, but that should 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.239 be a continuation of what you were already doing. Buying 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.960 black should be habitual, And so let me just say 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.320 that one more time, Buying black should be habitual. At 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.640 the end of COVID nineteen, forty percent of black enterprises 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.000 are expected to close. But Black people spend one point 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.880 three trillion dollars annually. That is money that we're spending 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.640 on our clothes, on our shoes, those are that's money 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.520 that we're spending in our brokerage accounts. You know, I 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.359 watched market Mondays from time to time. That's money that 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.279 we're spending on our hair, on our lashes. So every 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.280 single time you think about making a purchase, the mentality 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.680 should always be how not buy it black owned? And 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.360 for those people who have had the excuse to say 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.839 I don't have a black owned business in my neighborhood, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.600 at least for COVID if you needed a reason, A 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.880 lot of people are buying online. So when you have 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.240 websites like we by Black, when you have other enterprises 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.040 like those that have whole list of businesses all across 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.520 the country that do business and physical spaces will also 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.040 do business online, there is no excuse. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.560 But also I think in order for. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.000 Us to sustain the bi black movement, we have to 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.720 afford black entrepreneurs a measure of grace. So I know, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.560 we're used to the whole Amazon you order at five 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.640 point thirty four and your package shows up at four 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.800 five thirty five PM just a minute later, because they got. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.600 Logitus like that. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.560 So for most entrepreneurs, they are working nine to five 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.080 and then they're coming home and they're building their businesses 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.440 six pm to midnight. These are entrepreneurs that are bootstrapping 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.320 their way to financial success. So when it comes down 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.920 to doing business with a black entrepreneur, we have to 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.360 make sure to level. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:07:59.960 Sent our expit. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.160 The other thing is Black entrepreneurs need to charge what 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.120 it's worth, and black customers need to pay exactly what 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.520 it costs. A lot of people are out here running 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.760 around here asking for friends and family discount. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:12.880 Y'all ain't even related. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:20.720 Yeah, talk to them, talk to them. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.480 Like, breathe it on. People. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.400 Give you the CODs, all of that money that you're saving, 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.760 take that and put it into a black enterprise right now. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.679 Perhaps black entrepreneurs won't feel like they have to beg 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.880 barl and steal just for a dollar. If we say first, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.840 every single time we make a purchase, how can we 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.559 recycle our dollar and be black with our dollar in common. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:39.960 With our sins. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.640 I mean this is this is a powerhouse. This is 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:43.560 a powerhouse. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.760 Asking for friends and family discount, man, I said plate. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.080 Cousin, Nah, I can't give it to you. I can't 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.920 give it to you up at the barbecue. If it's real, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.280 we go into the book, my guy, my guy, this 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.720 is my boy right here, darreus. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.400 What's going on? I'm to sell you been, I'm muted? 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.760 Have you there be right there? 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:11.480 What's up, bro? 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.040 What's really going down? 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:13.320 Yeah? 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:15.760 What's good? 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:18.160 Uh? 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:24.959 Queen my black receipt that's historical right there, that's historically. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:26.679 That's his story. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.880 She really, she really with with that, with that, with that, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:35.000 that idea out there really showed, you know, not only 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.240 entrepreneurs but also consumers that, hey, spending money with my people. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.200 There's nothing wrong with me spending money with my people. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.240 M absolutely, yeah, that's right. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:44.800 Real talk. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.080 I don't have to be scared to spend money with 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:47.600 my people. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:49.920 No, it should be a badge of honor. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.520 Absolutely, it should be second nature. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.800 Come on now, come on now, let me get off 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.839 in plate. It should be saying nature straight up. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:02.960 I guess, I guess. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:03.240 Uh. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.880 I don't really have no question. I don't really had 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.560 no question. I actually had a question from from my 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.080 BC brother. But me and me and me and me 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.160 and kazill With we're friends on Facebook. So I see 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.040 all of her posts. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.880 Listen, you've been following Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.199 I see all her posts. I don't don't. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.200 I don't, I don't miss nothing. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.120 She drops. Thank you so. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.360 Much for the love. I really appreciate it. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.000 Yeah, what so what what are the plans? So is 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.920 there is there an idea or concept, uh to take 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.360 my Black receipt to a to another level? 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.400 Yeah, And I want to reiterate that we're partnering with corporations, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.080 that we're strengthening our technology. Our goal is not to 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.480 make it so difficult to hold on to a receipt, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.160 take a picture and uploaded. But how can we build 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.599 the type of software where when you buy Black, we 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.679 can automatically record the purchase. 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Hiring Indeed is 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:50.280 all you need. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.760 You can figure out what percentage of purchases we're actually 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.520 spent in black owne in a bread. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.560 That makes sense. That well, that really shouldn't be too 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.880 easy because in my business I have I have an 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.960 app that I use to take pictures of my receipts 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.160 to keep track of my taxes. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.640 So you know, kind of like a quick book. Yeah, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.760 something something like that. So we're cooking up something, We're 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.000 not sitting on our hands. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.720 The chef ag gonna give away the recipe. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:23.120 Yeah around, yo, love bro, We're gonna see We're gonna 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.560 see you on breaking bread. We're gonna see you in 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.440 the book club. Obviously, always love bro, Appreciate you. