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Speaker 1: What's up? It is way up with Angela. Yee man.

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Speaker 2: This is really an honor because I have two celebrities

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Speaker 2: in the building, A god Try and Rashad from earn

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Speaker 2: your Alesia Assets of Reliabilities invest Fest. They're here with

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Speaker 2: me today. Let's talk about it because this invest Fast.

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Speaker 2: What I love that you guys do is you get

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Speaker 2: people that normally may not do interviews, you know, and

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Speaker 2: just looking at this year's lineup, I mean, let's talk

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Speaker 2: about it. The two people that are going to be headlining,

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Speaker 2: Diddy yeah and Robert Smith Yes, Okay, So I want

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Speaker 2: to discuss how you went about because we talk about

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Speaker 2: relationships and how important relationships are, but just being able

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Speaker 2: to build those relationships where you have these guys. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Robert Smith is the richest Black American right period ever

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Speaker 2: ever and he is headlining at invest Fast. And then

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Speaker 2: Diddy is Diddy. You know, I know you are Revolt

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Speaker 2: and all that, but yeah, I was on Revote here,

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Speaker 2: never headline nothing. So let's discuss how you guys actually

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Speaker 2: pulled this off and why you chose these two.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with Diddy. Diddy is somebody you know,

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Speaker 3: it's a no brain and when we first started the platform,

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Speaker 3: and that was like one of the people that we

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Speaker 3: wanted to connect with. When you think about Mount Rushmore

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Speaker 3: for business and hip hop, it's a couple people, and

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Speaker 3: Diddy's one of those people, right, It's Diddy jay Z.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not too many. So he was always

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Speaker 3: somebody that we wanted to connect with. And then you know,

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Speaker 3: having a relationship with a Revolt shot out to Dion

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Speaker 3: Shah to de Tavio. But really, Dion, really, I gotta

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Speaker 3: give him a lot of credit because he was a

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Speaker 3: strong advocate. Dion is like Diddy's right here, man. He

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Speaker 3: was a strong advocate for us from the beginning, always

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Speaker 3: telling him about us, always like you know, looping him

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Speaker 3: into what we had going on. And then we finally

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Speaker 3: met him. Our boylu Tucker introduced us to him and

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Speaker 3: we went to his crib and we spent a couple

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Speaker 3: him getting to learn our story. He was always like

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Speaker 3: it was something that he had never seen before in

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Speaker 3: thirty years of hip hop of him being a hip hop.

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Speaker 3: He never saw anybody be able to popularize contracts, financial literacy,

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Speaker 3: business all that, so he just kind of thought it

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Speaker 3: was just an amazing feat and he gave he gave

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Speaker 3: us his number, like there's art art bozzle, like yo,

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Speaker 3: if y'all got any problems with Revolt, if you need.

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Speaker 4: Anything, hit me and my car.

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Speaker 5: Bad line.

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 3: One of the major keys in life is that, you know,

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Speaker 3: like Drake said, giving you my number, but don't hit

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Speaker 3: me on no dumb shit Like that's actually a major

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Speaker 3: key for anybody that's interested in business and networking, don't

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Speaker 3: abuse your relationships.

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Speaker 4: So I never hit him.

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Speaker 3: I never hit him until months down the line, and

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Speaker 3: I just thought that investments was a good idea.

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Speaker 4: It all lined up.

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Speaker 3: I sent him a text, and I sent him a

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Speaker 3: video of what it looked like last year, and then

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Speaker 3: he responded right away like I want to do it,

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Speaker 3: and then we just started connecting the doctor.

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Speaker 2: He was back to that advice about not hitting nobody

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Speaker 2: on no dumb ship, right. I want to ask it

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Speaker 2: because sometimes people feel like when you get someone's number,

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Speaker 2: you should like every now. And then I saw what

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Speaker 2: I want to.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, a little acknowledgement like that is cool.

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Speaker 3: But I think when I say, don abuse it, like

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to hit him, Like can I get

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Speaker 3: a booby trapped with you?

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Speaker 4: Or like, yo, can you send me some bottles for

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Speaker 4: this for this event?

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Speaker 1: Like that was on your mind too, like you.

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Speaker 3: Thought, no, no, no, We saw them all because we

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Speaker 4: So what we did this is another gym. Like he was.

