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Speaker 2: All right, All right, guys, welcome back to our religion podcast.

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Speaker 3: This is a very special edition La edition.

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Speaker 2: Yeah Cali Loved Shots, California, whole state of count shouts, open, shout, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: shouts over shout the Sacramento sho out to San Diego,

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Speaker 2: all over So you know, as we said before previously,

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Speaker 2: you know, the message of financial literacy is something that.

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Speaker 3: We need to spread all over the world, all over

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Speaker 3: the country.

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Speaker 2: So this is a dope trip for us when we're

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Speaker 2: on the West Side and we're connected with a lot

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Speaker 2: of great people. And you know, the premise of our

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Speaker 2: show if you are a loyal listener or if you're

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Speaker 2: just a new listener, the premise of our show is

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Speaker 2: that we tell the financial backstories but behind sports entertainment

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Speaker 2: business also. But it's comedy based around sports entertainment, right,

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Speaker 2: because a lot of times people don't fully thank or

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Speaker 2: they don't fully understand what goes into it. They just

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Speaker 2: watch the NFL, they watch a movie and watch Netflix.

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Speaker 2: But every business is a business, right.

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Speaker 4: We find that everything is a business, right, Education that's

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Speaker 4: a business. But every everything always comes back to the money.

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Speaker 2: It always comes back to my much. It always comes

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Speaker 2: back to your money. So with that being said, we

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Speaker 2: was lucky enough to connect with the brother Romyo Brown,

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Speaker 2: who is a actor and producer of entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does a lot. He does a lot some

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Speaker 3: of the you know shows that he's been in. The

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Speaker 2: We have swat obviously the rookie just finished being married,

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Speaker 2: Jean congratulations showing love.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Atlanta, thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: It was good to so, you know, when I connected

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Speaker 2: with him on the phone, we spoke and I'm like, well, no,

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Speaker 2: we definitely really gotta get you on the show if possible,

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Speaker 2: because he just had a lot to say and you

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Speaker 2: know a lot of just good information that I think

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Speaker 2: would be very valuable to everybody to soak in.

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Speaker 3: So, first and foremost, thank you for coming on the show.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it. So we're numb right into it.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you're an actor, right amongst other things.

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Speaker 2: But we'll talk about the first segment as far as

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Speaker 2: aspirations of being an actor, right, It's kind of like

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Speaker 2: Watched the Oscar, We watched these awards shows. Watch everybody

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Speaker 3: Whatever. The building blocks that marketing gave me was.

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Speaker 5: And we're not talking about the most valuable player, it's

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Speaker 3: That's a fact.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that because it all intertwines, right,

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Speaker 2: It all into twines when we talk about entertaining entrepreneurship business.

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of duty to podcast, is that everything

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Speaker 3: Right. So, like what you just broke down with the

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Speaker 2: Everything you said that before about it, it makes a

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Speaker 3: And when that happens financially, you start to feel cripple.

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Speaker 5: You're like, here, I am working at this damn Starbucks,

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Speaker 5: But that's because they started looking outside and set the inside.

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Speaker 5: If you would have just kept your little apartment, stay bob,

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Speaker 5: Don't come into it then because you're following a dream.

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Speaker 4: It's like you'll see who has a passion and who's.

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Speaker 3: I was goin to.

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Speaker 3: I would through he got paid more than five thousand.

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Speaker 5: Now, when you get you gotta understand the business of acting,

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Speaker 3: If my quote right now.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it because because.

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Speaker 5: They know it will catapult my career to the next level.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: So when you see these people that you don't know,

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Speaker 3: No, no, and you know who does make money like that?

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Speaker 5: When you see people like flow, that flow is the

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You gotta control your destiny.

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Speaker 4: All that is is not it's like the slavery time period.

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Speaker 3: When we people just like anybody else, you know. And

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Speaker 5: Us it's so good because what happens is as African

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Speaker 5: So instead of laughing with us, you're laughing at us.

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Speaker 5: It took those color lines off because we didn't need

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Speaker 3: Adn't see no guns. It was just a black family

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Speaker 5: And you didn't say, oh, it's a black movie because

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Speaker 3: You know, everybody was just happening. Yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 4: But it was like I think China had this conversation,

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Speaker 3: We need that. It's coming, it's coming, It's it's coming.

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Speaker 5: Is And I'm almost ashamed because when I saw Black Panther,

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Speaker 5: We're talking about superheroes the whole time.

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Speaker 5: I'm not hating on it. But to see it and

439
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Speaker 5: we be this old and have to take a breath

440
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,800
Speaker 5: like wow, it.

441
00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 3: Just shows you what happens.

442
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,880
Speaker 5: And then now you start to see that we can

443
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,360
Speaker 5: tell our own stories, we can start producing. Because that,

444
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,000
Speaker 5: I would say is what changed me as an actor,

445
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,680
Speaker 5: because I was like, you know what, up, I can

446
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 5: tell my story. My story is from Oakland. My story

447
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,200
Speaker 5: is about my family, my little sister of my baby

448
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,680
Speaker 5: sister has breast cancer. There's a lot of things going

449
00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,399
Speaker 5: on in Oakland that I don't approve of, but I

450
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,520
Speaker 5: feel like I had a hand in that because I'm a.

451
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,399
Speaker 3: Very educated person. I'm very well spoken.

452
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 5: But if if everybody who has talent leaves the city,

453
00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 5: and that's what we just hand back, who's.

454
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,200
Speaker 3: Walk is at? And that that leads us to our

455
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Speaker 3: next segment.

456
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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about what you're doing behind the scenes

457
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 2: and also the town oh until job?

458
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 3: All right?

459
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,159
Speaker 2: So okay, so now we talked about you know, your

460
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 2: journey and getting into Hollywood and the journey of any actor,

461
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 2: but we want to get behind the scenes as well.

462
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,360
Speaker 3: Right, So you are not just an actor, you're a producer.

463
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 2: As well, right, And you got a couple of interesting

464
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 2: projects that you're working on.

465
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 3: We're gonna get to that, but all right, can.

466
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Speaker 2: You talk about your journey from being an actor to

467
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 2: wanting to be a producer and so how that looks

468
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,159
Speaker 2: because now that's strictly like you got to be a

469
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 2: businessman or woman to be an actor, right because you

470
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 2: got to be on top of.

471
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Speaker 3: Your petn Q.

472
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 2: But if you're a producer, you definitely have to be

473
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 2: because that's what it is. Right Like now you're actually

474
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 2: you know, have a budget. You got to allocate that budget.

475
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 2: You got to try to get the budget, you got

476
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 2: to know how much money. You gotta have proposals and

477
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 2: all that stuff. So that is actually even to me

478
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 2: even more important because you the purple person behind the

479
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,080
Speaker 2: camera has more power than the person in front of

480
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 2: the cameras. And this is why we talk about images

481
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 2: as far like what you just said about black Panther

482
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 2: and how we're portrayed, you know, in the media and

483
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: all that stuff, is because the person behind the camera

484
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,719
Speaker 2: for so long didn't look like us, right, so they

485
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 2: can they can dictate whatever they want as a narrative.

486
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 2: It's concerna right, So can you talk about the journey

487
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 2: behind the camera and what that looks like from your perspective,

488
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 2: because I'm sure it's interesting. You know, you're learning as

489
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 2: your goal, so I'm pretty sure it. Well, one thing

490
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 2: we want to express. First is what happens.

491
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Speaker 5: Between a movie and a book, which you will also

492
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 5: relate to Instagram. If we all watch a movie or

493
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 5: see the same post, our mind's eye has been forced

494
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 5: to see the same thing, right.

495
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 3: But if you get a book, we can all read

496
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Speaker 3: the same book.

497
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 5: But if we broke down that girl in it, the guy,

498
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 5: even the dog, everybody's opinion of that will look so

499
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 5: different interpretation, right. And see, that's the problem with the

500
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 5: world we live in today. Everybody's allowing people to force

501
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 5: their opinions just by watching stuff. So what I wanted

502
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 5: to do was once I realized that, I'm like, yo,

503
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 5: it's such a visual world.

504
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 3: That's why Instagram is flourishing, because you know what I mean,

505
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 3: People just want to see. People just want to see,

506
00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 3: They want to see, they want to see.

507
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Speaker 5: And that's why I don't have tons of Instagram followers

508
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 5: because I just still want to be part of that world.

509
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 5: I just did not want to be part of that

510
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 5: world as as long as I've been doing it. Like

511
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 5: if you look at my credits, like if I wanted

512
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 5: to do that, I could have did that when I

513
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 5: was on tour, but I didn't want to be like, hey,

514
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 5: get this picture with me, either to me, you know, and.

515
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 3: A struggle behind was still struggle. You know.

516
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,479
Speaker 5: I had bought the property, but to keep up property

517
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 5: it's hard too. I had people moving in and moving

518
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 5: out on me, all of that. But once I realized

519
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 5: that visually things changed lives, I said, Okay, either you could,

520
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 5: you know, you could either do it or don't because

521
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 5: it's going to leave you behind. So how do you

522
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 5: change people's opinion about it or how do you make

523
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 5: yourself feel good about doing it? And the only way

524
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 5: I have to do that was to tell my story,

525
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 5: to tell what I knew first, because once I understand anything,

526
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 5: and not to go off track.

527
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 3: But I just got an amazing job, an amazing job.

528
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 5: I work as an IT tech where we install smartphones

529
00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 5: and security for celebrities and major companies. And when I

530
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 5: saw all these wires, all this stuff, I'm like, yo,

531
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 5: I'm gonna.

532
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,239
Speaker 3: Get fired next week. This is around, I'm gonna lose

533
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: the best job I got in a week.

534
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 5: But as I started to understand it and understanding it,

535
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 5: I'm rocking.

