1
00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,800
Speaker 1: I guess what, Well, what's that? So? I was reading

2
00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,280
Speaker 1: up on facts about instruments and music this week and

3
00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,320
Speaker 1: I stumbled into this old fact I had totally forgotten.

4
00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,880
Speaker 1: Did you realize that Lyndon Johnson used to own a

5
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,160
Speaker 1: music franchise? Actually I do vaguely remember that, but I

6
00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,240
Speaker 1: don't remember the full story. So what was it? So

7
00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,079
Speaker 1: this is the part I didn't remember. Apparently, when Eisenhower

8
00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,319
Speaker 1: was president, Johnson sold a contract for music to be

9
00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,120
Speaker 1: played into the White House. How weird is that? So

10
00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,720
Speaker 1: there used to actually be like elevator music just pumping

11
00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,680
Speaker 1: through the White House walls. And weirdly that wasn't the

12
00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,159
Speaker 1: only incidents of music and politics. Yeah, when Nixon was

13
00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,120
Speaker 1: sworn in as president, and this is according to the

14
00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,800
Speaker 1: American Conservative magazine, music was blared across the Washington Mall.

15
00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,960
Speaker 1: And to me, it is literally the weirdest thing that

16
00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,440
Speaker 1: the one thing that both sides of the political aisle

17
00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,559
Speaker 1: can agree on is music. But back to LBJ. He

18
00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,080
Speaker 1: loved music so much that he hung speakers from his

19
00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,280
Speaker 1: trees outside of his ranch just so he could listen

20
00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,840
Speaker 1: while he worked. And he actually made some good money

21
00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,560
Speaker 1: off the ventuare of course, when he actually became president,

22
00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,319
Speaker 1: he sold a franchise so that he didn't have any

23
00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,840
Speaker 1: entanglements while in office. But hearing about lbj's love of

24
00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,280
Speaker 1: music made us wonder, what are some other ways that

25
00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,479
Speaker 1: famous people have made money? And that's what we're covering

26
00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:36,559
Speaker 1: in today's Nine Things. Let's dig in h a their podcast. Listeners,

27
00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,920
Speaker 1: Welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson and as

28
00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,280
Speaker 1: always I'm joined by my good friend man Guesh Ticketer

29
00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,039
Speaker 1: and sitting behind the soundproof glass looking up pyramids schemes.

30
00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,040
Speaker 1: And here's the weird thing, my go we weren't talking

31
00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,280
Speaker 1: about like Ponzi schemes. Tristan is actually looking up ways

32
00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,040
Speaker 1: he can put money into actual pyramids. He wants to

33
00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,080
Speaker 1: bring them back into vogue. Is like I guess townhouses

34
00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,560
Speaker 1: and strip mall restaurants. Anyway, that's our friend than producer

35
00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,480
Speaker 1: Tristan McNeil, and he has such a shrewd business mind,

36
00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,960
Speaker 1: he really does. I didn't realize that until more recently.

37
00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,280
Speaker 1: So we kick this off with the story about l VJ,

38
00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,280
Speaker 1: because it's stunning to me that you could be a

39
00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,240
Speaker 1: politician and super active like LVJ had this reputation for

40
00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,560
Speaker 1: being this operator this line of the Senate, but to

41
00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,360
Speaker 1: also have time to play with the business on the

42
00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,320
Speaker 1: side and help it thrive is just so baffling to me.

43
00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,720
Speaker 1: But one of the things I was thinking about, and

44
00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,880
Speaker 1: this is such a weird story, but it's that time

45
00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,480
Speaker 1: we met Victoria Jackson from SNL. Everything about that story

46
00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,680
Speaker 1: was weird, but this was almost two decades ago. But

47
00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,240
Speaker 1: she was telling us that her dad had told her

48
00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,720
Speaker 1: she needed a backup job because her dad didn't think

49
00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,080
Speaker 1: she could make it as a comedian, so she decided

50
00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,560
Speaker 1: that to pay the bills, she'd become a poet as well.