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Speaker 3: He invited us to come with him, but we brought

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Speaker 4: Show him like we get battles too.

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Speaker 3: No, we're not here to leach off of off of anything,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Like, so he when he

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Speaker 1: That's funny.

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Speaker 2: I saw did he one time in Miami and we

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Speaker 2: And so he was there too, and so the people

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Speaker 2: I was like, yo, let's send him a bottle. I

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Speaker 2: was like, we're not saying it didd it no bottle,

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Speaker 2: because I mean, I mean, yeah, you.

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Speaker 1: Think we should have no.

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Speaker 3: I just think it's important just to let people know

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Speaker 3: even just that, just in general, like I was always

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Speaker 3: our own platform, and everything that we do, like is

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Speaker 1: So that's true. I've been at with y'all.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's what I say.

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Speaker 6: Even when when you when this platform came about, right,

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Speaker 6: it wasn't like your ans.

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Speaker 5: Can we be up here? It was like super proud

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Speaker 6: So it was like, when the time comes, I'm sure

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Speaker 6: will bless the stage. But it wasn't like your an's

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Speaker 1: Y'all should come close for a day.

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Speaker 5: You did off of that, but we never had a follow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do that interesting telling people to hit my people.

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Speaker 5: Let's do it. We know the point of contact now good.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so you.

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Speaker 3: Know it was I think that he just kind of

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: We never asked him for anything. So back to you

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Speaker 3: your question about text text etiquette. It's okay to come

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Speaker 3: to you know, tell somebody that you're proud of them

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Speaker 3: or great, but I don't think that you should just

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan of not My first text you is

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Speaker 2: I would definitely like reach out like, hey, just so

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Speaker 1: On social media. I like things.

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Speaker 2: You know, if I'm scrolling through and I see something dope,

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Speaker 4: And that's that's what we did.

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Speaker 3: Actually, the first text I sent them this day after

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Speaker 3: like thanks for the hospitality. I appreciate it, you know

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Speaker 3: the thing I never understood about the music industry, Like

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Speaker 3: I'm like, why would you expect people to be your friends?

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Speaker 3: Like we grow up together. I know this is a

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Speaker 3: once you get cold, they're not going to answer. They're

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Speaker 1: Useless obvious, it's the same.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not personally, it's not personally. Just gotta understand that, right,

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Speaker 3: Like I know that I didn't grow up with these

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Speaker 3: They're not coming to my baby shower. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: And I just want to back that up a little

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Speaker 1: But sometimes where you're at in.

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Speaker 2: Your life later in life and you meet more like

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Speaker 2: certain friendships where y'all can still be cool. You can

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Speaker 1: But I met her.

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Speaker 6: Like it's not like even for us, it's like you

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Speaker 5: Oh, we're just gonna show support.

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Speaker 1: Because in Chicago too, because the craziest.

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Speaker 6: Part because we rock with you, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 6: that's what real support. So the more you do that,

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Speaker 6: the more relationships can be formed. And now it's an

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Speaker 1: Like, hey, I can come to the baby shower.

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Speaker 5: You can come to the baby showering, no problem.

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Speaker 3: So but yeah, I mean that's how I just look

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Speaker 3: at And also it's like, you know, I just think

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Speaker 3: don't take things personal. I mean, I don't have expectations

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Speaker 3: for people. I don't expect to just meet said rapper

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Speaker 3: and then he's like my best friend, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. We have a relationship, We see each other,

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Speaker 3: you know, we might have each other's number, but I

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Speaker 2: Well, who have you guys met that you feel like,

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Speaker 2: you know individually? Like that really is somebody I consider

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Speaker 2: I might use the word friend.

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Speaker 3: It's usually the people that's next to the person, like

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like it's it's hard and

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Speaker 3: it's not even a knock on the person. But like

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Speaker 3: I said, like Dion right, Like that's a good dude.

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Speaker 3: I talk to him almost every day. But I know

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna talk to Diddy every day. But he's

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Speaker 3: the person next to him, or to Bed Stevens. He's

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Speaker 3: the person next to Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey is a

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Speaker 3: great dude. And I have his number, But once again,

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Speaker 3: is he somebody I'm gonna call every single day? No,

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna call me every day, but I talk

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Speaker 6: so yeah, we don't get to call Rich every day,

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Speaker 6: but I know I can reach Georgia, who's right, it's

439
00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,159
Speaker 6: like his right hand, and so I can hit her up.