536
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 3: Now, you know what I mean? I feel like they

537
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 3: do that to us with too stocks.

538
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 5: They make us not understand it all these all these

539
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 5: words they use so you don't understand anyway, But now

540
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 5: I understand.

541
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 3: So when I said, was look, I'll tell.

542
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 5: My story in a way that makes me feel comfortable

543
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 5: and it opens the eyes to things. And I feel

544
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 5: like Oakland right now is being like taken over. I

545
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 5: feel like my city is being like literally ripped. Nothing

546
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 5: from the the original Oakland will be there. The raiders

547
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 5: are going, the warriors are going. All these things are happening.

548
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 5: So I was like, listen, how do I how do

549
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 5: I show my point of view? So I just start writing.

550
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 5: I just start writing. You know, I know the pain

551
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 5: come from my family because, like I said, my family

552
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 5: was never broken. You know, I never had a broken family.

553
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 5: My parents did a divorced to till two years ago, you.

554
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 3: Know what I mean. But they were together. My mom

555
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 3: had me at sixteen, you know what I'm saying. So

556
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 3: you know their separation is you know, on them.

557
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 5: But everybody poured so much love into me when I

558
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 5: was home, and when they told me to go, that's

559
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 5: all I did. I never looked back once, you know

560
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 5: what I mean. And when you leave a piece of

561
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 5: a puzzle leaves I feel like there's a gap and

562
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 5: that's what I'm just trying to fix now. So on

563
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 5: this producing side, I can't say that I'm a master

564
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 5: producer or even a master writer. I just know that

565
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 5: I'm a good captain. I know, I know I hired

566
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 5: the appropriate people to do it, and I know that

567
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 5: I speak with enough passion and.

568
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 3: They believe me. They don't just jump on and be like, Oh,

569
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it. Oh I'm gonna do this. No,

570
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 3: I don't know how to do this. Can you help me?

571
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 3: That's what I can't do that that's important right now?

572
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 3: Help me? And knowing that is important, right, you know what,

573
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 3: I'm not great at this. Let me find somebody who

574
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: is great.

575
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 4: And the fact that you're even doing it and acknowledge

576
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 4: them is like the inspiration behind it, right because they

577
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 4: might be a kid that's watching, like, you know what,

578
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 4: he did it, He's from here.

579
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 3: I got a chance, right, you know what I'm saying.

580
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 3: And that's that's dope.

581
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 4: Like when you're doing you're doing the work, but you

582
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 4: don't know that the impact that it's happening a trillions,

583
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 4: even barns, that's dope.

584
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 3: And then financially, on the financial side of it.

585
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 5: You are one hundred percent correct, because what happens is

586
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 5: is me sitting behind the camera saying, Okay, this project

587
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 5: may cost me one hundred thousand dollars, and if I'm

588
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 5: gonna get that hundred dollars, and I'm gonna take it

589
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 5: out and say my condo that I own, now, that's

590
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 5: my money.

591
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 3: That's my money. So now you're sitting behind.

592
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 5: This camera saying, who's gonna do the best job to

593
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 5: get me my money back?

594
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,239
Speaker 3: That's what every actor needs to understand. You're coming up

595
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 3: in this game.

596
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 5: I don't care who you are. My job behind that camera.

597
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 5: Everybody's on this side. Who's gonna get our money back?

598
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 5: You could be a better actor, but that dude has

599
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 5: a name, So don't go beat yourself up. I want

600
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 5: my everybody want their money back. I don't do it

601
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 5: for the love of it. If I put one hundred

602
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 5: thousand dollars in, I at least better get my money

603
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 5: that And I think a lot of actors get in

604
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 5: this game think about themselves or in the business side,

605
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 5: because I did too.

606
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: That's all I was thinking about, Like, yo, I want

607
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 3: to do this, I want to do some own this.

608
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 3: When I would have.

609
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 5: Really thought about the business and say, listen, you got

610
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 5: to see it from their eyes and see what they

611
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 5: want to be seen as opposed to you just trying

612
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 5: to be this character, because when you understand the investment,

613
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 5: then you put a little bit more blessed well and

614
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 5: tears into that character because it's like, listen, you got

615
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 5: to be the best.

616
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 3: If I'm putting my money on you. Yeah, I'm put

617
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 3: my money on you.

618
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you so, all right, if I'm

619
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 2: a kid in college or high school, whatever, and I

620
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 2: have dreams of writing a show for Netflix or a

621
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 2: movie or whatever, how would I go about raising money?

622
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: What avenues is it to actually raise.

623
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 5: Money to you know, put a project together? I would say,

624
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,959
Speaker 5: do not do not go around trying to raise money.

625
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 5: Submerge yourself in the craft.

626
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 3: Whatever it is you're doing.

627
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: When you you know it's right, when it's at the

628
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 5: level it needs to be at, the money will come.

629
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 5: Submerge yourself in that. Like you gotta find like you

630
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 5: need to be in a class.

631
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 3: You need to be in this. You needs to be

632
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 3: in that.

633
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 5: Because I'm telling you whenever whenever I'm not feeling good

634
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 5: is because I have I've stepped out of bounds. I'm

635
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 5: not in the gym. I'm not an acting class. I'm

636
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 5: not doing the things that I need to do to

637
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 5: do it. But I promise you, when you stay in

638
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 5: the when you stay in the cipher, it comes out

639
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 5: of the woolworks and when you got something good too.

640
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 5: Some people got to understand when bullshit is bullshit and

641
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 5: God can't.

642
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 3: Help you it, don't take you gotta take these tips.

643
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 3: If you ain't got the shit right, you know what

644
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 3: I mean. But if you got a product.

645
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 5: And you stay with it, and you stay humble, and

646
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 5: you stay just pressing it, fixing it, press it and

647
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 5: fix it, trying to raise.

648
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 3: Money, don't let that be your focus.

649
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 5: Make sure that make sure that that thing that you're

650
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 5: doing is as good as it can be. Like that's

651
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 5: why when I when I wrote that, when I wrote

652
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 5: the Town and then I put it out there, it

653
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 5: was like you delivering a baby out into the world.

654
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 5: And then when people was like, yo, this is fire,

655
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 5: I was like, that was my first time out the gate.

656
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 5: What can I do? What else can I do? So

657
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 5: I would say, don't don't focus on money, don't focus

658
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 5: on other people's ideas of what you're doing.

659
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 3: Just make it the best it could be.

660
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 5: Even an acting people are like, oh, give me a

661
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 5: tip on this, or give me a tip on that.

662
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 5: I was like, no, how do I find an agent? No,

663
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 5: go to a class that is a good class. Not

664
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 5: because they got this huge name. Wasting all your money.

665
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 5: Not wasting all your money because you going people being

666
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 5: a thousand dollars of acting classes and barely even going up.

667
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, don't do that. What you

668
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 5: want to do is dumb down your life. Dumb down

669
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 5: your life so that you can really see what's what

670
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, So you can say, hey,

671
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 5: you know what, I'm wasting money on this, I'm wasting

672
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 5: money on that.

673
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: Live less so you can live more, you know what

674
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: I mean. Start to really break those down.

675
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 5: The mint app is huge, Like people worry about, oh

676
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 5: I don't know how to like thous my books or

677
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 5: you notice the men that you put your bank account

678
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 5: stuff in there, it'll show me.

679
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,239
Speaker 3: And it was baffling to me. I was like, oh,

680
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not spending that much money. I'm okay,

681
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 3: it's only like ten thousand, ten dollars there fifteen to

682
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 3: twenty when men put it up. It's like, Yo, you

683
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 3: spent eight hundred dollars on leisure.

684
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, I didn't. That's impossible. Yeah, and put

685
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 5: when you can see it, it's there because we got it. Yeah,

686
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 5: And so ask you a question. Focus on the passion,

687
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 5: because when you focus on the passion, I promise you

688
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 5: the universe is going to work in your favor.

689
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 3: Because that's that's important. Man.

690
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 4: So I'm going back to the part where like from

691
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 4: a financial standpoint, how somebody can get into acting as

692
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 4: far as raising and dedicating themselves to the craft. But

693
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,719
Speaker 4: you said before you got to cal State Northridge, there

694
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 4: was a program that you were in for acting. Absolutely, yeah,

695
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 4: you talk about that little bit, summer Bridge program. Summer

696
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 4: Bridge program saved my life.

697
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

698
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 5: What happens is summer Bridge program only takes something I

699
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 5: think maybe one hundred students or whatnot. They only take

700
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 5: actually thirty abroad, and then they keep the other ones

701
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 5: right here Los Angeles and they take the kids who.

702
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 3: You know had the numbers and you know, maybe had

703
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: the grades but just.

704
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 5: You know, either one thing didn't work out or you know,

705
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 5: they knew they wouldn't get into the colleges they needed immediately.

706
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 5: So you go into the Summer Ridge program, which allows

707
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 5: you to go to the college that summer before your

708
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 5: first year.

709
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 3: So it just it.

710
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 5: Changed everything about me going into college because I had

711
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 5: a group of kids. It was about eighty of us,

712
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 5: and we had Pan African studies, we had one of

713
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 5: the history classes in one of the elective classes. All

714
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 5: of us we started with a chip on our shoulder anyway,

715
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 5: because we felt like we should have got in the

716
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 5: way everybody else got in.

717
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 3: But when you know you're.

718
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 5: Going against people who know exactly how to get into college,

719
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 5: I just wasn't taught that, you know. I thought I

720
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 5: thought I was good, you know, but you don't know

721
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 5: that you're going against everybody else. Indeed, you going against

722
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 5: everybody in the United States. So it really helps me

723
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 5: out in one way because A got me into college.

724
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 3: B It gave me a home.