51
00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,720
Speaker 1: Just makes the world. I mean, it's funny, but it

52
00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,960
Speaker 1: is also interesting to see when actors have backup plans

53
00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,440
Speaker 1: like that. You know. I always think about Nick Offerman

54
00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,120
Speaker 1: from Parks and rec He's a carpenter, as many people know,

55
00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,760
Speaker 1: and has this shop on the side and actually takes

56
00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,200
Speaker 1: missions for things like canoes and mustache combes and other

57
00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,520
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I was listening to this interview

58
00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,240
Speaker 1: with him on Fresh Air. Did you happen to hear

59
00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,000
Speaker 1: this interview? But he was talking about what a relief

60
00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,640
Speaker 1: it was like, not just financially but also spiritually. You know,

61
00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,680
Speaker 1: he'd go to this audition for a pilot or something

62
00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,480
Speaker 1: like that, and you have all this nervous energy after

63
00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,600
Speaker 1: the opera, But instead of drinking, he could actually go

64
00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,960
Speaker 1: and make something and channel that energy into sanding or

65
00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 1: planing wood. And there's just something wonderful about all Right, Well,

66
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,639
Speaker 1: you kick this off with a story about lb J.

67
00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:34,640
Speaker 1: But how about we talk a little bit about a

68
00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,400
Speaker 1: president who lost all his money and then needed to

69
00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,280
Speaker 1: figure out how to make it back. So I'm curious

70
00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,120
Speaker 1: which president this is, because I know there are a

71
00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,080
Speaker 1: few that have gone to this, like, are you talking

72
00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,360
Speaker 1: about Truman? No, I'm talking about Ulysses S. Grant in

73
00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,600
Speaker 1: this case. So you know, it wasn't like Grant was

74
00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,360
Speaker 1: broke actually, but he left office. He settled down in

75
00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,480
Speaker 1: New York and he put a bunch of his cash

76
00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,240
Speaker 1: into Wall Street. Now specifically, he'd put money into a

77
00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,200
Speaker 1: firm where his on Buck was one of the grant

78
00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,920
Speaker 1: Buck Grant and but Grant was not somebody that should

79
00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,520
Speaker 1: have been trusted because, as it turns out, it was

80
00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,360
Speaker 1: just a Ponzi scheme. This was something I looked up

81
00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,000
Speaker 1: and found in Smithsonian. But they solicited investments from Grant's

82
00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,920
Speaker 1: wealthy friends. Then they speculated with funds, cooked the books

83
00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,960
Speaker 1: to cover the losses, and like so many of these cases,

84
00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,359
Speaker 1: before long they went bussed with Grant's money. So what

85
00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,800
Speaker 1: did Grant do after this? He wrote a book, which

86
00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,040
Speaker 1: is something that you expect every former president to do now,

87
00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,280
Speaker 1: but didn't exactly expect that then. But this was with

88
00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,320
Speaker 1: the help of another author, and his name was Mark Twain.

89
00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,240
Speaker 1: That idea, yeah, And so the dying Grant actually wrote

90
00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,760
Speaker 1: a super readable memoir and his wife actually earned over

91
00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,679
Speaker 1: half a million dollars in royalties after he passed away.