440
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Speaker 5: That led to a relationship with Maverick.

441
00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,280
Speaker 6: Right, So now you got Rich, you got Math and

442
00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:12,840
Speaker 6: it's like, all, well, we're just going to keep attacking

443
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,639
Speaker 6: the perimeter. Eventually you know the other guy who will

444
00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,919
Speaker 6: eventually be sitting down with us. So it's about creating

445
00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,160
Speaker 6: these relationships with making them genuine, right, so like when

446
00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,520
Speaker 6: we reach out, it's not for anything. It's really like,

447
00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,600
Speaker 6: how y'all doing. Everything's good? Y'all need anything from us?

448
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,920
Speaker 6: I bet let's let's let's support whatever you're doing. The

449
00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,440
Speaker 6: book's coming out, lets support. How can we get it

450
00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,280
Speaker 6: in the hands of our community. All the sneakers will

451
00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:31,840
Speaker 6: come out, you know, send it to us, We'll put

452
00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:33,320
Speaker 6: it up on the story so everybody knows that it's

453
00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,800
Speaker 6: coming out. So like when we just continuously have genuine bonds,

454
00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,480
Speaker 6: it's the reason why people stay around us for so long.

455
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Speaker 3: Or sometimes it is about asking. Because I asked Diddy

456
00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,679
Speaker 3: to come to invest first, but it's not a charity.

457
00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,720
Speaker 3: I showed him. I showed him the video. He knew

458
00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,520
Speaker 3: the impact. He's not. Look, everybody's in a situation where

459
00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,680
Speaker 3: they want to benefit themselves, right, us included. So when

460
00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,120
Speaker 3: you have enough value, now you're in a position when

461
00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,439
Speaker 3: you ask for something, if it makes sense, people are

462
00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,080
Speaker 3: going to say yes. So you know that's something that

463
00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,120
Speaker 3: we have to work to provide enough value add where

464
00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,240
Speaker 3: now it's not like, oh, you know, come on my

465
00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,600
Speaker 3: show and you know you're gonna help me out. Like, look,

466
00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,560
Speaker 3: this is fifteen thousand people in Atlanta. This is going

467
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,840
Speaker 3: to reach millions of people once he goes on social

468
00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,679
Speaker 3: media and YouTube. There's no other platform in the world

469
00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,280
Speaker 3: live event like this for business, not just for black people,

470
00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:28,520
Speaker 3: for any person, black, white, whatever. This is your opportunity

471
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Speaker 3: to speak about things that might have been misconcepted and

472
00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,600
Speaker 3: things that you know, people might have different viewpoints on.

473
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Speaker 3: Set the record straight, like you know what I'm saying,

474
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Speaker 3: This is your opportunity.

475
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Speaker 2: So you think you'll be talking about the Diagios definitely.

476
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Speaker 4: The record record contracts to talk about.

477
00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, as far you know, he has a reputation obviously, right,

478
00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,600
Speaker 3: and people have views on him when it comes to

479
00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,280
Speaker 3: you know, him doing bad business to artists, A lot

480
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Speaker 3: of people think about that him with the Dagio thear

481
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Speaker 3: They don't really understand why he why he's suing different things.

482
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Speaker 1: So and for.

483
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,679
Speaker 2: People listening, Diagio is the company that he partnered with

484
00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,760
Speaker 2: for SRAK and but now they've split.

485
00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,720
Speaker 3: And I don't think it's not officially split yet, but

486
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,919
Speaker 3: they are in litigation. I believe he's suing them and

487
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:16,920
Speaker 3: he actually has it. So when we there's three sides

488
00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,840
Speaker 3: to every story, right, and when we spoke to him

489
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,439
Speaker 3: he gave us some information that we wasn't privy to

490
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,359
Speaker 3: and it actually opened up a whole new perspective on

491
00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,720
Speaker 3: that situation. Just like I'm sure he'll provide information on

492
00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,280
Speaker 3: the music business and different disgruntled artists that will change

493
00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,040
Speaker 3: people's viewpoints. You can still think what you want, but

494
00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:45,679
Speaker 3: it's at least the inform. It's not just one side

495
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,640
Speaker 3: being told. For along, he never really told his story

496
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Speaker 3: when it comes to business, That's.