725
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 5: I felt at home before I happen to deal with

726
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 5: this big college thing, you.

727
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 3: Know, Oh my god, I'm going to college. Didn't feel

728
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: like that. It felt like I was in.

729
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 5: High school still because I had this group of people

730
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 5: that was with me before, and then we had our

731
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 5: own rais, which is a resident advisor so when we

732
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 5: came in our freshman year, we was kind of like sophomores.

733
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 5: People was coming to us asking us questions like, oh,

734
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 5: how you get here or how you do this? We

735
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 5: were like, oh, you're trying to get over there, it's

736
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 5: right there. Oh the lunshrow is right here. Then you

737
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 5: got your crew, so you feel you feel safer in

738
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 5: a safer environment when you already have your classes and

739
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 5: the professors was like hand on, the resident advices was

740
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 5: hand on.

741
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 3: Whatever your weakness was, they had people.

742
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,239
Speaker 5: There to literally help you do it, like literally, like

743
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 5: anything that you were bad at, they weren't letting you

744
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 5: out of there with being.

745
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 3: That same weakness.

746
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 4: That's because a lot of the people don't have that

747
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 4: old things when they go to college.

748
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: So like the programs like that. Definitely, the summer Ridge

749
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: is big. Summer Ridges big.

750
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 5: And then I was gone, like I didn't have that

751
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 5: time to even think about, oh I might not do it,

752
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 5: so I may not do that.

753
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 3: One week after I graduated, I was gone. I ain't

754
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 3: never been that to.

755
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 5: Open sens not I mean, not to live obviously, you know,

756
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 5: to visit vand but since I left, it was like

757
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 5: I ain't going back to open you know what I mean.

758
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: Now, what you said was key as far as and

759
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 2: we said that at the time, you gotta stay down

760
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 2: til you come up as far as don't work. It's

761
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 2: interesting you said don't worry about getting funded in because

762
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: a lot of people dm us and because we you know,

763
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 2: we talk about the streaming walls, right but Apple getting

764
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: and streaming and Netflix and Fox and all that stuff.

765
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 3: So right now it's a good time, I.

766
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: Think for creators because there's a lot of different opportunities,

767
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: right And people they asked that question. That's why I

768
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: asked you. People were like, well, how did idea? But

769
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 2: how do I get in front of Netflix or how

770
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: do I get in front of Amazon? How do I

771
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 2: get in front of Apple? Where I can you know,

772
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 2: pitch this and get a series. But your thing is,

773
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: don't worry about just put out have a good quality

774
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 2: product first.

775
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 3: The energy will just align with the universe has a.

776
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 5: RELI it's meant to be absolutely I mean, I mean,

777
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 5: that's that's just what I believe, because there's no way

778
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 5: that if you're giving your absolute off, if you're giving

779
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 5: everything and I mean ten toes down, if you're giving everything,

780
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,479
Speaker 5: it just it just doesn't.

781
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 3: It doesn't work. The world doesn't work like that.

782
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 5: But it's very hard to give your absolute awe to

783
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 5: cut out. I mean all of the like the Bull

784
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 5: really focused on it, like be able to put that

785
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 5: script or idea out, get notes, redo it, do it again,

786
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 5: get notes. Like it took a year and a half

787
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 5: for me to actually get the script in everything that

788
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 5: I have down, then to get the numbers and say,

789
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 5: you know what, this is.

790
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 3: A million dollar script.

791
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 5: Maybe I can't have that hospital scene, maybe I can't

792
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 5: have that air force scene. You start to really say,

793
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 5: how do I've done this down to the minimum viable product?

794
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 3: People see if I get this thing actually done?

795
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 5: And then once you start seeing that, it just changed

796
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 5: your perspective on every thing, like even don't don't don't

797
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 5: eat football. These networks, the streaming and Netflix, because you

798
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 5: don't get paid like you get paid with network.

799
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 3: It's a streaming thing.

800
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 4: So it's way different with caps because it based on

801
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 4: the numbers of the people who who actually consumed it.

802
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 5: Those contracts ain't are nothing to doing none of that

803
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 5: like people like on a smaller scale, when Netflix produce

804
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 5: something like you're getting paid whatever they pay you that

805
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 5: don't have nothing to do with anything else. Only time

806
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 5: you really start getting like power like that, like real

807
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 5: power is like when you start getting second and third seasons,

808
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 5: because now you can be like, you know what I

809
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,479
Speaker 5: was leave and they know that you're a pivotal part

810
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 5: in that in that you know that series are or

811
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 5: that movie, that franchise. Now you got all the power,

812
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 5: you got the juice. But until then, until people start

813
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 5: watching like that, you're at the mercy of you know.

814
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the one of.

815
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 5: The misconceptions, right, you know what I mean, because people

816
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 5: will see people doing stuff they don't realize like that

817
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 5: person is struggling, Like like I'm doing well right now,

818
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 5: but I'm only doing well because of the avenues of

819
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 5: money that I have. Like that condo I have is

820
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 5: paying for not only itself, but the place I live.

821
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 3: Like I also still work.

822
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 5: I got a voice over studio in my house, you know,

823
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 5: and then I still got a job that lets me

824
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 5: go and come as out you know.

825
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 3: Please, So multiple strings of hell yeah yeah.

826
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 5: So it's like when you humble yourself, it changes your perspective.

827
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 5: I had to work at Costco just because things was

828
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 5: just getting rough and I was like, you need to

829
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 5: get off this.

830
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 3: High horse man.

831
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,439
Speaker 5: You know, you went around, run around with celebrities, thought

832
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 5: you was cool doing all this, and now look what

833
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 5: you got. You talking about Quinn act and you talking

834
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 5: about you might think about going back to open but

835
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 5: you've done this. You dumbed that hole for yourself, trying

836
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 5: to be flied. And then when I had to go

837
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 5: back to when I had to go back to work

838
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 5: at night, working at Costco, it humbled me, you know

839
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 5: what I mean, And it made me realize the energy

840
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 5: and the power that I had to meet because you

841
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 5: had people just working in there like why are you

842
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 5: working here?

843
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: Because I was stupid for my year to have doing

844
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 3: stupid shit.

845
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 5: It everybody want to give you the answers, and then

846
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 5: you start appreciating, is this what I.

847
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 3: Want to do my whole life?

848
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 5: You said you want to do something, you told yourself

849
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 5: you came in for a reason, and you you to turn.

850
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 3: Off that step. And then once you realize that I

851
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 3: don't want to have to do this.

852
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 5: As at some point in my life I want to

853
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 5: what I want a kid, and this is the profession

854
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 5: I chose. So if you ain't gonna be all in,

855
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 5: you need to just quit so you can do something else.

856
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 5: Because I'm very talented. I can do a lot of things,

857
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 5: and working regular jobs, regular stuff is what gave me

858
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 5: the passion and desire to push forwards.

859
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 3: Like I can't do this, I cannot do this every day.

860
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 5: And then I took all my auditions, everything out, everything

861
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 5: else in my life.

862
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 3: I took so much more serious. So when you said,

863
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 3: all right, I just thought about something. Streaming. When we

864
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 3: think about streaming's first thing the music business, right, how

865
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 3: many streams you give?

866
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 2: You make money per stream small amount, even YouTube you

867
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 2: make money per like stream well listen right, but Netflix doesn't.

868
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that. Huh, like it does. It

869
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: doesn't matter how many people actually watch your show. You

870
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 2: just get a lot some of money whatever.

871
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 5: That what you signed is what you signed that I'm

872
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 5: only talking about on the I I mean.

873
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 3: No, because that's it's just how actor goes. You don't.

874
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 3: You don't unless it's inked and you're the lead and

875
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 3: you already have a name.

876
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, then maybe it's like, okay, we can pay this

877
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 5: on the back end, or we can do this. But

878
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Speaker 5: when you go in the negotiations happened.

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Speaker 3: Before you even touched the set.

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Speaker 4: It's like it's like bird Box, Yeah, like they signed

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Speaker 4: the contract to do Birdbodes.

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Speaker 3: The response is so crazy like that. It's like the number.

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Speaker 3: But it's part too. We're gonna need something that. Now.

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Speaker 5: That's when you start having a power and it's like, okay,

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Speaker 5: here's part two. Well I won't do it unless this,

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Speaker 5: and they're like, well how about this? Okay, well how

887
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Speaker 5: about that?

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Because that's the same thing

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Speaker 3: with like pilot season. Real quick, it's like, pilot.

890
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Speaker 5: Season is one of the biggest parts of the year

891
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Speaker 5: for actors and the people trying to get these things done.

892
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Speaker 5: People don't know what pilot's going to pop. So you

893
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Speaker 5: could book a pilot, but they don't get picked up.

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Speaker 5: You book a pilot, it gets aired and get cut

895
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Speaker 5: in the third week, and nobody thought was going to rock.

896
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Speaker 5: It's like, you know what I mean, something that was

897
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Speaker 5: gonna go because it was a book and stuff. Some

898
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Speaker 5: of the stuff that people just take a chance on,

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Speaker 5: some of the ones that just just you be like, wow,

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Speaker 5: eight season and I.

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Speaker 3: Say that to myself. I just saw like a cancelation list.

902
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Speaker 3: It just came up what is it list?

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Speaker 4: And I'm looking at it, I'm like, Wow, that's going

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Speaker 4: too Oh, that's going okay. You never know who That's

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Speaker 4: And when we talk about music, right, the person who

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Speaker 4: writes directord gets paid the president producers if you paid.

957
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Speaker 4: So if you have a project and you're doing all

958
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Speaker 4: those things, those are another those are poems of income.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: So like you do your own project right, you produce

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Speaker 4: it directed and you starting it, we're talking four different

962
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Speaker 4: chains of income. You are, but you aren't because in

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Speaker 4: the beginning doing all those things, you're wearing nows hats.