92
00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,119
Speaker 1: And that's amazing. I mean, I I guess the lesson

93
00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,240
Speaker 1: there is that if you're going broke, just get your

94
00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:57,520
Speaker 1: friend Mark Twain. Help me out. Mark. So I'm gonna

95
00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,240
Speaker 1: take it from here. I have an idea that should

96
00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,560
Speaker 1: have made a celebrity a ton of money but hasn't

97
00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,599
Speaker 1: because she refused a license for patent. And that's Jamie

98
00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,040
Speaker 1: Lee Curtis. Is an amazing story. Apparently, in seven, Jamie

99
00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,799
Speaker 1: Lee Curtis designed a diaper with a moisture proof pocket

100
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,680
Speaker 1: that would hold baby wipes in it. And the idea

101
00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,039
Speaker 1: was that when you're on the go, you could just

102
00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,920
Speaker 1: pull a wipe from the diaper with one hand as

103
00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,479
Speaker 1: you're changing your baby. Like that, your baby becomes like

104
00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,839
Speaker 1: a white dispenser as well. It's a great idea, made

105
00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,480
Speaker 1: a killing on it. The patent was US zero seven

106
00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,840
Speaker 1: zero one six eight three too, in case you want

107
00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:37,039
Speaker 1: to look at always preferred, But she refused the license

108
00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,560
Speaker 1: her idea unless a diaper company made this biodegradable version.

109
00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,760
Speaker 1: But you know, now the idea is in the public domain,

110
00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,680
Speaker 1: which is kind of amazing, so anyone can use it.

111
00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,240
Speaker 1: But I love that she both had and protected this

112
00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,120
Speaker 1: incredible idea, and also that she turned away money to

113
00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,480
Speaker 1: maintain her ideals. It really is remarkably Also, this is aside,

114
00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,360
Speaker 1: But as I was looking up Jamie Lee, I I

115
00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,720
Speaker 1: learned that he's also a massive, massive World of Warcraft fan,

116
00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,719
Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Curtill, and she'll often wear these elaborate disguises

117
00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,800
Speaker 1: just so she can attend things like comic con or

118
00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,920
Speaker 1: gaming conventions and go incognita. Oh that's pretty cool. Well,

119
00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,719
Speaker 1: here's somebody who's made money in a more approachable way,

120
00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,600
Speaker 1: and that's Jeremy Renner. Jeremy loves to flip houses. And

121
00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,160
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this was inspired by Trading Spaces

122
00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,919
Speaker 1: or any of those home improvement shows, But back in

123
00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,520
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, he was just a struggling actor

124
00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,080
Speaker 1: in Hollywood and he was getting a few guest spots

125
00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,240
Speaker 1: on TV shows, landed in a few indie films, but

126
00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,559
Speaker 1: actually was just scraping by. So he and his friend

127
00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,359
Speaker 1: bought this tiny fixer upper, and the whole idea was

128
00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,040
Speaker 1: really just to have a place to live, and they

129
00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,680
Speaker 1: realized that to make it livable and not to be

130
00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,279
Speaker 1: fighting all the time, they really needed to do a

131
00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,839
Speaker 1: lot of work to the house, so they would do

132
00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,840
Speaker 1: things like at another bathroom. But you know, as they

133
00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,680
Speaker 1: fixed it up, somebody actually came along and offered them

134
00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,200
Speaker 1: way more money than they had put into it, and

135
00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,599
Speaker 1: they decided to go for it. But they actually enjoyed

136
00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,120
Speaker 1: the process so much and putting the work in that

137
00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,279
Speaker 1: they did it again and again, and since then they've

138
00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,040
Speaker 1: actually made millions of dollars on flipping houses, and that's

139
00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,119
Speaker 1: pretty incredible. I do feel like I keep hearing people

140
00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,840
Speaker 1: talk about flipping houses, and it's been going on since

141
00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,360
Speaker 1: the two thousands. We should probably get into it. Well,

142
00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing, is right, Like everyone does

143
00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,800
Speaker 1: this and tends to lose money, but I like he

144
00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,880
Speaker 1: gets so much joy out of working on the houses.