497
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Speaker 5: What I'm saying.

498
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Speaker 6: For there's a bunch of those type of things, whether

499
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Speaker 6: it be from the spirit's industry, whether it be from

500
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Speaker 6: the music industry, but even from the fashion industry, like

501
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,520
Speaker 6: we just saw him get Sean Jon back, Like we

502
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,400
Speaker 6: grew up watching that brand and loving that brand. What happened,

503
00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,239
Speaker 6: and so that's the beauty of the platform. It's like,

504
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,960
Speaker 6: where's the other place for them to actually tell these stories?

505
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Speaker 6: Right For a guy like Robert Smith, who's the other

506
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,520
Speaker 6: headliner a lot ab Our community, you know who, he

507
00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 6: was right, he saw the value in it because he

508
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 6: watched the Steve Harvey interview.

509
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Speaker 5: Again, that goes back to relationships.

510
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 6: If we don't know BDB doesn't introduce us to sh

511
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Speaker 6: and then sah, you know who's a friend of Robert

512
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,120
Speaker 6: Smith doesn't do the interview. It's never it never gets seen.

513
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,159
Speaker 6: So when Robert Smith meets with us, he's like, wait,

514
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Speaker 6: I love what you guys are doing. He's already studied

515
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 6: us before we ever sat down with him. We get

516
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 6: to show and highlight his career and now it's like, wait,

517
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 6: we should know who the wealthiest black man in American

518
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,800
Speaker 6: history is. And so now he gets to come back

519
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,880
Speaker 6: and give more information. And when you hear how he's

520
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,720
Speaker 6: grown his wealth and what he's done in the world

521
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 6: of philanthropy, it's like, this is somebody we should be studying.

522
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 6: Like why are we not talking about this guy more?

523
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 6: Why are we covering him more than we are? And

524
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,640
Speaker 6: so that's what investments is about. It's given a platform

525
00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,119
Speaker 6: to the people from our community who are excelling but

526
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 6: are not getting that type of coverage that they should

527
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Speaker 6: because it's aspiring and it's inspirational and it's and it's

528
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Speaker 6: inspiring at the same zone.

529
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Speaker 2: The other thing that you guys are doing that's great

530
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 2: is there is a free component to all of this, right,

531
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Speaker 2: So can you talk about that part of invest fest too?

532
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Speaker 2: For people who are in the Atlanta area or want

533
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,720
Speaker 2: to come maybe like man, I don't know if I

534
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 2: can afford tickets, but I still want to somehow participate.

535
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. So it's three day event is Friday, Saturday,

536
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,439
Speaker 3: and Sunday. So Friday during the day from ten am

537
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 3: to six pm is a free day for the public

538
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 3: and that's so it's registration for people that are going

539
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 3: to invest Fest. You come, you get your lanyard. But

540
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 3: then outside that, we have a vendor marketplace with over

541
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,919
Speaker 3: four hundred vendors, so you'll be able to you know,

542
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 3: walk the vendom marketplace, shop with the vendors, talk network,

543
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 3: different things in nature and then also reform, you know,

544
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 3: like the organization meet bills involved with Like they're doing

545
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 3: an event all day Friday, and that's free to the

546
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 3: public as well. So they're going to have different presenters.

547
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 3: Ash Cash is interviewing Jim Jones and it's just it's

548
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 3: a bunch and then we got different DJ sets going on.

549
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Speaker 3: So we wanted to give people, you know, opportunities she

550
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 3: for that reform because that's something that's important to the

551
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 3: public and talking about criminal justice reform. So you know,

552
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 3: we provided an opportunity for anybody to come for free

553
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,880
Speaker 3: on Friday, and then Friday night VIP night, and then

554
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday is just the regular programming. So you know,

555
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 3: I feel like it's an opportunity. And I also, you know,

556
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 3: it's always critics. People are like, well, why are y'all

557
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 3: charging for this? But I never heard anybody complain about

558
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 3: Beyonce charging for her musical talent, Like you know, I mean,

559
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 3: I never heard anybody say like, why is roll in Loud?

560
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 3: Why does roll in Laud have fifty artists and and they.

561
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Speaker 2: Charge money to put an event like this on and

562
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 2: you have to pay this biness who are coming?