964
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Speaker 3: Because you're trying to save that money. Doesn't what else right?

965
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Speaker 5: Because you want the project to be at its best.

966
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Speaker 3: So even if somebody does, because right now.

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Speaker 5: I'm pitching and I'm having pitch meetings, I'm talking and

968
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Speaker 5: they're like, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Well what if you know what two hundred thousand episode work?

970
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Speaker 3: So that's what you got.

971
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Speaker 5: You have that two hundred thousand dollars to produce that

972
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Speaker 5: entire episode. So I could be like, shit, well i'm

973
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Speaker 5: the director, I'll take that. I'm starting, I'll take that

974
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Speaker 5: and also erode it. Now you're down fifty grand. Now

975
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 5: your project to your project has sacrificed because you could

976
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Speaker 5: have put that into maybe some more wardrobe, another location,

977
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Speaker 5: of those things like that are giving it to the

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Speaker 5: cast member.

979
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Speaker 3: Maybe you only want one strong lead.

980
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Speaker 5: That fifty you took, you could have gained that to

981
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Speaker 5: that person because you know they're going to bring eyes

982
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Speaker 5: to that. So it's on two sides of it once

983
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Speaker 5: you kind of get up there, yes, but in the

984
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Speaker 5: beginning you need to take that hell in the beginning

985
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Speaker 5: so you can do justice. If you believe in your projects.

986
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Speaker 5: Some people don't care. Some people like, yeah, i'll put

987
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Speaker 5: it out whatever, if you pay.

988
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 3: Me out to take a check, that's your side. You

989
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, take the check and run.

990
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 5: But if you're invested and you believe in your project,

991
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Speaker 5: you want to stay there from start to finish it

992
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 5: because people can people try to tinure with my project?

993
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Speaker 5: Are you okay with not being the lead? Can we

994
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 5: not have it in Oakland? It's a lot of things,

995
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 5: and it's just like, what are you willing to sacrifice

996
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Speaker 5: it in this project? I don't want to be in

997
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Speaker 5: too much because it's a passion project for me. It's

998
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Speaker 5: about my family, it's about Oakland. It's about a lot

999
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Speaker 5: of things that people really need to hear because it's

1000
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Speaker 5: like the newspaper.

1001
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Speaker 3: You can read the bullshit if you want to, but

1002
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Speaker 3: if you really want to know, you gotta dig. No,

1003
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that. That leads us right to

1004
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Speaker 3: our next topic.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we talked about a few things, but

1006
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Speaker 2: now we're.

1007
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Speaker 3: Going to talk about a few different things.

1008
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Speaker 2: But if they all tie into each other, don't talk

1009
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Speaker 2: about real estate and we want talk about a gificcation.

1010
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 2: We want talk about your project, and they're all tie

1011
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: into each other. Right, So you're working on a project.

1012
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 3: Now about the town locally, right, And you.

1013
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: Was telling us off camera and some interesting thing because

1014
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Speaker 2: you know, like I said, one of.

1015
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Speaker 3: The things about art show is sports and entertainment.

1016
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Speaker 2: Sports, right, So if anybody's a sports fan, you know

1017
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 2: that Oakland a lot of teams are leaving Oakland, right,

1018
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 2: So the Raiders leaving, the Warriors, this is their last

1019
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 2: season playing in Oakland and moving to San Francisco. And

1020
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Speaker 2: there's even rumors that at the Oakland a's me leave

1021
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: all right, right, So but you I didn't really think

1022
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 2: about it until you actually broke it down as far.

1023
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Speaker 3: As the play behind that. So can you just talk.

1024
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 2: About that because it's interesting and it also ties into

1025
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 2: your series.

1026
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 5: We're talking about well, I mean, this is all you know, hearsay,

1027
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 5: but facts sounds like facts, then it's more than like

1028
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 5: the facts. San Francisco is the most expensive place to

1029
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 5: live in America because of the tech world. It's literally

1030
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 5: bombing and San Francisco is pull up like there's no

1031
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 5: more space. They can't build any more skyts, papers, they can't,

1032
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 5: they can't put people in the old ships.

1033
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 3: People are gonna.

1034
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 5: Start like camping on the bridge and the next place

1035
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 5: over is Oakland. Now everybody's all caught up into the

1036
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 5: whole of what's happening, but they're not listening to the

1037
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 5: real reasoning of why, Like all of a sudden, the

1038
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 5: Raiders had a great season before car got hurt.

1039
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: Why would you do that? The Warriors have never been

1040
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: as good as.

1041
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 5: They are ever ever, So right, we'll talk about that.

1042
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 5: So now you've got the Raiders going to Vegas, You've

1043
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 5: got the Gold the State Warriors going to San Francisco.

1044
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 3: What happens to a community? What happens to a community

1045
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 3: that thrives on their sports team.

1046
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 5: We're not talking about people like our team. Raiders suck,

1047
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 5: but they still believe something.

1048
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:45,959
Speaker 3: I mean, I think they are.

1049
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 4: A fandom, like they have one of the humans vanities,

1050
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: the black that something happened in the black hole.

1051
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 3: You you you know, you know about it.

1052
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 4: I was telling you before, Like my Dans from King

1053
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 4: Sinavaga pair of teams on the Rats still to this

1054
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,879
Speaker 4: day like and I'm just like, what's the core lazy?

1055
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 3: He's just like he loved the ruggedness, he loved the running.

1056
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Speaker 3: He's from the John Madden coaching EA, exactly know. He

1057
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 3: just loved the runningness of the rate that black and Silver.

1058
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 3: Absolutely so I in in in doing the.

1059
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 5: Series that I was trying to produce and trying to produce.

1060
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 5: Now I went to Oakland and I just I literally

1061
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 5: just wanted everybody and I was just like, hey, how can.

1062
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 3: You help me? What can be done? What are we doing?

1063
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 3: And then the story.

1064
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 5: Start to write itself, like everybody wanted to help. And

1065
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 5: I found out that they were giving cash for keys.

1066
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, what do you do? Like, I was like,

1067
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 3: what does that even mean?

1068
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 5: What's happened now is is that the property values have

1069
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 5: went up, you know, tremendously, so now that these people

1070
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 5: are living in these homes, they can't afford the property tax.

1071
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying. And on top of that,

1072
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 5: businesses and things are being shut down. Somebody who was

1073
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 5: cool working at that Walmart. Walmart's not anymore now. All

1074
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 5: these businesses and things that have to be shut down

1075
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 5: because the tech world, which is fine, but the culture

1076
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 5: is getting to.

1077
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 3: Be away, you know what I mean.

1078
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 5: That's just like if you go take go to Philly

1079
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 5: and take Sylvester Saloon joint them, or you take the

1080
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 5: Bell if you go to these places that are monumental.

1081
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 5: Oapland is the where the Black Panthers started, you know,

1082
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.

1083
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 3: We got a swag about it. It's something about Oakland.

1084
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not saying it because I'm from there.

1085
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 3: It's the truth, you know. It's almost like a forgotten

1086
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 3: city in a sense, because it's like.

1087
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 4: We hear New York, we hear Miamila, Atlanta, nobody exactly exactly.

1088
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 5: And what's happening now is is that we didn't see

1089
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,280
Speaker 5: the beauty in it until it was too late. Cities

1090
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 5: like that, cities like ours, we did not understand what

1091
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 5: it was because we got a beautiful transit system. You

1092
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 5: go to the bay, you can do you dock your boats,

1093
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 5: you go up the hill, you could ride your horses,

1094
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 5: like all these things.

1095
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 3: Cities don't have that. You go to some cities and

1096
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 3: they barely got a bank, you know what I mean.

1097
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 5: But we got all the stuff that people would need

1098
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 5: to thrive. And we were just you know, nobody didn't

1099
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 5: we as kids or as the adults.

1100
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 3: We were just living.

1101
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 5: But now these people got a hold of it and

1102
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 5: they're like, Wow, what's the best way to get them

1103
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 5: out so we can move in? All right, Let's give

1104
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 5: them some money first, So cash your keys. You can't

1105
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 5: you're barely making ends meet. The schools are being shut down,

1106
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 5: so then they people got to like bust their kids out.

1107
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 5: Schools are literally being shut down for whatever reasons, whether

1108
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 5: it doesn't meat cold or their kids aren't hitting.

1109
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 3: The numbers to shut them down.

1110
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 5: They're like, well, this school isn't producing right, so now

1111
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 5: you piling kids into one school?

1112
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 3: Are you sending them off? So we say, hey, listen,

1113
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 3: we'll give you. I'm just throwing numbers one hundred thousand dollars.

1114
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 5: They're thinking, hell, I can move to Tracy or stopped him,

1115
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 5: tack him in on and be good. That's a down

1116
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 5: payment and whatever, because I can't afford to live here,

1117
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 5: so instead of holding on And that's what you know.

1118
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 5: That's one of the character of Chants in the series.

1119
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 5: That's where his heart breaks because here he is he

1120
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 5: has to leave Oakland and Miltil why because of this

1121
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 5: whole thing.

1122
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 3: But he ends up in Miami and he starts to

1123
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 3: do real estate and.

1124
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 5: He's like winning at real estate, like winning, but here

1125
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 5: he is thriving over here, but not looking back at

1126
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 5: the city that made him.

1127
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 3: So what happens is his younger.

1128
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 5: Sister calls him and it's a big thing happening where

1129
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 5: he's like, you gotta come back, you have to come back.

1130
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 3: When he comes back, he's.

1131
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 5: Thinking he's dealing with one thing, but his sister is sick,

1132
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,240
Speaker 5: the families falling apart, the city's falling apart, they're closing

1133
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 5: his high school. And then the reason he left in

1134
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 5: the first place, staying in righting space.