145
00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,360
Speaker 1: It also, to me, it just sounds like such a

146
00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,320
Speaker 1: romantic idea, like farming or something. It's this idea like

147
00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,920
Speaker 1: that you can work with your hands, you get to

148
00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,400
Speaker 1: make all these repairs and like see the fruits of

149
00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,320
Speaker 1: your labor. But I remember when one of our friends,

150
00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,360
Speaker 1: who was an architect, decided to try to flip a

151
00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,600
Speaker 1: house with his wife, and she was saying how awful

152
00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,080
Speaker 1: it was that like every day after work that she'd

153
00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,000
Speaker 1: go home and instead of being able to relax and

154
00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,320
Speaker 1: watch TV, they always have like a big counter in

155
00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,360
Speaker 1: their living room where they'd have to work on something.

156
00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,720
Speaker 1: And just how draining that could be. I can imagine.

157
00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,120
Speaker 1: It just sounds awful. But you know, speaking of hard workers,

158
00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,440
Speaker 1: one celebrity who was a millionaire before he was a

159
00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,480
Speaker 1: famous actor was Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this is when he

160
00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,480
Speaker 1: was in his early twenties. He moved to the US

161
00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,280
Speaker 1: to get deeper into bodybuilding, and he really didn't have

162
00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,440
Speaker 1: much money at the time, but he and his friend

163
00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,120
Speaker 1: decided to go into business as bricklayers, and basically they

164
00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,880
Speaker 1: figured that in between their gym sessions, which were basically

165
00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,160
Speaker 1: all day, they could do this active labor and keep

166
00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,480
Speaker 1: working on their bodies. And initially they thought they'd win

167
00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,080
Speaker 1: people over by undercutting the competition with these super cheap prices,

168
00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,000
Speaker 1: but the business did not take off. So then they

169
00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,080
Speaker 1: decided to go the opposite way, and Arnold had this

170
00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:39,280
Speaker 1: brilliant idea to rebrand themselves as as European bricklayers and

171
00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,640
Speaker 1: Mason re experts European. Yeah, it's bricklaying with an accent,

172
00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,000
Speaker 1: and the whole idea was that you pay more for

173
00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,960
Speaker 1: the European expertise. Anyway, they put this at in the

174
00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,200
Speaker 1: l A Times, and between their own salesmanship and this

175
00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,040
Speaker 1: devastation that happened around the same time from an earthquake,

176
00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,439
Speaker 1: their business quickly quickly took off. And from there, I

177
00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,600
Speaker 1: guess Schwarzenerger just diversified it into real estate and other ventures,

178
00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,000
Speaker 1: and so he was like actually a millionaire before he

179
00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,120
Speaker 1: was on the silver screen. I had never heard that story.

180
00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,280
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, all right, Well, I think we've all

181
00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,880
Speaker 1: heard about fifty cent and his fortune that he made

182
00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,280
Speaker 1: from being an early investor in vitamin water. But he's

183
00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,080
Speaker 1: actually also made some money in surprising ways on the

184
00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,360
Speaker 1: side by taking a chance on a new currency. And

185
00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,160
Speaker 1: of course i'm talking about bitcoin. We're going back to

186
00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,480
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. Fifty was one of the first artists

187
00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,600
Speaker 1: to allow people to pay for his album in bitcoin.

188
00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,840
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're fifty cent and you're trying to

189
00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,240
Speaker 1: sell an album in two thousand fourteen, I'm guessing you'll

190
00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,040
Speaker 1: take any sort of money for that record you can get, right, Like,

191
00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,480
Speaker 1: what was the album even called Hey Mago You don't

192
00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:45,000
Speaker 1: remember two thousand and fourteen's Animal Ambition. Shame well, he

193
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,840
Speaker 1: raked in about seven hundred bitcoin and sales in addition

194
00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,760
Speaker 1: to the traditional sales, which really wasn't bad. I mean,

195
00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,840
Speaker 1: I think it was something like four fifty thousand dollars

196
00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,440
Speaker 1: at the time. But then he just left the money

197
00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,240
Speaker 1: there and accidentally let it grow, and that same amount

198
00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,240
Speaker 1: of money is currently worth over eight million dollars. Now,

199
00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,400
Speaker 1: I love how for someone like eight million dollars probably

200
00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,280
Speaker 1: isn't that much, but how that would obviously be life

201
00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,280
Speaker 1: changing for any of so many pyramids. So, speaking of

202
00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,880
Speaker 1: cryptocurrencies and hip hop artists that I don't think much

203
00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,719
Speaker 1: about today. Quite quite the transition. I'm curious where this

204
00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,840
Speaker 1: sentence goes. It ends with a con. I mean, have

205
00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,160
Speaker 1: you thought about a con because I don't think about him.