563
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: Awesome?

564
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just common sense, right, But like I said,

565
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 3: I mean sometimes if you look from a negative standpoint,

566
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,199
Speaker 3: and this is why people are in the situation that

567
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Speaker 3: they're in. And that's why I always tell people, the people

568
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 3: that always complain about stuff like that, look, they're not

569
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 3: where they want to be in life.

570
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Speaker 4: That's just the fact.

571
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Speaker 3: So from my standpoint, there's a variety of different reasons

572
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 3: why investvest makes sense. So one critic, one a critic

573
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 3: will say, well, I already know all information, or I

574
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 3: could just watch YouTube why I got paid.

575
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,479
Speaker 4: I'll see somebody. That's one way to look at it.

576
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that if you're in panels and different

577
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 3: things that nature for two and a half days, you're

578
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 3: gonna learn something. But let's say hypothetically you learn nothing

579
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 3: right outside of that. The reason why we became successful

580
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 3: is not because of the information that we learned in school,

581
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: is because of the relationships that we make. So most

582
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 3: of the time you're not where you want to be

583
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 3: in life because you don't have the relationships. So you

584
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 3: don't think that if you're around fifteen twenty thousand people

585
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 3: for three days that they're gonna make a couple of

586
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 3: relationships that could potentially change your life. So that's even

587
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 3: more beneficial than the information. So no, no matter how

588
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 3: you look at it is But like I said, we

589
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 3: got to retrain how we think about it. You pay

590
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for college and never

591
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 3: ask a question, and you can't get a job, and

592
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Speaker 3: now you're hassling about a two hundred and fifty three

593
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 3: hundred dollars a ticket for a jam packed weekend with

594
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Speaker 3: some of the most successful people in the world. Makes

595
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Speaker 3: no sense, But then also how I look at it

596
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 3: is that we never have I've never heard anybody ever

597
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 3: say the NBA Finals should be free, or Beyonce should

598
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 3: have a free concert, or Drake should have a free concert,

599
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 3: or roll in louds you have a free concert when

600
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 3: we actually do put our content every single day for

601
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 3: free on YouTube, on Apple and Spotify on Instagram. So

602
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 3: if we do an event, obviously there's there's finances that

603
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 3: go into the event. But then we also never apologize

604
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 3: about being a business. So part of being an event

605
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 3: is being a business. Right surprise, It's not a nonprofit event.

606
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: So so what you're saying is you have to choose

607
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 2: between Beyonce and invest Fest.

608
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: Come to invest Fest.

609
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Speaker 4: I mean, you could do whatever has left Atlanta.

610
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 5: You could invest Fastest on its way to Atlanta. You

611
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 5: could do.

612
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Speaker 4: Whatever whatever, whatever you think is best for you in

613
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Speaker 4: your future.

614
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Speaker 2: Okay, right, Networking is the word working. I always tell

615
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 2: people that some of the best things that have happened

616
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 2: to me have been because I've been places and met

617
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,640
Speaker 2: people and then and sometimes it doesn't happen right away either.

618
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Speaker 2: You know, you might think I met somebody, wisen I

619
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: hit them. They didn't hit me back. You have to

620
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 2: really be patient. I think even for me getting studied

621
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: in radio, that was a relationship that I had to

622
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Speaker 2: build and cultivate, you know, with Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager,

623
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Speaker 2: throughout the course of years for him to even say, oh,

624
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Speaker 2: why don't you just try out.

625
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: On the radio, you know.

626
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 2: But that was again a relationship that I had from

627
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 2: being at different events, from even when I was in

628
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: college and meeting Paul Rosenberg. He was supposed to be

629
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 2: roomates with my brother at one point, you know, when

630
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 2: he was living in Detroit and moving to New York.

631
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 3: My thing is like, if you're not in a position,

632
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 3: if you're not where you want to be in life,

633
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 3: right then you got you have to try different things, yeah,

634
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 3: or you're going to be on the same recipe that show.

635
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 3: You don't got to go to investment, but through something.

636
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 5: Put yourself in proximity with people who are successful.

637
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Speaker 2: But that's why I wanted to bring up the fact

638
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 2: that there are activities that are free, because there are

639
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 2: some people that are like I don't have you know,

640
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 2: and so there is a component component to this where

641
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 2: you can still come.