1135
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. So all these things start.

1136
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 5: To happen and you realize that, like, hey, Oakland is

1137
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 5: just like everywhere else, except this is a place that

1138
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 5: we should have put up a little bit more.

1139
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 3: One of our hans, like, come on, look at the

1140
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 3: people that's coming out of there. You know what I mean.

1141
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 3: It is we didn't just pop up.

1142
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 5: But when you get told that you're ugly or wrong

1143
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 5: for so long, you start to believe it. Like I

1144
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 5: love the black hole, But when you think about it,

1145
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 5: it comes from a place of if you don't give

1146
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 5: it to me, I'll take it, And I dare you

1147
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 5: say something?

1148
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 3: Read right, I don't care if I lost or not.

1149
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 3: I bet y'all will be as outside. That's our roll.

1150
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 5: So it's good it comes from we. You know, they

1151
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 5: say the diamond's made from pressure, you know. So it's like,

1152
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 5: I feel like we're all diners, but not of some

1153
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 5: some people just didn't have that pressure to make them

1154
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 5: what they are. And now that we see that we

1155
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 5: can be people are standing up and open. People are like, yo,

1156
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 5: whoever can each one teach one? And now that's I

1157
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 5: was like, you know what, I'm gonna do something and

1158
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put my blessed and tears into it.

1159
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 3: I got to give back to the city that gave

1160
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 3: to me.

1161
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 2: So it's interesting you said that too, because so, like

1162
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: I remember Jim Jones right had said a while ago

1163
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 2: in that Hall of anybody's familiar with Hall of Them,

1164
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 2: some of the open. As far as the history, everybody

1165
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 2: knows the history of hallm like that's black and.

1166
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, I mean that's you know,

1167
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 3: that's Blakes and h all of that. It's a history.

1168
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 3: W and if you if so, Hallam has had a

1169
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 3: very rich history.

1170
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 2: And then the eighties when the crack academic hit, Hallam

1171
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 2: was just rashed, torn part right, torn apart, terrible in

1172
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 2: the alpha go to Hall of Them.

1173
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 3: It's it's different. It's different.

1174
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 2: You see people with the Yorkis and they don't look

1175
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 2: like us, Like a lot of people don't look like us.

1176
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 3: So with I hurt him. He was on the radio.

1177
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 2: He was saying that, you know when a lot of

1178
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 2: the hustlers and guys that was really getting money, and

1179
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 2: he was like, you know, back in the duge, you

1180
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 2: could have wanted building at all of them for like.

1181
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 3: A dollar and he was given. They was giving properties away, but.

1182
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 2: They wasn't ignoring it, like that they were buying champagne

1183
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: clubs and all that. He was like, looking back on

1184
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 2: it now, he and his friends and in other people

1185
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:10,839
Speaker 2: that he was around that.

1186
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 3: He saw that was on a higher level than him.

1187
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 2: They could have really brought blocks like brownstones are hall

1188
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 2: I'm going for two million, four point.

1189
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 3: Five million right now, right so it's like.

1190
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 2: Imagine if you want a whole block back then, how

1191
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 2: much it's worth now?

1192
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 3: So the same thing. That's why you know, bring what

1193
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 3: you're doing now, because it's like at some.

1194
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 2: Point we have to learn, right. We saw it happening

1195
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: in DC. We saw it happened in Brooklyn, We saw

1196
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 2: it happened at Hallam. We see what's going on in

1197
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 2: a LA every year. It happening all over the country. Right,

1198
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 2: So it's like, okay, how do we be proactive instead

1199
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 2: of being reactive because it's one thing that's like, okay,

1200
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 2: look it happened. This is bad, Like I'm pushed out

1201
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 2: of my neighborhood. And that's one of the things with

1202
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 2: Nipsey Hustle. That's why we had to go to the

1203
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 2: The America Store because it's like, that's what.

1204
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 3: He was doing, Like you know what I'm saying. It

1205
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 3: was yeah, he was just buying back.

1206
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 2: He was buying his neighborhood, providing job, providing opportunities. So

1207
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 2: it's like when you see all these sports teams lead

1208
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 2: and you know, and now the town is going down

1209
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 2: and that's bringing down the value and that people are

1210
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 2: coming in, like you said, giving cash, and then it's

1211
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 2: all it's all a bigger play, right.

1212
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 3: The thing that has to happen.

1213
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 5: What I feel like is deal, we have to get

1214
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 5: this ship off our shoulder. And it's not our fault

1215
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,919
Speaker 5: because we were born and raised with nothing.

1216
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 3: I feel like, so.

1217
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 5: Whenever we get a chance to shine, we do it.

1218
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 5: And the only way sometimes to shine is to outshine

1219
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 5: another person. That's how we were raised, you know what

1220
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 5: I mean. My mom's like, don't don't let nobody do

1221
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 5: this to you, or somebody hit you, you hit them back,

1222
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 5: like this whole thing. But it came from a place

1223
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 5: of like desperation. So now that we know that we're

1224
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 5: not desperate right now, because we are doing amazingly as

1225
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 5: a as a community, as a culture, or whatever, we

1226
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 5: got to get to chip off our shoulder because if

1227
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 5: we bind together, if we bind together and stop saying like, hey,

1228
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 5: I'm the king, that don't mean both of y'all.

1229
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 3: Can you know what I mean?

1230
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 5: If we do that, people stop because you start to

1231
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 5: feel like you're not worth because of the people around you.

1232
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 5: But if that person was like, you know what, I

1233
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 5: got a little bit, here you go, Here you go too.

1234
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 5: Now we don't have to give away our homes for

1235
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 5: this casual keys, because guess what if you can hold

1236
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 5: onto this house for a year. Listen, what I'm gonna

1237
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 5: do is I'm gonna loan you this fifty. I'm a

1238
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 5: loan you this fifty. We're gonna redo it, which is

1239
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 5: gonna bring up the equity. But I want to hunt

1240
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 5: it back because now you're gonna have eight hundred thousand

1241
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 5: dollars because it's at its value now, But we don't

1242
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 5: do that. Nobody nobody's talking to people and the community's

1243
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 5: not binding together like like Jewish people or even Mexicans,

1244
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 5: like the Mexicans doing they things like I still to

1245
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 5: this day see them grinding work together together, know what

1246
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 5: I mean. And it's just one of those things that

1247
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 5: we just have to You know, I'm in too, and

1248
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 5: I'm I'm trying to be better than every day. It's

1249
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 5: an uphill battle, but it's hard to unlearn things that

1250
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 5: you've learned your whole life, even when it comes to women,

1251
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 5: even becomes to women, like you know, you you learn

1252
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 5: how to be swagged out, you learn how to do it.

1253
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 3: You know, you can't touch me.

1254
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 5: That's how my cousins raised me, like how to dress,

1255
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 5: keep your head cut, all these things, But did they

1256
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 5: really teach you how to appreciate the right woman or

1257
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 5: to talk to do whatever?

1258
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

1259
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 5: And that all is it's all in the same culture.

1260
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 5: That's why we the fastest whatever, because that's what we do.

1261
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 5: I bet you can't beat me.

1262
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 3: Let's go.

1263
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,760
Speaker 5: So now you're out there running artists. That's how we're raisable.

1264
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 5: But we need to change is now put us in finances,

1265
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 5: so then we know credit is king. Credit is king,

1266
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 5: because if we got we are me and three of

1267
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 5: my own boys got good credit, we're good. You know

1268
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 5: credit is king. Then you take that one step further. Okay,

1269
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 5: how do we take that money and apply it to something?

1270
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 5: But let's not just apply to something where.

1271
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 3: We got to be at every day.

1272
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 5: I don't want to have to just because I stopped working,

1273
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 5: My money should not stop working for me. So now

1274
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 5: I gotta if I want to go on a vacation,

1275
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 5: my money stopped. And that's what folks start winning sleep.

1276
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 5: So the ship they got residual income. That money is

1277
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 5: making money. Well to see, but I don't care if

1278
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 5: it's a laundry mat, I don't care. If it's vending machines,

1279
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 5: I don't care. If you want to get an extra

1280
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars a month, you break that down twelve times.

1281
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,439
Speaker 3: Fot you all right?

1282
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 2: Gordon Geko one of the most legendary characters in movie history.

1283
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 2: As one of the most legendary lines in movie history,

1284
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 2: he says money never sleeps there that familiar that's ball

1285
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 2: Street and Gordon getto is the start. If you haven't

1286
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 2: watched Ball Street. You doing yourself get service? Yes, but

1287
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 2: it got such a short line. But it's if you

1288
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 2: really think. He's like, money never sleeps. If you really

1289
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 2: understand money, then you understand it never sleeps.

1290
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 3: Like that's the key you have to make.

1291
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: I remember Warren Buffet said something that he said, if

1292
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 2: you can't find out how to make money.

1293
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 3: While you're sleep, you're gonna work t your dot. And

1294
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 3: that's fact. That's a fact. And that's a fact man,

1295
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 3: And that's in that's and that's where we I feel

1296
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 3: like they don't teach you.

1297
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 5: They don't teach anybody that because it wasn't just black

1298
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 5: people at my schools, white negs against everybody else. But

1299
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 5: that was the achilles hell. Like I just start caring

1300
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,439
Speaker 5: about credit five years ago. I was like, well, shit

1301
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 5: that it's messed up already. I don't care about y'all,

1302
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. But that's just not the

1303
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 5: way to go. And once you start understanding that you

1304
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 5: don't need a bunch of money to do the little things,

1305
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Just just the little things,

1306
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 5: and then get a good group of guys around you, like,

1307
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 5: stop stop being selfish, stop being like this, me, me, me,

1308
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 5: because you'll never get ahead like that just one person,

1309
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 5: Like two brains is better than one, three billions is

1310
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 5: better than two.