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.600 Yeah, yeah, I love it, love it. Let's let's go, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.320 let's go to I'm gonna say this, Lenia. Hopefully I 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.560 got that right, Lenia, what's going on? They told me 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:45.560 to trust my instinct when I'm saying these names. That's it, right, Damn, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:47.080 It's okay. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.720 It's okay. I love you guys too. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.520 So first I want to say, I'm so thankful that 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.480 I found you guys, because this COVID put me through 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.720 a real bad depression and it. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.800 Just helped me. It made me take faith I brought up. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.880 I'm so nervous. I can't believe that I'm talking to 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:11.040 you guys. Sorry, what you guys, what you guys doing 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.240 is so helpful for me. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:19.280 I'm a black entrepreneur, I'm a procrastinator. So this COVID 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.200 had made me open my eyes and stopped procrastinating and 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.760 realizing that I could have done so much. But then 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.680 the times, you know, fear as you guys have stayed 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.760 in earlier, stopped me. So I first time purchasing stops 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.200 just listening to the podcast when I feel like I'm 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.080 wasting time, when I'm on the bus or the train, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.720 I'm on the podcast, listening to the podcast, taking down notes. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.120 I just know the end of this year is something 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.760 great is going to happen because I have so much 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.400 information and knowledge due to you brothers and everybody else 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.360 that's on the podcast. So may God continue to protect 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.760 you and bless you and thank you. Uh you know, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.120 I'm just having issues logging in, but I know that's 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.960 going to be fixed, and I'm just so excited to learn, 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.840 just to learn. I purchased so much information doing this COVID, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.440 and thank God for the codes that you guys have 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.160 been giving out, like the BUDGETNISA. You guys so I 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.520 know I'm in great hands. So I just wanted to 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:15.400 say thank you. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.040 Oh, thank you, thank you man. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:18.960 Ye shout the Tiffany man. She's amazing too. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.440 Appreciate it, appreciate it. Thank you for your support. And 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.200 we have to talk about that too. Mental health is 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.400 a real situation in our community right now, so make 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.160 sure you check on your neighbors, check on your friends, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.520 check with your family members, show some compassion because you 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.120 never know what somebody's going through. It's difficult times right now, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.240 being isolated, especially for children not going to school with 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.960 their counterparts, not being able to play sports a lot 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.040 of times, so you know that that that toll is 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.720 is draining and you know, to be by yourself all day. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.600 So in the midst of you know, this is an 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.560 entrepreneur show, but all of that goes in the part 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.320 as far as you can't be you can't you can't 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.400 be successful in business if you're not mentally sharp, if 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.600 you're not physically sharp. So we need to we need 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.400 to eat good, we need to you know, we need 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.640 to work out, and we need to socialize, and we 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.320 need to make sure that you know, these these are 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.480 trying times that we're in not just financially, but mentally, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.639 and we have to, like I said, we have to 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.880 be compassionate with each other and we have to really 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.679 take that into consideration before you, before you snap on somebody, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.119 or before you go off on somebody, just consider what 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.120 they might have went through. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.320 You never know what's what somebody's going through. And no 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.120 one is exempt, and I want to make that very clear. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.480 No one's exempt from going through these type of situations. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.240 No one's exempt from depression, no one's exempt from anxiety. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.440 That's what comes with being in the state that we're 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.800 in right now, especially as a country. So we always 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.280 employ you to reach out, text someone, call someone, go 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:40.400 through your contact list. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.680 You never know what one conversation you can do. Man, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.240 I've seen it happen so many times. With just one 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.359 conversation letting somebody know that you're thinking about them, it 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.080 could change everything, could change their life. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.200 So we employ you to do that for sure. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.560 Sure, So let's let's get let's get a few more questions. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Johnathan, were coming to you? 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.960 What's going on? Johnathan? Im mute yourself, you've been unmuted. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:02.640 What's going on? 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:03.480 What's going on? 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:07.520 You guys can hear me here. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:08.320 You guys can hear me. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:15.440 Yeah, you clear, perfect, perfect, No, man, appreciate you guys 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.000 taking my questions today are but before I is a question, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.240 I just want to say, you know, I appreciate you guys. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.120 You know you guys have I got my r A 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.680 A count, I got my independent of Broodge account. I'm 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:32.640 investing into options. I'm also investing into stocks long term. Also, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.240 I'm a license in the show contract. I invested into 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:36.800 real estate. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:43.240 So qu Queens of Brooklyn, Queens of Brooklyn, Huh you're 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:43.720 from Queens? 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.280 Are you from Brooklyn? Hollo o? 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:53.879 No. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.760 So I really appreciate you guys. And it's crazy because 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.480 I was procrastinated to get to join me. Why you 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.359 know that episode that you guys drive with D Dash. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.240 Once you guys hit that fifty, I'm like, oh, man, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.520 I gotta get Now is the time for me to 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:09.920 get it? 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.040 Like I've been procrastive. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.640 I was procrassat it you guys one time back down 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.920 to thirty percent, I'm like, oh, once you got to 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.320 the back drop with D Dash, I was like, man, man, 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:20.800 And That's. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.800 How I'm feeling right now, you know, Like I'm. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.520 Coming from Jersey. I just made over three thousand dollars 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.640 on a small job for somebody contracting. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:28.640 So I'm doing the. 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.320 Backdrop while driving back to Harllan right now. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.960 So call them get the money. What's your question, bro, Well, 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:36.680 the question for the queen is you know how? 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.840 You know how when you find yourself coming up with 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:42.479 this idea? 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:42.840