642
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 5: Out like I with black businesses.

643
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 4: But then it's not, it's not it might not be

644
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 4: for you.

645
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 3: Like if you live in a state and you like,

646
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 3: I gotta pay even if we gave you a free ticket,

647
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 3: you still got to pay for a plane ticket. You

648
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 3: still got to you know, get a hotel room. So

649
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 3: maybe we can have a virtual option. We'll probably drop

650
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: that at some point, or that just might not before

651
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 3: you And that's okay. Like I just went to super

652
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: Bowl for the first time this year. I watched the

653
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 3: super Bowl.

654
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Speaker 1: Did you pay for the ticket or we did?

655
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 4: Yeah?

656
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 3: Okay, But what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that

657
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 3: I never knocked the super Bowl for yeah, just when

658
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 3: the time is right for me to get there, and

659
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 3: I get there if the time is right. But I

660
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 3: just feel I feel like we live in a day

661
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 3: and age now where social media gives everybody a platform.

662
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 3: So the problem with that is that everybody has a

663
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 3: voice and everybody doesn't need to have a voice because,

664
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 3: like I said, if you if you like me personally,

665
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just the reality.

666
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 5: The reality is this though. The reality is like what

667
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 5: was closely if you don't show.

668
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 3: Up, but outside of that, But I just want to

669
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 3: just finish this point. Everybody doesn't need to have a voice.

670
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 3: When I was dead broke and I was trying to

671
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 3: figure it out, I wasn't worried about what was going

672
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 3: on social media. I had my blonde closed and I

673
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 3: was locked in and I was staying up till five

674
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning. And I didn't ask for help.

675
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 3: I never asked anybody for help. I never complained about anything.

676
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 3: Like I got off my ass and I got to it. Nowadays,

677
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 3: it's like, if you got enough time to criticize people

678
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 3: and go on social media and you broke, I just

679
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 3: don't understand that, and I never will understand that. Like

680
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 3: for me personally, like if the number one job is

681
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 3: to take care of your family, you wake up every

682
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 3: day and you figure out how much get money so

683
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 3: I could take care of my family. After you take

684
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 3: care of your family, and you can take care of

685
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 3: your friends, and you can take care of your community,

686
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 3: but you gotta start with your family. So, especially if

687
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 3: you're a man like how you wake up every day

688
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 3: and the first thing you're doing is going on Twitter,

689
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 3: going on Instagram and leaving comments on somebody's page that

690
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 3: you never gonna meet in life, Like, you gotta figure

691
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 3: it out. If you ain't figure it out yet, you

692
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,479
Speaker 3: gotta find ways to figure it out. So we can

693
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 3: kind of dance around the issue. But when we look

694
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 3: at the black wealth disparity is discouraging. One point five percent.

695
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 3: You have a one point five percent chance to be

696
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 3: a millionaire if you're black. That means that it's almost

697
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 3: impossible to become a million and ninety nine percent of

698
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 3: the people that's black will not become millionaires. So I

699
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: just don't understand the you know, like I said me personally,

700
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 3: I would never I never could understand that because I'm

701
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: not speaking from, you know, a privileged standpoint, like that's

702
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: what I did. I had to figure it out, and

703
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 3: I figured it out. So if you can't figure it out,

704
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 3: then you're wasting time by commenting and looking at somebody

705
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 3: else and kind of like using that as you know,

706
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: a fuel for just commentary. Like you gotta at the

707
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 3: end of the day, you're still going to be in

708
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 3: the same position that you woke up.

709
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 2: In, you know, I always think that sometimes exposure. I

710
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 2: remember being in college and dating this guy. There was

711
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 2: a very low level marijuana dealer, but he would come

712
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: to visit me in school and he was like after

713
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 2: a while because he lied about his age.

714
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 1: He was really like twenty seven, but he told me

715
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: he was twenty four.

716
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 2: But he told me he was Like, Man, I wish

717
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: I would have been on a college campus before this,

718
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: because that might have made me want to go to college.

719
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 2: And sometimes it is like what you are exposed to

720
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: and what's available you know, resources, because but you don't know.

721
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: You just don't know.

722
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: And so it is important to get exposed to different

723
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: things and to associate with different people because when somebody

724
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: puts an idea in your head, sometimes that spark alone

725
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: can make you feel motivated enough to want better or

726
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: to do something.