1311
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 3: And you get a good group of distinguished gentlemen.

1312
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 5: Oh it's a rap because these you can help my

1313
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 5: vision in so many ways that I don't know. And

1314
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 5: then from that the finances get better. When finances get better,

1315
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 5: you start living good. When you start living good, you

1316
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 5: start being good to other people. Because I can't give

1317
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 5: you a bottle half. I just can't.

1318
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 3: Like for me, other people probably can, but for me,

1319
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 3: if it's.

1320
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 5: Like if I'm starving, I feel like I can't help you.

1321
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 5: So I need to make sure that I'm doing my

1322
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 5: part to better myself because if I'm eating, then you're eating.

1323
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 3: But everybody has to be on that same wavelength, you

1324
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. That's all like when y'all said

1325
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 3: y'all doing what y'all was doing, I was like, I'm wanting.

1326
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 5: I'm wanting, like whatever I can do to help, because

1327
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 5: now I'm seeing you know, your jay z, your meat meals,

1328
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 5: and everybody's like on this way.

1329
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 3: And I don't be on waves, but if I'm gonna

1330
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 3: be on any way, that I'm gonna jump on.

1331
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 5: It's gonna be the one that's the movement is happening

1332
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 5: right now because I see all this stuff that's happening

1333
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 5: and housing that everybody know about, all these other people

1334
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 5: that they have alocasts and all this things, and they

1335
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 5: are putting that force and this happened to these people

1336
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 5: and it was wrong. We was enslaved for how long?

1337
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 5: And everybody still know and it's just okay, everybody knows

1338
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 5: about it. Everybody knows the struggle, but people aren't standing

1339
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 5: up this because we don't stand up for ourselves.

1340
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 3: Eighty percent of the NBA and NFL is like black.

1341
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 3: That's what happened. The entertainers come.

1342
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 5: On, man, They're like, I don't know the numbers per se,

1343
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 5: but I know every time I turn around, everybody is following.

1344
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 3: The trends and the trends as you know what I mean.

1345
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 3: So I think that once we wants to tie turning,

1346
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 3: and it's not about.

1347
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 5: I don't want to make it a black, white or

1348
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 5: whatever thing. It's just about I don't want my son

1349
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 5: or my daughter or whoever else to grow up and

1350
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 5: have to feel the way I felt when I watched

1351
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 5: Black panther, you should have black is beautiful, or Mexican

1352
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 5: is beautiful, or whatever is beautiful, just because it's beautiful,

1353
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 5: damn the color. Believe in what you believe in, Like

1354
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 5: we we got a Baptist. We don't know our history.

1355
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 5: Everybody else to go back, you know, you see everybody

1356
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 5: else they got they say, still there. And that's where

1357
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 5: I feel like finance starts at that because once we

1358
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 5: start saying, hey, this is how.

1359
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 3: You when you got money. Money.

1360
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 5: Money rules the world, and don't think it's a bad thing,

1361
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 5: but it allows you to do what seemore. So instead

1362
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 5: of people want to get rims, work to get rims

1363
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 5: over summer, now they're like, yo, I want to go sailing. Well,

1364
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 5: how because my daddy to sail or whatever. That's what

1365
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 5: people get over because the money allows the seymore and

1366
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 5: you see more on your brain expends.

1367
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 3: If your brain expand, actually the base that's like a

1368
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 3: real life expo. You don't get out, you don't get

1369
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 3: out of you don't get out of that. When you

1370
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 3: don't get out of that.

1371
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 2: City, you think you're doing it, you think you doing

1372
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 2: They also come down to self esteem too, because it's like, okay,

1373
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 2: if you really think about it.

1374
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 3: You buying all these things is really for insecurity.

1375
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 2: That's what you don't feel great about yourself, So you

1376
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 2: have to buy the rains on your car and all that.

1377
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 3: No shames anybody do that. But if you.

1378
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 2: Really are secure, you don't need to buy that, right

1379
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 2: You rather buy a home.

1380
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 3: You got to buy investment, set your kids up.

1381
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 2: I see some of the richest people in New York

1382
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 2: and they driving Nissans like you wouldn't know they have

1383
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 2: money because that's not their own right. And that's something

1384
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 2: that I think we as a culture, we still have

1385
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 2: to get over that because we, like you said, we've

1386
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 2: never had anything right.

1387
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 3: So now it's like when it's when we get anything,

1388
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 3: we have.

1389
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 5: To so we have everything, and we have to have

1390
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 5: a sense of valid and if I'm going to do it,

1391
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 5: if you all want to do those things, don't work

1392
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:07,439
Speaker 5: for those things. Have that revenue that I was talking about,

1393
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 5: make you the money, don't don't sit around and bust

1394
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 5: your ass, and you got you got to know yourself

1395
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 5: worth like you just got to. I just knew and

1396
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 5: I got played many times. Like I used to be

1397
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 5: a what's it calling it?

1398
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 3: What's it called? That when people you are.

1399
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 5: It was for a tequila company where you just want

1400
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 5: to ambassador, ambassador bro ambassador, I hatter beet a owner.

1401
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like I'm selling this tequila

1402
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 5: like it's mine. I opened up over three hundred counts

1403
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 5: from open and said, San Diego, you know what I'm saying.

1404
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 3: I set up. I set up.

1405
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 5: I set up the events where the guy sold his

1406
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 5: company to the dude for over three hundred million dollars.

1407
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 3: I set up the event.

1408
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 5: But guess what I got that same two thousand dollars

1409
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 5: that he told me I WoT.

1410
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:50,919
Speaker 3: Get upset up the thing. You gotta know your work,

1411
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 3: and you know your work.

1412
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 5: Get him mentor get him mentor right now if you want,

1413
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 5: if you want my best advice, get a mentor. Beg

1414
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 5: for a mentor. Get a mentor now. Not your mom,

1415
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 5: not your daddy, not your cousins. I don't care how

1416
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:03,919
Speaker 5: smart they are.

1417
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 3: Get a mentor outside of your group, cause I'm telling.

1418
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 5: You a mentor is like you being blind and they

1419
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 5: that damn walking stick. They're not there to help you walk.

1420
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 5: They're just trying to guide you a little bit more

1421
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 5: telling you get them INNTO.

1422
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 3: That's what that'd be. That's a mental That's part of

1423
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 3: what we actually do in New York.

1424
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 4: Like we have a mentorship program where we take kids

1425
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 4: who have aspirations to be an actor or be an

1426
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 4: attorney or be a doctor, and we put them in

1427
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,919
Speaker 4: those fields and they get to intern for six weeks

1428
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 4: to see what it's like.

1429
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 3: They get to pick the brain figure out if his career.

1430
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 3: Like you were sality, somebody wanted to work. This kid

1431
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 3: didn't even want to work in finance.

1432
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 4: But I saw them selling the waters every day outside

1433
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 4: of shopping center for a dollar, every single day, making

1434
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 4: thirty dollars going back to the store buying in for

1435
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 4: cheap selling them. And I was like, what do you

1436
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:51,479
Speaker 4: want to You wanted to play in the NBA.

1437
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 3: And I'm like, nah, you have a natural instinct. You're

1438
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 3: a hustle. Like I can see it.

1439
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 4: First thing I did, I'll say, you shot, I got

1440
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 4: this kid I need to work with because I know

1441
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 4: he's working in finance.

1442
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,439
Speaker 3: This kid has a hustle. He just has to direct way. Right.

1443
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 3: So that's the let said, because that's ask what we do. Yep,

1444
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 3: that's for me, that's big.

1445
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:12,919
Speaker 5: That's big because when my acting career really started taking off,

1446
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:16,640
Speaker 5: I met the right coach. Like I was taught the

1447
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 5: wrong way. So me and him, but it ends for

1448
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 5: so long because I had learned the wrong way for

1449
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 5: so long that when he was trying to teach me

1450
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 5: the right way, I'm arguing with him. You know what

1451
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm already I'm from Oakland, like Nigga. I

1452
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 5: just spent Nigga, I spent five thousand dollars on these classes.

1453
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 5: You can't tell me that that's wrong, but it was,

1454
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? And then I met him

1455
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 5: and he just changed my whole perception. I couldn't get

1456
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 5: to emotion because they used to tell me like, hey,

1457
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 5: did your did your dog die?

1458
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 3: Or did your girlfriend rek up with you?

1459
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 5: So I'm in this scene thinking about my dead dog

1460
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 5: when I should really just connect with the character. You

1461
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 5: see what I'm saying. And it was it was it

1462
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 5: was stuff like that, I smell here all day, but

1463
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 5: that that happens, and it has happened to.

1464
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 3: Me throughout my life, where I feel.

1465
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 5: Like people will assume just because I'm always smiling, I'm

1466
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 5: always happy, because you ain't gonna never ever under dodge

1467
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 5: green Earth.

1468
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 3: See me just taking an l like that. I'm a

1469
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 3: born fighter. You know. My mom had been sixteen.

1470
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 5: My dad came from a fan. Everything was broken. But

1471
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 5: if they can do it together, what excuse do I have?

1472
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 5: I got two eyes, all my body parts work like.

1473
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 5: Come on, man, The people out here that cannot do

1474
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 5: what I can do, not because I'm better than just

1475
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 5: because they physically can't. Once you start appreciating shit like that,

1476
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 5: it just changes. It just changes the way you're thinking.

1477
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 5: It's not an easy thing to do. You gotta work

1478
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 5: at it, but.

1479
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 3: You gotta know. You just gotta I don't know how,

1480
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 3: but you just gotta know. Because people just been.