206
00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,120
Speaker 1: But The Independent had this article on him, and our

207
00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,120
Speaker 1: researcher Eves found it for me. Um. But apparently he

208
00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,360
Speaker 1: used to be a part owner in a diamond mind

209
00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,199
Speaker 1: and according to the article, he said, when I went

210
00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,559
Speaker 1: to South Africa, I ran to some guys who owned

211
00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,920
Speaker 1: minds and they were like, Yo, we need a face,

212
00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,360
Speaker 1: we need someone that we can partner with. I became

213
00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,959
Speaker 1: an equal partner and so I guess he's been wholesaling

214
00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,960
Speaker 1: diamonds to the US ever since. But it's crazy to

215
00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,439
Speaker 1: me because obviously there are all sorts of labor complications

216
00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,080
Speaker 1: with diamonds. But I do believe he's trying to figure

217
00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,040
Speaker 1: out how to make the practice better. And apparently this

218
00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,559
Speaker 1: isn't just like a fad firm. He's always looking at

219
00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,439
Speaker 1: ways to give back to Africa while also make money.

220
00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,960
Speaker 1: So he's of Senegalese descent and he was surprised that

221
00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,080
Speaker 1: he couldn't tour parts of the country because of electricity issues.

222
00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,520
Speaker 1: So he invested in this company that installs solar street

223
00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,080
Speaker 1: lamps and also creates these solar micro grids. It's called

224
00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,880
Speaker 1: Acon Lighting Africa, and it's been so successful and created

225
00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,720
Speaker 1: so many new jobs that they've actually moved from Senegal

226
00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,559
Speaker 1: into all these other nations. That's super interesting. But you

227
00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,760
Speaker 1: said something about cryptocurrency, right, Yeah, so that's another one

228
00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,319
Speaker 1: of his initiatives. He's launching his own crypto in Africa

229
00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,400
Speaker 1: and working with the Senegalese government to create a coin.

230
00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,280
Speaker 1: And as you put it, quote, I think that blockchain

231
00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,120
Speaker 1: and crypto could be the savior for Africa in many

232
00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,600
Speaker 1: ways because it brings the power back to the people

233
00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:47,640
Speaker 1: and does not allow government to do those things that

234
00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,520
Speaker 1: are keeping them down. So he's obviously got a lot

235
00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,160
Speaker 1: of faith in this. He's also working with the President

236
00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,880
Speaker 1: of Senegal to develop two thousand acres of land. It's

237
00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,360
Speaker 1: supposed to be the first crypto based city with a

238
00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,640
Speaker 1: coins being used as the transactional currency. So it's really

239
00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,400
Speaker 1: interesting experiment and it'll be interesting to see how it

240
00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,160
Speaker 1: develops as well. Definitely. All right, Well, now we've got

241
00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,080
Speaker 1: two facts to go, but before we get to those,

242
00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:24,040
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break, So we're talking about the

243
00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,920
Speaker 1: unusual ways some famous people made their money. We got

244
00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,120
Speaker 1: one fact left each, So what's your last fact of

245
00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,960
Speaker 1: the day. So one thing I think is really fun

246
00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,840
Speaker 1: to look at is how entrepreneurs are in their youth

247
00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,520
Speaker 1: because they always seem to be entrepreneurs right, Like, they're

248
00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:43,000
Speaker 1: always looking for opportunities, they're always just starting different things.