727
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 6: But if it's important, it's valuely important. It's the reason

728
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 6: why I tell people, you have to see this in person.

729
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 6: Like one of the things we're doing this year is

730
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 6: we're bringing kids from our community down because I want

731
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 6: them to see it. Like two people that went to

732
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 6: the same high school they went to, worked at the

733
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 6: same community center, shopped at the same source that they did,

734
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 6: are now doing something in Atlanta that's incredible for our community,

735
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 6: for the world really, so I want them to see it.

736
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 6: So we're bringing them down. We're bringing shaper Roles down.

737
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 6: We're bringing people, you know, we got kids from Canada

738
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 6: coming down, We got HPCU students. I just want them

739
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 6: to see it, just for that point that you said right,

740
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 6: like what could a panel or discussion or something due

741
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 6: to the trajectory of their you know, future earnings or

742
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 6: future career and lives. So it's like we're very intentional

743
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 6: about that and aware of it because we have kids

744
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 6: and we know what exposure can do for them. I

745
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 6: came from education. I know what it's like when they're

746
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 6: in a building and you don't see anything, but the

747
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 6: environment you're in becomes a very small bubble and the

748
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 6: expectations become very low because everybody around you.

749
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 5: You're looking, well, what's the measure of success here?

750
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, And sometimes people down other people because they don't

751
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: see it for themselves. And if they can't see it

752
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 2: for themselves, they can't see it for you either.

753
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: And so that is a mindset that we have to change.

754
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 2: I even think about you guys on Assets of Reliabilities.

755
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 2: You had your goody on and it went viral that wassure,

756
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 2: Oh that was earn your leisure. See, I always earn

757
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: your leisure. Assets of Reliabilities is the other show.

758
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 5: Kah.

759
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you guys had yo goody on and he

760
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 2: was talking about almost, yes, almost losing his properties, not

761
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 2: knowing about paying his property tax fifteen houses.

762
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 4: He didn't pay property test years.

763
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Speaker 6: Most people, I mean most people, especially if they don't

764
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 6: have any education around the space. Like you said, like,

765
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 6: I'm buying the money, I'm buying the house and cash.

766
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 6: I'm not thinking about it again, I paid.

767
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: For it ros Yes, not really.

768
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: If you have a mortgage, that money comes in your

769
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: mortgage payment, it pays your taxes and everything for you.

770
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 6: You got to skcraw account and all that. But these

771
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 6: guys like I'm buying it straight up, I own it. Well,

772
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 6: there's a thing called property tax that comes with that

773
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,239
Speaker 6: every time you buy a home. That comes with it.

774
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 6: Depending on where you live, the race can be higher

775
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 6: or they could be lower.

776
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: But that's part of the body wouldn't know, you know

777
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.

778
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 3: Like he said he was like he was always smart

779
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: in school, Like he wasn't a person that like he

780
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 3: was a good student in school.

781
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 4: He was smart. I don't think he actually even smokes,

782
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 4: like he doesn't.

783
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: He doesn't drink either, So.

784
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 3: His thing was like, it wasn't like that he was dumb.

785
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 3: He was smart. He just never was educated on it.

786
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: Like nobody around him told him, like, you have to

787
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 3: pay property He never he literally did not know about

788
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 3: property tax. Yeah, and when he until he got the letter, like.

789
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: You know, and to that point, you don't know what

790
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: you don't know, and you know, I mean like for me,

791
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 2: I have a condo Williamsburg and I had paid off

792
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 2: the mortgage, but it had a tax abatement, and so

793
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 2: I didn't realize I owed this much in taxes because

794
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 2: the bill was going to the condo, but somebody is,

795
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 2: you know, renting it out. And then when that person

796
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: moved and they had been there for two years, I

797
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 2: went and I had all this mail and I didn't

798
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: realize to pay.

799
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: Yeah I didn't. They didn't do.

800
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 2: That, not yet, but I just didn't even realize because

801
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: it was also a tax abatement and everything, and so

802
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 2: you know, now the money was doing.

803
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, but I paid it right away.

804
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: But I was like, oh, man, imagine if you know,

805
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 2: this person had continued to live there, I would have

806
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: never even known that was happening.