1481
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 5: Winning for way too long just because it's been given

1482
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 5: to them, and we don't have that kind of opportunity

1483
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 5: just to be giving that old money, that old money

1484
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 5: that Johnson and Johnson, Johnson and Johnson been around. But

1485
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 5: ever you know these stone companies, You see that little

1486
01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 5: toilet you see to say it's colder, All these things

1487
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 5: that you take for absolutely rented.

1488
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 3: That is old old money, this whatever.

1489
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 2: And that's one of the things that you said with kids,

1490
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 2: that we don't have mentors a lot of times, so

1491
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 2: we make a lot of mistakes because we just figured

1492
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 2: it out as we go, Like we just walked through

1493
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 2: my field with no map, so it's like we might

1494
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 2: get blown up here.

1495
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 3: We don't have no tactical skills. You walking through, you're

1496
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 3: you're you're destined to get your neck. It's survivable. Yeah,

1497
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 3: And it's like if somebody could have.

1498
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 4: Just told us these things, and that's it takes a

1499
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 4: lot of It takes a lot of like some questioning,

1500
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 4: and you got.

1501
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 3: To check their ego, like, you know, I don't know

1502
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 3: his help me. You don't say to be humble.

1503
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 5: You have to be humble because if you don't, it's

1504
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 5: a rap. People are not going people are not going

1505
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 5: to want to help you. And I feel like for

1506
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 5: a long time maybe I was that guy like I

1507
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 5: use my energy for bad, you know, like because it

1508
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 5: is it's an energy. And I'm okay with saying the

1509
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 5: first I was embarrassing. I don't want to say this

1510
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 5: or that, but I'm commonly saying my energy is my superpower.

1511
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 3: I spit on you even don't worry, but.

1512
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 5: No, but I'm saying that is my superpower. And once

1513
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 5: you figure out what your superpower is, let that Shane.

1514
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 5: Let it be out there. Put it out to the world. Man,

1515
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 5: open your chest out. Let people know that it's okay

1516
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 5: to love, it's okay to hurt. All this stiff is

1517
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:30,959
Speaker 5: okay for man. But when you're coming up, you're scared.

1518
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 5: You put that hand out that they won't put it

1519
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 5: back out, and now that they didn't, you're embarrassing. So

1520
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 5: I gotta jab you all. We gotta when it's not

1521
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 5: it's okay. If he said no, what she's saying no,

1522
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,479
Speaker 5: Now I gotta try another thing. But we don't learn

1523
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 5: that it's embarrassing to be shut down.

1524
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

1525
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 5: I've been shut down for fifteen years, So now I

1526
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 5: could honestly say I'm winning. You know, I got property,

1527
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 5: I got a great job, my career is flourishing.

1528
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 3: I feel good in my heart.

1529
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 5: I know what I want to do, I know the

1530
01:07:57,920 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 5: people I want to do it with, and I'm okay

1531
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 5: with assets.

1532
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 3: But help. Every time I talk to old people, every

1533
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 3: chance I get.

1534
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 2: Every day, I want to ask something bombed the last

1535
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 2: thing before we wrap up because.

1536
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 3: We didn't really fully go into it.

1537
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 2: But they say that average mayor has seven streams of income,

1538
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 2: right and being in Hollyware.

1539
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 3: You know, it's really tough. As far as you might

1540
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 3: have a gig, you might not have a gig for

1541
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 3: eighteen months.

1542
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 2: Your series might get picked up, but then it might

1543
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 2: get dropped.

1544
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 3: So it's important we try to achieve entrepreneurship.

1545
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 2: So can you just talk about how that has helped

1546
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 2: you as far as your your multiple streams of income,

1547
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 2: couse your reality.

1548
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 3: I mean, you have a couple of different things going

1549
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 3: on right and absolutely.

1550
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 5: The thing but the thing I believe that you have

1551
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:41,839
Speaker 5: to do is is, no matter what, find what you're good.

1552
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 3: At and see if you can turn that into a

1553
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 3: monetary thing. You know what I mean. Find what you're

1554
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 3: good at. It may not be.

1555
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 5: Directly directly in the lane that you want to be in,

1556
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 5: but I'm telling you now what the Internet and how

1557
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 5: things are going, there are people if you are and

1558
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,120
Speaker 5: you gotta you do. Got to know if you are

1559
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 5: professionalized this because so many people live in this fantasy

1560
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 5: world and they're robbing people like you don't know what

1561
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 5: you're doing. Find something that you love doing and you

1562
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 5: can actually monetize that, you know what I mean? Because

1563
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 5: people like if you love cooking, you can start doing

1564
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 5: mial press for people.

1565
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:16,800
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

1566
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 5: If you love reading, hey, maybe you can start doing

1567
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 5: readings for people out of play or put the kids.

1568
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 3: Find something that you.

1569
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 5: Love doing, because it'll turn over into something else because

1570
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 5: while you're reading those books to kids, you could.

1571
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 3: Actually record it. Need out your own audio books. If

1572
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 3: you tell.

1573
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 5: Stories like there's just things that whatever you're good at,

1574
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 5: there's something out there, there's a need because there's a

1575
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 5: group of people that aren't motivated the way we.

1576
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 3: Are, just because what they don't see what we see.

1577
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 5: I get to see these cars, I get to see

1578
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 5: this good but I get to see everything that I

1579
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,680
Speaker 5: think I can attain with somebody in maybe Louisiana or

1580
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 5: Kentucky doesn't have the same motivation because they just don't

1581
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 5: see it. So now, with all these ways of making money,

1582
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 5: I believe if you are professionally on something, find a

1583
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 5: way to do that. Secondly, you gotta own something like

1584
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 5: I don't care how you do it or what it is.

1585
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 5: You got to own it because the name of the

1586
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 5: game is to have somebody owe you. If you owe me,

1587
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 5: I'll never be broke, you know what I mean? And

1588
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,840
Speaker 5: those is the way it goes like, you gotta find

1589
01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 5: out how to do it. You got to figure out

1590
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 5: how to make it where somebody has to pay me,

1591
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 5: has to pay me.

1592
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 3: That's what. That's what. That's what the condo does. Those

1593
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 3: people have to pay me. They have to pay me.

1594
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 5: And I don't have to go over to that house.

1595
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 5: I don't got to do nothing. You signed that contract.

1596
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,760
Speaker 5: I got all my information. That money comes to me

1597
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 5: no matter what, every month, you know what I mean.

1598
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 5: Then secondly, find that resist your income. You gotta find

1599
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 5: something which will come with a mentor. But like when

1600
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 5: I was just starting out, I didn't own the I

1601
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 5: didn't own the vendor machines, but he made he gave

1602
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 5: me like thirty percent of them, and he was like,

1603
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 5: just I need you help, you know, stack them up,

1604
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 5: put the stuff in there or whatnot. That was a

1605
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 5: residual income for me because my time was my own.

1606
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:09,639
Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying. When you've gotta be at

1607
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 5: a job at a certain time and you gotta do this,

1608
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 5: that's when things get sticky. Or if you can control

1609
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,600
Speaker 5: your own time, that's what's dope.

1610
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could control my own time. So he was like,

1611
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 3: as long as it's full. I don't care. So I

1612
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 3: could go at five in the morning or I.

1613
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 5: Go to night before. However I wanted to do it,

1614
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 5: I could do it. And then that was a residual

1615
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 5: income that will come to me no matter what. And then, last,

1616
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 5: but not least, study the craft. Man, study the craft

1617
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 5: because it's too many. It's too many shooters out here.

1618
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 5: Like it's like I'm telling you this, I mean they're

1619
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 5: out here, like it's people out here.

1620
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 3: It's people out here just bleeding it. They're bleeding.

1621
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 5: I don't care if you're talking about football, basketball, acting,

1622
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:52,479
Speaker 5: being a doctor, I don't care. Because it's becoming very

1623
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 5: hard to live in America. It's getting expensive, period. So

1624
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,599
Speaker 5: if you're trying to win the right way, you gotta

1625
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 5: be a bet. You got to be amongst the best.

1626
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 5: You gotta be the best. So if you're not in

1627
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 5: the industry to be the best or to achieve at

1628
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 5: your highest goal, you might as well just be it

1629
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 5: because it's not gonna work. It's just not gonna work

1630
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 5: with every unless you're lucky. But then look at what

1631
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 5: I got.

1632
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 3: People.

1633
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 5: I remember back in the day where I was like

1634
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 5: looking all these people. I was telling one of my homeboys,

1635
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 5: because he's not under me, but he's you know, looking

1636
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 5: up to me now. And I was like the best

1637
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 5: place to be at for a while I was on

1638
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 5: the bench. He's like, what, I don't want to send

1639
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,560
Speaker 5: them the bench. I said no, because while I was

1640
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 5: sitting on the bench, I saw all of the sticks

1641
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 5: everybody else made watching. I saw him go up, I

1642
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 5: saw him come down. I see him stay right in

1643
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 5: the middle. I said, they just give up all together.

1644
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 5: He should have did this, one did that. I saw everything.

1645
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 5: Now I'm coach with me, and you got no excuse.

1646
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 5: You got no excuse because the worst thing ever to

1647
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 5: be put in the game and you ain't ready.

1648
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 3: That's power for me.

1649
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 2: We want we want to thank you for coming on

1650
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 2: appreciate in short notice too. And that's when that's what

1651
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 2: we always say, you know, it's it's just encouraging to

1652
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:11,680
Speaker 2: see people going out of that way to give up

1653
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:11,920
Speaker 2: the game.

1654
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:13,680
Speaker 3: That's kind of been the formula of our show. We

1655
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 3: break people on and then they're giving up information. This

1656
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 3: this is a true story.

1657
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 2: Like even when you said you have to go, I

1658
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 2: think you're working costcos and like you know that this

1659
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 2: is real.