249
00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:44,920
Speaker 1: And as I was looking for stories, I found this

250
00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,080
Speaker 1: one in Fortune about Mark Cuban. I guess you know,

251
00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,640
Speaker 1: he was absolutely the same as a kid, he wanted

252
00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,520
Speaker 1: a new pair of sneakers, so to make money for that, he, uh,

253
00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,160
Speaker 1: he started selling garbage bags door to door and he

254
00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 1: made the money for it. You know, he always had

255
00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,079
Speaker 1: these side businesses. But my favorite one that I read

256
00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,600
Speaker 1: about was that in college used to teach disco dancing

257
00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,600
Speaker 1: in home to people. Like he'd go to people's homes

258
00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:13,079
Speaker 1: just to teach them. So stiff, but apparently he's very

259
00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,959
Speaker 1: loose on the dance floor. And here's his quote from

260
00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,080
Speaker 1: the story. If you get asked by a bunch of

261
00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,360
Speaker 1: stority girls to come to a sorority house to teach

262
00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,360
Speaker 1: girls how to dance for twenty an hour, you do it.

263
00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,400
Speaker 1: That is such a Mark Cuban quote if I've ever

264
00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,920
Speaker 1: heard one, and I'm not sure how lucrative it really

265
00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,760
Speaker 1: was for him, but I do like that he was

266
00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,520
Speaker 1: in demand for his disco skills. All right, Well, my

267
00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,560
Speaker 1: last fact of the day is going to be about

268
00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,440
Speaker 1: Venus Williams, and you know, one of the many things

269
00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,400
Speaker 1: I like about her now and obviously she's made a

270
00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,240
Speaker 1: ton of money playing tennis, but actually if you read

271
00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,640
Speaker 1: about her and Serena growing up on the courts and

272
00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,200
Speaker 1: playing in Compton, it's pretty remarkable, like they used to

273
00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,800
Speaker 1: have to dive on the pavement as drive byes happened.

274
00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,520
Speaker 1: In fact, the courts had been paid for by Freeway.

275
00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,960
Speaker 1: Rick Ross, you know, the cocaine kingpin, who also happened

276
00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,320
Speaker 1: to be a tennis enthusiast. Was not the traditional country

277
00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,320
Speaker 1: club way to grow up, of course, but Venis obviously

278
00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,240
Speaker 1: grew up to be this insanely successful tennis star. And

279
00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,160
Speaker 1: one of the things she's done with that is to

280
00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,120
Speaker 1: launch an interior design company. It's called v Star. Now,

281
00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,800
Speaker 1: the firm has this insane client list. They do everything

282
00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,720
Speaker 1: from NFL and NBA players, homes, the tennis clubs, residential properties,

283
00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,000
Speaker 1: but Williams comes by it all honestly. In fact, she

284
00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,520
Speaker 1: has a degree and fashion design from the Art Institute

285
00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,080
Speaker 1: of Fort Lauderdale, so it isn't just a place to

286
00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,800
Speaker 1: park our money, but something she actually has this very

287
00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,000
Speaker 1: real interest in. Oh, I really love that, and I

288
00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, when you go for Venus Williams Sacks, you

289
00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,200
Speaker 1: know you're going for my heart. I also love that

290
00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,760
Speaker 1: you brought that Freeway Rick Ross story in because that's

291
00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,080
Speaker 1: the story I really want to tell on the show,

292
00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,400
Speaker 1: because it's so great. Is I do think I'm gonna

293
00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,160
Speaker 1: have to give you the trophy this week? All right, Well,

294
00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,520
Speaker 1: thank you and thank you guys for listening. Also thanks

295
00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,440
Speaker 1: to Eve Jeff Code for coming up with so much

296
00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,760
Speaker 1: of today's research. We'll be back with a full length

297
00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:55,600
Speaker 1: episode tomorrow