807
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 6: Nobody teaches you, right, So like where you're you supposed

808
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 6: to get the information from, Like you're looking to somebody

809
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 6: in your family who's done it before. But a lot

810
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 6: of times we don't have home ownership in our families,

811
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 6: and so we got to go to the internet and

812
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 6: try to find like reliable sources, you know what I mean.

813
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 6: So it's tough. These are the type of things that

814
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 6: we're saying, Like especially you know the path that we're on,

815
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 6: Like this needs to be part of curriculum. Yeah, everybody

816
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 6: has to live somewhere, but nobody teaches you about real estate.

817
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 6: Everybody has to pay taxes, but nobody tells you about

818
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 6: tax law.

819
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 2: And you guys have been making some big real estate

820
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: moves for yourselves personally too, right, We've we're doing some

821
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 2: nice things, but you don't like talking about your stuff.

822
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 5: I mean we could, I mean building the homes.

823
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, there's a lot of education that

824
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: goes into that too.

825
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 6: There is, there is, and it's important that you know.

826
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 6: It's our hometown and so it means a lot to

827
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 6: the community, but it means a lot to us. Like

828
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of people will tell you, like

829
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 6: you can never go back, but we never really left

830
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 6: where we're from. So it's important again for the kids

831
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 6: that are from there, even the adults to see like, yo,

832
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 6: I watched two young men grow up to do something

833
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 6: really incredible and still give it back and are still

834
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 6: here and are still accessible to uh impact the community

835
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 6: in a positive way.

836
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: All right, Well listen you guys invest Fast is it

837
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: sold out?

838
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 4: Can people still get ticketst?

839
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: Okay, they just missed that early ticket special.

840
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 5: They definitely did, definite and congrats to you.

841
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: Thank you.

842
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 6: I know August last year you were part of invest Fast,

843
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 6: which with an incredible panel.

844
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 5: And this year is Angela Day.

845
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: Yes, Angela Day is August twenty seventh, which is the

846
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: last day of INVESTMENTST.

847
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be But next year, can y'all like

848
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: not try to coordinate with angela Ye Day?

849
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 4: So I can.

850
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 5: We'll make it a part of it.

851
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 2: Lot has such a good time at investments and people

852
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: come up to me different places and will be like

853
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 2: I saw you at invest Fast, Like when I go

854
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 2: out and even my assets of Aliabilities interview a lot

855
00:33:59,720 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: of people.

856
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 5: That's a great one.

857
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: I thank god everything worked out because I had plans

858
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: and I talked about it. There's nothing worse than when

859
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: you talk about something prematurely and then they're like, what

860
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 2: happened with that building? You said that, Yeah, no, it happened, guys,

861
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: and you said you was leaving club too.

862
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 5: I did, yep, and that did happen too. Way wait wait,

863
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 5: I don't know if I said that.

864
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: I might have hinted at it.

865
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 5: It was a strong hint, a strong suggestion. But we

866
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 5: we called what was what was happening?

867
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: Well, here we are.

868
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 2: I meant it, thank god, because there's nothing worse when

869
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: you're like, I'm about to do this and then y'all

870
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: see me.

871
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: And you're like, yeah, what happened to that?

872
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 5: He's still there?

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Speaker 2: All right, Well you guys again, love what y'all are doing,

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Speaker 2: and always like welcome to come up here to come

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Speaker 2: co host. Maybe after invest Fast we can do something, well,

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Speaker 2: y'all talk about, you know, some of the things that

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Speaker 2: happened afterwards, because I'm sure there's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 2: of clips circulating and so we can get more in

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Speaker 2: depth on those things.

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Speaker 5: Let's do it. Let's do it. It's easy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, guys. You can find them at

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Speaker 2: Dykeman too, anytime you went. They have their team at Dykeman.

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Speaker 2: They brought Terrence Parford up there.

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Speaker 5: That was that was the first time he's ever seen

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Speaker 5: street ball in his life.

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Speaker 1: Really.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. It was like a whole process.

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Speaker 6: Of like explaining it to him and the rules, and

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Speaker 6: he was like, I think I like this.

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Speaker 2: If y'all would have if he would have been exposed

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Speaker 2: to that earlier, he might have been a streetball instead

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Speaker 2: of a boxer.

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Speaker 5: True, you never know exposure.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's way up at Angela Troy Rasha. I

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Speaker 1: thank y'all so much.