1660
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 3: This is real life.

1661
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 2: We're not gonna paint a picture for you of everything

1662
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 2: is beauty and roses.

1663
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 3: It doesn't work like that.

1664
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 2: You gotta stay down till you come up, and even

1665
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 2: when you do come up, you might have to take

1666
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 2: a step back right a minus setback for it makes

1667
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 2: you comeback. So this is this is when we put

1668
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 2: top my entrepreneurship investing business. We're gonna tell you the

1669
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 2: real I let you go on YouTube a lot of

1670
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 2: these things.

1671
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 3: It's like, this is how.

1672
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 2: You make a million dollars or one month without doing

1673
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 2: any words with working like Nah, it doesn't work like that.

1674
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You gotta put the work in.

1675
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 3: So thank you for coming to closing. Before we close

1676
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 3: with just two things. Too much.

1677
01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:59,680
Speaker 5: As I live by the great, all become greater if

1678
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 5: they here to be the greatest. And if you always

1679
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 5: do what you've done, you'll always get what you got.

1680
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 5: That's that's that's how I wrong. Because I know I'm great,

1681
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 5: that's cool. But if you want to be greater, you

1682
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:12,680
Speaker 5: gotta dare to be the greatest.

1683
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 3: Because if you be the greatest, I mean, that's that's long.

1684
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,759
Speaker 5: But if you dare to try, you'll be greater for sure.

1685
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 5: And if you always do what you've done, you always

1686
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,679
Speaker 5: gonna get what you got. You stay in your language,

1687
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 5: you got to go a little faster a little bit.

1688
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:31,640
Speaker 2: Can you tell the people how to reach you on

1689
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 2: social media if you're on any project that you.

1690
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 3: Got, finding that you got coming out, like you know

1691
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 3: what I mean, if you if you just want to

1692
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 3: stay in contact.

1693
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 5: Through uh you know with my work, IMDb, the Internet

1694
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 5: Movie Database, just Romeo Brown on Instagram on Romeo Brown

1695
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 5: with an underscore.

1696
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 3: Don't be uh shocked by my Twitter followers. Like I

1697
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 3: told you, I was a little shot with that because social.

1698
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 5: Media for me was a little bit more to to

1699
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:57,600
Speaker 5: public for me, you know what I mean. I'm a

1700
01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 5: great intimate person and like I said, as a man,

1701
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 5: I'm still.

1702
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 3: Try to trying to be okay with struggling, like I.

1703
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 5: Just now start winning. So when you think are se

1704
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 5: are assumed that people are winning. As a man, it's

1705
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 5: really hard to say that, you know, I'm not being

1706
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 5: where I want to be in life, or to say,

1707
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 5: you know what, I cry and I didn't get this job,

1708
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 5: or you know what, that girl hurt me, or I

1709
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 5: really wanted this and it's hard to do those things

1710
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 5: when you you're not comfortable in your own skin. But

1711
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 5: now I am, so you know, I'm ready to open

1712
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 5: up those avenues because when you see me, you're gonna

1713
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 5: get it all like because I'm not always winning, but

1714
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:32,599
Speaker 5: I'm gonna smile through the pain.

1715
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:35,600
Speaker 4: So that's that's I just want to thank you a

1716
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 4: game of being vulnerable and being transparent with everything because

1717
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 4: we don't see that right Like you said, we went

1718
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 4: to it to be tough and with tols like quite

1719
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 4: bad because like yeah, as a man with growth, maturity.

1720
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 3: Comes over head, it becomes honesty.

1721
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 4: And one of the things that you said is like

1722
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 4: looking back, so like we do get ahead and we

1723
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 4: get to certain places with the kids to look bad

1724
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 4: because there is somebody that we can grab a hand.

1725
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 3: And take longer journey with us. That's important too. Yeah. Man,

1726
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 3: I'm happy. Man, I'm happy that even.

1727
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 5: Like I hope this gets album, somebody is it to

1728
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,040
Speaker 5: push them forward because life it's a very versus thing man,

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Speaker 5: And you know tomorrow's I promised. So if you can

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Speaker 5: Lenjit hit somebody else, it's like like a not a marathon,

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Speaker 5: it's like a reheater race, you know, as well as

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Speaker 5: you're just hand it off, handed off, And if if

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Speaker 5: I'm not the one to get where I want to get,

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Speaker 5: I gotta give it to another kid that because it

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Speaker 5: took me all this long to get this way because

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Speaker 5: nobody handed me anything like I put my head so

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Speaker 5: many times.

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Speaker 3: My head should be like this. But if I can

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Speaker 3: make it with this other kid.

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Speaker 5: Can and he get to where I thought I could,

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Speaker 5: then I still got to feel hold in my heart

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Speaker 5: and know why I didn't. So now I'm just about

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01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 5: trying to pass that information and if there's anything I

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01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 5: can do to help reach out.

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Speaker 3: If I don't get right back to you, I will try.

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Speaker 3: But that's what it's about, man, because we can't focus

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Speaker 3: on us right here right now.

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Speaker 5: We gotta be like that mind frame of like our

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Speaker 5: kids are our kids kids.

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Speaker 4: Because that's where it's at right now. For your last name,

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Speaker 4: we said it with pop right Paton, Yeah yeah, so

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01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:10,440
Speaker 4: Patreon again. It is a way to support the podcast

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01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 4: so that we can do more things like this. We

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01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 4: can we can travel and spread the word and get

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01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 4: the word and get gained from people in different places.

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Speaker 3: So shout out to your home and shout out to

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Speaker 3: our follows. We're getting some new followers.

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Speaker 4: Uh, Savannah, U T Cody who's been with us, Terry

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Speaker 4: who's actually out he's from Oakland.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, y Terry, and Brandon who's our new members.

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Speaker 3: So shout out to him.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, we've been having video chats with him and

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01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 4: giving them some game and having more indirect uh conversations

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01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 4: with them to help them. And they they're Trump pursuits,

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Speaker 4: So shout out to them and continue supporting Patreon against

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Speaker 4: that product they pay program.

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Speaker 3: So the more you support, the more we can do. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: everything that we said we're gonna do so far we've done.

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Speaker 2: And one of the things that we said what he's

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01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 2: going to do is come to different cities, right and

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01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 2: highlight people in the cities that's doing their thing.

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Speaker 3: And this is a perfect example of that.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: It's so like I said, I always say, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: give you the information for free, but if you would

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01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 2: like to financially support the podcast, Patreon is and the

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01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:08,439
Speaker 2: avenue to do that.

1779
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 3: And also our merch our merchan is doing well.

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Speaker 2: And once again, we make statements with the clothes that

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Speaker 2: we wear, so it's important to be mindful of what

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Speaker 2: we wear. So you know, we have shirts like Austen

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Speaker 2: for your last name, Assets over Liability, so the merch

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Speaker 2: can be on It can be found on our website,

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Speaker 2: which is early leasha dot com.

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Speaker 3: And before we leave, I have a book tip and

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Speaker 3: that I always give.

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Speaker 2: So Multiple streams of Income was one of the first

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Speaker 2: books that I've read in finance.

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Speaker 3: I think I was like eighteen nineteen years old.

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Speaker 2: I forget the author's name, but if you google Multiple

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Speaker 2: streams of Income, it will come up and it's a

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01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 2: very good book. We talk about muti streams of income

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Speaker 2: during this interview, and that's one thing that I encourage people.

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01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 2: You cannot survive off of just one job.

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Speaker 3: Even if you're an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 2: You can't just rely on because anything can happened, your

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01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:59,560
Speaker 2: business can fall, but you have to have other avenues

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Speaker 2: to pull on. So I strongly encourage anybody, everybody to

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Speaker 2: check out that book.

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Speaker 5: And also audio books are big, like we gotta stop,

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Speaker 5: you gotta stop it all, like you gotta you gotta go,

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01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,519
Speaker 5: you gotta stop all this noise is going into your head.

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Speaker 5: If you listen into music at home, do you listen

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Speaker 5: to music at the gym? Do you listen to music

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01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 5: in the car, you're not ever feeding your brain. Like

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Speaker 5: these audiobooks have changed my life in the car, I

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Speaker 5: don't listen to nothing else but audio books because they're

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Speaker 5: feeding my brain constantly, constantly, constantly, because this music, Man,

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Speaker 5: you gotta be careful your brain is. Your brain is

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01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 5: just this this machine. It's picking up even when you're not.

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Speaker 5: So you've got to start finding ways for it to

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Speaker 5: learn when you're not trying to learn. And audio books

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Speaker 5: is one of the main ways that I've done that.

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Speaker 5: So that's telling this auto audiobooks. Anything you think about

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Speaker 5: you want to know, grab yourself an audiobook and put

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Speaker 5: it in that that that dead space.

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Speaker 3: Now see what happens.

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Speaker 2: That's a fact Episode fourteen you How to Teach You

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Speaker 2: Valencia owner she let the cat out the bag a

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Speaker 2: book tip, but I don't actually read. Why actually get

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Speaker 2: feed the book that I just told you. But almost

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Speaker 2: ninety percent of everything that I consume right now is audio.

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Speaker 2: So audio book I'm a huge I was on audio

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Speaker 2: book and it was seas I got so I've been

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Speaker 2: I've been. But you know, whatever, you know, how else

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Speaker 2: you can learn audio podcast? Your podcast is on Apple.

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Speaker 2: We're all Spotify were on audio YouTube also but audio

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Speaker 2: as well, So yes, when you're working out, when you're driving,

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Speaker 2: everybody's in your car.

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Speaker 3: Check it out, check it out, check it out. So yes,

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Speaker 3: once again, thank you guys for rocking with us, and

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Speaker 3: we'll see you next week please,